Continuation of chapter 5
If we want it, we can make it happen
Week -8
It was a hot day in late June, as the first days of summer often were. After a day full of fun in Alex and Sam's pool, Lena, Kara and of course Lori were now back at their own home enjoying of a calm evening watching movies and eating junk food in the couch, dressed in their matching The Incredibles pajamas. The final credits of Tangled were rolling on the screen when Kara reached for the remote and tuned the TV off.
Lori, who was sitting between her two moms, complained immediately. "Momma, why did you do that? I want to see another movie!" The little girl crossed her arms and pouted as she shifted in her place to face the blonde.
Kara smiled apologetically before grabbing Lori from below her arms and bring her towards her, making her sit in her lap facing Lena. "Well, baby, mommy and I need to talk to you about something and need your full attention. We don't want you distracted over the TV. I promise we will watch another one after we're done talking, alright little bug?"
The little brunette's features shifted from angry to worry in a second. "Did I do something bad?"
Lena let out a quiet laugh as she moved closer to her wife and placed the girl's legs over her thighs, caressing the soft skin. "Nothing like that, love. You are the best behaved girl." She smiled and Lori quickly copied her expression. "What momma and I want to talk to you about has to do with our family. We want to know what you think before we do anything and answer any questions you may have, okay?"
The kid only nodded in response.
Kara moved her arm to rest behind Lori in a lazy hug. "Remember the other night when you slept in mommy and I's bed and we talked about having a new baby?"
Lori stuck her tongue out as she tried to remember. "A little… I was really sleepy."
Both parents chuckled a little. "Yeah, you were. What do you think that means? Having a new baby, I mean." Kara asked.
"Hmm…" The little girl tapped her chin with her index finger. "It means that there will be a baby in mommy's womb?"
"That's right, Lori. And that baby will become a new member of this family. That baby will be your little brother or sister." The CEO explained, never stopping running her fingers up and down her daughter's legs.
"Like uncle Lex and aunty Alex are your brother and sister?"
"Well, yes except they are the big siblings and your momma and I are their little sisters." Lena corrected their daughter. "You will be the big sister."
Lori shifted closer to Kara's chest as the blonde drew patterns on her back. "And what does being a big sister mean?"
"It means you will get to teach your sibling a lot of things, you will play with them, make them laugh… sometimes they will annoy you and you will annoy them back but that's part of having siblings." The blonde almost snorted at that. "You will protect them too, even if they don't see it that way. And you will love them… and so will mommy and me."
The child sat in silence for a few moments, processing all that information her momma had just given her. "Will you love me less so you can love the baby?"
Lena leaned over and cradled her daughter's face between her hands as she looked into her eyes. "We will never love you any less, little bug. Love is not something that can be measured or that is limited, we don't have certain amount of love to be divided between the people we care about. We can love how many people we want without loving anyone less than the other." She gently pulled Lori's head towards her and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "There are different kinds of love, that's true but the love we have for you and for any baby that may come in the future will be so strong and so, so much. If anything, I think our love will multiply by thousands."
"You will love us to the moon and back?" Lori asked innocently, making both women smile.
"To the moon and back a thousand times, little bug." Kara whispered against the top of the little brunette's head.
The girl shifted in Kara's lap, rising to her knees and hooked her little arms behind both of her mothers' necks. "I love you too, mommies. I will try to be the bestest big sister in the world."
Kara and Lena immediately hugged her back, grinning from ear to ear because of Lori's reaction to the possibility of expanding their family. "We're sure you will be, baby." The older brunette said as she turned her head to kiss the girl's cheek.
Lori pulled back from the hug, a pout present on her face again, confusing her mothers. "If I'm goin' to be a big sister, I'm not a baby anymore."
Both women laughed, loudly this time. "We already explained to you that you will always be our baby, even when you're thirty." Kara replied.
Lori's pout deepened and her forehead creased. "I'm a big girl, momma." She insisted.
Lena tucked a lock of Lori's hair behind her ear and then moved her hand so she could try to smooth down that crinkle with her thumb. "Okay, you will be a big girl when we have another baby but, for now, you're the only baby in this house, how does that sound?"
That seemed to work since the out began to disappear. "… 'kay." After she said that, Lori turned around and flopped down between her mothers' bodies who had to move to make room for the girl again.
"Do you have any questions, baby?" Lena took the opportunity to call her 'baby' while she still could.
The girl thought for a few moments before finally speaking. "How does the baby get inside mommy's womb?"
Both women went ice cold. When Lori had first started kindergarten she had asked why her classmates had daddies and she didn't so they briefly explained to her that science had helped them a little, but nothing too detailed. It seemed like the time for 'bees and flowers' had come, except they would not lie to their kid like most parents did. They would try to explain as much as possible.
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"Mommy, momma. Can I ask you somethin'?" The little five-year-old Lori asked her moms after her first week of kindergarten.
"Of course you can, little bug." Kara said as she sat across from both brunettes in the traditional ice cream parlor they discovered recently. She placed their ice creams on the table as she began eating her banana split.
"Is it about school, darling?" Lena asked as she scooped some vanilla ice cream and helped Lori eat it without making a mess.
"It is." The girl confirmed after swallowing the sweet.
"Is everything alright? You like it? Or is there something wrong?" The blonde stopped eating for a second as she bombarded the child with questions.
The businesswoman reached out to take her wife's hand with her own. "Let her speak, love." She squeezed her hand before turning to give her full attention to Lori. "What happened, baby?"
The girl quietly ate her ice cream for a few minutes while both adults observed her. Lena's ice cream was beginning to melt while Kara's was disappearing but for different reasons – inside the blonde's mouth –.
"Is just that… after school, some men go pick up my friends. I asked 'em and they telled me they were their daddies." Lori sad in a voice so quiet Kara had trouble hearing her on the other side of the table. But both women heard it. They exchanged glances, knowing this day would come. "Why don't I have a daddy?"
Kara opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out of her lips. She repeated the action a few times until Lena had enough and started to talk herself. "Little bug, you see… You are our daughter, our child, okay? We are your mothers, right?" She waited until Lori nodded. "However, to have children, you need a woman and a man, they will become the mommy and the daddy."
"But I have two mommies." Lori interrupted.
"That's right, little bug. You have two mommies that love you so, so much." Kara joined the conversation again. "Like mommy said, you need a woman and a man to have babies but sometimes there are women, like your mommy and I, that don't like men or men that don't like women. And when I say they don't 'like', I don't mean they have bad feelings towards the people, I mean they don't think the other person is pretty or handsome. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
The girl nodded slowly. "I think so. Phillip said he had two daddies."
"That's right, Lori. That's exactly what we mean." The green eyed woman said. "So, when two women or two men like Phillip's daddies love each other and want to have babies we can't do it the same way other mommies and daddies can."
"How do mommies and daddies have babies?" The question escaped Lori's lips quickly, making Kara choke on some ice cream she was swallowing.
"That's not important right now, little bug." The blonde said after she recovered from her near-death experience. "What's important is how couples like us get to have babies." She grabbed a napkin and cleaned the corners of her mouth. "One way to do so, it's called adoption. That's when a boy or a girl don't have any parents, so other mommies and daddies can take them in and they become the boy or girl's new family." Kara focused her blue eyes on Lori's green ones, hoping that the little girl understood what she was saying. "I'm adopted." she confessed with a hand in her chest. "I lost my parents when I was 13 years old and the Danvers adopted me, they became my new family."
"I'm adopted, momma?" The little brunette asked.
Lena wrapped an arm over Lori's shoulders and brought her closer to her. "No, little bug. You're not adopted. As momma was saying, there are a few ways for a couple like us to have babies. One is adoption like she said and the other one has to do with science."
"Science like what you do at your lab?" Lori asked as she looked up at the woman by her side.
"Not exactly. What I do at L-Corp has to do more with technology than with the science we're talking about." Lena corrected the girl. "Like we said, a mommy needs a daddy to make a baby, so if there is no daddy, we go to the doctor and they use science to help us. To make babies you need two special things, the women have one and the men have the other." The brunette used her hands to represent the two elements. "When those two things come together," she joined her hands, "a baby is created."
"But you and momma are both women so you don't have the two things, right?" Lori tried to guess.
"Exactly, little bug! You're so smart!" The reporter said as she bent over the table and ruffled Lori's hair a little, making the girl giggle.
"And how do the doctor make science?" Lori wondered still.
"Well," Lena continued, "there are men out there that want to help people like us and others who don't have that special thing, so they give it to the doctors so they can help us."
"The doctor give you the special thing, mommy?"
"Yes, baby. That's how we had you." Lena kissed the top of Lori's head.
"And that man is my daddy?" The child asked as she looked at the blonde and then at the brunette sitting at her side.
Kara stood up and sat beside Lena, who lifted Lori to be in her lap. "He's just a helper, little bug. He helped us have you but he doesn't know who we are and we don't know who he is." She grabbed her daughter's hands between her own.
"So I don't have a daddy?" Her big green eyes, identical to Lena's, looked into Kara's.
The blonde slowly shook her head. "Not in the way your friends do, honey. But you have two moms that love you so much that you don't need a daddy."
Lori sucked on her bottom lip and then released it. "How much you love me?"
Both women chuckled. "We love you to the moon and back, little bug." Lena whispered to her ear.
"That's so much!" Was Lori's response, making her moms laugh as they trapped her between their arms.
"Let's finish our ice creams before they melt completely, shall we?" Kara said as she reclaimed her spot across the brunettes.
Lena looked at her with a raised brow. "Like that would stop you from eating it anyway."
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Kara cleared her throat before starting to speak. "Lori, do you remember our talk when you asked us why you don't have a daddy?"
"Yep." The girl nodded as Lena, who shifted in her seat to the side, placed her in the spot between her legs, her back on Lena's front. "You said science helped you have me, right?"
"That's correct, little bug." Lena said as she put her arms around Lori, hugging her from behind. "We told you there are two special things to make a baby, remember?"
"Uh-huh." The girl hummed in confirmation as she nodded fervently.
"Those two things are an egg and the sperm." The businesswoman continued. "The women have the eggs but they're nothing alike the chicken eggs we eat at breakfast, baby." That made Lori laugh. "They are tiny and they are inside our bellies."
"In the womb?" The girl wondered, making Kara rolled her eyes internally and blaming her sister for introducing that word to her since Lori said it a lot more than what her moms would like.
The older brunette pursed her lips and looked up even if the girl couldn't see. "Not quite but you could say so. Anyway, this egg by itself can't make a baby, it needs the special thing from the men –"
"The perm!" Lori eagerly interrupted her.
Kara bit the inside of her cheek to prevent herself from laughing. "Sperm, baby, the sperm, with an 's' at the beginning. Now let your mommy continue to explain, okay?"
"Okie-dokie but, were is the sperm?" This time, Lori pronounced the word correctly.
Lena blushed a little and laughed at herself in her mind. "It's in the men's private area. Remember that we told you that no one is allowed to touch you in your private parts?" She waited until Lori nodded. "It's the same for boys and grown up men. The sperm in hidden there. So when two grown-ups, usually but not exclusively –," Lena almost cringed at how 'professional' that sounded, "a man and a woman love each other they show their love in a physical way."
"You mean like when momma and you kiss and hug?" Lori twisted her upper body to look at her mommy's eyes.
"Yes but there are other ways to do show love physically." Lena confirmed.
"Ways you are way too young to understand but that you will learn in school when the time comes." The blonde added swiftly.
"Hmm." Lori grunted, trying to cross her arms but unable to do so since Lena's arms were in the way.
"Anyway," Lena spoke again, "when this happens, they can unite the sperm and the egg and a baby is formed in the women's womb."
"How do the sperm get inside the womb if the womb is inside the belly?" The little girl questioned.
Why was their child so smart?
Kara tucked a brown lock of hair behind Lori's ear. "That's not important right now because it's not the same way as people like mommy and I do, okay? That's why we need the help of science and doctors."
"Exactly. We go to a special kind of doctor and they have sperm from men who want to help. The doctor uses a special syringe, introduces the sperm into the womb and then the woman may or may not get pregnant." Lena saw that Lori opened her mouth to ask so she answered the question before it was made. "A woman is pregnant when she has a baby in her womb, okay?" She explained.
"That's how I was maked inside mommy?" Lori wondered out loud.
Kara grabbed Lori and Lena's hands with each of her own. "Yes, baby. That's how you were made inside mommy's womb." The blonde softly replied, emphasizing the word Lori had said incorrectly before.
"And that's how the new baby will be made?" The girl asked, using the word the right way this time.
The blonde nodded slowly, hesitantly. "Well…" She wasn't sure if she should go into more details that may confuse Lori.
"It's similar, little bug. But this time we will use momma's egg instead of mine." Lena ended up saying.
"So momma will be peg-pr-pregnant?" The girl had a proud smile on her face when she managed to pronounce that new big word correctly and without help. "The baby will be in your belly, momma?"
"Not exactly, Lori." Kara took a moment to gather her thoughts, letting out a sigh once before speaking. "You see, science can help us get the eggs from the women's bellies and put them inside another one's womb, so that way the doctor can take my egg and put it inside mommy."
The little girl tilted her head to the side as she listened to her momma. "Science is complicated." She stated, making both women laugh.
"It is, honey but thanks to science we get to have the family we want." Lena murmured as she planted a kiss in the back of Lori's head.
The blonde squeezed their hands and two pairs of green eyes focused on her. "We are telling you this because you are a big girl, okay Lori?" The girl nodded enthusiastically at her momma saying she was big. "But some other people may not be as smart or may not understand everything we just told you so, please, don't mention any of this to anyone outside our family, okay?"
"'kay." Lori agreed.
"So you won't say any of the words we just taught you, okay? Most of them are words children your age don't know the meaning of." The CEO added behind Lori.
"'kay." The girl repeated.
"Do you have any other questions, darling?" Lena asked.
"Nope." Lori popped the 'p' funnily.
Kara clapped once to get the brunettes' attention. "Well, not that that's out of the way, how about we watch another movie?"
"Yes!" The girl jumped from her spot between her mom's legs and stood on the couch. "What movie should we watch now?" She grabbed the remote and handed it to the blonde so she could turn the TV back on.
"How about Despicable Me?" Lena suggested. "That way you will see how those three little sisters take care of each other."
"You will be like Margo, little bug!" The reporter said as she searched for the film. "Looking out for your new baby sibling like Margo does for Edith and Agnes."
Lori, who had once again occupied the place between her moms – her head on Lena's lap and her legs on Kara's – had her mouth full of popcorn she grabbed from the coffee table when she spoke again. "Dosh dat mean your Gru, momma?"
Lena didn't bother to make her laugh quiet.
Week -4
The fertility clinic was a familiar scenario for both Kara and Lena. They had spent countless hours talking to their doctor about their options and the procedures needed to have the family they wanted back when Lori was not yet a part of their lives. Coming back now to extend their family seemed surreal but, at the same time, they couldn't think of anything better. Both women walked towards the reception desk with their fingers interlaced.
"Hello, my name is Lena Luthor and I have an appointment with Dr. Montgomery." The brunette said.
The receptionist smiled at them and checked her computer to confirm the appointment. "Hi, just let me confirm really quick… Yes, here you are Mrs. Luthor. Dr. Montgomery is waiting for you." She stood from her seat and guided the couple to the doctor's office.
Offering her a quiet 'thank you', Kara opened the door and let Lena in first, who immediately greeted the redhead inside.
"Dr. Montgomery, thank you for meeting us in such short notice." The green eyed woman reached out to shake the doctor's hand.
Addison, who stood up to welcome her patients, smiled in return. "No need to thank me." She shook Kara's hand as well. "Always glad to help. And it's Addison, please, you guys know that."
"Well, Addison, thank you for giving us the spot." The blonde replied.
The doctor made a dismissal gesture with her hand after letting go of the reporter. "Don't even mention it. Take a seat, please. Let's discuss more what is it you want, okay?" The three women sat down, the redhead placing her forearms on her desk.
Instinctively, Lena put her hand on the armrest with her palm up so Kara could take it, which the blonde did without hesitation. "Well, as we briefly told you on the phone, we want to expand our family. I want to get pregnant again."
The redhead nodded. "Okay, are we thinking artificial insemination like the first time?"
"Actually," Kara spoke this time, "we were thinking about in-vitro. We want to use my egg and having Lena carry the baby again." She squeezed Lena's hand as she turned her head a little to look at her, meeting her gaze.
"That sounds wonderful. However, as I'm sure you already know thanks to some googling about it, in-vitro is very different from artificial insemination. It's a little more invasive since we had to retrieve the eggs for external fertilization. Also, with an IVF treatment you have more chances of a multiple pregnancy, conceiving twins or even triplets depending of the number of embryos we transfer into the uterus once they're fertilized." The doctor explained with a calm and professional tone.
Lena swallowed a little louder than what she would have liked it at that last statement. "Can't you just… transfer only one embryo?"
"The minimum that are usually transfer are two, to try to ensure that at least one will attach to the uterine wall and so we don't have to repeat another cycle." Addison clarified.
The brunette nodded slowly, her gaze unfocused for a moment. Kara noticed this and reached out to her wife's chin with her free hand to make her look at her eyes. "Tell me what you're thinking." She softly requested her.
The emerald eyes always got lost on the cerulean ones, but at the same time, Lena found herself in them in a never ending paradox. "I'm thinking I want to do this. I want to have your baby."
The blonde caressed Lena's chin, smiling softly. "You already had my baby… but let's have another, shall we?"
In response, the CEO leaned gently forward and placed a chaste kiss on the reporter's lips. "Let's." They held their gazes for a few moments before looking again at the doctor. "We want to do it, Addison."
Addison, who was looking at them like they were the cutest couple in the universe, smiled softly at them. "Alright." She let out an expecting sigh. "First things first, have you thought of the donor? I remember you purchased several vial of sperm for the artificial insemination."
"Yes, we want the same donor as with Lori. Back then we paid for the storage so we called the sperm bank and they told us the samples are in perfect conditions." Lena stated.
"Great. You can ask them to deliver the vials here any day now, we can store them in the lab until we need them and give back anything we don't use." The doctor requested them.
"We will." The blonde answered.
"Perfect. Now we can start by doing some blood tests on both of you, you know, to discard any infectious disease. Just for protocol." The redhead added the last part with a smile as she stood up from her seat, gesturing both women to stand up and follow her to another room.
They reached a door which the doctor opened and let them step inside first. It had a bed, a few turned off monitors, some cabinets and other medical appliances. Lena and Kara sat on the bed as Addison looked for the blood draw kit.
"Kara, since we're getting your eggs we will have to check some other things in your blood. How far along are you in your menstrual cycle?" The doctor asked as she put on some gloves.
The blonde looked up from her right arm sleeve – which she was rolling up – to respond. "My period began 3 days ago. It usually lasts 4 to 5 days and I'm pretty regular. It's like clockwork really, I have it every 28 days."
Addison walked towards the couple with a few stuff needed for the blood draw. "Should I assume your cycles have synced up?" She asked teasingly – knowing it wasn't really a thing – as she rubbed the inside of the reporter's elbow with an alcohol swab.
Lena chuckled softly. "Definitely not but I can't really remember when I'm supposed to have it."
"Next week, babe." Kara answered as Addison placed the tourniquet in her upper arm. "In 9 days to be exact." When the blonde looked up, she saw the doctor smirking with a brown raised. "It's just… she's always so busy that I have to remind her of that."
"That's sweet and not really uncommon from a spouse to know. Well, speaking of same sex couples of course. Men couldn't care less about it." The comment made the three of them laugh. "Stretch your arm and make a fist, please."
Kara did as she was told and held her breath when she saw the needle getting close to her. Lena saw this and placed her right arm loosely around the blonde's back and grabbed Kara's free hand with her left. "Relax, darling." These few words did the trick, making Kara's shoulders drop as the tension went away.
"Are you ready?" The doctor asked with a butterfly needle between her fingers. When the blonde nodded, Addison grabbed bellow Kara's elbow with her free hand and inserted the needle in a shallow angle into the vein. Red liquid started flowing through the short tube into a plastic looking port. Just before the blood reached it, the doctor placed a small vacuum tube in the port that quickly filled itself with the vital fluid, replacing it with another one and another one. At the end, the doctor had three small vials of blood. Addison gently removed the needle and placed a cotton ball in the small dot of red that started to spill out of Kara's arm, making the blonde bent it to hold the cotton in place. Finally, she removed the tourniquet. "It wasn't so bad, was it?"
"No, it wasn't… I guess I'm just nervous." Kara said, a quiet laugh following. "We both really want another baby and, I guess, it's starting to sink in, you now? We're doing this." She said the last sentence as she looked at Lena who grinned at her.
"We're doing this, darling." The brunette agreed as she leaned towards Kara and kissed her shoulder.
"A little bit of nervousness is good but, even if it's a little bit different this time, you guys have done this before. You are great mothers and any child would be lucky to have you." The redhead remarked as she labeled the blood vials and shortly after started to prepare the material for Lena's blood draw. "Are you ready, Lena?"
The CEO nodded as she let go of her wife, extending her arm towards the doctor who repeated the same process she did on Kara, only this time she only needed two vials instead of three. After placing a cotton ball on Lena's arm and label her blood as well, the doctor took off her gloves and pulled a small round stool and sat in front of them.
"As I told you before, these blood tests are for two things: the routine infectious disease screening and to determine Kara's ovarian reserve." Addison explained. "I will see the levels of concentration of Follicle Stimulation Hormone, also known as FSH, the estradiol or estrogen and the anti-mullerian hormone in your blood," she moved her hand to gesture the blonde, "to help predict how your ovaries will respond to the fertility medication. This is usually paired with a transvaginal ultrasound so I can see your ovaries and how many follicles you have."
"Are we doing this ultrasound right now?" The blonde asked as she removed the slightly blood-stained cotton ball from the crook of her arm.
"We could do it but if you prefer to wait until your period is done, we can wait." Addison said before turning her face to look at the brunette. "However, I would like to perform a uterine exam on you Lena since, as Kara said, you will not have your period for another week or so." She added.
"What does this procedure consist of?" Lena asked.
"There are two ways to perform it. The first one is called sonohysterography; during this procedure fluid is injected through the cervix into your uterus and we use an ultrasound to create images of your uterine cavity. The other one is called hysteroscopy, in which a hysteroscope – that's is a thin, flexible telescope with a small light attached to it – is inserted through your vagina and cervix into your uterus. This is so I can examine the lining of your uterus and see if everything is fine. Neither of these procedures is necessarily painful but a little discomfort or cramping is not uncommon." The doctor let them know.
Lena nodded slowly in understanding. "Is there anything concerning that might show up?"
"Not really. The uterine exam is a routine test for an IVF cycle since most people choose to this option because they have problems conceiving naturally. You guys are not the case and Lena didn't have any problem getting pregnant with the artificial insemination but, given your age, it's always good to have all the cards on the table so we know how to move forward. And no, I did not call you old just now." The redhead added that last part with a teasing tone and a smirk, making the couple laugh softly.
"Of course not." The CEO replied with an eyebrow raised. "Well then, let's do it."
After talking to the doctor about the difference of each procedure, they finally opted for the hysteroscopy. Kara sat by Lena's side during the whole thing, holding her hand and playing with the brown tresses to distract her from the minor discomforts. Once it was over and Lena had gotten dressed again, the redhead explained what she saw, reassuring them that everything seemed fine but that Lena may want to stay at home that day to rest. They schedule their next appointment for a week later for Kara's ultrasound and so she could start taking certain meds to help her ovaries produce multiple eggs and for they to mature for the retrieval. The couple said their goodbyes, thanking Addison once again for her services.
A few moments later, Lena and Kara were walking hand in hand towards their car in the parking lot of the clinic. They reached the dark blue vehicle and stood in silence next to the passenger door for a second. Looking into each other's eyes, both of them were just smiling until Kara finally spoke.
"We're gonna have a baby." She muttered.
"We are." Lena whispered back. "We're gonna have baby!" She practically squeaked, jumping up and down, flung her arms around the blonde's neck.
Kara secured her grip on her wife's waist and then tilted her back a little, lifting her slightly off the ground. "We're gonna have a baby!" She repeated as she spun Lena around.
Week -1
Kara was nervous. And hungry. Since the doctor said she shouldn't eat anything at least 12 hours before the procedure, she hadn't had breakfast that morning and Lena, being the good wife she was, hadn't eaten either, claiming 'If you can't eat, neither can I, darling,' when Kara asked her why. Truth to be told, the CEO didn't eat because she was nervous as well but she would play the 'empathetic wife' card for this situation. She was trying not to show it so the blonde would not worry but, apparently, it wasn't working so both of them were nervous. The couple was sitting in the waiting room 15 minutes before the actual appointment, waiting for Dr. Montgomery to show up. Kara's knee was jerking up and down as they waited, which was starting to bother Lena a bit even if she didn't voice it. After about 10 minutes, the doctor opened the door of the room they were in dressed in pink scrubs instead of her usual 'street clothes', making both women stand up to greet her.
"Good morning ladies." The redhead said as she closed the door behind her.
"Good morning Addison." Lena said, rubbing her slightly sweaty hands on her jeans.
The blonde smiled timidly before speaking. "Hello Addie." She said while giving a small wave with her hand.
"Kara, are you ready?" The doctor asked.
The reporter nodded slowly, her lips pressed on a tight line. "Yep, I'm as ready as I'll ever be." She answered with false confidence.
Addison – and Lena, of course – noticed that the blonde was still a little scared. "How about we go over the procedure again so you can be a little less nervous, okay?"
"That would be great." Lena replied as she took Kara's hand in her own. "Right, darling?" The blonde only nodded again.
"Okay, let's go to your room so you can change and I'll explain everything again." The redhead told them. The couple followed her to the private patient room where a hospital gown was waiting for Kara on the bed. "You can start changing as I explain, Kara."
"Sure." The blonde smiled and grabbed the gown, closing the privacy curtain around the bed so she could strip from her clothes.
"The egg retrieval is a lot like the transvaginal ultrasound we did a couple of weeks back and the one from two days ago to confirm that the medication I gave you did its job. I'll introduce the ultrasound probe into your vagina to identify the follicles and then I will gently guide a needle attached to a catheter through the vaginal wall. One by one, the eggs will be drawn out using light suction. They'll be collected in test tubes labeled with your name, which will then be handed off to our embryologist, Dr. Jake Reilly." Kara opened the curtain and sat on the bed as Addison kept describing the process, Lena joining her in the bed immediately. "After that, I'll remove the needle and do an examination of the vaginal wall and your ovaries to make sure everything is alright. You will be asleep the whole time, we'll give you a sedative through an IV so you won't feel any pain at all. The entire process takes about 20 minutes. Quick and easy." She snapped her fingers.
"How many eggs will be collected?" Lena asked as she tied up the top of Kara's gown correctly.
"Well, I can't give you an exact number but on the ultrasound I saw 8 follicles per ovary. This doesn't mean 16 eggs will be retrieved because some might not have matured or may not be viable for other reasons but anything between 5 to 10 eggs is very possible." The doctor explained.
"That sounds promising, right babe?" Kara asked the brunette, hooking her arm on hers.
Lena kissed her wife's cheek. "It does."
"If you don't have any more questions, I'd say it's time to begin." Addison said with a smile. "Kara, you get in the bed and I'll call someone to get you to the OR, okay?"
"Okay." The blue eyed woman repeated. The doctor winked at them, turned around and exited the room, leaving the couple alone.
Lena hopped down from the bed and patted the middle of it, gesturing Kara to move over there. "Come on, get comfortable."
The blonde did as she was told, moving her legs under the covers but without laying down. "I wish you could be there with me."
The CEO sat on the edge of the bed again, cupped her wife's face between her hands and pulled her for a kiss. "I wish I could be there too, babe." Her hands moved from the blonde's cheeks to the frame of her glasses, removing them. "But I'll be here, waiting for you." She gave Kara another peck on the lips. "I'll always wait for you."
"I know… That's just one of the many reasons why I love you." The blonde's smile was so big that it made the corner of her eyes crinkle, but she probably was just squinting to see the brunette better without her lenses.
Lena tucked a blonde lock of hair behind Kara's ear before pulling away from the bed. "Tie up your hair so I can put this on you." She pointed at the hair cap patients use for surgery that was on the bedside table. Setting the glasses down, the brunette grabbed the cap, waited for Kara to tie her hair in a low and a little messy bun and finally covered the blonde tresses. "You look gorgeous, you should wear this all the time."
Kara laughed at Lena's teasing. "I bet I look hot, right?"
"So hot." Lena played along.
"Hot enough for you to want to take my clothes off?" A smirk appeared on Kara's face.
Lena pulled Kara for another kiss in response, biting her lower lip as she pulled away a few moments later. "I always want to take your clothes off but I don't think we have time right now."
As those words left Lena's lips, Addison came back to the room with two stretcher-bearers to take Kara to the OR. "It's time, ladies."
"I love you." Lena gave Kara one last kiss before stepping aside to let the men take her wife.
"I love you too." Kara pressed her lips on the tip of her fingers and blew the kiss in the businesswoman's direction. She saw her 'grabbing' the kiss in the air as she disappeared out of the door.
The doctor, who stayed behind, put a hand on Lena's shoulder. "She'll be back sooner than you think. You can wait here or in the waiting room, it's up to you."
"I'll stay here, I have some e-mails to read since I won't be going to work… Thank you Addison."
The redhead smiled. "You have nothing to thank me for." She gave Lena a light squeeze on the shoulder before letting go and finally following Kara.
Lena let out a loud sigh as soon as she was left alone. She looked around the room, how empty it looked without the hospital bed. Walking towards the small sofa on the corner of the room, she pulled out her cellphone to text Alex.
08:54 am. *They just took Kara up to the OR. How's Lori?*
Since the little brunette was still in her summer vacations, Lena and Kara decided to take her to her aunties' house to spend the morning while they were in the clinic. Lori was a little grumpy because she was up early – they woke up at 7 am. –, but quickly fell back asleep as soon as Lena placed her in Alex's arms.
08:55 am. *she's still asleep but I'm starting breakfast*
08:58 am. *never mind, she's awake now*
08:58 am. [photo attached]
The picture showed Lori balanced in Sam's hip with her arms around the woman's neck. She was still in her pajamas, just as they had dropped her off, and Pikachu was trapped between her body and her aunt's. Lena immediately dialed Alex's number, not even waiting for one tone before she picked it up.
"Hey Alex, can you put Lori on the phone?"
"It's me, mommy!" The childish voice of her daughter said.
Lena beamed as she heard Lori's voice. "Hello sweetie, I just wanted to know how you're doing with your aunties."
"Auntie Alex is makin' breakfast and auntie Sam is drinkin' coffee." The little girl explained.
"I want you to do everything they tell you to, okay? Like the good girl you are, little bug."
"Yes mommy." The sound of Lori sipping something – probably milk or juice – from her plastic cup was heard through the phone. "When will you come get me?"
Lena looked at her wrist watch and started doing the math in her head, which only took her seconds. "I'll be there around noon, honey. Maybe a little later, depends on how momma is feeling at the time but we packed a lot of your toys so you don't get bored with your aunties."
"Momma is with the doctor right now?" Lori's tone was more curious than anything which made Lena smile.
"Yes, Lori. The doctors are getting the eggs to make a baby and they're taking really good care of her, I promise."
"And then they will put the baby in your womb?" Lena heard Alex and Sam laugh at the word.
"Not yet, darling. I'll answer all your doubts when I go get you, okay? Now I want you to eat all your breakfast so you can get in the pool later in the day."
"Yeih! I love the pool!" The little brunette's excitement was such that she dropped the phone on the table and started eating from the plate Alex had just placed in front of her.
The redhead picked the phone up. "I'll make sure she waits 30 minutes before getting in the pool." As she emphasized how much time Lori had to wait a whine was heard in the background.
"Thank you for looking out for her, Alex." Lena said sincerely.
"No problem, you know I love the kid. Good luck over there, Lena. I can't wait for one more mini you running around." Alex playfully said.
"More like mini Kara this time. I can't wait either…" Lena let out a happy sigh. "See you guys later."
"Bye." Before Alex could hang up, a 'bye mommy!' reached the CEO's hears, making her smile.
Lena stayed sitting in the couch lost in thought for a few minutes before she snapped herself out of her daydream and pulled her laptop out of her bag. She opened it and quickly started reading e-mails. Something about the R&D department having troubles with the rechargeable battery of their upcoming electric car, a memo saying the seminar on cyber security happening in two weeks was at full capacity now, some meeting with Oliver Queen from Queen Consolidate to close a deal being pushed back because Mr. Queen had to travel, and some more. She didn't really much paid attention to any of the e-mails since her eyes were constantly drifting to the little clock on the right lower corner of the screen, counting down the minutes until Kara was back. At the end, she only answered one – an e-mail from Lex saying how much of a good time he was having in some lost island of the Caribbean – wishing her brother good luck on the rest of his sabbatical which was already at half. After what felt like an eternity, the door opened again and a man dressed in blue scrubs pulled in the bed where the blonde laid still asleep as another was pushing from the other end. Addison entered the room at last, closing the door behind her.
Lena was on her feet and approaching the sleeping form of her wife immediately. "How did it go?"
The doctor thanked her staff as they exited the room and then turned to the brunette. "It went smoothly. Dr. Reilly is examining the state of the eggs we retrieved right now, we will give you the exact number before you leave today."
The corners of Lena's mouth turned up as she grabbed one of Kara's hands between hers. "When will she wake up?"
"In about half an hour but she has to stay for an hour after she wakes up so the anesthesia wears off completely and to make sure everything is alright before you guys can leave." Addison remarked.
"Thank you." The businesswoman nodded and turned to see Kara.
Lena climbed into the bed as soon as the doctor left the room, trying to not disturb Kara. She laid on her right side, using her hand as a pillow, and stared at her wife's profile as she usually did upon waking up. She loved looking at Kara, who could not love doing so? She was so beautiful even as she aged. Her forehead was partially covered by the cap she had on but Lena could still see that, even relaxed, presented a few faint lines just like in the corner of her eyes. The small scar over her left eyebrow never quite faded but it didn't make her ugly, Lena always teased Kara saying that God had to give her that small imperfection or else every women would be jealous of her angelical beauty. Her eyelashes were long and thick, meaning the blonde never needed to use fake ones like some people do. Her nose had the perfect curvature, her cheekbones defined and her jaw strong even if it wasn't as sharp as Lena's. Without noticing, the brunette's left hand had started to trace mindless patterns on Kara's belly over the sheets. She kept staring without saying a word for who knows how long until she decided the quiet state of the room was killing her, being used to Kara filling the silence with her adorable rambles, so she started singing. She wasn't the best singer by far but she knew Kara loved it when she sang.
"No New Year's Day to celebrate, no chocolate covered candy hearts to give away…" Lena smiled at the thought of Kara eating Valentine's Day chocolate, it was her favorite because – according to the blonde – chocolate tasted better in Valentine's. "… No first of spring, no song to sing, in fact here's just another ordinary day." She whispered in Kara's ear. "No April rain, no wedding Saturday within the month of June… but what it is," the brunette winced internally at the way her voice broke a little as she attempted to sing the high note, "is something true, made up of these three words that I must say to you." She pusher herself a little up the bed, placing a feather-like kiss on her wife's temple. "I just want to say I love you, I just want to say how much I care, I just want to say I love you, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart." Lena rested her forehead on Kara's cheek, deciding it was better to let her wife rest instead of waking her up with her – in the brunette's opinion – hideous wails.
"You missed a line."
The groggy voice of the blonde made Lena prop herself on her elbow to look at her face. "You're awake." She lowered her body and pressed her lips against Kara's as soon as she saw the blue pools the reporter called eyes look back at her.
"I am." Kara breathed out in a soft whisper, so low that Lena wouldn't have been able to hear her if she wasn't so close, their lips still barely touching. "And you missed a line." She repeated.
Lena pulled back slightly, still hovering over the blonde but now able to look at her face. She examined it for a few seconds, noticing how Kara's eyelids were only half opened and a smile that resembled the one when she was tipsy was present on the lips she just kissed. "What?"
"I know I must still be a little high on the sedative but I know I heard you singing." A tiny smirk appeared on the blonde's face when Lena's cheeks turned a little pink. "After 'no April rain' follows 'no flowers bloom' and you missed it." She explained, singing both fragments of the song as she grabbed the cap still on her head and pulled it off, freeing the blonde tresses.
The businesswoman rolled her eyes playfully. "What? Will Stevie Wonder be mad at me? Is he going to sue me for butchering his lyrics?"
This only made Kara laugh and, consequently, Lena smile. "No, actually he should ask you to record a cover of his song. I'm sure it would be a hit."
Lena swatted Kara on the shoulder – gently, of course – with the hand not holding herself up. "Stop making fun of me, I know I have a terrible voice and now I will never sing to you, ever again."
The blonde gasped with faux indignation. "I was not making fun of you! I love your voice when you sing… also when you moan but that's not the point." She giggled at her last comment, showing that she was – indeed – still a little loose because of the sedatives.
"Please, stop talking." The brunette mumbled through the palm covering her embarrassment.
"Make me." Kara challenged her wife as she wiggled her eyebrows up and down.
Never backing away from a challenge, Lena did what anyone would have done in her situation and pressed her lips against Kara's again. The kiss was languid, soft, with a little more tongue than what Lena usually allowed anywhere that wasn't their home but they didn't care. They stayed that way for a few minutes never separating, not even for air, breathing through the kiss, giggling at the tingly feeling of each other's exhalations. When Lena finally pulled away she gave Kara a kiss on the nose and then shifted a little on the bed until her head was resting on the blonde's chest, hearing her strong heartbeat under her. Kara had also moved her arm so she could hold Lena and now was running the tip of her fingers up and down the brunette's arm.
The brunette rested her arm under Kara's breasts. "How are you feeling, darling?"
The reporter took a few seconds to answer, her voice still a little raspy but not as much as when she first woke up. "Heavy… like gravity is working harder on me…. And you?"
"Me? I'm not the one who just got poked with probes and needles." Lena snorted.
Kara pinched the CEO's arm playfully. "You know what I mean…"
The brunette let out a sigh. "I'm… excited."
That made the reporter laugh. "Yeah, I can tell by the tone of your voice."
"I am thinking about a lot of things… But that doesn't mean I'm not excited." Lena reassured her.
"Things like what? You can tell me anything, you know."
Lena said nothing for a few moments, enjoying the constant motion underneath her head of her wife's chest as she breathed in and out. "Things like… moving to a bigger house since the penthouse will be now too small for four people…"
"True… we need to get a place with a pool, Lori likes Alex and Sam's pool way too much." The blonde commented.
Lena winced at the mention of the pool. "A pool and a baby don't go together, darling."
Kara clicked her tongue. "You're right… but it's not like we're going to leave them alone…" She insisted.
"We'll discuss that later, deal?"
"Deal." The blonde mumbled as she tilted her face to leave a kiss at the top of Lena's head. "What else were you thinking about?"
"I was also thinking of how we're going to paint the nursery."
"Isn't it a little early?" The reporter teased. "You're not even pregnant yet."
The green eyed woman let out a soft chuckled. "It's never too early to start planning and we could think of a gender-neutral theme so it won't matter the sex of the baby."
"Okay… we did dinosaurs for Lori's because I love them so, what about you pick the theme this time?" The blonde offered.
"Hmm… what about constellations?" Lena proposed.
"Outer space and galaxies are kinda my thing too." The blonde remarked.
"You can't claim as yours every single thing you like, you know? I liked constellations before I met you, so don't think so high of yourself." Lena said, rolling her eyes even if her wife couldn't see her thanks to the angle.
"Of course I can claim things I like as mine, aren't you wearing a ring I gave – ouch!" The blonde couldn't finish her sentence as she complained of the slap on her thigh, courtesy of Lena. "I'm joking, babe!"
"And I was just killing a mosquito that was on your leg, darling." Lena replied as she moved her arm back to its previous position.
Kara shook her head and suppressed a laugh. "Anyway… remember that date we had in the planetarium? Who planned it? Oh, that's right, me!"
"And who got pictures of the constellations above National City of the day we first met and had it framed for our anniversary? Oh, that's right, me!" Lena countered, repeating Kara's last phrase.
The blue eyed woman nodded slowly at that. "Okay, we both like the stars, okay?" She finally admitted. "That's a nice theme for the nursery… and we could do that too, right? The picture of the constellations of the day the baby is born."
"It would be a nice touch, yeah." The CEO agreed. "But we'd have to add it later."
Kara pictured that image in her head, beaming at the thought. "I love it already, Lena."
Before the brunette could say anything else, the door of the room was opened by the doctor.
"Hello there, how are we doing?" The redhead asked, already in her street clothes and out of her pink scrubs.
The CEO shifted her position, sitting up and swinging her legs to the edge of the bed but not leaving Kara's side. "Addison, hello again."
"What's up, Doc?" Kara nodded her head once as she imitated Bugs Bunny's voice.
"How are you feeling, Kara? Any discomfort?" The doctor asked.
The blonde tried to push herself up in the bed, grimacing when she couldn't. "I just feel a little… pressure."
Lena climbed down the bed and looked for its controller, making the top side of the bed elevate so Kara wouldn't be completely laying down. "She also told me she feels heavy." Grabbing Kara's glasses, she placed them on her hand to let the blonde slip them back on her face.
Addison nodded and started to explain. "The heavy feeling is because of the anesthesia, it should go away in a few moments. The pressure, on the other hand, is because of the procedure and it's perfectly normal. It's possible you experience some pelvic heaviness, soreness, or cramping as well as light bleeding but it shouldn't be more than a regular menstrual period."
"Okay." Kara replied as Lena moved an arm behind the blonde's shoulders to help her sit up. "Thanks babe." She whispered to her wife. The brunette only kissed her temple in response.
"Do you have the number of eggs already?" The CEO wanted to know.
"Yes, we do. We were able to retrieve 7 fully matured eggs from Kara." Addison confirmed with a smile.
The blonde squeaked in happiness as Lena tightened her one-armed embrace and pressed her lips against her temple again.
"The fertilization will likely happen overnight and we should have some embryos ready for implantation by next week." The doctor continued. "Do you have any other doubts?"
"Will you tell us how the embryos are progressing?" The brunette questioned.
"Yes, I'll give you updates every couple of days of the evolution of the embryos." The redhead affirmed.
"I have a question too," the reporter raised her hand like she was a child, blushing when Lena gave her a funny look with an arched brow. "… uh, what happens with the embryos we don't use? Like, what if Lena gets pregnant at the first try."
"There are plenty options on what to do with them. You can keep them in case you want another baby in the future, you could donate them for other people to use or you can discard them."
"Okay…" Lena trailed off. "I don't think we want to have more babies, do we?" She turned to face Kara.
"We're not getting younger so… I'd say no…" The blue eyed woman replied, looking at Lena's eyes.
"So, do we donate them?" The brunette's brows knitted.
"It would be weird, wouldn't it? Someone else having our babies?" Kara questioned back as she fiddled with her glasses.
"You have a point there… but we could also help people." Lena reasoned.
"You can discuss all those points later, we still don't know if we're going to use all the embryos or not, ladies." Addison interrupted the pair knowing that kind of debates could last long.
Both women returned their attention to the doctor. "You're right, Addison." Lena said.
"Yes, it's true…" Kara agreed. "I have one last question though… when can I leave?" As if on cue, the reporter's stomach rumbled so loud everyone heard it. Kara lowered her gaze, playing with her wedding band, as she felt the heat in her cheeks grow. "I'm starving."
The doctor made an incredible job containing her laugh even if the CEO didn't. "As I told Lena when we brought you back, I'd like to keep an eye on you for an hour or so to make sure you're fine before I discharge you but I have no problem with letting you eat right now, I don't know if you guys brought anything or if you'd like to buy some take out."
"Take out sounds nice, maybe pizza?" The blonde suggested, already tasting the pizza in her mouth.
"Pizza it is." Lena answered before turning to look at Addison again. "Do they deliver here?"
"Yes, they do. You just have to let Karen, our receptionist, know." The doctor mentioned. "Now, I will leave you alone for a while. Kara, try to star walking when you feel ready, there's also a bathroom attached to your room in case you want to freshen up." She pointed at the door inside the room before exiting through the other one.
The couple discussed about what type of pizza should they order – mushrooms, pepperoni and bacon they decided – and Lena stepped outside to let the receptionist know meanwhile Kara fixed her hair a little, her previously messy bun was extra messy thanks to the cap. They kept talking until their pizza arrived, then the room was filled with the noise of Kara basically swallowing down her food almost without chewing because of how hungry she was and Lena's snorts and laughs at Kara's facial expressions. The blonde ended up eating 5 slices while the green eyed woman couldn't finish her third, offering it to her wife who happily accepted it. After eating, Kara finally stood up from the bed and went to the restroom to put on her clothes and wash her hands, all while moving very slowly. Addison entered the room once more, quickly examining Kara's vitals and asking her how she was feeling. When the redhead considered everything was fine, she let them go advising her patient to rest for what was left of the day – and maybe the next –, treat any discomfort with a heating pad, avoid drinking alcohol, caffeine, lifting heavy things including their daughter, and to take showers instead of baths for the next few days. The couple thanked the doctor once more and left the clinic. It was around 11:30 in the morning when both were finally inside the car, Lena in the driving seat.
"Let's go home." The brunette said as the engine came to life.
"No, let's get Lori first." Kara replied as she fastened her seatbelt.
"Are you sure? You should rest, darling." Lena voiced her concern.
The blonde nodded but insisted. "Yes babe, let's go for Lori and later we can all cuddle in our bed and watch movies for the rest of the day… but I'm picking the movie."
Lena quirked a brow. "I'm pretty sure it was my turn…"
"Yeah but I was just pocked with a big ass needle in a place no one likes one so I deserve it." The reporter reasoned with a smug smile.
Lena started to drive. "Okay but I get to choose what we eat for dinner."
"Not fair!"
Week 0
Five days had passed since the egg retrieval and Kara and Lena were back on the clinic, this time for the embryo transfer. Unlike the egg retrieval, however, it wasn't necessary for Lena to be under anesthesia in the OR for it so Kara could be in the room, holding her hand during the whole process. The couple was once again in the lounge, waiting for Lena to be admitted and shown to her room. It wasn't early in the morning like the last time they were there, it was a little before 2 pm and both women were sitting next to each other in the very nice couch of the waiting room, Lena's knees bouncing up and down next to Kara's, not because she was nervous – okay, she was but it wasn't the reason her knees couldn't stay still – but because she was asked to come with a full bladder, something about how it helped change the angle of the uterus to make the transfer easier. The blonde next to her had a permanent grin on her face and was practically exuding happiness out of her pores. She kept whispering things that made Lena blush to her ear from time to time to then leave a kiss on the brunette's neck and go back to her previous position on the couch with one hand behind her wife's back and the other on her thigh. Not long after, they were taken to the transfer room and the nurse asked Lena to undress from the waist down and lay down on the exam table like she would do for a regular visit to the gynecologist meaning Lena was half laid down with her legs dangling a few centimeters away from the floor since she wasn't told to put her legs on the stirrups just yet. Kara sat down on a chair next to Lena, after making sure she was covered by the bed sheets, holding one of her hands between hers.
"I can't believe this is happening." The blonde whispered, bringing Lena's hand to her lips and kissing her knuckles.
The CEO freed her hand from between Kara's and cupped her chin, her thumb on one side and the rest of her fingers in the other, and squeezed gently making the blonde pout. "It's happening Mrs. Danvers. You better be ready."
The reporter tried to smile even as Lena's hold on her cheeks made it difficult but finally she won. "I am, I'm so ready, I can't wait." She grabbed the brunette's hand again and this time she pressed her lips on the inside of her wrist.
Lena's green eyes were glossy with unshed tears, happy tears, as a soft smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. "Me neither."
"Good afternoon, ladies." Addison greeted them as she entered the room. "How are we feeling?" She placed a hand on the reporter's shoulder and the other over Lena's.
"Nervous." "Excited." They said at the same time.
"That is exactly how you're supposed to be feeling and don't be ashamed to admit if you're a little scared as well." The doctor assured them. "I want you to meet a few people that will be helping us today." The door opened and two people stepped inside, a handsome man with tan skin and a petite blonde woman. "This is Doctor Jake Reilly, our embryologist and my husband."
The man stepped closer and held out her hand for Kara to shake. "It's a pleasure to meet you." He waited for Addison to step back a little so he could shake Lena's hand as well.
"This is our ultrasonographer, Miss Heather Brooks." The redhead continued.
"Hello." The short haired blonde waved her hand at the couple.
"And you've met Nurse Jackie on your way in and during Kara's egg retrieval." The nurse gave everyone in the room a warm smile. "They will be assisting me during the transfer. Do you have any last questions before we begin?" The OB asked as the nurse who showed them the room helped her put on a sterile gown over her pink scrubs.
"No, I don't think so. Kara?" Lena tilted her face towards her wife.
Ocean blue eyes met emerald ones, finding no doubt in them. "None."
The sound the latex gloves made as the doctor put them on broke the spell the couple was trapped in. "Perfect then. Jackie, put the music please." Soft piano music started to play in the room. "Now, Lena, you know how this goes. Legs up, honey." Addison casually mentioned, trying to make the couple relax.
The green eyed woman did as she was told, placing her feet on the footrests with Kara making sure the sheet over her legs didn't move. The nurse then put on one of those blue medical sheets over the first one and arranged them to not cover Lena's belly.
Addison sat down on a round stool between her patient's legs and the sonographer walked over the machine at Lena's side and turned it on. "Could you lift your shirt, please?" The blonde technician asked as she put on her gloves.
"Sure." The brunette grabbed the hem of the garment and pulled it up, bunching it bellow her breasts.
The blonde grabbed a bottle of blue gel. "This is going to feel a little cold." She warned before pouring a small amount of the substance on Lena's abdomen.
Even with the warning, Lena flinched a little when the gel hit her skin. "I had forgotten how that feels like." She commented.
Kara wrapped her arm around her wife's shoulders and rested her temple at the top of her head. "Well, you better get used to it again, Mrs. Luthor." She teases the same way Lena previously did.
Everything that happened after that was fast. Addison inserting a catheter inside Lena's womb, dr. Reilly bringing the embryos – showing the couple a video of the embryos being loaded into the catheter, of course –, the transfer followed by a flash on the ultrasound screen – which was, according to the doctor, not the embryos since they are too small to see on the screen but is a mix of a small air bubble and media that helps push the embryo through the catheter and place it safely in the uterus – and finally the confirmation from the embryologist that the embryos were no longer in the catheter, meaning the transfer was successful. The redhead fixed the exam table so the lower part lifted and Lena could get her legs free from the footrests and rest but without having to be in a half-sit position. After getting the brunette cleaned from the gel in her belly, the whole transfer team gave the two women a few minutes alone.
The CEO was in the verge of tears and let out a shaky sigh once everyone but Kara was out of the room. "So… I might get pregnant tonight." Her voice was barely a whisper.
The blonde's lower lip was quivering and her eyes were glistening with unshed tears of happiness as well. "Do you have a hot date planned?"
Both women laugh at the dumb joke.
"I love you, you dork." Lena cupped the reporter's face, stroking her thumb over her cheekbone.
Kara's grin was so wide that made the tears in her eyes finally roll down her face. "I love you too."
"Can I ask you something?" Lena inquired after a few moments of gazing into her wife's blue eyes.
"Anything, I'll tell you and give you anything you ask for."
"Can you give me my clothes? I really need to go to the bathroom."
Kara burst into laughter at that as she turned around to retrieve Lena's jeans and underwear. "Here you go. Need help getting dressed?"
The brunette sat up and swung her legs to the side of the table, arching a brow. "You've never been of help when it comes to me getting dressed…"
"I'll admit I'm far better at undressing you." The blonde winked slyly at Lena watching her as she pulled her clothes up her legs.
Lena didn't get a chance to say anything back as a knock on the door caught their attention. "Lena, Kara, can I come in?" Addison asked from the other side.
The brunette finished fastening her jeans. "Yes, you can Addison."
The redhead stepped inside. "I just wanted to give you some instructions before I let you go for the day, okay?" Both women nodded. "First of all, and I know this is hard to ask of you Miss Luthor," she teased, "I want you to relax tonight, tomorrow and preferably the next two weeks." Kara snorted at that. "You have to watch her Kara, it's your duty from now on, okay?"
"Yes, ma'am." The blonde took to fingers to her brow in salutation.
"At least for tonight, I don't want you to work. Not going to the office, no calling, no reading your e-mails, nothing." The doctor talked to Lena, who only rolled her eyes playfully. "Take it easy tomorrow too. No heavy lifting, which includes your daughter. During the next few days you may experience some cramping, bloating, and vaginal discharge but there's nothing to worry about. It's a two week waiting period before we do a blood test to confirm the result of today's transfer but I urge you not to use a store bought pregnancy test because it's likely it will give you a negative result since they can't detect the small levels of hCG in the urine and it will just make you upset. It's possible you may experience breast tenderness or mood swings, but even if you don't it doesn't mean you're not pregnant."
"What about sex?" Kara asked rather abruptly, making Lena blush a little as she slapped her bicep.
The doctor only gave them a small smile. "No penetrative sex until the blood test so toys and fingers are banned for two weeks, but I'm sure you can figure something out."
"Thank you." The blonde said.
"In the case that the pregnancy test turns out to be negative, I don't want you to feel bad or like you did anything wrong. Sometimes it happens but we just have to try again, alright? So you have to prepare emotionally for whatever outcome."
"Okay." The couple said at the same time.
"Any other question?"
Kara turned to see Lena's face, trying to find the answer in there, and back to the doctor. "No, I thing we don–"
"Well, I have one actually." The CEO interrupted. "Where's the bathroom here? Is that door?" She pointed at a door inside the room.
Addison chuckled and nodded. "That's the one. Empty that bladder of yours while I bring the discharge papers." She watched Lena practically run inside the bathroom before she turned around and exited the room again, leaving the door slightly open.
They were home not long after that, since neither Alex nor Sam could look out for Lori this time they had called a sitter – a girl that used to go to high school with Ruby – so they went straight to the penthouse where their daughter was waiting for them.
"Mommy, momma, you're back!" The little girl ran towards her mothers when she heard the front door of the penthouse being open.
"Hello little bug!" The blonde kneeled to let the child wrap her arms around her neck, lifting her from the ground right after.
"Hi, baby girl." Lena said as she hugged her from behind, sandwiching the child between Kara and her.
"Mrs. Luthor, Mrs. Danvers, good afternoon." The young woman greeted her bosses when she appeared from the kitchen.
Lena separated herself from the embrace to address the sitter. "Hannah, hello there. Everything alright with Lori?"
"Yes, she was an angel as usual. She already had lunch, I made some chicken fajitas. There are some leftovers if you want." She pointed at the kitchen with her thumb over her shoulder.
"Oh, fajitas!" The reporter said excitedly, walking towards the kitchen with Lori in her arms.
"Thank you Hannah. That would be all for today." Lena pulled some bills out of her purse and gave them to the woman. "We'll probably need you in a couple weeks."
Putting the money away without even counting it, Hannah spoke again. "No problem. I'll keep an eye out for your call. Have a nice day!" She walked to the door, followed by the brunette.
"You as well. See you later." The CEO closed the door. Turning around, she walked to the kitchen where she found Kara with an almost empty plate of fajitas and Lori drinking some juice. "I'll go to our room to lay down."
The reporter swallowed what she was chewing. "I'll be right there, babe."
Watching Lena leave the room, the kid looked at her mom. "Mommy never goes to bed at this time." And it was true, Lena never went to rest during the day.
Kara finished the remaining food in her plate and walked to the sink to wash it. "We told you today was the day the doctor put the baby inside mommy, right?"
"Yes!" The girl finished her juice.
"Well, when the doctor puts the baby in the womb, it can be a little uncomfortable so mommy has to go to bed early today." The blonde explained.
"Can we make her feel better with cuddles?" The little brunette asked.
Drying her plate and Lori's now clean plastic cup, Kara tilted her face until she met Lori's eyes. "We can but I have to ask mommy is she wants that or if she prefers to sleep, okay? Why don't you go play in your room and I will let you know."
"'kay." Lori agreed, hugged her momma's leg and ran to her room.
The blonde finished in the kitchen and went to her room, leaning on the door frame as she watched Lena's form beneath the sheets at the center of the bed. "How are you feeling?"
Lena sat up, resting her back on the headboard. "It hurts a little, the cramps, but nothing worse from normal period ones."
The blue eyed woman stepped inside and closed the door behind her. "The doctor said that might happen. What can I do for you? What do you need?" She climbed into bed, crawling over the brunette's body until she was face to face, her knees at each side of her wife's hips. "Snuggles, a heating pad, an orgasm? Maybe the orgasm can help the process of getting you pregnant." She smirked as she dipped down to lay a kiss on the freckle on the CEO's neck.
Lena snorted at the last statement, closing her eyes to enjoy Kara's ministrations. "Oh, please. If women needed orgasms to get pregnant, there would be less than one third of the world's population right now." She tangled her fingers on the blonde locks.
Kara pulled away from Lena's neck to look at her in the eyes. "True... You're absolutely right." She replied, dead serious, until she couldn't hold her smile any longer.
It was the brunette's turn to smirk. "As usual... But snuggles and a heating pad sounds amazing."
The reporter nodded and gave her wife a peck on the lips. "I'll be right back with the heating pads." Carefully climbing down the bed, she went to get the heating pad for the brunette. She appeared on the door again after a few minutes. "I brought two, one for your abdomen and one for your back." She lifted the electric pads to show them to Lena.
The brunette separated her back from the headboard so Kara could place the heating pad meant for her back on the bed. "I love how you always know what I need." She received another kiss from her wife as the both of them got comfortable beneath the comforter.
Suddenly, the door knob turned and a small head full of brown locks peaked inside. "Is mommy okay?" Lori said in a not-so-low whisper.
The blonde wanted to slap herself in the forehead for forgetting getting Lori with them. "Yeah, little bug. She just needs some snuggle time, are you in?" She patted the empty side of the bed.
The little girl reacted immediately, entering the room with Pikachu between her arms and climbing into the bed. At the end, Lori's head was resting on Lena's chest and Lena's back was leaned into Kara's body. Once she was comfortable in her mommy's arms, Lori squeezed her plush between her body and her mom. "Pikachu will make you feel better."
And, true to Lori's word, it did make Lena feel better. Or maybe it was the love of her family engulfing her in its warmth. And that love was about to grow bigger at the arrival of their new baby.
Do you think Lena will get pregnant at their first try? I hope you didn't get bored with the medical stuff, I coundn't help myself in adding Addison as well hahaha
I'm starting to post my SuperCorp works on AO3 under the same user if anyone prefers that platform!