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scarletstreak) wrote2016-03-28 08:21 pm
scarletstreak) wrote2016-03-28 08:21 pm
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He could get used to it, if he's honest. Obviously he wants to get home, he needs to, he already misses Joe and Iris, and Caitlin and Cisco and even Wells, and he can't just leave Central City without a hero. But this feels like a, a chance to take a break. And he takes breaks, Caitlin and Cisco make sure, but this time it's with someone who gets why it's so hard to take a break, and that feels different.
They're perched on the back of a car, with another box of doughnuts—Kara had claimed one place had the best, Barry had asked how he was supposed to believe that, clearly they needed to try a lot more—and he's actually comfortably full for once.]
I can't believe National City has a drive in movie theater. That's so cool. You come here a lot?
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[Part of Kara feels bad for being here—a bright smile stretched across her face, a box of delicious doughnuts resting on her lap—because she'd promised to help Barry get home, hadn't she? Told him if he helped her (or rather, Supergirl) take down Livewire and Silver Banshee, she and her friends would do everything in their power to get him back home. So there's a little guilt. The reminder that she should be keeping to her word, not temporarily breaking it by extending the stay of Barry Allen's time on her Earth.
That said, it's not like Barry declined her invitation of doughnuts and a drive in movie. No, he accepted with that wide smile of his. So maybe there's no need for her to feel bad or guilty. After all, if there's no immediate rush for him to leave tonight, then she should stop worrying about keeping him from Central City and the heroics he performs as both Barry Allen CSI and the Flash, and start enjoying what time she has left with him. Because he has to go home eventually. It's something Kara has accepted, even if she wishes he could stay.
It would've been nice to have another hero around, someone capable of the impossible, a friend who understands what it's like to lead dual lives and the separate responsibilities and pressures that come with them. Yes, she has her cousin, Kal–El, but Kal (or Clark or Superman, depending on the time and place) isn't around as much as Kara would like him to be. But then, at the same time, when faced with a problem or dealing with a struggle, Kara prefers not to go flying to her cousin, for as much as she'd sometimes like to, she still feels the need to establish herself without being defined by Superman.
Now isn't the time for those thoughts, though. Now is the time for digging into the best doughnuts in National City and spending time with Barry. At Barry's question, Kara touches the side of her glasses, adjusting the way they sit on her face. It's more of subconscious thing than anything.]
Uh, no. No, I don't. This is actually my first time coming here.
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[It’s cute, the way she touches her glasses all the time when she’s wearing them. He’s watched Wells—two of them—fidget with their glasses before, but it’s not the same. They do it because they need them to see. She touches hers like she’s reassuring herself they’re still there. The mask is still there.
What would it be like, to wear a mask in your every day life instead of when you were out saving people? Really lonely, he thinks. Really hard to remember who you really were, except around only a few people. Everyone knows Barry Allen, almost no one knows the Flash, but for her, almost no one knows Kara Zor-El.
Which is her alien name. That’s so cool. The thought makes him grin at her again, bright and excited. He’d never thought he’d meet someone like her.
And yeah, they each have their own box of doughnuts, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t just speed-snatched one out of her box.
That totally never happened, what do you mean?]
How come?