supercorp one-shots

Keep it Down

It was late, and Lena was tired. Work had been... exhausting, to say the least. Her boss at the lab had been extremely awful at her that day, and for no reason at all! She had tried so hard, she really had, to have a nice day, but the universe simply seemed to be against her on that particular day. And that precise date was hard enough to begin with. So when Lena came home that night, she closed the door behind her and jumped to her bed, skipping dinner and deciding she just needed a good sleep in order to get through it all.

After leaving her things on a chair by her door, and noticing that her coat had fallen go the floor -and ignoring it-, she decided it was time to finally rest. She changed her clothes, throwing her bra to the floor across her bed, putting on a shirt that was clearly too big for her, but managed to cover what needed to be covered. She got inside the bed and sighed in relief. She had been aching for the comfort of her sheets the whole week, and being able to wrap herself around them and sleep for more than 4 hours seemed not only a dream, but a blessing too. Lena turned the lights off and closed her eyes slowly, a dumb smile on her face created by the mere satisfaction of being relaxed. She drowsed off after a few seconds...
Lena was clearly dreaming. This was unusual, for she usually didn't have any sort of dreams while she slept; her mind was simply blank. That night, however, she found herself -this weird, dreamy version of herself- standing alone in a clear, surrounded by tall trees. The brunette looked around, but everything seemed pretty normal. Suddenly, Lena heard something. It sounded like a whisper which came from somewhere far from where she was; she tried to pay more attention and focus... yeah, it sounded like a voice, as if someone was singing somewhere inside the forest. And it was the most beautiful voice Lena'd ever heard. She tried to follow it, to fins whoever was hiding in her dream, but each step she made drove her farther from the voice, regardless of the direction she took. She started growing desperate, looking all around, and she thought she heard water pouring down...

All of a sudden, Lena woke up in complete darkness. Although she was now awake, she could still hear the rain... But it wasn't rain, of course, it was her new neighbour, who apparently thought that taking a shower at 2am in the morning was normal. And... what was that? They were... singing? Wow, they really were something else. Lena turned the lights on as her rage grew bigger and bigger, for her neighbour was singing some dull pop song -was that One Direction?-. Either they were shouting or the walls were extremely thin. After counting to a hundred, trying to calm down, Lena decided it'd been enough.
She got up and walked to her door, opening it with a rapid movement.

Lena walked across the hallway, trying not to make too much noise, becase she, unlike her neighbor, did care about that. She took a deep breath, preparing her mind for the heated argument she was ready to have with whoever was behind that door, and decided to know on the wood three times. No one answered. She tried again, this time harder. She heard the shower close, and stood upright, trying to look as calm and civilized as she could. Lena could hear footsteps approaching and, when she noticed the door opening, she decided to take a tiny step back, so as not to intimidate this stranger she was about to destroy.

However, when the door finally opened, Lena was taken aback for a second. Although she wasn't exactly sure what she had expected to find -maybe a punk, goth teen?- she certainly was not ready for that. In front of her stood a tall blonde girl who stared at Lena with her deep blue eyes wide open. The brunette couldn't help but notice that the girl was wearing only a towel around her naked body, and her hair was soaking wet, leaving small, round drops of water standing on her skin, so perfectly they seemed to have been drawn. Lena tried to speak, but she couldn't find the words to express what she wanted to say. And what did she want to say, anyways?

'Uhm... hi, sorry, I was taking a shower and clearly not expecting to have visitors. Everything alright?' The blonde asked without any sign of worry, but looked up and down on Lena's figure.