"Good afternoon detective." J'onn Jones greets as he steps passed the surprised Latina into the house almost as soon as the door was opened up.
"Hello, sweetheart." Eliza smiles as she follows the Martian over the doorstep pulling Maggie in for a tight greeting hug.
"Huh….Hi." Maggie stammers hugging her girlfriend's mother back while Linda and Alex tackled J'onn in a duel hug.
"Aahh dog stop it I don't want to play right now." Had Maggie not been in the middle of a fatherly hug from J'onn she would have started at the stiff voice coming from her supposed to be empty living room.
Wait Lena was here too? When did she get here? The answer coming almost as soon as the question had finished forming in her head.
"Kara sweetheart can you please come get your fur niece. I'm trying to work here." Lena pleads. "This various isn't going to just cure itself you know." She sighs her voice strained from being stretched too thin too fast.
She guesses that was what Linda had been watching from her place playing guard so Maggie wouldn't leave the kitchen.
"But Lena." Linda sighs stepping in while her twin was busy lightly tackling the still stunned detective in a hug of her own while Linda heads into the living room with a grin "It is Maggie's birthday day, No working on Maggie's birthday." She reminds scooping the husky mix pup off of her sister's girlfriend's lap.
"Then why does Alex get to play doctor, but I don't?" Lena huffed grudgingly setting her phone aside when Kara came back into the room with her big sister close behind her.
"Because between the two of us I'm the only one with an actual doctoral-level degree in medicine?" Alex offers with a smile while Lena pouts at the reminder as she scoots over until she was sitting directly across Kara's lap. "Ringing any bells Luthor?"
Everyone else that wasn't Maggie laughs when Lena sticks her tongue out at her eldest daughter rather than answer.
"How…." Maggie gapes. She blinks a few times as if she doesn't believe this is really happening.
Yeap she was still standing in the hallway wearing only her girlfriend's shirt while her living room was playing host to not only her girlfriend's sisters and mother but also the alien man who'd so warmly allowed her to worm her way into his innermost circle and had been granted the title of Earth daughter.
Seeing how loving Lena was being toward Kara made her want to cry in happiness just by itself. Those two had almost as rough of a restart to their relationship as she and Alex did.
"It's your birthday sweetheart." Eliza reminds tugging a container of several cupcakes out of one of the bags she had beside her chair. "You didn't honestly think we'd forget that did you?"
"But the quarantine….." Maggie reasoned holding back happy tears by her fingernails as she looked into each face sitting around her living room.
"Hey, that's why I got all dressed down for you baby." Alex giggles gesturing to her geared up and lab coat sporting tier.
"No that was just you teasing me, Danvers." Maggie accused licking her dry lips as her eyes followed the movement.
"I can do both." Alex pouts folding her arms over her front. Completely breaking with her cool-headed agent mode.
"Doesn't Watchtower have a policy about mixing business and pleasure?" Maggie shots back turning her attention to the others in the room before she because a complete mess at the low heat she sees in her girlfriend's eyes while Lena chocks a laugh into her soda glass and Linda and Kara's ears and cheeks turn twin shades of deep red.
"Hey, I just managed to get both Alex and Lena into working from home starting yesterday so how about leaving me out of this." J'onn answers holding the hand not being used as a puppy teething toy up in surrender as he shares a smile with Eliza over there children's behaviors.
"Oh really." Alex bits her lip looking nervous and refusing to meet her eyes this time when Maggie turns back to her eyebrow raised. "When were you going to tell me?" Maggie prompts resting her shoulder against the doorway into her living room while across from her Alex was doing the same thing looking bashful.
"Um….right now?" her doctor not so secret agent girlfriend offers. "Surprise." She glances around at the others, but no one seems bothered to offer her any help. If anything, Lena looks about to bust a gut from quiet laughter as her eyes ping pong between the other couple from the comfort of Kara's lap.
It was still wild to be able to see the normally cold former L-Corp CEO being so open and carefree when she chatted with Eliza over something complicated and science sounding that was more than a little above Maggie's pay grade in the science division. More importantly to see her in something other than high-end business casual clothes.
Seriously how was Kara keeping her cool when the better Luthor was just sitting in her lap in those jeans.
"Hey."
Maggie blinked at the bite in the call as Kara's arms closed around Lena's waist her chin resting against the raven-haired woman's shoulder as her icy blue eyes hold Maggie's "I love you like a sister Mags you know that and I know being cooped up here is like some weird girls gone wild deal or whatever but you act on that look in your eyes right now and I'm melting your face off. Birthday girl or no."
"Hmmm Kara. I love when you talk dirty to me. Supergirl." Lena purrs sending Maggie a playful wink as she shifts successfully diverting Kara's attention with a simple brush of her mouth against the blonde's throat.
"Alright girls that enough. No one is melting anyone's face. Especially not Maggie's." Eliza announces fully turning toward the woman in question with a motherly kind of smile. "Now sweetheart how about you go put some more clothes on and then we can have a proper party for you."
Maggie nodes mechanically at the suggestion.
A proper birthday party.
The last time she'd had one of those was…. actually, she couldn't really remember when it was the last time.
"Mags?"
Alex's soft voice in her ear pulls her back to the world like the anchor she was. "Hey, Is this okay? I mean….is this…." Alex started to ask tripping over her words in her nerves.
It was cute how she thought Maggie's tears were from upset rather than overwhelming love.
Linda giggles like a schoolgirl the longer the couple in the hallway lock lips, while Kara shields her eyes with a playfully tossed "Guys get a room." That has Lena almost falling from her lap as she laughed.
About the time Maggie found her back pressed against the closest wall with one leg wrapped as tightly as she could get it over Alex's hips as Maggie tugs even more on the lapels of Alex's lab coat to being her closer while the fed's tongue wrestles with Maggie's own as she groans into Alex's mouth did the other pair in the room remind the rest of there presence.
J'onn by clearing his throat with the volume of a ripped to life chainsaw while a red-cheeked Eliza stammers out a "Yes well I'm glad you're enjoying the start of your party, Maggie. How about you go get changed so the rest of us can start enjoying it with you?" as she busies herself with pulling out cupcake containers and plastic silver wear.
"Later baby," Alex promises her voice rough as they share one last softer kiss between them before she pulls away.
She doesn't miss the way Linda makes a show of freezing Alex's soda before passing it over once her big sister had composed herself enough to rejoin the waiting guests in the front room while she heads for the stairs up to the second floor of her and Alex's new place.
Her speed was incredible even to her own standers and that was with the added time of a speedy shower to properly dull her hormones after that little moment with her girlfriend in the hallway.
Much like Lena Maggie opts for a comfy but sleek looking pair of jeans but the detective swaps out the dressier yet casual top for another of Alex's tee shirts. Also, she chooses to forgo putting on shoes in favor of showing off the blue ones with the crest of a certain city hero stitched onto them as she heads back to the waiting guests.
The lights were turned off this time when she hits the top of the steps, but she can still make out Bandit sitting patiently at the bottom of the steps her tail wagging madly behind her as she waits.
"You'd warn me if they were waiting in ambush with Nerf guns, right?"
That only grins an even wider smile from her happy puppy in the limited glow from the streetlight outside.
"Oh, now there's an…." Lena's not so whispered voice answers
"No Lena. No, you're not Nerf gunning my girlfriend on her birthday."
"You're no fun."
Maggie can't tell which of the heat vision-enabled Danvers sisters it was that used that little trick to light the single start shaped candle now stuck into what looked like an honest to Rao tiramisu cupcake as soon as she rounded the corner into the darkened living room but whoever it was she would have to thank them for not setting fire to her house while they were at it.
More tears sting her eyes while the others finish the last few bars on the traditional 'Happy Birthday' song with Linda and Kara choosing to sing the Russian and surprisingly Kryptonian translations of the tune.
"Make a wish and blow out your candle baby." Alex prompts when the song ends, and the lights have been turned back on.
Happy tears are falling freely now as she looks into each face in the half-circle around her. "I don't think I can."
"You have to Maggie. Otherwise, the candle will continue to burn, and the cake will be ruined with the wax." Linda points out her tone so, matter of fact, that this time Lena does end up falling onto the couch holding her sides as she laughs while Eliza and J'onn turn their attention to dividing out the other cupcakes amongst the rest of the guests.
Alex steps up a little closer still holding out the biggest 'cake' for its intended. "Go ahead Mags."
Instead, Maggie stalls a few more seconds by scooping up Bandit letting the pup lick at the underside of her chin as she rocks her squirming 'fur daughter' in her arms as she thinks it over before nodding with her choice.
"I love you, Alex Danvers." She whispers her eyes sliding from the burning candle flame to her girlfriend's eyes.
"And I love you, Maggie Sawyer."
Maggie couldn't see the candle for her tears when the rest of her chosen family finished with an echoing "Forever" as she blew out the flame.
Notes:
Anyone up for a bonus chapter of just Sanvers or is just two with the mini Superfam enough?