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Once Kara got out of the cells and only kind of bolted for the Door, she couldn't get back to the Bar for a few days. She was sort of surprised she missed it, but hey, here it is. Coolness.

First things first - she leaves a long overdue note with Bar.

I turned myself in and did cell time for the fight in the woods. You don't have to, because I worked that out with the girl who took me in, so I'm hoping that you're satisfied with that.

I know it probably won't matter to you, but I am sorry. I hope you're doing okay.

- Supergirl

After that, Kara heads outside to study for Claire's math quiz. One small, blonde, cross-legged levitating girl in an entirely seasonable crop top and shorts is hanging out by the lake as she pours over her mostly borrowed notes.

This, she reflects, would probably be easier if she'd ever taken a test she could remember before that didn't involve hitting things with cars or identifying the silhouettes of weaponry.

Distractions will bring her grade down, but she'll be grateful anyway.

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Kara puts her hands over Stepan's ears protectively after the first few sentences, because he is way too young for this kind of talk.

Kara, on the other hand, is so not.

"Nice," she's finally compelled to interject, nudging him, "Dude. I did not even know you had all that in you. Total points for originality and - don't you even get tired?"

Stepan, if he understood the purpose of this game, would inform her that he and Rasia hide under the bed during all this. "Neither of us sleep much." Spoon informs her, "And it's a great way of working out nightmares."

"I'm gonna have to take your word on that," Kara says, still attempting to preserve Stepan's non-existant innocence. "I mean, I kind of have the world's most overgrown boy scout in the world as my guardian, but still. Dude. I am very impressed - and she sounds like she is too, soooo...yeah, 'sall good."

"Haven't had any complaints." The man says smugly. Very smugly. Rar.

Ohohoho. Kara smirks. "You're totally spoiling her, you know that right? Spoiling her out of her mind."

"...Duh." Spoon says after a minute, "Making sure she never, ever, ever thinks about leaving me. Wild one, me kitten, got to make her believe that I'm the best ever."

"Well...you totally are," Kara says, nodding, "So I think your plan is working. Smooth, man, very smooth."

Spoon considers himself a half-mad, half-feral, half-man. Not a proper man at all, in any direction really. "Fuckin' hope so. Love her more than breath."

That's utterly okay with Kara. Proper men tend to be kind of weird and awkward to talk to. "Which sort of not really but I'm gonna say brings me to my next point," Kara says, "D'you want a set of signal watches - or not watches, because whatever - for you and Ace and anybody else you want? They're, um, well I've just been thinking lately that I should make sure I can - I don't know, help out? And that'd be a way to actually do it because I can't keep track of all those different heartbeats at once and anyway it's always kind of awkward to show up when people are just upset but don't want me around so these watch thingies are sort of like pagers for emergencies and - I mean, you know. If that's not being too forward or whatever, I could get a set. For anyone you want to give them out to." She's only kind of expecting him to give her the weirdest look ever and say she's being stupid.

He's quiet for a minute, then nuzzles her hair, "That'd be wonderful, Kara. I'd like that a lot."

Hair nuzzling?

...okay, yes. Yes hair nuzzling.

Kara hums and leans against him. "Awesome. I'll get right on them, then. How many do you need?"

"Mum, da', Ace. Three." He says, then tilts his head, "And me, I suppose. Four? Is that too many?"

"Nope," she says, brightly, "Not at all. And of course you get one. Um, how good is your hearing, actually? Like, how high of a pitch can you pick up? More or less than a wolf?"

"Pretty damn good in human, a hell of a lot better in wolf. Not as good as me nose." He says, "It, uh. Might be in me files? But I can't read them yet."

Kara frowns, slightly, and twists her head on a weird half-impulse to nuzzle his shoulder before twisting away again. She's going to start doing this canine body language thing with humans soon, probably.

"I'll pitch it really high, then," she assures him, "Because it's all screechy and kind of annoying and I don't want it to bug you."

He doesn't mind the nuzzle. Spoon does this with pretty much everyone he's comfortable with touching. "I'm pretty sure I've heard worse, lass. Whatever you get will be fine with me."

"Still," she says, glancing up at him, "And, um, I have sort of an idea with that. I figure I could set it up to go off if the wristband breaks, because, um, if you're changing shape without having enough time to take it off then I would be right in assuming that's a situation where I should show up?"

"...That's a really, really good idea, lass." Spoon says, "Really. D' you think you can set it up so that if one goes off it'll alert the rest of them? We're rather like that, we are."

Kara furrows her brow, and nods. "I think so. It shouldn't be too hard? So, yeah. Yeah, I'll figure it out."

"If you can't, that's alright. Doing more than enough already. After the moon, I'll see if mum'll have you over for dinner. Doubt she'll say no." But he's got to ask. It's hard-wired into his system at this point.

"...Seriously?" Kara asks, because - Spoon doesn't lie, but maybe she misheard him, because he wouldn't actually invite her to his house, would he?

"...Yes." Spoon did not think that was too hard to understand? Really? He used simple words, didn't he? Spoon tries to avoid complex words.

So. Kara spends a little time mulling that over.

And then she tackle-hugs Spoon, subjecting Stepan to the squishing he's probably going to have to get used to because she really seems to like this whole implusive hugging thing quite a bit.

Stepan makes a squeaking noise before squirming up onto Kara's shoulder and head, hind feet draped over her shoulder.

It doesn't last long, though, because Spoon was not expecting that so the whole mess of them go over onto the ground, Spoon's fag goes flying, and Rasia jumps on top of them because tussling is fun!

Spoon laughs the whole way down.

Okay! There is falling but there is also laughing so - okay! Kara giggles and pushes herself up slightly to grin at Spoon.

"Iiiii knocked you ooover," she sing-songs.