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Not quite awake yet, Maggie rolled over in bed, searching for the warmth of Kara’s body, but it wasn’t there. She peeked one eye open and saw that Alex was still there on her side, so she scooched over to snuggle into the crook of her girlfriend’s arm. Since the redhead wore tanktops to bed, there was plenty of exposed skin underneath her lips, and she couldn’t resist placing a few kisses there on Alex’s shoulder and collarbone. A few kisses turned into more and more, and she worked her way up Alex’s neck, sucking lightly on her pulse point, careful not to leave any marks for Eliza to give them a hard time about later. She checked the clock. Only 7:14am. They had plenty of time for a little love before they had to be up. It was the first day of their four-day weekend, afterall.
Alex stretched herself awake and squeezed the detective as a silent ‘good morning.’ She wasn’t much for talking when she first woke up. She let Maggie continue to kiss her, threading her fingers encouragingly through long, raven locks. The hitching of her breath told the Latina that her ministrations were working. Maggie let her hands join in on the fun, snaking up Alex’s tank top and caressing her breasts. She let her thumbs trace across drowsy nipples, encouraging them to awaken as well. Alex let out a sigh of pleasure.
“Who’s my girl?” Maggie whispered in her ear. She knew she had to be extra quiet due to the time of day it was. The twins would probably be up with Kara in a few minutes.
Alex grabbed the back of Maggie’s knee and pulled her into a straddling position, then pulled her down into a deep kiss. They stayed like that for a while, kissing and grinding against one another, their hands wandering.
Maggie was so in love with Alex Danvers, it hurt. She wished there was a way for them to be closer than what making love allowed, but physicists hadn’t figured that out yet, so she’d settle for the sex. She’d just have to make sure it was really good. Fuck it. So what, if the kids heard them? She was overflowing with love for this woman, and she wanted her to feel it. “You’re so beautiful, Alex. So perfect. How did I get so lucky to have you?”
They ground their hips harder into one another, then Maggie slipped her knee in between Alex’s, pressing upward, and giving her girlfriend the desired pressure. The redhead whimpered in pleasure, “Oh, yes!”
Maggie tugged desperately at Alex’s shirt. This morning, she couldn’t get the agent undressed fast enough. She wasn’t sure what had gotten into herself, but Alex wasn’t complaining, so she kept going, full of enthusiasm. Alex’s shirt removed, the detective settled her stomach between her girlfriend’s legs and wrapped her lips around the agent’s nipple, suckling like the pro that she was. Alex clutched the back of Maggie’s head for dear life, trying not to cry out, and failing miserably. The Latina mentally patted herself on the back. She loved the way the redhead growled when she was trying to be quiet. It was such a turn on. She wiggled herself against Alex’s center, enjoying the squirming she got in return. After a minute or two, she switched to the other side, taking her time teasing her partner. Alex once told her that she loved to be teased because it made her come harder. That was exactly Maggie’s plan. She wanted to make Alex scream loud enough to scare the kids and piss Kara off. This was probably one of those thoughts that would have Jennifer calling her a sociopath. Oh, well. Jennifer was gone. Maggie had upgraded. Times three. And the best of those three was here, writhing happily beneath her, making her feel like no one ever had before. She slipped her hands under the waistband of Alex’s pants and squeezed her ass hard, eliciting another one of those beautiful growls.
“Oh, fuck!” Alex groaned.
Maggie grinned and squeezed again.
“Ah! Yes!” she ground out through gritted teeth.
The Latina chuckled. “You like that, baby girl?” Apparently, she’d picked up Kara’s nickname for her without realizing it.
Alex didn’t seem to mind. “Mm-hmm,” she nodded, with a kiss, stroking Maggie’s spine. “This needs to come off, though.” The agent tugged the detective’s sports bra off, and returned to caressing her back. “That’s much better.”
“I have to agree.” Maggie crouched back over her girlfriend and started kissing her lips again, letting Alex’s hands run teasingly up and down her back side. “Mmm, I love the way you touch me.”
“Likewise," Alex panted. "Please, don’t stop.”
The detective hummed and kissed her way down Alex’s torso, slowing when she got to her belly, kissing across her skin and around the waistband of her pajama bottoms. She was, apparently, too slow at removing the rest of her partner’s remaining clothes because the agent reached down and started pushing her pants down her hips.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” Maggie grabbed her by the wrists. “I didn’t say you could do that. I thought you didn’t want me to stop.”
“I don’t.”
“Then we go at my pace.” She placed Alex’s hands around her neck. “No pulling,” she warned.
“Yes, ma’am.”
Maggie tugged Alex's waistband down just the slightest bit, so it still covered her pubic hair line, and trailed her tongue along her skin there.
“Maggie, please, fuck me. I'm so ready.”
The Latina took a firm hold of her partner’s pants and underwear and tugged them off. She didn't dive right in, though. She kissed her way slowly up each leg, from her ankles to the apex of her thighs, making Alex whimper in desperation. When she finally touched the redhead’s labia with her tongue, they both moaned in pleasure.
“Oooh, yes!” Alex scratched the back of Maggie’s head in encouragement, but didn't pull on her, thankfully. Sometimes Alex was so used to being with the Kryptonian with super-strength that she would forget her own strength with her very human girlfriend. Strange, that it would be the human partner that Maggie had to be concerned about being hurt by, and not the Kryptonian. In fact, Kara was the picture of self-control, whereas Alex was often wild and unbridled. That was one of the things she loved most about the agent, though. If Alex didn’t have that side of her, Maggie would be completely uninterested in her.
The detective teased her partner’s sex with her tongue, dragging the wetness around, getting it everywhere she wanted. As if it wasn’t good enough for the Fates to drop the most amazing woman ever into her life, she was also the best tasting, hands down. Maggie had yet to reach a point of being tired of eating her. She could probably do it for hours, if they had the time. She went slowly, alternately licking Alex’s pussy and biting the insides of her thighs. Every time she bit Alex, the agent would swear loudly. If the kids weren’t awake before, they probably were now. Maggie chuckled evilly at the thought.
“Laugh it up, bitch. You're next.”
Maggie stopped and raised an eyebrow, “Am I?”
Alex whimpered, “Mmm! Don't stop!”
“I think you need to check yourself before giving me any more orders.” She sat up on her knees menacingly.
“OK! OK! I'm sorry!”
“Beg me, and I'll give you what you want.”
The agent growled first, but then obeyed, whimpering, “Please, Maggie! Please, don't stop! Please fuck me already! I’ll die, if you don't!”
Maggie was still smirking. “That's more like it.” She finally lowered herself down to wrap her lips around the redhead’s clit and sucked hard.
“OOOOOOHHH, FUCK!” Alex grabbed her head way too hard.
Maggie pulled away and grabbed her by the wrists. “You just lost your touching privileges.” She forced Alex’s hands up above her head. “Don’t let go of the headboard.”
The agent whined.
“Hush. It’s your own fault. You’re lucky that I’m even still going to finish you off.” She bit one of Alex’s nipples until she cried out - whether it was from pleasure or pain, Maggie didn’t care. She just wanted Alex to scream for her. She dipped her tongue into her girlfriend’s navel, then traced down her lower abdomen, all the way back to her clit. She circled lightly, barely touching.
“Maggie, please, don’t tease me anymore! I’m begging you! Please, please, please!”
“God, I love the way you beg,” she growled happily.
“Please, Maggie, please.”
The Latina pressed down harder and brought her fingers to Alex’s dripping sex, wetting them thoroughly. At first, Maggie just teased her entrance, but after a few more pleas, she relented and pushed all the way in with two fingers, then shortly afterward, a third.
“Oh, Rao, yes!”
Maggie tried not to laugh when Alex used that expression, but it was hard. It was bad enough when Kara said it, but the fact that Alex tried so hard to be as Kryptonian as possible for her wife was a bit over the top. Although, maybe she shouldn’t laugh too much because it was that mindset that allowed her to be in this insane, beautiful polyamorous relationship that made this moment possible. She finally gave the agent the pressure with her mouth and hands that she wanted. She built up a steady rhythm, matching the strokes of both her tongue and fingers.
Alex’s legs started to shake as Maggie took her higher and higher, and she squirmed and panted and cursed, and begged for more. Then, when Maggie finally, finally let her come, there was no stopping the scream that erupted from her lungs in her pleasure. The detective helped her ride out her orgasm to the very end, and then worked her up again, and again, until the redhead was just a weak, quivering heap laying in the bed.
When it was all over, she’d lost track of how many times Alex came. Maggie kissed her way back up Alex’s body, then kissed her lips as tenderly as could be - as if she hadn’t just teased the ever-loving daylights out of her, and followed up with several power plays, and fucked her until she couldn’t move. Alex ate it up. Maggie knew the agent was a romantic at heart, and all the teasing in the world would mean nothing, if it weren’t being done by someone she loved deeply. This was the detective’s confirmation of that love. Yes, she took full control of the situation, but it was all for Alex’s ultimate pleasure because when it came right down to it, Maggie Sawyer was just a girl in love trying to express herself in one of the best ways she knew how.
“I’m hungry,” the detective announced, grabbing her sports bra and putting it back on. “You want some breakfast?”
The redhead mumbled something unintelligible, so Maggie just chuckled while she stole one of Alex’s shirts. After that, she decided to make some eggs and toast. And coffee. Lots of coffee.
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Kara woke up really early that Friday morning. She was just way too excited about their Christmas vacation. They already had all their stuff packed and ready to go, so she started needlessly cleaning the apartment in order to kill some time until the rest of her family woke up. That took all of twenty minutes, so then she decided to do a patrol as Supergirl. Nothing bad was really happening anywhere, so another half an hour later, and she was back home. When she flew through the window, her ears were accosted by the TV in the living room on at full volume, and more music was blasting from the kitchen, where the cooking fan was on, and the twins were sitting at the kitchen table with headphones over their ears and horrified looks on their faces.
“What’s going on here?” she hollered over all the racket. Then she heard it - Alex’s loud cursing coming from the bedroom. Using her X-ray vision, she peered through the apartment walls and, sure enough, there was Maggie, going to town, while parked between Alex’s legs. Her mouth dropped when she realized how loud her wife was being. “OK. Get your shoes. Chop, chop. We’re going to breakfast.”
“But, Mama, we’re still in our pajamas!” Jamie protested. “And I am not going in there to change right now!”
“Don’t worry about it,” Kara told them. “It’s your Christmas vacation. Call it an adventure. Let’s go!” She quickly changed back into the pajamas she’d been wearing before she’d gone out. They were decent enough. “See? Mama’s wearing her PJ’s too.”
Jessie was easily convinced. Jamie struggled a little more with her propriety. The next curse word screamed by her mother had her convinced, though. “Forget it. Let’s go.”
Kara snatched up her keys, phone, and purse, and they headed out the door like the devil himself was behind them. What the hell was Alex thinking, being that loud?! Kara was pissed now. Her wife knew better than to behave that way! The kids didn’t need to hear that kind of thing!
When they got to their minivan, she climbed into the driver’s seat and pulled out her phone. Kara had an idea. She texted Lena to see if she was awake.
Kara: Hey, good morning, beautiful!
Kara: *grinning emoji*
She received an immediate answer.
Lena: Good morning, beautiful, yourself.
Kara: The girls and I are headed to breakfast in our jammies. Are you interested in joining us? *pleading emoji*
Lena: My “jammies” aren’t exactly decent for public.
Kara: Just wear something really casual, then.
Lena: That is doable. Where are you going?
Kara: Probaby Pete’s Flapjack Shack on 5th and Turner. The kids love that place.
Kara: And maybe I do too. *winking emoji*
Lena: Sounds great. I’ll meet you there.
Kara: Yay! *clapping emoji*
Kara: See you soon! *thumbs up emoji* *waving emoji* *kiss emoji*
Lena: See you soon. *kiss emoji*
“Yay, Lena!” Jessie and Jamie clapped their hands. They had been reading over her shoulder, so she didn’t have to explain anything to them.
“Alright, get buckled in, so we can go!” The kids quickly obeyed, and they were off.
The restaurant they were going to was closer to Lena’s place than theirs, so Kara tried to be expedient without breaking traffic laws. She didn’t want Lena to have to be waiting by herself. When they got there, the CEO had yet to arrive, so they got a table for four, ordered some juice and waited for her. They didn’t have to wait too long, but the way Lena was dressed, they almost didn’t recognize her. She had on a pair of loose-fitting jeans, a grey Yale hoodie, and a 90’s style black baseball cap with a silver L-Corp ‘L’ on it. If one didn’t know any better, they’d think she was just your average Plain Jane, come to breakfast with her friends.
“Lena!” the girls were up and out of their seats to hug her as soon as they noticed her.
“Hi, girls,” she squeezed them both with all her might. “How are you?”
“Great, now!” Jamie answered.
“Yeah,” Jessie agreed.
“Hi, sweetheart,” Kara greeted her.
“Hello, darling,” Lena took her hat off, leaving her hair in her ponytail, and sat down next to the blonde, giving her kisses. “It’s so nice to finally be able to do that.”
“Agreed,” Kara grinned beatifically, kissing her again.
The kids whined.
“Don’t you think we’ve been traumatized enough?” Jamie complained.
“Oh, come on!” Kara defended. “It’s just kissing!”
The twins pouted.
Kara pouted right back. “You guys, I'm sorry, but I can't help it. I had to wait a long time to be able to kiss Lena. A few kisses aren't going to hurt you. It's not like we're making out in front of you. Or worse.”
“You were kissing in front of us last weekend,” Jamie pointed out.
“No,” Kara corrected, “You were infringing on our adult time by being out of bed way past bedtime. That’s your own fault that you saw things you didn’t want to see. And you were in the kitchen the whole time, anyway.”
“Not the whole time,” Jessie contradicted.
“Like I said, anything you saw last Saturday was your own fault. You have a bedtime for a reason.”
Just then the waitress came and asked to take their orders. Kara and the kids ordered the works - pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, biscuits and gravy. When Lena only ordered a bowl of oatmeal and a fruit cup, the kids looked at her quite bewildered.
“That’s all you’re getting?” Jessie exclaimed.
“Yes. I’m not in the habit of eating a lot. I don’t have your metabolism, after all.”
Kara wrapped her arms around the brunette. “We would still love you, even if you gained a hundred pounds.”
The kids nodded emphatically.
“Five hundred pounds!” Jamie added.
“A thousand!” Jessie upped the ante.
Lena giggled. “Thanks, ladies.” She gave Kara another kiss, and the kids let it slide this time, thankfully.
Kara kept her arms around Lena. It felt so good to finally hold her and be able to express their feelings openly. She kissed Lena’s temple several times, making the woman laugh and poke her in the ribs. Kara just giggled in response. “Are you all packed and ready to go?” she asked her girlfriend.
“Yes, I am,” Lena confirmed.
“Would you like to just follow us back to our place?” Lena had insisted on driving her own car to Midvale, just in case of emergency. The CEO refused to be that dependent on the Danvers women, and Kara couldn’t convince her otherwise. Luckily, Kara got the go ahead from Alex and Maggie to be able to ride with Lena the whole trip. She could hardly contain her excitement!
“Why not?” Lena agreed. “By the way, where are Alex and Maggie?”
Kara looked at the girls and decided to spare them the words out loud, so she whispered in Lena’s ear, “They were getting a little loud in the bedroom, so I had to get the girls out of there.”
“Ah,” Lena said with a dry chuckle. “Poor things,” she cooed at the kids.
Kara rolled her eyes. “They're fine.”
“I just don't understand why people do that kinda stuff,” Jamie told them. “I can't even imagine wanting to kiss anyone, let alone more than that.”
“Good.” Kara answered. “Let's keep it that way.”
“What about you, Jessie?” Lena asked. “Do you feel the same way?”
The young blonde shrugged. “I don't know. I know I haven't met anyone that I want to kiss, but I guess I don't hate the idea of it. Maybe if I could find someone to love me like Arwen loves Aragorn…” She got a far off look in her eyes.
Kara gazed compassionately at her younger daughter, “Baby, I pray to Rao that you find that kind of love. You are such a good girl. You deserve it. You both do.” When she saw the dubious look on Jamie’s face, she amended, “If you want it.”
Jessie looked gratefully back at her.
“Not till you're older, though, OK?” she added.
Both the twins nodded.
“Not ever,” Jamie scoffed.
Kara smirked. “That’s fine with me.”
Lena chuckled.
“What about kids?” Kara asked her daughter. “Don’t you want to have kids someday? You guys were so excited when we talked about having a baby before.”
“We want you and Mom to have a baby. That’s different,” Jamie told her. “Besides, we live in the twenty-first century. Women don’t have to have a partner to have a baby. There’s science for that. And by the time I’m old enough to have a kid, scientists will be even further along in their studies and technologies. Plus, there’s always adoption. I don’t need a partner. Plain and simple.”
“That just sounds really lonely to me,” Kara commented. “But you do whatever you feel is right for you, sweetheart. Just keep an open mind when you get older. You might change your mind, if you meet the right person.”
Jamie shrugged noncommittally.
Kara wondered if her daughter was going to be asexual, or if she was just being a kid. Either way, she was fine with her not wanting to be in a relationship. For now, it was way too early anyway, and as long as she kept that mindset going, they wouldn’t have to worry about her getting pregnant too early, like her parents did. Or getting someone else pregnant, if the kids turned out to be Alphas, which was still a possibility.
She herself could never imagine a life without a partner. She was incredibly lucky that she and Alex fell in love when they did, and that they’d been together ever since. A life without Alex Danvers as her partner? No thanks. They’ve lived a good life together, and now, with Maggie and Lena, things feel so much fuller and more normal than she ever thought they could be on earth. She thanked Rao for giving her these amazing women and the two most perfect children that ever lived. OK, so maybe they weren’t actually perfect, but to her they were. Maybe in a year or two, she and her partners could talk about having another one. Surely the four of them, plus the twins, would be enough people to take care of one baby. The thought made her a little giddy. They had given up on the idea after she came out as Supergirl, but maybe the hope hadn’t died yet. She looked at Lena and imagined her pregnant. It made her extremely emotional, and she realized what an incredibly beautiful sight that would be. Plus, if Lena had their next child, Alex and Maggie would still be free to get into the action of fighting rogue aliens when need be.
“What?” Lena asked her.
“What, what?” Kara responded in confusion.
“You were giving me a weird look,” the brunette informed.
“I was?” She looked at the twins, who were nodding. “Sorry!”
Lena chuckled. “What were you thinking, my love?”
Kara bit her lip, trying to think of what to say. It was way too early to confess the truth. “I was… just thinking about our future together, and how awesome it’s going to be.” She grinned. There. The truth without the actual truth. Alex would be so proud of her. If the agent weren’t in the doghouse.
Lena smiled adoringly back at her. “You’re such a bad liar.”
The Kryptonian scoffed. “I’m not lying!”
“Sure.”
“I’m not!”
“Whatever you say, dear.”
“Why do you think I’m lying?”
“Kara, you only have a million tells. Where do I begin?”
The blonde pouted. “OK, so maybe I don’t want to say the specific thing I was thinking about, but it’s still the truth. We’re going to have an amazing future together.”
Lena relented with a smirk. “Agreed.” She leaned over and nuzzled her nose against Kara’s, then gave her a couple of quick kisses.
The kids rolled their eyes, but went back to drawing on their placemats. Jamie was drawing a cartoon sketch of the four of them at the table. Jessie was drawing a picture of Supergirl flying through the air above the city. Actually, maybe it was herself because instead of the crest of El, there was a diamond with a ‘J’ inside of it. As Kara watched, another little figure was drawn flying in the background, this one with the crest of El. It was the two of them flying together. She melted inside. It made her feel so good that her daughter felt connected to her like that.
Kara continued to hold Lena, and they snuggled against one another while they watched the girls draw, until their food was finally ready. They ate everything that was brought to them, and the kids tried to feed Lena all sorts of other things besides what she ordered. She ate some of it, but after a while, she claimed to be too full. Kara grabbed the kids’ drawings on the way out and thanked Rao that Lena let her pay for everything without a fuss. Then they all piled into their vehicles and headed back to the Danvers apartment.
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Alex laid panting in the bed, trying to make her brain work again.
“I’m hungry,” the detective announced, grabbing her sports bra and putting it back on. “You want some breakfast?”
“I can't even move right now,” Alex mumbled.
Maggie just chuckled, stole her shirt, and left the room. She returned a few moments later, a concerned look on her face. “Do you know where Kara and the twins are? I went out there, and the TV was on as loud as it could be, and so was the radio in the kitchen, and Kara and the girls were nowhere to be found.”
Alex patted around the bedside table for her phone. When she found it, she dialed her wife’s cell.
“Hello,” Kara answered brusquely.
“Hey, where are you?”
“We had to escape the noise,” the Kryptonian huffed.
“Mmm,” Alex responded groggily. “Where’d you go?”
“Out to breakfast with Lena.”
“Aww,” the redhead lamented.
“Don’t even,” Kara snapped. “You traumatized the kids. We’ll see you when we get home.”
“Are you mad?”
“Yes.” Her wife hung up the phone without another word.
Alex’s heart sank. “Shit,” she sighed to Maggie with a grimace.
The detective just smirked. “It’ll be fine. She’ll get over it.”
“Yeah, but I hate it when Kara’s mad at me,” she sulked. “It’s one of the worst feelings in the world.” It really was. It’s not that Kara was particularly intimidating when she was angry, but just the fact of her being upset made Alex upset. Knowing that the sweet, kind, thoughtful, wonderful Kryptonian was genuinely angry with her, just made her feel incredibly guilty and sad. One of the things that made Alex such a sucker was the fact that she would do just about anything to keep her wife happy and smiling. That was what was best for the world. A smiling Kara Danvers could make anyone’s day brighter, and a sad Kara Danvers could make your heart ache for days.
Maggie’s smirk fell, and she sat down next to Alex on the bed. “I’m sorry. I got a little carried away, I guess. You just make me crazy sometimes. I can’t help it. I love you.”
The agent softened. “I love you too.” They shared a tender kiss.
“I guess we’re on our own for breakfast,” Maggie told her.
“God, haven’t you eaten enough?” Alex teased.
The detective snickered. “Apparently not.”
“I’m not sure my legs are gonna work yet.”
“Alright. I’ll go make some coffee and jump in the shower.”
“Thank you.” Alex just laid there, trying to recover from Maggie’s relentless attentions. God, that woman was amazing! If only she hadn’t let herself get so carried away. Now she had to beg for Kara’s forgiveness. She supposed it must be the day for begging. When she felt like she could get up, she hobbled into the kitchen for some coffee, then when Maggie was done, headed for the bathroom to take a shower. It wouldn’t do for her family to come home and have her reeking of sex on top of everything else. After she was cleaned up, she ambled into the kitchen to get her coffee. Maggie was at the table eating eggs in a basket, and there was another plate sitting across from her, ready for Alex to dig in. “You’re the best,” she told her girlfriend with a kiss.
“I know,” Maggie smirked.
They ate their breakfast and drank their coffee in amicable silence, and when they were done, they washed their dishes by hand, so there weren’t any in the sink or the dishwasher while they were gone. After that, they figured they’d load the minivan up while they were waiting for the others to get back. They didn’t have a set time that they wanted to leave. They’d decided to just wing it, since it was their vacation, but they didn’t want to wait the whole day, either. Eliza was taking off work early that day, so they could spend the weekend together. Just as Kara predicted, she was completely fine with Lena joining them. In fact, she’d said, “A woman like that shouldn’t be alone on Christmas.” Kara was overjoyed.
When Kara and the kids came back with Lena, Alex could tell she was still pissed. It made her heart burn. She clenched her teeth to keep herself together. She refused to show her weakness in front of Maggie and Lena. There were very few things in this world that could make Alex Danvers cry, but having Kara pissed at her was one of them.
“You guys owe the kids an apology,” Kara huffed, as soon as she was through the door.
“Sorry, guys,” Maggie said, easily. “I guess we got a little carried away.”
Alex was more contrite. “I’m really sorry,” she told her kids. “Can you forgive us?”
“I think bribery might be necessary in this case,” Jamie informed her.
Maggie laughed heartily. “What did you have in mind?”
“We don’t have to go to bed until ten every night this weekend,” Jamie suggested.
“Oh, no,” Kara vetoed that idea fast. “No way. You guys get way too grumpy when you don’t get enough sleep. I’m not dealing with that all Christmas weekend.”
The kids pouted and tried to think of something else they wanted. “How about that baby you promised us?” Jessie tried.
“Oh, hell no,” Maggie almost shouted.
“Good grief!” Alex exclaimed. “Are you guys ever gonna let that go? That’s not a bribe! That’s a whole life-style change!”
Jessie seriously looked like she was on the verge of tears. “I’m never gonna have any friends! All I want is for one kid in this world to love me!”
“Your sister loves you!” Alex protested.
“No she doesn’t! She teases me and calls me stupid just as much as everyone else! At least a baby doesn’t know how to call people names and make them feel bad for existing. All a baby knows how to do is love people.”
Heart screaming, Alex pulled her daughter into an embrace, breaking the dam of both of their tears. “Shh,” she rocked her crying child, trying to comfort her. “Jessie, everyone here loves you more than words can express. Plus, there’s Grandma, and Winn, and James and Lucy, and Douglas, and all kinds of people!”
“No one my age!” Jessie sobbed. “It’s not fair!”
“I know, baby. I know.” She stroked her daughter’s hair and kissed her forehead. Her poor kid. “It’s not fair. If I knew how to give you all the friends you could handle, I would do anything to make that happen. But having a baby isn’t what you think it is. It isn’t just love and cuddles all the time. Babies cry a lot, and they poop and pee and throw up on everything, and then when they get older, they start talking back and getting into everything, and the next thing you know, you’re cleaning peanut butter off of every available inch of the kitchen because your toddler snuck out of bed and got into the cupboards.”
That made Jessie laugh through her tears because she knew that she had done exactly that several times as a toddler.
Alex continued her soothing with rocking and kisses. “And babies don’t stay babies forever. Look at you. You’re only eleven years old, and you’re already so grown up.”
Jessie glanced up and gave her a grateful look. “Thanks, Mom.”
When Alex looked up at the rest of the group, she saw that they were all holding back their own tears. Jamie especially looked quite grieved. Good. Maybe this will make her stop calling her sister stupid.
“Here,” Maggie shoved a twenty at the preteen. “Bribery.”
Jessie sniffled. “Thanks.”
Jamie raised her eyebrow and held out her hand.
“Oh, for crying out loud,” Maggie pulled out another twenty and gave it to the other twin.
Alex chuckled. “Come on, baby,” she stroked her daughter’s back. “Let’s get a move on. If we’re not there by the time Grandma gets home from work, her feelings will be hurt.”
“Is Grandma Maureen gonna be there?” Jessie wanted to know.
“I don’t know,” she answered. “You’ll have to ask Grandma when we see her. But see? There’s another person who loves you.”
Jessie nodded nearly imperceptibly.
“You girls go get changed and make sure you’ve got everything you want to bring. I gotta talk to Mama real quick.” She took Kara by the hand. “Excuse us, for a second,” she told Lena and Maggie. She lead Kara to their bedroom and closed the door. “OK, so, on a scale of one to ten, how mad are you?”
Kara super-sped into her regular clothes, then crossed her arms over her chest. “Five.”
“Ouch! What do I have to do to make it up to you?”
“I don’t know,” Kara shrugged. “I’ll think about it. But really, it’s your kids that you need to make it up to. They’re the ones that were traumatized.”
“They were not traumatized!” Alex huffed. “They’ll be fine. They’re not gonna go out and murder a bunch of people, just because they heard their mom having sex.”
Kara rolled her eyes. “Whatever. You tell them they weren’t traumatized, and we’ll see how well that goes over, shall we?” She walked past Alex and out of the room.
“We’re ready!” the kids said, as they came out of their room, dressed, and with a few random things clutched in their hands.
Alex followed the blondes out into the living room where Maggie and Lena were making out rather enthusiastically.
“Oh, come on!” Jamie groaned.
The two broke apart, with Lena looking a little sheepish, but Maggie seemed more gleeful than ever. “Guess what!” the detective told her excitedly.
“What?” Alex guessed.
“Lena said we could drive the Porsche!” Alex had never seen Maggie look like such an ecstatic little kid before. The woman seemed about two seconds away from squeeing like a lovesick teenager. No wonder they were kissing so intensely a moment ago.
Alex, however, wasn’t cheered up. Her wife was upset with her, and her daughter felt like no one loved her. All in all, she felt like a failure right now, and it didn’t so much feel like ‘getting to ride in the Porsche,’ as much as it felt like ‘getting a timeout from her family.’ “Great,” she responded brusquely. “Let’s go.”
“What’s wrong?” Maggie asked, losing her smile altogether.
“Nothing. Forget it. Let’s go.”
Maggie looked at Kara expectantly, but the Kryptonian just stared coldly back at her. “Oh. Come on, Kara, don’t be mad. You’re gonna start our trip off on the wrong foot.”
“I’m gonna start us on the wrong foot?! You guys were the ones who couldn’t control yourselves this morning!”
“Come on, no one really got hurt. Do you really want to make me ride in the car with Alex looking like that for the next two hours?”
“Excuse you,” Alex snapped.
“Babe, you look like someone just killed your puppy,” Maggie told her.
Oh. Now she could feel her face turned down, but she couldn’t help it.
Kara looked at the kids. “What do you say, guys? Should we forgive them?”
The girls nodded amicably.
“Thanks,” Alex held her arms out to them, and they hugged her in return. That made her feel slightly better. “I love you girls so much.” She gazed hopefully up at her wife. “I love you too, Kara.”
“I love you too, Alex.” She hugged the redhead, who melted into her.
This was what she needed. Kara was her source of comfort in this world. If Kara was mad at her, she had nothing, and she felt alone and unbalanced. Nothing was right with the world until Kara held her and told her she loved her again.
The Kryptonian took a big sniff of her neck, and then whispered in her ear, “I think you’re about to start your period, if you haven’t already.”
“Seriously?” Alex lamented. “God dammit!” She stomped into the bathroom and slammed the door behind her, grabbing some of her female hygiene products and stuffing them in a travel bag.
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“Now what’s wrong?” Maggie asked Kara.
The Kryptonian sighed and answered very softly, “I told her she’s about to start her period.”
“Oh,” Maggie said thoughtfully. “That probably means I will too, since you said we’re in sync now.”
“Probably. ” Kara stepped up to her and smelled her neck. “Definitely.”
“Damn,” Maggie complained.
“You can smell that kind of thing?” Lena asked uncomfortably.
“I can smell everything,” Kara admitted. The more I get to know you, the more I know what kind of mood you’re in just by how you smell.”
Lena frowned. “That’s… invasive.”
“I’m sorry!” she answered, a little too whiny. I don’t mean to! It’s just the way it is!”
“Mama, when do you think we’ll get our periods?” Jamie asked curiously.
“Uuuhhhhh…” Kara had no idea what to say. She didn’t even know if they were going to have periods. Kryptonians didn’t get periods, but there was no way of knowing if they were going to be Alphas, Omegas, or just plain human until some evidence finally presented itself. “It’s hard to tell,” she answered vaguely.
“Yes, everyone’s different,” Lena supplied helpfully.
“How old were you guys when you started your periods?” Jessie wanted to know.
“I had just turned twelve,” Lena told them. “I'll spare you the details, but it was probably one of the most embarrassing times of my life.”
The twins grimaced.
Maggie pursed her lips in thought. “I think I was about thirteen or fourteen. But I was a late bloomer.”
“What about you, Mama?”
“Um… Well… I don't exactly… Um…”
“OK, everyone, let’s move out before something else comes up, and I have to go ballistic,” Alex announced as she came out of the bathroom with a new travel bag.
“Mom, how old were you when you first started your period?” Jessie asked.
Alex frowned while she thought about it. “I think I was around your age. Why?”
“They were wondering when they were going to start their periods.” Kara raised her eyebrow pointedly.
“Oh. Hmm. That’s a good question. You know, maybe Lena and Maggie should take the Porsche on the first half of the trip, so we can talk to the girls about that.”
“You think we should?” Kara asked nervously.
Alex took a deep breath and let it out. “Yeah, I mean, don’t you? What if they never bleed? They need to know why. ”
“You’re right. But this is going to be awkward at best. ”
“I know . I’m sorry. ”
By the look on Lena’s face, you would have thought it was already Christmas morning, and she had the most presents out of everyone. “Is that Kryptonian?” she asked in fascination.
“Yep,” Kara answered.
“Cool!” the twins gasped. “I wanna learn!”
“You took the words right out of my mouth,” Lena said.
Kara grinned. “You got it!”