A/N- Hey guys, glad you liked the first chapter. Thank you for all your reviews and also to KaraLena90, thank you so much for your review, really made my day! :)
Hope you all enjoy the next chapter
TWO
When Lena came back from the bathroom, Kara was already on her feet, an apologetic look on her face.
"Lena, I am so sorry. I never should have said that. What you do is your business and if you're happy then who am I to stand in the way-"
"Kara. It's fine, honestly. I just want to have a great, relaxing weekend with my best friend. Do you think we can do that?"
Kara let out a breath, relieved that she didn't have to continue babbling.
"Yes...yes! We can totally do that!"
They gave each other a big hug and then went back to their seats.
"Now, let's start over." Lena suggested.
Kara nodded.
"Ok, you go first this time."
Lena smiled and nodded, then her attention turned to the window as the train pulled into the station.
She gave Kara a sideways glance.
"We're here."
Lena was hauling her bag up to the cabin behind Kara who carried a little suitcase which Lena guessed only held the bare minimum, whereas Lena had packed for every eventuality.
Kara glanced over her shoulder at the Luthor.
"Do you need any help?"
"No, it's fine-I'm fine. It's not as heavy as it...looks!" She panted as she dragged it up the first snowy step and almost lost her balance.
Kara chuckled as she watched Lena regain her footing.
"Are you sure?"
Lena nodded as she rested on her suitcase to catch her breath.
Kara smiled and shook her head as she waited for Lena to continue.
With a nod of her head that she was ready, Lena grabbed her suitcase and followed Kara up the remaining steps to the cabin.
The train ride hadn't felt very long but the taxi ride up here had felt longer than anything.
Kara had been sat close to Lena and the Luthor woman was surprisingly rigid all the way up here. Kara wondered if she was really looking forward to this or not. She guessed that only time would tell.
They reached the front door, Kara before Lena, and Kara looked up at the wooden cabin, amazed by it's beauty.
"Lena...it's-it's amazing!"
Lena smiled as she straightened, letting out a breath.
"Well, it's certainly worth the money."
Kara turned back to Lena with a big smile on her face.
"This is going to be such a great weekend!"
Lena nodded, finding Kara's smile infectious.
"It definitely will."
Lena then tossed the key to Kara.
"Go ahead, open the door."
Kara practically ran up to the door unlocking it and going inside.
Inside was just as beautiful as the outside.
Wooden floors polished to a gleaming shine, wooden walls obviously, a huge fireplace which had already been lit, a comfy looking couch with a rustic looking coffee table and a massive flat screen TV sat by a window that gave you a fantastic outlook of the snow covered grass below that could almost resemble a ski slope.
Kara saw the stairs which she guessed led up to the bedrooms/bedroom? She wondered.
"So...what do you think?" Lena asked, relieved that she could dump her suitcase now. She would worry about lugging it up the stairs later.
"Lena, it's amazing! It's everything I ever thought it would be and more!"
Lena smiled brightly as Kara turned around, taking in the whole room again.
"So, what shall we do first?" Kara asked, sounding like an excited child.
Lena gestured with her head to the kitchen that linked in with the living area.
"How about I make us some hot chocolate and then we go for a walk around the forest?"
Kara nodded.
"Yeah, sounds good. Do you want any help?" She asked as Lena made her way to the kitchen.
"Oh, no I'm fine, just get yourself settled in."
Kara grabbed her suitcase and went upstairs as Lena called out,
"There are two bedrooms, you can pick which one you like."
"Thanks Lena!" Kara called back, already half way up.
Lena wasn't presumptuous, she wasn't about to suggest that Kara share her bed, even though it was normal for two girls who were best friends to do that but Lena just wasn't like that.
Lena smiled as she made the hot chocolate and put those tiny marshmallows in and added some whipped cream to give it a more inviting look.
The smell made her mouth water and it wasn't long before Kara came back down and got settled on the couch.
Lena thought about how perfect this setting was as she brought the two pale pink mugs over and set them down on the table as she took her place beside Kara.
"I picked the bedroom on the right side, it seemed like the one of the left was your's."
Lena smiled.
"Well it is but how did you know?"
"I dunno." Kara said with a slight shrug.
"It just seemed very you. All white and fresh without any knick-knacks or pictures."
Lena nodded and she didn't know whether to be saddened by the fact that she didn't seem like a sentimental person to Kara or that she should be happy that Kara had managed to pick out which one was her room by taking little things into account about the Luthor woman.
Lena chose to smile and not let it bother her too much.
Kara lent forward and picked up her mug, watching the steam billowing out of the froth that had been the whipped cream.
She took a sip and closed her eyes. Heaven.
Lena smiled at the blonde's reaction and tried her own. She'd made this drink a hundred times for herself before and the practice had only made her better.
Kara looked around at the cabin again.
"So who else have you invited up here?" Kara asked.
Lena licked her lips, warming her hands on the mug.
"Uh...no one."
"No one? Like, no one at all?"
Lena shook her head.
"You're the first."
Kara looked shocked and Lena just rolled her eyes.
"Come on Kara, who else do you know that would befriend a Luthor-I mean besides an evil person who wanted to use my resources for the own gain?"
Kara shrugged and nodded in agreement.
"Well for what it's worth, I'm glad to be the first one in your cabin."
Lena mentally told herself not to see that as a euphemism and changed the subject.
"So uh, your sister knows you're coming back to spend Christmas day with her?"
Kara took another sip of her drink and nodded.
"Yeah, she doesn't really wanna be alone. Y'know, after Maggie and all that."
Lena nodded in understanding.
"It must be hard for her."
"Yeah. I mean she wants kids and Maggie didn't. How do you get past something like that?"
Lena shrugged.
"It depends on the situation I suppose."
"Well do you want kids?"
Lena's eyes widened slightly at Kara's question. It had caught her off guard.
"Um...I don't know. I haven't really thought about it. W-what about you?"
Kara bit her lip as she thought about it.
"I guess, someday maybe. If the right person came along."
Lena's heart dropped.
If the right person came along. Did that mean that she wasn't the right person because...well she was already here.
Think of something else Lena. Change the subject again.
"Ready to go for that walk?"
Kara nodded, smiling brightly and jumped up to grab her coat as Lena took the half empty mugs into the kitchen.
The snow was unblemished. No one else's foot prints had broken the snow's clean white appearance.
Lena and Kara walked side by side down the hill, the snow crunching underneath their boots.
"So what movies are we watching tonight?" Kara asked.
"Whatever you want." Lena replied.
"Um well what's your favorite Christmas movie?"
Lena frowned slightly as she tried to think.
"I don't know...I guess I don't have one."
Kara stopped walking and turned Lena to face her, her mouth hanging open in complete shock.
"What?!"
Lena blinked.
"I don't have a favorite Christmas movie. Christmas at the Luthor's wasn't what you would call warm and fuzzy."
Kara gave her that sympathetic look that Lena was used to seeing all too often when it came to the Luthor woman's childhood.
"Well maybe we need to find you one. Let's see...you wanna know my favorite?"
Lena smiled and nodded.
"Of course."
"Ok, don't laugh because it's pretty cheesy but really good."
Lena chuckled.
"Ok. I promise I won't laugh."
" A Princess for Christmas."
Lena stared at Kara, a blank look on her face.
"I've never heard of it."
Kara's eyes widened again.
"What do you watch every Christmas? Horror movies?!"
Lena shrugged helplessly.
"Sometimes, yeah."
Kara reached out and took Lena's hand, making the Luthor's heart race increase significantly.
"Well we're going to change all that right now." Kara announced, pulling Lena back the way they'd come.
"What about the walk?" Lena said, maybe whining a little.
"We can do that later but right now, we have to watch a Christmas film and get you acting like a normal festive, Christmas loving person."
Lena chuckled despite the fact that she thought this was a ridiculous idea but the thought of cuddling up on the couch with Kara was just too good to pass up.
A/N- So did anyone catch the link in here to do with a certain movie and a certain actress? Let me know if you did, if you didn't and want to know, I'll reveal it in my notes in the next chapter. I know, I'm a tease hehe ;)
