Prompt #49:Unexpected with fear and expected with joy.

July 2039

Who had said it was easy. Holy cow it hurt so bad. How had her moms done it?Now it was womanly thing,done for centuries and centuries,but ouch. Carter jr. was one hell of a kicker,and he wanted to come out right not,which was why she was lying with her legs propped up,giving birth,and looking like an hysterical woman who had just come out of a badly made shower,breaking the fingers of her young handsome husband. But they're in the hospital so she was sure they would've fixed his fingers in a moment.

Lexie was glad her family was outside but the waiting,God the waiting was hard,yeah even when you're the one doing it. You would be like,what's he gonna be like?And who is he gonna look like?

She was sure her mothers had mulled over this ten thousand times before she and her siblings were born.

"Ahh,holy Rao"

" just stay calm we're almost there. We just need more dilatation"she wasn't yet enough dilatata,and it could've taken hours over hours for her to be a full 10.

"Oh I see,I see,I swear to you Will our kids will be 13 years apart like me and all my siblings. It worked wonders the first...time..around."

And she wasn't joking. Next time she had gotten pregnant it would've happened in 13 years down the road,so she would've had all the time to get ready psychologically all over again,though Lexie was well aware that the only reason behind her mothers not having 10 kids rather than 5 was pretty different from her being momentarily in pain from labour and saying and thinking a lot of shit,pronounced at lightspeed.

She heard movement on the outside.

"Try to focus Lex,we're almost there"

"Yeah,yeah we're almost there"she said sarcastically.


It had almost turned into a nightmare instead of a moment of joy. Luckily,Lexie was still in there and didn't know anything. It had happened so suddenly that she was glad there had been doctors around ready to help them.

In the last months Kara had lost sight and touch as well,appetite like the first time around as Kara had told her and she had kept on having breathing problems,even worse than before.

Kara had also told her that the first time around it had been only half as bad. This time around they had been handed the hellish version of it.

Which was why she was sitting by her wife,being notified every 2 minutes about Lexie's condition.

Still halfway through,the kid was in a hurry…to take it's time.

It had been two hours as Kara finally woke up.

She looked Cat's way as if she could've actually seen her,and Cat told her.

"Tracheostomy"in less than an hour,in laparoscopy,but which had kept her fidgeting like a kid anyways.

She gave it an eyeroll. This was worse than imagined. Then they widened as if she just hadn't been given such a bad news,considering she was supposed,as told,to live with the tube permanently,whatever permanently meant.

Cat seemed to understand her right away because she read her mind.

"Lexie is still in. Carter jr. is taking his own time."

The media mogul held her wife's hand more tightly and looked at her lovingly and worriedly at the same time. They had brushed the nth tragedy in their life today,but the salvation had been heaven sent and Cat was glad to be still having the woman she called her wife by her side. She would've never wanted it to be turned into a day of death rather than life.

None of the docs was into how she was the way she was so they had dealt with what they could spot. Events which might regard a patient after lung cancer. Cat drew a breath of relief,the least they knew the better,especially today.


Carter John Brewer Jr. came to the world the morning of July 13th,with very quick pushes considered the 24 hours of labour,on the same day 23 years before his grandma had died in the first timeline. He was welcomed with joy by his parents and the family all around.

William looked at him proudly as he walked through the hallways to get where he really wanted to go.

He wished he could've brought Lexie with himself,but she was sleeping soundly and he didn't mean to wake her up after all her efforts.

William tapped slowly on the door and waited for an answer to come.

It happened right away as the door was flung open,and he was ushered in by an excited Cat Danvers Grant.

"Kara,honey we're grandmoms for the third time"

If she could've,Kara would've spoken words of joy,but her face pretty much gave it away.

William read her just as easily.

"His name is Carter John Jr."he said so handing the baby to Cat,who in turn sat on the bed by Kara.

His eyes were blue sky and he was so tiny. There was no need to feel it to the touch or even see him to know how handsome he was. Kara had had years of seeing her kids and in her mind she had already imprinted a pretty good image of little Carter.