Conversations on a Balcony

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"Supergirl, Danvers, come in."

"I hear you, Alex. How am I doing?"

Director Danvers crossed her arms as she examined the screen with the red triangle labelled as 'Supergirl' and watched the distance to target numbers decrease as her sister approached it. Then the red triangle moved beyond the target and kept going. Alex chuckled, shaking her head.

Agent Dox spoke up, turning in his chair to look at his boss as he keyed his mic on. "It seeeeeems that Supergirl has misssssed the target."

"What?" Kara replied indignantly. "I don't MISS targets, Brainy."

Alex cleared her throat and looked down at her boots with a smirk. "Well, then maybe you're slightly off course. Do you know how to read a GPS?"

"Tch... of course I know... oh...Gosh," Kara sighed. "I AM off course. Sorry, Guys, I'm still trying to get used to using this new AI headset. I seem to do better with visual ground landmarks."

"Just keep at it, Supergirl, you'll get it," Alex replied.

"Coming around for another run now," the hero replied and the triangle on the screen suddenly changed direction and headed back the way it had come with blistering speed. After a moment or so, the target registered a heat increase and the director nodded happily.

"Good job, Supergirl, the target has registered your heat vision contact."

"Ok, that was kinda cool," the hero replied, and Alex could hear the smile in her voice. "I'm going to try a couple more runs."

"Ok but watch the time. You promised Cat you wouldn't be late."

"Oh shit, right," Kara said. "What time is it now?"

"Just after ten. You need to be home by twelve thirty."

"Thanks, Alex, but shouldn't you get going yourself?"

"Leaving now," the director confirmed. "See you soon."

Xx

"Early for once," Cat teased as she moved over in the shower to make room for her dusty-looking wife.

"Yeah," Kara grinned. "No WAY I'm keeping us late today!"

"How did the tests go?"

"Nailed 'em," the hero replied. "The new headset software totally blew the first version out of the water. The 3D graphics were amazing, once my brain figured out how to read them. I missed the target totally, first time. I was like... a hundred miles off course or something."

"Practice makes perfect, Love," the older woman chuckled as she squeezed Kara's shampoo into her palm and then started to wash her hair. "Duck."

But to Cat's surprise and pleasure, her wife lowered herself to her knees and wrapped her arms around her waist, trailing slow kisses across the soft skin. "Mmmm... you smell good," Kara murmured, trading kisses with nibbles. "And you taste even better."

"Baby, as much as I really would like to continue this... conversation... we can't be late..." Cat closed her eyes and leaned back against the tiled wall as the touches became more insistent and then moved to a place a whole lot more intimate as Kara eased her wife's leg over her shoulder. "Ok... well... since you're back early..." Cat groaned as Kara did that amazing thing with her tongue. "M-maybe we... Oh God... have a few minutes."

"Exactly what I was thinking," Kara replied with a big grin as she felt Cat's fingers gently tangle into her hair.

"You're... so... good … at that," the older woman panted. "Fuck, Kara."

"Practice makes perfect, Love," Kara teased, giving Cat's words back to her. They laughed softly together and then, only a few moments later, the older woman's hands clenched into her wife's hair and she cried out her pleasure, hips bucking. The hero smiled tenderly up at her, and Cat slowly went back to washing the shaggy blonde locks under her fingers, her heartbeat slowing as her breath settled.

"I love you," she said as she leaned down and kissed Kara's lips gently. "That was amazing."

"I love you too," the hero replied. She stood then and let the spray rinse the shampoo out of her hair. "Want me to get Abby? Did she eat yet?"

Cat nodded. "She had breakfast and yes, please. She loves when you bathe her."

"Cool," Kara grinned. "Be right back."

The hero stepped out of the shower, making Cat shake her head ruefully as she dripped her way into Abby's bedroom to swoop her up into her arms and carry her back to the bathroom. "Ok, Baby Girl, let's get clean," she said as she set the little girl onto her feet and stripped her out of her pajamas.

Abby pointed with a big smile. "/:ieiu/, c'n I have your soap?"

Kara chuckled as she guided her child into the shower and then knelt behind her. "Sure, you want to have my shampoo too?"

"Yeah!" The little girl clapped. "Smells good."

Cat smiled and leaned down to kiss Abby's forehead and then Kara's. "I'm going to get ready. Have fun you two."

"Bye bye, Mom," Abby replied with a sweet smile as her /:ieiu/ started to lather her hair.

"Bye bye, Mom," Kara echoed with a matching smile, and Cat's heart melted once more.

"Two peas in a pod," she murmured happily as she toweled off and then headed back into the bedroom.

"So..." Kara went on as she carefully rinsed the shampoo out of her daughter's blonde locks. "What did you have for breakfast this morning?"

"Sugar," Abby stated seriously. "Egg sugar coffee. Good."

"I see," the hero replied, just as seriously. "Glad you liked it." She took the shower gel down off the glass shelf and was about to squirt some into her hand when her child shook her head and held out her own palm imperiously.

"/:ieiu/, I do."

"So bossy," her mother replied with a little laugh. "How about a please on that, Abs?"

"Pwease. C'n I do?"

"Good girl," Kara grinned. "Ok, open your hand bigger." She squeezed a little bit of soap into Abby's palm and then watched as she tried to wash herself. "Great job, Baby Girl! Make sure to get all the spots." After a couple of moments of helping, Kara got back to her feet and turned off the shower. "All clean," she said.

"Aww cwean," the little girl replied, and she giggled as her mother wrapped her in a fluffy towel and scooped her into her arms to sit her on the vanity top as she smooched her cheeks playfully. Kara wrapped a towel around herself, roughly towel dried her hair and then carried her daughter back into her bedroom to make sure she was dry. She dressed her in her underwear, vest and the new dress they'd bought her for today's special occasion.

"You look so pretty, Baby," Cat said from the bedroom door. Her hair and makeup were done but she was still dressed in her robe. "/:ieiu/, why don't you start getting ready and I'll take care of Abby's hair."

"Mom, pwetty," Abby replied, holding out her arms to her mother.

"Yes, she is," Kara agreed. "Your Mom is the most beautiful woman /:ieiu/ has ever seen."

Abby stuck her thumb in her mouth as Cat moved closer and kissed her wife. "Yuck."

"Just wait 'til you're older, Kid," the hero chuckled. "You'll want to kiss special people too."

"No," Abby replied, totally sure of herself.

"Go on and get ready, can't be late," Cat reminded as she eased away from her wife and patted her butt.

"Yes, Ma'am," Kara replied with a grin and headed into their bedroom to get her outfit out of her closet and lay it on the bed.

Ten minutes later, she was ready and Cat, finished with Abby's hair was getting into her outfit too. "You look gorgeous, Babe," she said with a smile.

"Thanks, you too," the hero replied. "I've got Abby's stuff ready, so I think we're good to go." She paused a moment and then leaned in to kiss her wife's neck. "I've been remembering..."

"Me too," Cat nodded. "I feel so happy..." She trailed off as her breath caught and her wife nodded in return.

"Me too."

They hugged tightly and shared one more kiss before collecting their overnight bags and their daughter to head down to the car.

Xx

Kara stepped out onto the balcony and gazed over the city, letting out a long sigh of pleasure as she joined her sister, who was standing at the low wall. The lights of the pergola above her glinted off her wedding ring as she lifted her glass of wine to her lips.

"Hey," the hero said. "How are you doing?"

"A little drunk," Alex chuckled. "A little overwhelmed... but a LOT happy." She turned fully to look at her sister. "Thank you for letting us have the Grand Mariner. Kelly and I wouldn't have been able to afford..."

"Shhh..." Kara said with a smile. "I wanted this to be special for you both... as special as you made mine and Cat's wedding." She took Alex's hands and kissed her cheek. "You look so beautiful, Alex, and I'm SO fucking proud of you."

"Yes, she does," a new voice added, and the older Danvers smiled as her new wife ambled out onto the balcony, wrapped her arms around her neck and gently kissed her. "Did you need a break, Honey?"

Alex nodded. "Just a quiet moment."

Kara chuckled. "I remember doing the same thing at my wedding," she said. "Cat and I just stood out here and slow-danced together while the party was swinging inside."

"Maybe," Alex said with a tilt of her head, letting her hand explore slowly up her wife's back. "That's exactly what we need, Babe. A moment to just be together." She started to sway them, and Kara realized, as they gazed into each other's eyes, that they were no longer in the world with her.

So, with a happy grin, the hero slipped away, back into the function room to find Cat on the dancefloor with their daughter, who was jumping up and down and twisting her body in dance moves that only toddlers could achieve. She watched them for a few moments and then joined them, scooping Abby up into her arms and then supporting Cat with one hand in a somewhat dangerous display of strength to dip her as their daughter clung to her like a monkey.

"Careful," Cat murmured as she gazed up at her. "Your Supergirl is showing."

But Kara just leaned down and captured her wife's lips in a gentle but passionate kiss. "I love you, Cat-El," she said as everything else in the world, but her family, faded away.

"I love you too," Cat replied tenderly.

Abby scrunched her face. "Yuck."