A/N: Happy to be back and posting a new story. Enjoy this one and Supercat is endgame, I promise!
"Kara are you sure about this?" Alex asks, carefully eyeing her sister. They are sitting in a conference room at the DEO waiting for J'onn to sign off on Kara taking Mon-El home with her.
"Yeah, it's the right thing to do Alex. He needs to adjust to being in this world and I am the only one who can help him do that and keep him safe," Kara replies earnestly.
"Kara, it's just... Well, you've never lived with anyone but me and that apartment isn't very big," Alex points out.
Kara takes a deep breath. Alex has a point there she realizes.
"We'll just have to figure it out. He can sleep on the couch and it's temporary," Kara counters.
"What about work?" Alex asks.
"I'll get him a job at CATCO, I'm sure that he can be an intern or something," Kara replies.
"I hope that you're right," Alex answers.
"Hey, what happened with Maggie? I figured you guys would be out celebrating last night," Kara remarks.
"Uh, she had other plans," Alex stammers and then looks up relieved to see J'onn entering the room.
"Kara, are you sure about this? He's going to be a handful, you saw what he talked Winn into," J'onn reminds her.
"I'm not Winn and I know what I'm getting into. I've been in his shoes J'onn. I've got this," Kara replies confidently.
"Make sure that you check in regularly, if you miss one check in, we're going to assume you need help," he points out.
"I know," Kara says standing up to leave. "Alex, are you coming over later?" she asks turning back to her sister.
"Uh, yeah sure. I'll bring pizza," Alex says smiling, "Wait does he eat like you do?" She asks.
"Not quite, but better get a couple for each of us," Kara answers with a grin.
"Okay, so where are we going?" Mon-El asks as they head out of the DEO.
"Back to my apartment," Kara answers over her shoulder.
"Does this mean that I am staying with you? What exactly is an apartment?" Mon-El questions.
"Yes, you'," Kara replies.
"So we're going to live together?" Mon-El asks, a bit confused.
"Yes, we will live together while I'm helping you adjust to Earth," Kara reminds him.
"Oh, wow. I've never lived with a girl before," he remarks. "Or a Kryptonian," he adds teasingly.
"Well, I've never lived with anyone but my sister, so it will be new for both of us," Kara points out.
"I'm in your hands," Mon-El adds as they step out of the DEO together.
An hour later, Alex is walking up to Kara's building carrying several pizza boxes when her phone rings. She sets the pizzas down on the stoop and slips her phone out of her pocket, then noticing that it's Maggie she debates a moment whether to answer it.
"Danvers," she says quickly deciding to take the call.
"Hey, I was hoping to cash in that rain check from last night?" Maggie asks playfully.
Alex shakes her head, "Ah, sorry Sawyer, I'm busy tonight," she replies flatly.
Maggie looks down at the ground, she kind of expected this response after what happened with Michelle last night.
"Another time then," Maggie suggests hopefully.
"Sure, another time," Alex agrees as she ends the call.
"Hey Alex," Mon-El says opening the door for her and taking the pizza boxes.
"Hi," Alex says entering and closing the door behind her. Taking a moment to slip off her jacket and hang it on the rack, then thinking better of it, she reaches into the pocket and removes her phone.
"Expecting a certain detective to call?" Kara teases as she greets her sister.
"Definitely not. Besides, she already called and I told her that I was busy tonight," Alex answers pulling out of the hug.
"Oh," Kara says looking over at Mon-El, who is more interested in the pizza than what the two sisters are talking about.
The two sisters smile as they watch him set the boxes down and immediately start opening them to see the options.
"This is so good," he exclaims as he quickly grabs a slice and takes a bite.
"Hey, get a plate and a napkin," Alex says taking it from him and plopping it on a plate and handing it back to him. Then she stuffs a napkin in his hand as well.
"What is this?" He asks gesturing to the pizza.
"Pizza," Kara replies her eyes twinkling. "It's the best food on this planet," she adds with a big grin as she grabs a slice out of another box and takes a bite.
Alex rolls her eyes and shoves a plate and napkin at her. "Kara, I'm not sure that you are the best role model for him," she jokes.
"Hey," Kara protests. "He'll learn everything that he needs to from me!"
"I'm not holding my breath," Alex says handing each of them a bottle of water from the fridge and then grabbing herself a beer.
Mon-El sets his pizza down and trades the water in for a bottle of beer and then watches Alex twist off the cap.
"Wait!" Alex says quickly. "Let me show you how to do that without breaking the bottle," she adds as she takes the bottle from him. Then she reaches into the drawer and pulls out a bottle opener. "You should use this to open them, it took Kara a long time to be able to twist them open without breaking them," she says as she pops the cap off and hands the bottle back to him.
After they finish the pizza, Kara notices that Alex is still fiddling with her phone and Mon-El is not really interested in the TV, so she stands up. "Okay, we're going out," she exclaims reaching over to grab the phone from Alex.
"Awesome," Mon-El replies jumping up from the chair.
Alex moves it out of her reach, "I don't think so, that's not a good idea Kara," she adds before slipping her phone into the pocket of her jeans.
"Are you kidding? It's a great idea and there's two of us to keep an eye on him," Kara points out.
"Well, that is true. Okay, but just one drink," Alex says looking at the two of them. "And no shenanigans," she adds glaring at Mon-El.
"Absolutely not," he agrees quickly as Alex heads over to get her jacket.
"Uh, Kara what is a shenanigan?" He whispers.
Laughing, she shakes her head. "You know what happened when you and Winn went out? None of that tonight, okay?" She replies.
"Sure," he nods and smiles.
"Bourbon, neat," Alex says as she sits down at the bar.
"Beer," Mon-El says sitting down next to her.
"White wine," Kara says taking the stool beside him.
"Alex is that Maggie over there?" Kara says nodding towards the pool table in the back of the bar.
"Damn," Alex swears softly to herself.
"You should go over there and say hi," Kara suggests helpfully. She has noticed Alex's crush on the detective.
"No, I definitely should not do that," Alex replies taking a long sip of her drink and trying not to look over there to see who Maggie's with.
"Who is Maggie?" Mon-El asks looking from Alex to Kara for an answer.
"Detective Sawyer, she works for another agency, she's a colleague," Alex answers nodding over towards the dark haired detective at the pool table.
"Alex has a thing for her, well actually, I think it's a mutual thing," Kara explains.
"What does that mean? Have a thing for her?" Mon-El asks.
"They are attracted to each other," Kara explains realizing that she needs to do better at explaining this type of stuff to him.
"Oh," he remarks and takes another sip of his beer.
Alex wordless shoots Kara a death glare, but Kara just smiles because the detective is approaching.
"Guess, we'll know soon enough," Kara replies smugly.
"Danvers," Maggie says as she approaches the trio. "And baby Danvers... and who are you?" she adds looking Mon-El over carefully.
"He's just my uh, cousin... Mike" Kara offers quickly.
"Mike. Maggie Sawyer," the slender detective says holding out her hand to Mon-El, who looks confused by the gesture.
"Oh, he has a cold, you really don't want to shake his hand tonight," Alex says quickly.
"O-kay," Maggie says glancing at Alex carefully. "I didn't realize that you had family in town," she adds.
"Yeah, well why would you?" Alex retorts a bit sharply, now feeling a bit anxious under Maggie's gaze.
"Mike, we should check out the jukebox," Kara says grabbing his shirt and pulling him after her.
Alex watches them leave before turning to look at Maggie.
"What are you doing here at this bar?" Alex asks her.
"I'm playing pool with friends," Maggie replies taking a seat beside her. "What you worried that I'm stalking you? Maybe you're stalking me and for the record, I would mind it," she teases.
"Why do you do that? Why do say stuff like that? T-That flirty stuff?" Alex snaps.
"Whoa, Danvers. Is that what you think I was doing? Flirting with you?" Maggie responds feigning innocence.
Alex freaks out a moment, oh crap, have I really misread this? She immediately thinks to herself.
Maggie watches her and then laughs softly.
"You're messing with me again," Alex replies angrily glaring at the other woman.
The detective apologizes, "Sorry Danvers. I guess I can't help it. I like messing with you," she says as she shoots the other woman a dangerously flirty look before motioning to the bartender to refill Alex's glass and get her another beer.
"Why? Why do you do that?" Alex stammers annoyed and frustrated.
"Do what exactly?" Maggie asks feigning innocence.
"Flirt with me when you, you have a girlfriend," Alex protests.
"Ah, well I don't have a girlfriend any more," Maggie replies with a sigh.
"W-what happened?" Alex asks genuinely concerned.
"She dumped me. Apparently aliens and meta-humans freak her out, she actually asked me if I would get a different job," Maggie exclaims taking a long drink of her beer.
"I'm sorry Maggie. But it, it's her loss. You deserve better than that," Alex points out taking a sip of her drink.
"Maybe, but still feels like a punch to the gut," Maggie counters. "I thought she was... well never mind. I was wrong, obviously," the brunette says looking down.
Not wanting to dwell on it, Maggie gestures over to Kara and Mon-El. "Tell me, is that really her cousin?" She asks as they both watch the couple laughing together, Mon-El draping an arm across the back of Kara's chair.
Alex watches the couple a moment, taking time to let her head switch gears before responding. "Not exactly, but close enough. Look, he's new to the city and she's helping him. It's a long story," she finally replies. And then realizes that she's probably said too much, she takes a sip from her glass, realizes that it's empty, she looks around for the bartender, then notices the other drink.
"Hmm," Maggie murmurs into her beer smiling amused at the annoyed brunette.
"Uh, I was supposed to buy you a drink," Alex points out.
"Next time," Maggie says standing up and setting the empty bottle down on the bar. "See you around Danvers," she adds.
Alex watches her saunter back over to the pool table to rejoin her friends.
"Kara's right. Maggie is attracted to you Alex," Mon-El says as he and Kara rejoin Alex at the bar.
"Whatever," Alex says finishing off her drink.
Hoping to cheer her sister up, Kara suggests that they go play darts.
"Nah, I'm heading out. You two be careful tonight," Alex says slipping a $20 under her glass and nodding at the bartender.
Kara watches her sister leave and sighs to herself.
"I like darts, and I'm good at it," Mon-El exclaims eagerly.
"Well if Winn taught you to play, I'm totally going to kick your butt," Kara jokes picking up her glass of wine and heading over to the dart boards.
Heading out of the bar a few hours later, Kara is laughing at something Mon-El said when all of the sudden two guys step out from the shadows with a gun.
"Don't be a hero dude, just give us your wallet and the lady's purse," the hooded guy says gesturing with the gun.
The other guy cracks his knuckles and steps in close to Mon-El to intimidate him.
"Guys you really don't want to do this," Kara says placing a hand on Mon-El's arm to reassure him that she's going to handle it.
"We do and you're not going to stop us," the guy with the gun says motioning to his friend to grab Kara's purse.
Mon-El shoves the guy hard knocking him into the other guy, causing the gun to go off accidently. The two thugs scramble to their feet and run away off.
Having heard the gun shot from inside the bar, Maggie barrels out the door. "Kara, you okay? I heard a gun shot. What happened?" She asks rapidly then noticing the gun on the ground, she pulls her sleeve over her hand and picks it up carefully.
"We're fine," she says. "Two guys tried to rob us and the gun accidently went off," Kara explains.
"I'm sorry Kara. I shouldn't have shoved him," Mon-El admits nervously.
"I'll call this in and get a patrol sent over to look for them," Maggie says taking her phone out of her pocket with her other hand.
Kara pulls Mon-El aside and reminds him that no one knows that she is Kryptonian and to not say anything.
He nods slowly.
"Okay, NCPD is enroute, can you guys stick around and make a statement?" She asks Kara and Mon-El.
"Do we have to? It really was nothing and we didn't even get a good look at them. They had hoods up and it's really dark," Kara explains.
"Kara, they held you at gunpoint, you have to make a statement, then I promise that we'll get you home," Maggie answers.
A few minutes later the first patrol car arrives and Kara and Mon-El make their statements.
After about an hour, Kara yawns. "Is there anything else? We have work tomorrow morning," she points out.
"No, that should do it. If we catch them will you come in and try to id them?" The officer asks.
"Yeah, sure," Kara says agreeing, although she has no intention of doing that.
"Okay, well let's get you two home then," the officer suggests going over to talk to Sawyer a moment.
When he comes back Kara and Mon-El are gone. "Hey where'd they go?" He asks the other officers.
"They walked that way," one of the crime scene techs says not looking up, but pointing down the empty street.
Landing on her patio, Kara releases her grip on Mon-El and he turns around excitedly.
"Kara, that was awesome," he blurts out smiling brightly. "How do you not fly all the time?"
"It is kind of awesome," she admits smiling brightly. "And actually, I do fly as often as I can," she adds taking off her sweater and poking her finger through the bullet hole in it.
"Wait, you were shot?" He asks worriedly, reaching out for her arm to check for a wound.
"I'm bulletproof, it just bounced off me," she explains.
"Am I bulletproof?" He asks excitedly.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure you are," she says reaching over and showing him the bullet hole in his own shirt. "Looks like it bounced off both of us," she points out.
Quickly Mon-El removes his shirt to inspect his body and Kara looks away nervously.
"Not a scratch," he says proudly inspecting himself.
"No, y-you're perfect-ly intact," Kara stammers before making her way into the apartment.