A/N: Author's not is first this time because clearly we are already on day six of supercat week, meaning I am behind. That said I blame this fic, completely and entirely. It was supposed to be small, 10,000+ words, 26 pages and 3 days later, I'm finally done. I hope you guys enjoy at least and don't think it bounces from thing to thing too much, there actually ended up being more going on here than I planned.

Kara paces the balcony off of Cat's office, the two of them were working late when her phone rang and she'd moved outside to answer it. "No, Eliza," Kara says, "no I'm not working too hard. I'm home right now, relaxing." She's just turned to face the door leading into Cat's office and finds the other woman leaning in the doorway, watching her. "No, Mom," she says suddenly and sharply, "I am not going on another blind date. I don't need a man in my life right now. There are enough complications in my life." Cat's eyebrow rises as she watches Kara continue to pace after a moment, "No, Mother, you are not setting me up again. Go play in Alex's life for once. All Alex has to hide is her job, not a completely different identity."

The conversation is progressing in much the same manner when Cat slips up behind Kara, hand slipping around her waist, which shocks Kara but not as much as it should, they do touchy way too well. "Baby, come back to bed," she says in a sleepy whisper and Kara glances over at her wondering both how Cat can sound like that when she's clearly wide awake, then she remembers the other woman's ability to go from awake to asleep in minutes and doesn't find it so strange, and why she's doing it at all in the first place.

"Yes, Mom, that was a woman's voice." Kara listens for a moment, "Yeah, Mom, goodnight. Love you too." When Kara finally ends the call she turns to Cat, "What was that?"

Cat grins, "It got your mom off the phone, didn't it? Now come on, we've still got work to do." Kara says nothing and instead turns to follow her boss back into the office.

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Kara races into the office, hot latte in one hand and tablet pulled close to her chest with the other one. "Kiera!" Cat's voice is already ringing out before she even reaches her desk. She races into Cat's office, "Where have you been, Kiera? I've been calling you for the last ten minutes."

"I'm sorry, Ms. Grant," Kara says, rushing forward and placing a hot latte in her boss' hand. "There was a family emergency."

"I hope everything is okay," Cat says with a raised eyebrow and masked concern.

"My mother is coming to visit," Kara says tiredly, "she wants to meet the woman I've apparently been dating."

Cat's head snaps up, "The woman - oh, oh."

Kara nods, "Yes, oh. She wants to meet you tomorrow at dinner."

"You can't - you don't - we can't -" Kara grins, it's kind of fun to see her boss at a loss for words for once. "Kara, I can't go to dinner with your mother."

"Oh you can," Kara says, "and you are because I am not going to face my mother after that little stunt you pulled last week without a girlfriend to show for it."

Cat studies the young woman before her, "I can't decide if I like this side of you or not, Kara."

"I dare say you like it, Ms. Grant, seeing as you've called me Kara since I started behaving this way." Kara grins, "My apartment tomorrow at seven, bring Carter if he's not with his father, Alex will be there."

"Alex hates me."

"Does not, she just doesn't understand how you can be my boss and my friend and not sell me out as Supergirl while running a newspaper. She's very morbid about the world."

"And you're very naive about it."

"So we've established. Now please tell me you'll do this so I don't have to tell Eliza that I had a one night stand or something like that."

Glaring slightly Cat studies Kara, "Fine I'll do it but we have to have ground rules first," Kara sighs, that was easier than she expected, "come over to my place tonight and we can tell Carter what's going on, especially if he's to be a part of the ruse, and hash out the details."

"That I can do. Chinese or you want me to cook?"

"I have no food in my house so Chinese. And not from that place you got it from last time, that rice was suspect."

Kara grins, "Yes ma'am."

"Good, now can we please get to work."

"Of course, Ms. Grant," Kara says moving out of the office and back to her own desk.

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Kara knocks at the door of Cat's apartment that night, bag of Chinese food in one hand and a couple of books in the other that she's sure Carter will love. Carter is the one who swings the door open with pursed lips and an unpleasant expression on his face, "What's wrong?" Kara questions instantly, almost as intune with the boy's emotions as she is with his mother's.

"Dad," is all he says and Kara sighs, "Mom's on the phone with him now." Kara wraps an arm around Carter's shoulders, squeezes him in a side hug, his father's been causing a disturbance lately in the two Grants' lives, claiming to want more visitation when he hardly shows up for what he already has.

"Come on then, help me set the table."

Carter nods and the two of them move into the kitchen, "Kara," Carter says quietly, "would you date my mom?"

Kara falters for a moment in her movements, wondering if Cat had mentioned the situation with her mother to him already, "Why do you ask?" she hedges before giving an answer.

"You make her smile," he says simply, "and you don't try to take her away from me. You spend time with both of us, not just her. You include me, she's never dated someone like that. A few would try, to start with, but in the end all they really wanted was to say they dated Cat Grant." He looks away from Kara slightly, "She's more than just her name."

Moving forward Kara tilts the boy's head up, "I know she's more than just her name, Carter, and to answer your question, yes. If I was given the opportunity I would definitely date your mother and none of this," she motions to their surroundings, "would change. You are your mother's number one priority, as it should be, and I would never change that. I would also never date your mother for just her name. But I don't think your mom would agree to date me."

Carter nods but says nothing else on the matter, instead returning to his job of setting the table while Kara sets out takeout containers. "Should we wait for Mom?"

Kara glances down the hall to Cat's home office, tunes her super hearing in and hears sniffling, "You go ahead and I'll go check on your mom."

The boy nods and Kara watches him settle at the table and begin helping his plate before she heads down the hall, knocking lightly on the open doorframe. Cat's head snaps up but she doesn't try to wipe away her tears, though she sags back into the chair when she sees it's Kara. In her home Cat is a completely different person from when she's in her office, though she's still Cat. Kara moves towards Cat, kneeling down by her chair instead of staying on the opposite side of the desk, "He wants full custody."

"What?" Kara questions instantly, "He doesn't -" but she stops herself, she shouldn't comment on things she doesn't know a great deal about.

"He doesn't show up for his regularly scheduled visits, he misses birthdays and Christmas, when Carter calls him he rarely answers but he thinks he'll be a better parent because he's home all the time. He's home all the time because he doesn't work." Cat drops her head into her hands, "I will not lose my son. Not again."

Kara nods, "I'll call David in the morning, have him begin working on the countermotion he is sure to need to file."

"Kara, what if -"

"Nope, no what ifs, you just said it, Cat, you aren't going to lose him. I'll be here for you and for him, whatever the two of you need. We'll get through it." Slowly Cat nods, though she doesn't believe that Kara will stick to that, no one ever sticks around for her, "Come on, Carter's waiting and your dinner is getting cold."

"I'll just go clean up a bit."

Kara nods and stands, motioning for Cat to walk by her as she does the same. She grabs Cat's hand just before the older woman has passed her completely, "He's going to ask when I get back to the kitchen."

Cat nods, "Tell him we'll talk about it when I get in there." A nod is the response she receives, "And, Kara," Cat says, turning back in the doorway, "thank you."

"Of course, Cat," Kara says quietly before moving down the hall and back into the kitchen.

Carter's head snaps up instantly, "Is everything okay?"

Kara squeezes his shoulder as she passes to slide into the chair she normally claims as her own, "Your mom will talk to you when she gets here." He nods morosely and Kara knows he knows. Subconsciously Kara reaches out to the Chinese containers and begins helping not only her plate but Cat's as well. She sees Cat when the other woman enters the room and tries to smile encouragingly but she knows she fails. Already she's calculating though, Cat's planners for the past three years are stored in a drawer in her desk at work, each planner has every visit that Carter's father ever missed. There's also lists of guests from every birthday and Christmas party that he never attended. Kara is nothing if not an efficient assistant.

For long moments after Cat settles at the table they're all quiet, Kara lost in her own thoughts, Cat steeling herself and Carter preparing for what is about to come. "Carter," Cat finally says quietly, "I have never lied to you and I am not going to start now." Carter nods slightly, "Your father is trying to take full custody."

"He can't though, right?"

"He can if the courts say he can," Cat says quietly, "but I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that he doesn't."

Slowly Carter nods, "You can do it, Mom," he tells her, "you can do anything."

Cat smiles at her son, hoping that his words prove true, Kara is watching Carter though and she sees it in him then, that same hero worship he has for Supergirl is directed at his mother. Supergirl may be his hero but so is Cat Grant. "I promise I will tell you everything that I can about what is going on," she tells him honestly.

"I know, Mom," Carter says quietly.

The silence surrounds them again and for the first time Kara realizes how much she loves the idle chatter that surrounds the Grant dinner table when they're all together. "There's one more thing, Carter, tom -"

Kara reaches out then, places a hand on Cat's arm, "It's fine," she says quietly, "I'll take care of it. You should be here with Carter."

"No," Cat says firmly, "I started this and I'll see it through. Besides, I think he and I both will enjoy it."

"If you're sure," Kara says carefully.

"Positive," Cat says firmly then turns back to her son. "About a week ago, Kara and I were working late and her mom kept trying to set her up so I said some things that led her mom to believe that Kara and I were dating," Carter raises an eyebrow, in a perfect imitation of Cat, as if to ask where this is going. "Her mom -"

"Eliza," Kara supplies.

"Eliza is coming in to visit and wants to have dinner with all of us tomorrow. Alex will be there as well."

Carter grins, "So basically we'll be doing exactly what we're doing now, except with two more people and possibly board game night after."

Cat and Kara both stop for a minute, glance at one another then nod, "Basically," Cat finally says. With that the three of them return to eating. When they're all finished, though still with hardly any talk between them, Carter hugs Kara and then his mother, holding on just a bit tighter and longer, before trooping down the hall to shower and head to bed.

A while after he's headed to bed Cat and Kara are sitting at opposite ends of the couch in the living room, each staring unseeingly at the tv screen across from them. "I should go," Kara says after a while. "Let you get some sleep."

"We still haven't talked ground rules," Cat says.

"I still think you and Carter should stay here."

Cat shakes her head, "He needs to be near you," she looks away, "so do I." Kara doesn't respond simply nods, "I was thinking that the rule would be random touches are fine, so are forehead and cheek kisses, you do all that anyway," Kara blushes, she really hadn't known Cat knew about the kisses she'd placed on the older woman's cheek or head when they'd been working late and Cat had finally passed out from exhaustion. "As for actual kisses I thought we'd dictate that based on need."

"So really no ground rules at all, just wing it."

The older woman shrugs, "You do seem to be good at that type of thing, Supergirl."

Kara chuckles, "I guess we'll see how good tomorrow, won't we?"

"I suppose we will," Cat says with a grin before the two of them lapse into silence once more.

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The next night Kara is rushing around her apartment in mild panic when a knock sounds on her door, "Deep breath, Kara, it's just dinner like any other night."

Pulling the door open she lets out a breath when Carter rushes into her arms, "Kara," he says happily, looking up at her. "We brought Catch Phrase, Charades and a deck of cards."

Kara can only laugh as he runs further into her apartment with the bag of games in hand and throws himself onto the couch beside the kitten she'd gotten a few weeks back, "When did you get that cat again, because I swear it's grown a lot since we were last here?"

"Mmmm," Kara turns to look at her boss a grin on her face, "three years ago and she's still very tiny."

Cat glares at her but her lips are twitching in a slight grin, "You're bad at that," she says, "don't try it again."

Kara follows Cat into her kitchen, after hanging up her coat by the door, and watches as the older woman lifts the knife she herself had been using to chop up the last part of the salad and takes over. Watching for a few long moments she notices that the mushrooms have become so tiny she doubts anyone will even know they're in the salad, "Hey," she says, slipping up behind Cat and sliding her hands around her waist, stilling her still chopping hand, "what's wrong?"

"Why didn't you tell me about the planners?" Cat demands, turning in Kara's embrace without attempting to move from the younger woman's arms.

"Because I'd hoped that you would never need them."

"He'll protest you tampered with them after he did this," Cat says quietly even while resting her head against Kara's shoulder, wondering when she got so comfortable accepting comfort from the younger woman.

"Can't," Kara says quietly, her brain slightly short circuiting before she begins to run her hands up and down Cat's back, "I had them sealed and dated by legal on the first of each new year. There's no way they could think I'd have doctored them three years back just in case this ever happened."

"You really do think of everything, don't you?" Cat says looking up at her assistant.

"I try to," she pulls back slightly, "you do know my mom isn't here yet."

Cat shrugs, "This isn't something that wouldn't happen on a regular night when Carter and I are here or you come to my place."

Kara tilts her head, knowing the other woman is right but refusing to admit it. Before she can say a word however there's another knock at the door. She moves to it quickly and pulls it open, finding Alex on the other side, a new cut above her eyebrow, "What happened?" she questions, tilting her sister's head to the side as she steps inside.

"Rogue prisoner," she says quietly after glancing around to find Cat and Carter already there, "took nearly all of us to bring him down."

"Why didn't you call?"

Alex glances back to the kitchen, "I knew you were busy getting dinner ready." She looks at Cat in her sister's kitchen, dressed down in jeans, designer of course, and a dark blue shirt she swears is awfully familiar. "She looks very comfortable in your kitchen."

Kara snorts, "She should, we eat here at least once a week." Alex raises a single eyebrow, "Carter likes Mittens."

"Why did you ever name that cat that?"

"I didn't," Kara says with a small smile but not divulging who did. "Hey, Carter, look who's here." Carter's head snaps up and he grins, "He needs help with his science fair project, please help, Cat and I both are really bad at science. We suggested a volcano and I thought he was going to short circuit."

"He's far too good for just a volcano, Kara," Alex says seconds before the wind is knocked out of her by Carter. "Hey, kid, what are you up to?"

"Not much," he says grinning up at her, "but I need your help with something, if you don't mind."

Alex grins, "Not a bit, just let me say hello to your mom and I'll be right over." She makes her way over to the counter, smiling as she says, "Hello, Tiny Cat."

"I have a knife, Alex Danvers, and I am not afraid to use it."

"I can disarm you in two point five so I'm not very worried," she pauses, "Tiny Cat."

Cat points the knife at her, "One day, Danvers, we are going to test your theory."

"But hopefully not with real knives," Kara says, reaching out to lower Cat's hand, "and hopefully not in my kitchen right before Eliza gets here."

Both Alex and Cat laugh before Alex turns and heads into the living room, settling onto the couch beside Carter and allowing the kitten to climb over into her lap, "You actually like my sister, don't you?" Kara questions quietly as she wraps her arms back around Cat, unconscious of her actions but not at the same time.

"You're very touchy tonight," Cat remarks dryly.

"You're avoiding the question and I'm trying to get into character for when Mom gets here." Kara tries to look innocent when Cat glances over her shoulder but she's sure she fails miserably. Before Cat can respond though there's another knock at the door, "I'll get it," she says, unraveling her arms from around Cat and walking over to the door. "Eliza," she chimes happily when she pulls the door open.

"Kara, darling, how are you?" Eliza says just as excitedly, throwing her arms around Kara.

"I'm good, Eliza," Kara says quietly, "Come in, come in." She steps out of the way, allowing Eliza to roll her suitcase into the apartment behind her, "I've got some people I'd like you to meet and Alex is already here as well." As Eliza slips into the apartment her eyes are instantly drawn to her other daughter who seems to be lost in conversation with a young boy over something on the couch, "Alex, Eliza's here. Can you pull yourself away from whatever plans you and Carter are concocting for his project?"

Alex looks up and smiles seeing her mother already in the apartment though she'd never even heard the knock at the door. "Sorry," she mutters, "hey, Mom," she says moving over to hug her mother to her.

Carter rushes over and wraps his arms around Kara, "Alex is going to help me to build a spectrophotometer."

Kara looks down at him, "Yeah, I've got no idea what that is, kid. Alex is the sciencey one, you know that, not me."

Carter laughs, "Yeah Mom won't have any idea what it is either."

"Mom won't have any idea about what?" Cat asks coming up to wrap one arm around Carter's shoulders and the other around Kara's waist.

"A spectrophotometer."

Cat laughs, "Yep, I've got no idea."

Kara smiles at the two of them, "Carter, Cat, this is my foster mom, Eliza. Eliza, this is my girlfriend, Cat, and her son, Carter."

"Nice to meet you both," Eliza says smiling at the three people before her.

"Nice to meet you as well," Cat replies, taking the other woman's hand. Her smile is genuine and true, as if she really is glad to be meeting the other woman and as if she truly belongs in her assistant's apartment.

Carter smiles up at Eliza as well and holds out his own hand, once his mother has let go, "It's nice to meet you too, Ms. Danvers."

Eliza smiles at the both of them, "Why don't both of you call me Eliza, dears," she says with a chuckle.

"Eliza," Cat says with a smile, "I do believe dinner is nearly ready but we did leave Kara in charge so it may need more time."

Kara bumps Cat's hip with her own, "I can cook very well, thank you."

"If you order take out," Alex says with a snort before she and Carter collapse into laughter before rushing back toward the couch when Kara turns to slap at both of them.

Eliza laughs, "I see those two still haven't stopped acting like children," she says when Kara rushes after Carter and Alex.

Cat chuckles, "I don't think they ever will, well they haven't as long as I've known them anyway."

"How long have you known them?"

"Three years," Cat says as she moves back into the kitchen, deducing from the laughter and whispers from the couch that she is left to complete dinner, possibly with Eliza's help if the other woman sees fit.

"Ah so you are that Cat then?" Eliza asks with a small smile on her lips.

Turning slightly from the oven so that she can see Eliza, "If you mean Kara's boss then yes, I'm afraid I am." She turns to face Eliza fully after being sure that the lasagna in the oven is coming along well, "We never -"

"I suspected it was you long before I ever knew she was seeing anyone," Eliza says, holding up a hand to keep Cat from rambling on, she never pictured Cat Grant to be someone who would ramble. "Kara is old enough to make her own choices, that much was pointed out the last time I was here to see my girls. But to me, Ms. Grant, it doesn't matter who you are, if you hurt her there will be a shovel involved when I find you." She glances over to the couch where Alex and Kara are tickling Carter, sending the boys into peals of laughter, "She loves that boy," she says, "and she loves you," Eliza says quietly, "but she's lost so much in her life, I will not see anything else taken away from her."

Watching Eliza carefully Cat takes a deep breath, "There is nothing that I would ever dream of taking from Kara," she looks over to the same scene that Eliza is watching on the couch, "I want only to give her everything that I can."

"You really do love her, don't you?" Eliza questions quietly, staring intently at Cat, "I thought this was just some ruse to cover up another late night at the office but you really do love her."

Cat smiles, "I really do," she says and to Eliza she sounds sincere. Without another word Cat moves over to the couch and lowers herself into Kara's lap, the younger woman's arms wrap around her waist on instinct, a bit surprised at the move. "Your oven needs to be replaced, it's cooking at half the heat it should be. We've got at least another ten minutes before dinner is ready."

"Maybe you were right last night and we should have just done it at your place," Kara says offhandedly and Cat smiles remembering that conversation. Eliza has settled into the armchair across from the couch and Carter has rested his head against Kara's shoulder, his mother facing him and Alex, "I think that oven of yours cooks faster than Supergirl's heat vision."

Cat chuckles remembering that particular experiment and how much Kara and Carter pouted at her when she'd made them clean it up. Clearly though Kara didn't want her mother to know that Cat and Carter knew she was Supergirl, "Maybe I'll have to ask her about testing that theory."

Carter looks up with a grin, "Can you ask her what happens to peeps when she hits them with heat vision too? I wanna know how her heat vision compares to microwaves."

"Now there's an experiment I can get behind," Alex says with a high five to the boy.

"Do you all enjoy using Supergirl as some sort of random experiment?" Eliza asks, clearly displeased with the ideas they were discussing.

"Yes," all four of the occupants on the couch say at once and then all collapse into giggles.

Kara pulls Cat more firmly into her lap and Cat drops her head to Kara's shoulder, attempting to hide her laughter against Kara's neck, "Eliza, it's cool. We always ask politely and if Supergirl has any problems with the things we ask she just turns us down. Like last week when someone," she glances at Alex, "wanted to see how cold Supergirl's ice breath was."

Alex smacks Kara's arm over Carter's body, "I did not."

"You totally did," Carter says with a chuckle, "you spent an hour arguing with her over why it was a good idea."

"Alexandra!" Eliza says sharply, eyes trained on Alex.

"And that's our cue," Kara says quickly, standing up with Cat and standing the smaller woman on her feet before ushering her toward the kitchen, Carter following close behind them.

"That was mean," Cat says with a grin when they're far enough away from Eliza and Alex.

"I'm her younger sister, she's been aggravating me about it for months and she deserved it."

Cat lays a hand on Kara's arm, "She has a good theory on why to do it. You just don't agree with the fact that she wants to be the test dumby." She tilts her head when Kara glares slightly, "I don't agree with her either, Kara, but you should think about finding out just how that freeze breath of yours affects humans at some point."

Kara tilts her head, questioningly, wondering exactly when Cat started to become her voice of reason in regards to all things Supergirl. "Maybe," she finally says, "but I will not be allowing Alex to play the test dumby, as you put it."

"Kara Danvers!" Eliza screeches across the room and Kara flinches, "What the hell is your sister talking about your aunt showing up?"

Dropping her head to Cat's shoulder Kara mutters quietly, "I can't believe she brought Astra into this, I'm going to kill her." Before responding to her mother Kara turns to Carter, "Hey, bud, why don't you take these," she reaches into the cabinet over Cat's shoulder and pulls down plates, "and set the table for me? There are glasses on the drying rack and silverware in that drawer by the fridge."

"Okay, Kara," he says and scampers off.

"Come with me," Kara whispers against Cat's ear, "the lasagna still has a few minutes and quite frankly if it burns we can order take out. I need you with me right now."

Cat nods, squeezes Kara's hand, "I'm with you," she whispers while pressing a kiss against Kara's lips quickly. "I'm always here if you need me."

The two of them make their way quietly over to where Alex and Eliza are standing, fingers entwined as they both keep track of Carter out of the corner of their eye. "What does Alex mean that your aunt showed up?"

Kara glares at Alex, "Astra showed up a few weeks back with her husband and a bunch of cronies, the DEO and I are handling it." Eliza glances at Cat, "She knows, Mom, so does Carter. Do you really think I'd be in a relationship with someone and not tell them who I truly am? She deserves to know every side of me, so does her son if I'm planning to be a part of his life for any length of time, and I am. I respect her enough to not keep secrets from her. Even if she was still just my boss I would have told her by now that I'm Supergirl. As it is she figured it out before I could tell her and that bothers me every day."

Placing a hand on Kara's arm, Cat squeezes lightly, "Calm down," she commands quietly, so even Alex and Eliza can't hear her, much less Carter. She watches Kara close her eyes and begin centering herself while she turns to Eliza, "I figured out Kara was Supergirl through a series of circumstances, we chose to tell Carter for many reasons, the least of which being that neither of us want to lie to him. So I know about Astra and I know about Non and I know about her cousin and I know about almost every aspect of Kara's life because we trust one another."

Eliza stares at Cat and Kara, mouth slightly open in shock while Alex simply stands behind her mother smirking. Cat sees her mouth, I knew all this wasn't for show, and fights every urge insider her body not to stick her tongue out at the other woman. "Fine," Eliza huffs, she glares at Kara, "but you should have told me."

Everyone simply nods to her final statement and turns to head towards the table but something catches Cat's attention and Kara's hearing before either Alex or Eliza has noticed, the oven. Cat is about to call out to Carter but Kara is already at the boy's side, her body shielding him just as the front glass of the oven explodes, scattering glass over Kara's island counter and the floor. Pieces of it flying out to bounce off of Kara's back as she keeps her arms and body wrapped around Carter, keeping as much of the glass away from his body as she can. When pieces of glass have finally stopped falling she slowly uncurls her arms from around the boy and begins to check him over, there's a small cut on his cheek from a shard of glass that ricocheted off Kara's shoulder and a small piece of glass in his hand from where he'd wrapped his arms around Kara's waist and caught a piece that was still on her back but overall he's okay and he's safe.

Cat moves to them quickly, her own eyes traveling over Carter, assessing for injuries just as Kara has, just as she does to Supergirl every time Kara returns straight to her and Carter. "I told you we should have done this at my place, at least my oven wouldn't have exploded," Cat grouses. Instead of responding because she knows how Cat is when she's scared Kara pulls both Grants back into her arms and presses them both into her body.

"She really loves them, doesn't she?" Eliza whispers to Alex from where they're standing over by the couch. "I knew she loved Cat but she loves Carter too, doesn't she?"

Alex nods, "More than even she realizes, I think," Alex says honestly. "I'm gonna grab the first aid kit, that cut on Carter's cheek is gonna need to be cleaned.

"Grab the tweezers too, Alex," Kara calls after her, "there's a piece of glass in his hand."

Once Alex has doctored up Carter's hand and Kara has calmed Cat's own frazzled nerves down while Eliza swept up the glass in the floor, the lasagna, salad and bread have all been tossed in the trash, contaminated by fragments of glass and the five sit around the kitchen table. "Pizza," Cat says finally, "it's the only option that I can see."

The others around the table grin and Alex and Kara high five, "One mushroom, ham and pepperoni and one pepperoni, ham and bacon?" Kara questions and receives a nod and a raised eyebrow from Cat. She grins, "Yes, I know, Kit Cat, you want a personal thin crust mushroom and spinach with light sauce, I haven't completely lost it."

"You also haven't lost that nickname I told you to burn from your memory weeks ago."

Kara leans over the back of Cat's chair to drop a kiss on her lips, "That's because you're cute when you're mad," she says with a grin before moving away to find her phone. Leaving Cat behind with a goofy grin on her lips, "Hey, Carter, why don't you set up whatever game you wanna play? We can eat while we play so you aren't up too late and won't sleep through the movies tomorrow."

He nods just before Kara turns away, telling their order to the not so kind woman on the other end of the line. When she turns back around she grins at seeing Alex and Carter pushing each other back and forth in their chairs while Cat chastises them fondly, "I always thought Alex would make me a grandmother first," Eliza says, having sometime ago slipped up behind Kara.

"Huh?" Kara grunts turning to face the older woman. "I'm not -"

"No, you aren't but that boy over there," she nods to the table where Carter and Alex are now making funny faces at Cat, determined to make the woman laugh while Cat steadfastly refuses to look at them, "you look at him the same way Jeremiah and I always looked at you, like you were our own. I hope you've always known that, that we, that I felt that way. It's one of the reasons this Astra thing upset me so badly, I don't want her to, to take you away from me."

Kara smiles, "She couldn't if she tried, Eliza, Mom." She shakes her head, "I know I don't call you that enough but you are, you're the only Mom I really remember, the one who was there for all the later things in my life and while I have memories of my mother they are very different from the memories I have of you and Jeremiah." An understanding passes between the two of them and Kara reaches out to hug Eliza tightly before they return to the table, "Ah so who's the moderator since we've got an odd number?"

"Me," Eliza says quickly, "you girls know I'm not any good at this."

Kara laughs and Alex mutters, "Understatement."

"I think it has more to do with those two," Cat says pointing to Alex and Carter, "wanting to get beaten again." A smirk resides on her face as Eliza looks at her questioningly, "Kara and I have beat them horribly every time we've played."

"We're getting better," Carter protests.

"You are," Kara says into her hand and Cat chuckles beside her.

Suddenly a napkin slaps her in the face, "Ooops," Alex says pizza arrives a few minutes later and Kara slips away to retrieve it, returning to the table to place a slice of the mushroom, ham and pepperoni pizza on Alex and Eliza's plates while she and Carter get pepperoni, ham and bacon and Cat gets her own mushroom and spinach pizza.

For the next two hours the five of them are completely lost to the rest of the world, the only people that exist are those within Kara's apartment and there's no danger looming anywhere, legal or alien or any other. Cat and Kara have wiped the floor with Alex and Carter once again, the two of them having to take mere moments to decide how best to demonstrate something to the other while it often takes Alex or Carter the whole time. "Last round," Cat says after glancing at her watch, "the two of us have to get home so you can get ready for tomorrow," she tells Carter who nods.

Carter pulls a card from the top of the pile and frowns at it for a moment, "Okay," he finally mutters out and begins a series of complicated movements that leave Alex staring at him confusedly while his mother, Kara and Eliza laugh at his movements which are rather ape like. Finally the timer buzzes and he flops into his chair, "Planet of the Apes," he says with a sigh.

As Cat stands up from the table, snatching a card from the top of the pile as she goes, she grins when she turns it over looking at the words. The feral grin on her lips let's Alex and Carter know that they've lost and lets Kara know she had better get this one right or Cat might just kill her. "I'm ready," she says and watches Eliza flip the timer over. Immediately she's moving, holding up two fingers, the only two words Kara will need to know what the movie is.

"Two words," Kara says, receiving a nod from Cat, one finger replaces two, "first word," Cat holds up her fingers close together, "small, tiny, little," Kara finally settles on after receiving a nod from Cat. Two fingers fly up once more, "Second word," Cat points to herself, "human," a nod and a slice of her hand as if dividing something, "half human," another nod while Cat's lips form a fish face with her lips, "fish," Cat nods, "half fish." Kara rapidly processes the information she's been given "The Little Mermaid," she shouts and Cat throws herself at Kara in a tight hug.

"I wasn't sure you'd be able to get that one."

"Who wouldn't have gotten that one?" Kara asks quietly.

"Literally any of the rest of us at this table," Carter supplies sassily.

"You are too much like your mother," Kara tells him with a mock glare.

"But you love me," he tells her grinning, and she doesn't deny it. A look comes over him then and Cat decides quickly she dreads whatever is coming next, "Can we stay here tonight?"

"Carter -" Cat starts.

"Alex and I can take the couch, Eliza can have the spare room and you and Kara can have Kara's room. It's simple," he tells her with a grin and Cat knows what he's doing and she's not sure if she wants to kill him or thank him. Both, both is a good idea.

"Did you ask Kara if we could stay?"

"Umm," Kara says and Cat looks down at her where she's still sitting in the younger woman's lap, wondering how she got so comfortable there without even realizing it, "he may have asked a few hours ago and I may have told him if he could get you to agree it was cool. I would like to point out I actually expected him to ask though, like before he made everyone's sleeping arrangements," she gives Carter a pointed look and he ducks his head slightly.

Cat glances at Alex and Eliza, "I'm game," Alex says, "I'm always up for sleepovers and I've got clothes in the spare room."

Looking to Eliza, Cat sighs already seeing the other woman's answer, she is so outnumbered by these Danvers women. She glances at her son and she'd swear if she didn't know his father was really a jerk that his other parent was the woman whose lap she's sitting in because he grins like Kara with Cat's lips and eyes. "Okay," she finally says with a sigh, "but you and Alex are not allowed to spend all night planning whatever this science project is you're cooking up, I'm sure Alex can come over later in the week and help you. Your father is supposed to pick you up for lunch and a movie at noon tomorrow."

Carter moves forward, pressing a kiss to Cat's cheek, "Thanks, Mom, and we won't."

He heads down the hall and into the spare bedroom, "What's he after?" Alex questions.

"Pajamas," Kara says simply while snaking her arms around Cat's waist, forgetting, as she seems to be doing often tonight, that they aren't really dating, and placing a kiss behind Cat's ear. "I need to clean up the table," she mutters.

"Okay," Cat says, even though her head has dropped to rest under Kara's chin and the younger woman knows she's close to sleep already.

"That means I need to get up."

"Mmmhmm."

"And you should go put pajama on before you crash." Cat nods against Kara's chest and slowly extracts herself from Kara's arms, "Your favorite pajamas are at Cat height in the closet."

"I hate you," Cat calls over her shoulder as she disappears into Kara's room.

Kara's grinning as she gets up and begins clearing everything on the table and counters away. "Pretending for Mom my ass," Alex hisses when she moves into the kitchen to help Kara while Eliza moves to her suitcase and pulls it down the hall after being sure Carter has vacated the spare room in favor of the bathroom.

"That's all it is, Alex, I swear," Kara promises.

"But the two of you are so touchy."

"That's normal for us."

"And the kisses?"

"Something we talked about last night and decided to just wing it. I don't think there's been any truly romantic ones, do you?"

"Well no, but the ones you guys have had are the ones of a couple that have been together for a while, not a couple pretending to date." Alex studies her sister and realizes quite easily that Kara hasn't even thought about half the kisses she's shared with Cat she's just gone with it.

"I took my filter down," Kara says quietly. "When I'm with Cat I put this filter up that keeps me from doing anything stupid," she shrugs, "I just took it down tonight."

Before Alex can respond Kara's bedroom door opens and Cat pads out, feet bare, hair pulled up into a too small ponytail, face free of makeup (though she doesn't wear much to begin with) and dressed in one of Kara's old, thread bare Harvard sweatshirts and yoga pants, also clearly Kara's because they're too long and cover the smaller woman's feet. Kara grins goofily at the sight of Cat in her clothes and Alex shakes her head, "I'm going to steal my clothes from Mom's room and change in yours."

"Okay," Kara says distractedly as Cat has moved directly to her and shuffled her way into Kara's embrace, she's cuddly when she's tired. "No one's around now, you can quit pretending if you want."

"Don't want," Cat says by way of answer and places her head on Kara's shoulder.

Kara presses a kiss against her forehead, "Okay, Kit Cat, why don't I go pull out the sofa bed and then as soon as Alex finishes up in our room we can head to bed."

"Not sleepy."

"Cat, you can lie to everyone but Supergirl and me."

"Same person," Cat mutters.

"When you're tired you get cuddly and you are the only person I know who can bounce from wide awake to sleeping on your feet in two point five seconds." Cat just nuzzles further into Kara's shoulder, "Come on, sit down while I fix the sofa bed." Cat remains steadfastly where she's at, "Do I have to carry you?"

A response neither comes but neither does movement so Kara leans down and scoops Cat up into her arms, "Put me down this instant," Cat screeches.

"I told you what I was gonna do if you didn't wake up," she says while depositing Cat into a chair. Afterwards she turns and easily pulls the sofa bed free of its confines, smiling at the fresh sheets she'd left on it last time at Cat's insistence. When she turns back around Cat is curled into a ball in the armchair sound asleep and Mittens is making her way onto Cat's side. "What am I gonna do with you?" she mutters to herself as she hears three doors open down the hall.

Carter runs in and spies his mother asleep in the chair, "How does she do that?" he questions Kara.

"That is something you and I will never know, bud," she says quietly. She glances at him, notices the pillow under one arm and her cape in the other, "Got everything you need?" he nods. "Brushed your teeth?" another nod. "Washed your face?"

"Yes, Kara," he groans, "you're almost as bad as Mom."

Kara shrugs, "Your mom crashed on you, so you get me."

He moves forward and hugs her, "You're just as great, Kara," he says into her shoulder.

Smiling Kara presses a kiss to his forehead, "Alright into bed with you, remember what your mom said, no planning all night."

"Yes ma'am," he mock salutes then moves to his mother's side, "Night, Mom," he whispers pressing a kiss against her cheek.

"Night, Carter," Cat mutters, kissing his cheek in return but never fully waking up.

Eliza returns from her room, moving to the sink and filling a glass of water, just as Kara knew she would. "Good night, baby," she says while pressing a kiss to Kara's forehead. "Night, Carter," she glances at Cat, "How is that comfortable?"

Kara and Carter shrug, each muttering their own good nights as Eliza heads down the hall, stopping next to Alex to bid her good night as well. Alex glances at the chair as she enters the room, "Again?"

"She never makes it to an actual bed," Kara says, "at least this time she's in pajamas first, we've been working on that so she doesn't complain about how wrinkled her clothes are in the morning."

Alex shakes her head, wondering if her sister hears half the things that come out of her mouth in regards to Cat Grant. She plants a kiss on Kara's cheek, "Good night, Supergirl."

"Night, Alex. Night, Carter," Kara says as she scoops Cat and Mittens into her arms, the cat more than used to being carried with her human so she no longer digs her claws in, the other human won't drop them. Kara easily deposits Cat onto her side of the bed, realizing that in fact Cat does have a side in her bed, before quickly changing into her own pajamas and sliding into bed beside Cat. Instantly the older woman roles into Kara's side, rests her head on Kara's chest and throws an arm and a leg across her body, "Koala," she mutters quietly, "that's what I'm gonna start calling you." She presses a kiss to Cat's forehead, "Good night, Kit Cat," she says sleepily as she pulls Cat impossibly closer and slowly drifts off into her own sleep.

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The next morning Cat's phone wakes them from the nightstand, where she'd apparently plugged it into her spare charger. She reaches out for it blindly, "Hello."

That's how Kara knows it's her personal cell phone, not the work one that's probably been abandoned somewhere in her living room or kitchen. Family nights seem to be, whoa stop Kara they aren't family nights. Nights when she and Carter and Kara hang out seem to be the only time that Cat forgets all about her work phone. She'll spend most of the afternoon after Carter leaves typing away at it until Kara takes it away and forces her to stop.

"This is the third time this month," she snaps into the phone and Kara knows instantly who it is, "that you have called and canceled plans with him. Are you really going to put us through a full custody petition knowing that you haven't even seen him in two months? And that fact alone has nothing to do with Carter or I. Look I don't want to hear it but you had better call him and tell him yourself because I'm tired of doing your dirty work for you. No, call his cell. We stayed with a friend of mine last night when it got pretty late. His phone will be charged, I plugged it in before bed. Just call your son and talk to him. Explain to him why you aren't coming to get him...again, I don't need the explanations anymore." She presses the end button violently and tosses her phone to the nightstand before turning in Kara's embrace and burying her face against the younger woman's neck. Kara feels the tears against her skin before really realizing that Cat is silently crying, though she's already tightened her embrace around the smaller woman and her chin rests on the top of Cat's head.

She brings one hand up and begins to thread her fingers gently, lovingly through Cat's golden curls. "I've got you," she whispers quietly against the top of Cat's head as she places a kiss there. "We'll change plans for today-"

"But you and your mom and Alex-" Cat starts, tears still trailing down her cheeks which Kara reaches up to gently wipe away.

"Plans can be changed," she says quietly, pressing her lips to Cat's forehead. "You and Carter are gonna need me today." As if on cue the bedroom door bursts open and a twelve year old boy dives into the small space between them, wiggling up the bed into both his mother's and Kara's embrace. Kara glances up to the doorway, finding Alex there, Close the door, she mouths and Alex nods, looking sadly at her sister and two people she's come to care about very much, before doing just that.

"Why is he trying to take me away when he won't even come see me?" Carter questions, ear pressed against his mother's chest listening to her heartbeat. Cat's crying again and though Carter isn't Kara knows he wants to. She takes both of them more fully into her arms and holds on just a little tighter but careful to ensure it's not too tight.

"I don't know, Carter," Cat whispers quietly, "this is just something I don't have an answer to." Carter nods, burrows closer to her but keeps Kara's arms around him too. A determined look forms on Cat's features, "He won't take you away though, Carter, I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that never happens."

"What if that's not enough?" and it's one of the only times Kara has ever heard him question his mother's abilities to, in his mind, move mountains.

"Then we'll use Grandma's power too."

"She won't-"

"She will," is all Cat says, cloudy look on her features but Kara knows she'd face whatever that cloudy look is to keep Carter. The three of them stay there for long moments, Kara and Cat holding onto Carter like he's something that at any moment might slip away. "Why don't you go get dressed and then we'll decide what to do today?"

"But Kara -"

"My mom and Alex will understand, bud," she tells him quietly, "you need me today, that's what matters." Carter rolls over in the tangled embrace he's in and hugs Kara tightly, "I've got you, Carter," she promises against his hair when she feels his tears against her skin just as she'd felt Cat's. Cat places a kiss to the back of her son's head and then Kara's lips over his shoulder because she knows Carter is crying and she knows it's because for the first time someone besides her has chosen him first, it breaks her heart at the same time it makes her tingle with warmth for the other woman.

After long moments instead of freeing himself from the two women's embrace, Carter burrows deeper and slowly falls back to sleep. Cat's fingers brush idly through his curly hair, "You know this wasn't all pretend like we've pretended it was, right?" Cat says bluntly, as is her way, into the silence, "We can fool ourselves apparently but not everyone else."

"Did we really even fool ourselves?"

"When did you figure out I wasn't pretending?" Cat questions.

"When you kissed me first," Kara says with an easy, happy grin. "When did you figure out I wasn't either?"

Cat smiles, "When you pulled me into your arms while I mutilated mushrooms." A small grin remains on her lips, "You hate mushrooms, but you bought them for a salad that you intended to eat."

Kara grins, pressing a kiss against Carter's forehead, "You and Carter like them in salads though."

"You always put us first," Cat says quietly, "why is that?"

"Because if Jeremiah and Alex and Eliza taught me anything in the twelve years I've been with them it's that family always comes first." She smiles when Cat leans over Carter's shoulder and kisses her again. "Why don't I go talk to Mom and Alex while you get ready and we let him sleep for a while longer?"

Cat nods and slowly extracts herself from the embrace of the other two, she waits though until Kara has extracted herself from Carter as well and then covers Carter with Supergirl's red cape which Kara hadn't even noticed he'd brought with him. "He feels safe in that cape," Cat says quietly. "He knows he's always safe when I'm around but since his father started all this, started not being there more than usual, he's been sleeping with your extra one because he feels even safer."

Kara reaches out and pulls Cat into her arms, "You're both going to be safe," she promises. She presses a kiss to Cat's temple then leans down and kisses Cat properly for the first time, a smile on her lips, "I'm going to protect you as much as I'm able." She turns Cat towards the closet, "Now shower and get dressed I have a plan for today."

"Oh you do, do you?"

"I do," Kara says as she drops a kiss on Cat's sweatshirt covered shoulder. "But it hinges on everyone being appropriately dressed." She glances down at Cat, "And as much as I love seeing you in my clothes, and I very much do, they are not appropriate clothes."

Cat chuckles and pulls free of Kara's arms, "Go make your plans, Supergirl, I'll wake the prince when I'm done in the shower and let him run through next."

Kara nods as she watches Cat disappear into the bathroom and close the door. She grins slightly then glances at the bed, worry etching its way across her brow before she makes her way out of the room. In the living room Alex is camped out on the couch, already returned to its couch state instead of fold out, "How is he?"

"Sleeping," Kara says quietly, wondering how it is her sister knows more about Carter than the boy's own father probably does. "I hope you and Mom won't mind but I told them we'd do something together today."

"Of course we will," Alex says, "I thought maybe the zoo or the museum. Kids his age do like that stuff, right? It wasn't just me and you being me and you."

Kara grins, she hadn't expected her sister to replan their whole day around Carter, "This kid, yeah, he loves things like that. He's actually a lot like you and I as kids." She bumps her sister's shoulder, "Thanks for this, I actually figured you and Mom could go ahead and continue with the day we had planned."

"Not a chance," Alex says with a grin. Kara grins once more and Alex raises an eyebrow, "You have a plan, what is it?"

"The museum observatory is having a special tonight because of the meteor flying over," she blushes slightly, "I had already kind of made tentative plans to ditch you and Eliza after the movie and take Cat, she actually really likes that stuff too. But I can call the guy and get it rearranged for all of us."

Alex shakes her head, "You two have never really been faking a relationship, have you? And what's with the bouncing between Mom and Eliza, I feel like a yo-yo?"

Kara chuckles, "We were or we said we were but we really weren't but neither of us knew that the other wasn't." Alex raises an eyebrow, "I really don't know how else to explain it." Kara shrugs, "As for the Eliza thing, I'm working on trying to call her mom more, I should have been all along. Sometimes though, I just get caught up and the Eliza slips out."

"The two of you are dorks, I hope you know that," Alex says once she's fully processed what Kara's just said. "I can understand that," she says next, "you still have memories of your mom competing with memories of Mom, it has to be hard."

"Sometimes," Kara says, she glances down the hall, "but honestly it's gotten a lot easier since Cat and Carter have been a big part of my life. I look at Carter and I understand how Mom could look at me from the very beginning and know I belonged as a part of our family."

"Because he belongs too."

Kara nods, "Because he belongs too." She hears one of the doors down the hall open and smiles slightly when Carter stumbles out of her room, still wrapped up in her cape, "Hey, bud," she says quietly when he falls onto the couch between her and Alex, his head landing on her shoulder, "feeling any better." He shrugs his shoulders and closes his eyes. Kara's heart breaks for him because he's twelve and he's mature for his age but there is no way in hell he should have to go through the things he's going through now. "I think Aunt Alex has got some plans for us today," she tells him quietly. "She mentioned something about the zoo and I was thinking after we could catch that meteor shower event at the museum observatory."

Carter looks up at her, "Mom hates the zoo."

"She doesn't," Kara whispers to him, "she just likes to pretend she does. Your mother actually loves the zoo."

"How do you even know that?" Carter demands with a pout, "I don't know that."

A laugh slips past Kara's lips, "I know for a fact that she has behind the scenes tours of some of the nurseries when she has a free few hours."

"Kara!" Cat's sharp voice rings out, "Are you giving away my secrets?"

Kara only grins up at her girlfriend, "Never," she says with a fake innocent look.

"Liar," Cat says, leaning down to kiss her, "but it's okay, I was planning on taking him with me next week."

"Ooooh I get to go too, right? I've been reading so much about them."

"I don't see why not," Cat says with a smile. She moves towards the kitchen, opening up one of the cabinets and then glaring at Kara, "Do you have to move the coffee every time Carter and I leave for more than three days?"

Kara chuckles, "I forget, okay," she says moving over to the kitchen after sending Carter shuffling down the hall to get a shower and get dressed, "besides it's fun to watch you reach for things on high shelves," Kara whispers against Cat's ear, "especially in short shirts."

"Hello," Alex says from the couch, "yeah, still here," she says when Kara turns to her, "and would either of you like to clarify exactly what it is all of you are going to see at the zoo next week?"

The two women by the coffee maker glance at one another, Cat shrugs and Kara grins, "An orphaned chimpanzee that one of the keepers has been raising. At the behind the scenes things you get to play with the baby and depending on if she likes you or not hold her. They're trying to train her to work with their audiences."

"You might as well make that four, Cat," Alex says with a grin, "there's no way in hell I'm missing this."

Cat laughs, "Don't worry, I had already planned on it. You are far too much like Kara or Kara is far too much like you for either of you to pass up this opportunity." She leans into Kara's side as the younger woman wraps an arm around her, "So what are we doing today?"

"Well Alex suggested the zoo or museum."

"Because I figured kids Carter's age like things like that."

"Carter does, I'm not exactly sure about other twelve year olds," Cat says with a tilt of her head and Kara can already see the wheels spinning of a new idea for the magazine or the website or some other form of media. Finally she shakes her head and Kara knows the idea is neither lost or forgotten, only filed away for later use, "So what did you two decide on?"

"Both," Alex says with an evil grin, "zoo first and then the museum late afternoon and tonight for the meteor shower."

"We are all going to be dead on our feet when we get home," she looks over at Kara, "are my trainers still here? I went looking for them the other day at home and couldn't find them."

"If they're here they're in my closet or the hall closet, Carter and Alex's things take over the spare room and it's closet."

"You two act like you've been together for years," Alex finally says, exasperatedly from the couch, "how the hell have you not realized you were dating?"

That moment happens to be exactly when Eliza walks into the room, "I'm confused," she says looking at Kara and Cat, who are still standing next to the coffee pot, Kara reaching easily into the cabinet beside them and grabbing mugs down, handing them to Cat. "Are the two of you not dating?"

"We are," Cat says, "we just hadn't realized we were."

"But last week?"

"May have been a little bit of a fib to get you to stop hounding me about blind dates," Kara says with a shy grin.

"So last night was supposed to be fake."

"Supposed to be," Cat says just as the coffee pot finishes. "I hate your coffee pot," she tells Kara when she turns to pour herself a mug of coffee, "I don't know why you won't just let me buy a keurig."

"Because you already have one," Kara says.

Eliza leans over to Alex, "Are they sure they were pretending last night?"

"Oh they weren't," Alex says, "that's the funny part, they were faking the faking so the other thought they were faking."

"You girls make my head hurt," Eliza says quietly. Then she smiles brightly and moves to the bar, "So what's the plan for today?"

"Zoo, museum, meteor shower," Kara says while handing Eliza a mug of coffee and Cat places one before Alex who grins at her. Kara grabs the last empty mug, moves to the fridge and fills it full of milk before popping it in the microwave. She listens for the shower in her room, nods and starts the timer. "Carter's dad can't make it so we had to rearrange plans a bit, I hope you don't mind."

"Not a bit," Eliza says, "I look forward to spending more time with both he and Cat, actually. At some of my favorite places too."

Just as the door to Kara's bedroom opens the timer on the microwave goes off, and Kara reaches up grabbing the mug and dumping the packet of hot chocolate in her hand into it. "Hot Chocolate, Mr. Grant," she says making the boy grin at her. "I do believe it's my turn in the shower."

"Not if I beat you," Alex says, bounding off the couch, heading for her sister's room which has the best shower.

She hasn't even made it halfway to down the hall when Kara passes her, "Never race someone with super speed, Alex," Kara says, laughing, "I thought you learned that when we were kids."

"That's cheating, Kara!" Alex shouts through the door even as she stomps down the hall to the guest bathroom.

Cat rests her head in her free hand, "I am dealing with three teenagers, I swear."

Eliza laughs, "And we're taking them to the zoo and the museum."

A groan leaves Cat's lips and she turns to Carter, "You are not to encourage those two."

Carter grins at his mother innocently, "Would I do that, Mom?"

"We're doomed," Cat tells Eliza while shaking her head.

"But at least we have fun," she leans over, "maybe even join in."

Cat chuckles, "Wouldn't be family if we didn't." She shakes her head, so much for fake relationships, she thinks as Carter and Eliza launch into a discussion that she barely follows before Kara returns, wrapping an arm around her. She sinks into the embrace and smiles, she's right where she needs to be. Come what may, she and her family, because she and Carter have that now, have for a while though she's only now realizing it, will face it together.