Chapitre 64: Chapter 64
The police lower their weapons and one steps forward, placing a fist over his heart and bowing to Kara. He stands back up straight when Kara gestures for him to stop bowing.
"Princess Kara. What happened?"
"This man just tried to rob this place with a spear, which he threw at me. He also threatened to kill that pregnant woman over there." Kara explains.
The officer nods. "Thank you. Would you mind passing him over to us? We can take him from here."
Kara nods and releases him, gently pushing him forwards. The man stumbles and is immediately swarmed by officers and knights alike. One cuffs his hands behind his back while another reads him his rights.
"He'll be going away for a long time." The head officer says to Kara as the man is being led away. "Would you mind going over everything with me? I apologize, but I do need your statement."
"Of course," Kara nods. She recounts everything, able to use her good memory to be able to tell the officer how everyone was positioned at different times during the robbery.
"Thank you very much, Princess Kara. This will be very useful. I just have one last question, if you don't mind. I'm more curious than anything." When Kara nods, he continues. "How did you know that there was something going on here?"
"I heard it."
"You heard it," he repeats. "Super hearing, yeah?"
"That is what my cousin calls it." Kara chuckles to herself.
"Thank you again. He won't be seeing the light of day anytime soon, or perhaps ever. He's facing an attempted burglary charge, two counts of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and he didn't have a license to own that spear so he's in trouble for that, not to mention treason and attempted murder of a royal."
Kara raises her eyebrows. "That is a lot. Thank you, officer..."
"Benson, ma'am. It was an honor to meet you."
"It was good to meet you too. Thank you for all you do." Kara gives him one of her infamous smiles.
With that, Kara takes off and continues her patrol, grinning when she hears Benson quietly gasp out "cool."
Her patrol is full of her catching small time criminals, sometimes handing them over to the police. One she doesn't because he was just trying to steal food for him and his family. She gives him a note with the location of the alien assistance center she set up with Alex. He nearly cries when she tells him that she won't take him to the police.
The others that she doesn't take to the police, it's because of an entirely different reason. Since Cadmus crawled out of the woodworks, bigots have been committing hate crimes. Like defacing walls with xenophobic art or words (she spends a lot on paint to fix it) or by bullying or even beating up aliens. Those people she takes to the DEO to be processed. They'll all be interrogated by Lucy (with Lena watching to learn how to do it for later when she and Kara have to talk to the other prisoners) and checked out by J'onn himself to make sure they don't have any information relating to Cadmus.
When Kara gets back, she's pretty tired. She goes to the DEO first and smiles sleepily at the sight of her girlfriend wearing glasses, her hair up in a messy bun, writing something down.
Kara walks inside of Alex's lab and the door shuts behind her, but Lena's too in the zone to realize it. She mutters to herself, something about an equation that Kara's too tired to figure out.
She comes up behind Lena and wraps her arms around Lena's waist. Lena stiffens at first, then melts when she realizes who it is. She grins when she feels Kara's lips press against the exposed back of her neck. Lena turns her head and captures Kara's lips with her own.
"Hey," Kara greets.
"Hey. Good patrol today?" Lena asks softly.
"Not really," Kara sighs. "I'm glad there are less criminals and stuff on the street but I had to stop a couple hate crimes. One... One, the guy was punching a Xicharow, a member of a peaceful alien race, and screaming xenophobic stuff. If I hadn't gotten there in time..." Kara sniffs.
Lena turns around and wraps her arms tightly around her girlfriend. "Oh, sweetie." She gently rocks them from side to side. "You did get there in time, darling. You'll drive yourself mad, thinking about the what ifs. Look what it did to Lex."
Kara nods against her shoulder. "Okay. Um. I don't know how well I'm going to be able to do in the interrogations of the Cadmus people tomorrow."
"It's alright, sweetie. Just leave it to me." Lena presses a kiss to the side of Kara's head, still swaying back and forth. "I can do all the talking. You can just stand there in your suit and look pretty. Okay? And if you're not comfortable with that, you can stay outside. There's a viewing area in the interrogation rooms, remember?" Lena says softly.
Kara nods again. "Okay. I think I'll be able to stay in the room. Just don't be mad if I punch some of them if they're mean to you."
Lena chuckles. "As long as you don't mind me punching some of them for being violent xenophobes."
Kara giggles against Lena's shoulder and pulls back to kiss her.
"Thank you," Kara whispers. "You always seem to know what to say."
"Anything for you, darling." Lena promises.
***
Just as Kara thought (and feared), the next day is... It's tough, to say the least. She's forced to watch her girlfriend carefully manipulate agents who work for her mother to try to get any information. Listening to them rant is the worst, though. They spout out hatred, similar things now that she thinks about it, like there's some kind of "Bible for Xenophobes."
One actually spits on her and calls her a... Kara can't repeat it. Despite how that made her feel, it was funny to see Lena deck him as hard as she can. He slumps against the chair, out cold. Lena shakes out her hand, knowing it's definitely bruised. Worth it. The DEO agents have a newfound respect for her when she has to come out and explain what happened when the agents see the giant bruise on the unconscious man's face.
Some of the weaker ones jump at the chance to help, probably wanting to get out as soon as possible. But they don't have any new information. In fact, they know less than Kara and Lena know.
All they do manage to get is the layout of the above ground floors. Useful, but not useful enough to get excited about.
"Who's our last one of the day?" Kara asks.
Lena looks at the name and grimaces. "May the gods have mercy on us. It's Maxwell Lord."
Kara's loud groan tells Lena that Kara knows him.
"He's such a... Bad person!" Kara gets out.
Lena smiles softly at her girlfriend's attempt to avoid calling him a bad name, even though he more than deserves it for just his intolerable personality.
"You know him?" Lena prompts.
"Know him? He's been coming to the castle on and off for years, and he always came onto Alex, despite the fact she has no interest in him and had rejected him several times. He kept making sexist comments about how she shouldn't be allowed to be a knight. Just... Ugh." Kara huffs.
"Let's get this over with." Lena sighs and Kara nods, heading over to the room with his jail cell in it. "I didn't know he was Cadmus, but I suppose it makes sense. He always was going on about the 'alien threat.' No wonder Lex and Mother liked him." She scoffs. "They didn't mind his arrogance and cockiness. Let him brag about how he was so much better and smarter than me. He tried to ask me out too, despite the fact I have been out as a lesbian since I was 16."
"He what? Oh, now I'm punching him for sure." Kara grumbles. "Stupid homophobic sexist person that can't comprehend that someone isn't and can't be attracted to him."
Lena reaches out and takes Kara's hand. "Darling, let's hold off on the punching until after we get information. Okay?"
"Fine." Kara nods.
Kara steps into the room first, staying in front of Lena as if to protect her from Lord, despite him being behind bars.
"Ooh, visitors." Lord drawls, facing away from them. He stands and turns around. "Princesses Kara and Lena."
"It's Queen Lena now. You know that." Lena corrects him, keeping herself calm. She knows he wants to rile her up.
"Queen, Princess, you're useless just the same." Max waves off. Kara takes a menacing step forwards. "So you're her guard dog now, little girl? Woof." He laughs at his own joke.
"Actually, I'm her girlfriend." Kara answers.
Max looks genuinely startled for a moment, then recovers and goes back to looking callously indifferent. "Oh? I didn't know you played for the other team."
"I'm pan."
"Nice to meet you, pan, I'm Max." He cackles again. "A Super and a Luthor, working together. I wonder how terribly this will crash and burn?"
Eugh, Maxwell Lord. *shudders* It is fun to write him as kind of crazy though. And he's been in isolation for a while, so he's not really sane... Next chapter, more of him! And if we get to it (we probably will), more Sanvers! But they have to meet Max :p Thank you all for reading and for your amazing comments! Stay awesome!
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