Chapter 13: 13. Escaping*
“Girls, we need to talk to you about something,” Alex announced. “Turn the TV off for a minute.”
The twin girls whined. They were watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
“The show will still be there when you come back to it, now stop it. This is important.”
The girls whined some more, but Jamie still paused their show and turned to their parents.
Alex and Kara sat down on the couch with their daughters.
“So, you guys like Maggie, right?” Alex began.
“Yeah!” the girls exclaimed happily. “Is she coming over tonight?” Jessie asked excitedly.
“Not tonight,” Alex answered. “She has to work tonight.”
“Aww!” the twins pouted.
“But we would like her to start coming around more often,” Alex acknowledged.
“Yeah!” they cheered.
“Actually,” Kara continued, “There’s a little more to it than that.”
“Yes,” Alex agreed, “ Mama and I… Well, Mama and I want Maggie to be our girlfriend.”
The twins just looked at them for a minute with the same little crinkle between their eyes as Kara got sometimes. “You both want Maggie to be your girlfriend,” Jamie repeated.
“Yeah,” Kara confirmed. “Mommy and I are not breaking up. On Krypton, it was totally normal for people to be married, but have one or two other boyfriends or girlfriends. As long as it’s OK for everyone involved, and it doesn’t bother anyone, it can be a really great thing. It just means adding another member to your family.”
“You guys are weird,” Jamie commented.
“So you want to, like, kiss her and stuff?” Jessie’s nose was turned up a little. “I don’t like watching you guys kiss, can you just do that stuff in the other room?”
Alex tried not to laugh. “So you’re OK with us kissing her, as long as you don’t have to see it? Is that right?”
The twins nodded. “Grownups kissing is gross,” Jamie agreed.
“Is it OK if we hold her hand in front of you? Maybe cuddle on the couch?”
“You guys already cuddle on the couch,” Jessie pointed out.
“She’s got you there,” Kara teased.
“Oh, shut it!” Alex tried to shove Kara, but the Kryptonian didn’t budge a millimeter. “Brat.”
Jessie and Jamie giggled.
“Do you have any questions?” Kara asked them.
“Can we watch our show now?” Jessie huffed.
Alex pursed her lips. “Pay the toll.”
Jessie rolled her eyes and got up and gave her mother a kiss. Alex didn’t like all the attitude she was getting, so she tickled the girl and pretended to bite her shoulder. That got a squeal and a laugh out of her. The redhead passed her daughter over to Kara, who snached the girl up and started kissing her all over the face. Alex then grabbed Jamie and started doing the same thing to her. The girls squeaked and giggled, and when everyone was a gleeful, red-faced mess, both mothers let their children go, and they immediately went back to watching The Clone Wars.
“Well, that was easy,” Alex told Kara with a kiss. She turned to see both her eleven-year-olds fully engrossed in their show. “Let’s go to the bedroom,” she whispered, waggling her eyebrows.
Kara grinned and took her hand. “Oh boy! I could use a nap!”
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“Winn, have you heard from Kara since last night?” Alex asked over the phone.
“Uh-uh,” he told her groggily. “Why?”
Alex sighed heavily. “She didn’t come home at all last night, and I haven’t heard from her.”
Winn was quiet. “I’m on it,” he told her, hanging up the phone.
Alex texted Maggie instead of calling, just in case she was still sleeping.
Alex: Hey, Mags, have you heard from Kara? Or seen Supergirl?
Maggie: Nope. Should I have?
Alex: She didn’t come home last night, and she didn’t even finish the last mission she was assigned. I’m worried.
Maggie: Well, fuck, you want me to put out an APB on Supergirl?
Alex: Is that an option?
Maggie: Sure, why not?
Alex: Yes, please.
Maggie: You got it.
Alex: You’re the best.
Maggie: Just text me, when you hear from her.
Alex: Will do.
Jessie and Jamie meandered into the kitchen and saw the worried look on her face. “What’s wrong, Mommy?” they asked her.
“Nothing, babies,” she assured. “I’m just trying to find your Mama, that’s all. She must be working.”
The twins looked at each other, clearly not believing that nothing was wrong. They both wrapped their arms around their mother tightly. “Can we go to CatCo to look for her?” Jamie asked.
“She’s not at CatCo right now. I already asked Uncle James.” She hugged her girls tightly.
“Well, maybe she’s out saving people,” Jessie said hopefully.
“Yeah,” Alex responded. “I’m sure that’s what she’s doing. We just have to wait. Everything will be fine. You want your breakfast?” She pointed at the eggs and bacon on the stove.
“Thank you, Mommy,” they told her, taking the food to the table.
“Do we have to go to school today?” Jessie asked.
“Of course you have to go to school today. Why wouldn’t you?”
“I want to help find Mama,” the girl answered.
“I’ll look for Mama,” Alex assured. “You go to school and don’t worry about it. Everything is fine. It’s only been a few hours.”
Again, the twins didn’t seem to be convinced. They pouted, but they didn’t say anything back.
Alex finished getting ready for the day and dropped the girls off at school, then hurried to the DEO. First Mon-El was missing, and now Kara? This did not bode well.
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“What did they do to you?” Mon-El asked Kara after she was thrown back into her cell at Cadmus.
“They took my blood,” she answered.
“And?” he pressed.
“And that was it,” she told him.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
She shook her head. “I'm scared… Mon-El? If something happens, if... If I don't get out of here, I need you to tell my family something for me. I need you to tell them to just keep living their lives on their own terms. Tell them I love them more than life itself. And tell them I wasn't scared, okay?”
“Well,” Mon-El replied, “If I don't make it and you do, you're welcome to tell everyone I was scared out of my mind.” They both chuckled wryly. He grew serious again, “I have to think, why me? Why am I the only one who survived Daxam? If I die in this cell, maybe I deserve to.”
“You don't deserve to die!” Kara was adamant. She’d had these thoughts herself when she first arrived on Earth. She would tell him the same thing Alex told her, “You deserve to survive! That Prince on Daxam sacrificed himself because he saw you were worth it!”
Mon-El frowned, “Kara, about Daxam, there's... There's something I have to tell you.”
Footsteps sounded down the hall, and suddenly, there was a man in with his hood up opening Kara’s cell door. “Come with me,” he told her.
She stood up and backed away cautiously. “Who are you?”
“Kara,” he pulled his hood down, “It's me, Jeremiah.”
Kara’s heart leapt in her chest. “I can't believe it!”
“We have to move,” Jeremiah ordered, unlocking Mon-El’s cell door. The Daxamite fell on the ground immediately.
“Oh, my God. Mon-El!” Kara helped Jeremiah hoist him off the ground and lay him down on an operating table.
“The lead poison is spreading,” Jeremiah told her. “I need to take the bullet out now.” He started doing just that.
“We should have found you sooner,” she lamented to her foster father, holding Mon-El’s hand.
“That doesn't matter now,” Jeremiah assured her. “You were off saving the world. I'm so proud of who you've become.” He smiled at her.
“But, but Alex…” Kara stammered. “When she sees you, she's... She's had to be so strong. She took over everything.”
“She’s always been too strong for her own good,” he answered. “Almost got it.”
Mon-El screamed as the bullet came out, but as soon as it was clear of his body, he sighed with relief. “Thank you.”
A very loud alarm started blaring in the background.
“Come on,” Jeremiah ordered. “We're out of time. Go down this hallway. There's an escape at the end.”
“No!” Kara exclaimed. “I'm not leaving you. I'm not losing you again.”
“Kara, I'll be fine. Please. Just go. I'll slow them down. I've been here 15 years, I'll survive a little longer.”
“If I leave you here, Alex will never forgive me!”
“Kara, if you die here, there will be no one to forgive!”
She hesitated a few seconds before hugging him. “I love you.”
“I love you, too,” Jeremiah told her. “Now go. Go!”
She ran with Mon-El, feeling sick to her stomach at leaving her wife’s father behind.
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Alex ran through the DEO at top speed. It was times like these when she envied Kara’s super-speed. She hurried into the med bay where Kara was laying in one of the beds. “Oh, my God. We’ve been so worried! I had no idea Cadmus took you. I’m so sorry!”
Kara sat up and tried to calm her wife. “Alex. Alex! Jeremiah helped us escape.”
The redhead stopped short. “You saw Dad?”
The Kryptonian nodded. “And I know where he is.”
Alex and J’onn put together a strike team on the double, but when they got to the location Kara had given them, everything had been cleared out like no one had ever been there.
“Damn it!” Alex yelled.
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“Mama!” The twins were squeezing her with all their might as soon as she walked through the door. Her time at Cadmus had scared the life out of all of her family members, so it was no surprise that her girls had tears streaming down their faces. Her heart ached. “Mama’s here. Mama’s here. It’s OK. I’m home now. It’s OK.” She sat down with them on the couch and held them close. They didn’t know exactly what had happened to her, but they knew that she was missing for a couple days, and that was bad enough.
“I was so scared, Mama!” Jamie sobbed.
“Me too,” Jessie sniffled.
“I know,” Kara soothed, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you.” She kissed them each on the head at least a dozen times. “Mama’s home. You don’t have to worry.”
After seeing Douglas out, Alex and Maggie joined them on the couch, each of them behind one of the girls, hugging them and Kara tight.
“Take it easy, guys. I don’t have my powers right now. You’re squishing me.”
Jessie looked horrified. “You don’t have your powers again?” she worried. “Mama , what happened to you?”
“Nothing you need to worry about, baby, I promise," Kara assured her. "Mama just got lost for a while, that’s all.”
“You’re lying,” Jamie accused.
“What makes you say that?” Kara asked.
“You can’t get lost,” the girl replied.
Kara didn’t know what to say to that. She clenched her jaw and remained silent, opting to just cuddle instead.
Alex kissed the back of Jamie’s head, and Maggie did the same for Jessie.
“It’s gonna be OK, girls,” Maggie assured them. “Your Mama is so strong and brave and tough and smart. She can get through anything. Even if it takes her some time, I know that she’ll always come home to you because that’s just how much she loves you. I’ve never seen anyone love their kids as much as your Mama and your Mom love you, and that is the best superpower of all. You know it?”
Kara and Alex smiled gratefully at the detective. Jessie wrapped Maggie’s arm more tightly around herself and snuggled into her Mama. Jamie did the same with Alex. They all lay there, snuggling until the twins fell asleep. Even then, they stayed there for a while, basking in the closeness of their family unit. It wasn’t until Kara’s muscles started to cramp up that Alex and Maggie carried Jessie and Jamie to bed. When the two adults came back, they each cuddled into one side of Kara, peppering her face with kisses. She tried to relax under their touch.
“Can I stay the night tonight?” Maggie asked. “I mean, we don’t need to have sex yet, I just don’t want to leave you right now.”
“I’d like that,” Kara answered.
“Me too,” Alex said.
“Thanks,” Maggie sighed.
They cuddled on the couch for a long time, until none of them could bear to stay awake any longer. “Come on,” Alex tugged on their hands. “Let’s go to bed.”
The other two women followed her into the bedroom and changed into pajamas. Maggie just borrowed some of Alex’s. They put Kara in the middle of the bed, and snuggled in close. Sleep came surprisingly easily to the Kryptonian with the comfort of her lovers on each side of her, safe and sound.
A couple hours later, all three of them were awoken by a scream coming from the other room. Kara was up and at Jamie’s side in an instant. “What’s wrong, baby?”
“I had a bad dream,” she sobbed, clinging to her Mama.
“You wanna tell me about it?” Kara asked.
“Th- they were hurting you!”
“Who, baby?”
“I- I don- n’t know!” Jamie sobbed. “I couldn’t see them.”
Jessie crawled into the bed behind her sister and hugged her.
“Jamie, look at me,” Kara cradled her daughter’s face in her hands. “I’m not hurt. I’m not in pain. Nobody is hurting me, OK? Everyone’s safe now. Everything is OK. I love you so much.” She kissed the girl on the forehead. “Lay back down, and I’ll stay here until you fall asleep. Jessie, you can go ahead and get back in bed. Thank you for being a good sister.”
“OK,” Jessie kissed her and got back in her own bed.
“Will you sing us a song, Mama?” Jamie requested.
“Sure, sweetheart.” She sang them N’Sync’s ‘This I Promise You’ until they fell asleep.
“That is so adorable,” she heard Maggie whisper to Alex in the doorway.
She turned around and smiled at them. They were cuddled up together, leaning against the doorframe. “You guys are adorable,” she whispered back at them.
They grinned. “Come back to bed,” Alex told her, holding out her hand.
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Kara got up from Jamie’s bed and laced her fingers with Alex’s. When they got back to the bedroom, the blonde could feel the air crackling between them. Jamie’s scream had given them all a big adrenaline rush, and now it needed to be worked out. Kara locked the bedroom door, then leaned in and kissed Alex deeply, doing the same with Maggie afterward. They all panted with need now, and Kara pulled both of the other women onto the bed with her. She nudged them together, so they would kiss each other while she undressed them.
“Is this OK?” she checked with Maggie.
“Very,” the detective answered, letting Kara take off her borrowed t-shirt and sweatpants.
Next, the blonde freed her wife from her shirt and shorts. The Kryptonian shed her clothes last of all, leaving them all in their underwear. Alex and Maggie turned their attention back on her. The redhead sneaked behind her and began kissing along her shoulders, while the Latina took hold of her lips once more.
“I’m so glad you’re OK, Kara,” Alex whispered. “I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
Maggie pulled away from her mouth, “And I can’t lose you before we even get started.” She kissed along Kara’s jawline, letting her hands wander. “Is this OK?” she asked, as she snaked her hands underneath the back of Kara’s underwear and then squeezed.
“Uh-huh,” Kara panted, thrilled at being touched by someone new. Her heart raced in excitement. She reached up around to unclasp Maggie’s bra. When it fell away, she knew she was staring, but she couldn’t help it. This woman in front of her was exquisite. “Can I?” She put her hands out, and Maggie pulled them onto her breasts.
“Touch me however you want,” the detective consented.
Kara gently cupped Maggie’s breasts and brushed her thumbs delicately back and forth over her nipples. She grinned at the detective’s sigh. Lowering her head, she took one of Maggie’s nipples into her mouth and lavished it with her tongue.
“Yes,” Maggie hissed, leaning into the touch.
Kara pulled Alex back around her and urged her to latch onto Maggie’s other nipple, which she did enthusiastically. The Latina cried out, and Alex covered her mouth with her hand. “Shh! Kids!” she reminded, and went back to her suckling.
When Kara could smell Maggie’s arousal enough, she let go of the woman’s breast with a pop. “Alex has never eaten a human girl out before. I think it’s time she learned, don’t you?”
Maggie panted and nodded her head, “Definitely.”
Kara removed the detective’s panties as the woman laid back onto the pillows and spread her legs for Alex to move in between them.
The redhead looked both excited and a little nervous.
“Don’t worry,” Kara assured her. “You’ll do just fine. Your tongue is like magic.”
“Thanks” Alex chuckled and kissed her way up Maggie’s legs before dipping her tongue inside. At the Latina’s moan of encouragement, the redhead became bolder, swirling her tongue around the woman’s folds just like Kara did to her.
“Yes, Alex!” Maggie whimpered, threading her fingers through dark auburn hair. “That’s good.”
Kara stroked Alex’s back encouragingly, adjusting her own underwear around her erection. “Great Rao, that’s sexy!” she exclaimed. The detective grabbed Kara’s free hand and placed it back on her breast. “You’re so beautiful, Maggie,” she told her, caressing her nipples with her thumb.
“Oh, God, that feels so good!” the Latina exclaimed.
Kara looked down and saw that Alex had latched onto Maggie’s clitoris. “Yeah, that’s it,” she encouraged. “See? You know what to do.”
Alex didn’t answer. She just kept circling Maggie’s clit with her tongue.
Maggie panted hard, trying not to buck her hips too hard into Alex’s face. “Yes, Alex!”
“Such a good girl,” Kara cooed.
A few minutes later, Maggie was trembling and gritting her teeth to keep from screaming, though she couldn’t help the low moans that still escaped as she tumbled over the edge of pleasure. “Jesus!” she exclaimed, still panting. “I did not expect you to make me come so hard on your first time doing this,” she told Alex, stroking the redhead’s cheek.
Alex bit her lip and blushed. “I’m glad I could make you feel good.”
Maggie chuckled. “Me too.”
“OK,” Kara spoke up, “Who wants to get fucked because I am aching after watching that.”
Maggie pointed at Alex, and Alex raised her hand. “I’m not ready for that yet,” Maggie informed them.
“Fair enough,” Kara answered. “Get over here,” she told Alex, pulling her wife onto her hands and knees in front of her. The Kryptonian slipped her wife’s bra and underwear off, then ran her fingers through the redhead’s folds and grinned, “You are sooo wet.”
“Yeah, so what are you waiting for?” Alex grumbled.
Kara giggled. “So impatient! I thought I was desperate.” She reached into the bedside table drawer and pulled out the box of condoms. She rolled one on and slid her cock inside her wife, loving the moan of pleasure it gained. “You feel so good, Alex. I love you so much.”
“Oh, yes! I love you too, Kara!” Alex closed her eyes and simply enjoyed the sensation of being filled before reaching for Maggie and drawing her into a long, languid kiss. Her hands roamed dark, olive skin, raising goosebumps in their wake. After a few minutes of aimless wandering, she let her fingers find Maggie’s clit and circled slowly.
Maggie hummed in appreciation. “Mmm, yeah.”
“Yeah, that’s good,” Kara encouraged. “Rao, that’s so sexy.” She thrust harder into her wife.
“Oh, God, yes!” Alex cried out, trying not to falter in her ministrations to Maggie’s clit.
They continued on like that for quite a while until Kara felt the familiar quivering of her limbs. “I’m gonna come,” she told them.
“Come for me, Kara!” Alex cried.
Soon, Kara was groaning and bucking erratically into her wife. “Oh, God, Alex! Yes, yes, yes!”
Maggie must have liked that because she came shortly afterward, grabbing the pillow and holding it over her face to muffle her groans. “Oh, fuck! Alex! Yes!” She urged Alex to continue until she rode out the last of her orgasm with big, shuddering gasps. When she was finished, she collapsed bonelessly onto the bed, still panting heavily. “Good God almighty!”
Kara chuckled while she changed into a new condom. “Are you religious, or what?”
“No,” Maggie smirked, “But my parents are. I guess I just picked up their expressions.”
“Alrighty then,” Alex remarked.
Kara slid back inside her. “Maggie, you want to help Alex get off?”
“Definitely,” the detective answered.
The Kryptonian repositioned herself to sit down with Alex in her lap, facing away from her. “There, you go,” she commented. “Now you can get to her clit however you want.”
Maggie crawled in front of Alex and slid her hand between her legs. “You like that?” she asked at her girlfriend’s moan.
“Mm-hmm,” the redhead panted. She pulled the detective closer and into a deep kiss.
Kara rocked her hips into her wife, thoroughly enjoying watching them make out. “So good,” she panted. “So perfect.” She bucked harder into Alex, grinning at the way Maggie’s mouth muffled her cries. Rao, she’d never been so turned on in her life!
The Latina sped up the movements of her fingers, and had Alex coming within a few short minutes. Kara had to cover her mouth to keep her from waking the kids up. She didn’t have her powers to listen in and check if they were awake or not.
After Alex had recovered, she slipped out of Kara’s lap and removed the condom from her cock. Taking the still hard member into her mouth, she sucked hard, lavishing as much of it with her tongue as she could reach.
Kara groaned loudly.
“Shh!” Alex admonished her.
“Don’t stop!” the Kryptonian whined, pushing the redhead back down.
Alex rolled her eyes, but went back to sucking her off.
Maggie pulled Kara into a deep kiss, giving her tongue nearly as much attention as her cock was getting. It took all of five minutes of this for Kara to come again. Apparently, without her powers, it didn’t take as many times of getting off for her to knot because after just these two times, her knot popped.
The Latina stared at it while Alex cleaned the cum off her hands. “Can I touch it?” she asked nervously.
“OK, but be gentle. I’m extra sensitive after I knot.”
Maggie slowly brushed her fingertips along the length of her cock, making it twitch.
Kara gasped, “Rao!”
The detective grinned. “Maybe next time,” she mused.
“You know what I’d love?” Kara husked.
“What?” the other two asked.
“I’d love to see you go down on Alex,” she told Maggie.
The Latina grinned and looked to the redhead for confirmation.
“That sounds awesome.” Alex laid back against the pillows, and Maggie crawled in between her knees.
Kara slid in beside her wife, kissing her and caressing her stomach.
“Oh, God!” Alex cried out at the first touch of Maggie’s tongue. Kara could tell she was having a hard time restraining her hips when she was so used to bucking into Kara’s face without having to worry about hurting her.
“That is so hot,” Kara sighed. She was really enjoying watching Alex’s wetness spread over Maggie’s face and the wet sounds that came along with it as she ate her out.
“God, yes!” Alex groaned.
Kara went back to kissing her wife and caressing her breasts. “You like that, baby girl?” she whispered in her ear. “You like Maggie’s tongue inside you? You look so sexy right now. Great Rao, how are you so sexy? Hmm?” Kara kept talking to her until she was tumbling over the edge. “Shh, pretty girl. Shh! Don’t wake the girls up!”
“Oh God! Oh Rao! Ohmygod, Maggie, that was amazing!” Alex threaded her fingers through long dark hair, scratching at the base of her neck.
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Maggie kissed her deeply, and Kara just watched with a smile on her face. They all spent a few more minutes kissing each other and settling down before getting up and cleaning themselves up. Kara changed the bedsheets lightning quick, and soon they were all cuddled back in the bed, fully sated and sound asleep.
The next morning, Kara woke up first. She was always an early riser, whether she had a late night, or not. She levitated out of the middle of the bed and headed to the kitchen to make coffee. She didn’t know when anyone else was going to bother to get up, since it was Saturday, so she didn’t bother to make breakfast yet. Instead, she chose to sit by the window with her coffee and try to meditate in the quiet. Last night with Maggie had been so wonderful. She was glad she and Alex could convince her to be with them. She had no regrets - only confirmation.
The second person up was Alex, followed shortly by Maggie. They both headed straight for the coffee without a word, and Kara chuckled at human’s inability to function without it. Sure, she liked it a lot herself, but she didn’t need it. She just liked the warmth and the sugar.
The other two sat down on the loveseat next to Kara’s chair, and they finally exchanged ‘good morning’s.’
“Did you two sleep OK?” she asked them.
They both nodded. Alex yawned, causing Maggie and Kara to follow suit.
“Stop that,” Maggie yawned again lightly smacking her leg.
“Sorry,” Alex apologized.
They sat in comfortable silence while the two humans drank their coffee and woke up more fully.
After about fifteen minutes, the twins trudged out, eyes half open, hair sticking out in all directions. They all said ‘good morning,’ and Jamie immediately plopped herself into Kara’s lap and clung to her. Jessie sprawled herself across Alex and Maggie’s laps and closed her eyes.
“Hi, baby,” Alex scratched her daughter's head.
“I’m hungry,” Jessie answered.
“What would you like for breakfast?” Alex asked.
“I don’t know. Omelettes or something?”
“Have you guys ever had huevos rancheros?” Maggie asked.
They all shook their heads.
“It’s really good, you should let me make it for you,” she told them.
Alex smiled. “You don’t have to ask me twice.”
“You wanna help?” Maggie patted Jessie’s knee.
The little blonde nodded her head sleepily and sat up, wrapping her arms around Maggie and not letting her get up yet.
Maggie chuckled. “I thought you were hungry.”
“I am, but I wanna cuddle, too,” came the answer.
The detective squeezed the girl in her arms and kissed her on the head. “Little love bug,” she said tweaking her side and making her giggle. “Come on, let’s go make some food.” She stood up with Jessie still under her arm, and they walked to the kitchen that way. “You coming, Jamie?” she asked on the way out.
Jamie shook her head. Apparently her nightmare was still bothering her, and she just wanted to cling to her Mama.
Maggie and Jessie disappeared into the kitchen together.
Kara stood up with Jamie and moved them onto the loveseat next to Alex, who cuddled up with them. “Mama’s alright, sweetheart,” she soothed. “Everybody’s alright.” She could hear Jessie and Maggie laughing in the kitchen, but she couldn’t make out what they were saying. Her senses were still a bit muted from the loss of her powers. “It sounds like they’re having fun in there. You sure you don’t want to help?”
Jamie thought about it for a few seconds. “OK.” She got up and went to join her sister.
“I know what we need,” Alex said with a smile.
Kara looked over at her. “What?”
“A good old fashioned family get together. We can even invite Mon-El. Tonight. What do you say?”
Kara grinned. “That sounds great.”
Alex got up to get her phone and start texting people.
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“Who's hungry?” Lucy sing-songed as she and James walked through the door.
Kara looked up from what she was doing and dropped the ice pack onto Mon-El’s leg wound instead of placing it gently, making him yelp. “Yes! Comfort food!” she cheered, patting Mon-El’s shoulder.
“You guys survived Cadmus, the least we could do is get you pizza and potstickers,” James told them.”
“I'm sorry they're cold,” Lucy lamented.
“That's okay,” Kara said, using her heat vision on them. “Not anymore!”
“Oh, yeah! She got her powers back!” Winn whooped.
“Yeah, Jamie’s nightmare gave me just the jolt of adrenaline that I needed, I guess.”
Kara sat down on the couch next to Mon-El. “Mmm?” she offered him a potsticker.
“Oh, yes. Thank you,” he took one and tried a bite.
“It's good to be home,” she sighed, as Jessie and Jamie came running over for their share of dumplings.
“You didn't find our adjoining cells cozy?” he chuckled.
She elbowed him him.
“You were in a cell?” Jamie exclaimed. “Like a jail?” Now the girl looked distraught.
Kara glared at Mon-El, who clearly had no idea what he’d done wrong. “No, Mama was not in jail.”
“No,” Mon-El told them, “It was a place called Cadmus. Hunts aliens like us.”
“You’re an alien?” Jessie asked. “No wonder you’re so weird.”
“Hey!” Mon-El exclaimed.
Jamie was looking sick, and now Kara could smell some serious fear coming from her.
“It’s OK, Jamie, everyone is safe now. You don’t have to be afraid,” she assured.
“I knew you were lying,” Jamie said through her tears. “You said you got lost.”
“Oh, woops,” Mon-El said, finally realizing his mistake. “Don’t worry, kid. Your mom was really strong and brave, and you should be proud of her.”
Kara’s face softened. “You were really brave too, Mon-El.”
“I told you I was scared,” he replied.
“Well, you could still be scared while being brave. Maybe there's a hero in you after all.”
“Well, any, uh... Any courage I do have, I learned it from you.”
For the first time, Kara actually wanted to hug Mon-El instead of wanting to slap him.
“Kara!” Winn interjected. “Hey, uh, Alex said that the oven's taking too long. She needs your help heating up another pizza.”
“Yup. A superhero's work is never done.” She headed towards the kitchen with the twins in tow.
“Is Kara mated to someone?” she heard Mon-El ask the others in the living room.
“Say what?” James retorted.
“On Daxam, we had arranged marriages, chosen for you at birth. You reach a certain age, boom. You're latched to that person. Is that how it works here on Earth?”
“Uh, well, here on Earth, we call it getting hitched, not latched. And nowadays, you pretty much choose your own mate,” Winn explained.
“Has Kara chosen?”
“Uhhh,” James stammered. “Kara and Alex have been married for, like, ever. You didn’t know that?”
“Oh. No, I didn’t. I just thought that Kara shared Alex’s name because that’s the family that she came to live with on Earth.”
“Well, yeah, but they fell in love, so they got married,” Lucy informed him.
“I see. Well, I’m pretty sure on Krypton that a lot of times they would have a second or third lover. Is that a thing here? Does Kara ever take other partners?”
James and Winn looked at each other knowingly. “Not that we’ve ever seen,” James told him.
“Why are you just standing there like that?” Maggie asked Kara.
“That’s her eavesdropping face,” Alex informed her.
The twins giggled. “What are they saying, Mama?” Jamie asked.
Kara grimaced, “Something that just reminded me that we haven’t told people about Maggie yet. Should we maybe do that tonight?”
Alex frowned. “Everyone all at the same time? I’m not sure if that’s a good idea.”
“Why not?” Maggie wondered. “Just get it all out at once instead of having to repeat yourself a hundred different times.”
The redhead blew out a hard breath. “OK. Later, though. Now, warm up these pizzas!” She shoved them towards Kara, who used her laser vision again.
They all played a few board games, then got their asses handed to them by the twins on Mario Kart, which Maggie found hilarious. When it was getting late, Kara and Alex tried to get the girls to go to bed, but it wasn’t working. They were finding every excuse in the book to stay awake.
“But you haven’t even told everyone about Maggie yet!” Jessie protested.
“We’ll tell them after you go to bed. We need this to be a grownup conversation,” Alex answered.
“No fair!” the girls whined.
“Life’s not fair,” Alex retorted. “Now go to bed!”
The girls stomped to their room, whining the whole way.
“Close the door!” Kara hollered down the hall.
The door slammed shut. Kara could hear them crying in their room, but she tried to block it out. They were fine, and they needed to go to bed.
“Sorry,” she apologized to the group.
“It’s OK,” Lucy assured. “I was the same way when I was a kid. I never wanted to miss out on anything.”
Kara smiled gratefully at her. “Right. Well, there’s something that Alex and I need to talk to you guys about.”
“OK, shoot,” Winn told her. “OK, bad choice of words,” he mentioned when Mon-El flinched. “Sorry.”
“It’s alright,” Mon-El assured him.
“Anyway, um, so… Remember when I told you guys that Kryptonians used to be polyamorous?”
James and Winn nodded.
“No, I don’t remember that conversation,” Lucy said. “I think I would have remembered that conversation.”
“OK, well, Kryptonians used to be polyamorous,” Kara told her plainly.
“Alright,” Lucy replied. “And this has to do with what?”
Kara took a deep breath. “Well, Alex and I are dating Maggie.”
Everyone looked at Maggie, who smirked.
“Uhhh…” said Winn. “Wow! OK.”
James just blinked.
Lucy’s eyebrows were about to jump off her head.
Mon-El looked… conflicted. Kara assumed it was because he felt both jealous and turned on at the same time.
“So you guys are dating,” James repeated.
“That’s what she just said,” Alex replied.
“What about the kids?” James asked.
Kara waved him off, “They know. They don’t care. Actually, they like having her around all the time.”
“That doesn’t surprise me. They hang all over Maggie almost as much as they do to Winn,” Lucy commented.
“Well, as long as you’re all happy. That’s what matters, right?” James offered.
“I’m happy for you,” said Winn, even if there was pain reflected in his eyes.
Mon-El remained silent.
“Who wants a drink?” Alex asked. “Maggie brought scotch.”
“A drink would be great,” Mon-El finally spoke.
Everyone agreed.
Alex and Maggie grabbed the bottle and some glasses and poured everyone a shot, including Kara.
“To found family,” Alex toasted.
“To found family,” everyone clinked their glasses together and took their shot.
“Now, who wants to go best two out of three on Mario Kart?” Winn challenged.
James, Maggie and Alex all raised their hands.
“Alright, let’s go!”
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