"Can I stay with you tonight?" Elle asked Alex a couple of weeks later a they walked back from soccer practice.
"Why?" Alex asked.
"I miss you."
"Cute. And the real reason?"
"I can't sleep at home. Sprout makes so much noise and I can't block his screams out." Elle explained.
"You were pretty loud when you were a baby." Alex said. "Eventually you settled down, Wil will too."
"When? Every night he is up. I'm really tired."
"I know. And you can always spend the odd night with me, but until he starts sleeping every night it is only a short term solution." Alex reasoned.
"Already thought about that. Monday's with you, Tuesday's with Grandma Cat, Wednesday Grandma Alura, Thursday J'onn, Friday Lena, Saturday you and Sunday at home." Elle listed.
"Alura isn't even on this Earth." Alex reminded her.
"She'll be back soon." Elle shrugged.
"Even so, I'm pretty sure your parents won't agree to that. Nor J'onn for that matter."
"Why wouldn't J'onn agree?" Elle asked. "Besides mom and dad won't notice."
"Pretty sure they will." Alex said.
"They're tired all the time. If they weren't having to look after me as well, they may be less tired." Elle tried.
"Fortunately you are not that hard to look after." Alex said.
"So I should become hard to look after so they send me to stay with you?" Elle asked.
"That is not what I said." Alex pointed out.
"If I promise not to tell mom that you told me to play up can I stay with you?" Elle went on.
"You can blackmail your parents, but it won't work with me." Alex said before adding. "But tell your parents I said you could blackmail them and I will stop taking you to soccer practice."
"So I can't blackmail you, but you can threaten me?" Elle asked.
"Yes."
"That seems kind of unfair."
"Well being an adult I get to bend the rules."
"So when I'm a grown up I can do what I want?"
"Sure." Alex said happy to leave that problem to Kara and Adam.
"So can I stay with you tonight?" Elle asked.
"Not tonight." Alex said. "But how about on Friday we have a big sisters' night? Just the two of us."
"What about Maggie?"
"She has a yoga class."
"Are you using me to get out of yoga?" Elle asked suspiciously.
"Are you using me to get out of hearing Wil scream?" Alex countered.
"So Friday. Can I choose the movie?" Elle asked.
"You chose last time." Alex pointed out.
"So?" Elle asked.
"Fine, you can pick the movie." Alex conceded.
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"Alex said you are trying to move out." Kara said as she sat next to Elle that evening.
"Not forever."
"Just everyday." Kara pointed out. "I know it is hard right now, but it will get better."
"When? All he does is cry." Elle pointed out.
"It's not all the time." Kara argued.
"Just all the time I want to sleep." Elle countered.
"You were the same." Kara reminded her.
"But you were the only one with super hearing and you knew how to control it. I don't."
"Aren't the exercises working?" Kara asked.
"No."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Kara asked concerned.
"Because when I try he starts screaming again."
As if on cue Wil started to cry.
"I'll be back in a minute." Kara said kissing Elle's forehead before disappearing.
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"What's the emergency?" Adam asked when he returned home carrying bags of take out.
"Elle wants to move out." Kara said as she tried to settle Wil down.
"What?" Adam asked.
"She has it planned out on a rota scheme." Kara said.
"And your response is to bribe her with take out?" Adam asked.
"No, that is to cheer her up. Then you can work your magic on her."
"My magic?" Adam asked.
"You are better at getting her to see reason." Kara shrugged. "I'm going to take Wil out and give you some space. I'll see you later." She said kissing her confused husband goodbye.
-00-
"You going to hide up here all evening?" Adam asked as he entered Elle's bedroom where his daughter was sitting with Krypto.
"I didn't want to wake Sprout, again."
"Well your mom has taken him for a walk so it is just us. But if you want to stay up here and not eat the take out I brought home that's fine."
"You brought take out home?" Elle asked suspiciously.
"Your mom asked me to, but now she is not here there is a lot to get through." He pointed out. "But I guess I can eat it myse-" He started only for Elle and Krypto to rush past him.
By the time he had reached the kitchen Elle was already eating, with Krypto watching her every move. Shaking his head he sat next to her and commented.
"I hear you are moving out."
"Not forever and not everyday."
"Just most days." Adam said.
"Are you mad at me?"
"No. I'm sad you want to move out."
"I don't want to, but it not like anyone I know is stupid enough to take Sprout." Elle said.
"You can't just offload your brother. I know it doesn't feel like it, but he'll quieten down soon."
"You've said that since you brought him home." Elle reminded him.
"Well you were pretty bad when you were a baby." Adam countered. "Just give it a little longer. Okay?"
"Okay." Elle agreed.
-TBC...
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