Hello there, so this monster sort of spawned from an anon showing up on tumblr and asking What if there was a baby in the pod, and then a bunch of subsequent anon prompts that led to the forming of this AU. It's mostly finished at 43 ficlets, which for this first posting have all been arranged in chronological order, if I add more onto this, obviously that'll go out the window, but for now at least it's all nicely put together. I'll start with the first prompt that brought about this whole world and go from there, I hope y'all enjoy. Oh and if anyone has another prompt hit me up at writebethany on tumblr and send it in.

The baby lands in the pod wearing the In-Ze crest. Of course Alex does genetic testing to back up their suspicions that it's Astra's child. Even before the genetic tests Alex sees the crest and is like "I'm taking her home." Kara, of course doesn't like that because it's her cousin after all, and finally she can actually raise one baby cousin after failing the other. But Alex argues with her. Kara is Supergirl, has a demanding job on top of that and lives in a loft. Alex has the medical knowledge and has actually handled a fair amount of kids from babysitting gigs and summer camp jobs. It only makes sense for her to take the baby. That doesn't mean that Kara can't totally live on her couch though and help out because this is a Kryptonian baby. On Earth. Superpowered shenanigans are bound to happen at some point and it's better that Kara is there to help out.

It's almost a year before Astra's own pod comes crashing down. Alex is there when they open the pod and she sobs when she sees Astra whole again. The sun had done its magic when Astra had cleared the earth's orbit. She just had to circle back around again to land once more and it had taken so long. Alex calls Kara who meets them at the DEO while they clear Astra to make sure she's really ok. They sort of avoid the topic of the baby for a long while because they don't know how in the world Astra had a kid and she literally just resurrected. There's a time and place for questions. But of course they have to tell her before Alex takes her home and so they do in a quiet backroom of the DEO. Astra tears up when they tell her, but the tears don't fall. She'd sent the little girl off in a pod not long after they landed on Earth. The sun had allowed her to have children, but Non…she feared what Non would do to the girl and so she programmed the pod to circle the Earth a few times before crashing down. Only something must have knocked it off course if she only landed just a few months before. Astra doesn't quite know what to do now that she actually has a chance to raise her little girl, but she stands and tells Alex to take her to her daughter anyway.

The co-parenting happens by small margins. First Astra sleeps on the couch, taking Kara's place. Kara's role truly falls back into that of a loving cousin now that Astra is there and she spoils the kid like mad. Astra and Alex fall into a routine. Astra spends most of the day at home, except when the DEO truly needs her, Alex works as normal. She comes home to her two favorite girls with a smile and a god awful amount of groceries most nights. Feeding two Kryptonians is an undertaking. She smiles and laughs with the baby and smiles up at Astra. Somewhere along the line Astra stops sleeping on the couch. They hardly even notice. It's just practical after all. Then bed sharing and child rearing turns to kisses on the cheek and hugs and that turns into just plain kisses which evolves into a full on relationship. It's comfortable, not easy, but comfortable because of just how slowly it evolved, how naturally. And before the baby even starts pre-school they're as family as family can be. The little girl grows up with two loving mothers, a cousin who sneaks her too much ice cream, a grandmother who knows how to make the best chocolate pecan pie in the galaxy, and plenty of honorary aunts and uncles who always have a smile at the ready just for her.