Once Upon National City
A/N: First drabble of the new year! Happy belated New Year everyone! I hope this year has been treating you all well so far. Thought I'd start off the year with some sisterly fluff. There's nothing like the Danvers sisters to keep us going until the series comes back, wouldn't you agree? Enjoy!
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Summary: She should have known. Alex should have known this would happen. It happened every year after all. And yet here she was, grumbling about it for the umpteenth time. Kara & Alex. Family/Humor.
*** ~ Her Sister ~ ***
Alex was a light sleeper.
It came with the job.
There were moments where she had to be awake at the sound of a pin dropping, otherwise she'd be dead. Those times were far and few in between of course, especially now that Supergirl was working with the DEO, but even so, Alex never quite broke out of that habit. And that was something she was majorly regretting right now, on the one day she had off in months.
Who in their right mind was sneaking into her apartment through her balcony doors, an apartment on the thirteenth floor, Alex didn't know. What she did know was the moment she heard her balcony doors sliding open, Alex was instantly awake, the DEO agent immediately reaching for her gun which sat on her nightstand, next to her alarm clock.
The pitter patter of excited feet. And an equally excited, barely muffled, squeal.
"You've got to be kidding me," Alex grumbled, foregoing her gun in favor of letting her arm flop over the side of her bed. She face planted into her pillow.
No sooner had Alex's face pressed into her pillow, there was a stampede of steps into her bedroom, and a whoosh, as a certain blue eyed, blonde haired, Kryptonian slid to a halt at the foot of her bed.
"Rise and shine, sleepyhead!" Kara exclaimed, overly jubilant. "It's your birthday and we have a full day ahead of us!"
"Kara," Alex whined. "What are you doing? It's not even-"
Raising her head up for a moment, Alex took one glance at her clock alarm before burying her face in the pillow again.
"It's not even six o'clock in the morning!" she mumbled, her voice muffled by pillow. "On the one day I have off for the next six months! Let me sleep!"
"Nope!" Kara refuted, much too bubbly for Alex's tastes this early in the morning. "Why waste your day off sleeping when there's so many fun things you could be doing instead?"
"Karaaaaa," Alex whined again, the DEO agent cringing as her drapes were thrown open, the blinding light instantly pouring in.
She should have known. Alex should have known this would happen. It happened every year after all. And yet here she was, grumbling about it for the umpteenth time.
Burying her head under her pillow, Alex hoped that was the end of it. But of course, this was Kara, and before Alex knew it, the blanket was stripped from her bed, leaving the elder Danvers feeling rather chilly. Alex attributed that to the fact she was dressed in only a tank top and shorts at the moment.
"Nope," Kara repeated, much to Alex's annoyance. "No Kara nothing! It's a beautiful day and- A-Alex!"
Seeing as how her sister refused to listen to reason, Alex opted for a different approach. That being putting her DEO training to use and yanking her sister down into bed with her the moment the Kryptonian tried to steal the pillow off of her head. Alex may not have had eyes in the back of her head, not like some aliens did, but she knew Supergirl's quirks and habits, and like the awesome DEO agent that she was, Alex used that knowledge to her advantage.
J'onn would be so proud.
"Aleeeexxxx," Kara whined petulantly, Supergirl now flat on her back on the bed with Alex half curled, half lying on top of her. "No fair! That's cheating!"
Alex smirked as she practically clung to her sister like a koala stuck on with crazy glue.
"Your fault," the older of the two said childishly. Alex cuddled against her sister more. "It's cold without the blanket, so I sought out the next best thing."
"Alex," Kara whimpered again, not unlike a chastised puppy.
Ignoring her sister's pouting, Alex tucked her head under her sister's chin and sighed. Due to her alien physiology, Kara's natural body temperature was always higher than a regular human's. As such, on particular cold days, the blonde was akin to a portable hot water bottle, something which Alex may or may not have taken advantage of during their younger years.
A few times.
Burrowing further into her sister's side, Alex found her eyes quickly drooping shut as a hand ran itself through her ruffled locks of brown. Alex knew that if the Kryptonian so chose to, Kara could easily use her super strength to get herself out of this bind. The bind being her. But Kara didn't. And with Alex, she never would.
As much as her sister whined about it, Supergirl loved cuddles. Just as much as Alex did. Neither just openly stated that fact. Kara because she didn't want people to think her too clingy or weird. Alex because she had a bad ass reputation to uphold. There was also the fact that the two of them were sisters. Though they were not related by blood, the bond between them was stronger than anything in the universe.
"You humans are so strange sometimes," Kara murmured, tucking a lock of hair around Alex's ear. "You know that?"
Alex chuckled at that comment.
"Takes one to know one."
"And how am I strange?" Kara retorted, mock insult in her tone. "I'm not the one wasting this beautiful day away to sleep."
"You're the alien, not me," Alex mumbled softly, the sound of her sister's heartbeat quickly lulling her back to sleep. Alex didn't know exactly what it was about her sister's heartbeat, but it always made her feel safe. And warm.
"Says the girl who's just as alien to me as I am to her," Kara said, still making no attempt to free herself from Alex's grasp. Her sister continued to run her fingers through Alex's hair.
"But you love me anyhow," Alex said sleepily, a smile stretching across her lips when a kiss was pressed to her forehead.
"Always and forever," Supergirl said, hugging her that much tighter.
"And more than anything in the world," Alex whispered back, drifting off to sleep again.
The smile on her face remained long into her dreams.
A/N: I love these two so much, I really do. Being the eldest sister between two girls myself, I can appreciate and sympathize with Alex and all that she goes through, especially when it involves her sister.
Not quite sure how high up Alex's apartment is, but given that Kara had to fly in through the balcony that one episode, I figured it was at least 3 floors up. Maybe 13, just because. Lol.
I totally made up the thing about Kryptonian's body temperature being hotter than humans. If by some coincidence that turns out to be true, it is merely a coincidence.