Chapter 51: 51. Presents*
“We’re home!” the twins announced as they came barrelling in, arms laden with shopping bags.
“You guys went to the mall?” Maggie asked.
“Yeah!” the twins answered excitedly.
“Grandma took us shopping!” Jamie stated the obvious, grinning like a fool.
“We got presents for you guys!” Jessie informed them. “I don’t remember which bag they’re in, though.”
“I think they’re in this one,” Eliza said, handing over a small green and brown paper bag.
Jessie excitedly snatched the bag from her fingers and dug into it. She pulled out handfuls of wrapped paper and started to unroll them. Inside the first one was a tiny little glass kitten barely two inches long. “This one’s for Mama.” She handed over the little figurine.
Kara cooed over the kitten. “Oh, it’s so cute! I love it!”
The next to come out of the bag was a tiny glass tiger. “That one’s Mom’s.”
“Cool!” Alex grinned. “Thanks, you guys!”
Next, Jessie held out a little glass hummingbird. “This one’s for Lena.”
“How beautiful!” Lena grinned. “Thank you, sweet girls.”
Lastly, Jessie pulled out a tiny glass fox and handed it to Maggie. “And last, but not least,” Jessie said with an adoring smile.
“Aww!” Maggie hummed with a grin. “Look at him!” She booped noses with it.
The kids looked extremely proud of themselves, and Alex had to admit, this was one of the most endearing qualities of her two sweet daughters. They were always eager to please and always thinking of others. If they did ever decide to follow in Supergirl’s footsteps, she knew they would make her proud, just like Kara did.
“Thank you, all very much!” Kara said. “We love our presents.”
“That’s wonderful,” Eliza smiled and patted the twins on their backs. “Good job, girls.”
“I’ll look for a little shelf to put them on,” Lena said. “Until then, they should be safe on top of my dresser.”
Jamie raised her finger in front of her. “We were thinking they’d look really cute with the Nextol Blossom.”
“Oh, OK. That could work,” Lena nodded. “Shall we put them there now?”
“Yeah!” the girls cheered. They lead the family into the living room, where the alien flower was sitting on proud display. Each of the four newlyweds gently placed their figurines around the stalk, and the glass animals glittered happily in the sunlight coming in through the balcony windows.
“Yep. They like it there,” Jessie stated happily.
“It’s perfect!” Kara clapped her hands. “Speaking of presents, we have wedding gifts to open!”
“Ooh, presents!” Maggie lit up.
“But we wanted to show you what we got from the mall!” Jessie protested.
“OK, let’s do that real quick,” Alex said. “Then we can open presents.”
“OK!” the girls ran to their room with their new stuff and promptly put on a fashion show of all the new spring clothes Eliza had bought them. Alex was surprised at the amount of stuff they’d gotten. Usually her mother only bought the kids a new outfit or two, but this was practically a new wardrobe! One thing she noticed about her daughters’ selections of clothing: While Jamie had picked out a variety of skirts and dresses and other girl-style clothing, Jessie’s selection came entirely out of the boys collection, even the dress shirts and pants. This was a new development. One that didn’t bother her in the least, mind you, but as a parent, she had to notice this kind of thing. It wasn’t as if she and Maggie wore dresses much either. They both preferred jeans over any other kind of legwear, and they only wore dresses on very special occasions. It was going to be a lot easier for people to tell the twins apart if they kept going in this direction, never mind the glasses.
“Wow, Eliza, you bought them so much stuff!” Kara commented. “What gives?”
Her mother-in-law shrugged. “Well, I know how it’s going to be when the babies get here, and I may not get another chance to spoil just the two of them, so I might have splurged a little.”
“Aww,” Maggie cooed. “That’s sweet. You’ve gotta be the best grandma there ever was.”
“She is!” the kids agreed, hugging her.
When the kids had changed back into their regular clothes, they returned to the living room. On the back table by the balcony, there was a collection of gifts and cards from the day before, and they started bringing them over to the coffee table where everyone else was already sitting. First, they handed over a gift from Winn and Lyra. It was large enough that everyone could tell it was a picture or painting of some sort but they didn’t know what kind. Kara tore open the wrapping to reveal a life-sized vinyl print of 'Starry Night.' “Oh.”
"Haha, very funny," Alex groused.
"Those brats!" Maggie complained.
"What's so funny about it?" Jessie asked, confused. "I think it's cool!"
Kara sighed wistfully and regaled the story of how Lyra had stolen the real Van Gogh painting in order to save her brother from a gang of alien art dealing thugs. The twins were flabbergasted by the fact that their new alien bestie would do such a thing, so Kara assured them that she believed Lyra was indeed a good person, and they calmed down. It was natural for the twins to worry about their favorite uncle, after all.
“I get the painting now,” Jamie informed them. “It is kinda funny.”
Kara opened the card that came with it. “Thanks for giving us a chance at love. Love, Winn and Lyra,” she read. “Aww!”
“Where are we gonna put this huge ass thing?” Alex mused.
“There will be plenty of room to put things in our new house,” Lena pointed out.
Everyone grinned at the prospect of a new house together. It was all of their dreams to live together happily ever after in a home that they could call their own. Everyone was quiet for a second, but then the twins and Kara started squeeing in joy.
“I hope you’re still this happy when you’re moving all the boxes,” Lena snarked at Kara.
“I can help!” said Jamie.
“Everyone’s going to help move,” Alex demanded. “I’ll be damned if I don’t have control over where my stuff is going.”
“Yes, ma’am!” Maggie saluted. “I’m not planning on lifting a finger when we move. Except maybe to point Jamie in the right direction. And I might drive the Uhaul. Can we try to get a house that’s still in the city? I really don’t want to have to commute an hour to work.”
“We’ll see what we can find,” Lena answered. “I want our kids to have a yard to play in.”
“Big yard. Check,” Maggie replied. “Actually, I think that’s a great idea. We can get one of those big playground sets with swings and a tower and a slide-”
“Someone’s getting excited,” Alex grinned.
Maggie bit her lip. “Yeah, I guess I am.”
Jamie bit her cheeks as hard as she could to keep from smiling. She didn’t want to get in trouble for being happy again. Which reminded her, “Oh! We have something else for you all.” She got up and tugged Jessie with her to their room, grabbed their apology letters and ran right back. They each passed out their envelopes and waited anxiously for the letters to be read. Jamie’s letters were an apology for violating trust and causing so many unwanted pregnancies. Jessie’s letters were an apology for her wild behavior in trying to trigger her powers and making everyone worry about her. They tried their best to be sincere and thorough, as their grandma had insisted, so the four women would be touched. Their little hearts were in their throats as they waited until they were all finished.
Kara was the first to reach out and open her arms to them, “Thank you,” she said, a little teary-eyed.
Alex hugged them next, kissing their cheeks.
“Thank you,” Lena said seriously, though she didn’t move to hug them.
Maggie had tears streaming down her face, but she didn’t say anything or move a muscle.
The girls looked to their grandma for reassurance, relaxing a little when she nodded at them. Still, they wished Maggie would say something, wished they could hug her and Lena. They were tactile beings, and they longed for that reassurance, but they knew they had to be patient and understanding. They had done some bad things, and all-in-all, they knew they were lucky that the pair were still so loving and kind towards them. They could have left and gotten abortions, and the whole family could have been devastated. They knew they were lucky. Super lucky.
“Do you still want to open presents?” Jamie asked meekly. “Or did we mess that up?”
“No, that was a good gift,” Maggie finally said with a sniffle.
The kids settled down a bit more. They would take what they could get at this point. As had been pointed out to them on more than one occasion, Maggie and Lena had been unreasonably good to them, despite all the chaos.
“Here, Maggie, you open the next present,” Jessie suggested, thrusting the next gift into her hands.
“OK,” the detective said, pulling herself together. “This is from Clark and Lois,” she read the tag, then opened the card. “...Wishing you a long and healthy life of love together, love Clark and Lois.” She tore open the wrapping and giggled as she saw what it was. Inside was a set of nine tall beer glasses with the House of El symbol printed on the sides in red. Everyone chuckled as she revealed the gift, and the group sighed a collective relief at the lightened mood.
Now that everyone was smiling again, Jamie smiled with them, unafraid of getting in trouble. “Here, Lena, you open the next one!” she handed over a gift from the pile.
The brunette accepted the gift and opened the card that came with it. “...Don’t open this in front of the kids,” she read. “Love Mon-El and Eve. Oh, lord, I dread to think what they gave us!”
“Why can’t we see it?” Jessie complained. “No fair!”
“It’s probably something that would traumatize you,” Eliza informed her. “I wouldn’t worry so much about it.”
The twins made matching faces of disgust and immediately moved on to the next thing.
“Here,” Jessie handed Lena a different present.
She opened the card and read the little poem about marriage inside, “...Love, J’onn,” it said. She opened the wrapping paper and revealed a wooden sign with an engraving that said, “Bless the Danvers Family.”
They all awwed appropriately. It was a very sweet gift.
“Alright, Mom wants to open one!” Alex declared, opening her hands for something.
Jessie smilingly handed over the next present to her mother, “Here you go!”
“This is from Douglas,” she said, after reading the card. “He says his sister made these.” She opened the package to reveal a set of four matching necklaces made of silver with little multicolored beads. They were very pretty. “Cool!” she exclaimed, showing them off to her partners, who also loved them.
“OK, who wants to open this one?” Jessie inquired.
“Me!” Kara raised her hand excitedly. She made grabby hands at the gift until she got it in her grasp. “This is Eliza’s handwriting, I can tell without even opening it.” The card opened to reveal a gift card in addition to the present. “Oh!” Kara gasped excitedly, “It’s a hundred dollar gift card to the Disney store! Awesome!” The others grinned in response, and she tore open the wrapping paper right away. Eliza’s gift was a package of six pairs of tiny baby socks with different Disney characters printed on each of them.
“Aww!” everyone cooed.
Jessie took the socks to account for the characters, “There’s baby Simba, and Winnie the Pooh, and Stitch, and Olaf, and Nemo, and Mike Wazowski!”
“Mike Wazowski!” Jamie repeated.
“Mike Wazowski!” Jessie echoed.
“Mike Wazowski!” Jamie continued.
“OK!” Alex exclaimed. “Let’s not, shall we? God! I never thought I’d have to hear that again.”
“Who’s MIke Wazowski?” Lena asked.
Kara showed her the socks, “He’s the green eyeball dude from Monsters Inc. You’ll learn.”
“Oh. Right.” Lena looked pensively at the socks for a moment before blinking it away and passing the socks to Alex.
“You wanna talk about it?” the redhead nudged.
Lena looked like she was going to say no, but after a beat or two, she relented. “I remember watching Snow White with my mom - my real mom - when I was little. I know I watched other Disney movies, but I don’t really remember them as much. When I moved in with the Luthors, though, I wasn’t allowed to watch them anymore. Lillian said they were… well, she didn’t really have a good opinion of Walt Disney. I was just wondering how many new characters there were that I’d never heard of. Probably a lot.”
“Don't worry, you’ll learn them all too well soon enough,” Alex promised. “If you want, the girls can give you a preemptive Disney education.”
“Yeah!” the twins agreed joyfully.
Lena chuckled. “Like Minions?”
“That’s not Disney,” Jamie informed her. “It’s Illumination. I know that because the Minions sing about it.”
“I see,” Lena blinked. “I guess I have a lot of learning to do.”
“We’ll learn together,” Maggie told her. “I haven’t watched babies since the 90’s. I know I’ve lost track too.”
Lena smiled and nodded.
“There’s one more present!” Jamie announced. “Who wants it?”
“Me!” Maggie called dibs.
Jamie handed over the last gift, and Maggie tore open the card. “...Love, James and Lucy,” she read. She opened the gift to reveal a photo album filled with random photos of the family, most of which she hadn’t seen before. “That’s really beautiful. James is a good friend.” The album got passed around so everyone could look through it, and everyone pointed out their favorite photos to one another.
After that, the group cleaned up the wrapping paper, and Jamie threw it away for them. “Can we watch Moana right now?” she asked. It was her current favorite Disney movie, and she wanted Lena and Maggie to watch it with her.
Alex looked at her phone to check the time. “I don’t know, it’s awfully close to bedtime.”
“Please?” the twins batted their eyelashes prettily, folding their hands together in the classic begging pose.
“What do you guys think?” Alex asked the group.
Eliza raised her hand in the air. “I think I need to leave soon, so maybe later?”
“Aww!” the twins threw themselves at their grandma, hugging her and whimpering.
“Oh, my sweet girls,” Eliza kissed them on their heads. “I love you both very much.”
“We love you too, Grandma!” They kissed her, one on either side, smooshing her cheeks together as they did so.
After a struggle to extricate herself from her granddaughters’ clutches, Eliza went around hugging and kissing all her daughters and bidding them goodnight and take care.
“Bye, Mom!”
“Bye Eliza!” They all waved their goodbyes, and the matriarch headed out.
“Now can we watch Moana?” Jamie whined.
“No,” Alex denied. “But if you want to play a few more rounds of Exploding Kittens with us, that would be fine.”
Jamie whined again, but Jessie agreed easily. “OK!” she jumped up from the floor and ran to the kitchen to get the cards. They played a few more rounds until it was time for the kids to go to bed. By then the three pregnant women had started yawning uncontrollably anyway. Kara cleaned up the dishes and put away the game, then tucked everyone into bed.
Just as she was about to get into bed herself, she got a call about a bank robbery, and she had to go take care of that. She made quick work of the thieves, dropped them off at the police station, and hurried back home. She apologized profusely when she returned, but her partners just waved it off.
“You’ve been taking really good care of us,” Alex assured her. “We know you have duties, and we’re OK with it. Don’t worry.”
“You think Douglas would be willing to take on full-time nanny duties after the babies are born?” Maggie asked.
Kara shrugged. “We can ask him.”
“I think we need to,” Lena added. “If the answer is no, we need to get someone. Maybe even a live-in someone.”
Kara’s heart clenched in terror at the thought of having to hide her identity from a person that lived with them. That would be near impossible. “I don’t know if that’s such a good idea. What if they find out about me? That would be bad.”
“Well, maybe we can find a good alien nanny, so it would be a moot point,” Lena yawned. “With thorough background checks, of course.”
Kara smiled and bit her lip. Leave it to Lena to openly defy her family like that. “I think that would be really cool, if we could find someone good. It’s too bad M'Gann is gone. She would probably know some good prospects. Maybe we can still ask her somehow. I don’t trust Mon-El’s judgement of character or trust anyone that would fall for his ‘romantic’ act. Maggie’s CI Brian doesn’t seem like a good judge of character either. I’m ashamed to admit, I don’t know that many good aliens. I’m usually too busy chasing down the bad ones.”
“I’ve got you covered, Supergirl. I know tons of aliens, and I even have ideas on who to ask around to,” Maggie informed her.
Kara grinned proudly and leaned over Alex to kiss the detective. “I knew there was a reason I kept you around.”
“Bitch!” Maggie complained.
“Just kidding,” Kara smirked. “I know exactly why I keep you around.” She waggled her eyebrows and purred.
“Kara!” the detective slapped her on the arm.
“I’m kidding! I’m kidding!” She crawled over an amused Alex and smothered Maggie’s face with kisses, and in a silly small voice, she muttered her usual string of barely coherent affections. “I love you, you’re my Maggie, my good girl…”
“OK, OK! Get off me,” the Latina lauged and pushed her away when Kara didn't seem to have any intention of stopping. “Ya little nutjob.”
Kara giggled and stole one last kiss before floating back in between Alex and Lena and kissing them too. “Goodnight, Danvers girls,” she whispered, as they settled down and went to sleep.
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The next morning was full of the usual: Alex, Maggie and Lena took turns ralphing, while Kara, Jessie and Jamie scrambled to take care of them and get ready for the day, while trying to scarf down some food in between trips to the bathroom and getting dressed. Of course, the kids were having a near meltdown trying to decide which of their new outfits to wear, so every time they went back to the bedroom, they came out wearing something different. Kara rolled her eyes and tried not to say anything, although, she did try to assure them that they looked beautiful every time, and they didn’t need to keep changing. Then, when Jessie spilled milk on her brand new shirt, she burst into tears.
“What is with you?” Kara wondered. “Why are you literally crying over spilled milk?”
“It’s my new shirt that Grandma bought me!” she complained through her tears.
“It’s OK! You have twelve other ones you can pick from! Not to mention all your other clothes! It’s milk, it’s not going to stain.”
Jessie tried to calm herself down.
“What are you gonna do when the babies are spitting up milk all over you? Are you gonna cry like that every time?” she asked her daughter a little exasperatedly.
“No!” Jessie insisted. “Unless they puke all over my brand new clothes, then I might.”
Kara laughed sadistically, “Oh, I guarantee you, if you wear good clothes around a baby, they will get soiled by that baby! Spit up, poop, pee, peanut butter, it’s always something. Kids are messy!”
Jessie rolled her eyes at the peanut butter comment. She knew Kara was jibbing her about her own personal stories about always sneaking out of bed to eat the peanut butter out of the cabinet when she was a toddler. No matter how many times they thought they’d hidden it from her, she always found it and managed to get it everywhere. She never lived that down to this day. However, it did help her calm down. She wasn’t sure why she was so upset. It was only a minor spill. She let herself give a wry smile and said, “Sorry. I don’t know what got into me. I promise I won’t be a cry baby when the babies get here.”
“Hey, now, I didn’t say you were a cry baby,” Kara started, but Jessie interrupted her.
“I know, Mama, I called myself that. It’s fine. I won’t be. You can count on me, Mama.”
Kara’s eyes softened, and she smiled at her daughter. “I know I can, my sweet little one.”
Jessie growled at the moniker.
Not to be left out, Jamie piped up, “You can count on me too, Mama!”
“I know, baby,” she said, kissing them both on the forehead. “I have the best kids ever.”
The twins beamed and hugged her, Jessie’s spilt milk getting all over her too. Great. Now she and Jessie both had to change shirts. “See what I mean? Kids are messy.”
“Sorry, Mama!” Jessie pouted.
“It’s OK,” Kara assured, ruffling her hair.
“Hey!” Jessie swatted her hand away and ran away to her room to fix herself up.
Kara chuckled and headed to the bedroom to change.
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“Sawyer!” Chief Williams barked from his office, making her jump and causing everyone in the bullpen to stare at her.
“Jesus!” she muttered under her breath. “Here we go! Don’t worry, Mommy’s got this,” she said quietly to her baby.
She trudged into her boss’s office and closed the door. “Hey, Chief,” she mumbled.
The man wasted no time in questioning her. “What’s this Danvers business? I thought you were dating Lena Luthor? How are you all of a sudden married to someone named Alex Danvers? Isn’t that the Fed that follows you around all the time? What happened to Lena? I liked her!”
Maggie sighed and decided that she might as well explain. Her boss could keep a secret, and he was fairly progressive. She took a deep breath before answering, “I suppose I can explain to you, but please, don’t tell anyone, OK?”
“OK, Sawyer,” he nodded.
“It’s Danvers now, Sir,” she reminded him.
He sighed. “Right. Danvers. Go.”
“I… I’m polyamorous. There are four of us: me, Lena, Alex and Kara. Lena and I are still together, and we both changed our names to Danvers. We had a ceremony over the weekend.”
Chief Williams gave her a wounded look, “And you didn’t invite me?”
She blinked. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know you would be interested in attending, what with the whole polyamory thing.”
“Don’t be silly, Maggie, you’re like a daughter to me!”
The detective clenched her jaw and tried not to cry, but tears stung at her eyes anyway. Damn pregnancy hormones! “Oh. Wow. I’m really sorry. If I had realized how serious you were about that, I would have invited you in a heartbeat.”
“I’m sorry you didn’t know,” he lamented. “I know I’m gruff, but I love you, sincerely. My partner and I never had any children, but I’ve adored you since the minute we met. You’re like the child we never had.”
Now Maggie was done for. Tears streamed down her face, and the chief got up and hugged her tightly. “I guess, since we’re on the topic of family, there’s something else I should probably tell you,” she sniffled.
“You can tell me anything,” Williams answered.
“I’m pregnant.”
The Chief broke into a mile wide grin. “Really?”
Maggie bit her lip and nodded, warming at his reaction. “Actually, Alex and Lena and I are all pregnant. Please, for the love of God, don’t ask how.”
Williams’ eyes widened. “You’re all pregnant?” he nearly squeaked.
“Yeah,” she confirmed.
“Is that why you were crying a couple weeks ago?” he pressed.
“Yeah, I wasn’t exactly happy at first,” she admitted.
“I see. And that’s why you’ve been throwing up.”
“You noticed that, huh?”
“It’s my job to notice things,” he quipped.
“Yeah, well, now you know.”
“Are you alright?”
She nodded. “I am now that I’ve had some time to get used to it.”
The chief smiled again, “Can I be the grandpa? I know you don’t talk to your dad, and my partner and I never got a chance to be parents, and I love kids. It would mean a lot to me.”
Maggie burst into tears again. “You mean it?”
“I wouldn’t have said it, if I didn’t mean it,” he insisted.
“That would be amazing!” she sobbed.
“I can’t wait!” he exclaimed, hugging her again. “When do we find out if it’s a boy or a girl?”
“Not for a while still,” she sniffled. “What would you prefer?”
He just smiled back at her, “I don’t care, I love them all!”
“How about you come over for dinner this weekend?” she invited. “That way, you can meet Kara and Alex officially as my partners, and my two twelve-year-old step-daughters. You’re going to love them so much.”
Chief Williams opened his mouth in surprise, “There are already kids? Oh, I have to meet them. I guarantee you Robert and I will be over this weekend!”
Maggie grinned and tried to pull herself together. It was hard. She knew her chief loved her, but he'd never actually said it before. Add in all the emotional chaos of the last few weeks, and it was damned near impossible to stop crying. He rocked her in his arms and made little shushing noises until she settled down. “Sorry,” she sniffled afterward.
“It’s quite alright,” he assured her. “You can come cry to me anytime you want.”
She smiled wryly. “Hopefully this won’t be a regular thing, no offense. I don’t like crying.”
“Ah, you’re only human,” he replied.
She nodded. “Alright, I’ll talk to my wives and let them know you’re coming over. Do you prefer Saturday or Sunday?”
“Either one’s good with me,” he shrugged. “We’ll bring dessert.”
“Sounds great,” she smiled.
“Now,” he clapped his hands and sat down, indicating for her to sit as well. “How about you explain to me how you got involved in polyamory. I wouldn’t have pegged you for such a thing.”
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Kara had finished her fluff piece about the new exhibit at the National City Zoo, and was just about to go flying around town to see if there was anything for Supergirl to do when she got a text from Lena asking, “Want to look at some houses?”
“YES!” she replied excitedly.
“Be there in twenty,” Lena texted back.
Kara practically vibrated in excitement. So many new things were happening, and it was a lot, but it was also fun, and she was really looking forward to finding a house they all could live in. It would have to be a big one, she mused, with all the kids. Even if the kids went two to a room, that would still be four bedrooms, plus they’d need at least one home office, and possibly a playroom, so make that six bedrooms. It was really adding up. She had a vague memory of Lena saying she might want a pool, so there was another thing. A big yard, plus a pool. She was thinking so hard about everything that she didn’t notice when Lena’s car pulled up. The CEO beeped the horn at her, chuckling when she nearly jumped out of her skin. The reporter rolled her eyes and hopped into the passenger seat of the Maserati. “Why don’t you have a convertible?” Kara wondered. “You live in California.”
“Well, I was thinking about it before I got pregnant, but now that’s not very practical, is it?” Lena replied without venom. “I’ve been looking at multi-seat vehicles. I haven’t decided what I like best, though. Feel free to chime in, when you’ve done some research.”
“OK,” Kara grinned. “Maybe we can get something with a sunroof?”
Lena nodded. “Sounds great.”
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“Well, that was disappointing,” Kara pouted, as they pulled away from the fourth house of the afternoon.
Lena shrugged, “You can’t expect to find the perfect house on the first day, honey.”
“You’re right,” the blonde replied petulantly. “You want to go pick up the girls from school with me? You know it would make their day to see you pulling up to get them.”
“Alright, let’s do it. I haven’t trained with them for a while, so I’ll go to the DEO with you too. It would be nice to stretch my legs a little.”
“OK,” Kara nodded pensively. If she let Alex do it, she had to let Lena do it too. It was only fair. As if she could ‘let’ them do anything, anyways. They were going to do what they wanted, no matter what she said.
Lena cleared her throat, “Speaking of the girls’ education, I was wondering how you would feel about me taking them out of school and getting them a private set of tutors? They could be doing college-level work, but you’ve got them puttering around in the seventh grade. It seems like such a waste of intellect, and we all know how bored they get. They need more of a challenge.”
“Did the girls put you up to this?” Kara asked warily.
“No, I’ve been thinking a lot about it, actually,” Lena admitted.
“We just wanted them to be with their peers and live as normal lives as possible, so they could blend in.”
“Kara, sweetie, I think we’ve blown way past living a normal life, don’t you agree?”
The reporter frowned, “Yeah, but isn’t that more reason to do normal things?”
“Is it? Is it really a good idea to hold these girls back? I was twice as educated as them at their age, and I’m not half the genius they are. Please, at least think about it, Kara. I want to give them the best life they could possibly live. I don’t care if they’re spoiled rotten. I want to give all of our kids the love and affection and opportunities they deserve, and that includes Jessie and Jamie. Please, Kara.”
Kara sighed. “I’ll talk to Alex about it. Honestly, I think the girls would be elated if we did that. I just don’t know what the best decision is. I’ll let you know.
“Fair enough. I just want you to know that I think of Jessie and Jamie as mine now too. I want to give them the whole world.”
“Thank you,” Kara said, watery-eyed. “That means a lot to me. I love you so much.”
“I love you too,” Lena took Kara’s hand and kissed her knuckles, and Kara did the same to her.
As predicted, the girls were positively gleeful to see Lena picking them up. They chattered her ear off about their day, but when Lena and Kara informed them that they’d been looking at houses, the girls were offended that they didn’t get to come along. Kara tried explaining to them that they had to look when they had time, and that wouldn’t always include them, but they were upset all the same. They wanted to help look at new homes too. Finally, Lena promised them that next time they would bring the girls along. She wasn’t above taking them out of that worthless middle school by any means, though she kept such comments to herself. That appeased them, and by the time they all arrived at the DEO, the kids were back to their normal joyful selves.
Lyra was already in the main hall with Winn waiting for them, and the twins ran to hug them. The group chatted and laughed together about the wedding gift until a few minutes later, when Alex came down from her lab to meet them. She hugged her daughters and asked them to follow her back to the lab. Naturally, she piqued everyone’s curiosity, and they followed along too.
“Winn and I have a surprise for you,” Alex announced. Once everyone was standing around the table, Alex pointed out a set of three large watch-looking devices. “You’ll never guess what it is.”
“Tell us then!” Jessie demanded.
Alex chuckled. “We made you red sun emitters. It’s not enough to fully take away your powers, but it’s enough to dampen them, so you’re not struggling with breaking everything in your wake.”
Jamie’s eyes lit up. “Awesome! Thanks, Mom!”
“Interesting,” Kara mused with a lascivious smirk on her face.
Jessie pouted. “Aw, that’s lame.”
“Psh! Gee thanks!” Alex groused. “We worked hard on these. You’ll appreciate them when you get your powers, I assure you.”
“Yeah, if I ever get them,” Jessie huffed.
“Anyway, we can’t figure out how to make one take your powers away completely unless we put you in a full body suit or a room that’s completely closed off from the yellow sun.
Lena crossed her arms over her chest in annoyance. “Nobody bothered to bring me in on this project? Talk about not fair!”
Alex and Winn looked guiltily at each other. They hadn’t even thought about bringing Lena in. They were used to thinking of her as a business woman, and they often forgot about the scientist part of her. They would definitely have to make it up to her somehow. Winn started taking one of the ‘watches’ apart and explaining how they worked to Lena. The brunette listened with rapt attention until he was finished and then asked about twenty questions about the process.
The group watched in fascination at how fast and easily the three talked about technology. None of the rest of them had a clue what they were saying, but the energy kept them interested. Lena tinkered with the device until about fifteen minutes later when Kara interrupted.
“Um, Lena, we’re going to take the kids downstairs for their training, did you still want to come?”
The twins pouted at her.
The CEO put down the screwdriver and handed the red sun watch back to Winn. “I’ll come back. I can’t resist the cuteness tractor beam.”
“Ten-four, good buddy,” Winn said with a lazy salute. Lyra kissed him and followed the group downstairs.
The first thing the twins suggested was to pit Lena and Lyra against one another. On the one hand, Lena couldn’t seem to overcome Lyra’s strength, but at the same time, Lyra couldn’t even touch Lena because she was so fast. Alex ended up declaring a tie in the end, and asked Lena to work with the group on dodging attacks. Kara, Mon-El and Lyra were terrible at dodging, always relying on their strength to protect them, but Alex knew there was always that little chance that a blow could send them reeling back at best, and could kill them, at most. She wanted them prepared.
When the defense lessons were over, Lena wanted to go back to the lab and fiddle with the red sun devices to see if she could make them full-powered. While the family was walking there, the kids’ tummies grumbled loudly.
Lena spoke to Kara, “If you want to take the kids to dinner, I’ll ride back with Alex when we’re done here.”
“OK, come on, let’s go to Noonan’s!” Kara suggested. “We’ll say hi to Amy.”
“Yeah!” the twins agreed.
“Say hi for us,” Winn waved.
They all hugged and kissed one another appropriately, and the blondes headed out, leaving the scientists to their work.
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Lena fussed with a tiny screw on the red sun device that she was disassembling and looked up when Alex nudged her. When she peeked up, she was surprised at the look on Alex’s face. She was smiling with all her teeth, and the look in her eyes was almost reverent. “What?” she said stupidly. She was caught off guard, damn it.
Alex stayed smiling, “We get to work on a project together. It’s our first project that isn’t a kids’ science experiment.”
Lena chuckled. “And to think, we could have already been working together, if you had told me about this in the first place.” She hadn’t meant it to bite, but Alex frowned all the same.
“I’m so sorry, Lena,” the agent said sincerely. “It was stupid of me to not think of inviting you. I’m ashamed of myself.”
Lena gave her a look. “Come on, be serious.”
“I am serious,” Alex gently grasped Lena by the arms. “I love you, and I want to share things with you. It’s important to me. You’re important to me.”
The CEO melted a little inside. “Winn, close your eyes.”
The tech rolled his eyes and tisked. “Oh, come on, I’m trying to work here!” he complained, but he covered his eyes anyway as the two women kissed. “Is it over yet? I don’t want to see.”
“OK, it’s over,” Lena chuckled.
They went back to tinkering around with the red sun devices, asking each other questions and theorizing together. They were nearly finished with a revamped version, taking the painstaking time to put the thing back together before they tested it, when Lena remembered her earlier talk with Kara about Jessie and Jamie’s education. She knew Kara said she talk to Alex, but there wasn’t any harm in talking to her herself, was there? She bolstered herself for an emotional response, and powered through the question. “Alex? I was wondering, how would you feel about taking the girls out of school and getting them some private tutors?”
The redhead looked up from her notes. “They’ve been working on you, have they?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“The twins,” Alex clarified. “They’ve been asking you about this too?”
Lena shook her head. “No, they haven’t said a word to me. I was just thinking that it would be a good idea because they get bullied so much and they really are being held back by the seventh grade. They could be doing college level work, honestly, I was at their age.”
“Yeah, but you were a human child with human parents,” Alex pointed out. “You had nothing to hide. You didn’t have to hide where you came from or where your parents came from. You could announce that loud a proud anywhere you went. I’m sure it never hurt to wave the Luthor name around when it suited you, and I’m not saying that in judgement, I’m just saying, it’s not the same as hiding the fact that you’re an alien.”
“Aliens have equal rights now, Alex, you don’t have to protect them like you used to,” Winn added his two cents.
“Yeah, but I- we still have to protect Supergirl’s identity, and that includes protecting the twins’ identities.”
“And what about getting them private tutors would threaten their identities?” Lena pressed.
“Anything that makes those kids special, that makes them stand out from their peers, or from other people in general, anything that makes people look a little closer at them poses a risk that people might find out things that they ought not to find out.
“And going to court for bullies? That isn’t looking too close?” Lena parried. “And what about Jamie? How many things is she going to break at school before someone notices something? Keeping them at home would be keeping them out of the public eye, don’t you see? They’d go from being seen by hundreds to only by a dozen or so. Isn’t that better?”
Alex sighed. She’d been having this same argument with the twins for years, and honestly, the older they got, the more it seemed like they would inevitably wear her down until she gave in. Now, with Lena on their side, she didn’t know what to do. “I should talk to Kara about this,” she finally said.
“Alright,” Lena conceded. “Let’s test this puppy, shall we?” She reached out and turned on the new red sun watch that neutralized the yellow sun’s rays at the same time, making the watch one-hundred percent effective now. They also managed to fit an actual digital watch head into it to make it look inconspicuous. The three of them high-fived each other for a job well done.
Winn took out his phone to look at the time. “Oh, I have time to take my girlfriend out to dinner. Peace out, homies!”
Alex and Lena rolled their eyes at each other, then, when Winn was gone, Alex locked the lab door behind him and turned back to Lena with a smirk. “You feel like having a little play time before we head home?”
“Yeah,” Lena breathed, biting her lip.
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Alex approached her slowly, with a predatory look in her eyes, and as soon as she was within arms reach, she picked Lena up and set her on the table.
Lena purred with arousal at the act of strength, and leaned down for a deep kiss. She stroked her hands up and down Alex’s back, feeling the rippling muscles, especially in her shoulders. “God, you’re sexy,” she husked. “So ripped,” she sighed, dragging her fingers down Alex’s abs as they kissed each other’s necks. “I like your muscles better than Supergirl’s.”
“Oh, really?” Alex chuckled. “I don’t believe that for a second.”
“Oh, trust me, Agent Danvers, her muscles don’t respond like yours do. They don’t move and flex as much. I like that feeling under my fingers, between my thighs,” she whispered that last part in Alex’s ear.
The redhead responded by nipping at her collarbone. “You’re just saying that.”
“Nuh-uh,” Lena denied. “I mean every word, Alex. You are beyond sexy. You totally rock the badass secret agent look, and it really gets me going.”
“Now you’re just teasing me,” Alex tickled her.
“No, I’m not!” she giggled and squirmed. “I am totally turned on by you. Why don’t you believe me? If you had Kara’s nose, you’d know I wasn’t lying.”
Alex raised an eyebrow at her, then smirked and kissed her hungrily, grasping her ass and pulling her closer. “You wanna feel my muscles move?” She pushed Lena’s skirt up over her hips and played with the hem of her panties.
Lena rocked into the touch, trying not to let Alex’s feather-light graze tickle her too much. It sent a jolt to her core when the agent switched gears and reached up to cup her breasts. They kissed some more, and Alex unbuttoned Lena’s shirt to get better access. Lena gasped as soon as Alex’s mouth touched her nipple, pressing her flesh even harder into her wife’s mouth, “Oh, Alex!” Alex suckled her for all she was worth, until she cried out loudly, then she switched sides until she got the same reaction.
By the time Alex slipped her hand between Lena’s legs, the brunette had soaked through her panties. Alex tugged them off and stuck them in her pocket. Now that Lena was presented to her, she tugged the CEO’s hips forward and opened her up enough to press two fingers against her entrance. She twisted her digits around to get them wet and started to ease herself inside. Lena leaned back on her elbows to help her get in all the way, and when Alex’s fingers bottomed out, she let her head fall back in pleasure.
Alex took advantage of the position and returned her lips to Lena’s breasts, licking and sucking them alternately while her hand worked between Lena’s legs. She made sure to move her whole arm so that Lena could feel her shoulder work underneath her hands. The CEO moved her hands up under the agent’s black military grade shirt and eagerly stroked Alex’s back, scratching a little with her nails. Alex didn’t wasted time, making Lena come quickly and loudly.
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There was a knock on the door then, “Everything alright in there, Agent Danvers?” Vasquez called out.
“Everything’s fine!” Alex shouted back, helping Lena get down off the table and fix her clothes.
“I’d like to confirm that myself,” Vasquez countered, knowing Alex’s tendency to lie about being OK when she was hurt. “Could you please open the door?”
Agent Danvers quickly washed her hands in the sink, allowing Lena to open the locked door.
Eyebrows raised at the sight of Lena in the room, Vasquez took in Alex’s person, checking her over for injuries. The senior agent raised her hands in the air and turned a slow three-sixty to prove that she was unharmed. “See? Everything’s fine.”
A blush crept over Agent Vasquez’ face when she realized what she’d heard. “Right. I’ll just be going now.” She didn’t give either of them a chance to say anything before she was gone.
“Oops,” Alex chuckled. “I didn’t mean to traumatize the poor woman.”
“Do you think she’ll say anything to anyone about it?” Lena worried. She didn’t want Alex getting in trouble or losing face in front of her subordinates.
Alex shook her head. “No, I know for a fact that Winn gossips to her all the time, so I’m pretty sure she knows about us. She’s one of Winn’s work besties. I think she’s a good egg.”
“Good to know,” Lena said with relief.
“On that note, I think we should go home,” Alex suggested.
Lena raised an eyebrow. “You don’t want me to return the favor?”
“The moment’s kind of ruined for me, now that I know people can hear us,” Alex replied. “Maybe after the kids are asleep.”
“OK. Let’s go home, then.”
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