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Chapter Six
The next morning went as well as the first, Maggie and Alex got Kara and Lena up from bed, got them dressed, and then they all ate a quick breakfast of toast before brushing teeth and then being ushered out the door. Maggie opted to drive this time, reading the stress on her fiancée's face.
Alex had received a call from J'onn late the evening before, mentioning that the DEO needed them to come in the following morning to discuss some of the test results that they had found out from the blood tests on the two little girls. Alex was pretty nervous, an anxious lump settling in her gut as they got closer and closer to the DEO. She constantly kept an eye on the two girls in the back seat, both seemed to be in their own little worlds, playing with teddy bears and dolls, twin cups of dry Cheerios sitting in the cup holders of the car seats.
She was worried about the two of them, what if they never went back to normal? What if she and Maggie were stuck raising her sister and her sister's best friend? What would they tell Eliza if they were stuck as children?
The doubting thoughts ran through her head on a loop until they pulled into the parking garage of the DEO. As they went through the gate, Lena perked up and noticed where they were, judging by the way that the green eyed little girl tensed at the darkness. Lena's eyes darted around a mile a minute and the sucking on her green pacifier increased tenfold with her growing anxiety.
"Lena?" Alex asked, trying to draw the little girl out of her thoughts from her spot in the front seat.
The little girl whimpered, her grip on the teddy bear tightened and her eyes got even wider. Kara looked over at her friend, noticing the stress that the little girl was in. She reached her little hand across the seat and touched Lena's pale arm.
"Lena, okay?" Kara asked quietly, her head tilting slightly to the side, reminding Alex of a dog.
Lena's head shook back and forth, another whimper coming out from behind the pacifier.
"Lena, you're okay," Alex cooed from the front seat.
Maggie pulled into a parking space and turned off the ignition to the car, turning in her seat to look at the little girl in the back seat.
"What's wrong Little Miss?" Maggie asked.
"Scawy," Lena responded.
"Why is it scary?"
"Gettin' poked," Lena muttered, pulling her bear close to her chest and hiding her face in the bear's fuzzy brown furr.
Maggie smiled softly at her, reaching out and touching Lena's hand.
"You're not going to get poked this time," Maggie smiled. "Promise."
Lena still looked skeptical, watching Maggie with narrowed green eyes over the top of the bear's head.
"How about this," Alex bargained, looking at her watch and noticing that they were definitely going to be late for their meeting with J'onn. "We can go in, and nobody will poke you, and then when we are done, we can bake cookies and watch a movie."
Kara perked up at the bribe, her eyes shining at the prospect of treats. Lena, while still looking slightly nervous, nodded her head. Alex took this as a sign and quickly jumped out of the seat and unbuckled Lena from her car seat, seating her on her hip. Maggie grabbed up Kara and the couple made their way into the DEO to meet J'onn.
He was waiting at the front doors of the building, leaning up against a pillar watching the make shift family rush through the automatic doors to the lobby.
"Sorry we're late, we had a bit of an issue," Alex apologised, hefting Lena up higher on her hip. Lena hugged her bear, watching J'onn intently with her green eyes, not entirely sure of the man who had been around the last time she had been there.
J'onn nodded and the group followed him to the med bay, where doctors were already waiting for the two little girls to arrive. Maggie placed Kara down on one of the tables, and the 4-year-old was easily distracted by a bag of crackers and her doll, happily munching on her snack while the doctors worked around her, looking in her eyes for a moment and listening to the tiny Kryptonian's breathing. Lena on the other hand watched with wide green eyes from Alex's lap on the table, refusing to unravel her hand from the collar of Alex's shirt. The doctor told Lena each move she was going to make before she made it, but it didn't do much to ease the little girl's skepticism, until the doctors claimed they were finished and handed each girl a lollipop. Kara eagerly took a red one, shoving it at Maggie with a pleading look and a "please?". Maggie tore the plastic and handed the treat back to the girl, who happily placed it in her mouth with a happy little smile. Lena looked at all the colours for moment, contemplating her options before taking a green one and turning in Alex's lap to look at the redhead.
"Open it, pease?"
Alex chuckled, tearing open the plastic on the lollipop and handing it back to Lena.
"There you go Little Miss," Alex smiled as Lena stuck the treat in her mouth with a satisfying hum.
The group sat in the office a little while, waiting for the doctors to finish off gathering all of the test results from the days before. The girls were completely occupied, eating their treats and playing with the toys they had brought, but Alex's head was spinning, running in circles with all of the possibilities of what could go wrong with her sister and the young CEO. Her thoughts were cut short when the doors flew open again and J'onn and one of the doctors came into the room. They each pulled up chairs and sat opposite the women.
"So, here's what we know so far," J'onn started. "Basically, the girls were hit with some sort of ray, shrinking them down and pulling them back into the mindsets of their younger selves. We are still investigating leads on how to reverse engineer a cure for them. As of right now, we are still investigating who was behind it, but we believe that it had to do with Cadmus."
Alex nodded along, thinking that this could have been worse. They are thinking of a cure; they can fix this. It's going to be okay. Her sister is going to be fine. She looked over and saw that Kara was happily sitting with Maggie, playing with her doll, her mouth stained red from the dye in the candy she had finished off moments earlier.
"So, for the time being, just keep doing what you're doing, and we will continue on the schematics and plans for a way to get them back to normal," J'onn recommended.
"Thank you," Maggie answered, Alex still lost in her thoughts and hugging Lena close. The little girl didn't seem to mind, leaning into the affection and enjoying her treat in silence.
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"Okay, what are we doing for the rest of the day?" Maggie asked, watching Kara toddle ahead of her into the control room of the DEO. Alex stood beside her, Lena on her hip with her wide eyes watching all of the screens and commotion going on in the room.
Alex furrowed her brow and looked at Lena.
"What do you want to do, Little Miss?" Alex asked.
"Cookies?" Lena asked, remembering their deal from before her appointment.
Alex laughed, "We'll bake cookies tonight. What else do you want to do?"
From one of the desk chairs, Winn swung around and looked at Alex and Maggie.
"Are we making plans?" he asked, perking up.
"Trying to figure out something to do to keep these two occupied for a couple of hours," Maggie asked.
"Well, I heard something about cookies, and I'm interested now," Winn smiled, waggling his eyebrows at the small Kara who had made her way over to the toys displayed on his desk. She laughed.
"We're baking cookies tonight, and yes you can come over. But you have to bring food," Alex bribed.
"Fine," Winn sighed.
"Kara," the little girl whipped her head around to look at Maggie. "what do you want to do this afternoon?"
The little girl looked skeptical, looking at the toys that Winn had on his desk, and then back at Lena and the two adults. She was humming, contemplating the ideas while she toyed with an action figure from Winn's desk. The little raven haired girl was watching, her green eyes following her every move.
"Dinosaur!" Lena squealed, taking in what Kara had in her fingers.
With that squeal, Alex knew exactly where she could take the little ones.
"How about the zoo?" Alex suggested, shrugging her shoulders and looking at Maggie.
"Zoo?" Kara asked, coming back over to Maggie's side, looking up at the two adults.
"Yeah, it's a special place with lots of animals that you can look at," Alex explained.
"Dinosaurs?" Lena asked.
"Sorry Little Miss, no dinosaurs, but, they do have lizards, which are kinda like dinosaurs," Maggie reasoned with the little girl, who's face fell slightly at the mention of the zoo not having dinosaurs.
Lena debated it for a moment, her thumb drifting to her mouth as she thought about her response. Alex gently pulled the girl's thumb from her mouth, replacing it with the green pacifier she had brought, just in case. Lena thought about for another moment before nodding her head, agreeing to the zoo.
"Zoo!" Kara cheered.
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When the quartet made it through the ticket stands at the zoo, Alex stopping for a moment to slather sunscreen on Lena's pale little face and then they were off. The girls spent the afternoon giggles and cooing at all the of the animals. Kara especially enjoyed watching the lion cubs wrestle around in the pen, and Lena toddled her way through the lizard house, peering over the tops of the walls to look into the cages of the lounging animals. But the highlight of the day was when they went down into the safari section, and Lena and Kara took one look at the giraffes and their eyes almost popped out of their heads.
Lena absolutely adored that there was a giant version of her stuffed toy, and Kara found it hilarious when the giraffe would stick out it's tongue and take leaves from the zoo keeper's hands and the trees surrounding.
On the way out of the zoo, after the girls had their fill of popcorn and Skittles, Alex and Maggie ended up carrying them out into the parking lot and buckling two half asleep toddlers into the car seats in the back.
"So, we don't have to worry about dinner tonight, Winn said he'd bring take out," Maggie smiled, starting the car and pulling out of the parking spot.
Alex smiled, and the two spent a quiet ride home, radio playing softly in the background and their hands clasped in the middle of the seats. Alex's ring glinted in the sunlight as they rode home. By the time they made it back to the parking lot of the apartment complex, Lena and Kara had found their second wind, giggling and laughing in the backseat. When Alex opened the door and unbuckled the two and they went off to the door, following after Maggie. Alex stopped to check her phone, reading a text from Winn letting hr know that he would be arriving in 20 minutes with take out.
Getting through the door to the apartment, the little ones rushed to the couch, jumping up on the furniture with teddy bears and dolls, giggling and laughing along with their game. They were completely occupied while Alex and Maggie cleaned up the toys from the early morning playing from earlier. By the time they had finished cleaning up the mess brought on by the two little girls, Winn was knocking on the door.
"I'm here! And I brought pot stickers!" Winn called into the apartment as he threw open the door.
He marched over to the kitchen island and dropped a couple paper bags on the counter top, smiling to himself for a job well done.
"Pot stickers?" Maggie cocked an eyebrow at the enthusiastic young man.
"They're Kara's favourite," Winn shrugged.
"She's 4," Alex reminded him. "And Lena's 3."
"And?"
Alex sighed and shook her head, knowing that Kara had been skeptical of food when she had first arrived on Earth. "Let's see how this goes."
Maggie gathered the little ones for the meal, dropping them onto chairs and setting plastic plates and cups of water in front of them. On each plate there was a spoonful of rice, a couple pot stickers that had been diced into smaller pieces, and, for Lena, a pile of vegetables. Kara's plate had considerable less vegetables than the raven haired little girl. Lena smiled at the broccoli and green beans on her plate. She dug in right away, using a plastic fork to scoop vegetables daintily into her mouth, smiling at the taste. Kara on the other hand was skeptical, poking at the pot stickers with her plastic fork, face scrunched into a frown.
"What's up, Kara?" Winn asked.
"What is it?" the little girl whined.
"It's a pot sticker, you'll like it, promise," Winn smiled, popping a pot sticker into his mouth with a set of chopsticks.
Kara gave him a side eye, watching him chew his mouthful of food before scooping up a piece of a pot sticker and slowly put it in her mouth. She chewed slowly, thinking about the taste before smiling and shoving another piece in her mouth.
"Told you," Winn smiled.
The rest of the meal went well enough, Lena crawling up into Alex's lap when she was finished with her plate, snuggling into the woman and watching her eat the rest of her meal. Alex would offer a small portion of vegetables, which the girl happily took into her mouth. Kara had devoured the rest of the pot stickers on her plate and had asked for more. By the end of the meal, Kara was a mess of food and Lena had a little bit of sauce on her chin. Maggie cleaned them up and sent them off to play for a few minutes. The two girls played while Maggie and Alex gave their goodbyes to Winn and then gathered the toddlers and brought them straight to bed, where the two girls collapsed after their fun filled day.
Maggie and Alex smiled to themselves as they watched the little ones for a moment before heading off to bed themselves.