The dilemma of housing comes up two days later.

Lorra has been going through an extensive range of tests for the past two days.

She was understandably miffed about it. But Kara had distracted her with stories of the innumerable number of tests she had endured over her tenure as Supergirl and by sneaking her candy 'behind Lena's back'.
Lorra's reaction to her first lollipop was comical to say the least.

After her first test, which was a simple Stimuli-Reaction test, Dr. Hamilton had handed her a mango lollipop and had exited the room muttering something about '… ridiculous supers multiplying.' (Lena will not, even under an oath, cop to snickering). Lorra had looked at the lollipop with intense scrutiny before giving it a testing lick. Her eyes went wide and she shoved the whole lollipop in her mouth, stick and all. Kara had laughed (do not think about the butterflies occupying your stomach) opening her own mouth comically wide to instruct Lorra to do the same, pulling out the sticky lollipop stick leaving only the candy part in. Ruffling Lorra's hair she asked if she hadn't learned about lollipops in the pod(spitting the word pod).

Lorra had shaken her head no, still sucking on her lollipop, she had after half a minute taken out the candy long enough to mutter that the pod had only taught her about things it deemed necessary. The candy in Kara's hand (which she was sneaking away) had crumbled to dust - stick too. Lena herself had been sufficiently angry.

She had been distracted by Dr. Hamilton coming back in, snatching the replacement lollipop from Kara's hand and proceeding to hand Lena a stack of papers. "I think you would be more responsible in filling these out than our resident superhero." She explained.

"Hey!" Kara exclaimed affronted.

Dr. Hamilton just raised an eyebrow in response. Kara had shrunk back, pouting.

That's how Lena found herself this night sifting through the forms filling the information as best as she could, having poured over all the research on her daughter as soon as it was possible to do so.

She was though taken aback when she came across a standard hospital form. It listed the usual questions- patient's name, patient's parents' names, patient's listed address… wait what?

Shit, Lorra needed a permanent home.

The previous day and today both Lena and Kara had been so exhausted working that they had both collapsed in D.E.O. bunks. But now that she was staring at the big bold ADDRESS in the form she was struck by the reality, her and Kara were not together they had different addresses. With whom was Lorra supposed to stay with? Were they going to have shared custody? Have Lorra go in between the two houses every week or something?

Lena put her pen down and got up from the desk, went to her bunk and wished for sleep to take her.

The next morning she lay awake in the same position as she was in the night before her wish having been rejected by the gods. She steeled herself having spent the whole night discussing the pros and cons of taking this issue to Kara. In the end nothing was able to trump the fact that it was an unavoidable issue and that Luthors don't chicken out.

She seeks out Kara as soon as the sns's up, finding her and Lorra on the balcony both with their heads tilted, eyes closed - soaking up the sunlight.

Lena waits at the threshold just admiring the visage of her daughter happy. Not before long her eyes drift towards Kara – 'God she's beautiful' is the only thought she can conjure up. Her hair is open - flowing down her back, her eyes closed, a smile on her lips. She is wearing D.E.O issue fatigues and god if her arms don't look perfect in those. Her heart must be thumping too loudly because Kara's ears perk up (not really she's just very much acquainted with all her little expressions) and she turns around and too fast for human eyes to follow placing herself in between Lorra and the intruder. When she sees that it's Lena she breaks out into a smile that's more warm than the sunlight she was just soaking in. Lena's heart picks up speed, if that's even possible, but with the help of years of Luthor training she calms her heart down before it becomes too obvious.

"Hey Lena what brings you by this early on in the morning."

"Umm something very important." Turning to Lorra she says. "Hey love, (she does not know where that comes from but Lorra's face does this thing when she says it so she doesn't think that she minds) Me and Ieiu need to talk about something important so can you go and spend some time with aunt Alex." Lorra searches Lena's face for what she doesn't know, then nods her head scampering off to find Alex.

She takes a breath steeling herself to face Kara to talk about what she needed to.
Her eyes jerk open when she feels fingers enveloping her wrist, she sees Kara looking down at her with concern on her face.

"What's wrong?"

Lena can't speak, she wordlessly hands over the medical form on which ADDRESS was circled.

It took a moment but then Kara's mouth dropped open and an 'oh!' escaped her lips.

Seeing that Kara had been shocked into silence Lena started rambling, "So I was thinking we can have a shared custody thing, she can go between our houses every other week. But then I was thinking that it would be too confusing for her, so I thought she could stay with you and I could visit? But then-" She was silenced when a hand was placed over her yapping maw, she looked up to see Kara staring down at her with mirth in her eyes.

"Lena here's what we're going to do." Kara waited for her to nod before taking her hand off bringing it down to play with Lena's hand instead, probably in a bid to keep her calm.

"Lorra is going to move into your apartment." Seeing Lena open her mouth to protest she squeezed her hand harder effectively keeping her silent.

"I am going move in too."

Lena's eyes went wide. But before she could muster up coherency to reply Kara continued.

"You have an extra room that can be Lorra's, and I'll take the couch until we can find a three bedroom apartment in National City, like that's going to be difficult. Okay?"

Lena considered the words before nodding resolutely, "Okay! But one change, you are not taking the couch." Not giving her a chance to protest she continued, "Neither am I. We can share the bed."

Yeah that's not going to be a problem at all.

She saw Kara gulp before giving her an overly bright smile nodding her head In yes.

Unbeknownst to them this whole exchange was caught by Lorra who grew ever more curious about the relationship between her mother and Ieiu.