Kara and Alura touched down soundlessly with Kara relocking the backdoor as quietly as possible once she'd ushered her mother into her adoptive 'childhood' home. It was much later than she'd intended to be back by and going by how slow the heart beats where everyone else was asleep.
Sometimes having powers helps as she levitates into the living room to check on her family leaving her mother waiting in the kitchen for her return.
Kara smiles when she notices that while she'd been gone Alex had taken her advice about what to have on hand should their guest wake up going by the four empty sleeves of Oreos scattered across the table and the half empty one she guessed had been confiscated by Eliza sometime during the movie.
They'd changed Linda out of her 'Red Daughter' shield as soon as she'd been stable enough to make the trip from the DEO med bay to Midvale choosing instead one of Kara's favored brand of comfy sleep pants and one of Alex's old college sweatshirts.
"Dammit, Alex it was one of the few things she could truly call hers in that place. I'm not taking it away from her just because Lex gave it to her."
It was the only time after the move that they'd talked about what to do with the 'armor' Lex had given Red Daughter that ended with Kara agreeing to all but the long cape being taken into DEO custody until Red Daughter woke up. The cape ending up wordlessly being draped over the sleeping Kryptonian like a security blanket.
Not that Eliza will admit to it after she'd finished mending the rips and patching up the burn marks marring the crimson colored fabric.
Despite having them for a few weeks prior to separating once again this time on purpose Kara had yet to get used to having bits of Red Daughter's memories in her head.
The first taste of the rich drink that warms both her hands and her body after wandering the woods, her love of the tasty round biscuits with the cream in the middle, flashes of different chess matches with 'Alex', speed reading the little paperbacks 'Alex' would thoughtfully send to help her learn English and to keep her mind sharp, drinking in every bit of information she could from Kara Danvers's private journal about Lena Luthor.
After Kara had confessed to having them her Alex guesses these memories were a holdover from the two merging back together after Lex 'killed' Red Daughter.
Kara is pulled from her musing by the soft opening titles from the movie her sleeping family had left open on the screen.
"Gatsby?"
In all their talks while they waited to see when or the dreaded if Red Daughter would wake up after successfully separating them again Kara had completely forgotten to mention her 'sister's' love of the classic book. She'd seen if often enough in her time sorting her own memories and thoughts from Red Daughter's and had even read several chapters to the sleeping Kaznian hoping hearing her favorite book would help wake her up.
Her murmured question must have been too loud seeing as not a full heartbeat later Red Daughter was on her feet her thoughtfully saved cape almost ripping apart from its cocooned state from the speed of her movements. "Who zhell are you," she demands her mind too hazy with sleep to realize who she's facing as she struggles to keep her voice low yet her Kaisonian accent thick in her anger her eyes glowing with fire as she stands to protect her family.
"It's alright sister. We aren't here to hurt anyone." Kara answers surprising herself with how strong her own Russian dialect was as she keeps her hands raised in surrender.
Then she realized Linda hadn't been talking to her.
"I would sooner harm myself than you my daughter."
Alura like Kara has her hands raised in a show of submission as she takes a slow step toward her now twin daughters as the glow in 'Linda's' eyes dimed back to the blue she shared with her father.
"Mom?" The watery break in her voice mirrors Kara's exactly to the first-time mother and daughter were reunited back on Argo.
"Lin? What's wrong?" Alex's sleepy voice is followed by the low hum of an alien gun powering up the elder Danvers stands beside her other Kryptonian sister as the lamp on the side table clicks on.
"Kara Zor-El Danvers do you have any idea what time it is?" Alex scolds holstering her weapon her other hand in her sleep tossed hair as she blinks the sleep from her eyes long enough to glance at her watch.
Thankfully for the Danvers sisters, their mother and Winn were heavy sleepers.
"Girls." Eliza scolds without opening her eyes as she rolls over as best, she could in the recliner to shield her eyes from the glow of the lamp. "Fight later back to sleep now."
Alright, not as heavy as they'd thought.
"But Mom its three in the morning. And it's the first Saturday I've gotten off work in like ever." Alex complains making Kara and Linda giggle at her pouting expression. Even Alura gave a weak laugh.
"Come on sis." Kara sighed "Bedtime Alex." Linda agrees sliding back into her native Russian sharing a look with Kara how nodes in agreement "I got Eliza just make sure Al doesn't hurt herself trying to get into bed."
"Hey, that was one time. And I was a bit drunk."
Kara rolls her eyes at her sister "A bit?" Linda choosing to smile shyly steadying the better Alex when the taller woman sways on her feet as Kara points them toward the stair making Alura smile wider as she watches her daughter coxing Eliza out of the recliner as her twin guides Alex toward the staircase.
"What about him?" Alura whispers her eyes on Winn when he too starts to sleepily complain about the lights without actually waking up.
"Guest room it's down the hall to the right." She can't discern if it had been Kara or Linda that had spoken but she does as they ask easily baring the human's weight as she carries him toward his designated room for the night.
Linda and Kara return to find their mother wandering the living room looking at the pictures on the walls some of them documenting Kara's life with the Danvers family.
"Jeremiah."
Alura starts almost dropping the photo of a young Alex Danvers hanging with her arms around a man's neck both smiling brightly at the camera to notice her twins returning. Kara, however, is looking at Linda close to tears, but Red Daughter taps her temple telling her 'sister' her knowledge of the name wasn't just because of her time studying her.
"Our connection worked both ways."
Somehow it calms her knowing she wasn't the only one dealing with their newfound bond.
"Mon-El. I hate him." Kara giggles both at the lighting of the mood and at being able to see her own angry pouting face as everyone else has. "So does Alex really everyone does." She shrugs looping her arm across Linda's shoulders leaning the way into the kitchen for a late-night snack. She's thinking ice cream or cold take out.
"But how much do you remember about what happened before you woke up here?"
Kara stiffens at her mother's question busying herself with raiding the refrigerator while the 'crinkle' sets in over Linda's eyes as she concentrates.
"Al…erm Lex him attacking us…."
"Anything else?"
Linda shakes her head until she speaks again "I would like to go with you." Not for the first time, Alura seems confused while Kara's smile can light up a city "When you return to your Argo. I would like to see it for myself."
Her mother seems to be fighting back tears as she nodes in agreement "Of course you can come with me if that's what you want."
"Alright time to introduce you two to the wonder of cookies and cream ice cream once we've restarted that classic in the living room I think." her hunt of the fridge had proven a bust at least for her tastes at the moment but lucky for her the freezer had been well stocked.
Linda's eyes light up at the offer so excited she starts vibrating where she stands but then she shakes her head obviously thinking of something else. "Yellow brick road."
Alura didn't think she could see her daughters so happy but somehow, she managed with those three whispered words.
"Double flick it is."
The mother simply followed her twins back into the dimly light den with a pleased smile when they chose to sit together under Linda's cap blanket.
"Just one question." She voices folding herself down on the other end of the sofa. "Why is the road yellow?"