Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1,200
Characters: Barry/Kara
Prompt: "Kara and Barry, Thanksgiving dinner with the fam, Alex and Clark being all protective over Kara and giving Barry the stink eye if he even attempts at a move, and Iris and Kara being besties! (and yes, they all exist on the same timeline ;D). Love you my dear! Hugs and Kisses!"

For: queenofthevalients

A/N: I may have forgotten to include the actual Thanksgiving dinner and skipped to the lounging around part, but Kara and Barry and their families all sitting around and chatting over wine was just too precious of an image not to write.

(This is part of my "the most wonderful time of the year" holiday giveaway, but most of it is Marvel and posted in a separate collection.)

... ...

It's kind of like a game, but not really. Barry thinks it's funny and also really sweet that Alex and Clark are still super protective of her, even though they all know that she wouldn't have stayed with him for this long if it they genuinely didn't like him.

He asked for their blessing before he proposed. Obviously they like him just fine.

Clark still teases her for not cluing into it before it happened, but it's not her fault, okay? She knows that Barry – and Clark and Alex – can keep a secret. She didn't think much about Barry asking her to take a few days off of work so that they could go away for a long weekend because they've done it before. Last time, it was because he wanted all of them to go camping for his birthday, and the time before that had been to spend a week in Metropolis with Clark and Lois. Barry didn't tell her what this was supposed to be for, and he wouldn't budge when she asked where they were going so she could pack for it, but even that's not unusual. He likes to surprise her all the time, so a weekend away didn't seem suspicious.

And, okay, maybe she'd been a little too wrapped up in their vacation to the California coast to think about how Alex told her to pack a bathing suit just in case. And maybe if she hadn't let her guard down just because they were at the beach, she would've noticed a few familiar faces further down the shore as she and Barry were waiting for the sunset.

(Winn had taken a picture of the moment he proposed. She has it on her desk in the seashell frame Iris had bought for it.)

"Moving kind of fast, don't you think?"

Clark takes her hand in his, her ring glittering under the chandelier of his and Lois's living room.

He's teasing, Kara knows, so she just laughs and says, "Well, it's kind of his thing." Clark shrugs a shoulder, nudges the ring with his thumb and gets this look on his face that makes her furrow her eyebrows a little. "Clark?" she asks slowly. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah." He smiles as he squeezes her fingers. "Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't it be?"

"Because you've got that kicked puppy look on your face," Iris says, and Wally laughs as Clark rolls his eyes, the corners of his lips twitching in a grin.

"I don't know why you're so emotional, Clark." Alex flashes a smile. "I practically raised her and I'm doing just fine."

"Is that why you're shaking right now?" Maggie asks as she nudges Alex's arm with her elbow, and everyone laughs as Alex scoffs.

Barry and Lois are laughing, too, as they walk into the living room from the kitchen, wine glasses and a bottle of red in hand. Barry catches her gaze and grins, expression bright, and it seems a little silly that after two and a half years of being together, he still makes her stomach do these little flips. She gnaws on her lower lip a little as she smiles.

Joe and Elizabeth stand to help Barry and Lois hand out the wine glasses, and Iris scoots closer to Kara as she passes one to her, nudging Kara with her shoulder. "So," she says, eyes sparkling, "have we thought about where you two want to have the wedding?" Kara laughs a little and wrinkles her noise, and Iris taps her nose, which she just does sometimes when she thinks the girl is being particularly cute. She knows Iris isn't being pushy or anything by asking. She's just excited, maybe almost as much as Kara is, and, well. She's their wedding planner. Alex is helping, of course, but she handed over most of the responsibility to Iris because the girl has always had an eye for detail, and no one doubts that she'd be good at it.

She thought that things would be a little weirder between them, but it isn't at all. Iris is lovely, and so sweet, and Kara knows that she genuinely loves Barry and wants him to be happy. No matter what was between them, they are always going to be best friends first and she's going to love whatever's best for Barry.

("If anything, you're too good for him," Iris had joked once.)

"I think having it at a beach would be kind of symbolic," Kara says, setting her glass on the coffee table. "But it also sounds a little messy."

"Who cares?" Barry chimes in as he comes to sit on Kara's other side on the couch. He takes her hand, threads their fingers together. "I like a little mess."

"You saying my cousin is a mess?" Clark jokes, making Lois smile and roll her eyes. Barry grins as Kara giggles.

"Well, Iris is a miracle worker," Joe says. "She'd definitely get you guys set up in time to have it in the middle of next summer. Weather will be perfect for a beach wedding."

Kara looks at Barry, lips twitching at the corners. He winks, rubs his thumb over the band of her ring. "Nine months from now, Kara might not even be able to walk down any kind of aisle, especially one made of sand. Not with all that weight," he says, and then he stretches out his arm and mimics a wide stomach. She laughs and punches his chest lightly.

Everyone is sort of just – staring at them. Lois is smiling a little, and so are Alex and Maggie, and Kara feels her cheeks warm as she shrugs a shoulder.

Iris gasps a little, moves her hand up as if to cover her mouth, but then she reaches for Kara's forearm and gives it a squeeze. "Are you—?"

"Yeah," Kara breathes out.

"No," Joe says, raising his eyebrows. Barry flashes a wide, toothy smile, nodding, and Joe laughs. "No!"

Clark's lips twitch into a smile, even as he furrows his eyebrows a little, as if he's not quite sure if he heard them right. "Kara, you're—"

"Yes!" Kara giggles, feeling a giddy warmth rush through her. She glances up at Barry as she says, "Yes, I'm pregnant," and Barry's smile brightens even more, if possible. He looks like he did the moment she'd told him the news – maybe even happier, like he'd just been waiting to hear the words all over again – and she can't help but lean up to kiss him.

Their families cheer and he laughs against her lips, brings a hand up to press his palm flat over her stomach. She bites her lower lip, smiling.

"I don't know if the world can handle another little speedster," Joe jokes, giving Wally a look that makes him laugh and nudge his fist against his dad's shoulder.

"Hey, she could be a super," Lois chimes in.

"Or she could be both," Iris points out, feigning a shiver and making everyone laugh. "Good luck."

"Nah, we won't need it." Barry grins at Kara, brings her hand up to kiss the tops of her knuckles, and her stomach flutters. "We've always made a great team."