These are the collection of one shots and sometimes more than one shots Kalex, some A/U, but all Kalex.
Out On a Picnic
XavAcid
It was bright and early Wednesday morning in National City, the Danvers family gathered in their usual spot like they did every morning.
"You're taking Claire to the park this afternoon?" Dr. Alexandra Danvers asked before she took the last swallow of her coffee and rinsed the cup out in the sink before putting it in the dishwasher, a load that they would run at night after dinner. Then she quickly packed up her laptop, and a few notes into her leather briefcase. An anniversary gift from Kara, to replaced her old beat-up bag that she had since graduate school.
"Yeah, it's a nice day. Maybe we could have a picnic?" Kara placed her own empty cup in the washer right next to the brunette's one, then turned to say the last part to the little blonde girl who was nodding enthusiastically in agreement.
"Picnic sounds nice." The brunette slipped on her black jacket, brushing her shoulder length hair away from her collar.
"Will you come and join us?" Kara settled in front of the toddler, trying to clean the spilt milk in front of her, and encouraging her to finish her breakfast. Their babysitter should be arriving soon.
"Umm." Alex checked her schedule on her phone. "I can meet you at the park at 11:30? My class should be done before 11. I expect some student might want to ask some questions, but that shouldn't take long."
"Great!" Kara grinned. "We'll see you there, Claire, say bye Mama."
"Bye, Mama." The three year old parroted back, brandishing a spoon, making more mess on the counter.
"Bye, baby." Alex kissed their daughter's now clean cheek. "Bye baby," she turned to give her wife kisses, grabbing for her briefcase from the counter, just out of the radius of the baby's hand. "I'll see you guys later."
"Bye." Kara waved at her as she disappeared out the door.
By 10:30, Kara decided to put away her sketchpad for the morning, she'd been working on it non stop since after breakfast anyway. After cleaning herself of all the charcoal dust and changed into clean clothes, the blonde left her studio in search of her little girl.
Laughter could be heard from the living room so that was where she headed.
"Hi Kara," Emily their babysitter looked up just when she entered the room. "Mommy!" Little Claire called out to her mother, waving her little arms around. Her little wooden train set was in jumble on the playmat. "I'm a monster. Rah!"
"Yeah, you're a cute little monster, destroying the train." Emily laughed and pushed another little box car her way.
The blonde chuckled as her toddler roared some more and pretended to dismantled the train.
"Hey Em, could you get Claire cleaned up. We have a date."
Emily was their regular caregiver for the baby, since Alex was now working full time as a researcher and a teacher at NCU, and Kara was working on her new collection.
"With Dr. Danvers?" The petite redhead grinned, and picked up the three year old.
"You know you can call her Alex, right?" Kara laughed, for some reason, people tended to be intimidated by her wife, even though she was a complete softie. "And yeah, we're gonna surprise her."
"She'll love that." Em took squealing little girl by the hand toward the girl's room, so that she could get her cleaned up and changed. "Should I pack her baby bag?"
"Yes, please. I'm gonna pack lunch." Kara headed for the kitchen, already deciding what she was going to make from what they got in their fridge.
Twenty minutes later Kara carried the toddler out to her car, Emily right behind her with a tote bag of baby stuffs and a basket of food. Well, basket that was going to be fill with food later. She'd cheated by calling one of the restaurant that was owned by a friend to order lunch.
It was easier than trying to put together something within half an hour. Kara didn't really think it through when she planned the picnic this morning.
"You can have the rest of the day off, Em." Kara told the redhead as she buckled her little girl in her car seat. "I think we'll probably be gone most of the afternoon."
"OK, thank you Kara," Emily smiled widely. "Have a great afternoon."
"You, too."
"Bye bye Claire bear." She leaned in to wave at the little blonde girl. She'd dressed her in her little jeans coverall and yellow cardigan, the little girl waved back, giggling.
"Bye."
The redhead stepped back as the car started up, and waited until the car pulled out of the driveway before getting into her own car and drove off herself. Unexpected day off, well, half a day off. Maybe she could go to the movie.
Dr. Alexandra Danvers' class was one of the more popular classes. And since her class was only offered once per semester, it was always packed.
Dr. Danvers was in the middle of explaining the slide projecting onto the screen, most of the student were furiously taking note, some were staring at their professor, daydreaming. Recorders, and phones were out, laptops were open.
Very few people noticed a tall blonde with a little girl on her hip slipping into the room at the tail end of the class. Those that noticed looked at the smiling blonde curiously.
"That's it for today," their instructor announced to the class as she shut off the projector. "There'll be quiz on Friday, study your material."
"You have to be quiet, ok Claire bear?"
"Why, Mommy?"
"We're surprising Mama, so we have to be quiet."
"Ok, Mommy." The little girl's head bobbing up and down in agreement, though her mother knew that she might forget the moment she saw her Mama.
Kara silently slipped into the room with ninja skills she built over the course of their daughter's life. Little Claire Danvers was probably the lightest sleeper ever, every little sounds could wake her up, as a result her mothers learned to tread lightly, and be absolutely quiet when they needed to.
The blonde noticed a few of the students did notice her entrance, but it was most likely because they weren't paying attention to what was being shown on the screen. She was very good at sneaking after all.
Not even two minutes later her wife was calling the end of the class. It was a good thing, too, since she could tell that their little girl was at the very end of her short patience. She was already straining her little body toward the front of the room, waiting to go to her other mother already.
Her wife was in silver long sleeved button up, which she rolled up her sleeves at the elbow, her charcoal grey blazer folded on the back of the chair. Her skinny jeans looked so good on her even from the back of the room.
"Mama!"
Kara winced as the entire class paused in their collective track and turned to look at her. Including the brunette at the very front.
Alex was looking forward to the afternoon she was going to spend with her family, that she decided to let the class off a little early. She'd covered a lot of materials today, anyway.
When she called the end of the class, she started picking up her notes and shut down her laptop, but just before her class started to leave, a familiar voice of her little girl stopped her, and her entire class.
Her head snapped up to look, and there at the very back of the room was her wife, and her little Claire struggled to get down from her wife's hip.
"Mama," little Claire carefully made her way down, as careful as a three year-old could, she was quick enough that her Kara had to chase her down.
Half of her student looked back and forth between them. It wasn't exactly a public knowledge that she was married, let alone having a child. She was a private person, and liked to keep her private life, private. So, this was a surprise for her entire class.
"I didn't know Dr. Danvers has a daughter." One of the girls whispered to her friend next to her as the little girl sort of hopping down the steps by them. "I didn't know she's married." The other one whispered back, looking very much disappointed.
Claire was happy to see her Mama, she knew that this was not a normal day. She usually didn't get to see her Mama at school. She knew that her Mama Alex worked at the school, whatever that meant, but it meant that she would leave in the morning and she'd get to see her after Emily left.
"Oh, Claire bear." Alex kneel down to scoop up her little three year-old as she came close. "You have to be careful, you're gonna fall."
"I miss you, Mama."
"Miss you, too, baby." Alex kissed her chubby cheek. "Hi baby." Kara came to a stop beside them.
"Hi," the blonde grinned cheekily at her. "Surprise."
While the majority of the student slowly exited the room, some were loitering around, waiting to ask their professor some question, and some just wanted to see who the newcomers were.
"If anyone has any question for me, please leave me an e-mail and I'll answer them." She announced to the stragglers waiting behind. Her little Claire was looking at her student curiously. She was an outgoing kid, and always liked to meet new people.
At the moment, though, her attention was all for her little family as she reached for Kara's hand.
"I thought we're meeting at the park?"
"Well, I finished up early so I thought we could pick you up."
Alex eyed her knowingly and let her daughter down when she requested it. The blonde quickly took her hand, knowing that Claire liked nothing more than to explore, and at the moment, there was a whole entire new room that she would happily roam around in. But the last thing they needed was for her to take a tumble down the steps.
"I'll drop these in my office and we can go." Alex quickly packed up her things and ushered her little family out. "I hope you bring the stroller."
The weather was perfect.
True that National City's weather were always mild, during this time of the year, but it could get windy at times. But not today.
The family of three had picked the perfect spot for their picnic.
The brunette popped a piece of carrot into her mouth, as she watched their little girl tried to feed bread to the ducks.
"Not too much, honey." Her wife gently took the big piece of bread out of her tiny hands. Tiny little blonde head bobbing up and down in understanding, and the little blonde took smaller piece of bread, providing by her mommy and tossed over to the ducks waiting at the edge of the pond.
"Mama, look." She pointed at the tiny duckling that was behind the mother duck. "Little ducks."
"Yeah-" Before she could say anything else little Claire leaped forward, intending on getting the duck. But of course, Kara, who already anticipated their daughter's attention, grabbed her just in time.
The mama duck quacked at them for startling her ducklings and started to swim away.
The pond wasn't that deep, and they weren't exactly on the edge, but the water would be cold and it was going to be very uncomfortable to get wet. Especially for a toddler. They would then have to deal with a cranky child since there wasn't any change of clothing. Besides, Kara was never more than an arm length away from their daughter.
"You can't just jump into the pond after the duckies, Claire bear." Kara admonished seriously.
"Mommy is right." Alex leaned over to look at their little girl straight in the eyes, "you cannot jump in after the ducks."
Little blonde head nodded, although her bottom lip was jutting out and her eyes watered. "Duckies…" She whimpered as the ducks swam away.
Kara then offered a small piece of apple to her little blonde, whom immediately forgot all about everything else and munching on it contently. She came to settle herself over her Mama's lap.
Claire loved it as she rested her head against her Mama's chest, and listened to her parents chat.
"Did you get this at Luna's?" Alex grabbed an egg roll and popped it into her mouth.
"I was gonna make something," Kara pouted.
"But you didn't really have time to make all these." The brunette grinned. She knew that the suggestion for a picnic this morning was rather spontaneous, and there was no way her wife would be able to prepare everything by herself and still able to get her own allotted work done as well.
Alex and Kara had known each other since they were teenagers and Zorel's family moved next door to the Danvers when Alex was fourteen. From the first moment they laid eye on each other from across the lawn, and the Danvers went over and offered their help their friendship was immediate, and they were instantly inseparable.
They were too young to understand their own attraction to each other then.
When Alex graduated high school and went away to college, she found herself and understood what it was that she felt for her best friend. At the same time the distant revealed a few things to Kara. They danced around each other for a short while after that.
Then they confessed their attraction, and the rest, as they said, was history.
They got married right after Kara graduated from college, struggled together as Alex finished up her doctorate and Kara working as an assistant for Queen of All Media, Cat Grant and her art at the same time.
Now they were more comfortable, with each settled into their career paths and happy with their little family.
And they had their little Claire.
Who was happily munching on another piece of apple. She certainly was coming to her own person and her appetite seemed to go by the way of her mommy. She was also very sweet, just like her mommy, but Alex could be bias about that.
"Mama!" Little Claire exclaimed as they finished with their lunch. "Come catch me!"
Claire's favorite game to play with her mothers. As long as there was an open space, one, or the both of them would be chasing after the tiny todd. Like now.
Alex leaped to her feet and chase after her little blonde bundle.
The small family headed out of the park, with their little toddler holding their hands between them, singing and skipping. Laughter rang out of her as her parents lifted her up.
A perfect afternoon to spend with her family.
a/n : I sometimes have these half formed plots, or scenes in my head and sometimes I write them down, sometimes I don't. Some of them got into the story, I work story around them. I thought I'd keep them here, maybe someone will enjoy them. Thank you for reading, all comments are most welcomed. I debated whether or not I was gonna post on since I already posted these on ao3, but well, why not, someone might get to enjoy them here. I'd appreciate any feedbacks very much, if only to let me know if anyone enjoy these and if I should post the rest. Thanks for reading.
