Hey everyone! Thank you for the comments on the last chapter! This one is a fluffy, filler chapter, so please enjoy.
To respond to the comment on why Kara isn't speaking Kryptonian, honestly it kinda slipped my mind when I was writing the first chapter.
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Chapter Four
The next day came too early for Alex's liking. She was pulled out of her sleep by the feeling of someone watching her. Blinking her eyes open slowly, Alex came face to face with a pair of wide, bright blue eyes staring at her, extremely close to her face. She jolted awake, startling Maggie from her sleep as well.
"What-what's happening?" Maggie stuttered, looking around frantically.
"Kara!" Alex cried at the same time.
The little girl blinked owlishly at the couple, watching them try to regain their breath.
"Kara, what are you doing in here at," Maggie turned to look at the clock and sighed. "6 o'clock in the morning?"
"Hungry," Kara stated simply, as though that explained everything.
Alex sighed, tossing the covers off of her body and rising from the bed, taking Kara's hand and leading her toward the door.
"Let's get some breakfast then, huh Munchkin?"
Maggie groaned, throwing herself back against the pillows before following the sisters out of the room.
"Kara, where's Lena?" Maggie asked from behind the girl.
Kara turned her head, looking at Maggie for a moment before pointing at the bedroom that the couple had put the toddlers in the night before.
"Sleepin'," she shrugged.
Maggie and Alex locked eyes and Maggie turned into the room to check on the younger girl. Pushing the door open slowly and quietly, poking her head around the edge of the door to look into the dark room. There was a small lump on one side of the bed, Maggie couldn't even see the little girl's hair in between the pile of blankets and pillows. The only visible idea of the girl being there was the ear of the large bear, stuck slightly above the blankets. The lump was very still, not any visible movement that Maggie could pick up in the darkened room. She crept closer, moving around to the side of the bed that contained Lena, and tried to see under the blankets. Maggie took a hold of the corner of the blanket and moved it away from the girl's face, taking a look at the girl's peaceful face as she slept, fingers clutching the arm of the bear and the green pacifier hung loosely from her lips.
Maggie smiled, tucking the blanket around Lena's little shoulders and then stepping away from the bed, tip-toeing away into the hallway, pulling the door almost completely closed and then followed the voices of the two sisters into the kitchen.
She found Kara sitting at the table, high up on her knees so she can see over the table top, watching Alex pour milk into a bowl of cereal in front of the four-year-old. Alex was smiling, listening intently to the story that Kara was telling her about her dream from the night before, laughing along and nodding her head. Maggie smiled at the sisters, taking in the moment before going to the counter to start a pot of coffee.
The trio had an enjoyable breakfast at the table, Maggie cut up a bowl of fruit and placed it in the middle of the table, and Alex toasted bagels for them. Kara getting milk down the front of her pajamas when she tried to spoon a huge spoonful of Cheerios into her mouth at once. The little girl didn't seem fazed, continuing on in her mission to scarf down her cereal as quickly as possible as Alex moved around her, mopping up the milk with a dish cloth and trying her best to clean up the little girl's face. Maggie watched on, chuckling to herself.
Halfway through their meal, Maggie heard tiny, shuffling steps behind her and turned to find Lena, hair and pajamas ruffled from sleep and teddy bear hanging from her hand as she rubbed her eye with a small closed fist. The green pacifier was stuck in her mouth and she was slightly pouty.
"Good morning, Little Miss," Alex cooed at the little girl from her chair.
Lena shuffled over to Maggie, not saying a word as she lifted up her arms in a gesture to be picked up. Maggie smiled and lifted the girl up by her armpits, sitting her down in her lap. The raven haired toddler looked around at the table, watching Kara shovel cereal into her mouth at an alarming pace, and then her green eyes fell on the bowl of fruit on the table. Maggie watched her, and pulled the bowl closer to the tot in her lap.
"This needs to come out of you want fruit, Little Miss," Maggie informed her, tapping lightly on the pacifier in Lena's mouth.
Lena begrudgingly pulling the pacifier out of her mouth, depositing it on the place mat in front of her before reaching out to the bowl. Maggie laughed to herself.
"What do you want?" Maggie asked, tilting the bowl so that Lena could see what was in the bowl.
Without responding, Lena's little hand went into the bowl and came back with a large piece of banana, which the little girl unceremoniously stuffed into her mouth. Maggie was surprised, the behaviour of the toddler a complete opposite of the act that she had on last night.
"Someone's not a morning person," Alex laughed, watching the little girl try to chew her mouthful of banana, cheeks puffed out like a chipmunk.
Finally swallowing her banana, Lena nodded in agreement with Alex's statement and stuck her hand back into the bowl and stuck a strawberry in her mouth. Alex watched her for another moment before standing and walking over to the counter, grabbing a plastic bowl and fork from the pile of new dishes that she had washed by the sink. She scooped a couple scoops from the bowl of fruit into the smaller purple bowl and handed that, and the matching plastic fork, in front of Lena.
"This might be a little easier," Alex laughed at the little girl.
Lena looked at her for a moment before taking the fork into her hand and sticking it into another strawberry. She gave Alex a small smile before putting the berry in her mouth.
Alex and Maggie continued a quiet conversation as the toddlers finished their breakfasts, discussing what they were going to do with the little girls for the rest of the day, considering the early morning. When Kara was done, she slid herself off the chair and marched over to Alex, tugging on the edge of her pajama shirt.
"What's up?" Alex asked, looking down at the child.
"I come up?" Kara asked, looking at Alex before her eyes slipped over to where Lena was munching on fruit in Maggie's lap.
"Sure Munchkin," Alex smiled, hoisting the little girl up and into her lap.
The four sat at the table a little longer, waiting for Lena to finish off her breakfast, before they get ready for the day. Alex and Maggie had decided it would be better to stay home for the way, waiting for some information from the DEO about the tests that were run on the toddlers the day before.
Planning to divide and conquer, Maggie and Alex split up. Maggie took Lena into the room that the two girls shared to pick out an outfit for the day, leaving the pacifier on the kitchen table for a few months, while Alex brought Kara into the bathroom to clean up and brush her teeth first.
In the bedroom, Maggie sat Lena on the bed before opening up the drawers in the cabinet, pulling out a little pair of black leggings and a couple different shirts. She placed the shirts in front of Lena, letting the child decide. Lena looked between the tops before deciding on the baby blue t-shirt with a cartoon long necked dinosaur on the front.
"Dis one," Lena pointed.
"Good choice," Maggie smiled.
She helped Lena get dressed, picking out some little white socks for the child as well, and then scooping her up and carrying her to the bathroom. They passed Alex and Kara in the hall, Kara was cleaner, but there was a spot of toothpaste on the front of her pajamas, and some water splotches where Alex had tried to clean the milk off of the little girl. When they made it into the bathroom, Maggie sat Lena on top of the counter, telling the little girl not to move as she prepped a toothbrush with some toddler safe toothpaste and handed it to the little girl.
"Make sure you brush all of them," Maggie tickled her sides a little before Lena put the toothbrush in her mouth, clumsily scrubbing it along her tiny white teeth.
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When everyone was ready, Maggie and Alex taking turns getting record speed showers, they brought the girls into the living room, and pulled out some of the toys and books that they had purchased the night before.
Kara was shaking she was so excited as Maggie cut into the box of the robot puppy she had picked out, watching Maggie with wide eyes as she put batteries into the toy before handing the remote to the child and placing the fake dog on the ground, flipping the switch to turn it on.
Lena on the other hand was leaning toward the colouring books and crayons that Alex had placed on the coffee table. She struggled trying to open the box of crayons before Alex easily pulled open the tap and dumped all of the crayons onto the table. Lena flipped through the colouring book before deciding on a picture of a princess.
With both girls occupied, Alex took a moment to go into the bedroom and check her phone. It was late enough in the morning that people would be working at the DEO, especially with the news that National City's resident superhero and L-Corp's CEO were currently two feet tall.
There were no messages or missed calls on her phone, so she figured that she could give J'onn a call, just to check in. Quickly dialling the number for the director, she held the phone up to her ear, and let it ring. It ran a few times before someone on the other line picked up the phone.
"Alex," J'onn addressed the woman.
"J'onn, I just wanted to check on the tests."
"So far, we have nothing conclusive. We are still waiting on some more tests, but I am sending a team over to Kara's apartment later today to look through the scene," J'onn informed her.
That wasn't the answer Alex was looking for, but she figured it was better than nothing.
"When will the tests be back?" Alex asked.
"By the end of the day today. I should have something for you in a couple of hours."
"Thank you," Alex hung up the phone before sliding it into the pocket of her sweatshirt.
She went back into the living room to find it exactly how she had left it. Maggie and Kara were sitting on the floor, Maggie helping Kara control the barking toy puppy on the floor, Kara laughing hysterically while Maggie made the toy jump and bark. Lena was standing up at the coffee table, scribbling away at the colouring book. From where Alex was standing she could see that the picture, previously a black and white line drawing of a princess in a tower, was covered in rainbow scribbles from the crayons.
With Kara occupied and playing with Maggie, Alex decided to go sit with Lena. She took a seat on the floor beside the girl, Lena not even looking up from her colouring for a second to watch Alex.
"What are you colouring?" Alex asked.
"Princess," Lena chirped, intently focused on the purple crayon in her hand.
The two sat in silence for a couple minutes while Lena finished her picture. Without prompting, she starting flipping through the pages of the book, falling on a page with two pictures, each with a different princess.
"You colour?" Lena asked, thrusting out her hand, clutching a pink crayon, to Alex.
"Okay," Alex smiled, taking the crayon and joining the little girl.
The quartet played and enjoyed the rest of their morning, and before they knew it, it was lunch time, Kara piping up and asking for something to eat.
"Lunch time?" Maggie asked.
"Yes," Kara grinned.
Alex and Maggie brought the girls to the table before they started on making lunch, boxed macaroni and cheese and some apple slices. It was a quick and kid friendly for lunch, and Kara was very excited, eagerly starting into her meal with her little plastic fork. Lena was much more delicate with it, taking small forkfuls of her macaroni and cheese in between bites of apple slices. After lunch, Alex quickly cleaned off Kara's face and she and Maggie set up the two toddlers in the spare room for a quick afternoon nap.