Chapitre 15: 15. Thanksgiving/Medusa
“You invited Lena Luthor to Friendsgiving?!” James exclaimed. “Are you insane?”
“She's my friend!" Kara huffed. "And the kids invited her. They really like her. How was I supposed to say no?”
“Lena Luthor knows your kids?!” James sat down on his office couch and put his head in his hands. “Oh my God! This is bad. This is really bad.”
“James, it's fine!” Kara insisted. “Lena has been nothing but kind and helpful. And she's so good with the kids. Just wait and see. You know they're good judges of character.”
“But they're just kids! They can be tricked!” he tried.
“Alex and I like her," Kara said, crossing her arms over her chest. "Heck, even Clark liked her by the time he left National City.”
“Yeah, Clark and Lex used to be friends too. Or did you forget that?”
“Lena is not like her brother!” Kara insisted.
“You don’t know that,” James threw back.
“James, she’s coming, whether you like it or not. If it bothers you that much, you don’t have to come, but that’s not what I want. I want everyone there.”
“Oh, I’ll be there,” he assured her solemnly.
“Good. I don’t want any talk of Cadmus or Lex or Lillian, or anything else that might make her feel unwelcome or that might upset the children. Is that clear?”
He clenched his jaw. “Crystal.”
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Kara was using her laser vision to cook the Thanksgiving turkey while Eliza and the twins watched in fascination. Nearly everything else was done, and Alex, Maggie, James, Lucy, and Winn were all in the living room working on getting drunk already. They were just waiting on Mon-El and Lena to show up.
“I will never get tired of watching you do that,” Eliza told her.
“How come you don’t do that to all our food?” Jessie wondered.
“It would take too much energy for me to do that,” Kara answered. “I’d have to eat all our food, and there wouldn’t be any left for you guys.” She could hear the group in the living room bickering about who gets to make an announcement during dinner, and she started to go settle the dispute, but someone knocked on the door. “I got it!” She skipped to the door and swung it open. “Lena!” she exclaimed cheerfully. “Welcome! Make yourself at home.” She took the homemade cheesecake that her friend was handing her. “Oh, yummy!”
“Hello, Kara,” Lena greeted warmly.
The twins ran in to greet her with big hugs. “Lena!”
“Hello, girls,” she squeezed them both enthusiastically. “How are you?”
“Great!” they answered.
“Jolly Thanksgiving!” Mon-El said from behind Lena.
The CEO turned around. “Mike,” she purred. “It’s a pleasure to see you again.”
“Lena,” Mon-El flirted openly. “The pleasure is all mine.”
Kara glared at him. “It’s Happy Thanksgiving,” she whispered.
“Oh, right. Happy-”
“What’s this?” she asked, taking the pillowcase-looking bag he was handing her.
“Oh, that? You asked for stuffing. So I ripped open my mattress and pulled some out.”
She pulled some of the stuffing out of the pillowcase with a grimace. “Oh!” she forced a laugh. “Uh, well, that's not quite what I meant.” She closed the front door.
The girls giggled.
Kara turned to Lena. “He’s such a prankster.” She rolled her eyes for effect. “Girls, why don’t you help Lena find something to drink,” she told the twins, who agreed happily.
“Kara, is this your friend from Daxam you were telling me about?” Eliza asked.
“Y-yes! Um, Daxam… Michigan! This is my adopted mother-”
“Dr. Danvers! It is an honor and a privilege,” Mon-El schmoozed, handing the woman a bouquet of sunflowers.
“It’s so lovely to meet you, Dr. Danvers,” Lena greeted pleasantly, shaking hands.
“Please, both of you call me Eliza. Around here, I'm just Alex and Kara's mother.”
“Of course. Thank you, Eliza,” Lena smiled charmingly
“Well,” Mon-El took Eliza by the elbow, while Lena followed the twins into the living room. “Kara tells me that you're a brilliant scientist. That must be riveting. I have to hear about this science. What is science?”
Kara rolled her eyes and headed for the kitchen where Alex and Maggie were standing a little too close to one another since they hadn’t exactly told Eliza about them yet.
“Are you okay?” Alex asked her.
“Yeah…” Kara said distractedly.
“What?” Alex wanted to know why she was distracted.
“Yeah... I think Mon-El is hitting on Eliza," Kara frowned in disgust.
“No way.”
“Mmm-hmm. And, uh... He brought stuffing.” Kara showed Alex the pillowcase full of mattress stuffing.
“Oh, boy.”
Alex started to take a drink of her beer, and Kara snatched it away. It wouldn’t do for Eliza to find out about their little triad by catching Alex and Maggie drunkenly making out in the kitchen.
“No, please!” Alex protested.
“Oh! Mm-mm.” She took Maggie’s beer too, and stuck them both in the freezer.
“Hey!” Maggie objected.
“No,” she told them.
Eliza came back into the kitchen and started putting her sunflowers in a vase.
“So... You really hit it off with Mon-El,” Kara teased.
“Oh, Kara. He's chatting me up because I'm your mother.”
“What?” she frowned.
“He likes you!” Eliza spelled it out for her.
“Uh, no. No.” She thought she’d squashed that the night they told everyone about Maggie.
“Yes. He's trying to score points with me to impress you.” Eliza winked and elbowed her in the ribs.
“There's no way. He knows I’m married to Alex.” Kara turned her nose up at the thought of Mon-El liking her like that.
“Believe me. A mother knows.”
Kara sighed. This was going to be an interesting Thanksgiving.
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Alex snuck her and Maggie’s beers back out of the freezer when Kara wasn’t looking and went to see where her kids had gone. She knew she should take this time to tell her mom about Maggie, but she just kept on chickening out. She led Maggie through the living room, where Winn and Mon-El were discussing video games, and into her kids’ bedroom, where they had coerced Lena into playing a game of Just Dance with them. James and Lucy sat on Jamie’s bed and watched. Alex figured she’d just hide here for a while, so she relaxed back on Jessie’s bed with her girlfriend. “Lena, this is Kara’s and my girlfriend Maggie,” she said, pointing at the Latina. “Maggie, this is Lena.” She pointed at the CEO.
“It’s nice to meet you, Maggie,” Lena greeted, while still dancing to the music. She curiously refrained from commenting on the girlfriend part.
“Hi, Lena,” the detective gave a friendly little smile and a wave. “It’s nice to meet you. Kara and the kids rave about you.”
“Oh, really?” Lena asked, seemingly very surprised.
“Yeah, Lena’s awesome!” Jamie exclaimed, making sure to keep her perfect game score. “She likes all the same stuff we like!”
“You mean all your nerd stuff?” Maggie teased.
“Yeah!” Jessie agreed unabashedly.
“Fuck you, Sawyer!” Alex whispered, pinching Maggie’s thigh. Then louder, she said, “You work in the science division. You’re just as much a nerd as the rest of us!”
Maggie swatted at the offending hand. “Stop it!” she demanded. “I’m a detective, not a scientist.”
Alex stopped pinching Maggie and drank her beer. “Whatever. You’re just jealous.”
“Yep,” Maggie conceded, swigging from her own bottle. “You got me.”
“Detective,” Lena commented. “No question where you two met, then?”
“I guess not,” Alex agreed. “Yeah, we met on a job about six months ago. Got to be friends. You know.”
“Yeah,” Jessie added, “When Maggie first came over, she was with this other lady. I forget her name, but it doesn’t matter because we didn’t like her, did we Jamie?”
Jamie shook her head vigorously. “Nuh-uh!”
The adults chuckled.
“But Mom got rid of her. Right mom?”
“Excuse me?” Alex huffed. “I had nothing to do with that! Why would you think I would break up a perfectly happy couple? Or, well, what I thought was a happy couple, anyway...”
“So you could have her for yourself,” Jessie answered.
“Jessie, that’s terrible! I would never do something like that! Jennifer and Maggie broke up all on their own. They didn’t need any help from me to do it. I can’t believe you would even say that.”
Jessie shrugged. “I just thought you wanted to fix things. That’s what you do.”
“That’s not fixing. That’s breaking," Alex pointed out.
“Things are better now, aren’t they?" Jessie countered. "You guys get Maggie, and that other lady doesn’t have to come around anymore.”
Alex sighed loudly. “Oh, Jessie, we are going to have a talk later.”
“Uh! Why?!” Jessie stomped her foot and pouted indignantly, making her break her perfect score. “Shoot!”
“I can’t talk about this anymore right now. It’s neither the time, nor the place. Please don’t listen to her, Lena. I would never go and break a couple up, like she’s saying.”
“It’s true,” Maggie offered. “Jennifer broke up with me because she said I was a sociopath.”
“Ah!” Lena perked up. “I’ve been called a sociopath too, many a time, because of my brother.”
“Oh, really?” Maggie's brow raised.
“Really. Maybe we should be sociopaths together,” Lena grinned and tapped her fingertips together, not caring about her game score. “Whatever are we going to do together?”
Maggie laughed evilly, “We can get into all sorts of shenanigans at Thanksgiving!”
“Really?” Lena grinned.
“Nah, we’ll probably scare the kids.” They both laughed.
“I’m not scared!” Jessie insisted.
“What's a sociopath?” Jamie asked.
Everyone was silent until Maggie finally answered. “It's like a person who has a bad moral compass because they have no emotions.”
The girls furrowed their little brows. It was obvious they didn't see either woman that way. “Why would people say that about you guys?” Jessie looked ready to fight someone.
“Because they don't really know them,” Alex answered. “But we know better, don't we?”
“Yeah!” the girls exclaimed indignantly, hugging Lena, letting their game scores plummet.
This was one of Alex's favorite things about her kids. They were so loving and caring and sweet - just like Kara. They couldn't stand the thought of their favorite people being insulted. Alex peeked at Maggie and Lena to gauge their reactions. They both seemed touched, in their own way.
“Thanks.” Maggie was playing with the hem of her shirt self-consciously.
“Thank you.” Lena bit her lip.
Winn poked his head into the room, “Who’s hungry?
“Me!” the twins screeched and ran out of the room.
Lena laughed at them. “How do you turn this thing off?” she asked, referring to the XBox.
Alex showed her the button. “We’ll meet you guys out there. I just need to talk to Maggie for a second.”
“OK,” Lena followed Lucy and James out.
James and Lucy gave them a knowing look before walking out the door.
“What’s up?” Maggie asked.
“Nothing,” Alex answered. “I just wanted to do this,” she leaned over and kissed the detective deeply, letting her hands wander. She loved the way Maggie tasted, and it was difficult to refrain from stripping her of her clothes and having her for Thanksgiving dinner instead of the turkey.
“You guys!” Kara admonished. “Come on!”
Alex chuckled and pulled Kara in for a kiss too.
“This is why I took your beers away,” the Kryptonian chastised them. “You get handsy when you’ve drank too much.”
“I haven’t drank too much,” Alex argued. “I’ve drank just enough.” She finished the beer in her hand.
Kara looked at the beer bottle that she’d put in the freezer and rolled her eyes. “Let’s go. It’s time to eat.”
“OK, OK.” Alex and Maggie followed her into the kitchen where everyone was sitting around the table waiting.
“Kara, will you do us the honors?” Eliza asked, after everyone was seated.
“Oh, yes. Okay. Okay. So, it is a Danvers family tradition that, before the meal, we go around and we say what we're thankful for, so let’s go… oldest to youngest?”
“Alright,” Eliza conceded. “I suppose I'm clearly the eldest here. I’m thankful for my health, my career, my daughters, and my two perfect granddaughters.”
The Danvers girls all beamed at her.
“James, you’re next,” Kara told him.
He pumped his fist in victory. “Yes! I was hoping I would get to go first. Lucy and I have an announcement,” he said, grinning. “We’re getting married.”
Everyone cheered and clapped and gave their congratulations.
“Awesome!” Jessie exclaimed. “Are you guys gonna have a baby too?”
“Uh,” Lucy stammered. “Maybe not for a while yet.”
“Oh,” Jessie pouted. “I want somebody to have a baby! Mama and Mom were talking about having a baby, and then they changed their minds. It’s not fair!”
“You guys were talking about having a baby?” Eliza asked curiously.
“Yeah, like, over a year ago,” Kara told her. “I didn’t know they were still upset about us not going through with it.”
“Anyway!” Alex spoke up. “I believe Lucy is next.”
“James didn’t say what he was thankful for!” Jamie interrupted.
James chuckled. “OK, well, I’m thankful for Lucy, my career, and for all of my friends here. You guys are the best.”
“OK, now Lucy!” Jamie directed.
Lucy beamed. “I’m thankful for my new fiancé, for my family, my job, and an amazing group of people to spend Thanksgiving with.”
“Mo-Mike?” Kara spoke up.
“Yeah, I just wanna... I just wanna say... I'm so thankful for you, Kara, um... Because not only are you understanding, but you're also gracious. Out of everybody who could have found me in that pod, I'm the luckiest guy in the world that it was you.”
Alex shared a knowing look with her mother.
Lena gave Kara a confused look, but the blonde just laughed nervously.
“Aww, that’s really sweet, M-Mike,” Kara stammered. Then she looked at her newest friend. “Lena? Do you want a turn?”
Lena stopped side-eyeing Mon-El to answer, “Yes, please. I’d like to say that I’m so thankful for you, as well, Kara. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have any friends in National City. I’m so lucky to have met you and Alex and your wonderful family. Everyone here has been so kind. You don’t know what that means to me. Oh! And I’m thankful for Jessie and Jamie who give the absolute best hugs in the whole world!”
The twins, who happened to be sitting on each side of Lena, squeezed the daylights out of her, making her squeak.
The CEO grinned. “Thanks, girls.”
“Now, I believe it’s Maggie’s turn,” Kara told them.
“Oh, OK. Um, well… I’m thankful for my job and my health. But I’m really most thankful for the Danvers family. They welcomed me in with open arms, and I couldn’t be happier. And Lena’s right - Jamie and Jessie do give the best hugs in the whole world. All the Danvers women do.”
Alex wanted to kiss Maggie so badly right then, but she still hadn’t told her mother about them yet, so she refrained. “I think it’s my turn,” she spoke up. “I just want to say there are so many things that I'm thankful for. And, honestly, I don't think I've ever really felt this much like myself than right now, and so there's a reason for that. And that reason... Well, that reason is-”
Suddenly, there was a bizarre portal-looking thing that appeared over the dinner table, and everyone screamed and jumped out of their seats.
“Does that normally happen on Thanksgiving?” Mon-El asked nervously.
“Um, no,” Kara answered him.
“What the hell was that?” Lucy exclaimed.
“It looked like some kind of wormhole or something,” Lena commented.
“Mama ?” Jamie said, and everyone looked to Kara to figure out what to do.
“OK,” Alex interjected. “I’m gonna go make a phone call. You guys go ahead and eat. No sense in wasting a perfectly good dinner!”
“I should probably call into work too,” Maggie told them.
Kara nervously sat back in her seat. “OK, everyone, let’s eat before the food gets cold!”
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The next day, Kara, Alex and Winn were at the DEO bright and early. They talked about Cadmus and why they might want Kara’s blood. Kara made up a fake interview about "Women of Power and the Mothers Who Molded Them" to try and see if Lena knew anything, while Winn hacked L-Corp to find out the same.
That night, Mon-El got into a fight with the real Hank Henshaw, who somehow weaponized a virus that killed all the aliens in the alien bar. Mon-El got sick, and Alex brought Eliza in to help investigate the mysterious illness. She found out it was a Kryptonian virus, so Kara went to the Fortress of Solitude to find its source. Turned out the virus was created by her very own father. It was devastating to learn. She sat with Mon-El overnight, just to make sure he was OK.
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“So, what is it?” Eliza asked Alex while they were in the lab.
“Oh, I've got the mainframe breaking down the virus on a molecular level,” Alex answered.
“No, I mean, I know you've been trying to tell me something.”
“Oh…” Alex realized what her mother was getting at. She turned away. “No… No...” She closed her eyes and sighed. “How?”
“Keeping a secret disagrees with you, sweetie.”
“This isn't like that, Mom.”
“Does it have anything to do with Maggie? You mention her a lot.”
“Yeah, actually, it does,” she looked down timidly.
Eliza put her hand on her daughter’s shoulder, “You’re not having an affair with her, are you?”
“Mom, no, that’s not-” She stopped and sighed again. “Mom, Kara and I are both dating Maggie.”
Eliza just blinked at her for a moment. “Excuse me?”
“Maggie is our girlfriend. Kara and I are polyamorous.”
Eliza clenched her jaw. “Of all the stupid, irresponsible, ridiculous things you girls have done, I think this one takes the cake!”
“Mom!”
“What the hell are you thinking?”
“We’re thinking that Maggie is really awesome, and it would be a shame to let her go. I love her, Mom, and I think Kara does too. I know the kids do.”
“Don’t you see?” Eliza argued. “It’s not just your own heart you’re playing with. You’re messing with my granddaughter’s hearts! I saw how they were with Maggie yesterday. What happens when you guys get bored of her, or someone gets a little too jealous, and the relationship disintegrates? Then what? Those kids are going to be heartbroken. All because you had some crazy whim of being polyamorous!”
“That’s a chance we take with anyone we let into our lives! It’s not a whim, Mom! All Kryptonians were polyamorous!”
“We’re not on Krypton!”
Alex groaned. “Look, Mom, I love you, and I’m sorry you’re upset about this, but I’m not here to ask your permission. You asked what I wanted to tell you, and that’s what it was. I’m sorry you don’t approve, but that’s not going to stop us. I really hope you don’t treat Maggie badly because of all this. She’s really good to us and to the kids. Things are really stressful right now with Mon-El being sick and Cadmus being on the loose, so please, don’t make it worse by being unkind to my girlfriend.”
Eliza glared at Alex. “Fine. What about the kids? Do they know?”
“Yes. We told them first.”
“And?”
“And they said it was weird, and they didn’t want us to kiss in front of them, but other than that, they don’t care. They love Maggie.”
“They said it was weird, but you just ignored that fact?” Eliza accused.
“They say everything we do is weird. We’re they’re parents! We tried to get them to talk about it, but they apparently thought watching Star Wars was more important. That tells me, it’s not weird enough for them to be concerned about,” Alex defended. “They’ve had plenty of time to tell us they don’t like it, but they don’t. They treat Maggie like she’s part of the family. And she is!”
They glared at each other for a long time, then, at the same time, they said, “Let’s just get back to work.”
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They found out that in order to disperse the virus, Cadmus needed a special isotope that only L-Corp manufactured. Kara went to go get it before Cadmus could, but when she got there, she was apprehended by Cyborg Superman who also almost killed Maggie and Lena in the process. She tried to talk to Lena about capturing her mother, but the CEO threw her out in a fit of anger and accusations. Kara could smell the fear wafting off of the youngest Luthor in waves, but she didn’t know if it was from guilt or fear of yet another betrayal. Kara had to give her the benefit of the doubt. No one else was going to.
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Alex pulled Maggie's last stitch a little tightly. “Sorry. You okay?”
“Oh, I'm okay,” Maggie assured. “Just a little nervous, you're not very good at this.”
“Oh, well, clearly the drugs have kicked in, because you are done.” Alex snipped the last of the stitching thread off of Maggie’s shoulder.
“Thank you,” the detective smiled at her.
“No. Thank you," Alex returned her smile.
“For what?” Maggie wondered.
“For being there when I called.”
“Anytime.”
“Well…” Alex started slowly, “I told my mom.”
“You did? How did she take it?”
The agent grimaced.
“That good, huh?”
“Don’t worry. She might be mad at me and Kara for a while, but I don’t think she’ll take it out on you. She’ll get used to it eventually. She seemed more worried about what would happen if we broke up, than what would happen if we stayed together. When I got pregnant with the kids, at first my mom flipped, but then she got used to the idea, and she really fell in love with them. I’m sure this will be just like that. She already liked you before she found out about us. Just give her some time.”
“Alright,” Maggie agreed.
“And maybe don’t spend the night while she’s in town this weekend.”
“What? No!” the detective complained. “That’s not fair!”
“Now you sound like my kids,” the DEO agent teased.
Maggie flipped her off upside down. “Does this sound like your kids?” She flipped her finger right-side-up, “How about now? Can you hear me now?”
Alex snickered and smacked her leg. Maggie was funny all drugged up. “You’re lucky you’re injured, or I’d have to hurt you.”
Maggie looked around the room and noted the people milling about. “I really wish I could kiss you right now.”
Alex smirked. “Me too,” she whispered.
“Are you sure I can’t spend the night?”
“No, sorry. I don’t want my mom having a meltdown, thanks.”
“Is she even staying at your place? I thought she was staying at a hotel,” Maggie complained.
“She is, but she comes over early.”
“Fine,” the detective huffed petulantly.
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Kara worriedly sat with Mon-El while Eliza worked on a cure for the Medusa virus.
“Hey,” he mumbled sleepily.
“Hey.”
“Did you learn a new power where you can duplicate yourself?” he asked. “Because I'm seeing two of you and it's really cool.”
“No,” she laughed. “No, sorry. No new powers. Just... I think the double vision is all you.”
“Oh, so I have a new power?” he grinned his roguish grin.
“Yeah.”
“Your Earth mother Eliza… She thinks I'm dying. I might not have your hearing, but mine's pretty good.”
“She's gonna find a cure,” Kara promised.
“It's okay. I've, uh... I've cheated death more times than anyone should.”
“It's not okay! You shouldn't be dying! The only reason you are dying is because of my family!”
“Eliza did her best.”
“No. Not her. My birth father created Medusa. He's the reason you are in so much pain, and he's the reason that I can't do anything about it!” she sighed heavily.
Mon-El sat up. “You know, you look beautiful, with the weight of all these worlds on your shoulder.
“You don't have to make me feel better,” she pouted.
He leaned in and kissed her. It was not a friendly, sisterly kiss.
He laid back on the bed and fell into a feverish sleep. “Yeah. Absolutely beautiful.”
Kara looked around her to check if anyone had seen what had happened. It wouldn’t do any good for someone to go telling Alex that Supergirl was kissing Mon-El. Her heart raced. Why did he do that? Why was he crushing on her? They were both Alphas. It just didn’t make any sense! And by the way, he told her specifically when she’d asked him that he didn’t have feelings for her, but here he was, kissing her, proving the exact opposite! She held her head in her hands and fretted.
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Isotope 454 was moving. Kara and J’onn went to intercept it. Kara watched with a broken heart as Lena turned the key and released the rocket. She didn’t believe Lena would do it. Even after she watched the projectile disappear into the air, J’onn still had to talk sense into her. She chased after it, but it was no use. The missile exploded over the city, knocking Kara nearly to the ground. Her heart stopped from the grief that was about to come. But nothing happened. After a moment of everyone just waiting, she knocked Cyborg Superman out.
“They should be dead,” Lillian Luthor complained. “All aliens should be dead.” She turned to Lena, “You. You switched out the isotope. You made the virus inert.”
“I did,” Lena confessed. Sirens wailed nearby. “And I called the police.”
Kara walked reverently toward J’onn. “You're okay.”
“We all are.” He looked toward where Hank Henshaw had been laying. “He's gone.”
The Kryptonian turned to the youngest Luthor, who was watching her mother be put into the back of a police car. “You just saved so many lives, Lena. I can’t thank you enough.”
Lena clenched her jaw, and for a minute, Kara thought she wasn’t going to answer, but then she finally said, “I had to do what was right. Doesn’t mean I like it.”
“I know,” Kara said compassionately. “I owe you. Big time.”
“Not at all,” Lena answered. “It’s not just my company that I want to be a force for good in the world. I want to be one personally, as well.”
Kara wanted to hug her friend so badly, but she didn’t know how well that would be received from Supergirl, so she refrained. She smelled Lena’s nervousness, and it was making her restless. She wanted to do something to make her feel better. Then it occurred to her, “I’ll call Kara. You shouldn’t be alone right now.”
“There’s no need to bother her,” Lena told her. “I know she’s very busy.”
“Don’t be stubborn. I’m calling her as soon as I get back. Expect a phone call.”
Lena sighed. “Alright.”
That did seem to help Lena calm down. The smell of her fear abated a little.
J’onn and Supergirl gave their statements to the police and headed back to the DEO where Kara promptly called Lena as herself. “Lena?” she exclaimed. “Oh my goodness, are you OK?”
“I’m fine, Kara. Don’t worry about me.”
“Supergirl told me what happened.”
“Did she mention the part where I told her not to bother you?”
“Yes, she did! And don’t be ridiculous, Lena! You’re my friend, and you just did something really hard. I want to be there for you.”
“Well, thank you, Kara. I appreciate it.”
“You should come over to our place for a little while tonight. It’s still fairly early. I know the girls would love to see you.”
“I don’t know if that’s a good idea, Kara.”
“Why not?”
“I just don’t know what kind of company I’m going to be, and I don’t want to put you guys out.”
“Lena! Come on! I’m not asking you to entertain us, I’m asking you to come let us be your friends. Let us comfort you. We can eat ice cream and watch a nice, fluffy movie or something. Please!”
“Oh, alright,” Lena conceded. “I’ll call you when I’m done giving the police my statement.”
“Great! Talk to you soon. Bye.”
“Bye.”
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By the time Lena was finished, Kara had bought ice cream, and was home, showered, and changed. When a knock came from the front door, the girls ran to answer it. Kara had just told them that Lena had a hard day, and she needed to come over and relax.
“Lena!” the twins cheered, giving her hugs.
Kara could hear Lena’s heartbeat slow down at the girls’ touch. She smiled proudly at the effect they could have on people. “Hi, Lena,” she greeted with a big hug of her own. “Alex is still at work, but hopefully she’ll be home soon.”
“I didn’t see her with Supergirl tonight.”
“You didn’t?” Kara pretended. “Well, they’re not always together, I guess.” She lead the way into the kitchen where she pulled the ice cream out of the freezer. “Would you like something to drink? Alex has all kinds of stuff. Wine, liquor, beer, you name it.”
Lena looked at the kids for a second. “No, that’s OK.”
“OK, for ice cream, we have chocolate, vanilla, or chocolate chip cookie dough.”
“Mmm, cookie dough, please,” Lena replied politely.
“I want chocolate!” Jessie announced.
“I want chocolate and vanilla mixed together,” said Jamie.
“With chocolate syrup!” Jessie added.
Jamie agreed, “Yeah!”
Lena looked surprised. “You girls don’t like cookie dough ice cream?”
They laughed. “We like all ice cream!”
“They never met sugar they didn’t like,” Kara informed her.
“I see,” Lena chuckled. “Typical kids, huh?”
The girls nodded with big grins on their faces.
Kara doled out ice cream and handed it over, and they all sat down at the table to eat it.
Alex came home when they were almost finished. “Hey! You guys didn’t wait for me!”
“Aww, sorry, baby,” Kara apologized and got her some cookie dough ice cream with a kiss.
“So, what movie are we watching?” Alex asked.
“Minions!” the twins cheered.
“Minions?” Lena inquired.
“Yeah, it’s about these little yellow guys that like to help bad guys, but then they find one that’s a little too bad. It’s funny.”
“Never heard of it,” Lena said.
“Why don’t you start with Despicable Me?” Alex wondered. “That way Lena can see why the Minions is actually funny.”
“OK!” the twins agreed.
After they all finished their ice cream, they piled onto their giant couch and cuddled - one twin on each side of Lena were on one end of the couch, and Kara and Alex cuddled up on the other end with their feet up on the coffee table. It didn’t take long before Lena and the twins had all fallen asleep. Kara and Alex just left them there, hoping that the kid cuddles would do Lena some good, even in sleep. When the movie was over, they carried the girls to bed and woke Lena up, so she could go home and sleep in her own bed instead of on their couch. (Although their couch was really comfortable to sleep on.) Lena thanked them for the night and headed home.
“That was nice,” Kara commented.
“Yeah,” Alex agreed. “Shall we go to bed?”
“Definitely. I’m beat.”
“But not defeated.”
“And you call me cheesy.”
“You are. You’re my big cheese ball.”
They both laughed and headed to bed.
“Oh, I almost forgot!” Alex pulled out her phone and called Maggie. “Hey, beautiful. Kara and I just wanted to say goodnight.” She put the phone on speaker, and dropped it on the bed while they changed into their pajamas.
“Oh, lucky you,” Maggie responded. “I’ve still got a good couple hours here at the station, thanks to the Luthors.”
Alex bounced happily on her toes. “Yes! We got that bitch! Now we can hopefully find my dad too!”
“Yeah,” Kara smiled at her. Her wife was always happiest after taking out the bad guys. “You’re coming over for lunch tomorrow, right?” she asked Maggie.
“Bright and early at noon o’clock,” the detective joked.
“Alright. See you then. Goodnight.”
“Goodnight, Kara.”
“Goodnight, Maggie!”
“Goodnight, Alex.”
They hung up the phone and crawled into bed.
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