"Hey! Don't stop!"
Kara whines as Lena pulls her hands away from her, having previously been gently running her nails up and down Kara's back soothingly.
"What am I, you're personal back scratcher?" Lena laughs at Kara's indignant stare coming from in her lap, where the blonde is laying, effectively pinning her down.
"That's what you agreed to when you started dating me." Kara sticks out her tongue before dropping her head back down and closing her eyes. "I'm not moving so you might as well carry on."
Lena giggles at her antics, "Oh is that so?"
"Mmm hmm."
"And that doesn't sound slightly unreasonable to you?" Lena quirks her eyebrow as she smirks down at the blonde, still closing her eyes to avoid eye contact.
"Not at all." She states bluntly.
Lena goes back to gently scratching at her back, getting a little bit bored, not having anything to keep her mind occupied. "I'm bored. Can we please do something else?"
Kara let's out a sigh, sitting up and facing Lena. "Fine. What do you want to do instead?"
"Well, I was thinking that maybe we could use those body paints that you ordered. They arrived last week, and I know you've been looking for an excuse to use them. "
Before Kara can even respond, Lena is already up and going to the spare room where all of Kara's art stuff is kept, making it her own art studio. It's Kara's favourite room in the penthouse, Lena having set it up for her as a surprise when they had decided to move in together.
Lena casually strolls back into the living room a minute later, her arms stretched around the box of paints and one of Kara's protective sheets draped over her arm.
She sets the box down and holds the sheet up to Kara. "So, where do you want to do this?"
"The floor is probably the easiest for access, just put the sheet over the rug so it's soft beneath us."
Lena mock salutes and together they lift the coffee table out of the way, pressing it closer to the floor to ceiling windows then she spreads the sheet over the rug, pausing for a second before grabbing a cushion from the L shaped couch and tosses it onto the sheet.
"I didn't tell you that I ordered body paints, I was going to ask you to be my canvas in a super romantic sexy way." Kara whines as she begins looking through the cardboard box that the paints were delivered in. "These paints look epic though, look at the quality." She squirts a little bit of black paint onto her paint palette.
Lena smiles at the new knowledge that Kara was going to use the paints to woo her, she has a way of making her feel loved and wanted that she doesn't ever want to be void of again.
"Sorry Darling, you know security goes through all of the packages to make sure they are safe, the only difference is that this time the head of security sent me a text asking where we got them from because his wife is an artist and they had wanted to try body paint before but never got around to it. He was a little disappointed that I couldn't tell him."
Kara shrugs her shoulders, "That's life I guess, no harm done. I'll send him the link to the set later, or better yet, I'll just gift him one after all he was very discreet that one time I sent you that sexy package with the lingerie before I knew security checked your packages."
Lena laughs at the memory. "You did traumatize him, he couldn't look me in the eyes for weeks and he couldn't look anywhere near you for several months because of the polaroid pictures you added."
"Good times. Now lie down, I want to do you first."
Lena takes off her shirt and her bra in preparation. "I still have those pictures by the way, they keep me company on business trips. Also, that's not something you say very often."
Kara pinches the back of Lena's thigh playfully as she takes her place face down on the sheet, resting her head on the cushion.
"That's not true!"
Lena holds her hand up, bringing her thumb and forefinger together in a pinching motion. "Just a bit true."
In response Kara takes a bottle of blue paint and dollops a drop in the centre of Lena's back. Lena jumps at the sudden cold splatter hitting her bare skin. Her shock quickly turns to giggles.
"I thought reporters are supposed to like the truth?"
Kara takes her brush and swipes the paint across her skin. "Do you really want to ruin this romantic bonding activity with teasing?"
Lena chuckles, folding her arms under her head. "I love you."
Kara mutters under her breath as she continues adding different coloured paints to Lena's back, mixing in greens and purples. "That's what I thought." She pauses for a second. "I love you too, even if you pick on me sometimes."
Lena hums happily under Kara's gentle brush strokes. She can feel the bristles dancing across her back, each stroke is so sure in its movement as the picture in Kara's mind makes its way into reality. "Who would've guessed that you can pick on the girl of steel and get away with it?"
"Shh, I'm busy."
Lena happily closes her eyes, trying to decipher what Kara is painting from the strokes alone, the curved lines and small areas where the brush is switched out for a smaller one as more details are added.
She listens intently to her girlfriend's steady breaths, feeling the warmth of her legs as they press into hers and the pressure of her as she sits on the back of her thighs, straddling her but she can tell that she isn't using her full weight, always too afraid that she is hurting her.
When Kara works up to the top of her back, Lena can feel the tips of her hair dangling down, tickling her skin. She worries for a second about her getting paint in her hair but then remembers that it is all quick dry, it only takes a one to two minutes before it is safe to touch.
She may have done a little bit of research on the body paint once she realized that Kara had bought some. She didn't want to put anything on her skin that would damage it, so sue her, but luckily it all came back safe, and she actually found that Kara must have done her own research since she had specifically chosen some that was better for her skin, even though she must have had to pay extra.
Lena can feel herself drifting off so she tries to think of something else to wake her up, if she goes to sleep now she will ruin her sleep schedule that she has specifically manufactured to maximize her Kara cuddling time. If she doesn't get at least five extra minutes in the morning after her alarm wakes her up to enjoy her snuggles she gets grouchy.
She thinks of work, Imagining herself working on her new project; there has been new cases of anti-alien groups using technology to block image inducers to out aliens to their peers and she wants to work on something to block their technology without affecting the image inducers' technology.
She is picturing schematics in her head as Kara keeps working on her painting, slowly moving across Lena's back as she adds more and more paint until she has finished.
She leans down and places a chaste kiss to the back of her neck.
"OK babe, I'm done."
Lena hums happily in response, unfolding her arms from under hear head and stretching them out in front of her, shaking away the pins and needles that have formed from her laying on them.
"Will you take a picture? I want to see." She mumbles, not willing to move until Kara has taken a picture.
Lena feels Kara's weight shift as she reaches for her phone, then she hears the sound of the picture being taken.
"You can sit up now." Kara helps her roll over and sit up onto her knees. When she is settled, she finds a phone pressed beneath her nose.
She leans back from the phone that is way too close to her face so she can actually take in what is on the screen.
It's beautiful.
It's a mountain range but not any ordinary mountain range. If it were ordinary it would still be incredible, but this really takes her breath away. It's clearly from another planet, obviously it's Krypton.
"This is your home?" She whispers to Kara, in complete awe.
"It's the Jewel Mountains. My father took me there once, we spent a week up there collecting samples of the different rocks and jewels themselves, even. I had the best time. When I first started painting Krypton, I could only picture the destruction but over time I managed to paint some nicer memories, but this is the first time I've tried with this memory. I think it's my favourite."
"It's a shame we can't hang me on a wall, it should be displayed in a fancy gallery somewhere, it's so amazing." She can feel the tears welling in her eyes when she hears the background to the amazing piece of artwork on her back. She tries to swallow down her tears but a couple of them escape down her cheeks.
Kara is quick to wipe them away. "No, no, don't cry."
"It's incredible. You're incredible."
Lena leans in and kisses her. It's wet from the tears but neither of them care. Lena grasps either side of Kara's face as their lips are locked and Kara holds onto Lena's wrists gently.
"I don't ever want to wash it off. It seems like such a shame."
Kara smiles shyly at her. "I don't think I would have even had the confidence to try to paint the Jewel Mountains if it weren't for the fact that it can be washed off."
"Well maybe now you will have a little bit more confidence…maybe even enough to try to paint the mountains on a canvas next time?"
Kara ducks her head as she laughs to herself, her cheeks bright red. "I guess I know what you want for Christmas."
"I've been looking for something to put on the wall opposite our bed since you moved in so long ago."
"You act like it's been a lifetime, we've only been living together for four months, you weirdo."
Lena suddenly looks very serious. "Four amazingly long months." She nods her head along with the words. "And you have to admit that it would be perfect."
Kara knows she is going to give in and do it, she knew she would from the first look Lena ever gave her that she would do anything for her. "You also said we should have a naked portrait of me opposite our bed last week."
"That's a close second and I would have very much enjoyed it if you hadn't vetoed it."
Lena folds her arms which draws Kara's attention down to her very attractive, very naked chest. Kara just stares for a few seconds, speechless by her beauty before Lena clears her throat.
"Are you finished?"
"What? Me? Yeah! Your turn."
Lena raises her eyebrow at her teasingly. "My turn? To stare at you naked and then blush about it despite the fact we've been together over a year?"
"What? No. To paint on my back." She unbuttons her shirt quickly and unsnaps her bra, looking at Lena expectantly, needing her to move so she can lie down in her place.
"I thought you were going to be the only one to do that. I can't paint very well."
Kara pouts. It's her weapon of mass destruction, and much more deadly and effective than any of her actual powers. Lena often wonders if Kara's pout would have worked better than her freeze breath or heat vision after watching her fight.
"Please? This is meant to be a bonding experience and I want us both to try it out."
Lena smirks, her eyes darkening. "You could've just said that you wanted me on top of you, you know?"
Kara sticks out her tongue as Lena finally moves out of the way, flourishing her hand toward the recently vacated spot in invitation.
"You're going to regret letting me draw on you, I don't even know where to start."
"Just follow your heart."
"Sap."
Kara hums happily in confirmation as she feel Lena get into place behind her, straddling her hips just as she had done earlier.
"Wait, wait, wait." Lena gets back up quickly and hurries towards the kitchen. Kara leans up to see what she is doing, luckily she can see because the penthouse is open plan.
Lena is reaching up into a cupboard for glasses when she finally let's Kara into her plan. "Wine makes everything more tolerable."
"It's meant to be romantic not tolerable."
"Same difference, Darling."
Lena heads back with two very full glasses on wine, placing them on the floor beside them before resettling back into her position above Kara.
She picks her wine back up and takes a big gulp before placing it back down and grabbing a paint brush. She goes straight for the neon colours, finding that they suit her golden retriever of a puppy much better than the duller ones.
She adds green first, going for a more abstract art piece. She is definitely not going for anything even similar to what Kara did, she would just show herself up, even though Kara would never make fun of her or even compare the two, her competitive brain just won't let her do it.
She starts with a simple oval, adding random lines and circles here and there, changing the colours to make the lines look cool, just for fun. She is really starting to relax into it, when she hears one of her favourite sounds of all time. Kara is snoring.
It's just a little quiet snore from the back of her throat but no matter how many times Lena tells her that she finds it cute, she always denies doing it altogether, which makes it even cuter.
She finishes her painting much quicker than she thought she would, having not gone into the detail that Kara had before her. She doesn't want to wake up her girlfriend though, she needs all the sleep she can get since she has had to rush out in the middle of the night three times already this week for her Supergirl duties and other two times because Cat Grant found a new case to work on and needed her star reporter with her for it.
That woman really doesn't care what you're doing or what time it is, if she calls you and tells you to get your ass somewhere, you do it.
She tries adding a little more detail but got bored quickly so she instead starts to mentally work on her plans for the device to block the image-inducer blocker device.
She comes up with a basic plan pretty quickly, she is a genius after all, but in order to advance she needs to see it laid out in front of her. She mentally calculates the risk of what she wants to do and decides that the end outcome of decent schematics for a device to protect aliens is much more important than dealing with her girlfriend's wrath, so she picks up a thin paintbrush and brushes Kara's hair out of the way to expose the bare top of her back.
Without further ado she begins to do her calculations and equations to figure out what kind of power source she needs to use and what electromagnetic field strength she needs.
She is only aware of how long she has been sat there when the two wine glasses were empty, Lena having taken Kara's too, and her legs started to cramp from being in the same position for so long.
She is pretty much finished, so she powers through, finishing up to a good point for restarting when she has a chance to get in her lab.
When she sets down her brush, she stands, trying to increase the blood flow back to her poor legs. She massages them with rough hands until she can feel them again.
Lena looks down at Kara, taking a picture of her work and praying that she actually will be able to finish it before Kara murders her.
Her next goal is to wake her girlfriend up, they really need to wash off the paint before bed, it may be safe for skin but that doesn't mean sleeping with it on isn't gross.
"Hey, wake up Kara." She strokes her hair gently. "Come on Darling, let's get you up now."
Kara stirs with a happy smile, always glad to see Lena.
"Hey, sorry. I didn't mean to fall asleep on you. The paintbrush gave me great back scratchies and it made me tired." She sits up, using her powers to float upwards so she doesn't have to use as much effort.
"That's ok. I know you've had a rough week with everyone needing you. I wanted to let you rest a while, but we should go shower and go to bed."
Kara shakes her head at her with a big smile. "Not until you show me what you did, I want to see your masterpiece."
Lena rubs the back of her neck with one hand nervously, an apologetic smile on her face as she slowly opens her photo gallery on her phone. She finds the picture and nervously holds the phone out to Kara for her to take.
"Lena Luthor what have you done? Why do you look guilty?"
She gets her answer when she sees the picture. There is a vague, elephant head shaped outline in the centre of her back made out of random shapes and it is completely bordered by equations. The most impressive part was the fact that Lena had fit the device blueprints inside the elephant head, effectively creating the device in the shape of the elephant head.
"I wish I could say that I'm surprised." Lena is surprised she isn't using her grumpy tone. "I'm just happy that there is an actual picture in there…just about."
She begins to giggle as she looks at the picture more closely. "You're going to have to pitch this device to the board and when you show them the blueprints you'll have to explain why it's in the shape of an elephant!"
Her giggles turn into full belly laughs and every time it dies down she takes another look at the picture and starts up again, making Lena laugh along with her. They can't image how they must look, both laughing hysterically, faces flushed bright red and completely topless.
When she finally stops she sends herself the picture. "I think you should do a paper copy of the blueprints to put on the wall with the canvas of my picture."
"I tried my best, I couldn't help it, it just popped into my head." Lena whines when Kara starts to tease her.
"I know, it's why I love you. You have a very fascinating brain and a very hot body." Kara smacks Lena's ass gently which Lena promptly returns.
"Right back at you. I love you too."