#Prompt #21:A special heartbeat.
It was the right there,with cold gel on her growing belly. They were about to hear it. She remembered all those years back already hearing the same,sitting by Cat's side. Kara had held her wife's hand with a sense of pride,which renewed today as she looked into Cat's eyes. Every step they took in this pregnancy was a step towards the next stage of their happiness. It was like floating.
"You are being unusually quiet Cat Danvers"
"I was thinking about the luck of sitting right here right now"
"Well,great minds think alike,don't they?"
Cat laughed.
"They do."
The doctor came in,and sat down smiling at them. Just like with the doctors at the DEO,a long friendship bonded them. She had followed Cat's pregnancy,in one of her first years operating,and now she was following Kara's pregnancy too. She had had to warn them,Kara at first,then Cat too,about the dangers and the limits of a pregnancy like Kara's,but she had gone head first into it.
She wanted to help them,and provide them with the best care possible. Of course,there would've had to be lots of rest,and ex to not be always sitting up or lying down,she would ve been sitting mostly anyways having to rest. The advice to move,and some treatments for her breathing, were always good anyways. To her GYN she had a form of COPD,as it would've been hard to explain the kryptonite,or dangerous to get tested least she ended up being a guinea pig,and their kids as well. Her pregnancy was risky,and clearly to end up with a cesarean,so they had to take all the precautions to make it the easiest possible in her conditions. Her age instead seemed to be no trouble in the equation. She was in her mid 30s,and straight on time for that. Plus Cat had gotten pregnant in her mid 40s,and she had done great. It had made her glow like no other time.
"Are we ready?"
The two women nodded,and the GYN turned the screen around,for them to see better.
It took some adjusting,and fumbling of buttons,and waiting,before they had a sight. First thing they saw,which had their eyes sparkling as usual was that tiny human being already theirs turned towards them. It looked so tiny and safe,feeling like at home in that womb.
Anybody could've said he was waving with his little hand,without even knowing.
They had to resist the urge to wave back,but were crazy with happiness at seeing how lively their kid already was.
"I'll turn it on now,it might take a bit,but soon you'll hear it"
They waited almost holding their breaths,and the whole room fell into silence,as the GYN raised the sound.
It filled their ears as the most harmonious sound to be heard. Steady and strong,beating at the right time,for them all to hear it,as the room was filled with that harmony.
"It's perfect"
"It looks like the baby is doing good,your rest has been helping a lot."
Yeah she could put the duties aside for the time being,next 6 months she was just supposed to rest. She had left the control in the hands of DEO and sometimes her cousin other times,and it had always worked out. For her now the most important thing was to make sure the baby was fine.
"Wait up"
Kara almost sat up worriedly,and Cat sat forward in her chair.
"Is there something of wrong?Is something wrong?"
"Holy God"
Whereas the GYN had sounded extremely worried before,she now was sporting quite the smile on her face,like a kid on Christmas morning. She had to be happy for them,what for?Kara and Cat still hadn't figured out.
"You won't believe this,Mmes"
She moved the screen more towards them,and at a more attemptive look,they saw it.
There were collective gasps.
"Is that?That's another baby?"
"Congratulations you're having twins. Heterozigote."
Her voice came out full of emotions,between tears and laughters. Up till a few months ago,she had thought she could've never made kids,and now she was having two. Other two with the woman she loved.
"We're having twins"
Cat tried it all to hide it,but it couldn't be hidden. Not such tears of joy. Their strong love had done this.
"It's so great,I didn't…I had lost hope,and now it ain't just one,but two."
"Sometimes life works out in strange ways Kara."
And Lord,did they know. Their whole life had been a series of things workin out in a strange,but beautiful way. A long time ago,she had luckily abandoned her vision of her life having been a series of wrong swerves which had brought her on a path of destruction.
She had been lucky. She had been so lucky. She had found a woman she loved more than life itself,and made her feel safe and loved back. She had two and soon to be four kids. Even a grandkid. Adam was like a brother. She had had so many parental figures that any other person would've seriously asked her for her oxygen bottle to breathe and probably escaped to a far unknown island to never be found again. And she had had a sister she looked up to,and whose advices were still engraved into her. She hadn't been alone,and those babies wouldn't have been either.
"Next month we might even be able to find out the sex"
Cat and Kara looked at each other with empathy.
"What if we wanted to keep it a secret?"
The GYN smiled.
"That can be arranged."
Nothing like a good surprise,for them and for the whole family. Twice. Since everybody still thought it was one.
