Drowning Chapter Twenty-Nine

A night with the Danvers-Grant family.

Trigger warning for description of suicidal thoughts. This one's also a tad more explicit.


The Danvers-Grant family was stuffed to the gills with Thai food and were now playing Monopoly on Kara's low coffee table. Carter and Alex were playing together, since the doctor was one-handed, and they had their heads bent together, strategizing over their next moves.

Despite being game rivals, Kara's arms was firmly wrapped around her girlfriend and they were cuddled together on the sofa. She was feeling much better about what had happened the night before and she was enjoying holding Cat close. The older woman's eyes were closed and she was stroking Kara's hand with her thumb.

"Mom?"

Cat jumped a little and cleared her throat. "Yes, Carter?"

"It's your roll."

"Oh," the older blonde nodded. "Thanks, Sweetheart." She rolled the dice and moved her car the right number of places on the board. Then, after a quick scan, she nodded. "I'll buy that one."

"Shit," Alex sighed, but she accepted the money while Carter got the street card out of the stack.

"She always wins," the young man told his teammate. "I haven't figured out how yet, but she always does."

Cat chuckled. "It's just experience making business critical decisions at a split second's notice, Sweetheart. I have to be decisive and even if it turns out to be the wrong choice, I have time to correct it later. This is a game of strategy more than anything else." She took a sip of her wine. "And…" she added. "It's always good to own utilities and infrastructure. People will always pay more for those when you already have them."

Carter shook his head. "I don't like this game anymore," he groused.

Alex also looked dismayed. "Me neither," she pouted, making Kara and Cat laugh.

The younger blonde pointed at the kitchen then. "What wants ice-cream cake?"

"Ooohhh me!" Alex exclaimed, raising her good arm. She poked Carter. "Race ya!" She jumped up off the couch, pushing the young man back down playfully, and ran for the refrigerator.

"She's so great," Cat said, kissing Kara's forehead. "You're so lucky to have a sister like her."

"I know," Kara replied. "She's amazing. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her. I owe her everything." Her head lowered and she stared unseeingly at the Monopoly board. "There were so many times that first year when, everything hurt soooo much, that I just wanted it to end. One night, I took two bottles of pills and drank a lot of vodka. But Alex came looking for me when I didn't answer her calls and got me to the hospital in time. I was so angry with her when I woke up." She smiled as she looked over at her sister who was getting help from Carter to slice the cake. "But, when I saw how devastated she was, I finally agreed to check myself into a facility for a few weeks. She called me every night and we regained our closeness. I'm thankful every day that she saved my life."

"Hey, Lovebirds," Alex called from the kitchen. "If you don't get over here now, the cake monster is going to eat all of this yummy chocolate goodness. His name is Carter by the way."

"Hey," Carter replied indignantly. "I do believe you have the biggest piece of cake."

The doctor shrugged one shoulder. "You cut it, Dude."

Cat and Kara made their way to the island to grab some cake and they sat together, chatting and laughing for the rest of the evening.

Xx

Carter was tucked up on the sofa bed in the office and Alex was in her room getting ready for bed, so Kara took Cat's hand and led her slowly up the corridor to her bedroom. "I've never had so many people staying the night here before," she said as she closed the bedroom door and leaned back against it. "It feels really awesome."

"Good," Cat replied. "I had such a good time tonight. I think I might be slightly in love with your sister... and I KNOW Carter is."

"That's not the first time I've heard that," Kara laughed. "Everyone loves Alex." She pushed off the door then and walked to Cat who was sitting on the end of the bed. The older woman wrapped her arms around Kara's waist and pressed her cheek against her stomach.

"What you told me earlier about wanting to die," Cat said. "Do you ever feel like that now?"

"No," Kara replied. "Not anymore. After I left the facility, the first thing I did was to talk to Winn about starting a business. I realized I needed something in my life. I had a lot of money but no purpose so he and I created Breathe together. I think we'd both been adrift for too long."

"Why did Winn stop competing?" Cat asked.

"He's eight years older than me and with Paul and Danny in his life, I think he just knew it was the right time to retire. He's been such an amazing friend to me."

Cat nodded and lifted Kara's t-shirt to drop kisses on her stomach and trail her fingertips up her ribcage. She felt muscles contracting under her lips and tongue as her girlfriend inhaled deeply and then exhaled. "Are you tired?" Cat asked softly.

"No," Kara responded on an uneven breath. Delicious tingles were running up and down her back and she groaned softly as Cat stood to lift her girlfriend's t-shirt off and capture her nipple between her teeth through the fabric of her bra. She nibbled gently as her fingers went to the button fly of the younger woman's Levis and Kara began to tremble as the buttons popped open, one by one. She combed her fingers through Cat's hair. "Look at me," she whispered.

Green eyes lifted and Cat smiled lovingly. "Tell me what you want?"

Kara slowly pushed Cat back onto the bed and crawled up to straddle her thigh. She took off her bra and took her lover's hands, kissing each palm and then placing them on her own breasts. She began a slow rolling of her hips, pressing down on Cat's thigh and the delicious friction of her jeans against her clit, made her eyes flutter closed and her head tip back.

Cat watched her… every twitch of muscle, every facial expression… every moment turning her on more and more as she pinched and rolled the nipples in her hands. Kara gasped and tipped forward, one hand on either side of Cat's head and her long blonde hair resting on the older woman's chest, as she thrust down harder and faster.

She was so beautiful, it almost made Cat cry and she bent her knee a little, forcing her thigh up every time Kara's hips rolled down. A deep growl came from her lover's chest as her breathing grew faster and shallower and then, to Cat's surprise, Kara captured her wrist, pushed her hand inside her jeans and held it there. "Oh God," she groaned, her head tipping back again.

Cat almost came herself when she felt the hot wetness against her fingers. Her lover's hips were pressing down and she could feel Kara's clit, exposed and ready. "Kara," she whispered. Blue eyes opened and a little smile touched the younger woman's lips as she leaned down to kiss her lover, dipping her tongue between her lips and then pulling back to meet her eyes again. "Kara, come for me."

Kara whimpered and she thrusted faster against Cat's hand. Her chest was heaving now and she captured her bottom lip between her teeth as she desperately chased that moment of undoing. Then Cat moved her fingers in a sharp circular motion and Kara's hips stuttered. "Ohh… fuuuuckkkk," she grounded out and her head tipped back as her orgasm hit so hard that Cat had to support her with a hand on her shoulder.

As the pleasure wound down in Kara's body, she quickly opened the button and zipper of Cat's slacks, breathing hard. "Are you ready for me?" she asked, lifting just enough to shimmy her lover's pants and panties down her legs and off.

"Yes, God yes," Cat replied breathily. And then her blouse was being pulled open and her bra pushed up.

Kara's mouth was all over her breasts, kissing and sucking and biting urgently. "Good, because I want you so much right now and I'm not waiting any longer."

And then Kara's fingers were deep inside her, pushing hard and fast but Cat wanted more and she grasped her hands into her lover's hair, thrusting her hips up hard as Kara's thigh slammed down on her own hand, giving even more weight to her thrusts. It was heavenly, yet, at the same time, Cat hazily wondered if she might fly apart and when Kara bit her bottom lip roughly and ran her nails down Cat's bare chest to rake over her nipple, she knew she wouldn't be able to stop the scream that was building inside her.

But Kara seemed to sense it and she covered Cat's lips with her own, muffling the desperate cry of pleasure as Cat climaxed, with a fiery kiss that left them both breathless after. They collapsed onto the bed, Kara resting half on Cat with her head on her chest. Then she lifted her head anxiously. "Are you ok? I didn't hurt you, did I?"

Cat chuckled and shook her head lazily. "No, Darling, you didn't hurt me." She trailed her fingertips up and down the younger woman's back. "It was perfect."

"Mmmm…" Kara agreed, snuggling closer again and closing her eyes as she draped her arm over Cat's belly.

Xx

Kara was awoken by a knock at her bedroom door and she sat up, glancing over at her phone to see that it was only a little before five. "Kara?"

She climbed out of bed, closed up the fly of her jeans and threw her previously-discarded T-shirt on over her head before going to the door. "Alex, are you ok?" she asked quietly as she opened the portal but her eyes widened as she saw her sheepish sister holding a gauze pad against her shoulder, which was bloody all the way through. "Jesus, what happened?"

The doctor shook her head unhappily and pulled the gauze away to show Kara the sluggishly bleeding wound. "Looks like I ripped some stitches in my sleep. I need to go back to the… wait… did you fall asleep in your clothes?"

"Oh… um… yes," the younger woman replied, looking down at herself. Her T-shirt was on inside out. "Let me just freshen up and I'll drive you to the hospital."

Alex nodded. "Thanks. Sorry about this."

Kara kissed her sister's cheek. "Don't be silly. Give me five minutes, Alex."

"Sure. I'll wait in the living room."

Kara stepped back and closed the bedroom door again, intending on heading to the bathroom. "Can I help?" Cat asked sleepily from the center of the bed.

The younger woman detoured to kiss her lover gently. "Go back to sleep, Honey. I just need to take Alex to the ER to have her stitches fixed. She's bleeding."

"Ok… call me later," Cat replied. She turned onto her side and relaxed back into a doze. Kara cleaned herself up and then went to find Alex in the living room. They headed out to Kara's car and the younger Danvers helped her sister to get strapped in.

"Sorry if I interrupted something," the doctor said with a small smile.

"You didn't," Kara replied with a chuckle. "We really were just sleeping."

"In your clothes? Really?" Alex lifted an eyebrow.

"There may, or may not, have been sex earlier," the younger woman added, keeping her eyes on the road.

"Again… in your clothes?" Alex laughed.

Kara's head tilted. "Um… some of them. We didn't really have time to get everything off."

"Wow." The doctor pursed her lips. "I'm impressed.

"Yeah, can we not talk about this?" the younger woman asked. "And can you get Briana into bed soon please, so you don't have to live vicariously through me?"

"Fuck you!" Alex laughed at her grinning sister, shaking her head, but she let the topic drop and just listened to the radio until they pulled off the freeway and into the hospital parking lot.