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[countess_karnstein]

Carm knew that Laura was exhausted. The second she watched her girls head hit the pillow Laura did her usual think of wrapping herself around Carm and burying herself. Carm as usual, put her arm around Laura and held her close while she slept.

The middle of the night told a completely different story. Carmilla could tell when Lara had recovered as the two of them made up for a lot of lost time. She woke with a groan, a mess of black hair and covered in nearly healed bite marks which caused her to smile at memory of earlier that night. “Laura…” She could feel her girlfriends arm across her back and their feet in the usual tangled together position.

When Laura didn’t reply she twisted in her arms and placed a kiss to her cheek while her hand brushed back Laura’s hair from her face. Even after all these years together Carm couldn’t understand how this one person changed everything. “Laura, time to wake up.”

Carm found the remote for the TV buried between their pillows and clicked it on. The volume was low but every channel was covered with breaking news. Laura’s article had hit the news with such impact, exactly as Kara had predicted.

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[countess_karnstein]

Kara huffed and found the nearest chair to sit down. There she sat, quiet for a moment before looking up a Laura genuinely looking worried. “I didn’t end well with Lex and Clark. I don’t want her to look at me any differently.”

Carmilla came back into the room wearing what looked like a black leather all in one modified like one of the DEO special division suits. Rolling her shoulders and trying to get comfortable she walked over to the table. She could hear from Kara’s heartbeat that she was upset about something so Carm decided to not interrupt and let her fiancé handle it.

“I guess you’re right…” Kara slapped her hands on her thighs as she stood up. “Do you think I should do it now?”

[lauronica_mars]

"If not now then when?" Laura's tone was wry. "There will always be something you want to do more or an excuse to not do it."

[countess_karnstein]

“Trust me you don’t want to hide it. Be honest from the start or they might kidnap you and tie you to a chair.” Carm smirked at Lara. It might have been years ago now but it still made her smile how determined Laura was to find the truth. She was still the same way now.

“Ugnnn why is this so hard.” Kara looked between the two of them. “If this goes wrong I’m blaming the both of you.” She was playing when she said that but Kara was full of nerves. “Did you want to get a list of aliens together and try and track them down while I tell Lena?”

Lena’s voice was calm as she walked up behind Kara. “Tell me what?”

Her breath caught in her in her throat and Kara turned around. “Is there a place we can talk?”

She look concerned but hid it will. Carmilla recognised all the signs of putting up walls that she did when she was nervous. Lena and her were more alike than she thought, much like Kara and Laura. “If it’s important Kara then here is a good of a time than any.”

Kara closed the gap between them, taking off her glasses and letting her hair down from its loosely tied ponytail. “I don’t know the easiest way to tell you this and I’ve been wanting to for so long it’s just…I didn’t want you to look at me any differently…” Kara looked up. “I’m Supergirl.”

For a moment Carm wondered if Laura was using her hearing to pick up on how hard Kara’s heart was pounding in her chest. Lena’s although skipping a beat, slowed down and remained steady.

“Lena?”

Kara went to put her hand on Lena’s arm but Lena backed away. “I need a moment…”

Carm recognised that look of being hurt in Kara’s eyes and looked over at Laura, wondering if they should try and talk to them or get out of the room.

[lauronica_mars]

Laura, for once surprisingly tactful, chose to wait a few seconds to see how this unfolded and whether she should leave or step in. And quite deliberately floated an inch off the floor, possibly to give Lena something to distract herself.

[countess_karnstein]

Carm struggled to look. She felt awkward as it reminded her of a time long ago and hoped that Kara’s outcome wouldn’t mirror Carmilla’s own. If Laura had looked she would have seen Carm’s expressional fall a little and a tell that she found it hard to witness. It had taken a lot of convincing in the early stages of their relationship that Laura was okay with dating a vampire.

Lena almost looked frozen in time, she barely moved and with her glazed expression was suddenly piecing together all of her relationship with Kara and how it all made sense. It was only by Kara’s voice asking her if she was okay that the silence was broken and Lena noticed Laura flying of the ground.

“You’re Supergirl.” She motioned a hand towards Carmilla who was back by the table. “Carmilla is a vampire and Laura is…?”

Kara turned around to see Laura floating off the ground. She would have said a name but she didn’t know what Laura was. “A friend Lena, you can trust all of us.”

“Trust. Trust is a big word to use in a situation like this Kara.”

Winn peered around the room just enough for Laura to see him in the background. He motioned for her and Carm to follow him but did so quietly so Kara didn’t hear.

[lauronica_mars]

"Human enough for the DEO to be absolutely certain I am." Laura smiled. "But, thanks to something a few years ago I'm a preternatural human. Possibly the only one. Belief creates power and just as humans tell stories about animals animals tell stories about humans. Thanks to cats I can open any tin at any time without trouble. We are walking can openers to some of them. And thanks to dogs opinion on humans I basically have no sense of smell." In practice she borrowed Carmilla's.

She shrugged. "My most important ability is that while I am around them I can use a reflection of the standard abilities of my 'pack'. So if I had a horse I could run at a comfortable place for that horse although couldn't match its gallop. When my pack has a Kryptonian? I can fly at what she would consider a gentle jog."

She let that sink in before continuing "But you're angry at Kara who's as enthusiastic as a puppy. And you're smart. Can you tell me that if you hadn't wanted your friend to be a normal person as much as she wanted someone to treat her as one rather than as Supergirl she wouldn't have given herself away a dozen times in really obvious ways? A ponytail and glasses aren't a good disguise."

[countess_karnstein]

“Hey!” Kara frowned. She ran her fingers through her hair. “It fools most people. Is it really that obvious?”

Carmilla wandered closer, her fingers brushing past the digital table. “And that thing that happened was me trying to turn Laura before you ask.” Carm left the detail about thinking she had killed her lover on the night Laura purposed but it did make her conscious of the ring on her finger.

As that sank in Winn nearly dropped his cup and alerted all of them to his presence in the background. When all eyes stared he nervously smiled and tried to enter the conversation. “So she’s like Rogue from X-Men? She borrows powers? That’s pretty cool right? If I had to have an ability I’d pick something like that….or maybe just flying?”

Carmilla rolled her eyes, “It means don’t upset her as she spends a lot of time around a vampire and gains my abilities and now she’s made friends with Kara she has some of her abilities as well.” Thankfully there wasn’t any need to point out the fact Laura was hovering off the ground as everyone had noticed.

Lena couldn’t stop staring at Laura, fascinated by her abilities from a scientific point of view. It took a few silent moments before she went back to the larger issue at hand. “You’re telling me that you have both known Kara is Supergirl from the start?”

“Lena it’s not like that. I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want anything to change. You know what happened between Lex and Clark and I didn’t want to lose you!”

“Laura can I see you alone for a moment?” Lena said with a tone Carmilla picked up upon as numb.

[lauronica_mars]

Laura also picked up the tone. "I've known since my copy of her heat vision got out of control because I didn't know I had it. But there was only one person it could have come from, and once I knew she had heat vision the rest was easy even if she tried to deny it. And that's what let Carmilla know." Well, that and Kara blundering in. "She didn't tell me."

[countess_karnstein]

With Laura ignoring Lena’s request to talk to her alone, she walked over to the table again and shifted through some digital images. She told herself that the best way to cope with this was to not let the information sink in yet because she felt from the start that her and Kara’s friendship had been a lie.

“According to reports since the DEO have been shut down various aliens have been seen causing disturbances. If you want to help the people of this city, then I suggest you go out there and detain them for fair trail.” She sighed. “And Laura, the best thing you can do is get to CatCo and either put someone forward for mayor, backing what your article has written or run for mayor yourself.”