Call me Kara

Chapter 13

~Earth-1~

After a long morning of finally, slowly, piecing together bomb parts that would lead nowhere, Barry received the text he was looking for. Kara was on her way over with lunch. He needed to get out of the lab today and planned to convince her to go to the park, or parking lot, or anywhere he didn't feel so shut in. His lab felt comfortable mostly but sometimes he needed to run, and short of that, fresh air would have to do.

"Hey cutie." Kara greeted him walking in, two bags of burgers and fries in one hand and a cup holder of two chocolate shakes in the other. Having extremely high metabolism was awesome.

"Hey yourself, beautiful." He returned, wrapping his arms around her after she set the food on the desk.

"I was wondering if you felt like going outside to eat. I really need to get out of here for a while. Do you have time?"

"Of course. I don't have anything until 2. I have to meet with the head of the contracting firm. He is not happy about an addition Felicity wants and I have to deal with him."

"Why you?" Kara shrugged her shoulders. "Apparently Felicity is needed by her babies. I'm pretty sure she meant the servers. All technical details of the reconstruction are my domain. She gave me a general list and if anyone has a problem with it, they come to me."

"And then you go to her?" Barry asked.

"Nope. I deal with it. She does her thing and I do ... the rest." Kara finished.

"That seems ... have you ever dealt with contractors before? I thought most of your experience was in media?"

"That's what I told her and was told that I was Superwoman and I could handle it. I told her my powers didn't include dealing with angry contractors and she told me I broke the building so I could fix it. She was in her work mode where she doesn't take her eyes off the monitor and chews two pens at the same time. Anyway, I can handle any problems that he has. I have a way with people."

"You can't throw him into space." Barry told her.

"Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure I can." She retorted, giving him a wink. "Just kidding, lets go. I need to take my boyfriend for a walk so he can get his exercise for the day." Barry laughed and took her hand but before the two could move, Captain Singh was in the lab doorway.

"Oh hey Captain. I have the bomb pieced together as much as possible. No prints, military grade hardware, with no way to track where it came from. Its going to be a dead end. Whoever did this..."

"Yeah, professional, hard to find, damn Government probably already knows who did it and is jerking our chains watching us run in circles. I just came up to check on Kara." Kara was a bit surprised.

"I... I'm fine. Thank you for asking, but why wouldn't you think I ..." Captain Singh held up his hand and put his finger to his lips, turning to close the door. Once it was closed, he turned back to the silent two.

"Because you fell out of the damn sky and Barry had to catch you then that fire guy almost burned you both up on the way down. You looked beat girl. Don't get me wrong, you were awesome out there, you both were, but that was a tough one. Then neither of you show up for days, and I figured you really got hurt. But you are good now?" Barry and Kara both stared at the police captain.

"You know?" Barry whispered. "Did ... somebody tell you?" He asked, thinking of Joe.

"Nah, I suspected you from the beginning. I mean c'mon, you wake up from a nine month coma that should have wrecked you for life and not only are you healthy, you're in better shape than ever. I didn't say anything, pretended not to notice how you were always gone when the Flash showed up, how you and Joe always seemed to know more than you let on about meta-humans, how you were never late anymore... or at least not as much. Anyway I give it to you, the mask really hides your identity. Anybody that didn't know you or see you everyday like I do would never believe you were the Flash. I laughed about it myself. But then you got a sweet new girlfriend who is just a doll and suddenly the Flash has a new Superhero partner out saving men, women and children from burning buildings and armed robberies and then takes out a super powered mad man, a woman wearing a mask with bright blonde hair. C'mon Allen, I am a cop. I didn't get to be captain by being stupid."