Kryptonian Nights 29

Deanlu

Supergirl is the property of DC comics and the CW. I am borrowing the characters for a little fun and storytelling. These are about the many facets of love.

Grandmother

The little girl peeked around the door frame. Her brunette pigtails falling softly down her back as chocolate eyes gazed across the room. Her innocent, slim face open to everything around her. Her eyes searched the area to see if any of the adults were present. She couldn't spot any so she slipped into the room tip toeing across the room as her microscope pajamas whispered along the wood floor. She briefly stopped hearing Krypto, the beagle following her. She turned quietly shushing him with a raised finger to her lips. He stopped his little tail going a mile a minute and eyes bright. She turned back heading toward the reading chair set near the big picture window. The light of the late afternoon sun fell across the chair burnishing the older woman there in warm, soft light.

"Ohh!" The soft gasp barely contained the excitement the young girl felt when she saw her Gma! Gma was asleep in the overstuffed reading chair. Her greyish blonde hair falling across her face as her glasses and the book she had been reading laid on her chest. A blanket was wrapped around her even as the soft snore the young girl had grown use to issued from the older ladies mouth. Quickly, she skittered around to behind the chair hoping she hadn't woken her. Carefully she crawled on to the arm of the chair. The older woman peeked her eye open to see what had woke her. She smiled softly quickly closing her eye and feigning sleep again. Krypto crawled under the chair snuggling into the sun beam that just reached a corner of the chair area. The young girl now slowly moved into her Gma's lap attempting to snuggle in without waking her.

"Yoooooooooooooooowwwwwww!" The little girl squealed out as she was grabbed and lifted into the air. Krypto began to bark and jump around at the sudden noise.

"What is going on in here?" Lena Luthor-Danvers came running into the sun room ro find her daughter, Krypto, and Eliza all noisily laughing and barking. Lena stopped short to see her daughter, Dakota, laughing and smiling. It had been a few days since the sound had filled the house. Dakota's mother was on a mission across worlds. Dakota had been less than happy when Kara had told her she would be gone several days. Now almost a week later the little girl was laughing uncontrollably in the arms of Eliza Danvers.

"We're enjoying the afternoon sunshine Sweety." Eliza giggled as she blew a raspberry on the little girls cheek. Dakota squealed in joy. Eliza ha received a phone call from Kara before she left. Her youngest daughter had asked for Eliza to come stay while she was away. Eliza had heartily agreed. She loved her granddaughter. She wished she could live closer to visit more often. Since her arrival it had been afternoons of tea parties, reading stories, walks in the park, visits to the book store and farmers market, an afternoon at the science and history museum, and hours spent watching movies. They had even had time for a little science experiment in the kitchen which had caused a moving blob of purple goo needing to be contained by Lena's response team. Eliza and Dakota had apologized profusely, but Lena had laughed it off. Lena smiled as her daughter and mother-in-laws antics.

"Well, I think it's time for you and Gma to come have dinner. What do you think?" Lena asked as reached down to Krypto scratching behind his ear. The beagle leaned hard into the CEO relishing the ear scratch.

"Yeah! Come on Gma." Dakota said as she leaped out of her grandmother's lap running toward the other room. Dakota's energy levels sometimes rivaled even Karas.

"Dakota slow down and wash your hands." Lena called after her daughter. The young Luthor walked over to Eliza giving her a hand out of the chair. Eliza surprised her by pulling her into a hug. "Thank you so much for being here for her. She would have moped all week if you weren't."

"I couldn't disappoint my girls now could I." Eliza pulled back from the hug and looked her daughter-in-law over. She wasn't sleeping well from the dark circles under her eyes and the dullness of her face. "Kara will be fine. She will be back before you know it. You need to take care of yourself. Sleep tonight so you can be ready." Eliza whispered so the young Dakota wouldn't hear. "You have a young little girl who is counting on you." Lena smiled as Eliza pulled her back into a hug. For a moment Lena let the worries drop away. Then a loud yell of delight came from the other room.

"MOMMA!" Eliza released Lena as the woman turned rushing into the other room. There in all her SUPERGIRL glory was Kara. Her smile filled the room with a warmth that had been missing since she left. Kara tossed Dakota into the air. The young girl squealing loudly. Kara caught her and hugged her close. Dakota snuggled tightly into Kara's shoulder rubbing her face against her momma's neck, her arms wrapped tightly. "Missed you soooo much momma."

"I missed you jellybean. You have no idea how much I missed you." Kara inhaled the scent of her daughter deeply even as Lena wrapped her arms around both of them. Kara turned her head sideways kissing Lena deeply. "God, I missed you Lee. I missed you too much.?" Kara's words carried a weight that Lena could see now in her eyes. Lena's look questioned her wife whom indicated with a look to ask later. Lena nodded.

"So the wayward daughter returns right at the ringing of the dinner bell. Maybe Lena needs to ring a bell for dinner every time she needs you to return." Eliza chuckled as she came close giving her daughter a kiss on the side of the head. "Come on, let's eat."

"Oh wait, I have a surprise." Kara said kissing Lena one more time. She let her wife go and went to the door. She opened it to allow Alex, a pregnant Sam, and Ruby to enter.

"RUBY!" Dakota screeched jumping out of Kara's arms and into her cousins arms. KAra backed up as Lena came to hold her. Lena's chin resting on Kara's shoulder. She watched as Alex, Sam and Ruby hugged Eliza. Krypto and Dakota dancing around excitedly.

"Thank you for coming home safe. Thank you for giving me this Kara Zor-el." Lena whispered kissing her wifes neck.

"Thank you for giving this to me. I thought I was doomed to a lone, solitary life." Kara kissed her back. Alex waved them over as everyone went to sit down to dinner.

"Families are messy, frustrating, and bring out amazing amount of tears. But they are there when we need them, love us when we are unloveable, and fill the holes that we didn't think could be filled." - Deanlu