716. Chapter 716

Alex isn’t home when Adrian’s key scrapes the lock, and neither is Maggie.

But Kara is.

It makes him nervous, at first.

He stammers and he blushes and he apologizes, but she waves him off, assuring him that it’s fine, she’s just feeding Gertrude because Alex and Maggie are both on a mission in a cell phone dead zone that’s running late, but they’re fine, don’t worry, so why don’t the two of them order pizza and make themselves comfortable and wait for their respective sisters to come home.

And really, Supergirl is asking him to have pizza with her, so how could he possibly say no? It’s not like this is their first time meeting, anyway. It’s just… their first time alone.

So it takes a few minutes for his nerves to settle, but then they start raiding the fridge together, because sure, the pizza will only take a half hour to get there, but thirty minutes is a long time to go without food.

“How does Maggie even reach these cabinets?” he muses with a small smirk, and Kara adjusts her glasses as she laughs and hovers to reach the cookies above his head before he can grab them.

“Cheating!” he half-shouts, remembering to keep his voice down because of her sensory sensitivity, and she decides that he’s exactly as amazing as Maggie and Alex are always saying.

“Hey, wanna make sundaes?” she wants to know, with a glisten in her eyes.

“Only if we stay away from Maggie’s ice cream,” Adrian laughs, and Kara races him to see who can collect the best ingredients from the most random places in the kitchen.

They’re full by the time the pizza gets there, but they eat a few slices anyway.

“No way,” Adrian pffts, his mouth full of crust. “Maggie whooped Alex’s butt at a weapons accuracy test at the DEO last week, didn’t your sister tell you?”

Kara laughs and swipes another slice from the box. “Yeah, well your sister’s too scared to fly with me,” she teases, and he narrows his eyes playfully because he knows there’s no maneuvering around that one.

“Yeah, well maybe that’s because she’s too busy kicking Alex’s butt at Thursday morning knife practice.”

“Yeah, well maybe that’s because Thursday morning knife practice is a euphemism for – ew, you know what, never mind, we’re talking about my sister – “

Adrian’s eyes fly wide. “So that’s why she looks forward to it so much!”

They both laugh until they nearly cry.

“You know, Alex would have died in that tank if it weren’t for Maggie,” Kara tells him with glassy eyes.

“And Maggie would be convinced she doesn’t deserve anything good in this world if it weren’t for Alex,” Adrian squeezes Kara’s hand gently, because he knows that swooping feeling of nearly losing your sister all too well.

“They’re both kinda badass, aren’t they?” he follows up after a thoughtful silence.

“Yeah,” Kara nods before poking Adrian in the nose. “And so are we.”