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Shot Series Name: The Super-Small Issue.
Rating: T.
Relevant Information: Lena knows that Kara is Supergirl, even though she has not been told by Kara herself. This one is set in season two, but Kara and Mon-El never dated.
Writing Information: Writing in italics are a character's thoughts
The Super Small Issue.
Part III: Saying 'No' Is Impossible Already- Now It's Worse.
It taken them well over an hour to get Kara ready to leave Lena's house and on the way to the DEO. Kara had needed to eat, her ravenous hunger allowing her to drink her way through five bottles of formula in one sitting, before burping up some vomit and downing another bottle after exclaiming that she was 'hun'gy'.
Then came the fun of trying to change and dress baby Supergirl, as she couldn't stay in her Supergirl suit indefinitely, and all the crying and distress from earlier had caused her to have an accident which needed to be taken care of. Lena needed to change her clothes as well and Kara's Supergirl suit would need a wash, as well as a theory on how to change it back to the right size- Kara too.
Lena had no idea how to change a baby, Alex didn't either, and neither did Maggie.
In the end the three women had to resort to looking up instructions online on how to change Kara into a diaper and how to correctly dress her in the white onesie Maggie had brought.
After some bickering over who should change and dress Kara it was Maggie who took charge, earning her an impressed look from Alex as Kara continued to only have eyes for Lena, who was distracting her with a set of keys.
One thing all three women had quickly noticed is that Kara would become extremely agitated and distressed if the CEO was too far away from her and would only calm when she could see her best friend or was being held by her. Where the sudden attachment and need to be close to the youngest Luthor came from none of them knew, but as being with Lena seemed to keep Kara calmer and happier- as well as quieter- they decided to not question it any further.
It did however mean that Lena had been brought to the DEO, and that in itself earnt them some strange looks as they entered the building. The looks only growing in intensity as the agents noticed the fact that Lena Luthor was carrying a small blonde-haired baby in her arms. A silence fell upon the DEO as they noticed baby Kara who had been happily babbling away in Lena's arms as she was carried through the building. As the agents continued to fall silent and stare as they passed, Kara had begun to squirm in Lena's arms, quietening her babbles to little whimpers and trying to hide away against Lena's collarbone. Lena could only hold the baby version of her best friend tightly to try and comfort her as they moved towards the medical bay.
Upon reaching the medical bay, J'onn had joined them and quickly asked Lena and Maggie to step outside as they examined Kara, which was not as easy task as trying to pry Kara off Lena was considerably hard due to her crying, kicking and the death grip she had around Lena's neck.
In the end J'onn himself had to remove her, and Kara was then more than happy to be passed over into sister's arms after realising Lena was no longer in the room and that her sister was the safest option for her out of everyone that was left in the room.
Though it was clear that Kara was not happy, she did quieten and calm in Alex's arms and was content to let the doctors look over her as long as Alex was still holding her while they did so.
Kara had stayed quiet as they checked her weight and measured her height, she let them place her in a machine that had been designed to see how much solar radiation was in her body, she had allowed them to x-ray her and place her in the MRI machine- though she had begun to get restless again as the machine took a while to complete the tests needed and by the time she had been removed she was crying again and reaching her arms out towards Alex.
J'onn had left after taking a phone call from Winn, who had managed to track down where Supergirl had been during the day to try and see if they could find out anything else about what may have happened from the site she had visited. As he left he had asked for the doctor to wrap up the examination as quickly as possible to not agitate Kara any further, and to make sure they had a DNA sample to confirm is was Kara.
Though it was clear to see the baby was Kara in every way, shape, and form, they needed to be 100% sure and the only way to be completely sure was to run her DNA through the database.
The doctor examining Kara was slow and deliberate in what she did, she was not quick, and she was not comforting at all, if anything she was only heightening baby Kara's anxiousness with her comments on how she needed to stop crying and moving so much so they could get an accrete result to the examination. She was hard spoken and borderline rough in the way she handled Kara, which as the examination went on started to grate on Alex's nerves as she found herself having to repeated remind the doctor that Kara was not currently invulnerable.
The doctor carrying out the examination was a new employee named Doctor Roberts, who had been brought in while Doctor Hamilton was away, to oversee treatment for all agents until Doctor Hamilton returned. Doctor Roberts' attitude towards Kara, and her almost rough treatment of the baby version of her little sister was making Alex frustrated which in turn was only making Kara more nervous- something which Maggie and Lena could clearly see as they waited outside watching through the glass windows.
The moment Doctor Roberts decided it was best to collect the DNA sample by drawing blood was when chaos erupted in the room and a shouting match began quickly between Alex and the Doctor.
Kara became completely overwhelmed by the loud yelling and was clearly frightened of the Kryptonite infused needle in the Doctors hand. She began to wail and shriek loudly in fear and panic prompting both Maggie and Lena to enter the room to try and calm the situation down as Alex had begun to yell louder, forcefully pushing the Doctor back as she had tried to step around her to get to Kara. A second attempt from Doctor Roberts to step around Alex brought even more chaos as the panic and fear caused for Kara's heat vision to kick in, which resulted in Doctor Roberts leaving the room with a singe mark on her leg, being glared at angrily while Kara continued to wail even after Lena had picked her up to try and calm her down.
All the panic and stress had left Kara clingy and frightened, making her cry loudly whenever Alex tried to take her from Lena, causing both woman to put aside their differences for now and accept that it was Lena that Kara wanted.
Which was something Alex did accept- though begrudgingly.
She felt hurt that her sister seemed to be choosing Lena Luthor of all people over her, though as she watched Lena now through the small window of her office, where she had told Lena to take Kara to help her calm, she did have to admit that Lena was a natural with Kara.
Alex watched as Lena continued to gently sway Kara who was cradled in her one arm, while she used her other hand to hold the battle of formula in place for Kara to drink from. It was clear to see that Lena hadn't noticed she was being watched, her attention being solely on Kara as she drank sleepily from the bottle, her small hand clutching to one of Lena's fingers that was holding onto the bottle. It wouldn't be long till Kara fell asleep now, her eyes were drooping closed, only to open up again occasionally looking around to check that Lena was still with her.
Alex sighed, before gently pushing the door to her office open and making her way inside, the sound of her footsteps causing Kara to wriggle in Lena's arms and for Lena's head to snap up in Alex's direction quickly.
Alex offered a tight-lipped smile as she made her way over towards them, "How's she doing now?" She asked, her hand automatically coming up to stroke back her now literal baby sister's hair.
Lena's attention went back to Kara as the baby in her arms wriggled again, moving to tuck herself closer against Lena's chest before sighing as she continued to drink from the bottle. "She's getting tired I think, not that I can blame her, that was quite the scene back there," Lena commented.
"Yeah, I'm working on getting that- jerk- fired, the way she acted was unacceptable regardless of whether Kara is a baby or not right now. She had no right to treat Kara or any other member of staff the way she did" Alex ranted angrily.
Lena nodded, the hand of the arm she was holding Kara with absentmindedly patting the baby's thigh gently as Kara continued to drink, "That's probably a good idea," she commented. "When you work in an organisation like this where injury is likely, you need medics that are professional and caring- she seemed neither."
"Yeah, I stand by my assessment of jerk," Alex supplied, before sighing as she ran a hand through her hair, "I have some paper work I will need you to sign before we leave," she mentioned, almost apologetically.
Looking down to her sister Alex gave her an amused smile as baby Kara burped loudly before taking the bottle's teat in her mouth again and drinking greedily.
After examining Kara, they have found she didn't have many of her baby teeth through yet which meant the only food they could give her was formula and some mushed-up baby foods. Formula had seemed the better idea as it was less messy, and it allowed Kara to keep the close contact to Lena that she seemed to want and need. Though, as they had found out before leaving Lena's, with Kara's Kryptonian appetite she needed more bottle's than a regular baby.
As Alex looked behind where Lena was sitting in front of her desk, she could see there was already one empty bottle, and another full one next to it.
"That's fine, I assumed there would be," Lena said quietly, looking back down at Kara with a smile as the little girl grumbled and whined after she finished her bottle. "Are you still hungry?" Lena asked softly, moving Kara around carefully until the little girl's head over her shoulder, "let's get the air out of your stomach, then you can have the third bottle," she continued, patting Kara's back with a firm yet gentle hand. "Would you mind putting the towel over my shoulder in case she's sick?" Lena asked, looking to Alex as she spoke.
Alex nodded, taking the towel from the back of the chair and carefully slipping it under Kara's chin, earning a small whine from her sister at being moved. Stepping back Alex watched as Kara settled again quickly, her head resting to the side against the top of Lena's shoulder. The room was quiet for a moment, bar the soft sound of Lena's patting until Kara let out a loud burp that echoed through the room.
"Excuse you, Kara," Lena joked, her smile widening as Kara only yawned in response, sleepily rubbing her face against the CEO's shoulder.
"Will she need another bottle? She looks like she's about to drop," Alex commented with a small chuckle as Kara's eyes continued to blink open and closed drowsily.
Lena moved Kara back into the position she was in before, laying in her arms cradled against her chest, before taking a third bottle from the desk to the side of her and teasing the teat to her mouth, allowing Kara to take it when she was ready. "She won't drink much I don't think, but it will help her settle better if she is full and the sucking sensation is meant to help soothe babies from what I read," Lena mentioned, speaking quietly as Kara's eyes closed while she suckled softly on the bottle drinking much slower than before.
Leaning back in the desk chair she was sat in, Lena moved Kara gently, so her bottom and legs were laying across her lap, while still holding her head up high enough in her arm so the little girl wouldn't choke on her bottle.
Alex watched with questioning eyes as Lena's hand began to stroke her little sister's chubby onesie covered leg softly, "You seem to know a lot about babies," Alex pried.
Lena looked up in surprise, "I actually had only just searched 'how to care for a baby' while I was waiting for you to arrive before," she admitted, "when I found her on my doorstep I had no idea what to do with her, she had to float herself up into my arms because I was too slow to hold her."
They both fell silent again and watched as Kara reached a hand up to grasp at one of Lena's fingers holding the bottle, with her eyes closed as she continued to suckle and drink slowly. Lena found herself smiling down at Kara as she would go still for a few seconds before beginning her suckling again, still fighting sleep as she clung onto Lena's finger with a tight grip.
"Well, you seem to be a natural with her," Alex praised lightly, "better than me anyway that's for sure," she continued quietly with a frown. Her frown turning to a soft smile after noticing that Kara had fallen asleep, the bottle still in her mouth.
After realising Kara was peacefully sleeping in her arms, Lena carefully removed the bottle from the little girl's mouth and placed it back on the desk. Kara whined as the bottle was removed, and Lena's finger was pulled from her grasp causing her small arm to drop onto Lena's leg. Kara settled again quickly after moving her head to nuzzle against the CEO closely as Lena stroked her cheek with her now free hand.
Lena smile sadly, before turning back to Alex. "It must be so confusing for her," she started, "it's clear she has at least some memories intact, overwise she wouldn't remember any of us- but everything must be so much bigger to her and more overwhelming. She's probably frightened, and she's just looking for someone to keep her safe," Lena theorised, her hand that was holding Kara still rubbing little circles into her thigh.
Alex sighed running a hand through her hair once again, "And with the fight we had when my dad was back she doesn't feel safe with me anymore."
"I didn't mean it that way," Lena said, biting her bottom lip in worry.
Leaning against the desk, Alex placed her hands on the edge of the desk to brace her weight. "I know, but it's true." She responded adamantly, after a pause.
Lena didn't respond, instead she turned her attention back to Kara who had begun to snore softly and found herself frowning at the redness of her cheeks- though after how much Kara had cried earlier it really wasn't something that surprised her.
"She's exhausted," Lena observed with a worried sigh, "we should take her home soon, so she can sleep in a bed, the bed you had her on in the medical room didn't look comfortable at all, and I doubt she will stay calm here for much longer when she wakes," she suggested carefully, glancing upwards towards Alex as she spoke. "I'm fine to hold her for a while but I'll need to put her down eventually before my arm goes dead," Lena joked, half heatedly, though there was some truth to the joke.
Alex nodded, taking a deep breath. "Yeah, we should take her somewhere she feels more secure," she agreed, "though I'm not sure where's best," she admitted sheepishly. "My place is tiny, Kara's flat only has one room- and it's probably best that you come with us as you are the only one that can calm her down as we saw earlier, but I'm not really sure where we can stay- the DEO is not really the best place for a baby and-" Alex rambled, being cut off promptly when Lena laughed at her loudly.
"What?" Alex asked, huffing as Lena only continued to laugh harder.
The loudness of the laughter and the movement it caused startled Kara who woke instantly crying, causing both Lena and Alex to cringe. Lena quickly moved Kara around on her chest, so the little blonde's head was tucked under her own chin as she held Kara with a hand supporting her bottom and another hand rubbing soft circles on her back. Lena swayed from side to side in her chair gently while shushing Kara with soft noises in time with her swaying.
Exhaling a deep breath, Lena smiled instinctively dropping a gentle kiss to Kara's head when the little girl's cries quietened, and she felt the baby version of her best friend slump against her.
"I'm sorry," Lena apologised keeping voice low and soothing to not startle Kara again, "it's just that ramble was almost on par with Kara," she explained. "Is she asleep again?" Lena asked after a moment of silence.
Alex peered around the side to look at Kara's face, only to find her blue eyes still open, drooping closed before shooting open once again shortly after. "Not yet, she seems close though, if you keep rubbing her back like that I'm sure it wont take long," Alex responded.
Shaking her head, Lena patted Kara's back softly before continuing her soothing rubbing, using the tips of her fingers to lightly trace patterns into the white onesie they had Kara dressed in. "Kara does love her cuddles, that's for sure," Lena commented lightly, chuckling as Kara let out a small sleepy yawn like sound before tucking her head in closer under Lena's chin.
"I was never really openly affectionate with anyone until Kara dropped into my life," Alex admitted watching as Lena comforted her little sister back to sleep. "I'm still not, but it's hard to say no to Kara, she's got this pull about her that brings you in, makes you want to be that way for her."
Lena nodded understanding completely what Alex was talking about, but for reasons of her own. "I was told from a young age 'Lena, Luthor's do not cuddle, we don't cry, we don't do emotion- we win, we be better than others' for a long time the concept of a hug as a friendly gesture was so foreign to me," Lena explained, breathing deeply, noticing that Alex watching her from the corner of her eye. "Your sister taught me that I can be a Luthor and still show emotion- that I could be better for it by doing so," she continued, turning to face Alex once again. "That, and also there is the slight problem that she is impossible to say no to when she's wearing that big dorky smile and appearing in my office with doughnuts," Lena continued with a chuckle, earning a laugh from Alex as well.
"Maggie says she's like a puppy, loves food and affection and you can never stay mad at her," Alex joked, after calming from her quiet laughter.
Lena smiled, "She's like a ray of sunshine, you can't help but adore her- it's going to be worse now that she's like this, we won't be able to say no to her at all even if we try."
"You already can't from what I've seen," Alex teased with a smirk, "If I didn't know any better I would say you are rather smitten with my sister Miss Luthor."
Lena coughed, blushing as Alex's smirk only grew, "As for sleeping arrangements," Lena began, changing the subject quickly, "I do have two spare rooms at my place," she offered lightly, "you are more than welcome to use my house as a base, it should be large enough and Kara seemed comfortable enough there earlier."
Feeling a small hand creep up and grab tightly onto her top, Lena smiled as she looked down to find Kara holding the material tightly in her small fist- almost as though securing her in place.
Alex smiled at her sister's antics, "If you're sure it's no trouble," she started, wanting to check that was okay before agreeing, "we may take you up on that- as I don't think Kara will be letting you go anytime soon," Alex finished.
"Why do I get the feeling you're talking from experience?" Lena asked, patting the little blonde's back softly as Kara wriggled again, pulling herself closer to Lena in her sleep.
To be continued...
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