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Date Night! [Closed]

Okay, so it wasn’t quite night, so it didn’t really count as date night. But! It was a date! Her first real date in…a very long time. So, being understandably excited, Kara had done the thing to do and had worn something different for the date. Well, okay, not something different. She only has the plantsuit. But! She’s ripped them up so it looks like she’s wearing hot pants and go-go boots. That’s right, Julian, she’s showing off her shapely gams, and she’s only done that for you so far. She’s still wearing the gold-edged cape, though. Coz, you know, it’s the Super thing to do.

She stood outside the media library, trying to be as cool as Kryptonianly possible, with her arms and legs crossed and what she hoped was a mysterious but alluring smile on her face.

Crap. Was she supposed to bring him flowers or something?

…

Please don’t bring that horrible sludge from the mess hall in place of chocolate.

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He leaned his head back, looking at the ceiling as he spoke.

"Not really sure. All I know is that there was a bright flash one morning, damn near every single mutant on the planet had their DNA rewritten, they were devolved into normal baseline humans. And just like that, a population was over 30 million people and rising suddenly crashed down to 198 total and falling. I think I'm number 143 on the list."

He tried to sound casual as he said that, as if he was talking about any other thing. The facade was paper thin, though, and painfully easy to see through. Especially when he finally looked back at her again.

"Sort of puts us in the same boat, almost..." Which might be why he even told her all of that to begin with.

"Almost," Kara agreed softly. "I had no idea, Julian. That sounds terrible. I mean, to have an entire population wiped out...what is it with Earth and doing things like that?" Kara honestly didn't understand it, and no matter what Kon said about Krypton...she refused to believe that genocide like that had every touched her home.

Even though, in the back of her mind, she was well aware that it had.

Her eyes were watering when Julian looked back at her. The story hit a little close to home. "The tough guy act is sexy, Julian, but you can drop it a little around me. I wouldn't tell anyone."

He gave her a small smile, and a soft kiss.

"The tough guy act is one of the few things I left at this point, gorgeous. I think I'm gonna hold on to it." He did hug her a little tighter, though. "Thanks, though." He honestly did appreciate the offer.

Mmm. He could hug her as tightly as he wanted. She was enjoying his arms around her very, very much. She kissed him back, giving him a playful, teasing kiss that lingered just a little long. "What are friends for?"

He raised an eyebrow knowingly at her.

"We're just friends?"

She smiled coyly. "I don't know, handsome. I didn't wanna be Presumptuous Lass. This is our first date, after all."

"True." Her coy smile was mirrored by one of his own. "But I don't think I'm being Presumptuous ~~Lad~~ Guy if I say that this won't be our last date, either."

"Oh no. You won't be getting off that easily," Kara grinned. ~~Except for the part where, you know, you almost did.~~ "No, I'm just waiting to see how the next date could possibly top one where we were interrupted by a robot and then had to punch out a crewmate."

"We could be attacked by giant robots?" He considered that for a moment, then shook his head.

"Actually, let me not jinx us. That kind of thing tends to happen far too often to me."

Sentinels yay!

"On the bright side, you missed the giant cockroaches," Kara replied. "Amongst some other things." Granted, giant robots were something that Kara was confident she could handle.

Hello, Supergirl here, remember?

"I can relate, though. Villains. Aliens trying to kidnap me. It's a whole lotta fun all the way around."

Julian thought for a moment, as something dawned on him. "I don't even really have villains anymore. Like not in the traditional MUAH HA AH! I am EEEEvil and I am going to rob this bank then kick this puppy! kind of way.

"I get these nutjobs who think that 198 mutants is still too many, and they go out of their way to try and kill and remaining mutants on earth. Since M-Day, I've spent more time fighting for my survival than... than fighting for anything greater than that."

God damn. When did he stop being a hero? When did his life end up being little more than surviving from one day until the next?

Edited 2009-08-10 15:51 (UTC)

Kara reached up and gently stroked Julian's cheek with the back of her hand. "At least your villain's still an external one," she said. "Something you can actively fight against." She moved to touch the collar but stopped. She didn't know what it was made of, and she didn't dare touch it or use her x-ray vision on it. The last thing she wanted to do was give him some sort of horrible electric jolt. As opposed to the pleasurable kind. "So I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say that you actually want to be a hero?"

"I used to be a hero," he told her. He gently grabbed her hand when it looked like she was about to touch the collar. That was one of those things he'd rather not be messed with.

"I used to... a lot of things, really." His world may not have blown up, but everything changed so radically, and he lost so much that it might as well have. It took everything he had just to hold on to the last shreds of his life, and even that was a tenuous grip.

"I'd like to get back to that."

"I meant the life. Like you actually want it, the hero's life. I never suspected that you weren't a hero," Kara explained. "I can see that much in your eyes," she smiled. "But yeah, I like to think that we will get back to our lives," Kara said, "after all of this is over and done with. Whenever it's over and done with." She gave him a reassuring smile. "And it is a when, not an if. They can't just expect us to stay on this ship forever. Until then...we just make the most of it." Fact was...Kara was happier on the ship than she was at home. There was...so much wrong with her. And here, she could easily avoid a lot of it. Avoid having to live up to the S, even as she learned to embrace it. Avoid having to follow through with her father's orders and kill her cousin. Avoid having to let Kon be stubborn enough to kill himself and...

Kara closed her eyes.

Let this last as long as possible, please, Rao. Opening her eyes and looking at Julian, feeling his arms around her, she smiled. And this, too.

He really didn't have much of a life to go back to, which was the problem. Everything he once had was gone; things that meant something to him now meant nothing. His whole world had been burned to the ground; all he had left were ashes.

He looked at Kara, smiling at her. As weird as it seemed, being kidnapped by Stacy may have been the best thing to have happened to him in some time. He had a fresh start here.

"I want a life that has meaning again." Being a hero gave him that. Even if he was an arrogant prat about it.

But not so arrogant that he didn't notice the brief change in expression she had there. "You all right?"

"I'm fine. I just don't know how ready I am to go home yet," Kara said, shrugging lightly. "This place...it's given me a new start. A fresh start. And I'm digging it so far, y'know? I don't really know if I want to go back to what's waiting for me there."

That got him curious.

"What's waiting for you back home?"

She stares into his eyes for a moment, wondering how he'd react if he knew the truth. "Everyone at home expects me to be this perfect little girl because I'm Superman's cousin. Just because he's amazing and smart and never wrong and, like, a role model for everyone, people expect me to be the same. And it's like...I don't know. It's a lot to live up to. I'm still trying to find my bearings on Earth, you know?"

He tilted his head slightly. Out of all the things he expected on this date, this wasn't it... but he was still glad for it.

"I have an older brother, James," he started. "My parents looooove him. As far as they're concerned, he can do no wrong. Me? I've always been a little Hellion," in one sense of the word, or another, "so every five minutes it was always 'why can't you be more like James?' Which was really fucking annoying." To say the least.

"Anyway, my point is: yeah, I know what you mean. It's nice to have someplace where no one expects you to be anyone other than yourself."

Maybe he was loosening up on the tough guy act for her.

"It just makes you wanna run even more in the opposite direction, doesn't it? Even though a part of you knows that it's not quite the right thing to do," she smiled softly. "Here, it's like...I can finally be me. Kara Zor-El. I don't have to be Supergirl. It's a choice. Finally."

"Yeah, it does." Even though he wasn't that far removed from it, he remembered his early days at Xavier's. He took his personality and turned the volume up to eleven.

Those days were fun.

He backed it off some since, but after M-Day, things got so turned around he wasn't entirely sure who he was anymore.

A thought occurred to him and he chuckled a bit. "So I guess this does mean you're really real," he joked, recalling the conversation they had when they first met. "But just to make sure..."

His slid one of his hands down her back, and there was just a little groping action going on under that cape of hers. He must be thorough in his checking, of course.

Oh, of course. The expression Kara's face made it perfectly clear that she was alright with Julian's groping her.

The fact that she moved in to give him a hungry kiss would hopefully confirm any lingering doubts about how real she was.

Yeah, she was definitely real.

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