The five year old kid sat on a stool watching with a smile how her cousin was helping Eliza to make dinner, getting distracted of what she was doing, but shaking her head before starting coloring again.
"Halley, do you wanna help us to make cookies?" Kara asked her making her nodded, which made her cousin smile before approaching her. "Okay, first thing, we have to wash our hands" her cousin picked her up to get to the sink, where she did so.
They started pouring the ingredients in a bowl, Kara showing her how to crack an egg before letting her try it, the egg cracking in her hands causing her cousin to laugh while helping her.
The rest of the ingredients were a little more easy, but still a mess because she ended with her hands, clothes and face completely stained.
"It's hard" she complained while trying to flat the dough.
"Is it?" Kara asked approaching her. "Here, let me help you" her cousin got behind her holding like her the rolling pin.
The two of them cut the cookies with Christmas' shapes as Kara had said, observing cautiously how Eliza put the tray on the oven not really being able to wait to decorate them.
She went back to coloring while waiting for them to be ready, her gaze focusing in the oven from time to time, Kara sitting beside her coloring with her.
"You're ready to decorate them?" her cousin asked making her nodded slightly.
It wasn't as easy as she thought, but with Kara's help the cookies turned out really good, so after cleaning up and changing her clothes, her cousin let her taste them.
"Who's coming tomorrow?" Eliza asked to what her cousin answered a list of names.
"Mon-El isn't coming?" she asked frowning. "You said Christmas is to be with family, he's family, he's a friend" she looked at her cousin.
"You're right, baby" Kara whispered. "What do you think about going to the DEO?" her cousin asked making her nodded excitedly.
The two of them where to the DEO looking for him, her hand gripping tightly her cousin's hand until she saw Mon-El, moment in which she run to him hugging his legs before he picked her up.
"Hey, kiddo" Mon-El kissed her forehead. "I thought you were having some days off because of Christmas" he commented to Kara.
"Well, yeah, but we're here because Halley wants to ask you something" Kara told him.
"Can you have dinner with us tomorrow?" she asked seeing him smile.
"I would love to be there" Mon-El answered making her smile.
She was sitting on her cousin's lap not wanting to go to bed, really trying to stay awake with the rest of them, but it was obvious that she was getting sleepy by every second that passed.
"I think it's time to go to bed" Kara whispered stroking her hair as she shook her head. "You're tired" her cousin said.
"I'm not" she folded her arms kind of mad.
"Yes, you are" Kara looked straight into her eyes.
"Halley, kiddo, you need to be asleep for Santa to come" Alex commented getting her to look at her.
"But everyone else has to be asleep too" she pointed out making Kara to laugh.
"She has a point" her cousin chuckled. "Okay, you're staying up" Kara sighed as she smiled victoriously.
She held Saffire close to her, moving him from side to side as if he was flying, soon playing with Mon-El, who picked her up to make her fly with the little dragon.
Her eyes started to close as she rested her head on his shoulder, Mon-El embracing her tightly while caressing her hair, her senses focusing on his hearbeat, which was keeping her completely relaxed.
"Are you tired?" Kara asked tickling her making her nod. "It's time to go to bed then" her cousin said as she shook her head. "No? But Mon-El is tired too" Kara commented, which made her look at him, her fist clutching to his shirt.
"It's okay, I'm staying until she falls asleep" he answered seeing how her cousin nodded slightly.
She truly didn't understand the reasons why her cousin was so distant from Mon-El, neither of them had had a full conversation during the night, not talking about the last few days, because Kara had been avoiding him.
However, the only time she had asked her cousin about it, she didn't receive an answer, Kara just told her that everything was fine between them even though she knew it wasn't.
She hid her face on Mon-El's neck while closing her eyes, eventually falling asleep in his arms.
"Halley baby, it's Christmas!" Kara shook gently her shoulders to wake her up causing her to open her eyes slowly to look at her. "It's Christmas!" her cousin exclaimed.
She closed her eyes again feeling really tired, so she turned to her left side to continue sleeping while hearing her cousin laugh.
Kara brushed her hair away from her face trying to keep her awake, but she kept her eyes closed wanting to fall asleep again.
"She isn't waking up, huh?" she heard Alex saying walking inside the room. "Halley, kiddo, Santa came" her cousin's sister commented making her to open her eyes once more. "You must have been such a really good kid" Alex told her as she stretched her arms towards her cousin.
"Are you excited?" Kara asked to what she barely nodded. "You are" her cousin kissed her hair before walking out of the room. "Look!" Kara pointed to the Christmas tree.
Her gaze was diverted to look there, observing every single present, but focusing on a bicycle, so she ran to it when her cousin left her on the floor.
She tried to get on it, but it was harder then she thought, needing Kara's help, who sat on the floor beside her.
"Now you can learn how to ride it at the park" Kara told her making her nodded excitedly. "Now this one" her cousin gave her a present.
It was heavy for her to hold, so she had to get down of the bike to sit on the floor with Kara, looking at her cousin for a few seconds before ripping the paper.
Her blue eyes brighted with excitement when she saw the Kryptonian book, the same one she had been wishing for since Indigo broke hers, so she couldn't avoid the tears in her eyes while trying to smile.
"Oh, baby" her cousin embraced her, her tiny face buried in Kara's shoulder as she continued to cry whispering a 'thank you'. "You're so much welcome" Kara kissed her hair trying to calm her down.
She opened a few more presents like coloring books, color pencils and some other toy, most of them dragons figures. However, her brows furrowed when she saw some white stars to put on a wall, so they would shine when everything was dark.
"Do you know where we're going to put them?" Kara asked her, so she shook her head not really having an answer. "It's for your new room, sweetie" her cousin told her making her frown.
Kara stood up offering her hand to hold hers, walking to the room her cousin used to storage things, but a wide smile was on her face when she observed the whole room, which was ready for her. The walls were painted in a light shade of blue, but what caught up her attention was the shape of a dragon with its wings spread painted in a dark blue on the wall with white stars above its head, all the furniture in white.
"Do you like it?" her cousin asked making her to nodded with a smile, she loved the room. "Mon-El painted the dragon and the stars, it's really beautiful, isn't it?" Kara told her to what she nodded again before running to her new bed.
The five year old sat down on the bed to observe everything from there, really happy about having her little space because she was an independent child that needed to be alone for a while.
"Can we go to the park?" she asked not giving her cousin time to answer. "Pleeeaaasee, I want to learn how to ride the bike" she begged seeing Kara smile.
"Sure, but first we have to go to the DEO, okay?" Kara told her to what she nodded slightly.
All of them, including Alex, went to the DEO after getting ready where both sisters were needed for a mission as she stayed with Winn coloring her new book with her new pencils and crayons.
A huge smile was on her face when she saw Mon-El walking inside the room, her arms stretched out for him to hold her, which he did, embracing her tightly.
"Thanks for painting the room" she barely whispered making him to pull her away a little.
"You already saw it?" he asked surprised as she nodded. "I'm glad you like it" Mon-El smiled.
"It's like Saffire" she commented making him laugh.
"That was the idea, kiddo" he told her with a sad smile.
She couldn't stop looking at him, he looked like he would start crying on anytime, but like if he was trying to hold on, which was breaking her heart because she knew what it was to miss something you wouldn't be able to have again.
"Do you miss your home?" she asked curious getting Mon-El to look at her for a few seconds before nodding. "What do you miss from Daxam?" she questioned not wanting for him to feel uncomfortable.
"Most of it..." he answered barely whispering. "Not everything, though" Mon-El said making her to observe him knowing she shouldn't keep asking. "It's complicated, sweetheart, but some day I'll tell you about how it was there" he told her to what she nodded slightly.
When Kara came back she was ready to leave to the park, but believing that if Mon-El went with them, it would cheer him up a little, so she tried to convince her cousin about it, who, at first, shook her head, but after her asking her a few more times, Kara had ended approving it.
Still her cousin barely spoke with Mon-El, which made question herself what was going on between them, what was the reason why they weren't acting as before.
Her firsts attempts of riding the bike were horrible, but she finally made it, being really proud of herself while hearing to her cousin cheering her up to continue riding, which made her turn her head to look at Kara losing the control of the bicycle.
"Halley! Turn!" Kara screamed. "You're gonna crash!" her cousin voice was worried.
"Got you" Mon-El said while picking her from the bike seconds before seeing how it crashed with a tree. "You okay?" he asked as she tried to get back to her normal breathing.
"Thanks Rao" Kara approached them to held her, embracing her as tight as possible. "You really scared me" her cousin commented.
"Sorry" she barely whispered with tears starting to run down her cheeks, she was scared too.
"It's okay, baby" her cousin kissed her forehead.
She turned her head leaning on her cousin's shoulder while observing how Mon-El picked up the bike, which at least seemed to be fine, to bring it closer to them.
"The bike has survived to the crash" Mon-El told them while caressing her cheeks to wipe out the tears. "Did you get hurt?" he asked worried to what she shook her head.
"I think we're going home" Kara said, which made Mon-El to offer to walk with them there. "No, it's okay, we'll see you tomorrow" her cousin quickly denied the proposal, being able to see how Mon-El nodded kind of sad.
However, even though she wanted to asked again what had happened between the two of them, she just say goodbye to him before grabbing her cousin's hand and start walking out the park.
By the time they had arrived the apartment, the same question was over and over in her head, but still not daring to ask because she didn't know how her cousin would react to that.
"Halley, baby, it's bedtime" she heard Kara saying from the kitchen, so she closed the coloring book and put the color pencils inside the box before getting in bed. "You're already in bed?" Kara smiled from the door, approaching her. "Remember that if you have any nightmare, you can call me, okay?" her cousin sat down on the bed as she nodded.
"Do you... Do you hate Mon-El?" she finally asked, a crinkle on her cousin's forehead.
"What? No, I don't hate him, sweetie" her cousin answered, but there was something else that Kara wasn't really saying.
"But you don't like him" she stated looking straight to her cousin's eyes, who didn't know what to say. "Why? Is it because he's from Daxam?" she couldn't avoid asking.
"No, I do like him, it's... It's complicated" Kara sighed as she was ready to ask again. "You ask a lot of questions, little miss" her cousin laughed. "I'm not sure of what I feel or what he feels, I'm not expecting you to understand, kiddo" Kara looked at her.
"He likes you" she assured her cousin.
"You think so?" her cousin asked making her nodded. "Then, I'll have to trust you, baby" Kara smiled tucking her in the bed. "It's time to sleep" her cousin said before kissing her forehead.
"Love you" she whispered embracing tightly Saffire ready to fall asleep.
"Love you too" Kara whispered caressing her hair one last time before getting up. "Sweet dreams, baby" her cousin turn off the light before leaving the room.
For a few seconds her gaze was focused on all the little stars that were glue to the ceiling while thinking about Kara's answers, which she didn't quite understand, but she hoped to do soon, so Kara and Mon-El's relation would be as before.
Hi!
I know I said I would publish the Christmas' chapter and I should have done it before, but I've been spending a lot of time with my family and friends, so I haven't had a lot time to keep writing.
I thought that, though this chapter is about Christmas, I should include what I thought Kara would have done after the kiss with Mon-El, (at first she didn't want those feelings to be true), so that's why she's so distant with him and Halley has noticed. I have to say that I love writing every Halley-Mon-El's scene.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin