Kara blows out her powers and the kids are there for her with some TLC
Andrew (7)
Alexis (4)
A Little TLC Goes a Long Way
They brought her home to Lena in the early hours of the morning barely able to walk. Supergirl and her team had been fighting an apokoliptian alien called Maelstrom. Lena had watched the highlights on the news last night after putting their babies to bed. She'd watched, helpless and worried, as Supergirl solar flared to finally defeat the threat. Her heart had stopped beating and her lungs had refused to work as she watched Astra catch Supergirl as she fell from the sky. She held her breath until her phone buzzed with a text from Winn telling her Kara was ok and that Alex would bring her home after a few hours under the sunlamp. When they deposited Kara into bed Alex told Lena Kara would be powerless for a few days. Lena knew from past experience that when Kara was powerless she was susceptible to illness.
Lena had helped Kara change into her favorite comfy pjs with the cartoon sushi rolls and potstickers on them, and then tucked her into bed. When Lena awoke later that morning Kara was still out cold. Leaving her wife to sleep Lena headed downstairs to prepare for Saturday morning with the kids.
The first one to make her way to the kitchen was four year old Alexis. Her long blonde hair was a mess of flyaways, and one leg of her donut covered pj pants was pushed up over her little knee. Alexis yawned as she shuffled towards her mommy in her purple dragon slippers. In her right hand Alexis clung to Duck, her blue and white stuffed hippo, and in her left she held the corner of her blanky. As soon as she was standing in front of her mommy Alexis looked up with her big green eyes and said, "Cuddles."
Lena chuckled softly as she picked up her little girl and carried her over to the seating area just off the kitchen. She curled up on the loveseat with Alexis who instantly cuddled into her chest. "Good morning, Bug. Did you sleep well?"
Alexis rubbed her nose against her mommy's collarbone and hummed. "Mmmhmm, dreamed about ice cream."
"Well that sounds like a very good dream indeed." Lena said with a smile as she gently used her fingers to loosen the tangles in her daughter's hair.
By the time Andrew joined them Alexis was more awake and ready to get Saturday morning started. After getting a quick good morning cuddled from his mommy, he was seven now and far to old for the kind of cuddles Alexis demanded, he stood at the counter beside his sister while Lena pulled out the boxes of Saturday morning cereal. Saturday mornings were the only time Lena allowed her children to have the brightly colored sugary cereal her wife had insisted was a childhood staple on Saturday mornings.
Alexis choose the latest Disney movie tie in cereal which had what were suppose to be marshmallows in it, while Andrew asked for fruit loops. Alexis glared at her big brother and said, "Mama eats fruit loops, Drew. You can't have Mama's cereal."
"It's alright, Bug." Lena said before Andrew could start an argument. "Mama isn't feeling well. She won't mind if Andrew has some of her cereal."
Andrew and Alexis looked at each other and then back at their mother.
"Mama's sick?" Alexis asked, concern instantly filling her bright green eyes.
Andrew frowned. "Mama doesn't get sick."
"While it is rare for your mama to get sick she does sometimes." Lena said as she poured the kids' cereal into bowls. "Mama just needs lots of rest today and I'm sure she'll be feeling a bit better by tomorrow." As she turned towards the fridge to get the milk she said, "Why don't you two go settle on what cartoon to watch and I'll bring out your breakfast."
"Are you gonna watch cartoons with us Mommy?" Alexis asked, pausing at the door to turn back to look at her mommy.
Lena smiled at her little girl. "I'll watch after I check on Mama."
"Ok." Alexis said with a bright smile. "But it's Saturday morning cartoons, Mommy. No green goop for breakfast."
Lena laughed as she watched her precocious little bug run off.
After an episode of Llama Llama and Magic School Bus Andrew was sent up to clean his room and shower before Sam picked him up to take him to the aquarium store. Alexis helped Lena put the morning dishes in the dishwasher and then Lena helped her get cleaned up and dressed for the day. Alexis played until naptime and for once when Lena made the announcement that it was time for a rest Alexis didn't fight her on it.
Alexis laid on her bed long enough to wait out her mommy just incase she was still upstairs. Then she got up and went to her bookcase. She pulled out Llama Llama Home with Mama, snatched up Duck from her bed, and then crept out of her room. She paused to listen at her mothers' bedroom door and when she doesn't hear anything she turns the knob and pushes the door open.
"Mama?" She whispers into the room. When she saw Kara laying on the bed under the covers she makes her way over and tosses her book and hippo up onto the bed before making the climb herself. Her mothers' bed was huge and she was still pretty little. Once she was on the bed she crawls over to Kara and gently brushes her mother's blonde hair from her face. "Poor Mama."
Picking up Duck, Alexis tells him, "Mama's sick, Duck. You has to gives her get better vibes." She kisses his snout and then tucks him under Kara's arm. Then she settles herself on the pillows near Kara's head and opens her book on her lap. When she doesn't feel well her mommies always take really good care of her. They read to her, and sing to her, and make her orange juice mixed with ginger ale. She wanted to help her Mama feel better so she read Llama Llama to her and sang Disney songs to her.
Lena really shouldn't have been surprised to find her daughter's bedroom empty when she went to wake her from her nap. She'd known it had been far too easy to get the little girl to agree to her afternoon nap. She was about to check the playroom and perhaps the rooftop garden for her wayward child when she paused near the door to her and Kara's room. Pushing open the door Lena's heart melted. There was her little cuddle bug sound asleep beside her mama. Seeing Alexis' beloved stuffed friend tucked under Kara's arm and the open book made Lena's jade eyes burn with happy tears.
When Lena went over to wake Alexis she ended up waking Kara who moaned softly. "I'm sorry, love. I didn't mean to wake you."
"I was dozing." Kara said softly. "I actually woke up during what I assume was a mashup of Let it Go and How Far I'll go."
Lena sat on the bed and moved so she was sitting closer to her wife and their sleeping child. "How are you feeling?"
"Like crap." Kara answered.
"Alex wants you to hold off on using the lamps." Lena said softly. "She used them last night to heal your wounds, but she thinks you need to rest and build your strength up slowly and naturally."
Kara groaned and that caused Alexis to groan.
"Sleeping Mama." The little girl moaned. Reaching up she put her tiny hand over Kara's mouth to shush her.
Lena chuckled as she reached out to rub her cuddle bug's back. "Time to wake up, Bug. Do you wanna help me make Mama some lunch?"
"Cuddles first." Alexis said as she snuggled closer to Kara. "No get me sick, Mama."
Kara chuckled softly. "I won't little one."
Andrew very carefully mixed the orange juice and the ginger ale in the tall glass and set it on the tray. Then he took the toast out of the toaster and spread butter on it before carefully sprinkling cinnamon sugar on it. When he got home from his afternoon with his Aunt Sam, Alexis told him that their mama was awake but still didn't feel good. He decided to make her a snack. Picking up the tray the seven year old very carefully and very slowly carried it out of the kitchen and towards the stairs.
"Drew?" Lena questioned from where she sat on the sofa with Alexis.
"I'm taking Mama a snack." The boy answered as he took the steps one at a time.
Lena smiled. It filled her heart with warmth to watch her small children doing whatever they could to help take care of their mama. "Do you need some help?"
"No thank you." Andrew replied. "I got it."
Upstairs he had to put the tray down to open the bedroom door but he managed to get it all the way to Kara without spilling any of the drink. "Mama, are you awake?"
"Yeah, Bud, I'm awake." Kara said as she sat up and leaned back against the pillows. Every part of her body hurt, her hair hurt, her fingernails hurt. She felt miserable but watching her son carefully carry over a tray with the samel snack she made for him when he was sick made feeling like this easier to take. "What do you got there?"
"You need to eat." Andrew said, parroting what his mothers had said to him when he'd been sick. "And drink lots."
Kara accepted the tray with a huge loving smile. "Thank you, sweetheart. Wanna keep mama company?"
"Sure." The boy replied with a matching smile. He climbed onto the bed and settled beside Kara who turned on the tv. They watched half of Cars before Lena came up to tell Andrew dinner was ready.
Lena was double teamed. Both of the kids wanted to eat dinner with Kara who still didn't feel like getting out of bed. Lena tried to hold firm to, "We need to let Mama rest and we have dinner at the table." But how was she supposed to not cave when she was on her own against not one but two miniature versions of the Kara Danvers puppy pout? With a defeated groan she said, "Fine, but only this once and I mean it!"
The family settled into Lena and Kara's bed with their dinner bowls and watched movies. The spent the rest of the evening cuddled together in bed. Lena put both of their children to bed in their own beds but when she awoke the next morning they'd both wiggled their way between herself and Kara. The rest of the weekend was spent in a cuddle pile either on the sofa watching movies in the living room or on the sofa in the rooftop garden reading books while Kara soaked up some sunlight. Despite feeling powerless and sick it was one of the best weekends Kara had had in a long time.
