Valentines Day fic for my wife


Lena woke to the sound of an alarm going off. Her arm came out from under the duvet and patted around her bedside table until it stopped. Still half asleep she assumed it was the alarm on her phone going off, she never thought the loud beeping could be the fire alarm in her kitchen.

In her sleepy state she realised that Kara wasn't in bed with her and pouted; she guessed Kara had been called out on some kind of Superhero emergency.

Lena decided to snooze until Kara was back and rolled over to Kara's side of the bed, breathing in the smell of her shampoo, her moisturiser; a smell that was so Kara, that was all over her pillow.

40 minutes later Lena found herself being woken up once again, but not from an alarm; this time the smell of burnt food (charred toast?) assaulted her senses. She wrinkled her nose in disgust at the smell and threw the duvet off.

Lena leapt out of bed in in a hurry, stubbing her toe. She swore and hopped round on one foot, waiting for the dull ache to fade. She hobbled out to the kitchen, phone in hand ready to dial the fire brigade, fully prepared for the sight of her apartment on fire. What she wasn't prepared for was the utter chaos she walked into instead.

Kara was zooming round the kitchen, a complete blur; you could only tell where she was due to the little clouds of flour that poofed up. The sink was piled high with bowls and cutlery and there was flour everywhere. Smoke was billowing from whatever was in the frying pan on the hob; in short, the kitchen looked like it had gone a few rounds with Supergirl. And it had, Lena reasoned.

Lena stood dumbfounded, but quite relieved that nothing was actually on fire. A drip of ice cold water on her head, followed by one on her shoulder caused her to squeal and brought her out of her stupor. She cautiously looked up towards the ceiling, slightly worried at what could possibly be dripping water on her.

The fire alarm had been frozen over and was now dripping water.

The blur that had been racing around the kitchen suddenly came to a stop in front of Lena as she realised she wasn't alone.

Kara stood in one of Lena's old band shirts, the shorts she had slept in and nothing else. Her hair had originally been tied up, but strands were now haphazardly all over the place.

Kara's eyes went wide at the sight of Lena, guilt written all over her face. The smudges of flour on her face and the streak of chocolate on her nose was quite possibly the cutest thing Lena had ever seen.

Lena didn't say anything; she didn't trust herself not to laugh. Instead she simply raised an eyebrow at Kara and waited.

Kara didn't disappoint.

'I didn't wait to wake you..! Then the fire alarm..! So I froze it... Sorry... Everything kept burning... But I used too much freeze breath... It's Valentine's Day... I wanted to be romantic... I didn't mean for it to catch fire..! My heat vision is normally better than this...' Kara rambled out all in one go, her arms flailing wildly.

Lena couldn't keep it in any longer; she erupted with laughter. Kara Danvers had completely turned her life upside down. She was used to routine and order until the Danvers tornado had blown into her life.

Lena brushed her thumb across one of the flour smudges adorning Kara's cheek and pulled her in for a quick kiss. Pulling away from the kiss, Lena found that she couldn't resist running her tongue over the chocolate stain on Kara's nose. She smiled as she tasted Nutella.

'I was trying to cook breakfast' Kara whispered, full Danvers pout in effect.

'I gathered' Lena replied, biting her lip to stop another giggle.

Suddenly Kara ran back over to the stove and returned with a plate stacked high with burnt pancakes; some just the edges were crisp, others so solid they could be used as a frisbee.

'It's Valentine's day, so I was trying to use my heat vision to etch a heart on the pancakes!' Kara started excitedly. 'But I just couldn't get it right! They kept burning and then the kitchen towel caught fire...' she continued sheepishly.

Lena took the plate of burnt pancakes and placed them on the side, she pulled Kara to her, their bodies melting together.

'Happy Valentine's day my Love' Lena whispered before pressing her lips to Kara's in a searing kiss.


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