KARA'S P. O. V.
She observed her sister with curiosity, frowning when she saw her sister carrying a bag into her apartment.
"What did you bring?" she questioned pointing at it.
"Vegetables" her sister answered her. "I told you that Halley needed healthy food and since you're not giving it to her, I will" Alex explained.
"I tried once, but she refused to eat it" she tried to defend herself, but her sister just shook her head.
"Well, then I'll have to camouflage it" her sister told her. "She likes pasta, right?" Alex asked.
"I don't think that's going to work" she commented, her cousin was going to find out that there was vegetables in the pasta.
However, she didn't stop her sister, waiting until the kid would complain about the food to prove Alex that she was wrong.
She walked into her cousin's room once dinner was ready, Halley laying on the bed while reading the kryptonian book probably for the twentieth time, which made her smile a little before approaching her.
"Hey, dinner is ready" she told her, her cousin frowning.
"Did you cook it?" the eight year old questioned her kind of confused.
"No, Alex did" she answered, which surprised the child even more. "Come on, she's waiting" she told her while picking her up from the bed to take to the living room.
"Hi, kiddo" her sister approached them to embrace the kid, so she let her hold Halley. "Are you hungry?" Alex questioned the child, who nodded slightly.
Her sister left the child on a chair before giving her the food as she sat beside her, observing her cousin cautiously as the kid inspected the pasta, a little crinkle forming on the little girl's forehead when she found the first vegetable.
"What's this?" Halley asked pointing to a piece of broccoli.
"That's broccoli" Alex answered, getting the child to make a disgust grimace.
The eight year old looked at her before pushing the plate forward, folding her arms over her chest while shaking her head.
She looked at her sister with a victory smile, her cousin wasn't going to eat that for dinner, the child had the same face expression as when she tried to feed her some vegetables.
"Come on, kiddo, just try it" Alex pushed the plate closer to the kid, but her cousin shook her head. "If you take a bite and you don't like it, you'll have something different for dinner, okay?" her sister tried to negotiate with the child, who stayed still, not even opening her mouth when Alex put the fork closer to Halley's mouth. "Why not?"
"It's green" the kid complained. "Kara says that everything that is green is bad" her baby cousin explained as her sister looked at her.
"What?!" she exclaimed with her mouth full.
"I can't believe you! Why would you tell her that?" her sister questioned her.
"Well, pizza and potstickers are way better than this, no offense" she explained as her sister shook her head.
"However, you're eating it" Alex pointed out, getting her to nod, she was hungry. "Okay, look, Hal, if you eat half of your dinner, you'll have any flavor of ice cream you want" her sister tried again to negotiate with the kid, but Halley shook her head once more.
"Can I have ice cream, too?" she asked.
"Yes, Kara" her sister answered. "Halley, kiddo..."
Her baby cousin rested her head over her arms as if she didn't want to keep staring at the pasta, her eyes closed as she tucked the kid's hair behind her ear.
She observed how the child sat up before leaving to her room as Alex called her, but the eight year old didn't stop walking.
"Alex, leave it, she's not gonna eat it" she told her sister.
"Then there is no treat" her sister commented getting her to frown.
"But she has to eat something" she pointed out, concerned about her cousin not having anything else to dinner.
"No, Kara, you can't reward her when she didn't eat dinner" Alex explained and, even though she nodded, she felt terrible. "She just has to try a little bit" her sister said as she sighed.
"I'm gonna try to talk to her" she said before leaving to her cousin's room.
The eight year old laid on the bed with her face hidden in some pillows while hugging Saffire in between her arms.
She approached the child slowly, not wanting to scare her, gently caressing her cousin's dark hair away from her face.
"Hey, baby" she whispered getting the child to open her blue eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Oh, sweetheart, come here, it's okay" she picked her cousin up to sit her on her lap, the kid's face buried in her neck with the blue dragon still in between her arms. "It's okay, little one" she embraced her tightly, feeling a lump in her throat. "Are you hungry?" she asked.
"Yeah" Halley murmured not even looking at her.
"Why don't we go back and you try just a little bit?" she questioned, the kid nodding. "Okay" she sighed getting up with her cousin in her arms.
Her sister was reheating the pasta as she sat down on a chair, her cousin on her lap, refusing to let go of her, so she proceeded to feed her once Alex brought back the food.
Halley looked at her for a few seconds before finally opened her mouth, chewing the pasta slowly as if she was insecure about the taste.
However, her cousin took the fork by herself before starting eating it, finishing everything that was in the plate, which made her smile while kissing the top of her head.
"Did you like it?" Alex asked, getting Halley to nod. "That's great, kiddo" her sister smiled while ruffling the child's hair. "Which flavor of ice cream are you going to want?"
"Chocolate fudge brownie" her cousin answered.
"Okay, Why don't you two decide the movie while I get the ice-cream ready?" she asked before the little girl grabbed Alex's hand to walk over the couch.
She got the ice cream tub and three spoons before approaching them, Halley sitting in between both of them, happily accepting the spoon.
By the middle of the movie, her cousin was asleep with her head over her lap as she continued to stroke her hair.
"I'm impressed she ate it" she commented with smile.
"Did you gave her any other food even not having eaten the dinner she had?" her sister questioned her.
"Yeah" she answered.
"That's the problem" her sister pointed out. "There is going to be food that she won't like, but you have to insist for her to try it out" Alex told her.
"I know, but I feel so terrible having to do so" she admitted in just a whisper.
"Oh, Kara, you're the best mommy this little angel could have, just try to believe a little bit more on yourself" her sister embraced her tightly. "You're doing it great, sis" Alex kissed her forehead.
She smiled. There were days when she thought that she wasn't doing well with Halley, that she didn't know how to take care of her, but she knew that with her sister by her side, she would be able to do it right.
"I love you" she whispered snuggling closer to her sister, being careful about not waking her cousin up.
"Love you, too" her sister answered with a smiled as they proceeded to keep watching the movie.
HALLEY'S P. O. V
"What are you doing?" she questioned observing how her cousin was brushing her hair while looking at herself on a mirror through another mirror.
"I'm going to cut my hair" Kara answer as she frowned. "Go to the living room, I don't want you to get hurt, baby" her cousin told her, so she nodded before leaving.
She sat on the couch with Comet by her side to watch some cartoons, being able to hear Kara's heat vision from time to time.
She jumped from the couch the moment she heard someone knocking on the door, Comet barking because of the noise, so she used her x-ray vision to make sure of who was waiting on the other side before running to open.
"Clark!" she exclaimed while hugging his legs, the kryptonian picking her up to embrace her.
"Hey, kiddo, How are you?" he questioned pulling her away a little as if he was observing her.
"Fine" she smiled.
"Where is Kara?" he asked kind of confused of not having seeing her yet.
"She's cutting her hair" she answered, seeing him nod.
"Hal..., Clark!" her cousin exclaimed approaching them.
Kara embraced them both as she observed her hair, which was shorter, by her shoulders, bangs over her forehead.
"Hal, Did you open the door by yourself?" Kara asked her, to what she nodded. "Kiddo, I told you to tell me before doing it" she scolded her, making her to look down.
"But I knew it was Clark" she tried to defend herself, Kara sighing.
"I know, baby, but, What if it was a trick?" her cousin asked her while caressing her face. "Don't do that ever again, okay?" Kara looked directly into her eyes.
"Sorry" she whispered feeling a little scared about what her cousin had said.
"It's okay, it's just that I can't lose you, baby girl" Kara told her taking her from Clark's arms to hug her, kissing her forehead. "How's everything? Lois? The baby?" her cousin questioned.
"Everything is okay, that's why I'm here" Kal-El answered with a smiled. "The baby was born yesterday" he announced getting both of them to smile.
"What?!" Kara exclaimed. "Congratulations" her cousin hugged him again.
"Is it a boy or a girl?" she questioned him with curiosity.
"I can't tell you, Lois would kill me" Clark answered. "You're both invited to come as soon as you can" he said. "We can't wait for you to meet him" he told them with a huge smile on his face.
"Him... It's a boy!" she exclaimed, her cousin laughing as Clark nodded.
"Don't tell Lois I told you, act surprised" he asked them, so they both nodded excitedly, not being able to wait until she would meet that baby.
A few hours later they had everything packed up for the days they were going to be staying in Argo, hanging her backpack while waiting for Kara to be ready so they could leave.
"You're ready, baby?" Kara asked her, to what she nodded with Saffire in between her arms while grabbing Comet leash. "Okay, let's go" her cousin smiled grabbing her hand to start walking.
She had been asking for hours when were they leaving to Argo, being really impatient for finally meeting the baby.
She gripped her cousin's hand tightly while walking through the portal, smiling widely when she saw her aunt waiting for them there.
"Hi, girls" Alura smiled as she let go of her cousin's hand to run towards her aunt. "How are you, sweetheart?"
"Good" she smiled as her aunt hugged her tightly.
"She's excited to meet the baby, right, kiddo?" Kara ruffled her hair, getting her to nod. "I am, too" her cousin admitted impatient for that moment to happen.
As they walked inside the house, they could already hear the baby's cry, which made her frown worried while grabbing her cousin's hand again, relaxing when the crying was over.
"You're here" Kal-El smiled approaching them. "They're in this room" he said walking them inside.
Lois was sitting on a rocking chair with the baby covered in a blanket in her arms, the little one sleeping so peacefully as they approached them, staring at the baby with a shy smile.
"Hey, How are you feeling, Lois?" Kara questioned still looking at the baby.
"Tired" the reporter smiled caressing her child's face, she couldn't stop observing the little boy. "I introduce you to Jonathan Samuel Kent" Lois carefully moved the baby blanket away from the baby boy's face.
"He's beautiful" Kara whispered as she nodded, he was.
"Why do I have the feeling that you two already knew that it was a boy?" Lois questioned, a crinkle forming on her cousin's forehead. "Clark...?"
"Sorry" Clark apologized.
A few minutes after, Kara held the baby in her arms as she stood by her side side completely amazed by the little one.
"Do you want to hold him?" Lois asked her, getting her to nod. "Okay, come here with me" she said before sitting her on her lap, asking Kara to bring them Jon.
"Be gentle, okay?" her cousin told her as she nodded, Lois helping her to hold the baby.
She smiled observing the baby boy, who was starting to open his eyes as she gently touched his hand, the little boy wrapping his little hand around her finger.
She had been waiting for so long to meet that little baby, so she couldn't be happier at that moment. She loved him.
KARA'S P. O. V.
Halley was finally asleep after having a nightmare, in which the kid screamed, cried, kicked and begged not to be hurt, so at that moment she was sitting on her cousin's bed while stroking her hair to keep her calm, smiling widely when she observed how Comet jumped on the bed to lay down beside the kid.
"Hey, What happened? Is she okay?" Kal-El asked while observing the little one.
"She's calm now, she had a nightmare" she answered before kissing the child's forehead and get up to walk outside with Clark.
"How is she doing?" he questioned worried about the kid.
"About Lex?" she asked not actually knowing what he was referring to, but seeing him nod. "She's a little bit better, Kelly is really helping her" she answered. "But she's still not talking about what happened, so I don't really know what he did to her" she explained while frowning, she had tried to many times for the kid to talk.
"Well, I'm sure she will be fine, she has you" her cousin embraced her as she nodded slightly, she was always going to be there for the little girl. "How do you do it?" Clark asked as she frowned while looking at him. "I mean, being a mom to Halley, Supergirl, a reporter... How do you do it?" he questioned her, to what she shrugged.
"I... I don't know" she sighed. "It's balance, I guess" she answered him.
"But you make it look so easy" he commented, making her laugh a little, it wasn't easy at all.
"It's not easy, at first I wasn't even sure I could do it" she told him. "The same day I found Halley, I had a conversation with Alex about what I should do and You know what my first option was?" she looked at him, her cousin shaking his head. "Giving her away, to Alex, Eliza or even Foster Care" she admitted still feeling guilty for having thought about doing it.
"You would never do that to Halley" Clark looked at her surprised by her confession.
"No, of course not, she's my everything, I can't imagine my life without her" she bowed her head. "But I was about to do it, I wasn't sure if I would be able to give her a properly childhood" she explained in barely a whispered.
"But you know what to do and when to do it" Kal-El commented. "Halley looks up to you" he said.
"Stop worrying, you're going to be a great father" she tried to calm him down. "It's going to be a little bit tough at first, but you will do it amazing" she encouraged her cousin, Kal nodding slightly.
She smiled. It wasn't easy to raise a child, especially a child with superpowers in development, and even though she was still learning about parenting, she wouldn't change being a mommy for anything.
Halley was her everything, that kid would light up her day with just a smile and a little giggle, as long as her baby cousin was fine, she would be as well.
"No! No! Don't leave me!" the eight year old screamed while clinging to her, her little hands forming into fists to hold her jacket. "Please" Halley pleaded as she crouched to her height.
It had been days since she had been preparing her baby cousin to go back to school, but every single time she had mentioned, the child had cried, begging not leave her alone.
That morning wasn't different, the little girl had refused to get ready, starting crying the moment she realized that they were leaving the apartment, but at that moment the kid was sobbing with a lot more strength.
She closed her eyes for a few seconds, embracing her cousin tightly just wanting to calm her down, even though she knew that there was nothing she could say that would calm the child.
"Hal, hey, calm down, it's okay, baby" she whispered trying to pull her away, her cousin increasing the strength of the grip.
She sighed. Kelly had already told her that the little one would have a meltdown in front of the school door, that the child wasn't ready to be by herself there, not after what had happened a few months ago.
The eight year old had told them what happened that afternoon a few weeks ago, how those Children of Liberty had grabbed her by her arms and forced to go in a car before injecting kryptonite in her neck, so it wasn't a surprise that the child didn't want to experiment that again.
"I'll come pick you up as soon as school is over, baby" she told her, her baby cousin sobbing even louder than before. "Halley, sweetie, he won't hurt you again" she held the kid's face in between her hands, Halley's blue eyes shining brightly because of the tears.
"What if he does?" the eight year old questioned her, fear in her eyes.
"He won't, I won't let him, I promise, kiddo" she told her hoping that it would get her cousin to calm down, but sighing when the kid continued crying, so she embraced her again.
"Oh, Is she okay?" she heard Levi's mom ask, so she looked at her while shaking her head. "The first day of school after summer is always hard" Claire commented as she observed how Levi frowned before approaching them.
"Look who's here" she told her cousin pulling her away a little. "Do you say hi to Levi?" she asked her, the child barely looking at her best friend.
She smiled a little when she saw how Levi offered his hand for her cousin to hold, the eight year old still refusing to move from her side, looking directly into her eyes with her lower lip trembling.
"You'll be with Levi and your friends, everything will be fine, okay?" she wiped her cousin's tears, Halley starting to calm down. "I love you so much, baby" she hugged the kid one last time. "Have a nice day" she kissed her cousin's forehead before observing how the child accepted her best friend's hand, looking at her one last time before starting walking.
She sighed. She knew it was going to be hard, but not that much, at that moment she was afraid of not knowing how her cousin was going to be feeling during the day, of not being there to protect her, but she would make sure that the child would get safe and sound to home.
Hi!
Season five is almost here, the Event Horizon trailer was amazing! I can't wait to see the episode, though I'm surprised that Kara's cape is damaged that bad.
This chapter was supposed to be published on Thursday because the 26th of September 2018 was when I published the first chapter of this fanfic, but I wasn't going to be able to do it. I can't believe is been a year writing this fanfic!
When I wrote the scene of Leo opening the door to Alex by his own, I already had Halley's scene and I thought it would be funny having Kara react to both situations.
Baby Jon was born and I loved writing Halley's reaction. I don't know how they're going to introduce him, even though I expect that it will during the crossover.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin