Call me Kara

Chapter 17

~Earth-1~

Kara sat at her desk, trying to decide the nicest way to inform the PR team to scrap everything they had because it was utter crap and try again. Unfortunately she was failing. It was late, darkness had already fallen but this was nothing new to the blonde. She had often stayed late into the night with Cat, but unless there was someone who needed saving she really had nothing better to do. Unless it was game night, which towards the end of her time there had stopped being fun, it was either watch TV with Alex or go to the DEO and hang out, waiting for something to happen.

Now she did have better things to do. Alex had really loosened up since she had arrived here. She acted as if she was much lighter, and even smiled more. The last two days since Nyssa had been back, she was particularly happy, probably because she was training. Despite the lightness in her step, Alex loved to fight. Even Barry was beginning to enjoy it now that he had stopped breaking his knuckles every time he hit something. Nyssa worked with Kara in the afternoon. Despite not figuring out a way to infuse her body with enough red solar energy through a small bracelet to counter the yellow sunlight yet, Cisco and Dr. Stein had converted one of the unused rooms at the lab into a red sun room. The red of the room was weird at first but she felt completely human every single time Nyssa hit her. She felt human a lot. Her chin felt human when Nyssa's fist hit it, her stomach felt human when Nyssa's knee made contact and her butt felt human every time she landed on it.

Nyssa was turning into a surprise. She was actually really funny and helpful, surprisingly patient and not nearly as rough as she could be. The two would begin working with some type of sticks tomorrow. That would probably be bad for Kara and she mentally prepared herself for quite a few blows to the head with sticks instead of Nyssa's foot but that was alright. She knew this was good for her, she needed these skills. What Alex had taught her was a great help but even Alex admitted Nyssa was another level of badass.

Barry and her had suffered no ill repercussions of her momentary lapse of judgement and basic petulant fit she had thrown. He acted as if it had never happened, only to remind her every now and then that he was there if she ever needed to talk or just be by herself with someone near. She really wanted to see him now, but she also felt an obligation to do the job she was being paid for. Although she had managed the construction crews, lawyers, insurance executives and concerned board members, Kara had ignored the PR department, other than briefings on how the attack was being perceived by the public. Now that she had a chance to look at the proposed marketing plans for the spinal chip there was concern. Instead of focusing on the miracle of treating many types of spinal injuries, the PR team wanted to focus on the technical aspects. To read the proposed press releases, one would think Palmer Tech were turning injured people into cyborgs. The FDA and medical boards would be suspicious from the start. In Kara's mind using these chips to walk was no different than using a pacemaker to live. The nanites were a bit of an issue and the concerns of what would happen if thousands of tiny microbots got into the blood stream and organs were a legitimate concern that the medical and technical experts would have to explain to the governing bodies of medicine but that was not her job. Her job was to showcase the work Felicity, Curtis and Ray had done in a positive light so they weren't fighting an uphill battle before the war had even begun.

Kara was pretty certain she had taken this job to manage a calendar and fetch coffee because Felicity felt sorry for her. Apparently the woman was actually putting a lot of faith in her and Kara would not let her down. Speaking of the powerful CEO who was an IT nerd at heart, here she was, emerging from the makeshift R&D lab in their temporary offices.

"Hey Kara, how's it going?"

"According to the PR team you are a cyborg."

"I could have told them that long ago. Listen I really need a favor." Kara looked up and noticed that Felicity had sort of a manic look in her eye.