A/N: This was born out of reading many alien anatomy/biology fanfictions. Kara is an alien and although she looks human there have to be anatomical differences. By which I mean, more than just Kara's genitals have to be different to a humans. This was my attempt at paying homage to those stories but also expanding on the more mundane ideas implicit in the concept.
Some small voice in the back of Lena's head noted that Kara tasted sweet. Always sweet. Perhaps it was a result of all the junk food and sticky buns Kara seemed to inhale on a daily basis, but Lena loved it. There was something uniquely poetic about the fact Kara's kisses tasted sweet, as though the universe knew that making this embodiment of sunshine and wonder taste of anything more mundane would be blasphemy. Even Lena, a health food junky was addicted to her taste.
Lena loved making out with her girlfriend…girlfriend! The word still gave Lena butterflies almost three months after they had first kissed. Kara's coming out to her as Supergirl had felt like the worst betrayal. Lena's mind had fumbled to reframe their every interaction.
Had Kara been her friend, or the Super keeping an eye on the Luthor? In her anger she had thrown Kara out of office. That night going over every interaction they had ever had, second guessing every smile and act of trust between herself and Kara. Yet, finding out that someone had been using her, had been lying to her was not a new experience, so Lena couldn't fathom why she was so upset, felt so betrayed, and then it hit her: she was hurt because she had been falling for her best friend.
The revelation had sent Lena into a tailspin of self-recrimination and anger. She was such a fool, always loving people who would betray her. Lillian, Lex, Rhea and now Kara. Turning to the bottle to cope, Lena had been half way through a very fine bottle of scotch when Kara landed on her balcony in full Supergirl regalia. Kara had tried to explain that she had kept her secret not because she was a Luthor but to protect Lena and because she liked how Lena treated her as just Kara. Lena had wanted to believe it so badly and in her drunken stupor she had kissed Kara. Kissed her sloppily and messily, only to be kissed back with equal fervour.
That had been the beginning, and from that most unlikely beginning had sprung a love and relationship that Lena could barely believe was real. Kara loved her, treated her with utmost tenderness and care. She stood up to her friends for her and made her feel things that Lena had thought Luthors were incapable or unworthy of.
Back in the present Lena needed to breathe but she didn't want the kiss to end. She was almost jealous of Kara's powers which seemed to let her kiss without ever needing air…although for Lena it was still a point of pride that she was able to leave Kara gasping in passion after a heated make out session. Trailing her hands down from Kara's hair to rest on her hips and with a groan of reluctance she withdrew from the kiss. Lena couldn't help but arch back, her centre grinding into Kara as she straddled her on the couch. Looking down at Kara, her pupils blown wide, lips reddened from kissing and hair a mess from her grip, Lena couldn't help but feel a possessive thrill. She was a Luthor with a Super at her mercy. The most powerful being on the planet sat gasping for breath with a hungry look. Lena adored Kara and despite her best of intentions she couldn't help that which she was, and the sense of power that Kara gave her when she submitted and mewled beneath her caress was the most powerful aphrodisiac she had ever known. Lena entertained the amusing thought of telling Lex she had accomplished what he never could, a Super at her mercy, with a mere kiss. The fact though was that it was a two way street and Kara owned Lena just the same.
Lena struggled to bring her breathing back under control and on impulse whispered, "You're so beautiful," to Kara who blushed faintly and ducked her gaze. Embarrassed by her sappy admission but wanting Kara to know she meant it with all of her being she tilted Kara's chin up gently with her right hand, her left skimming Kara's wonderfully toned side and abs which were covered only by a thin blouse. Lena leant forward and planted a gentle, chaste kiss against Kara's lips, whispering into her ear, "You're beautiful, and I love you," before Kara pushed up and caught her lips again in a more passionate caress. Kara's hands wondered from their placid position on Lena's back and side to gently caress under her breasts, the back of her hand stroking over Lena's painfully aroused nipple through the stiff business shirt she wore.
Lena already keyed up from their earlier make-out session pushed forward into Kara's hand, and hissed out, "Yess!" as she ground down more firmly into Kara's lap. The friction felt so good yet was only a taste of what she yearned for. Under her lips and hands Lena felt the minute shift as Kara tensed slightly and seemed to pull her waist back from Lena.
Lena cursed her lack of control. Kara had been honest from the outset that she had never been with a human or a woman before and in fact Mon-el (the unworthy man child brat) had been her first lover. Lena had sworn she would move at Kara's pace, do whatever she needed to make her feel comfortable, but her body was betraying her need. Lena wasn't some teenage boy though, she could control herself. She would not scare Kara away or make her feel pressured. Lena loved Kara and was in this for the long haul, no matter how slowly Kara wanted to move, she was worth it.
"I'm sorry," Lena whispered as she drew back with soft pecking kisses and she pulled herself off Kara, slumping beside her on the couch. Kara smiled a small smile as she tried to control her breathing and blushed more deeply.
"No, I am sorry," she began, "I just don't want to hurt you. I would never forgive myself if I let my strength slip, and until I am used to sharing these sensations with you I have to be so, so careful."
Kara looked at Lena imploringly and her right hand came to rest gently on Lena's cheek, cradling her face like the most precious of china.
"I know darling, and it's alright. We will move at your pace," Lena whispered, shifting slightly on the couch and crossing her legs to try and smother the burning need there.
Kara frowned a little and began rambling as her voice took on a hesitant and self-conscious tone, "I know this must be frustrating. If you were dating someone normal it would…"
Lena cut Kara off with a kiss. It was proving to be her favourite and most effective method of stopping Kara from rambling. "If I was dating someone 'normal' they would be with me just for my name, my money or my smoking hot body," Lena teased with a flirty look.
Kara smiled softly and Lena allowed her face to reflect the depths of her true feelings. Something she had been taught through hard lessons as a Luthor to never do growing up. "I am dating you Kara because you are the only person who has ever made me feel like this. Like I am worth something. Like I am adored, loved and good. When you kiss me I feel more passion and real love than any other physical interaction I have ever had. You are perfect Kara and we will move as slowly as you need. There is nothing you can do…or can't do that would drive me away. I love you."
Kara's smile was watery as tears dripped from her eyes, "Do you mean that Lena? No matter what, you'll still want me?"
Lena stared into those beautiful blue pools and saw a hesitancy, a depth of worry and seriousness there which unnerved her. Kara's question held depths and layers she couldn't grasp and for a brief moment the thought that Kara was hiding another secret from her terrified Lena. Yet, was there anything Kara could say that Lena would not forgive? Any price she would not pay to keep Kara?
Lena loved Kara beyond words and reason. Kara was the only person she could say that she had ever trusted without hesitation. Was there anything Kara could do or say to make Lena turn away from her? The answer was terrifyingly simple: No.
With a steadying breath Lena whispered, "No matter what."
Kara hugged her, almost too tight but Lena relished the warmth and waited patiently for Kara's hiccupping tears to stop. When Kara was finally resting in her arms quietly Lena asked, "Will we get changed and watch that film, Maleficent, you wanted me to see?"
Kara leaped back from Lena with a small squeal of joy, "Oh Yes, you'll love it Lee-lee, it's great! I'll change in the bathroom, you can use my room." At superspeed Kara rushed off.
Lena sat frozen for a moment, "Lee-lee." Lena had never had a pet name or term of endearment before. She had always thought the notion sickeningly sweet but hearing the name from Kara's lips like a caress, a private name, just for them…it made her feel loved.
With a goofy smile on her face Lena rose to fetch her overnight bag and change into the comfy but modest pyjamas she had brought.
It was an hour into the film, with Kara curled up on a blanket leaning on one arm of the sofa and her bare feet rubbing over one another that Lena reached out to tap Kara's foot and indicate she should put her feet up on Lena's knees.
Something hesitant flashed through Kara's eyes and she glanced from her feet to Lena's lap as though weighing the dangers of defusing a nuclear bomb, rather than stretching out and placing her cold feet on her girlfriend's lap.
Lena masked her confusion and patted her knee again.
Watching her warily Kara stretched out and rested her feet in Lena's lap. When Len placed her warm hands on Kara's feet she seemed to flinch slightly.
Lena couldn't understand what she had done to make Kara so hesitant at her touch?
Kara watched her cautiously and with one last beseeching look of worry and hope she seemed to forcefully turn her gaze back to the television. Lena surveyed Kara, unable to grasp what was causing her tension and why, despite appearing to watch the film, Kara was actually staring blindly at it, her body holding a slight tension as though expecting a blow.
Lena was at a loss and turning her gaze back to the TV with knitted brows she began to try and unpick her actions to see what had caused Kara's tension.
Absently Lena began rubbing and caressing Kara's feet. Lena would later blame the fact it took her so long to notice on the fact she was worrying about Kara's odd behaviour.
Beneath her hands Lena rubbed Kara's feet but something felt…wrong.
Glancing down Lena saw the pretty sun kissed feet with cute toes and pink painted nails resting on her lap and encircled by her hands. Lena, ever the scientist shifted her grip from a tender caress to a more clinical exploration. Kara's foot felt…different.
The skin was warm and despite it being bullet proof, it seemed as pliable and soft as the rest of her, but the bones beneath were odd. Where Lena expected metatarsals she felt instead solid bone and where there should be an arch there felt to be a split spongy piece of cartilage. Lena's brows furrowed and she lifted the foot to her inspection. Externally it looked human but the internal bone structure and muscles were all different, all alien.
Glancing at Kara with curious eyes Lena met the worried look of her girlfriend. Kara seemed to be expecting some reaction, disgust? Horror? The typical Luthor discomfort at finding something different?
Lena was curious. Ever a scientist. It was disquieting having her expectations turned on their head but not something she would push Kara away for.
Lena began realising the importance of this act and Kara's hesitation to rest her feet on Lena's lap. Doing so was an act of trust, as Kara offered Lena tangible proof of her alien-ness. Something she had hidden all of her life. Kara looked so human, yet she was from an advanced alien species. Of course there would be anatomical differences.
Lena's genius intellect ran through the importance of this moment and the implications. Kara was trusting Lena with who she really was, how she reacted was crucial. And if Kara's foot structure was different, what else did she not know about her girlfriend's body?
For the first time ever, Lena wished she hadn't destroyed her brother's research on Kryptonians.
"Your feet are different," Lena said. Immediately she wanted to kick herself. Her matter of fact tone and blunt statement was not how she wanted to address this.
Kara went to withdraw her feet but Lena gripped them tighter and began massaging them more firmly. Kara ceased her withdrawal and cocked her head to the side like a curious golden retriever dog, trying to understand Lena's reaction.
"I'm an alien?" Kara offered in a 'duh' and sarcastic tone, attempting to make light of the situation.
Lena went with it and as she massaged Kara's feet she cocked an eyebrow and drily retorted, "You don't say Miss Danvers!"
Kara smiled at the teasing tone, her whole being seeming to relax all at once.
"Yes, I have it on good authority that I am not of this world," Kara sing songed, but turning more serious whispered to Lena, "My body is different in a number of ways."
Kara watched Lena with guarded hope and hesitancy.
Lena smiled again and tried to make light of the implications of that statement, "Care to share Miss Danvers, my innate scientific curiosity is peaked," Lena said.
Kara smiled a megawatt smile taking this as the opening she was after and a positive reaction.
"Welll…" Kara began, "Kryptonians as a species are a lot older than humans so we have had more time to evolve different adaptations and our scientists used the matrix to tinker with the Kryptonian genome in a number of ways. Our feet are a mixture of both. Human feet have like 26 bones, all fragile and prone to damage. Metatarsals prone to factures. Toes prone to breaking. Arches prone to falling and a host of other issues left behind from when you evolved from the gripping feet of primates to upright walking footsteps. Kryptonians only have like 12 bones in our feet, two per toe and a large solid bone connected to the ankle. The arch is done away with by two bows of cartilage which form a more efficient strike pattern for walking on."
As Kara rambled and discussed the differences of her feet Lena massaged the body part in question.
"Fascinating" Lena whispered.
Silence descended between them and Lena asked the question that had been circling in her mind since she had just now consciously accepted that Kara's human appearance hid alien biology.
"Is this the real reason you have been holding back from me….physically?" Lena asked.
Kara's smile froze and she hesitantly answered, "I really do need to move slowly to get used to the sensation of being with you and controlling my powers, but…but yes, some of my hesitance has also been about how to explain to you that I am not physically…what you expect."
Lena couldn't help the way her eyes roamed over Kara, cataloguing her athletic figure. Her eyes landed on Kara's lap where her hands were fiddling with themselves. Lena had never seen anything…different there or felt anything. Lena couldn't help her imagination running wild with images of what could be beneath those lounge pants. Lena's brows furrowed in thought before she could try to hide her expression when she realized Kara had noticed her preoccupation.
Kara cringed and pulled her feet back to her chest, curling up protectively. From under long lashes Kara tentatively and in a warbling voice said, "I didn't have sex until Mon-el because being from Daxam he knew about my anatomy. I have never had the courage to tell someone before. With James, we barely kissed and I broke it off. He is such an Alpha male that I knew he would be freaked out at best by the reality of my alien-ness. I had deluded myself until then that it could work. I knew I would have to tell you Lena, but I have loved being with you, I didn't want to risk…I didn't want it to end…for you to be disgusted by…"
That was as far as Kara got before Lena was on the other side of the couch wrapping Kara in her arms. "Oh Kara!" Lena whispered.
"You are so beautiful and you could have anyone, and humans are so strange about sex and about body image I didn't know if…I don't know if you will still want me when you know." Kara sobbed.
"Shh, Kara, Shh!" Lena muttered sweet nothings, trying to sooth her tears and anxiety.
This was not what Lena had expected. She thought the most awkward part of dating Kara was her lack of experience and her innocence with women. Lena had been prepared to walk Kara through that self-discovery but now it seemed she too was just as inexperienced. Lena had subconsciously blocked out the reality that beneath Kara's human appearance she was an alien. She cursed her idiocy and lambasted her supposed genius.
When Kara had calmed Lena pulled back and caressed her cheek, trailing her finger delicately down her neck, across her collar bone and down her arm to entwine their fingers.
Lifting their joined hands together Lena gazed into Kara's worried eyes.
"Tell me Kara, tell me everything. I want to know about your highly evolved, less delicate feet with fewer bones. I want to know about how your beautiful eyes are able to shoot heat. I even want to know if you're hiding a tail under those sensible slacks and baggy cardigans." Lena smiled at Kara but internally sighed in relief when Kara giggled at the crazy idea and shook her head.
"No Lena, no tails," Kara said with obvious relief and humour.
Lena kissed their joined hands again and cupped Kara's face with her free hand, her tone sincere and serious, "I want to know the intimate and the mundane, Kara. I want to know it all so I can love all of you."
Kara sniffled and smiled, and then with obvious delight she blurted out, "I have no canine teeth."
Lena blinked at that, the mundanity of it not what she had expected. Lena's couldn't help her eyes zeroing in on Kara's beautiful teeth and sure enough Kara had a beautiful smile, all neat teeth, molars and dainty incisors but no obvious canines. "I assumed you had had your teeth capped like me," Lena admitted with a curious head tilt. Her hand unwinding from Kara's to ghost over her lips as she examined her girlfriends smile.
"Nope!" Kara said popping the p and shaking her head dramatically.
"Krypton's atmosphere was so polluted that we hadn't had traditional agriculture in generations. We grew our food in mass hydroponic bays which Kalex type robots manned. As a people we stopped eating natural meat over 500 years ago. We grew 'meat' in labs to supplement our diet but we mainly ate high protein plants. We had no need for canines so they gradually reduced in size and with the matrix pushing our evolution they became a recessive characteristic, a throwback which appeared in 'less civilised' Houses. Alex actually thinks that people react better to me as Supergirl because without the canines the human subconscious registers me as less of a threat."
Kara was smiling widely now and Lena took in this information. It made a sort of sense. She had been unusually affected by Kara's smile from their first meeting.
"I love your smile." Lena said sincerely and brushing her nose against Kara's she kissed her with abandon.
When they drew back for breath Lena gazed at Kara, her genius intellect dissecting everything that Kara had said.
"So if your people ate a diet more highly concentrated with plant fibres did this change your digestive system?"
Kara blushed slightly but sat forward, suddenly eager to share her secrets and the mundane realities of who she was with Lena.
"Our stomachs are actually chambered in three sections for more efficient digestion. What humans call their vestigial appendix we actually have as a larger, more practical organ which produces enzymes able to break down fibres and cellulose. Our absorption system is much more efficient allowing for more stable homeostasis and so our solid and liquid excretory systems are connected, a bit like a snake, or reptile." Kara blushed a little looking at Lena with a curious and worried expression, wondering if Lena fully understood what she meant.
Lena blinked rapidly, pulling up all the biological and anatomical knowledge she had, in order to parse out what Kara was saying and what it implied.
After a few moments in which Lena merely blinked and her eyes flickered in thought, Kara began to fidget but was prevented from withdrawing when Lena spoke, her eyebrows puckered down in thought.
"Your digestive system is more efficient, so you don't produce wastes like a human. That implies you only have one cloaca for…excretion?" Lena asked.
Kara nodded hesitantly, "I know it sounds weird but when I first got to earth I was so confused about your all talking about going number one and number two. And then when I saw an anatomy book and saw that your genitals share space with your waste removal organs…"Kara's face scrunched up in disgust.
Lena couldn't help it, she laughed outright. Kara seemed confused but hesitantly pleased at this response, but waited curiously until Lena controlled herself to hear what she found so funny.
In a dry voice Lena replied, "Yes, if I was the supposed omnipotent being whom the religious people believe in, I would not have designed the human body with the playground right next door to an open sewer."
Kara snorted and began laughing too. Her face scrunched up at the metaphor, "Eww Lena!" Kara cried as she playfully pushed at Lena.
Lena only laughed harder, "I suppose Kara, it is me who should apologise, my poorly designed alien anatomy must seem unhygienic and distasteful to you."
Kara heard the self-consciousness hidden in the humour of Lena's voice. Kara sat forward to kiss Lena gently. "You are beautiful and I love every part of you." Kara said.
Lena relaxed slightly and with a deep blush she asked, "So, uh, the cloaca, is that, where…Oh gods I can't believe I am asking that!" Lena mumbled.
Kara blushed heavily too, "Uh it's..the cloaca, its indistinguishable to the rectum but I have no urethra at the front….just you know genital stuff. Party in the front, business in the back" Kara cringed at her cliché making a vague raising the roof gesture.
Lena nodded quickly, ordering her mouth to stay shut and not dive into the inference of the vague "genital stuff" comment.
"Well that seems much cleaner. I can't tell you the tediousness of getting urinary tract infections from sex," Lena commented.
Lena and Kara tried to maintain straight faces as they nodded seriously at each other in agreement before dissolving into giggles.
Lena gasped for breath as she tried to settle herself again. Kara watched her having regained her bearings more quickly and smiling softly at Lena.
"I don't need to stop to breathe when I kiss you." Kara said into the silence. "What?" Lena asked, her head snapping up.
Kara was shyly looking at Lena's lips as she licked her own. "I, uh, I have a separate pharynx for my trachea and my oesophagus. The trachea goes straight to my nose and I breathe through it almost exclusively, and I have a separate pharynx that goes from my mouth to my oesophagus which I ingest food through. My Trachea and Oesophagus pharynx have a low lying valve which allows air to pass through both if I choose, so I can draw breath across my vocal chords and I can choose to breathe through my mouth if I want. But it's a conscious thought. Every time I speak, I think of releasing the valve to let air out through my oesophagus and mouth connected pharynx. I can eat or kiss and simultaneously breathe independently through my nose if I want."
Lena's eyes bugged out, "That's why you never pull away first when we kiss! You cheat! And it's why you're so quiet! I thought I wasn't doing anything for you but if you are breathing through your nose and not passing air over your vocal chords that explains why you only make those nasally little groans!"
Kara giggled outright at Lena's outrage.
Lena dove forward and locked her lips on Kara. She plundered her mouth, their tongues rolling together and lips rising and falling in a synchronicity of kisses, one leading to another.
Lena held on as long as she could but eventually her humanity let her down and she had to pull back for breath. Kara looked stunned and goofily happy but not out of breath. Lena grunted in frustration and rose to retrieve her phone.
Kara came back to earth seeing Lena walking away from her and digging in her bag, "Hey, Lee-lee, what are you doing?"
Lena tapped viciously on her phone, "I am texting Jess to find me a free diving coach so I can learn to hold my breath for longer."
Kara let out a mad burst of laughter. "Lee-Lee! Noooo! That's mad! I love your kisses. You are way too competitive!"
"I am a Luthor, I expect the best from myself and I want to be able to kiss you, and…other stuff for prolonged periods." Lena said bashfully as she thought on what Kara's ability to breath independently through her nose would mean for their love life, never mind her super lungs letting her hold her breath for prolonged periods.
Kara smiled softly and dragged Lena back to the couch. The film on the TV having long ended and the DVD player's screensaver playing, its soft blue illuminating the room.
Kara drew Lena close to herself and stretched out on the couch with Lena resting on top of her. Kara loved the pressure and feeling of Lena stretched out across the length of her body.
Kara drew lazy patterns across Lena's skin. Lena tucked her head beneath Kara's chin and breathed in her sweet scent as she listened to her loud pounding heart.
After a few minutes of comfortable silence Lena rose up on her arms to look down on Kara. "So any more secrets and anatomical differences I should know about?" Lena smiled.
Kara looked at Lena seriously, her brows suddenly drawn together causing the crinkle to show in full force. "Lots." Kara said seriously and with a downcast look and gently gripping Lena's hand, guiding it down to cup her own groin in a brazen move that Lena had not expected she said "But one you definitely need to know about and need to decide if you can accept if we are to be together."
Lena froze above Kara, her hand spasming on Kara. Lena had never let her hands wander further than Kara's waist. She was so careful to only ever move at Kara's pace.
Seeing the blush on Kara's face as she bit her lip and tried not to move beneath Lena, Lena withdrew her hand and pulled back to give Kara space, "You don't have to tell me Kara. This discussion can wait until you are ready. There is no rush, or I can speak with Alex about it….or we don't have to…" Lena stuttered.
Kara sat forward and gave Lena a soft smile, "I am bullet proof and still you try to protect me. That's why I love you Lena. I know you are curious but you won't rush me to talk about this. You would rather rub ground glass into your hands than talk to my sister about having sex with me, but despite that discomfort you would do it if I asked you to, wouldn't you? Just to make me more comfortable. You wear this CEO mask, the badass Luthor genius. You dominate board rooms and eviscerate your business competition…and yet you have the kindest heart of any human I have ever met, a selflessness which is unparalleled." Lena blushed and twitched under the compliments and Kara's soft look.
"But we do need to discuss this Lena, for us to…" Kara was cut off by Lena.
"We don't ," Lena said, "We don't have to do anything you're uncomfortable with."
Kara weighed the words, sensing a weight to them that she was missing, "You mean that, don't you Lena? Not in the sense that I don't have to talk about sex or that we don't have to have sex anytime soon. You mean we don't have to have sex, at all, if I don't want to."
Lena blushed, "I know this is hard for you to talk about Kara. I don't ever want to make you uncomfortable. With your powers too, even if we do move …forward, then you have to be so careful and hold back so much. It has to be hard. You explained sex was sort of an exception on krypton rather than the norm for couples. I just, don't want you thinking I am only with you to get in your pants…whatever is in there. I love you Kara, and if all we ever do is kiss, cuddle and feel each other up like a pair of teenagers I will die a very happy woman."
Lena looked beseechingly at Kara.
Kara sat frozen watching Lena, bowled over by the idea of what she was suggesting.
"You would stay with me, even if we didn't, even if I couldn't…even if you didn't like…" Kara stumbled over her words.
Lena's milky skin was a faint pink as she looked aside and nodded slightly, "I love you Kara, no matter what. I would do anything to keep you. I know that is selfish but…" Lena gave a gallic shrug.
Kara drew Lena's gaze back to her, "Lee-lee, you may be that selfless, but I am not. Despite being the supposed super.I want you. I want to be united with you in every way. When you touch me, it takes everything I have not to crush you to me. I just want to be closer. I want you so badly. I just need time to get used to the right amount of pressure and strength to use. And you need to see if …well if you will let me near you when you see…" Kara made a vague gesture at her lap.
Lena took a reassuring breath and turning her back to Kara she purposefully snuggled back into Kara.
"When you're ready, if you're ready, tell me as much or as little as you want Kara," Lena whispered.
They lay in silence for almost 30 minutes, listening to each other breathe. Kara was massaging Lena's scalp gently while Lena drew mindless patterns lazily on Kara's arms where they were wrapped around her middle. Lena was on the verge of sleep when Kara's soft voice drifted into the dimness of the room.
"Kryptonians have two genders, presenting as what human's consider masculine or feminine, but that is merely a residual binary difference. A vestigial characteristic left over from before our mind evolved beyond biological need. The concept of sexuality and of prejudice based on your sex was so strange to me when I first arrived here. The person was all that mattered, not what was between their legs. Our scientists wanted to allow for more efficient mating back when we still had children 'naturally.' So the decision was taken to align the sexual organs to a universal standard. All kryptonians within one generation of the manipulation were able to bear children, to take on traditional masculine or feminine roles, our gametes were manipulated to be universally bondable so long as they met another with a nucleus containing a different familial marker to their own. And in so doing we eradicated gender bias. What did the gender of the body matter when it could function as both? All that mattered was the mind, the person, the soul."
Lena lay unmoving, trying to keep her breathing steady as her mind whirled. The Kryptonian society's scientific methods and social engineering never ceased to amaze her. A society totally blind to the permanence and importance of the body, to the point that they saw changing it as normal. They saw it only as a jacket to house the individual.
The idea of 'men' giving birth and 'women' impregnating their partners of either gender, of such gender and sexual fluidity was hard to wrap her mind around.
Lena's curious mind couldn't help but ask "So that would mean you're not actually gay?"
Kara huffed, "I still struggle with why humans feel the need to label everything, I know your binary conception of biological sex makes things more rigid but it still confuses me. Alex had such trouble coming out and I wanted to be supportive but the idea of having to be 'supportive' as though her 'coming out' was somehow something I may ever have had a problem with was so strange. I suppose in human terms I am pansexual. I am attracted to the person, not to the body that houses them."
Lena couldn't help but smirk in the darkness and ask innocently, "Does that mean you don't care if I put on 50 pounds and shave my hair off?" Kara nudged her and sarcastically said "Ha ha." But then with utmost sincerity, "I love you Lee-lee, no matter what you look like, but I will admit that your rather…er…pleasing packaging is an added benefit."
Lena could feel Kara's full body blush at that but she just tightened her grip about the arms around her waist and snuggled back into her girlfriend, "Good to know."
Silence descended, for a minute and Lena could feel Kara tense beneath her.
"I want to show you," Kara said.
Lena stilled again, "You don't have to…" She began but Kara, with courage, intervened.
"I know I don't, but I want to and it will make it easier to explain if I can show you. Kryptonian sex organs are housed inside the body to regulate temperature and keep them safe. The first time I saw a picture a male genitalia on this planet hanging out there I was horrified!" Kara said.
Lena snorted and then a mad thought occurred to her that she had to confirm, "Are you telling me Superman is as flat as a Ken doll down there?"
Kara giggled, "Yes, he is. However, I think I should be worried that you are thinking about my cousin's junk instead of mine!"
Lena giggled, "I am sorry honey but the thought of all the disappointed women in the world is hilarious."
"Please can we not talk about this. I remember changing Kal's diapers and I have had enough uncomfortable talks with Lois about how my cousin is Super in the sack to give me nightmares for the rest of my long life." Kara cringed.
Lena couldn't help but laugh again before the reality that Kara wanted to show her the most intimate part of herself. The first human ever, and if she had her way, the only human ever.
"How do we do this, can you just…" Lena waved her hand airily.
Kara pushed up so Lena turned to face her and saw the blush on Kara's face. "No I can't just make it…come out…I have to be aroused."
"Oh" Lena said, a flirtatious and mischievous expression coming to her face before it froze as something dawned on her.
"If you need to be aroused for your genitals to…extend?...then how come I have never felt anything before? We have had some pretty hot make out sessions, or at least I thought we had…" Lena was suddenly unsure of herself. She had never had to doubt her sexual prowess before, not since her first time.
Kara blushed and rushed to reassure Lena, "No Lena! Everything you do to me is arousing, it makes me want to crawl out of my skin sometimes you are so tempting…but I…I have always been worried about you seeing, or feeling and …and being disgusted or weirded out that I have never been able to focus fully on enjoying myself."
Lena wanted to cry. Three months and Kara had been dealing with this hesitancy and worry alone. She had been holding back every time Lena touched her and Lena hadn't sensed something was wrong. Lena had just been thinking of her own pleasure and how good it was to feel Kara under her, to hold her, to kiss her, to be able to touch her. The guilt washed over Lena. She had acted like a selfish Luthor, only intent on her pleasure, using Kara who was too nervous and too worried to say anything. Tears gathered at the corners of Lena's eyes but with ruthless determination she fought them down. Kara would only try to placate her, would tell her it was not her fault if she saw the tears. Lena knew different and she would not fail Kara like that again. The rest of this night had to be all about Kara, not just letting her set the pace but making sure she knows Lena loves her and that she need not hide any part of herself.
Lena softened her tense shoulders, "Oh Kara…" she said mournfully.
Kara blushed deeper and with a coy smile said "I enjoy everything you do with me Lena, I just didn't want to jinx it or scare you away."
"Never!" Lena whispered harshly.
Kara smiled a beatific smile and stood from the couch, holding her hand out to Lena. "Can we do the show and tell part of the evening in the bedroom, I think it will be more comfortable and it's like earth tradition for you to see me naked for the first time in bed right?"
Lena stared at Kara's hand, her quick mind seeing the faint tremble in her offered hand. Kara was determined. The set of her jaw, like supergirls, told her she would not back down. Lena fought the rush of desire she felt at the idea of being naked in bed with Kara. They had shared the bed, made out but always with clothes on. Lena's heart sped up as she became aroused at the mere thought of Kara naked. Although what she would see was now a vaguer picture.
Kara's head cocked to the side a little and a small nervous but pleased smile twitched her lips. Lena again cursed Kara's super senses, she could hear her heart beat and knew the effect that she was having on Lena.
"Lead the way," Lena whispered as she took Kara's hand and allowed herself to be lead to the bedroom.
Once inside, Kara turned on all the lights and at Lena's cocked eyebrow she said, "I want you to see all of me. No more hiding."
Lena nodded and before she could comment Kara had turned to her and with a determined little nod as the only warning super speeded her clothes off. Lena stood in absolute shock, a massive gasp of breath sucked in as she gaped.
Kara stood unwaveringly, completely nude in front of her, her hands held away from her body and her legs planted in her supergirl pose.
Lena could only gape. Her eyes felt like they may fall out of her head, They traced the golden skinned goddess that stood before her. Defined collar bones, firm small breasts topped with blush pinked nipples, abs that could grate cheese and legs defined and slender.
Lena could not help her gaze as it roamed over Kara, she was a goddess in human form. Lena knew several artists that would literally cut off their left arms, and maybe both their legs for the chance to paint someone, something this beautiful. It was in this moment Lena saw Kara for the alien she was, not because of any anatomical differences that were immediately apparent but simply because this kind of beauty was not of this earth. If there was anything that could make Lena believe in a Higher Power, a God above, it was Kara, because only the divine could create such a creature.
Lena's gaze wondered and without permission dropped to between Kara's legs. Lena studied the area, fascinated by its apparent neatness. Kara was almost like a Barbie doll herself, the faint slit was so neat that at first glance Lena almost missed it. The labia were perfectly matched and hairless.
Lena must have been silent for too long, struck dumb at Kara's brazen act, as Kara was beginning to fidget and her burning blush which had her face tomato red was spreading deliciously down her chest. Kara lifted her arms to cover her chest and began to shift her stance to hide herself by partially turning and crossing her leg a little.
"No," Lena whispered, her voice only audible to Kara's super hearing. Lena cleared her throat and tried to swallow but found her mouth as dry as a desert.
"No," she said louder, "don't hide from me. Don't ever hide from me, you're perfect. You're beautiful, you're…I can't even find the words." Lena said.
Kara's blush deepened but she turned back to Lena and dropped her hands. A small smile flickered at Kara's lips.
"You didn't have to do this, not so quickly, " Lena tried to reassure Kara, even as her eyes once more devoured her, unable to stop relishing her beauty.
Kara let a little giggle escape, "I figured if I didn't do it quick I would lose my nerve."
Lena gave Kara an understanding smile but then it morphed into a devious and flirtatious look as Lena's voice dropped to a husky whisper, "Now I feel distinctly overdressed. I suppose equity is key in a relationship."
Lena began to pull up the bottom of her sleep shirt and Kara's eyes got comically huge, "I…You don't have to, I don't…" she babbled nervously.
Lena stopped with her shirt half pulled up, revealing a strip of delicious pale porcelain skin which Kara's eyes had fixed on. "Do you not want to see my alien body Kara?" Lena asked coquettishly.
Kara's eyes snapped back to Lena's and she almost tripped over her tongue as she tried to back track. "No! I mean Yes…I mean, you don't have to, if you don't want to Lena. I would be honoured but this is about showing you what you're getting into if you want to stay with me"
"And shouldn't you see what you are getting Kara?" Lena asked huskily.
Lena didn't wait for an answer before she pulled the sleep shirt over her head and shimmied out of her shorts.
Kara too was struck dumb at the sight of her girlfriend but not frozen as Lena had been. She slowly stepped forward, as though afraid the ethereal creature in front of her would vanish if she moved too quickly. Lena's pale skin glowed in the harsh light of the bedroom and Kara had to fight the impulse to turn off all the lights, to protect that creamy skin which should only be illuminated by the softest moonlight.
Lena's dark locks pooled around her sharp shoulders, her breasts were large and full with dark contrasting nipples. Her slim waist tapered to luscious hips and toned calves. Between her legs neat dark curls glistened slightly showing her arousal.
Kara reached out and her hands as if they had a mind of their own skimmed across Lena's waist and up to cup her breast. Lena sucked in a breath and before thought could make reason against the actions Lena and Kara met in a passionate kiss.
The hesitancy of the last three months gone Kara's hands roamed across Lena, the kiss was rougher than normal and Lena groaned into Kara's mouth. Her mind reeled trying to understand how she had missed that Kara was holding back this passion before. Hands that remained above shoulders before, now explored and caressed. Kara sucked in sharp breaths through her nose. Lena pulled back enough to whisper, "Cheat" before she sucked in another massive breath and dove back into drowning in sensation. Lena's body was alight with pleasure as Kara nipped her lip and then pinched her nipple. With a none too gentle push Lena found herself pressed back onto Kara's bed and Kara's thigh between her legs.
Lena vaguely thought she should be embarrassed by how wet she was, and by how she was grinding against Kara with abandon, yet she didn't care. For her first time with a woman Kara was turning Lena's world upside down. The more confident and dominant side of Kara was a turn on that Lena had not expected.
Lena ducked her head and sucked one of Kara's nipples into her mouth. The flesh pebbled and Kara's head snapped back as she gasped aloud. The wanton moan was the loudest sound Kara had ever made and Lena smiled against Kara's flesh. It was her new favourite sound and she would endeavour to wrench it from Kara over and over again.
Lena was intent on suckling Kara and massaging her breast when she felt it, a wet, hot pressure against her thigh. The foreign pressure was unexpected and Lena stilled. Above her Kara froze too and looked down at Lena hesitantly. The passion of the moment was broken. Lena stared into Kara's eyes. Their bodies were sandwiched together obscuring Lena's view so she shifted slightly trying to gauge this new appendage.
Lena's movement drew a low guttural moan from Kara. Heat rushed through Lena at the sound. Kara gripped Lena, "Please stop moving," she hissed. Lena was amazed by this struggle for control. Kara was always so soft and in control. Lena was fascinated.
They lay still, entwined in each other's sweaty arms.
"May I look?" Lena asked hesitantly.
Kara gasped a laugh, "That was the intended aim of this activity before we became …distracted, I suppose."
Lena giggled a little too but saw the hesitant and nervous look on Kara's face.
Lena pressed her hand to Kara's cheek, kissed her gently and whispered, "No matter what Kara, I am yours."
Bolstered by this and the certainty in Lena's eyes Kara pulled back.
The loss of contact to Lena's centre made her groan lowly but Kara's rolling to the side on the bed displaying herself like a sacrifice to the gods drew Lena's eyes. Propping herself up on her elbow, Lena looked down to between Kara's legs. Where before there had been a neat slit there was now a protruding tapered cylinder of flesh. It was flesh colour, glistening wet and with delicate veins.
Lena leaned forward to get a closer look and Kara spoke, "It's a multi-purpose sexual organ. It's actually a single muscle that in this 'male form' rolls into a tubal shape. Inside are what you would call tentacles that act independently and contain the sexual gametes. The inner side of the flesh when it unfurls to the 'female form' is sexually sensitive to touch. When unfurled it allows penetrative entrance into me through the tentacles."
Kara was lying back with one arm over her face and her tone was dead and clinical as she explained.
Lena was fascinated. It was unlike anything she had ever seen before.
When Lena moved forward again Kara let out a small groan, "I can feel your breath on me," she moaned.
Lena was shocked, it was so sensitive. Blowing deliberately, Kara moaned and the fleshy tube uncurled from the cylinder into a flat leaf of flesh that looked remarkably like a Laceleaf. the thin almost translucent tentacles revealed to have been inside began at the top of Kara's slit where her clit would have been, had she been human. They squirmed independently of each other, seeming to seek something. While flesh coloured on the outsde while in the male cylindrical fashion, the unfurled leaf of the female form was vivid red and pulsed with heat and moisture.
Without Lena's permission her hand reached forward and caressed the deep red glistening flesh. The tentacles wound round her fingers, the flesh rippled beneath her touch and Kara moaned deeply, her whole body trembling. Lena smiled. She was doing that, she was making Kara tremble.
The tentacles gently pulled on Lena's caressing fingers, pulling them towards their origin, towards Kara's opening of their own accord.
Lena glanced back at Kara's form, her mind clearing as she saw Kara's tight jaw and that her left hand had sunk into the mattress. Lena's caress was causing Kara pleasure but it was also a new sensation to her, a sensation she was struggling to understand and respond to with an appropriate and safe amount of strength with a human in her bed. Lena wanted, but she wanted this to be an act of equals. Not Kara enduring and trying to control herself, trying to understand the pressure and strength. Lena didn't want to force pleasure on Kara, or take her own while Kara was trying to figure out what reactions were safe and good and what wasn't. Lena wanted Kara to enjoy this act as a reciprocating equal and that would take time.
Lena pulled back. She wasn't going to take her pleasure from Kara, she wasn't going to continue without Kara's permission. Kara lay so still, her arm still covering her eyes and a faint tremble going through her frame. Lena had promised she would go slow for Kara and no matter how much she wanted to explore her she would keep her word. She would reassure Kara.
Climbing up the bed Lena pulled Kara's arm from her face and saw the tears in her eyes and worried look.
"You're still here," Kara whispered sounding shocked.
Lena was so glad she had stopped her exploration. Kara would have let Lena do anything to her, even if she wasn't ready, just in the hope that Lena wanted her.
"No matter what Kara, I love you. You are beautiful from head to toe, and the moment you feel ready, the moment you feel you can be my equal in this act and you can control your strength I would love to make love to you."
Kara let out a sob and rolled forward, her head resting in Lena's lap. Lena shushed her, whispered sweet nothings and caressed her hair. Time was on their side. Lena would be here for Kara, equals always.
Kara quieted and fell asleep, her sort of ovipositor had retracted and she had curled into a ball, tight against Lena. They really needed to come up with a better name for it. Lena pulled a blanket over Kara. She would hold her all night. She would wait as long as necessary and spend her life making sure Kara knew she was beautiful and loved.
The end.
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