Chương 22: Chapter 22: 'It doesn't even hurt.'
It's around four in the morning when Lena startles awake to a dark room, a sliver of light peaks through the slightly closed bathroom door. It's not one of her usual wake-ups, the anxiety that was left in her when Maggie and herself passed out from exhaustion crept up on her, waking her up into fear.
The raveness looks round the room frantically, trying to find something so she can center herself, something her mind can grab onto so she can be held steady, something she can grasp to make her feel safe. Her flight instincts are gonna kick in, her heart beats faster than whatever dream woke her.
She doesn't sense a body stir.
The blonde Kryptonian wakes to blood rushing through vital organs and gasping breaths. She slowly wakes herself up a bit more, trying to be conscious enough to handle what seemed to her like a regular night terror. She slowly sits up and scoots herself closer, gently so as to not startle her girl.
"Lena, baby?"
Lena's head snaps to the sound, her eyes bulge a bit at the intrusion, and her brows then settle ever so slightly at the realization.
"You're home." The once frantic CEO lunges into the reporter's arms, Kara almost topples them over because she didn't have enough time to open her arms wide enough for the sneak attack of hugs.
Lena doesn't cry much in Kara's arms, which should be a good thing. But for emotion-filled nights like these, she would usually let out what she needs to, in the form of crying, sobbing, sometimes even panicking, even with no tangible danger around.
Kara is happy that nights like those are few and far apart since they've moved in together.
Lena's state right now is a bit alarming. The dark-haired woman is just sitting there, motionless in her girlfriend's arms. Barley squeezing enough into the hug for Kara to feel.
"Is Alex ok?" At that, Kara sits Lena back a little, so they are facing one another and are able to look into each other's eyes.
She gently answers in a low voice, cautious not to disturb the peace of the house. "Yes, she is ok. She's a tiny bit hurt and will be back to kicking ass in no time. We'll check tomorrow to see if she is a good candidate for your nanobots program so she should be good in another day or two."
The youngest Luthor hangs her head at that. She still feels unsettled, like she doesn't believe it to be true unless she sees Alex with her own eyes.
Lena tries to get up, but the blonde stops her from moving."I wanna see her."
"Baby, she's resting. I can hear her heart, it's ok. You, on the other hand, need to try and get back to sleep."
At that, the Luthors' tears fall, just a little though. She sniffles at the effort to conceal her upset.
"Come on, it's ok, let's try to get some more rest. I'll make you french toast for breakfast."
"You mean Sam will make me french toast for breakfast." She snuggles a bit close to the blonde Kryptonian, with that, also trying to stifle her laugh.
"Hey! That's.... Accurate, but totally mean." Kara tickles her side and Lena yelps at the abrupt touch and squeals and tries to shuffle away.
They settle a couple of minutes later and not even ten minutes after the tickle fest, the reporter is softly snoring next to her still wide awake girlfriend.
The raveness had no plans to go back into slumber without seeing if Lexi was ok with her own eyes. It's not that she didn't trust Kara's assessment, of course, who else is more qualified than her own sister to know if she was ok. She knows, logically, that Alex is fine, and if she wasn't, Kara would be far from being asleep so soundly right now. Her 'stupid' brain can't shut off the ever rushing anxiety. It feels like bees buzzing around in her veins, and every now and then, her anxiety would spike and it feels like millions of them swarm and sting her in bunched-up areas, she never knows when they will settle, and then start the process again.
This feeling, it clouds her vision. She can't possibly go back to sleep, even if she is so tired to the point she would literally fall asleep while standing or in the middle of a heated conversation. It feels like she has been injected with caffeine and sugar and she is in the ever-flowing limbo of overdosing on the energy-consuming drugs.
After sitting with her thoughts, the CEO gently pries herself from the supers grip, confident that she won't disturb the peace, seeing as to how tired her puppy girlfriend is from the earlier events.
Lena creeps down the hall, clad in socks so her footsteps would most likely go unnoticed, she tries to peek through the crack that was left from the throuples door, she stands on her toes to try and get a good look at the lumps of bodies centered on the bed.
A cold hand touches down on her shoulder, which is cold from the frigid temperature of the house. Her heated shoulder almost welcomes the icicles, her body has almost broken out in a sweat from being wrapped in blankets and sleeping next to the space heater Kryptonian. The contrast of temperatures almost settles her leaping soul but a surprised squeak still releases from her startled body.
Lena whips her head around to get a look at the stranger. Their hands lift up in the air in surrender, well, one does. The other is clutched close to their stomach, their shirt slouches and a white bandage peaks out from the exposed skin.
"Lexi?" The relieved brunette doesn't wait for a response, she crashes their bodies together and molds herself to Alex, forgetting about the injury. Luckily for both, her head makes contact with the opposite shoulder, they both melt into the comfort.
Lena cries, she cries and cries, she tries to keep down her hiccuping sobs, she is happy that the rest of the house is dead to the world so no one stumbles on a snot and tear-stained Luthor. She doesn't notice that Alex has moved them into a seated position on the couch, she all but crawls on the red-haired agent's lap. Alex manages to situate them comfortably, as close as humanly possible without Lena sitting directly on her lap, even if they both would feel comfortable in the innocent position.
"It's ok, Kar is ok, I'm ok, we are all fine Lee, it doesn't even hurt, it's nothing." Lena doesn't acknowledge Alex's reassurances, she tries to bury her head further into the shortly cut locks that whine around the agent's head. Her forehead presses and rubs against the shaved sides and she feels comfort at the feeling that she is really here and ok, alive and ok.
The baby CEO tries to soak up as much comfort as possible in this moment, taking as much as she can get. Alex's arm wraps around her snug, squeezing with just enough force to ground her. The bees start to settle into their slumber, she can still feel the flapping of their tiny wings throughout her veins but this beats their constant stinging in the hours prior.
Her tears have dissipated and only now and then a sniffle can be heard over the humming of the air conditioner. Lena chances a glance at Alex. She lifts up her face and the redhead is met with puffy red-rimmed eyes and flushed cheeks. Her nose is red from the constant rubbing from trying to get the snot from leaking.
Hair wants to stick to the CEO's wet temples, Alex happily brushes them away from her eyes and mouth, she gives her a little smile at the quick eye contact Lena decided to make.
"Look at me Lee," green pierces brown, "I'm ok, ok?" Lena nods her head finally, she lets out a deep breath, she can feel at peace. She is safe now.
In a small voice, "I just- I had to see. I had to see for myself that you were here, that you were actually ok." She lets out a frustrated sigh. Saying it out loud makes her feel so stupid. All of this crying makes her feel embarrassed. She can feel the drying of the wetness on her skin, she scrubs roughly at her face to get rid of the tightness. She goes to duck her head so as to not face a head-on collision of embarrassment, but Alex doesn't let her. Damn you Lexi!!
"I know what you're thinking, Maggie does the same thing, and Kara for a little while too. Your feelings, whatever they are, they're valid, one hundo percent. It's ok to feel this way, sad, angry, upset, overwhelmed and anxious. I understand that, and I'm sorry for being the reason you have to feel all of these things. But Lee, I'm here, I'm ok now." They sit there, taking a silent needed breather from the clash of feelings.
"Ok, let's go to the bathroom and get your face cleaned up, and then I'll make you some tea. I kinda need a snack, I'm absolutely starving." The agent's stomach growls on that note, loud enough to fill in the silence around them.
Alex gently nudges the youngest Luthor off of her and they both rise from the couch and quietly shuffle around the house to head to the second guest bathroom.
"I can do it myself, you're hurt, you need to-" Alex puts a hand on her shoulder to stop the beginning of her rambling.
"It's ok Lena, I promise." She smiles once more at the girl, bigger than the one she gave before.
Lena stops talking and Alex guides her to the closed lid of the toilet seat. She fidgets with her fingers at the building uneasiness. Alex wets a cloth under warm water and rings out all the excess liquid. Alex moves closer to the smaller girl, Lena can smell the fresh honey scent, how do the Danvers always smell like sugar? During the gentle scrubbing, Lena ends up playing with the hem of the agent's shirt and picks at the fraying of the cotton fabric.
When she is done with the face cleaning, Alex gives an animated and exaggerated kiss to Lena's forehead. "Lexi!" The shorter girl giggles at the wetness left, Alex dabs it off with the now cooled cloth.
"Okie dokie, all done, come, let's get you some tea and I want some of that pasta I smelled when I got home."
Alex sets the kettle and warms up the food while Lena flips through the channels on the couch, the baby brunette was rushed out of the kitchen when she insisted she could do this herself. One glare and now she is waiting patiently for a hot cup of tea.
Alex turns off the kettle just before it boils. She puts the water and tea bag in a sippy cup she found in the cabinet. A cup that was lost here a couple of weeks ago must have been found last week when the cleaning service came over for a deep cleaning. The red-haired agent is unsure if she is going to be responsive to the childish cup. It's pink with handles on each side, and it's fitted with soft grips. The spout is soft and flexible, rather than the hard kind, it's barely weathered, it wasn't one of Maggie's favourites so they didn't mind losing it.
While Alex eats the pasta, she lets the tea cool so it can reach an enjoyable temperature to drink. She looks at the baby Luthor and her heart warms at the sight. She cuddles up under a blanket, her body turned away from Alex, feet just under her thighs and arms wrapped up comfortably under her chin, the blanket covers just under her nose. She watches the mute cooking show that plays on the TV.
Alex takes the chance, she quickly gobbles up the food and water without choking. She takes the sippy and brings it to the couch for Lena to sip at.
The redhead takes her seat on the right side of Lena, she lets the Luthor cuddle up close to her.
"I wanted you to relax and be comfortable, this cup won't spill." Lena eyes the cup, her brows scrunch up along with her nose at the insinuation of using such a tool be given to her by anyone other than Kara. Alex pets her hair and waits for a response.
The raveness takes the cup without protest, she brings the teet up to her lips and takes a couple of cursory sucks. She coos at the warm liquid hitting her tongue, she sucks a bit harder to get more of it out fast.
"Slow sucks baby." Alex guides her to lay down a bit, she fluffs up a smaller blanket to lay on her lap, making a makeshift pillow for Lena to lay on. Lena holds the cup and takes a sip here and there, her eyes are on the TV but she is barely paying attention to the cooks running around on screen. Her eyes start to droop, she's sleepy, her hands droop too, the rubber end of the bottle shifts in her mouth and dislodges itself without prompting. The barely awake CEO makes a discontent grunt. Warmed hands meet her own, Alex gently takes hold of the offending bottle and holds it up comfortably for the Luthor to sip at. Five minutes later, a bit of tea dribbles from the corner of her mouth and the room's silence is no more, for it is now filled with the sounds of a softly snoring Lena.
Alex takes the quarter full cup from her friend's lips, and wipes away the remnants of the liquid. She settles in, running her finger through thick black seeming locks and lets out a content sigh of her own. Her own lids start to close longer than they are open and in no time, her fingers stop their ministrations and she drifts off into sleep herself. Not even the light from the TV can rob them of their sleep, they don't wake once throughout the rest of the night, not even when a smaller body shifts on Alex's injured side and takes sleep for themselves.
Lena's nose twitches at the increase of vanilla and honey scent, it's not her fault she dreams of vanilla ice cream and giant fluffy buzzing bees, these don't sting!
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Alex_Grey_5388 Hope this chap was ok. A lot is to come in the upcoming chapters. Lena is special and this moment here was a stepping stone for her. She and Alex's relationship is important and just know there is more to come.
much love :))
~ Lex
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