Prompt #18:...and a reward for aliens
When Lexie was 10,Kara deemed it the right time for their daughter to get a bit into the whole saving the world thing. In truth she was supposed to do nothing. But for the last four years Lexie had learned how to control her powers and she really wanted to go out with her. After lots of convincing Kara had chosen to bring her around for some check outs. Nothing of particularly hard,but long enough to get boring for a 10 years old and reconsider the choice of doing it at last for the next ten years. Or so they hoped. In truth?They were pretty sure of the fact,that such a thing could've never happened. Lexie had been born with the same sense of goodness and justice that all of them had,and her brother was a DEO agent. Her whole life she had been surrounded by relatives constantly running towards danger. Cat had begged her to let their daughter notice so,before taking such a big choice at such a young age,and Kara had agreed fully to it. It was cool however to bring Lexie flying around,with so much open space they could use,and see the whole city. It was wonderful. The day was clear,as they rounded CatCo a couple of times. They even spotted Cat once,quickly waving at her,as the media mogul shook her head laughing.
"Mama,what do you usually do asides from you know,checking out the city?"
"I wait. If I get a call through the intercom,I'll answer it,if I spot something I go,and tell the DEO. If it's bad there will be back up. A lot of it."
"Cart too?"
"Yeah,Carter too,mostly."
It felt almost like a day at your parents' job:SuperCat(according to the very few who knew about Kara's double identity) rendition. There had been a day at CatCo,in which Lexie had swapped with her mom's assistant for a couple of hours and gotten to see all the wondes of CatCo,and now she was scouring the city with mama,looking out for trouble.
Years of it had taught Kara better than to think that if nothing could be seen then nothing was gonna happen.
In the span of a few minutes,in fact,they were attacked.
The alien grabbed her,and they tumbled down for some meters before she got her bearings back again. She engaged a fight with him,which had her being thrown in the air for a bit. Even after all those years,she hadn't gotten used to being thrown around. First because,even when she had been completely healthy it had always somehow hurt,and once she had fallen sick and then come out of it not exactly unscathed it had threatened to take her breath away,every time. A robbery,a fire,and similar things,were easy to face,even if trying to turn off a fire wasn't exactly easy material anymore,she survived. Facing an alien with backup?Ok as well. Facing one in the air?Oxygen danger constantly.
"Mamaaa"
The voice came to her as clear as the day.
Lexie.
Driving the alien away from herself,she dove down the meters she needed to reach her daughter,as she asked for backup to the DEO.
The other alien seemed to be running as he flew.
Clearly they had put a reward on their child.
They had waited long enough,or maybe they had just realized she and Cat had made a child. First three years she remembered being no danger. Lexie was with them,all the time. She and her wife had feared for kindergarten but apparently they had no use for such young kids. They needed the child to at last understand what they were brainwashing them for. Most of them weren't half as diabolic as Non,and wanted to get to her,her cousin and the DEO,before getting to their children. Well,one way or another there was no way in hell they would've taken her child.
She sped up the pace and grabbed him from behind. Somewhere she heard several guns being shot. DEO was right under them,backing up.
"Supergirl,do you have him?"
"I do. I'm a bit busy J'onn"
She managed to get Lexie away from his clutches.
"Come with me,follow me down,Lex"
The kid nodded still in a trance,and Kara dove down,nose first to the ground. They slammed on it,wearing a giant hole,but she rolled out of the way so the DEO could chain the one she had taken down and take him away to the desert.
"Supergirl,you ok?"
"Just give me a minute"
Danger avoided. Lexie was still with them. One minute too close to never seeing her again. Too much.
Through the fog as she got her breathe back,slowly,she heard running feet,the same as the last ten years.
"Mamaaa"
An armful of little alien,hugging her the way she did ever since she had had the conception of what an hug meant. It didn't matter,it made her almost breathless again. It was like holding that two years old who had been afraid of hurting her in the days of her relapse,all over again.
Covering up the shining sun the tall figure of the third fatherly presence she had had in her life.
"I'm alright Hank"she said bringing an arm around Lexie.
"Ma I don't think I wanna do this job anymore"
"You'll do whatever your heart tells you to do,when you'll be ready to do it."
Cat had fussed over her for the whole evening. The morning had been a mess. Between Lexie's attempted kidnapping,and the way she had been slammed down,she had had to go through some solar bed therapy to get her strength back,and then back home to rest. Pity the solar bed couldn't heal her completely. It was a too complex of a disease to be healed by that. It was into her body forever. This at last,hadn't been forever. Lexie was still with them.
"Cat,c'mon come here,stay calm,it's ok"
"You were both in great danger."
"I know. I wish they hadn't tried this. I know they'll try again. Lexie told me she doesn't wanna do much of it anymore."
"I'm sure she'll reconsider"
"Oh she will. But at last she will be old enough to protect herself"
"You're great out there"
"I could've been a minute too late"
"But you weren't. And this is what matters to me. You were there,like you've always been. You gave yourself trouble,so that you could save her."
"She's our child. I'll do anything for our children,for Lexie and Carter. They are our world,I won't let anybody take it away from us."
"I know."Cat laid by her and hugged her.
"We knew we were in for several heart attacks,didn't we?"
Kara laughed.
"Holy Rao,did we."
