A/N: A new chapter! Finally, right!? Sorry for the wait. Enjoy!
"It...it's...positive." Lena said while also staring at one the tests like Kara had, now standing up to look at it better under the light, as if being directly in the light would change it she even stepped out of the bathroom. Kara turned around, to look at her and smiled as she observed her disbelieving expression.
They both had apparently been somewhat in doubt, out of fear.
Kara stood up and walked to her while wiping her tears, the CEO was still looking at the test in wonder, in shock.
At the feel of a palm on her shoulder Lena flinched, she turned around and opened her mouth to say something but she couldn't, her face twisting at the signs of tears. Kara beamed at her with the most happy smile she had ever seen, face still red from crying happy tears, "I'm pregnant, huh...", then Lena launched herself in her strong arms and hid her face in the woman's shirt as she wept loudly.
Kara could feel all of the stress from the past few weeks releasing and being replaced by relief, on the human's end and her own. She combed her fingers through her hair and kissed the top of it.
"I love you...", she heard Lena say, muffled by the shirt. "I love...both of you..."
Kara's heart made a leap, she kissed the tar hair again. Her new tears rolling into it as she waited and waited and waited for both of their relief to subside, it wouldn't for a long time even after the tears would cease.
Then Kara looked down with a sunshine grin as Lena put her palm on her belly, she felt that warmth in all of her being. The alien put her forehead on her girlfriend's and hugged her closer, "We love you too honey."
Kara could definitely get used to referring to herself in plural.
They spent the rest of that day at home, giving short refusals to any calls and simply cuddling in their bed while soft blues filled the penthouse with warmth. Kara hoped that Alex would have an understanding and won't nag her about not calling her to share all the details. This was needed for both of them.
It was an hour into their relaxing cuddle, Lena's head on the alien's shoulder and their limbs intertwined, that Kara started singing the lyrics of songs, but with a palm on her lower stomach, and she sang in Kryptonian. Kara has only done that shyly a few times, singing translated versions of a song while they played, Lena found herself watching and listening intently as her girlfriend's soft voice relaxed her into a hypnotic sort of state.
"You know Kara," Lena said after a while, "Our baby will surely be a girl, right?"
Kara turned to the green eyes chuckling, "Well yeah, you're the scientist, we're both women. We lack Y chromosomes." she said the last part with laughter and obviousness at the answer.
The green eyes rolled at her, her voice was warm though, "I know that Kara, it's just that this was a magical conception so I was just thinking about the possibility."
She got a smile as a result, "Zatanna will come over tonight and explain the intricacies further. But I'm positive that we'll have a blonde baby girl with green eyes.", Lena didn't say anything to that for a full minute, she just looked quite dumbly at Kara, like she was an unthinkable invention, like she believed her. The fact that the baby will be a mix of them both was mind-boggling and honoring for her, to create life with the strongest person on Earth, to create it with Kara, the love of her life, it was all beyond any possible positive future she had thought of for herself in the past. They both only wanted their child to be healthy and happy in the future, but that wouldn't stop them from fantasizing about how it would turn out. It wouldn't stop them from disbelieving that it was all real.
"I just want her to be healthy and safe. As I want that for you.", Lena's voice was still horse from her weeping before, now her words coming in a whisper almost sent jolts through Kara's body.
"I'm the most powerful person on Earth, babe.", ironically, she pouted.
"Oh, that pout sure is powerful alright.", Lena teased before kissing her, then laughed into the kiss at Kara's groan.
"Okay, okay. But I'm serious about this. No more drinks for you. Or unhealthy food."
Kara made an undignified dismissive snort, "As if. Drinks don't work on me and neither do unhealthy foods."
Lena gave her a challenging stare, "You are clearly wrong, there are many things you have to take into consideration, like alien drinks and food." Oh, this pregnancy was going to be a challenge for Kara.
"Well you may be right, I..."she trailed off, "I want our child to be safe as much as you do, I don't know for sure how the magic will work biologically on me..."
That turned their conversation into what Kara wants to eat versus what of that is healthy, then that turned into more talks about her alien biology and just about anything really, and their conversations never stayed on a single topic for long, but flowed all through the rest of the daylight, and sometime past twilight.
Their doorbell rang exactly at nine o'clock, and both were in their pajamas, Lena a black velvety one and Kara bright blue ones. They were much too comfortable in eachother's arms and company to stand up.
So when the normally friendly alien answered the door with a scowl a la Batman a scantly dressed sorceress looked surprised by it.
"Well, good evening to you too?"
Kara had to blink and look Zatanna over again, she wore a low cut black dress that did wonders for her and none of the circus wear was present.
"Oh, good evening!"Kara snapped herself out, now a smile in place "...sorry, you're just dressed..."
"Civil.", added Lena from behind with laughter in her voice. "Do come in."
"What will you drink?"
"Just coffee please." Zatanna answered with a shrug.
Her hand passed along some of the decorations, framed pictures of the two of them together and smiled as she was walked through the penthouse towards the living room, "Very domestic you two, it feels very warm all around."
"Thanks, we try." said Lena with a wide grin.
That got her a pointed look from Zatanna, "Well you really didn't before. Glad that now it's different."
"What do you mean I didn't?" asked the scientist as she prepared a coffee at the bar, to that Zatanna only laughed and looked over at Kara who wasn't looking at either of them, "I mean that, since you started living together only a few weeks ago, there must have been more to your separate living arrangement before that."
A silence followed as Kara got busy with the remote to the music and Lena with their coffees.
"We started living together after two months...She was never home though...so I just got back to my place. We were still happy, just had our own lives besides eachother."
"Obviously something changed." their guess noted with a smile.
Kara grinned at the word 'change', "Yeah!"
After they were settled on the couch with warm cups of coffee in front of them, the couple was sat on the couch and Zatanna in a chair next to them. Lena took Kara's hand in her's to kiss it and it remained in her hold.
Zatanna glanced between them, smiling. "So, when do you want me to diagnose you?"
Kara looked at Lena, they were almost 100% positive by then that she was pregnant but the specificity of the situation got them more and more worried, they needed all the details from the magician herself.
They looked at Zatanna, "Go ahead." said Kara without feeling any of the determination she showed.
"So I know Kara is the one you're suspecting, but in these cases, I check both of the partners. Will you two give me your hands?"
The two obliged shortly, although very nervously. After a moment, Zatanna closed her eyes and pink light enveloped the connected hands. She appeared to be searching for something for a while, calmly so. Her features brightened up and her mouth went agape slightly, she held both their hands more but now only the one holding Kara's hand glowed.
She released their hands after a few minutes before rubbing her own hands together to shake off the connection, and proceeded to take a sip from the coffee. Lena was tapping her absent heel on the floor as Kara rubbed circles with her thumb where they were joined, both were nervous about the sorceress's behavior.
"Well?! Zatanna please just tell us if she's pregnant, just tell us...everything." commanded the CEO, with a contradictory pleading look.
"Oh there's no doubt, Kara's very pregnant."
The words seemed to echo between the walls and it's three members.
Lena's nervousness and the tension between them slipped away immediately. She looked ecstatic and proud at the same time, Kara herself had palmed her stomach lovingly, her face one of utter relief. They wanted their dream future together deeply, their love was like an ocean of compressed atmospheres of affection, so much so that this dream seemed like something unreachable for years as they chased eachother and finally caught on. Now it was all real. It truly was and Lena knew in that very moment that she would flip the galaxy upside down for her child.
The brunette took Kara's jaw in her palm to turn her and pull her into a soft peck on the lips. No words were enough to capture how she felt, so she said what first came to mind, "I love you. Thank you."
"I love you too...You're...welcome?"the blonde gave a laugh, blushing at being openly shown affection in a company.
"There's...a few things you should know though.", Zatanna said, a sympathetic like expression on her face that Lena didn't like in the slightest.
Both looked taken aback, squeezing the fingers in their hands to prepare for whatever news followed.
"Since Kara's body never produced any egg cells, her body literally had to alter itself to make the embryo, so she should expect some pains."
Lena had a look of realization, Kara just frowned and passed a hand through her hair, "I was having more back pain than stomach pain though, why is that?|
The sorceress rolled her eyes. "Obviously you'll be needing a stronger back to sustain the future extra weight. So yeah, the magic is in fact tacking care of everything, and the baby will be needing you two to be in a very healthy relationship. Or Kara will be in more pain."
The alien drew her eyebrows up, "Why do only I get punished? Didn't we participate in this equally?" she disputed, to which the homo magi just smirked.
"It's none of my business when or how you transferred her part, I'm guessing it happened because you thought Kara couldn't get pregnant even with magic?"
The sheer blush on Kara's face could have cooked a meal on it, "Wh-what do you mean?", was Kara's attempt at dodging that part, but her human, very analytical girlfriend and baby mama (or daddy?), proceeded for them while rubbing soothing circles on Kara's palm, "Yes Zatanna, that's the general situation."The sorceress raised an eyebrow, happy to be right as always.
"Well since that's the case, to answer your question Kara,"she looked directly at the alien, "she won't experience physical pain, hers will be on the emotional side. I know that your hormones will start acting up and will be emotional, but even though she will not carry the baby she will know when you are hurting. It's an equalistic pregnancy in nature. So no worries there either."
"Oh...Rao. This is going to be a...lot to handle.",Kara thought that it was sweet how they both would feel equally, but nine months were a long time and their lives were anything but peaceful.
Zatanna smiled at them, "Well, it is a fact now that you two are soulmates. It's why the magic worked."
"Kara babe...,"Lena took a moment to kiss Kara's palm, "she...no, we confirmed that we are soulmates. I always knew but...I'm happy it's real."
"Me too." Kara smiled back at her and kissed her cheek softly.
After an hour of talking about general pregnancy things, Zatanna just confirming that everything about the pregnancy should be like a human one since it wasn't any different when the Kryptonians used to give birth way back when. Also reaffirmed multiple times that no, Kara's genetically transferred infertility will not cause any damage. And yes, the rest of the science should work normally too.
"So from what we understood," began Lena as they were heading through the hallway to walk Zatanna to the exit, "She will be in pain if we fight or something happens between us-"
"It shouldn't happen so much for that reason-", Zatanna continued.
"-it will happen because the magic will need me physically closer to her and I will feel when she's in pain." they mutually generalized the theme with a satisfied nod.
"Well thanks for everything! Come to the party tomorrow!" Kara exclaimed excitedly.
"Oh of course I will, what's a party without-" she finished the sentence with producing a red rose in both hands, handing them to each woman, "Magic?"
They laughed, thanked her many times more and hugged out, before finally saying their goodbyes.
The penthouse was silent besides the TV when they went back to the living room, hand in hand. Lena ordered them diner from a restaurant, they simply talked about the day and about everything that happened, expressing their worries and their happiness.
Lena laughed to ease up Kara's nerves, the sound warming up through the blonde's heart, "Really Kara, it's how Kryptonian women simply are, it's not your fault your people used birthing pods for thousands of years and you evolved from it. Relax, it's going to be okay." the words held very deep meaning for Kara, coming from Lena any words mean more to her. They will be okay.
"I love you, you know?"Kara said after a moment, a look of adoration on her face.
"Of course I know, I love you too." she kissed her, it served as a finisher to their dinner.
Later when they were in bed, all clean, Lena smelling like lavender and Kara like sunshine incarnate, the green eyed lay relaxed with her back on the pillow as she watched her lover's body with her strong legs on each side of her pale hips with the impression that she was in fact a carved, golden goddess.
"Have I told you that you look like the very painting of an ancient goddess?", Lena asked with a warm adorning gaze.
Kara smiled viciously and put a warm palm on her lover's cheek, "Yes. And how,"she leaned in to peck her on the cheek, ",do you worship your goddess?"
Burning fingers passed by her valley and across the abs, tracing its outlines, "I can think of something."a dangerously low voice answered her, "You'll always be my beautiful goddess Kara,"the woman in question's voice and breathing picked up, Lena pecked her cheek and kissed her lips with an endless tenderness, "And I will always worship you, and cherish you as much you cherish me, and, I promise to always love you and take care of you, and all of our children and grandchildren. Forever."
Kara's took purchase in Lena's hair, her other hand held on to the other woman's non busy one.
"Promise, forever?" her breathless voice whispered.
"Forever."