fuzzy needed a bath... Winn needed to recover from furry Danvers.
any otter name 8
by XavAcid
"Ow! Alex!"
Eliza nearly groaned in exasperation. They seemed to revert into being a couple of toddlers when she left them alone for a few minutes. And seriously, Kara was a Kryptonian, Kryptonian was invincible, so how a small otter, that was currently her other daughter, hurt her was a mystery.
There was a splash, and a crash.
And some more splash.
Now Eliza wondered if the bathroom was going to survive the night. This was too much like when they were teens and Eliza practically had local handyman on speed dial. They were the guy's number one customer, especially once the pair got along. It seemed teenage Alex found a way to test Kara and something usually suffered from their curiosity.
"Stop splashing at me!"
'It's just water!'
It was after dinner, and Winn had fled the loft as soon as he could, but not before he got his butts handed to him on another round of monopoly. Kara suggested that the next time they play Pandemic. That way nobody got annihilated, like Winn, tonight.
Of course after all the food - mostly fish and crustacean - Alex was smelling a little too much like raw fish by the time they were done, and Kara, being a Kryptonian with heightened senses, could smell it even more keenly than the rest of them, insisted that she had a bath. Alex couldn't argue with that, since her mother's mere human nose could smell it, too.
But she only cooperated long enough to get into a tub. And only because her mother was there.
Once Eliza left the room it was on.
Kara was leaning over the tub to get a shampoo, yeah, she wasn't going to let Alex sleep in her bed or anywhere near her if she didn't at least soap herself up. Water alone wasn't going to cut it with that much fishy smell.
She'd seen the way Alex eyeing the shampoo bottle, the older and now smallest of Danvers knew what she was thinking, and Kara - even with her super speed- could not get to it before the preemptive strike.
Splash!
"Alex, stop!" The Kryptonian whined, rearing away from the splashing. She really didn't want to clean the bathroom tonight, and at the rate they were going, she was going to have to. And at the moment she couldn't do much more than pouting at the furry little face looking up at her from a tub full of warm water. She'd have to lay it a little thick, so a tiny bead of tear appeared.
That seemed to do the trick.
'Fine,' otter Alex squeaked out finally, and only after sending a half heart wave of water with her tail.
"Thank you." Kara beamed at her and pulled off her shirt, goodness she was soak.
So the Kryptonian picked up her human in the form of a small aquatic mammal and started working shampoo into her fur amids the squeaking and growling, and sputtering.
Alex was irritated when she was dropped into the tub, but couldn't do much other than grumbling her displeasure to everyone else in the room. She did not smell that bad, dammit! And considering the companies, she couldn't even make threats.
A few swipes at Kara had the Kryptonian whining, and that brought in her mom hot on their heels. The brat! She couldn't even get hurt. The teenager in her wanted to rebel some more, but the adult in her wanted to keep some form of dignity, especially in front of her mother. Although she couldn't say the same with her Kryptonian.
Kara was complaining, rather loudly, about how stinky she was.
No, she wasn't stinky!
Then her mother scrunched up her nose.
'Mom!'
"You smell, honey, you really do need a bath."
"I told you!" Kara turned around and chirped up, she dipped her hand into the water, making sure that it wasn't too cold, or too hot. Alex didn't bother to tell her that the temperature did not matter much, her otter fur would keep her warm no matter what.
'Shush you!'
"Girls." Eliza hushed them, hugging her otter daughter to her chest. "Behave, Alex."
"Yeah behave grumpy pants."
Really, these two, Alex grumbled louder, there wasn't much she could do being squished in her mother arms anyway, but she was going to let everyone know how much she did not like this. Not one little bit.
Just wait till she got back to her human form.
As soon as her mother dropped her in the bath, she was gone.
The water was actually pretty nice.
But she wasn't going to tell Kara that.
So she splashed around, making sure to aim for the Kryptonian.
"Alex!"
'Hah!'
More splash.
"Stop it!" And a pout.
Oh, that was so not fair, that pout should be illegal.
Alex squeaked and crossed her arms, or tried to cross her arms - damn short otter limbs! While floating on her back, she had to give up and just rested her paws on her belly instead. 'Fine.'
The beaming smile she got was almost made her less grumpy. Almost.
Kara was happy that at the very least her pout was still working. And before Alex could change her mind, she quickly grabbed the shampoo bottle, making sure that it was the smell the older Danvers liked and gently scooped her up from the water - she was already soaked anyway - and soaped her up.
She couldn't help but nuzzling that grumpy face.
Afterward Alex was left alone to swim around for almost half an hour with a couple of bath toys for company. The other two understood her need for the quiet after the day of being on top of each other all day.
They loved her and she loved them, but even Kara who could always invade her space and be with her all the time and sometimes even needed to be with her; knew the point when she needed to step away.
"What did the DEO find out?" Eliza asked after a long stretch of silence while they cleaned up from dinner. Now with nothing else to do, the oldest Danvers started making tea.
"Not much really, they are starting to think that the tech was so cobbled up together that her being turned into an otter was not intentional in anyway." Kara frowned as she settled onto one of the stools.
"But you have the person responsible for this in custody, right?"
"Yeah, we caught her." Kara nodded vigorously, "she is coughing up the blueprint for the weapon as we speak." She'd explained to Eliza in details of what happened, several times.
She was also sure that she didn't want to know what technique the DEO used for the interrogation. She wasn't even going to object to what they want to use, no one hurted Alex or turned her into an otter - - no matter how adorable - - and get away with it.
"Good." Her adopted mother nodded in return, as if she knew what violence Kara was conjuring up in her mind to the person responsible was.
She was probably planning the same thing.
"You're taking me to the DEO tomorrow."
"What?" Kara's head snapped toward her adopted mother.
"You are taking Alex in for a checkup, right?"
"Well, yes, they need to make sure that nothing else goes wrong…" She trailed off.
"Then I am going with you."
The Kryptonian had half a mind to argue, but that probably wasn't going to do anything, Alex had to get her stubbornness from somewhere.
"Ok."
Once they all had got cleaned up, they settled in for a movie, none of them wanted to go to sleep just yet. While they were technically in the middle of a crisis - the otter incident Kara wanted to dub it - it was a rather calm night, Supergirl was needed only once, and it was an accident that she could take care of easily.
Half way into the movie, Eliza turned only to find everyone was already asleep. Her furry little daughter was sprawled out like a starfish on top of her starchild, her fur still all fluffed up after her bout with the hairdryer. She had to smile, despite the fact that Alex had been less than cooperative all afternoon - it was understandable, especially after her bout with the hairdryer, but after a few minutes she seemed to be having fun, after Kara adjusted the speed and temperature of the dryer - and she gave in when Kara persisted. They were so close now, and she was glad, someone had to be able to rein them in every once in a while.
She could only imagine the havoc they each would make without the other. Especially, Alex.
Now, when they take her to the DEO tomorrow she was definitely going to talk to J'onn J'onzz about the pair of them and what shenanigans they got into together.
Oh, all the things he could tell her, and she was sure there were many.
Now what was she was going to do about moving them into Kara's bed…
Just then her Kryptonian child floated up.
Well…
a/n : Hey, otter!Alex is back, and cleaner than ever! Anyone miss her?
