#just Kara pretending she's totally straight when she meets the most beautiful woman she's ever seen

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11. Emerald

(on ao3 here)

Kara could get lost in those emerald eyes.

Wait, what?

This is Lena Luthor. Brother of Lex Luthor, notorious hater of Kryptonians. Also, notably, a woman.

Kara's straight. She knows this about herself. She's only ever dated men. None of them had ever worked out very successfully, but… that was mostly because Kara could never truly be her whole self with them, to protect her identity. She's straight.

Kara's eyes can't help but wander over Lena's curves as she hangs up her bag. Lena is objectively beautiful, Kara reasons. Looking at objectively beautiful people is nice, no matter who they are or what gender they are. Kara is just appreciating Lena's natural beauty, the cut of her jawline, the lithe hands that fuss with her bag, the way her skirt hugs the curve of her bum—

Ahem.

"And Supergirl was there, too," Kara stutters. What is going on with her today?

Those emerald eyes land on Kara again, and her stomach flip-flops pleasantly. Her body tingles and heats as those eyes appraise her.

"And who are you exactly?" Lena's red lips form a small smirk as she crosses the room to pour a glass of water. The click of her heels send a shiver down Kara's back.

Crap. "I'm Kara Danvers. I'm not with the Daily Planet, I'm with Catco Magazine, sort of," she manages weakly.

She's making an excellent first impression. Rao.

But why does Kara care so much?

"That's not a publication known for its hard-hitting journalism," Lena chuckles, settling behind her desk. "More like 'high waisted jeans, yes or no?'"

"I'm just tagging along today, so…" she cuts off lamely. Her cheeks heat, and a thrill shoots down her when Lena notices and smirks at her.

Kal takes control of the interview while Kara tries to calm her beating heart. Could a Kryptonian even have a heart attack on Earth? When she sees Kal pull down his glasses to scan the room out of the corner of her eye, Kara hastily does the same. The room is clean — Kara never thought it wouldn't be.

Kara hears Lena plans for her company, to do good, and believes her. She sounds so sincere, and her emerald eyes shine with something Kara recognizes — that hazy reconciliation of loving your family but wanting to be better than their choices.

Kara feels a surge ofemotion through her body when Lena says, "I'm just a woman trying to make a name for herself outside of her family. Can you understand that?"

"Yeah," she says instinctually. Something magnetic pulls to keep her eyes connected with Lena's. Lena holds her eye contact for a moment before turning back to Kal. She shares a drive with Kal and moves them out of her office too soon after.

Kara finds herself wanting to linger as Kal walks to the door, but instead she just says awkwardly, "Good day," and follows him out.

As they leave L-Corp, Kal seems determined to be skeptical of the youngest Luthor, but Kara will have none of it.

She just has a good feeling about Lena Luthor.

[r-grimes]

i am lost in you; [1/3]

powerful business woman alex danvers meets her personal assistant maggie sawyer.

inspired by chylers and flos glaad appearance.

ao3.

i.

Alex still wasn’t sure how she ended up running one of the biggest companies in the world. For real, she has no idea how it happened. But it did happen, somehow and now she is one of the most powerful women in the world and to say that she was proud is an understatement.

Sure, her sister may be Supergirl, an alien and a hero to everyone in National City but Alex was a powerful business women who owned half of National City.

And really, her sister was more a hero for her than most people can imagine, and she dearly loved her with everyone she had but there were moments when Alex wanted to strangle her. Like, when she decided to hire Alex a personal assistant because she ‘needed more time for herself’. But Alex knew Kara’s true intentions.

“Come on Alex, you really should start dating again. It’s fun, believe me.” Kara cheekily smiled at her bigger sister, while sitting on a thousand dollars chair, a file in her one hand and pizza in the other.

“I date.” Alex replied lamely and Kara rolled her eyes.

“Going out with someone on tinder for drinks doesn’t count as a date.”

Alex groaned and let herself fall back on her brown leather chair, specially made for her and she closed her eyes, silently praying Kara would finally stop pushing her into dating again.

It wasn’t that Alex was not interested when it came to dating, but when you are one of the richest women in the world it get’s harder and harder to tell if someone is truly interested in you or your money.

“Give me the file.” Alex muttered under her breath, hoping Kara would drop the dating topic for now.

“We are not done.” Kara said and handed her sister the file.

Alex opened the file, her eyes diligently observing the details written down. Maggie Sawyer. Somehow, this name was familiar to her, but she couldn’t quite but a picture to the name.

“Maggie Sawyer?”

“Former cop. Remember the one who saved a whole alien refugee family in the warehouse owned by Lord? That was her.” Kara said, while taking another bite from her pizza.

Alex nodded, a small smile forming at the corner of her lips. When she looked up, she was met with a smirking Kara, her eyes gleaming and Alex knew her sister was up to something.

“Kara, what did you?” Alex squinted her eyes, her lips firm and her sight wasn’t leaving the other woman. “Nothing.” Kara replied innocently and Alex let out another loud groan. This wasn’t going to end well.

“It seems you like her.”

Alex scoffed. “I do not.”

“Your smile said otherwise.” Kara wiggled her eyebrows and Alex was making sure to send her sister death glares. Many, many death glares.

“Kara, tell me what you did.” Alex was getting impatient and she really didn’t had the time for this game. After all, she was trying to run a big ass company.

“She will have a job interview with you in a few minutes.” Kara said quickly, took a quick look at her watch and grinned at her sister. “She should be coming in any second.”

Before Alex could say anything, the door opened and Winn’s head appeared, an unusual smile on his face. Of course Winn was involved in this. Of course he was. Alex betted all of her money that Kara’s boyfriend was involved as well.

She really needed to have a talk with James.

“A Maggie Sawyer is here, for the job interview.” He said, grinning and Alex was close to using her years of training on Winn. Very close.

“A job interview I never agreed to.” Alex muttered under her breath but Kara hushed her and signed with her hands to let Maggie in.

Alex didn’t had any expectations because she had no idea what Maggie looked like. And why would she? She never had met this woman and she never planned on, she only had heard one or two of her heroic stories. But apparently, not only was the woman a hero to a lot of people, she was also absolutely beautiful, stunning and unbelievable hot.

When Maggie Sawyer entered through the door, Alex never ever thought before in her life that a simply skinny jeans and a white blouse would make her lose her breath for a few seconds. And she specially didn’t expected her brain to come up with some unholy thoughts, involving a certain woman bend on her table, moaning and whispering her name over and over again.

Alex gulped, quickly shoving those thoughts away and she took a second look at the woman. Her brown hair was falling easily over her shoulders, her hands were folded before her and god, those dimples and those smile was honestly the cutest thing Alex had ever seen in her life.

Kara’s voice brought her back from her thoughts and Alex put on her best smile.

“Maggie Sawyer, right?” Kara asked the most obvious question as a icebreaker and Alex rolled her eyes.

“Yep, that’s me.”

Shit. Her voice was way lower than Alex had thought.

“You are Kara Danvers, right?” Maggie asked and Kara got up from her chair and opened her arms and embraced the smaller woman into a hug. “Sorry, I’m a hugger.” Kara said quickly and Maggie chuckled at that and fuck, Alex was a goner.

When Maggie hugged her sister, their eyes met and Alex may not be very good at dating, but reading people was one of her specialties. The intensity the other woman had in her eyes told Alex everything she needed. Alex could clearly make out how Maggie's eyes were roaming over her body and Alex mouth switched into a smirk, well knowing what kind of an effect she could have on women.

There was a good reason why she was wearing suits everyday.

And she did turn a straight girl gay. It was a long time ago but Alex was still immensely proud of that.

Alex sat up, crossed her legs and put her arms on her table, letting her chin rest on her hands, her eyes not leaving the other woman’s face. Maggie’s mouth was slightly opened and it didn’t went unnoticed. Of course Alex noticed.

Kara let go of Maggie and she gestured to the woman to sit down next to her on another chair and Maggie nodded politely at that, somehow her eyes still on Alex.

“So,” Alex spoke up, her voice a bit lower than usual, “You are Maggie Sawyer. My new personal assistant.”

Kara eyed her sister suspiciously, but Maggie gave Alex a smile, her dimples showing and Alex knew she needed to make that woman smile again.

“Well, not yet but it would be a pleasure working for you.”

“Oh, I’m sure it will be.”

Kara turned her head from Alex to Maggie, then from Maggie back to Alex and she wrinkled her her eyebrows together, just pretending in not knowing what exactly was happening.

“Well, “ Alex clapped her hands together, got up from her chair (she made sure to swing her hips a bit more than usual, just because) and made her way over to Maggie, who already stood and Alex hold out her hand, “I have read your file and it would be my pleasure working with you.” Alex made sure to say every word a bit slower and Maggie took Alex hand and shook it.

At the contact, Alex shuddered and god, this was all Kara’s fault and Alex wasn’t really sure if she should strangle or thank her sister.

“The pleasure will be all mine, Ms Danvers.” Maggie replied, her eyes not leaving Alex for one second and Alex knew that the attraction was mutual. Now she needed to figure out what to do.

Meanwhile, Kara just stood besides them, her mouth slightly open, still pretending to be confused at the scene she just saw with her own eyes.

“I have a lunch date with James, I’ll see you later, Alex.” Kara tried to sound like she had no ideas what was going on, but she failed miserably when Alex shot her wink before she left the door.

“Your sister is truly something.” Maggie said laughing and Alex chuckled, nodding her head. “She really is. But I’m glad she invited you for this.” Alex said honestly and god, she really hoped she didn’t sounded like a creep.

Maggie smiled at her, titling her head and bit her lip. “I’m glad as well.” She replied shortly and Alex held her breath for a few seconds. “But, just so you know,” Maggie took a step forward, standing in Alex personal space but Alex didn’t minded it one bit, “I meant everything.” Her voice was even lower than before and Alex gulped and nodded.

“See you tomorrow, Ms Danvers.” And with that, Maggie was out of the door, leaving an astound and still out of breath Alex behind her.

Well, Alex was truly fucked.

And so Maggie started working for Alex.

It turned out that Maggie well knew that Alex was a lesbian (how could she not, Alex was never ashamed of that part of herself and the public did knew about her) and she only took the job to see how Alex was in real life.

Alex hadn’t minded one bit.

“I just couldn’t let that opportunity pass. Did you know you have a huge lesbian fellowship who would do anything for you? I'm supposed to report back to them.” Maggie was sitting on one Alex expensive leather chairs, documents and files before her and trying to figure what exactly she was supposed to do with those.

“I have what? You are what?” Alex spluttered and she could feel her cheeks heating up. Why did Maggie Sawyer had such an effect on her?

Maggie chuckled. “You really should google your name from time to time. And as much as I would like to tell your fans that you are actually a huge giant dork who can turns as red as a tomato,” Alex laughed sarcastically at that and rolled her eyes, “I don't want to ruin their fantasies.” Maggie clicked with her tongue and looked to Alex, who's mouth was wide open.

“What fantasies? And what do you mean tell them?”

“You have a whole internet forum dedicated to you.” Maggie couldn't contain her laughter anymore and the files in front of her were totally forgotten.

“You have been working here for three weeks. Why didn't you tell me that earlier?” Alex asked.

“Oh, so you are interested.” Maggie teased her and Alex groaned again.

“That's-Okay that's not what I meant and you know it.”

Maggie winked at her. “For someone who's nickname is daddy, you are really a dork.”

“I'm what now?” Alex eyes were wide and her mouth hung slightly open.

“Oh Danvers, you have so much to learn..” Maggie said and smiled at her and really, those dimples were going to be the death of Alex. She studied Maggie for a few more seconds, the smaller woman was still looking at her, with a smile that reached her eyes and Alex heart skipped a bit.

Well, fuck. Did Alex really develop a crush on her assistant within three weeks? This was probably illegal somehow but she told herself that she shouldn't let this opportunity pass, because Alex rarely developed any crushes on any woman.

So she decided to play along. Because really, what did she had to lose? And maybe, just maybe there was a tiny little chance that Maggie was into her as well, because if you would ask her, Alex totally believed that Maggie had non stop been flirting with here these past few weeks. Believed being the key word because in the end, Alex just wasn’t sure.

Maybe she had just imagined it? Maybe her imagination was playing games with her and maybe she had interpreted too much into this. But there was only one way to find out.

“Did you just take the job, so you could report back to the forum? Are you telling me that you are a member in a forum dedicated to me?” Alex put her chin on both her hands, her gaze finding Maggie face and she was clearly surprised by this. She blinked once, twice, her mouth slightly open and her eyebrows furrowed together, probably trying to think of something in return to say.

“Uh, maybe?” She answered back, grinning sheepishly and Alex let out another chuckle.

“Now that is interesting.”

Maggie waited, looked at Alex and was expecting some more words from her, but Alex just grinned to herself and brought her attention back to her papers.

“That is all you have to say?” Maggie said and her voice told Alex that she was clearly surprised. Alex just shrugged, took a look at her watch and promptly got up from her chair. The smaller woman still had a dazzled look on her face when Alex walked over to her.

“There is a reason why I hired you, and it was clearly not because of your assistant skills.” Alex leaned down to Maggie’s ear, her voice lower than before and Maggie’s mouth dropped to the floor, eyes wide, looking absolutely amazed by Alex and god, Alex was so proud of herself.

This is exactly the reaction she was hoping for.

“I’ll see you later Ms Sawyer.” Alex made sure to let her hand brush Maggie’s shoulder on her way towards the door.

All Alex heard before she left through the door was a “What the hell happened to being all stuttering and flustering, Danvers? God damn it.”

It was on.

“I need to talk to you about Maggie.” It was pretty late and all Alex wanted was to go home. But Kara seemed somehow confused and Alex sighed.

“What did she do?”

“This is the second time that James ditched me so he could go train with her at the gym.” Kara crossed her arms and Alex rolled her eyes.

“Kara listen to me,” Alex put her hands on her little sister's shoulder, “First of all, is she really working out? I mean I know she is fit but you really need to tell James to take photos and-”

“Alex.” Kara whined and Alex hold up her hands.”Alright, sorry. What I really wanted to say,” Kara rolled her eyes at that response and Alex hushed her, “You are basically spending every day with him, it's good for him to meet other people besides you.”

Kara shock her head and Alex furrowed her eyebrows, clearly confused. “She is supposed to do stuff with you after work. Not James.”

Alex face was puzzled, trying to put all the pieces together but she was lost.

Kara groaned out loud. “Alex, we were trying to set you guys up.”

“You did what?”

“Please don't be mad, but James knew Maggie since there were little kids and she recently just moved her and was looking for a job and we knew that she was gay and-”

“You thought that your sister who is also gay and not dating anyone, might be interested in her.” Alex finished, her arms crossed and her face unable to read.

“Something like this. Please don't be mad.” Kara pleaded and Alex chuckled.

“Normally, I would be mad because really Kara? Just because she is gay and I am gay, you thought we should date.”

“In my defense, she is really attractive, right? She also seemed nice.”

Alex nodded and embraced Kara into a tight high, showing her that she was not actually mad at her.

“She is really hot, but also very kind and Kara, I do really like her.” Alex mumbled into Kara’s shoulder and Kara tightened the hug.

“She really likes you Alex. She hasn't stopped talking about you whenever she is seeing James, and they almost see each other every day.” Kara snorted and Alex let out a small laughter and let go off Kara to look at her.

“You really thinks she likes me like that?”

Kara nodded. “Yes, absolutely.”

“I mean, she did told me that she was a member at an internet forum dedicated to me.” Alex chuckled to herself and Kara’s eyes widened.

“She is was?”

“Don't worry about, it's actually pretty funny.” Alex reassured her and Kara chuckled.

“Besides, I've been thinking about inviting her to the event next week.” Alex said out loud but she wasn't sure if she had said it because of Kara or if she was still debating with herself if she should actually do it or not.

“That's an amazing idea!” Kara clapped her hands together and bounced up and down, probably more excited for the evening than Alex.

“James and I will be there as well, this is going to be so much fun.”

“Oh, I plan on having fun.” Alex mouth turned into a grin and Kara let out another groan.

“As much as I want you to be happy and finally ask her out, I really don't want to think about you to hooking up.” Alex stuck her tongue out and Kara shock her head, amused but truly happy for her sister.

“I still can't believe I have a whole internet pages dedicated to me and Maggie is a member.”

“Alex, please.”