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Atlanta Georgia, Highland Square
Alicia pulled into the parking area and began unbuckling her seatbelt as Clark said, "I'll take everything to the apartment can you take grace out of her seat while I do that?" Alicia opened the door to get out and replied, "Yeah that's fine." Clark began taking the groceries grabbing about half of them on the first trip and finishing the other half on the second trip placing everything on the table to sort and pack afterwards.
He came back as Alicia had finally gotten grace out of her seat and placed her inside her carrier. She closed the door and was about to walk away when a slight smile cane to her face and she went back to the driver's side and opened the door reaching for something inside. It only took her a couple of seconds to find what she was looking for as she closed the door and headed back around the car to him. She had grabbed the flowers he had gotten her from earlier and sent him an appreciative smile as they headed inside.
Clark opened the door for her and as they both then headed towards the kitchen to figure out where to put everything. Clark had been looking at all items they had bought and thought, 'In the short time that I have been in this apartment I was able to tell one thing and that is that Alicia like too have things organized and I have no clue as to where Alicia liked to have her things placed. Should I try and wing it or ask her about every single item to make sure I place it right where she wants it.' While Clark was having this internal battle Alicia and Grace was just staring at him due the fact it looks like his was going to explode from strain. Grace gave one of her patented gurgles to which Alicia responded, "Yeah I think we broke him." Alicia walked over to him and poked his cheek before he came out thoughts and look at her. Alicia giggled at his response and asks, "Are you okay? You looked like you were trying to solve the worlds hardest puzzle. Clark gave a shy smile with a slight blush and said, "I was just thinking about where to put everything." Alicia gave a slight tilt of the head and said, "Oh is that it. I don't mind where you put anything most time when I go shopping, I just place things wherever it's convenient when I get home. I only organize things because I usually spend most my free time here and once you're bored enough even organizing looks like a good way to pass the time, you even feel like you accomplish something by the end." Clark just looked at her then shook his head in disbelief before thinking, "I'm an idiot."
They began placing everything where it would make some sense all while discussing what they should do for dinner coming to the conclusion that some pasta would be fine. As they finished Clark told her, "I can start on dinner if you want to get Grace's bottle ready and feed her." Alicia not seeing a problem shrugged her should and said, "Sure that's fine with me but it shouldn't take me more than fifteen minutes if you want to wait for me to help." Clark just waved the thought and said, "No it's fine I'll probably try speeding it up a little bit with some of abilities." Alicia wasn't entirely sure what he meant by that but decided against asking and just seeing what he means later.
Alicia placed Grace in her feeding since she didn't want to rub the risk of them accidentally splashing or spilling anything near or on her. Grace just stared at her mom who was preparing her bottle because she couldn't see her dad as he was super speeding around the kitchen preparing dinner. Alicia couldn't keep track of him either and instead of trying to keep an eye out in case he needs help she decided to just trust him to ask if she was needed and focused completely on grace and her bottle.
Alicia took grace out of her chair and said "I'm going to feed her on the couch and once she finishes, I can come help with whatever else needs to be done. It had only taken her a couple of minutes to get the bottle ready and about five minutes for Grace to drink. Once Grace finished Alicia tried burping her even though it seemed like it wasn't needed anymore just for precaution. After a minute of getting nothing Alicia concluded that grace probably didn't need to be burped. She picked Grace up and placed her back in her feeding chair while she went to clean the bottle.
As she began drying the bottle, she asked Clark, "Do you think we should start giving her some semisolid food like mashed bananas or purées?" It took about five second before she heard the oven close and Clark changed from being a blur to a singular person.
Clark thought for a second, "Well she did mash the banana I was going to eat and try to eat that.' He looked at grace then back to Alicia and said, "Well she did technically eat some of that banana from before and she does have her first tooth already. I mean we don't know how old she exactly after the teleportation, but we can assume around half a year old give or take a month which should be old enough for purées." Alicia nodded and grabbed a banana to mash into a purée. She pulled up a chair next to Grace's feeding chair and began trying to feed her the baby spoon full of banana purée only for about a fourth of it to end up in her mouth.
This went on for the entirety of Alicia trying feed her the purée, but in the end, Grace had eaten all of it and Alicia felt proud and accomplished of that. Alicia wiped Grace's face up and the. Went to the sink to clean the bowl she had used. After she dried the bowl and put it away, she went over to Clark who was zooming around again and asked, "So what can I do to help." She suddenly felt a very chilly draft before she saw Clark stop being a blur right in front of the fridge and said "Oh no I finished everything in fact I was just putting the dessert in the fridge so that it stays cold. Dinner should be ready in about five." Alicia didn't know how to respond to that as in her mind, 'I had only been gone ten to fifteen minutes and he was able to prepare and cook everything.' Not being able to stay quite she decided to voice her thoughts, "How exactly did you get everything done in close to fifteen minutes." Clark sent one of his patented grins as he opened the oven and pulled out the dish while saying, "I made a baked rigatoni with a béchamel sauce and for dessert it was something simple and it hardly took any time, but I'll let it be a surprise you can find after dinner. As far how I was able to I have three abilities I've learned to control well enough to cook with. My speed, heat vision, and freeze breath. By utilizing those three abilities it really cuts down on the time to cook a good meal, so shall we dig in." Alicia decided to just chalk this up as the new norm and nodded her head.
Clark grabbed two plates and dishes two servings of the rigatoni for them as Alicia set up the rest of the table. They began talking to each other about their days with Alicia telling him "We had just got approved to get a contract to send some of our samples to space and while that may seem weird if you think about it when we look at anything under a slide it is always from the two dimensional standpoint however if we take the gravity off the sample we will get free reign to study the whole structure in the three dimensional way." Clark was baffled to hear about the things she was doing and her thought process on it and once she finished he began telling her about his day, "It was a relatively quiet day we are still looking for Chloe but Oliver is on that for now and will call me if anything comes up." Alicia gave his hand a soft squeeze just to remind he wasn't alone anymore. Clark was thankful and sent a smile.
Towards the end of it grace was getting sleepy so Alicia went to go put her to sleep while Clark got the desserts out of the fridge as Alicia came back into the kitchen and said, "Well I hope Frozen hot chocolate is good with you." Alicia grabbed her drink and tried a sip before saying, "Wow it's like the perfect milkshake had a baby with the perfect hot chocolate." Clark snaked his free hand around her waist and said' "I was thinking that we could drink while watching a movie and you know make a movie night out of it. Alicia immediately beamed a bright smile to him for the idea and said, "Let me change quickly and I'll meet you back out here." Clark just nodded as he took the drinks out to the coffee table.
As Alicia was coming back Clark sped past her and came back in a couple of seconds also changing into his sleeping attire with a blanket. Alicia was going through her DVDs and asked, "Do you have any preferences?" Clark shook his head and gave an emphatic no saying, "I don't really watch movies, so I think I'm pretty open to anything." Alicia nodded her head in confirmation still skimming trough DVDs before saying, "Ahah we can watch Wall-E. I know it's a child movie, but I love it." Clark had no problem with it especially after her reaction and said, "Sure let's do it." Alicia put the DVD in and then came back onto the couch before pressing play as they both cuddled up to each other and sipped on their frozen hot chocolates. About an hour into the movie they had decided to watch the movie laying down on the couch which just ended up with Alicia snuggling up into his chest while he wrapped his arms around her and they stayed that way until the end of the movie. Alicia couldn't help but think, 'I guess this my new reality and I never want to leave it.' As the movie finished, they both just fell asleep on the couch in each other's arms taking in each other's warmth.
