Okay, I must admit...

Jimmy cleans up nicely!

I couldn't stop myself from whistling under my breath as we pulled up to the fancy building and Jimmy stood on the side walk dressed in business casual and a bouquet of fresh roses.

"Oh please," Dick scoffs, "That's so basic!"

"If that's basic then I'm a basic bitch," I instantly replied as I struggled to quickly get my seatbelt off and launch myself out of the car.

"Kara Zor-El! What would Superman say if he heard you!?" Dick semi-mock scolded.

"Blame you?"

"Damn right!"

He watches me for a few more seconds as I continued to struggle with my seatbelt before he sighs in exasperation and leans over.

"Stop, before you hurt yourself..."

He swats my hands away and easily clicks it open.

His entire torso was pressed up against me and I was finding it difficult to maintain my sanity.

Damn this man and his enormous sex appeal!!!

I hear a repressed chuckle from Dick as he pushes himself off me and sits back in his seat.

"You're free to go" he mocks me.

I stick my tongue out at him.

"I'm going to have a great date!"

"A girl can dream," he throws back at me, "I'll just be waiting here when you're done."

Then immediately brings out his phone and begins to play a weird sounding mobile game (A/N it's Clash Royale/Clash of Clans ;-3)

I shrugged my shoulders and completely got out of Dick's low to the ground cat car.

Oh no wait, he told me to stop calling it that, what did he call it? Cheetah? Puma? Jaguar?

I shrugged again, "Meh, it'll come to me" I mutter to myself and begin to walk over to where Jimmy stood.

As soon as he catches sigh of me he visibly freezes and just stares at me like a deer in headlights.

I instantly saw and heard his heart rate skyrocket and began to purposefully cat walk my way over to him.

I couldn't help but giggle as I walked up close to him and took the flowers he had clutched in his hand in a death grip.

Poor dude is choking the LIFE out of these plants...

"Y-y-yo-you-you look g-g-gor-geous!" he fumbled with his words and struggles to compose himself.

I see sweat physically start to bead on his forehead and that was when I began to be concerned.

"Jimmy? Are you all right?" I held onto his shoulder and supported much of his weight.

Something was wrong...why is he acting like this?

"I-i-it's nothing Kara, I'm just extremely nervous..." he tries, and fails, to calm me down.

"Nervous!?" I blurt out, "About what!?"

What could possibly make him so nervous as to almost be having a flipping breakdown!

"Of screwing up this date..." He softly whispers.

Now that caught me off guard.

"W-what?" I crock out.

He opens his arms out to me but refused to move, it took me a second to figure out he was silently asking me if he could hug me.

I nodded meekly in response and scooted in and let him embrace me in one of the warmest hugs ever.

"You have no idea what you mean to be and this is my one chance to prove that to you and get you back..." He softly whispers in my ear.

I feel tears spring up at the back of my eyes. Urgh! Emotions! So troublesome!

I dig my face into Jimmy's neck and try my best to maintain my composure

"Since when have you been so gosh darn sweet?" I barely choke out.

I more of feel than see Jimmy smile at me and then I hear a soft chuckle.

"You'd be surprised what a man can do when he's in love," he says as he pulls away from me.

It was at this point I whack him with the bouquet of flowers.

"Now your just being too smooth!" I loudly accuse.

We then burst out laughing and turn to walk into the building behind us.

Maybe breaking up with Jimmy was a bad idea? I mean we do seem to have a connection...why did we even break up in the first place?

I pondered and wondered as Jimmy lead me into the dark lobby and maneuvered his way through the corridors and finally stopped us at a red cloth-covered table.

Jimmy patiently stood behind a chair and pulled it out for me as I sat down, then gently pushed it back in with my weight on it as if I weighed nothing to him.

The whole place looked a tad bit too fancy for the casually sporty look I was wearing.

I look down at my outfit and began to feel extremely self-conscious, I then leaned over to Jimmy and whispered, "I am so sorry for not dressing appropriately-"

He immediately cut me off before I could finish.

"Do not apologize for what you are wearing," he quickly and quite rapidly interjected, "you look exquisitely drop-dead gorgeous and I refuse to let you believe and or feel that you are anything below perfection right now."

My face fired up in a fierce blush as I meekly became quiet, squished my thighs and knees together with my hands between them and looked down in complete and utter embarrassment.

"Y-y-you're not supposed to just easily say things like that..." I shyly whisper under my breath.

Now it was apparently MY turn to start stammering in nervousness. Where were all these suave moves coming from from Jimmy tonight!?

I feel a strong grip take hold of my hand and I look up to see Jimmy's gently lift my fingertips up to his face.

"I do not plan to hold back any punches tonight, Kara." he softly says while looking me dead in the eye. "My intention is to win you back this evening. Failure is not an option."

How does one breathe again? I found it increasingly difficult to do so as I felt my internal body temperature skyrocket at his words.

Calm yourself girl! Don't lose your cool!!!

I squirmed in my seat as I tried to maintain what little composure I had. But I could not lie to myself and say that my heart wasn't melting and simultaneously shattering into a million pieces at this very moment.

*Ping!*

I jumped at the noise and realized it was coming from my phone. I could have sworn I put it on vibrate mode...

I only took a peek at my pocket because I didn't come out with a bag or purse, but ultimately decided to ignore it.

"No, go ahead, see who it is!" Jimmy prompted.

I smiled sweetly at him and pull out my phone to read the text.

It was 2 simple messages.

The first says~

Whatever's going on in there don't let it woo you.

Second~

Remember why you broke up.

I begin to swing my head around and scan the dimly lit room around me.

The room was private and hidden but I'd swear upon my Kryptonian powers that Nightwing was currently observing us from SOME hidden remote device planted in this room.

Typical, I think to myself. Although I will not lie and say I wasn't appreciative of the attention.

As much as I appreciate how overprotective Dick was towards me, it was getting kind of out of hand recently...

After discreetly scanning the room once, twice, three times, I was able to deduce that there was in fact no hidden cameras in the vicinity.

I used my x-ray vision just to make sure that no surprises were hidden anywhere but my search turned up empty.

Maybe it was just an insanely well-timed coincidence?

I put my phone back away and lean forward as I smile eagerly at Jimmy, fully intending to enjoy this date to the fullest and then make my decision on whether or not to get back together with him at the end.

Hours passed by as we had dinner, watched a movie, and just simply chatted.

The place Jimmy chose for our date was a fancy restaurant/theatre fusion. Have an exquisite foreign intercontinental meal while a bloody action movie was playing in the background.

Pure heaven.

But as the evening's winds down I couldn't help but suppress the nagging feeling that I was eating away at the back of my head.

The feeling was omnipresent and ever so annoying, but I couldn't help but think...

Something was off.

Something was wrong.

Something didn't FEEL right...

I could tell it was the same way for Jimmy to because he struggled to keep up a conversation. But I appreciated his effort for trying.

I reach over the table as he was talking about some report he had due to submit in a couple days with Clark and press his hand tightly.

He stopped mid-sentence and looked at my hand and then began to blush fiercely.

"I-I hope I'm not boring you..."

"Only a little," I tease.

He tensed slightly but immediately understood that I was only joking and then laughed along with me.

Once the movie was over and we'd fully finished eating everything Jimmy helped me get up from my seat and we proceeded to walk out of the building.

"Jeez I'm STUFFED!" I exclaimed as we got out of the place, "I don't think I'll be able to eat again for another WEEK!"

I peeked up at Jimmy for his own comment but he was strangely quiet.

"Although I'm not too sure about the arrangement of having dinner and a movie simultaneously," I still continue to speak. "I mean I get what they're going for, but at the end of the day it's just too distracting to have a proper meal while a full-fledged movie is going on in the background."

Silence. Nothing. No reaction.

In an act of mild irritation I stopped dead in my tracks, which forced Jimmy to stop with me.

"Oh! Ouch! What's going on!?" He cries in mild surprise.

"Earth to Jimmy? Planet Earth to Jimmy, are you there?"

"Oh! Ah....." He fumbled with his words at being caught, "I'm sorry, I totally wasn't listening. I spaced."

"What's got you so down?" I ask.

Jimmy's eyes wondered, darting left to right as he processed what was going through his head.

Then, once I assumed he had all his thoughts in alignment, he took a deep breath and straighten his posture.

"I assume you felt it too?" He finally said, as if forcing himself to do so.

A sense of doom descended upon me and I felt a heavy weight hit my gut.

"Y-yeah..." I feebly say as my body mildly began to shake. My gut twisted and my head began to spin as I dread the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

"You know I don't wanna say it too..." His words caught me off guard as I had looked away from him, but wiping my head back I see that tears had began to brim on his eyes.

"OMG, please don't cry, you know that'll make me cry as well!" I say as my voice shook and my bottom lip began to quicker.

I reached over and gripped his hands and we stare into each others eyes with tears threatening to fall when-

"Good God, you both are hopeless"

We whip our heads around to see Dick standing on the sidewalk, thumbs hooked in his pockets, side-eyeing us from an angle.

"Are you guys gonna do it or do you want me?" He sneers at the both of us.

Me and Jimmy cast a meek look at each other and shook our heads at Dick in unison.

"No!" Jimmy said.

"We'll do it!" I finish, like the comically cartoony couple we must obviously seem like right now.

Dick rolled his eyes ad looked away as I let out a big sigh and gathered up all my courage.

"I'm sorry"

"I'm sorry"

Me and Jimmy flinch as we both said the same thing in unison. In the mild shock we both began to chuckle at the sheer cruel irony.

"It makes no sense, does it?" Jimmy then began to speak.

"None at all" I agreed.

"How can two people so in-tune just be so not right for one another?"

"I wonder," I also let out as I begin to laugh.

You see, the problem between me and Jimmy WASN'T that we didn't get along, we did, very well. It's just that there just wasn't any spark between us. And the date we went through this evening just reminded us of that and why we broke up in the first place.

"I still love you Jimmy," I whisper at him, then locked up and I felt the murderous intention reeking off of Dick from behind me. "As a good friend!" I quickly add without looking over my shoulder.

I see Jimmy cast a glance over at Dick, smirk, and let out a chuckle.

"Oh, if you could only see him now," Jimmy whispered under his breath in an amused tone. "Dude's about to emit fireworks"

I giggle and pat him on the shoulder, "Don't be mean," I tease.

As he was distracted I lean in for a kiss on the lips but he caught me at the last second and held my shoulders back.

"Wha-wha-what are you doing!?" he said in a panic.

I lift an eyebrow at him, "What does it look like genius?"

"I mean, I know what it is...i-i-it's just that...why?" he pulled at his collar again and this time cast a more nervous and worried glance at Dick's direction.

I mentally shrugged off any thoughts of Dick at the moment and fully focused Jimmy. I reached out a hand and pulled him close to me by the collar.

"You were being snarky back there, you know how I react to smug snarky men..." I whisper in a seductive voice close to him and revel at how red his face turned.

"Y-you want to kiss me?" he squeaked.

"Uh-huuun~" I nod suggestively.

"I-I'm not mentally prepared and or ready," he meekly admits.

"I...don't...care....." I whisper one last time and lean in for the smooch.

I see Jimmy visibly sweating but braces himself and closes his eyes along with me as I lean in the rest of the way.

But instead of feeling lips, I feel...skin???

I open my eyes to see Dick's hand magically appear between me and Jimmy's lips.

"What the-!?" I reel back in shock.

"That's assault, Kara." Dick warned menacingly.

"Wha...?" It was then that the full extent of my actions hit me. "OH MY GOOD! JIMMY! I'M SO SORRY!!!"

I flinch backwards, "I-I-I was just caught up in-" I cut myself off, "No, no. There is no excusing my behavior. I'm truly sorry and deeply apologize."

What had come over me!? All of a sudden I became overcome with the sudden HUGE urge to kiss Jimmy and I totally disregarded his feelings in doing so!

"I'm a monster!" I wail out in alarm.

"You're overdramatic, is what you fucking are..." Dick scuffs and begins to walk towards his car.

I saw it as him giving us a moment to ourselves to talk in private, and even though he was dickish about it I appreciated the gesture immensely.

Me and Jimmy turn back over to each other and begin to make small talk. And even then we are yet again reminded that we just weren't suited for one another.

We walked slowly towards Dick's car and made aimless mindless talk, we laugh and giggled and joked and poked, and by the time we reached the side doors we were once again comfortable with each other but an air of extreme sadness still weighed down upon us.

Jimmy tilts his head at me, making his bright shiny red hair tip at an angle.

"Maybe in another life?" He jokes ever so sweetly, the sun gleaming behind him as it set.

"I'll be eagerly awaiting you on that plane of existence," I smile back. I instinctively reach up to kiss his cheek but stop last minute when I catch his flinch.

I offer my cheek up instead and he peeks it quickly and turns to open the back door of Dick's car for me.

"Why do I sit in the back?" I asked.

"Cause I wanna ask Dick for a ride and I call shotgun," he meekly says, scratching at his face.

"The answer is no." Dick quickly says while rolling down his window.

"Richard!" I scold.

"How the fuck do you know my real name!?"

"Play. Nice." I threatened.

He rolls his eyes and unlocks the passengers side door as well. (A/N pretend this is a thing that exists XD)

Jimmy lightens up and rushes to the passenger side and hops in as I slide in in the back.

Surprisingly the boys were chatting animatedly as I began to doze off in the back. They possibly peeked and saw I just wanted peace and quiet and silently decided to leave me alone and began to chat amongst themselves.

Somewhere through the fog of sleep I felt the car stop and the weight of a man get off.

"See you, Robs"

Robs? Who's robs?

"It's Dick, you prick"

A little bit of silence descends, but the next words were spoken.

"You are aware what your doing is not cool...right?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about"

"She's gonna hate you when she finds out,"

"Good niiiiight, you curly-haired Ginger."

"Have a good night."

I hear the door slam close and the car begin to smoothly glide forward again.

"I'm doing my best, and what I think is right..." I hear the low grumble, nearly said in a whisper under one's breath.

In my sleepy haze I must've tipped to my side and laid down horizontally because the car stopped once again and I feel myself being lifted out the back.

"Hhnn? Wha-..." I try to think.

"Sssshhh...don't protest" I hear Dick's voice stop me. "Let me carry you"

"Roger." I agree and roll deep into his arms and inhale deeply.

All of Dick's essence overwhelms my senses as he carries me to what I can only assume is my room.

"How ironic..." I mumble sleepily.

"What is?" Dick asks softly.

"Today was supposed to be all about my date with Jimmy, with a night of passion if everything had gone right"

I hear Dick snort at my "night of passion" statement and refrains from commenting.

"But I end up spending the whole day with you instead, you picked out this wonderful outfit for me and now I'm ending the day being carried in your arms..."

"Your point?" Dick says as I hear him juggle the keys to my apartment out and fight to open the door.

How he got ahold of those? I'll never know...

Probably swiped them from my purse...I think with a scuff.

"My point is..." I say in a whispery breath as he laid me gently down on my bed, "it seems I've spent the entire day on one massive date with you instead."

Dick's whole being freezes at my words and I simply raise an eyebrow at him in response.

"I know you don't wanna date me but dayuuum..."

Dick sighed out and shook his head at me. "You're sleepy, you're not making any sense."

"Probably..." I yawn and turn over on my side. "Or you're just probably avoiding the subject. I don't care either way, I just wanna sleep."

"Roger that." Dick leans over my turned body and kisses my head.

"Sweet dreams Kara," he says softly.

Sweetest of dreams to you too..." I sigh back and proceed to pass out into sweet oblivion.

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Author's Note

Sorry for the long wait before this update! Was having a massive writer's block from this chapter and I hate to admit that I was having difficulty conveying how Jimmy and Kara were not suited for each other and I believe I failed miserably 😅

In is chapter instead of breaking up an arc or storyline into several different parts I decided to keep it as one long chapter, so let me know how you feel about that!

I feel like longer chapters rob me of the ability to write more cause I'm more conscious of the word count. But shorter spread out chapters are just more annoying to deal with because you're after views and not engagement. I at least prefer to have the main issue of a chapter resolved before I end it and cliffhangers are meant to carry on to a new issue. Or maybe that's just me XD

Hopefully the next set of chapters/chapter arc will be out soon! Kara's date with Kaldur is also a special chapter that I'm looking forward to writing so stay tuned!