A/N – This chapter skips forward 6 weeks in time. Also, I am aware the last few chapters were Alex and Maggie heavy and I do apologise. I just got a little lost with what to do with Kara and Lena, but I think I have something now. Not sure how much you are going to like it though…..
Alex was laying on the hospital bed, her t-shirt folded up to display her stomach. Maggie was sitting on the chair beside her, holding Alex's hand in hers, her legs shaking, nervously. The sonographer put some gel onto Alex's stomach, Alex gasping at how cold it was. She'd forgotten that from when she'd got her scans with Riley. "Sorry, I should have warned you about that." The sonographer chuckled as she picked up the transducer and started rolling it over Alex's stomach, beginning the checks on the baby.
"Is the baby okay?" Maggie questioned. "Is it still growing how it should be? It has everything it should have? Is there a heartbeat?" Maggie asked anxiously. The last time they were at a 12 week scan they were told the baby had stopped growing and that they'd lost it, so Maggie was rather scared about the appointment.
The sonographer looked to Maggie before looking to Alex. "We've had a tough couple of years." Alex didn't expand any further. The sonographer gave a little nod in her direction before looking back to Maggie.
She turned the screen around more so Maggie could see better and started pointing out things to her. "10 fingers, 10 toes, two eyes, two ears and mouth and a nose," The sonographer spoke with a smile. "And you see the flickering?" The sonographer questioned and Maggie bit her lip, giving a little nod as her eyes got all teary, this not going unnoticed by Alex. "That's a very strong heartbeat."
"So, everything is good?" Maggie's voice broke as she asked the question.
"Everything is perfect." The sonographer said, Maggie smiling as she wiped tears from her cheeks.
"Babe," Alex opened her arm out and Maggie leaned down, resting her head against Alex as Alex rubbed the back of Maggie's head. "See, everything is okay." Alex told her, Maggie staying in the embrace for a moment longer before she sat up and wiped her hands across her face again, giving a nod as she exhaled, feeling relieved. "And there's just the one baby, right?" Alex questioned as the sonographer turned the screen more to her view again to complete the checks on the baby.
"There's just the one." The sonographer answered, Alex sighing with relief this time, because one baby at a time was enough.
"Uhm, we get pictures, right?" Maggie questioned, taking Alex's hand back into hers. Now she knew everything was great with the baby, she couldn't wait to start telling their friends and she knew that Kara was desperate to see the scan picture - not that you could really see much - but she'd harped on and on about it the day before.
"We can print off as many as you like." The sonographer told them.
"We need to get one for Riley," Maggie told her wife, Alex giving a little nod. "We are going to tell her she is going to be a big sister today, right?" Maggie questioned, a smile on her face, showing those dimples.
"Yeah, we are." Alex smiled. She was excited for telling Riley about the baby. She only hoped that Riley was going to be excited by the news. She'd never asked for a baby brother or sister, even quite recently, when her friend Ben from day-care got a baby sister and Alex took her to see her, she'd never wondered if she was going to be a big sister.
"Oh, telling the big sister and the family and friends," The sonographer said. "That's always an exciting time." She gave them a smile before looking back to the screen, but as she'd already told Maggie, everything with the baby was as it should be.
"Yeah." Maggie grinned. She couldn't wait to get home and tell Riley the news.
"Hey," Kara said cheerily as she walked into Lena's office. "You ready?" Kara questioned, walking across the office, moving closer to her fiancée.
"Kara," Lena looked stressed. "What are you doing here?" Lena questioned as she looked back down to what she was doing, fishing through the drawer at her desk, clearly looking for something.
"Nice to see you too." Kara murmured.
"No, it is," Lena shut the drawer and pulled open the next one. "Of course it is, but I'm a little stressed today. Anything that could go wrong, so far, has gone wrong, I've got a salesman harassing me over some shit product he is adamant I need to start using, I've got back to back meetings….." Lena trailed off as she rubbed her hand over her forehead as she gave an exasperated sigh. "Sorry sweetheart, but I have no time for a surprise visit."
"Oh," Kara looked downwards, playing with her engagement ring. "You've forgotten, haven't you?" Kara pursed her lips, looking upset.
"Forgot what?" Lena questioned, still fishing through the drawer for some paperwork she desperately needed to find.
"Exactly." Kara murmured as Lena closed the drawer and stepped past Kara, pushing her out of the way as she walked over to the filing cabinet.
"Look, if you are wanting to be useful can you at least help me find what I am looking for?" Lena questioned. "It's in a blue folder and it says NQ568 on the sticker on the front." Lena told her, her gaze staying on the files she was shuffling through.
Kara sighed as she lowered her glasses, before she used her X-Ray vision to scan around the room, seeing if she could find the file. She looked back around to Lena for a moment. "Move out of the way of the filing cabinet then," Kara told her. Lena moved out of the way, and Kara did a scan of it, before moving on to the second one. "Bottom drawer." Kara pointed to the drawer it was in.
"Ah brilliant," Lena opened the drawer and pulled out the folder she was looking for. "You really are my Superhero," Lena gave her a quick smile as she grabbed another file that was sitting on her desk. "But I'm already late so I need to go." Lena said before she walked at a very quick pace out of her office, leaving Kara standing there, alone.
Maggie and Alex were clearing up in the kitchen after their lunch. Alex was still struggling with sickness and just generally feeling like crap, so she'd not really managed to eat much. "You want to try something else to eat?" Maggie questioned as she scraped the leftovers into the bin. Alex shook her head as she was loading the dishwasher. Maggie put the plate onto the worktop as she exhaled lightly. "Al, you need to eat." Maggie told her. She didn't want to seem pushy because she knew that Alex wasn't feeling good, but it was important for the baby that she ate and got enough nutrients into her body.
"The thought of putting anything into my mouth right now is making me want to throw up." Alex told her.
"I know babe, but, you need to eat something," Maggie told her. "Do you fancy McDonalds fries? I can go get you them," Maggie said, remembering that – weirdly - it was one of the only things that Alex could stomach when she was expecting Riley. Alex gagged at the mention of it. "Okay, I'll take that as a no." Maggie mumbled.
Alex put the last plate into the dishwasher before she closed it. She put her hand onto her stomach and swallow. "You want to go tell Riley now?" Alex questioned, ignoring Maggie's attempts at getting her to eat.
"I want you to eat something." Maggie muttered under her breath. Alex rolled her eyes before walking over to the cupboard and opening it, reaching for the box of Jell-O. She opened it and took out a couple of cubes of the cherry flavoured dessert and popped one into her mouth. Maggie raised one eyebrow as she tilted her head to the side. She was about to say that unmade Jell-O wasn't what she had in mind, but thought better of it, knowing she couldn't push at Alex too much. She didn't know how bad Alex was feeling. Alex walked over to the breakfast bar, putting the other cube of Jell-O in her mouth, before she picked up the envelope that contained all the scan pictures they'd got printed out.
"I'm going to tell Riley if you are coming," Alex said as she walked out of the kitchen, Maggie walking quickly to catch up with her. They walked into the living room, the pair of them stopping for a moment and watching Riley as she played with her little plastic dinosaurs, moving them around the dinosaur island play rug. "Riley," Alex walked over to the couch and sat down, Maggie sitting down next to her. Riley looked up at hearing her name being called. "Come here, me and Mumma have something to tell you." Alex told her, Riley jumping up to her feet and running over to them. Alex handed the envelope to Maggie and lifted Riley up onto her knee. She glanced at Maggie and gave her a smile, Maggie smiling back at her before looking down to Riley.
"What is it?" Riley's eyes went all wide as she looked intrigued as to what they had to say to her.
"Well…" Maggie started. "Mummy is having a baby." Maggie spoke so joyfully that Alex felt a little emotional.
"She is?" Riley questioned as she tilted her head to the side ever so slightly.
"Yeah," Maggie nodded as she opened the envelope and took out the pictures. "See, this is your little brother or sister, growing in Mummy's tummy." Maggie told her, Riley scrunching her face up as she scratched the side of her head.
"That's not a baby." Riley said, shaking her head, looking rather confused.
"It is, sweetie," Alex chuckled as she wrapped her arms around her daughter. "Well it's a picture of him or her from inside Mummy." Alex told her daughter.
"It's in here?" Riley shuffled herself around a little and put her hand onto Alex's stomach.
"Uh-huh." Alex nodded, both her and Maggie watching Riley as she stared at Alex's stomach.
"But I can't see it?" Riley looked confused. Alex didn't really have any sort of bump yet so Riley didn't believe a baby could be in her tummy.
"Well that's because it's still so little right now," Maggie told her. "But when the baby starts to grow bigger, so will Mummy's tummy. She'll get fat and you'll see a baby bump." Maggie said, Alex glaring at her and slapping her arm for saying she was going to get fat.
"What's its name called?" Riley questioned.
"Well it doesn't have a name right now because we don't know if it's a boy or a girl," Alex told her. "So right now, Mumma and I call the baby Nugget." Alex said, Riley giggling at the name.
"That's funny," Riley said, her hand gently rubbing Alex's stomach. "When does Nugget come?" Riley questioned.
"Not for 6 months yet," Maggie told her. "You remember when it was Easter time and the bunny brought you lots of chocolates?" Maggie asked and Riley nodded, although Maggie wasn't sure Riley did entirely remember the time frame exactly, but it was just for a rough idea of when she could expect the baby to be here. "Well the baby will be here around Easter time." Maggie told her. They'd been informed at the scan that the baby was due on March 30th.
"Can I have one?" Riley questioned as she pointed to the scan pictures.
"Of course you can." Maggie told her, giving her one of the pictures.
Riley got a big grin on her face as she took the picture in her hand and looked around to Alex. "Thank you for my nugget Mummy." Riley beamed before she leaned up and gave Alex a kiss.
"Aww," Alex looked to Maggie, the pair of them with smiles on their faces. "You excited then?" Alex questioned, running her hand down Riley's ponytail.
"Yeah," Riley screamed. "Can I go play dinos with my nugget?"
"Sure you can," Maggie answered, Riley jumping down from Alex's knee and running over to the play rug again. She put the scan picture down beside her and lifted up one of her dinosaurs and put it in front of the picture before she started moving all the others around.
Alex and Maggie looked to each other and smiled before sharing a kiss. Maggie moved closer to Alex on the couch and rested her head against Alex's shoulder, her hand resting over her stomach. "She seems pleased," Maggie noted, as they watched Riley playing with her dinosaurs. "But you know, I kind wish it wasn't as long a wait to get the baby."
"You and me both," Alex murmured. "But in the meantime, how about you be a nice wifey and go and get me an ice-pop?" Alex questioned, Maggie nodding as she pushed herself up off the couch. "Oh, and some more Jell-O cubes." Alex said, Maggie chuckling as she walked out of the living room, to get Alex what she wanted to eat.
Maggie opened the door, finding Kara at the other side. "Hey, you alright?" Maggie could see that Kara looked upset.
"It's stupid really," Kara said as she walked down the hall and into the living room, waving at Riley, but she looked too interested in playing with her dinosaurs to pay her Auntie much attention. Kara exhaled loudly as she sat down on the couch, Maggie sitting next to her. "Alex not around?" Kara wondered. "I thought you both had today off?"
"She's not feeling too good so she went for a lie down," Maggie told her. "Is it anything I can help you out with?" Maggie questioned. She could see there was clearly something wrong with Kara and wanted to make her feel better.
"It's Earth birthday and we'd planned take the afternoon off work and go for a picnic. There's this place back in Midvale, Eden Hill," Kara rolled her engagement ring around her finger. It's a beautiful spot and has lovely views of the town and the beach." Kara exhaled.
"Yeah," Maggie gave a little nod. "Alex and I have been up there a few times."
"Yeah," Kara pursed her lips. "Well anyways, I was going to fly Lena across there and we were going to have a lovely romantic picnic and go see Eliza, but I went to get her at work and she was running around like crazy, all stressed out and she pretty much had no idea why I was even there, so…"
"She forgot your plans?" Maggie questioned and Kara nodded, rubbing her hands together.
"And I know it's not a big deal and she's the CEO of a company and she is busy, but I was just…." Kara trailed off, looking downwards.
"You had been looking forward to a nice afternoon with your fiancée," Maggie noted and Kara nodded in response. "There's nothing wrong with being upset that it didn't happen," Maggie rubbed her arm as she spoke. "And Lena will probably feel bad when she remembers she forgot the special plans and she'll make it up to you," Maggie assured her. "So, you can look forward to that happening." Maggie suggested, Kara giving a little nod.
"Yeah, your right, thanks Maggie," Kara smiled at her. "Oh, you had the scan today, right?" Kara questioned and Maggie gave a little nod, a smile appearing on her face. "I guess everything went okay?"
"Yeah, yeah," Maggie stood up from the couch and walked over to the fireplace and lifted up the envelope from the top of it, taking out one of the pictures as she walked back over to Kara. "All as it should it, strong heartbeat. Everything is good," Maggie's smile grew larger. "That's our little nugget."
"Aww," Kara beamed. "Nugget has your nose," Kara said, looking around to Maggie. Maggie laughed. "I'm being serious."
"Okay," Maggie was still laughing as Riley ran over, her scan picture in her hand. "Is Mumma showing you my nugget?" Riley said, looking up to Kara as she climbed onto Maggie's knee. Maggie wrapped her arms around Riley, placing a kiss on the top of her head.
"She is," Kara smiled. "Are you excited to be a big sister?"
"Yeah," Riley nodded her head. "Maybe a boy or a girl," Riley said. "But I want a boy baby."
"Ah you want a brother, do you?" Maggie questioned. She had to admit a little boy would be nice so they had one of each, but either way, it didn't matter what the baby was. As long as they got a second child, the gender didn't matter.
Riley nodded vigorously. "But he not getting my dinos." Riley said, glancing down at her dinosaurs, like she was making sure they were still there.
"Oh Riley, you need to share with Nugget." Kara said, Riley looking up at her with a frown.
"Mumma will get him his own," Riley said, Maggie giving a little laugh. Riley didn't have any problems with sharing when it came to her friends at day-care and she knew she'd be the same when her sibling was old enough to play with her, but she was just very protective of her precious dinosaur toys. "Won't you?"
"Well we'll just have to see," Maggie told her. "He might not like dinosaurs." Maggie said, Riley widening her eyes as she gasped, looking like she couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't like dinosaurs.
"They's the best ones." Riley said as she pushed herself off Maggie's knee and went back to playing with her dinosaurs.
"You want to stay for a coffee?" Maggie asked as she stood to her feet.
"Yeah thanks." Kara gave her a smile and Maggie walked out of the room, Kara getting down from the couch and sitting on the floor with Riley, going to play with her until Maggie came back through with the coffees.
It was late when Kara heard the key in the door. Far later than Lena usually arrived back from work, even on days where she would be late. "Hey." Lena smiled over at Kara who was sitting on the couch, watching something on the TV as she ate from the ice-cream tub.
"Alright?" Kara mumbled.
"Ah as far as stressful work days go, this was the most stressful ever in the world of stressful work days." Lena moaned as she kicked her heels off and threw her bag down on the table.
"Oh dear," Kara exhaled, her gaze turning to look at Lena. She knew she should listen to what Maggie told her and could see Lena clearly did still look stressed but she couldn't help it. Earth birthday was something that was important to Kara and Lena forgetting about it upset her. "Maybe if you didn't go to work as much it wouldn't stress you out so badly." Kara mumbled.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Lena questioned. "I need to go to work, Kara," Lena sighed. "I don't know how you get away with being AWOL from CatCo so much to do your Supergirl duties but some of us actually take work seriously," Lena told her, a hint of venom in her tone. "L-Corp is my business. It's my livelihood," Lena said, as she hit her chest. "I need to make money, Kara. I mean, you hardly make good money on your crappy reporter's salary and we are trying to plan a wedding," Lena reminded her. "How the hell are we going to pay for that if I don't bother going to work anymore?"
"I never said you shouldn't go to work anymore," Kara stood up from the couch, putting the ice-cream tub down on the coffee table. "I just mean that life isn't all about working," Kara told her. "It's clearly getting you stressed out to the point where you are forgetting things," Kara moved closer to where Lena was standing. "We had plans for this afternoon. Your schedule was supposed to be clear." Kara told her, Lena screwing her face up in confusion.
"What did we…." Lena rubbed the side of her head. "I'm sorry, I don't remember anything," Lena said. "Can't we just do the plans at the weekend?" Lena didn't really see the big deal in changing days for these plans.
"No," Kara shook her head. "Because the weekend isn't Earth birthday. Today is Earth birthday."
"That's what this is about?" Lena questioned. "You are mad at me because I missed Earth birthday? It's just a stupid day, Kara." Lena sighed, knowing instantly by the look on Kara's face she'd said the wrong thing.
"Just a stupid day?" Kara spat. "That day is important to me," Kara shouted. "I thought you understood that?" Kara felt hurt and what Lena had said. "How would you like it if I said something important to you was stupid?" Kara questioned. "You always want to do something special on the day of your Dad's birthday but it's just a stupid day, right?" Kara shouted, her hands going out to the sides as she gave a little shrug.
"Ahh, I am not doing this, Kara." Lena shook her head as she turned around and walked over to the door, putting her shoes back on.
"Lena," Kara raced after her. "Don't just walk away from this." Kara spat, Lena already out the apartment. She pushed open the door to the stairwell and went down them as quickly as she could in her heels before walking out into the street. She kept walking, not looking as she stepped out and started to cross the road. It was already too late by the time she heard the screeching of the brakes. She looked up just as the bus hit her at almost full force.
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