They didn't actually need to go to the DEO to check on Kara but they did anyway. That was quick and easy, a simple (but not as detailed)scan of her body with one of their machines used for aliens like Kara, ones that were dense and strong. It affirmed everything they already knew, though pregnancy as a pregnancy it wasn't going to be easy.
"Uhoh, that looks weird." commented Alex, mostly to herself.
Lena looked at the screen and than at Alex with an angry frown.
"You can't say 'uhoh' like that in front of the moms and not explain yourself Alex."
The woman in question snapped her eyes to her like she'd forgoten about her.
"Well, in previous scans, Kara's...inside musles didn't do that."
Kara snorted out an undignified laugh, "How scientific of you."
At the pair of raised eyebrows she rushed to explain herself.
"The muscles around your uterus area, which means abdominal all the way to your back muscles, are looser than normal, you're almost always dense as a wall-"
"Hey! That's not funny!" shot Kara back while Lena snorted a laugh under her breath, earning her a glare, though she still held her entwined fingers tightly.
"-which means," Alex proceeded while looking from one mom to the other, "you need to make some changes."
Both looked at her expectingly, worry written all over them.
"W-will the baby be okay?" Kara's quiet, shaking voice interrupted,Lena herself squeezed her girlfriend's hand though she looked like she had the same worry.
With a sigh Alex continued while looking at her tablet.
"Look, that's why I said you need to make changes. The baby will be okay of course if you take care of yourself Kara. And by what you've explained if Lena keeps being supportive, patient and," she looked long and hard at the woman in question, "sober."
A gasp followed by Lena who looked from Alex to Kara, who felt her cheeks flush and her heart quicken with nervousness.
Lena chuckled as if in disbelief.
"Alex, I do believe you're right," she said calmly, her voice being exempt from the ice that the alien expected, "Kara does need to protect herself. And as in everything I'll support her, I don't even have a choice since..." she paused and looked away to blink away tears, her voice starting to thicken with emotion, "I, I love her Alex."
Kara kissed the back of her hand, feeling warm and liquid from those words. They looked at eachother and as Alex turned around to press a few buttons on the machine, they shared a kiss, soft and soundless.
"Right. Well,"Alex said as she turnes back to them, Lena looked away from the angry expression that faced her, the look changed to a playful as she looked over at her sister, "Before I start explaining my favourite part, which is what you're not allowed to eat and/or do," a mutual 'uugh' sounded between the moms, Alex seemed even more happy at that, "do you want to look at your baby?"
The moms let out a mutual "Yes!" while tightening the grip they had on eachother.
"Okay, time for an extra detailed ultrasound."
They noticed the screen in front of them that had been black was now on. There was the usual drill of Kara pulling her shirt up and her pants lowered, in a second the liquid on her stomach helped transmit a picture of her uterus.
When it appeared even as a doctor, Alex held her breath along with the soon to be parents as she searched slowly.
And then, she saw it, almost a little spot that with a few of Alex's taps zoomed in and cleared to show exactly how faw along Kara was.
"Rao..." exclaimed Kara at the same time as Lena's quiet, "Oh...that's..."
"A little spot." joked Alex with a the most affectionate voice no one would dare say she could manage.
Kara put her hand over her mouth as tears spilled openly, finally she could see a physical proof that her baby was there. A few weeks and she'll even wake up to the sound of two more heartbeats in the room instead of one. She loved that spot.
"That's the coolest spot I've ever seen." shot Lena back also teary eyed and voice full of emotion.
"I love her."
"I love her more." joked Lena as she took Kara's cheek in her palm, the alien leaning into it without looking away from the screen, as if it would disappear if she did.
"So, the zoomed in, little, cute bean fighting to attach to your wall is three weeks and 5 days big. It's bigger than normal, which we predicted. Expect it to come out pale and cranky, as both her moms (poor thing), in about 36 to 38 weeks." she paused to take a screenshot of it, before looking at them with a look full of pride and love, "Again, congratulations ladies."
After wiping Kara's stomach the moms to be hugged Alex as a thank you.
She went over a specified list of information tailored to Kara. The relaxed muscles will not be a problem at all, as long as Lena didn't follow Kara into battle "like an idiot", or if Kara didn't run in the way of firearms aimed Lena also "like an idiot". Before Kara could yell at her she advised Lena to not roam the city in dangerous areas, never unaccompanied, and various other security measures that she wouldn't bother to mention if she wasn't so sure her sister would flip if she hadn't. Alex knew that Lena had probably already made the same plan in her head with maybe an added bonus of secret gadgets up her suit, she was sure of it.
Then there was the food plan, which with one glance Kara made to leave the room. A hand on her arm stopped her.
"Kara, you should listen to your doctor." Lena said with a calm, stern voice, Alex looked smug on the side.
"Fuck you both."
Lena gaped at her. She only used cuss words in the bedroom and on rare occasions when she was pissed. This was the rare occasion.
"Kara, please listen now, eating appropriately for our baby is essential."
"I'm a super strong alien."she replied stubbornly. Why she felt so angry and betrayed she hated it, pregnancy mood swings were a blast.
"Our baby is only a little spot and you will do as you must for her!" said Lena with a strong note of finality.
Kara put a hand over her stomach with a pained expression with the sudden shot of pain she hated, Alex frowned at Lena.
"Lena calm down, you know Kara will do what's right, there's no reason for yelling."
The CEO passed a hand through her hair and took Kara's hand from her stomach, kissing the back of it in a silent apology.
"I'm sorry...Please,continue Alex?" she didn't mean it to sound like a question.
Among the rest of the tomb of pregnancy information she advised Kara to avoid conflict with no back up, always wear armor and avoid guns and weapons "like a normal person should." just in case.
Finally after a long morning she presented them with their first ultrasound print.
They went home overwhelmed and giddy, clutching the picture as if it was made of the rarest material in the universe. The first thing Lena did when they came home was order a frame made of gold for it and Kara wrote on the back-
"xx. xx. 20xx you look like the best spot in the universe sweetie!"
Below it was the same, but written with a Kryptonian calander and language.
"God she's gonna be so spoiled." said Lena before she started laughing as she looked at the picture on the wall, Kara looked at it for only a moment longer before she nodded and laughed along.
...
The next day Lena woke up to find Kara on the kitchen isle, eating out of a pickle jar, but there were potstickers on the side as the blonde reached for one while reading something on her phone and it took her a minute to watch the scene and try to connect the dots.
"Kara."
The blonde's head shot up like she was caught with her hand in an actual jar. She had a potsticker in her hand, frozen in mid-air.
"Good morning honey! You... want potstickers?" she asked as innocently as she could manage while extending her hand holding the potsticker.
Lena looked at her adoringly, leaning on the wall as she crossed her arms.
"Are you in fact, eating pickles?" Kara looked sad and guilty as she nodded.
"And dipping the potstickers in the...water?"
Although Lena looked like she wanted to get over to her and kiss her for it, Kara only nodded and put the piece back in the box, she let out a confirmation noise that sounded more like a kicked puppy.
"I thought you were asleep, it's Saturday..."she mumbled.
Lena immediately walked over to her, getting on her knees and took her hands. She kissed them both and then pressed them all together closer to Kara's stomach.
"Please don't feel ashamed at your cravings. Alex said you can indulge them as long as it's not junk food every meal. Or...weekly." Kara got sadder the more Lena talked so she decided to change her tactics.
She reached out and took a piece before dipping it in the pickle water, like a maniac, and bit it while looking at her girlfriend's open mouthed stare.
Then, she chewed with a smug smile before Kara attacked her with a rough kiss. The big CEO boss could only moan at the intrusion in her mouth as Kara entered it.
Lena backed away shortly though, still a plastered on smile as she stood up and walked with a quick step to their bedroom bathroom. The door shut loadly before Kara's superhearing picked up gagging sounds before she started washing her teeth quickly.
The alien started laughing, and at Lena's "Not funny..." grumbling she laughed even more.
Later, when she got out Kara's horrid breakfast was finished and she was kneeling in their living room with a candle in her hand, the other was gently pressed on her stomach.
It didn't look like her usual praying did so she walked as gently as she could as to not interfere, but Kara raised her palm invitingly. That also didn't happen, Kara's morning preying was her own. Not to mention she hated to interrupt anyone praying, let alone Kara when she held a big candle in her pristine, rich, white and bright, very big living room, looking like she was in their own home temple.
She hesitated, looking warily at the hand, and trying to make out something from the words coming from Kara's mouth. They sounded confident yet humbled, as she knelt next to her and took the offered hand, Kara intertwined their fingers. Her eyes were closed so she closed her own and remained quiet.
When she finished Lena only understood the "El mayarah" at the end, Kara and Kal having said it like an Amen to each other.
"Thank you for being present with me in front of Rao, it means more than you think." she told Lena after a few moments of silence.
"No problem. May I know what was the prayer for? You said 'Stronger together' at the end right? So, it was a personal prayer?" she didn't mean to sound like she was interrogating her but it sure did come out that way.
Kara smiled while looking at their joint hands, her eyes concentrated there.
"Yes, it was 'Stronger together', it was sort of personal, but only our family motto at the end because I want Rao to know who I'm praying for, the honor and health of my family."
Lena paused for a second before asking warily, "Why were you... praying for our honor?"
That earned her a kiss on the back of her hand, Kara being glad each time Lena refered to them as a family. She was biding her time, putting out the candle and looking from their hands to Lena's green gaze.
"We're not married yet so our baby being born outside of an official union is...I can't explain it better than it being 'bad for the house and their health'."
"Oh..."
Lena felt like she had been slapped with reality, she didn't think about them not being married having any effect on Kara religiously. She had proposed them having a baby now, they had agreed it was a good time and Kara hadn't said anything about El's house honor.
"Why now? I thought we were okay like this and that you wanted to advance a bit more and..."
"Yes, yes, I want a Pulitzer, more recognition and I want you to..."she blushed and looked away, making a move to stand up,"it won't happen very soon so I have to pray at least for our baby until it happens."
Lena left it at that, they both did and went on with their day. She knew after all what was needed of her, to be patient. But she couldn't, she wanted the world to know about them but also wanted her baby mama safe.
It was the middle of the day when she groaned, not being able to concentrate ona simple formula, she went back to her office and poured herself a glass of whisky.
She drank it fast before her assistant knocked on the door to tell her about the next meeting. Oh yes, she's booked herself all the way to 8 pm plus the lab work. So she poured herself another one as before the other meeting, and tried very hard not to think about the gut feeling in her stomach.
Right about after 4 Lena got back from another failed meeting for the day, she looked at the TV screen in her office and saw Kara fighting an alien, or hiding more like it, beside a car while clutching her stomach with a pained expression. Lena shot out the door immediately.
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