Just to clarify the timeline because I'm writing things a bit out of order as they come to me. The order of my stories are as follows.

Child of L

Together They Will Rise

Happy Ever After

Child of El

(at least two more future stories I hope)

Also, beware of really obscure comic book reference coming in this and next chapter lol


Using a strand of hair to collect DNA simply wasn't something current technology could do, so the process Lena and Alex had created would require the use of actual reproductive cells. They harvested what they would need from both Lena and Kara, which led Kara to comment on feeling like a chicken, and then began trying to use Lena's process to create an embryo. While Lena continued to utilize Alex's knowledge and skills as a biomedical engineer they both agreed that it would be more than weird if Alex served as her doctor on this, so they'd enlisted the help of one of the DEO's doctor's who had obstetrics experience. Of course having a doctor with obstetrics experience wouldn't matter much if Lena couldn't create a viable embryo. The first two attempts failed and each time it hurt Lena and caused her to doubt herself. Kara would comfort and reassure her. Remind her that she was a genius and determined and if anyone could give them a baby it would be her. Lena used that to focus and try again.

It would take five days before they knew if it were true about third time's a charm, and Kara had been doing her best to keep her wife distracted. She didn't want Lena to get lost in the what ifs, or to fall too far down the rabbit hole of obsessing over it. So they hosted a game night, surrounded by their friends and family, where Lena had relaxed and laughed as she argued with Sam about cheating at Draw What?!

"How can I cheat at dirty pictionary!" Sam had defended herself with amusement.

"I don't know but you are." Lena had argued while hitting Sam with a pillow.

They'd taken Andrew to the zoo, which mostly worked.

"Look Mommy!" Andrew said excitedly as he pulled his mother to the platypus exhibit. "Pat-a-pusses! Just like Bean!"

"That's right, Drew." Lena said as she crouched beside her son. "And what kind of animal is a platypus?"

"A mammal." Andrew answered.

Lena smiled at her son. "That's right. And what makes an animal a mammal?"

Andrew had to think on that one for a moment. He tilted his head the way Kara sometimes did when she was thinking, and stuck the very tip of his tongue between his lips the way Lena sometimes did. Then he said, "Mammals have hair, carry babies in their bellies, and feed babies milk!"

"That's right little man." Lena praised with a bright happy smile. "Well done."

Andrew beamed.

"That's impressive." A woman said from beside Lena. "How old is he?"

Lena stood and smiled proudly. "Three."

Kara watched the tenison take hold in Lena's shoulders when she noticed the woman was pregnant. She stepped closer to her wife and began rubbing circles on her back.

The woman looked down at Andrew and smiled. "You're a very smart young man."

Andrew stood a little taller and puffed up his little chest and proudly proclaimed. "Thank you, I'm a Luthor."

Kara laughed softly. "That's his way of saying he gets it from his mommy."

When spending time with their family and their son didn't distract Lena, Kara had other ways of getting her mind off the dividing cells in her DEO lab. After giving Andrew to Alex and Sam for the night Kara drew her wife a bath, made her dinner, and then put on her super suit. Lena raised an eyebrow when she saw her wife and the responding look Kara gave her had Lena laughing softly.

"Well, if that's how we're spending the evening then I should change as well." Lena said before disappearing into their walk in closet.

With every ding of the elevator Sam shook her head as they neared Lena and Kara's floor. "I'm telling you babe this is a bad idea. We should have just called."

"It was on the way home." Alex replied. "It'll take five seconds to grab Bean and go. You know Drew can't sleep without him."

"They wanted to be alone." Sam reminded her girlfriend.

"It's still pretty early." Alex said. "Kara will forgive us if we interrupt whatever meal she managed to cobble together."

Sam just shook her head. She could hear that Kara and Lena weren't having dinner, but she was still mad about the prank Alex and Ruby had pulled on her last week while Ruby was training at the DEO, so Sam decided not to warn her girlfriend about what they were about to walk in on.

"It must be difficult, Supergirl." Lena's voice purred. "To beg on your knees in that short skirt."

Sam snorted.

"What?" Alex asked as she looked over at her girlfriend as they approached the door.

"Nothing." Sam replied.

The trama on Alex's face at seeing Lena in her pencil skirt, half undone silk blouse, tight bun and Kara in her super suit with a pair of green fuzzy handcuffs hanging from one wrist kept Lena and Sam laughing for days, and Kara unable to look at her sister. The whole incident was forgotten at the end of the five days however, replaced by the sight of Lena whispering to Kara with a gleam in her eyes that say they were watery, and Kara picking Lena up in a hug and spinning her around.

Third time was the charm.

Now came an all new waiting game. Would the embryo implant? Would it turn into a viable pregnancy? It only made sense that Lena be the one to carry. It would be far to dangerous to send Kara out as Supergirl while pregnant and people would notice if the city's main hero disappeared for nine months. So Lena was the one on the exam table with her feet in stirrups while Kara held her hand and whispered in her ear how much she loved her, how much she adored her, and how amazing she thought she was.

How was Kara ever going to repay Lena for this? She was still trying to thank her for allowing her to be apart of Andrew's life, and now here she was not only giving her another chance to be a mother but to be the mother of a child who would carry on the existence of her people. The El and Ze bloodlines would carry on in their child and beyond because of Lena Luthor. "I am truly blessed." Kara said that night in their bed as she held her wife close, skin to skin, heart to heart. "To have you, to love you and be loved by you."

Lena had tears in her eyes. "I'm the lucky one here, Kara. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and find all this had just been a beautiful dream."

"Not a dream, love." Kara said as she shifted them so she could lean in and kiss her wife.

When Superman shows up to ask for Kara's help with something and the pair fly off Lena's thoughts no longer center around a possible pregnancy. She worries about what Clark has drug Kara into and if she's safe. She distracts herself with work. Tweaking Sam's super suit, working with Winn to design something more along the lines of a proper super suit for Ruby whose powers were starting to manifest. Sitting through meetings with fresh out of college kids who try to talk her into having two dozen CatCo YouTube channels where twenty somethings eat weird food and tested weird products.

"Whatever this is about please tell me it has nothing to do with having a social media presence that appeals to young people because I'm still not willing to accept that I'm no longer apart of that demographic." Lena said as she walked into Sam's office.

Sam laughed softly. "This has nothing to do with young people or social media." She promised as she stood to hug her friend. "I get my fill of the young just by listening to make sure Ruby is in school where she belongs and not bounding around the city in what she thinks is a super suit when it's basically Alex's hand me downs with my crest on the t-shirt."

Lena would have laughed and teased Sam as she hugged her but she was suddenly hit with a wave of unexpected nausea. She groaned softly as she pulled away from Sam. "What are you wearing?"

"Um…" Sam replied, confused.

"The smell." Lena said as she put her hand under her nose.

Sam raised an eyebrow. "You mean the two thousand dollar perfume you gave me for Christmas?"

Lena felt as if she were going to throw up. "I need some air."

"Lena Luthor don't you dare throw up over the side of my balcony!" Sam said with amusement. "That's a lawsuit and bad press just waiting to happen!" While Lena was taking deep breaths out on the balcony Sam went to the washroom to try and dampen the smell of her perfume before joining her friend. Handing Lena a glass of ginger ale she smiled at her and said, "My senior year of high school I had this English teacher who smelled like cough drops, pipe tobacco, and coffee. For the first couple of weeks of my pregnancy every time I walked into his class I had to fight the urge to throw up."

Lena's jade eyes went wide as she stared at Sam. "What are you saying, Sam?"

"How long has it been since your procedure?" Sam asked.

How long? Lena had to think for a moment before answering, "Three weeks."

Sam beamed at her friend. "Honey, I think you need to pee on a stick."

When Lena is called into the DEO by Kara she's full of excitement but manages to keep it under control. She has plans, big romantic life changing plans, that did not involve the DEO. Her plans involved Andrew in a custom made t-shirt, a mountain of specially made potstickers, and the tiniest of little red capes. When Kara called to tell her that she and Superman were back and that they had something at the DEO she needed to see Lena assumed it was some alien tech they wanted her to tinker with or maybe something left behind by her brother or her mother.

She had been right about it being something left behind by Lex. Apparently Superman had stumbled across one of Lex's vaults during a fight with a new version of the Amazo android. Lena was well aware of the continued operation of CADMUS despite her mother's continued incarceration. She'd taken steps a long time ago to combat CADMUS, and was genuinely surprised to discover they could possibly have ties to this new threat against Superman, and possibly Supergirl. But what Lena found even more surprising was what Superman had found in Lex's vault once the android was defeated. He didn't appear to be older than a twelve year old boy. He had jet black hair, blue eyes, and a famuilatery about him that twisted at Lena's heart unexpectedly.

"He was listed as experiment thirteen." Kara said gently as she stood beside her wife while Lena stared at the boy who silently, nervously, looked around the room. "We've been calling him Conner."

"Who…" Lena said softly, paused, and started again. "Who is he?"

"A clone." Kara answered. "Of Clark and…" Kara hestated. When Lena looked at her she sighed softly and said, "Lex." Taking her wife's hand she tried to smile at her as she said, "Lena Luthor, meet your nephew."

This was not how Lena saw this day going. Lex had created a clone of himself and splicted in Superman's DNA? Why? She knew why. What better way to defeat Superman than with a super powered version of himself? Lex was so far gone he'd created a child to use as a weapon. Without thinking her hand went to her stomach where her own child now grew. Her child had been created out of love, but Lex's? This child, this little boy, had been created out of hate and fear. Stepping closer to the boy Lena smiled at him warmly and said, "Hello Conner. It's nice to meet you. I'm your Aunt Lena. You're safe now, Conner."

After spending several days at the DEO having tests run on him and a number of evaluations Conner went home with Clark. Lena was left wheeling from the experience. It had been years since she'd had any direct contact with her mother or brother, years of not having to deal with more than the ideals they left behind in the form of CADMUS. It was jarring to suddenly find herself face to face with a boy who rarely smiled but when he did it was Lex's smile.

"Are you alright?" Kara asked her wife as they sat together cuddled on their sofa.

"It's strange." Lena admitted. "Seeing Lex in him."

"Clark's going to take care of him." Kara reassured. "Raise him like a normal kid, as a son."

Lena sighed softly. "I wonder what else Lex left out there."

Far below Metropolis a woman with dark pixie cut hair sat in a metal chair and watched as a large man with ham sized fists punched a tall slender man in a lab coat repeatedly in the stomach. After a few more moments she finally said, "That's enough Harold. I'm sure the good doctor understands that further failure will not be tolerated and that I hold him personally responsible for the loss of the boy. Don't you Doctor?"

The slender man whizzed and spat up blood as he nodded.

"Let me hear you say it, Doctor." The woman ordered.

"I understand, Mrs. Luthor." The man whizzed out.

The woman stood and ran her hands down her skirt to straighten it. "Good." Turning to look at Harold she ordered, "I think it's long past time I visited National City. Be a dear and make the arrangements."

"Yes Mrs. Luthor." Harold grunted.

The woman walked over to a shattered mirror on the wall to fuss over her hair and check her makeup Smiling at herself she said, "I think it's time I reacquainted myself with my dear sister in law."