"Is she still not talking?" Alex asked Kara as she leaned over the counter. It had been two days since Lena had spoken to Kara. Yes, Kara could fly to L-Corp and see how she was doing, but this was still a lot to take in. Kara was sat on her laptop, marking essays whilst Alex stood with a bottle of beer in hand. The Kryptonian let out a huff as she pushed her glasses up her nose, "No." She sighed, "If she would talk to me then maybe I can help."

"Or maybe." Alex shrugged, "You have both just set the future in stone and she is terrified of what comes next. She isn't shutting you out because she doesn't love you. She is doing it because she is scared and you staying here and doing work is not helping. If she's pregnant with your child, she needs you to be there. It's not an inconvenience before you say anything." Alex said to her, pointing her finger at her. Before Kara could reply, Alex did it for her, "You're her lover and she is pregnant with your child. Yes, you both should have thought it through, but you didn't because you both wanted the future so badly and now you both know what is coming, you suddenly don't want it anymore because you are both scared of the same thing. Am I wrong?"

Kara swallowed the lump in her throat and lowered her eyes, "We just both-we knew what we wanted, and we ruined it. Alex, we don't even know each other. We both ruined it and now I feel as though I have an obligation-"

"You have an obligation and that obligation is Lena and your child. This is the real-world Kara. A guy sleeps with a girl and gets her pregnant, they can't just back out. Well, they can, but where your beliefs stand, you know that won't happen. So, what is the next thing you do? Whilst most guys are cowards and run, that is something you are not."

"A guy?" Kara questioned, her eyebrows fused together with confusion.

Alex then laughed, "No dummy. You're not a coward, or at least, I should hope not. What was this whole thing? A one-night stand or was it love?" Alex noticed Kara's silence, "That worries me."

"W-what does?" Kara questioned.

"Your silence." Alex replied, before leaning over the counter, "I get it, you don't know her very well and she doesn't know you all that well. However, Lena is pregnant as I keep saying. I can see you're getting annoyed with that word already because it is a constant reminder, but I'm breaking those walls."

Kara swallowed the lump in her throat, "So, no matter what, I have to face this?"

"Yes!" Alex snapped before placing her palm on her forehead. She then closed Kara's laptop lid.

"Hey!" Kara gasped, "I was marking an assignment!"

"You can do that later when your mind is a little less foggy. Right now, go and speak to the mother of your child." Alex said sternly, raising her brows.

Kara only stuck out her bottom lip in response and pouted, crossing her arms in the process.

"The pout won't work on me. You're big enough to stick it in there, you're big enough to take the responsibility, now go." Alex more or less ordered this time. She watched as Kara grabbed her coat off of the hook. Kara turned around after she put her coat on and looked Alex in the eyes, "What…What if she rejects me?"

"Then you keep trying. You want this child Kara? You Fight for them." The fierceness in Alex's tone gave Kara strength to face up to this. Boy, was it going to be a long night.

L-Corp 23rd December.

Kara walked through the long halls of L-Corp, speeding through her mind what she was going to say to Lena. The truth was, she had no idea how she was going to do that. Lena could build the biggest walls possible and not even Supergirl could get through them because Lena knew exactly who Supergirl was.

The blonde's heels echoed as she walked down one stretch and her attention quickly snapped to when she heard a commotion coming from.

No.

Wait.

"Oh Rao." Kara gasped, before speeding into Lena's office. As she walked in the door, she saw Lena on the floor, luckily not on the hard surface, but her waters had clearly broken. The horrified Kryptonian was frozen steadfast in the doorway. Her eyes wide as she saw a woman trying to help the Luthor out. Kara assumed this was her assistant or someone of that stature. In the meantime, Kara's eyes widened as she realized what was going on. It was in that moment she realized that Kryptonian children must develop faster in the womb than she first thought. Too dumbstruck to notice, Lena was now locking eyes with the woman in the doorway and as soon as Kara regained her composure and came back to Earth, be it with a huge crash, she realised that Lena too was staring at her.

"Kara, get your ass in here." Lena spoke remarkably calmly considering her current predicament. That alone sent a shiver down Kara's normally warm spine. Lena's assistant then looked at Kara, "Miss Luthor, you said she was pretty." The woman teased.

Lena smiled lightly, "She's our resident super hero. I know I can trust you with that information Jessica, it's a shame my lover is good with the part when it comes to creating a child, she is just a little confused when it comes to delivering one."

At this, Kara blushed heavily, and rushed to Lena's side, "I'm here, okay? And, and if your waters are broke already, it will literally be minutes before the baby arrives." Kara said to her, taking her hand, "I came to talk to you about this, about us."

"I know Kara." Lena sighed, before feeling a contraction, causing her to scream out in pain. At this, Kara took the woman's hand, "You're not alone, okay? I'm here and I always will be. I'm in it for the long haul now just as you are. I didn't realise that the baby would take very little time to grow. I guess it's to do with how you and they absorb sunlight."

"I'm so uncomfortable down here." Lena gasped as she felt another contraction coming, before screaming out again, "Oh my God, this hurts so much Kara."

"I'm sorry." Kara sighed, kissing the back of her hand. The Kryptonian zoomed off and within five seconds, Lena was lying on something more comfortable with a pillow and she had warm towels too, "We can't have the baby in the hospital, they'd think…Well, needles might not go through their skin." Kara was using the terms, they, them and their. As to not let Jess know that the gender was something they knew, but of course, they did. There was a moment when both Kara and Lena locked eyes with each other, each knowing what was coming once they had this child. They knew the future they had to face together but at least it was just that. They were doing this together.

All of the normal hormonal things that a woman was meant to feel during pregnancy suddenly began to hit all at once and it was overwhelming. Kara didn't try to run. She wasn't going to. This was her mess, she had to figure it out. Somewhere along the line, both women knew that they split up, they just didn't know when or how. If Kara had to guess now, if it wasn't the secret of Supergirl, perhaps it was her own cowardice. Perhaps she couldn't face being a parent? She really didn't know and right now she didn't want to know.

"Kara." Lena gasped, taking in deep breaths, "Marry me."

Kara was suddenly gawking, her face like a goldfish, "W-what?" She gasped, "Lena, we don't know each other that well."

"I'm having your child. You and I both know how much we love each other, and I want that. I want that for the both of us so…Let's get married, Christmas day." Lena gasped.

Kara noticed a tear streaming down Lena's cheek, "Lena, you're feeling so many sensations right now, you're just not thinking straight."

Lena then looked Kara dead in the eyes, "I think I am thinking straight Supergirl, it's you who wasn't. I wanted this baby and then when you realised we were having one, you were ready to back out."

"And I'm here now Lena, that's what matters." Kara sighed heavily, "I'm here for you and our baby." She sighed heavily, kissing the side of Lena's temple, almost crying as Lena screamed out in pain once again. Kara knew she was going to lose all of this in the near future and it broke her heart. Just as Kara began to get lost in her thoughts, Jess chirped up, "Miss Luthor, you need to start pushing now."

As Kara gripped Lena's hand tighter and ensured that she was in her eyesight, she could see the fear in Lena's eyes, "Lena, you can do this. I'm with you." Kara smiled sadly, as she put her hand on her cheek.

"Kara, I can't…I can't be a mom." Lena gasped, "I'm a Luthor, I can't be mom material."

"That's nonsense." Kara laughed softly, "We all know that in this story, I'm the one who fails and you prevail, despite everything. You are going to be the best mother our child will know." Kara could see from the way Lena was looking at her that she didn't believe her, "I'm going to fail Lena because I do something stupid." Kara sighed. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she kissed the back of Lena's hand, "And that's why…I can't marry you." The honesty in Kara's voice hurt Lena, but what hurt even more was Kara saying no to being with her. The Luthor forced back tears as she stared back at the baby blues which were also full of tears themselves. It was Lena who made it resolutely clear where the pair stood in that moment. She pulled her hand away from Kara, "You need to go." She said very sternly despite the tears she was fighting back, "If you aren't going to be there for her now. I don't want you near her at all."

"Lena?" Kara gasped, "I said I didn't want to marry you, I never said I wouldn't be there for her." Kara said quickly, "I will always be there for her."

"But you won't though? That's what you're terrified of. That's all you've been thinking about. You know that I raise her on my own and that's why you won't marry me." Lena said to her.

Jess looked between them, she was going to question how they both knew the sex of the child or even their own future, but at this point in time, it wasn't her place to ask. Instead, she remained where she was and watched Kara trying to conjure an answer to Lena's brutally honest question.

Kara shamefully nodded, "That is why I won't marry you. Lena, I'm thinking maybe it'd be easier if we didn't do that because it'd be less painful for us when we did…split."

"You're not there when she grows up Kara. If you're not there then, what is the point in you being here now?" Lena asked, remaining so honest that it broke Kara in two. At this point, Kara's brows furrowed but she seemed to accept what Lena was telling her. She then got up, and began to walk away, wiping away her tears as she heard Lena began to push. The blonde was half-way down the hall when she heard her child's cries echoing from the office. This only broke her heart more.

Lena held the infant in her arms, and smiled down at her, "Hello you."

"What are you calling her Miss Luthor?" Jess asked her as she stared at the infant, in awe.

"Nia, Nia Danvers-Luthor." Lena said to Jess, loud enough to know that Kara was still listening as she was walking. Now both the Luthor and Super were hurting but in their mind's, they were doing this for all the right reasons, no matter how painful.