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Kara Danvers (lastof_krypton) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2019-12-17 02:07:00

Who: Kara Danvers & Billy Kaplan
When: Backdated: Mid September
Where: A Walking Trail
What: Flying Lessons
Rating/Warnings: Family Friendly
Status: Complete

If there was one thing Kara loved more than meeting new people, it was meeting new people with abilities. Ever since she had started dreaming and her abilities had crossed over she had wished for ore super powered friends who she could share things with like in the dreams. So when she had seen Billy’s first post about having powers, she had felt a strong urge to respond to him and then he had posted about flying and well, what kind of superhero and potential friend would she be if she didn’t offer to help?

After doing a bit of research on the best places they could go to practice, where there wouldn’t be a lot of people, Kara finally came up with a hiking trail that she sometimes went with her sister that led up to an area that had a bit of a cliff and was fairly secluded so no one would see them flying around.

After letting Billy know when and where to meet her, she headed out on the day they were to meet and waited for him to show up once she had parked her car.

Billy had taken the bus to as close to the location as he could and had walked the rest of the way to try and shrug off his nerves. It wasn’t working very well, but he was doing his best. He checked his phone and hurried the rest of the way, seeing a car and a blonde standing nearby.

He felt disproportionately relieved that Kara had turned up and not just left him hanging or stood him up. He hoped it didn’t show on his face but he wasn’t really that lucky and he knew it.

“Hey!” He called, jogging over and releasing his teeth’s hold on his lower lip. “Hey, thanks for agreeing to help me with this. I- Uh, I’m not late, right?”

Kara never would have bailed on helping someone when she said she would so Billy had nothing to worry about on that front. Seeing him, Kara returned his smile easily, “It’s no problem at all. I’m happy to help. This stuff isn’t easy to get used to so is Super Powered people need to stick together.” Kara wished she’d had someone who could have helped her when her powers had first started manifesting, but she’d had to deal with the majority of it on her own, so she wanted to be able to help anyone else in any way she could so they wouldn’t have to go through it by themselves, “So there’s a kind of secluded cliffy section of the trail that I thought he could go up to and practice there.”

Billy swallowed down the instinctive Nope, no thank you, no way that wanted to burst out of him at the thought of literally pitching himself off a cliff and hoping that he would be able to fly. “When you say secluded cliffy section I’m assuming you mean literal cliff and not…” he waved his hands, “a metaphorical one that’s a really good spot for meditation?”

Kara couldn’t help but laugh softly and shrugged a little, “I mean, you probably could meditate there. You'd probably want to bring a mat or towel or something so you’re not just sitting on the ground.” She continued to lead the way up the trail, “And it’s not like a Wile E. Coyote, look down and you fall sort of cliff. If that makes you feel any better.” She really hoped that she had made the right choice with this location.

“That makes me feel a little better,” Billy admitted, knowing he wasn’t about to fall to his death by stepping over the edge of the cliff like he was in a Warner Brothers cartoon. He swallowed, following her as she headed up the trail and walked like she knew it well. He supposed if she came up to practise here a lot she would know it well.

He opened his mouth to ask a question and then thought better of it, instead just trailing behind as they walked until they slowed to a stop.

“So, okay, I’m gonna be level with you here, Kara. I- uh- I woke up attached to the ceiling and, like, got pulled down. And I’ve floated a few times but I have no idea how I actually fly. It’s not a sort of Rocketman thing where I put my hands at my side and look up to the sky or whatever.” He wrung his hands together. “Promise you won’t let me fall?”

Kara didn’t mind the silence as they walked. She understood why Billy might not be super talkative if he was nervous so she wasn’t going to force him to talk unless he did first and when he finally did, she glanced over at him and smiled, “The same thing happened to me. Still does sometimes. Usually after new dreams, I’ll wake up hovering over my bed.” It had really freaked her out the first time it had happened and unlike in the dreams, she hadn’t had Clark around to help her, “It’s the weirdest feeling in the world, isn’t it?”

“I’ve not done it much,” Billy admitted, tugging on his lower ear, “but in the dreams it feels good.” He swallowed, stopping and looking over the edge and then shivering a little. “How long’ve you been dreaming?” he asked, “I’ve only been dreaming a bit but I kinda feel like there’s a lot more to come… Some people have been dreaming for literal years, right?”

Kara nodded in response, “Yeah, from what I’ve gathered there are some people who have been dreaming for a few years now. It’s been a little over two years. They’ve been pretty sporadic though. I wish they would happen more often.” So much time would pass between between her dreams and she hated it because she wanted to know everything about them as quickly as possible.

“Two years of dreams?” Billy looked at Kara wide-eyed. “That’s- wow, that’s incredible. And they’re always different? Are they… sorta like a story? That’s how mine feel, chronological, you know?”

He cleared his throat, kicking a small stone and watching it skitter off the edge of the cliff. His stomach swooped.

“So, uh, how do you trigger your flight?”

Kara nodded, “Right? You’d think I would have had more by now.” She really wished that there was a way to trigger her dreams to make them happen more often, but so far it seemed like people simply dreamt at different speeds. She also wondered why she was dreaming, but Alex wasn’t when her sister was a main player in her dreams and they both lived in Orange County.

At Billy’s question, Kara took a quick glance around, including using her telescopic vision to check out the surrounding area to make sure there really wasn’t anyone around who could see them then she looked up at the sky, crouched down slightly and in the blink of an eye she shot into the air then came down to hover a few feet off the ground in front of Billy, “Mostly like that.”

Billy wet his lower lip and opened his mouth to reply but Kara was moving, crouching down and he watched as she literally exploded off the ground and into the air. His eyes widened - again - and he thought his jaw might hit the floor. He lifted his hand to his chin and literally pushed his mouth shut to avoid such an incident.

He swallowed, stuffed his hands in his pockets and resisted the urge to bend down and wave his hand underneath her feet as though he needed to prove to himself that she was flying. Then the excitement started, his chest felt tight and his throat felt the same. His heart started hammering.

“Oh my god, you’re like, literally flying. That- I knew you wouldn’t have been- I knew you wouldn’t have been making it up but I- Jeez, Kara, this- this is amazing.”

Kara couldn’t help the smile that spread across her lips as she watched Billy’s reaction to her flying, “It’s pretty cool, isn’t it?” She spent another moment or two hovering above the ground before she lowered herself to the ground. She hadn’t really had an opportunity to show off many of her abilities as herself, because even here in the waking world, she wanted to keep her secret identity when she wasn’t trying to help as Supergirl, so this was just as exciting for her as it was for Billy, “I can’t even describe the feeling. Hopefully you’ll get to experience it for yourself soon enough.”

“Hopefully the feeling is something more than ‘shit I hope I don’t fall’,” Billy offered with a shy grin. He watched her lower herself to the ground and realised she made it look effortless. He didn’t even know how to begin lifting himself from the ground, and his intention to jump and hope Kara caught him if his flight didn’t kick in was a lot scarier and a lot stupider now that he was actually faced with the edge of a cliff and a drop.

He swallowed. “But it- yeah, it’s so cool. I kinda just woke up in the air and then fell back onto the bed so it’s not- in the dreams I just kind of… want it? I’m not even sure, it just happened. I don’t even know what my powers are in the dreams or who I am, really, because that- it-” he waved his hand, catching himself rambling. “Sorry.”

Kara could definitely understand where Billy was coming from, “I get it. It’s really overwhelming when you have all this stuff hitting you, but once you have it all under control it’s pretty fun.” She smirked and gestured for them to continue up the path a little further, “And you might not know your powers now, but I’m sure you’ll find out everything in no time.”

Billy smiled a little and waved a hand, “I’m not sure how to… uh-” he jumped on the spot once, then again, and his feet hit the ground with a thump. So that wasn’t how he triggered his flight. He rubbed the side of his head. “It’d be nice to be able to fly. From what I gather it’s like, a really freeing feeling?”

He cleared his throat again, beginning to ramble about the feeling of being in the air and what it might feel like flying, and how he’d worked out how to control his electricity by just focusing on it - largely because he was worried about electrocuting someone - and he was deep into the realm of superhero nerd-dom by the time he realised that he was floating about two feet off the ground.

Kara nodded, “It’s an extremely freeing feeling.” Trying to explain what it felt like to fly was something Kara couldn’t quite find the words for, but freeing was definitely one of them. As Billy continued talking, Kara listened and watched him, her lips turning up into a smile as she watched him lift on the ground unawares. “How does that feel?” She hoped that bringing it to his attention wouldn’t cause him to lose whatever it was that was causing him to float.

Billy glanced down at his feet and wobbled dangerously for a second, veering to the left which took him over the cliff edge before he ended up going higher than anticipated. “It feels very, uh,” he struggled to find the word, “high.”

He couldn’t seem to bring himself down but at least he was moving side to side slowly, without flinging himself in one direction or the other.

“Want to join me?” he called down, “I- might feel better if you’re up here too?”

“You bet!” Smiling, Kara rose up into the air until she was beside Billy, “You’ll feel more confident the longer you’re doing it. Trust me.” Kara was happy that Billy seemed to take to flying so easily. She had worried that he wouldn’t get the hang of it and get frustrated, but it appeared that she had nothing to worry about.

Billy laughed, uneasy but doing his best just to ‘be confident’. Fake it til you make it, right?

“Yeah,” he agreed shakily, glad that Kara was there with him now. “But this is probably high enough for me today…”

Fake it til you make it, Kaplan, he thought, and don’t fall.