Today was the day, they celebrated the first birthday of Aiden, who at the moment was asleep in the crib, hugged as always to the blanket that accompanied him with his pacifier. However, before waking him up, she wanted to do something, since not only was Aiden's first birthday, but Mon-el's, the truth is that she had wanted to do this more than a year.
"What are you hiding, Kara?" She heard Mon-el's voice, which made her smile as she told him to sit next to her, to which he listened.
"Happy first earthy birthday." She smiled at him as she handed him the gift.
"Kara .., you shouldn't..." he began to speak.
"Open it," she interrupted.
She watched as he opened it by taking his time in it, looking at it questioningly the moment he opened it, as if he did not understand exactly what it was, but finally he chose to unfold it.
"You are a hero, Mon-el, you have been since you sacrificed, you deserved a suit" she smiled at him after looking at how he smiled, before embracing her. "Winn finished it a day before all that happened, it has been at home ever since, " she said, recalling so many nights that she had hugged that suit, wishing it was him who was there with her.
"Does this mean I graduated?" he asked, chuckling softly, which made her laugh.
"Supergirl will need a partner, " she laughed." And now, let's get Aiden, "she said getting up from the couch being followed by him.
When they reached the room, the little boy continued to sleep soundly and, in truth, he had little intention of waking up, so they both spent a couple of seconds watching him.
She could not help caressing his pink cheek, delicately pinching it as she watched his hands move with her caress, curling up again to continue sleeping, well, they had to admit it, the little boy was a sleepy one, as he had grown up later he woke up, even at night he used to demand less. Even some of them, they had gotten up to make sure he was still breathing.
She sighed, it seemed completely false that the child was already a year old, it had passed too quickly and, as always, the fear that he was growing too fast, was present. However, today she did not want to take any of her fears, but focus on enjoying the little one. She could tell that they both lived in love with the little boy, who was everything to them and that was something that could not be denied, not after looking at how Mon-el was watching the little boy right now.
"Aiden, baby, it's time to get up," she whispered, caressing his face and getting him to get angry. "Let's have breakfast, little one" that made him open his eyes and stretch his arms towards her, still with the pacifier in his mouth, struggling to get up to get him out of the crib. "I think someone is hungry, isn't he?" She picked him up to take him to the kitchen.
"What's the Cookie Monster going to want for breakfast?" Mon-el questioned, tickling him, so the little boy stirred in her arms with laughter, even though that became to tears the moment he took off his pacifier and she sit him in the high chair. "Don't get angry, little one," he kissed his forehead. "Wow, you look more like your mother than I thought," he said with a laugh, getting her to turn around, waiting for an explanation why he had made that comment. "Crinckle," he pointed to the boy's forehead, which made her laugh, unable to help herself.
"I don't have a crinckle," she laughed. "Look at the positive side, we'll know if he's lying," she said, getting Mon-el to laugh.
She gave him the porridge watching as he threatened to put his hand in it, so she pulled away to avoid it, getting him to get angry again, at which point she put a spoonful in his mouth.
They spent the rest of the morning playing with the little boy, who had found the entertainment of throwing everything in his path, no matter what it was, which had forced them to take away everything he could break. Since he began to walk he did everything he wanted, being the biggest problem that he got to places where he did not before.
They prepared Aiden just to wake him from the nap, since they had organized the child's birthday in the park and they were late, which was corroborated the moment she received a message from her sister saying that they were all there and that they were waiting. She was grateful for the affection that they brought to the child, who received everything he asked for, for that was all to pay attention to his demands.
On the way to the park he fell asleep again in the stroller, not unnerved the moment they approached him, although he woke up when Alex took him in her arms, leaning his head on her shoulder to continue that trance of sleep, ending up being awakened the moment he saw all those who were around him, wanting each of them to take him in their arms.
He watched as he tried to climb the steps of the slide in an attempt to imitate Maggie, not allowing Alex to help him, because he got angry every time she made the attempt to climb, finally getting it, although the slide was not as clear, for which she could not help but laugh when she noticed how he yelled at Maggie not to do it.
"Do you want Mommy to slide?" Alex asked, making him shook his head.
"Come on, little boy," she grabbed to throw him, ending by sitting him on her lap the moment he started to cry and grabbed her shirt. "It's okay, little one, that's it" she tried to calm him, but ended up raising him making him laugh.
"Mamma" he hugged her with laughter, infecting her. "Food" he put his hand to his mouth, which indicated that it was time to give him to try his first cake, chocolate pecan pie, since Eliza had borrowed to make it and, obviously, she was not going to refuse.
After singing the happy birthday and before the impatience of the child, they ended up sitting him on a blanket on the grass, handing him a plate with a piece of cake, while everyone waited anxiously to be able to immortalize the moment to prove it. However, this fact was fast, since the little one did not hesitate to bury his face in the piece before using both hands to undo it in pieces, taking them to the mouth.
"Dadda," he called Mon-el, showing his hands. "Mamma," he called.
She tried not to laugh, she really tried, but to see his son with his face completely stained, not to mention his hands, hair, clothes, everything had been smeared in chocolate, so she had no other than to change him into something clean before allowing him to rush back and forth all over the park.
She called to him to keep him from going even further, determined to run after him, watching as the little boy laughed when he heard her voice, becoming a game for him, which made her run too.
"Aiden!" She shouted as she realized he was going to fall.
However, her heart shrank into a fist at the moment he noticed the one who had just restrained the one that would have been a tumbling fall for the little one, the woman who was crouched beside the child, who turned to her with a smile, but the child called her stretching his arms before starting to walk.
"Kara" she heard her call her, but she would not listen." Please, listen to me, "she asked, which made her look at her.
"You let me believe that you were dead ..." she began to speak as Aiden hugged her legs. "You separated me from you, you loaded all the responsibilities on me, on a girl of thirteen, Do you know what all that has meant for me? "She asked with a lump in her throat." Let's go, baby" she started walking to approach the place where everyone was watching the scene carefully. "We're going home," she murmured the moment she passed by Mon-el side before leaving definitively, without even listening to his sister, who tried to retain her.
When she arrived at the apartment, she handed the child to Mon-el before she locked herself in the room, falling on the bed and crying, knowing that in some ways she had not been fair with her words, that perhaps she should have listened to her, but no one asked her how she felt when she found out that only she and Kal-el would leave Krypton alive, when they allowed a baby's life to depend on her thirteen-year-old version. How did they pretend that a girl faced herself alone ? Besides, how was it possible that she found herself alive?
She sighed, too much information her mother had kept hidden from her, so she was not surprised to think that she could have hidden it all these years, which destroyed her, for if she had really been there, why had not she appeared in moments she has missed her?
"Kara" he heard the voice of Mon-el, but did not bother to look at him. "Do you want to talk?" he asked her making her shake her head. "Okay, you want me to bring you Aiden? He didn't stop calling you," he commented to what she nodded slightly.
"Mamma!" She heard him scream, feeling how Mon-el was lying him on her back, causing the little one to extend his arms to embrace her.
She pushed him aside as he could to lie down beside her, watching the smile on his face, which made her embrace him and begin to cry again, feeling as the little boy buried his face in his shoulder while making an attempt to embrace her .
"Never grow up, little one." She kissed his forehead before hugging him again.
She continued in that position until they fell asleep together, moments after Mon-el lay down beside her, trying to hug them both, which made her remember which was her family now.
Hi! I'm finally back!
I'm still thinking Aiden is too cute, What do you think about Alura's appearence? I think Kara needs a conversation with her, she needs answers to all her questions.
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing,
Ayrin