Chapter 135 - Off to Earth-1 Again

Presently Kara is in her bedroom, just finishing putting on her clothes. Lena and Alura have already left for the day, with Lena being the one to take their daughter to school this morning, instead of the two of them. This has happened because last night Kara had a rather late evening, as there happened to be a few criminals that decided to go on a night-time spree, which required Supergirl's attention. All this meant that Kara didn't crash into her pillow, in bed, next to Lena, until close to 3 AM. Therefore, because of all this, Lena told Kara to just sleep in longer, and arrive later to work, as she didn't want her fiancé to be too tired. Kara, still being very tired when Lena told her this, just groggily agreed with Lena's suggestion, barely opening her eyes.

At the moment, however, it is about 10AM, and Kara knows that she really should get into work, even if her fiancé is the boss and she could arrive as late as she wants, or not at all, with no risk of being fired.

Kara walks into her bathroom, deciding that she wants to brush her hair one last time. However, about a minute into Kara being in her bathroom, she hears a noise coming from inside her home. Kara knows right now that she should be the only one at home, so this puts her on alert. Kara then uses her super hearing and finds that there is one other person in her home, as she can detect their heartbeat. Kara doesn't recognise the heartbeat, so she knows that it isn't Alex, Lena, Alura or Eliza, as they are the only heartbeats she knows.

"I know someone is out there!" Kara yells out, and then goes storming into her bedroom, where the heartbeat is coming from.

As soon as Kara walks back into her bedroom, she ends up being surprised, but not because she comes across some sort of intruder who has come to her home to attack her, but because she comes across her friend from another universe, Barry Allen.

"Oh Rao, Barry! You scared me! I thought some stranger had broken into my home." Kara exclaims.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that." Barry replies, with a sheepish look on his face, "The portal just detects you wherever you are. So, I couldn't really do anything about that, my bad."

Kara nods her head in understanding, knowing that her speedster friend from another universe obviously didn't mean to scare her. Barry, for his part, then begins to look around the bedroom that the two of them are standing in, and grows a confused expression on his face.

"This isn't your normal place." Barry says, with some confusion in his voice.

"No." Kara replies, with a smile, "Alura and I moved in here about 4ish months ago."

"Oh, cool, why did you..." Barry begins to ask, but then stops, his eyes going wide as he looks at the ring on Kara's left hand. "Oh my god! You're engaged!"

Kara breaks out into a big smile as soon as Barry says that, happily recalling the memory that she and Lena are in fact going to be married.

"Yes, I am. It happened about a week ago." Kara smiles.

"That's great Kara!" Barry smiles, happily, "So, who is the lucky guy?"

"Girl. Her name is Lena." Kara smiles back, happily.

"Oh, sorry. I shouldn't have presumed. I'd love to meet her some time." Barry says, "Does she happen to be the same Lena that was looking after your daughter the last time you helped out in my universe?"

"Yes. She is." Kara nods.

"Oh, well, she must truly be amazing then." Barry smiles.

"She is." Kara nods, with a loving smile, as she thinks of Lena.

Barry nods his head back at Kara, happy for his alien friend.

"Anyway, what are you doing here, Barry?" Kara asks, "I presume you need my help again or something? This isn't a social call?"

"No, sorry, it's not. We do need your help." Barry says.

"Okay." Kara nods, "What's the situation?"

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It is now about an hour later, and Kara is walking into her fiancé's office, with a nervous look on her face. Kara has now agreed to go and help Barry on Earth-1, but that doesn't mean she is thrilled about it. Kara absolutely hates the prospect of being away from her family for any period of time, but she knows these are the small sacrifices she has to make because she's a hero. Kara might hate being away from Lena and Alura, but she knows if she doesn't go to Earth-1 to help, and then something bad happens to her friends there, she will feel very guilty.

"Kara!" Lena smiles, lovingly, as soon as she notices the blonde, her future wife, walk into the office.

"Hey, Lee." Kara replies, giving her fiancé a small smile.

"What's the matter?" Lena asks, confused, noticing Kara's demeanour.

Kara sighs.

"Do you have a moment to talk for a bit?" Kara asks, knowing that Lena could be busy with all her CEO stuff.

"Of course I do, darling." Lena says, with a worried expression now appearing on her face, "But do I need to be worried?"

"No. It's nothing like that." Kara quickly says, alleviating any of Lena's fears.

"Okay." Lena nods.

Kara and Lena then move over to Lena's couch, taking seats very close to one another.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" Lena asks, after a few moments of Kara fidgeting in silence.

Kara sighs again.

"Just before I left for L-Corp today..... I got a visit from one of my friends from Earth-1, Barry Allen." Kara explains.

"The one that has super speed?" Lena asks, remembering Kara telling her about him.

"Yes." Kara nods, "Anyway, it looks like the heroes on Earth-1 have got into a bit of trouble, and they've asked for my help. So, at the end of today, after we pick Alura up from school, I'm going to be heading to Earth-1, but I don't know for how long. A week maybe, but hopefully less."

"Oh..... okay...." Lena replies, sounding a bit disappointed.

Kara notices Lena's response.

"I don't have to go.... if you don't want me to..." Kara replies.

"No.... It's just..... I'm going to miss you while you are gone, and I don't like the idea of you being in another universe where I can't easily contact you." Lena replies, "Although.... it would have been nice if you actually talked to me about this before you agreed."

"Oh Rao, I'm sorry Lena. I didn't even think about it. But you're right, I totally should have talked things through with you first before agreeing. I just guess I'm so used to simply agreeing whenever one of my friends from another Earth comes and asks for help. But I promise, in the future, I will do better about talking to you first before agreeing." Kara says.

"Thank you, darling." Lena smiles back.

"Good. Now, do you have any free time?" Kara asks, with a small smile on her face.

Lena grows a confused look on her face.

"Uhh.... I don't have a meeting for about 15 minutes, why?" Lena asks.

Kara gets up and walks to Lena's office door, and then locks it, before turning to look at her fiancé again.

"Because... seeing as we probably won't see each other for about a week, I want to have sex, right here, right now." Kara says, confidently.