A/N: There's fluff and there's fluff. Hope I'm not being too heavy handed with it. What do you guys think? Also, this chapter is late in coming because it just grew larger and larger. There's actually more to this. I'm currently thinking about spinning it off into its own piece.

Billy began squirming in Kara's arms, babbling insistently in a way that could only mean that he wanted down.

After quickly making sure that all the upstairs doors were closed and the gate on the stairs was secure, she set Billy down.

Kara sat down on the ledge of the window at the end of the hallway and watched her son crawl back and forth, babbling and squealing with happy abandon.

She smiled at Billy's innocence and how he found even the most mundane things at his eye level to be fascinating and wondered what it would be like to have every little discovery be a part of one big, happy adventure.

But then again, she did sort of know what that was like. There was a photo hanging on the wall beside that had been taken by Darlo, their next door neighbor, on the day she and Lee saw snow for the first time in several years. Her back was to his chest as he held her close, his arms wrapped around her. Her own hands were hooked onto his arms as she pressed back into him. The engagement ring she had started wearing the night before the picture was taken was clearly visible.

Kara had long considered winter to be a dreary, lonely time. Then they found Earth and Lee took her out to discover all the wonders of the season that she had missed out on. From that first winter on, she looked forward to seeing the first snowfall of the year, knowing that she could share in all its joys with the love of her life.

And now that she had a child of her own, she looked forward to introducing him to the wonder that is winter to him as well.

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This was not a typical morning.

For one thing, there was a definite chill to the air in the bedroom.

For another, Kara was the one who was up first and gazing at the sleeping form of her boyfriend.

Or was it fiancé now?

There was another thing. The yet unfamiliar sensation of an engagement ring nestled on her finger turned her attention away from Lee's face to the hand resting on his bare chest.

The ring on her hand wasn't fancy. It was a simple band of white gold with a single stone that wasn't too small or too big.

The proposal the night before had been straight forward and her answer had been a simple "Yes".

All in all the whole deal had been no fuss, no frills.

So much like her.

So much like him.

So much like them.

It was all so perfect that it made her all tingly inside.

She tried wracking her brain for a better word to describe how she felt. But there really wasn't anything else.

She tingled.

Kara lay back down, securing the blanket firmly around the two of them, burying her face against Lee's shoulder.

Tingly.

It was a nice feeling.

So was the sensation of Lee's breathing changing rhythm as he woke up.

Kara looked up in time to see him open his eyes. She immediately lifted herself up and dropped back down on top of Lee with a soft thud. Their noses were barely touching as his blue eyes slowly focused on her hazel ones.

"Hey," he said softly in greeting.

"Hey."

A beat passed as Lee softly brushed the backs of his fingers against Kara's cheek. She shivered. Partly from the sensation and partly from the cold air that had come in under the blanket.

"Cold?"

"Kinda," Kara answered truthfully.

Lee smiled mischievously as he rolled over so that Kara was underneath him. "Want me to warm you up?"

"Tempting," she snaked a hand behind his neck and pulled him down for a kiss. "But after you're done," she let out a soft moan as Lee nibbled down her neck, "the house will still be cold."

Lee popped his head back up. "What if I don't stop?" With that he slipped under the covers.

"Lee…" Kara moaned as his mouth and hands traveled lower and lower down her body.

Her back arched as Lee's hands slowly slid back up from her hips to her ribs…and just as she was about to let out another moan…

He began tickling her.

"Ah! Frak! Lee! Stop!" she gasped as she writhed and kicked to get Lee to stop.

"Really?" he pinned her arms and legs down and smiled at her. "I think you're enjoying this."

"Maybe…but you're letting all the cold air in under the blanket."

"So…let me guess…you want your fiancé to go out there and risk dying of hypothermia while trying to do something about the heating just so you can be warm?" Lee's complaints were not serious though. He was already moving to get out of bed.

"I knew I agreed to marry you for a reason." As a consolation prize, she grabbed his face and kissed him seductively, her lips and tongue promising Lee that much more was to come when he returned.

Lee rolled off the bed and grabbed the sweat pants and t-shirt that had been thrown onto the floor the night before.

"Frak…" he hissed. "This floor is frigid! We probably should get slippers to wear around the house."

Kara had to laugh at that. "Slippers? How old are you? Sixty?"

Lee was about to say something as he pulled his shirt on but thought to himself: 'Ah, let her find out for herself.'

"Be right back." He gave Kara a quick kiss before leaving.

Kara lay back down and burrowed herself into the warmth on Lee's side of the bed. She smiled to herself as she thought about the ways she loved Lee and the ways he showed he loved her when his voice suddenly called out: "Kara! You gotta come see this!"

There was an urgent tone in Lee's voice that she rarely heard that made her quickly wrap a sheet around her body and run out of their bedroom.

"What? What is it? Frak! The floor's freezing!" Maybe getting slippers wasn't such a silly idea.

Lee was standing by the window at the end of their upstairs hallway, looking intently outside. As he heard Kara approach, he turned, grabbed her so her back was to his chest, and turned so that they were both looking outside.

"Look," he whispered.

"My gods…" was all she could say, the cold floor completely forgotten as they stared at a sight neither had seen in what seemed to be forever.

Outside, their entire neighborhood was covered in a thick layer of snow. And it was still falling. In fat flakes that lazily floated down from the sky.

"It's snowing, Lee. It's actually snowing…"

Kara looked up to Lee with a look of wide-eyed innocence. Knowing that he was sharing something so amazing and wonderful with the woman he loved thrilled him to the core.

They smiled at each other. Thinking the same thing at the same time.

"I'm getting out there first!"

"No, you're not!"

"Oh, yes I am!"

"Oh, really?"

"Ah! Lee!"

They raced each other to their bedroom, rushed to get dressed, and get outside to be the first one to set foot in the brand new snow.

It wasn't a clean race. Competitions between them were always dirty. Kara had just reached the front door when Lee grabbed her by the waist and threw her over his shoulder, bodily carrying her outside and dumping her onto the ground.

"What say we call it a draw?" Lee asked, offering Kara his hand to help her up.

She took his hand, knowing that he knew her too well to let himself be pulled down by her. Instead, she pulled herself up, grabbing a handful of snow with her other hand and shoving it in his face in one smooth motion.

"Now…" she brushed his face off and gave him a quick kiss. "We call it a draw."

"Well good morning, you two!" came the voice of Patty, their next door neighbor, as she walked out of her own house with two bundled up little children. "You remember my grandchildren: Mikey and Teri."

"Hey, guys." Kara and Lee walked up to the fence that divided their yards.

Patty leaned down to her grandchildren, "Come on kids. Why don't you go get the sled from the garage? Maybe your grandfather will be out by then."

The two kids eagerly ran off.

"Darlo having some trouble this morning?" Lee asked.

"No," Patty rolled her eyes in mock exasperation born from knowing her husband too well. "He just insists on taking photos of every little thing we do with the children. And…Lee asked you to marry him didn't he?"

Kara smiled almost shyly as she looked down and fingered her ring. "Yeah. He did. Did the ring give it away?"

"That. And you glow. And who do you think recommended the jeweler?"

Kara jerked her head up to look from Lee to Patty in surprise. "You?"

"Well of course, silly. Darlo tries, but I swear, if his mother hadn't given him her engagement ring, he probably would have proposed with a metal washer."

The three of them laughed at the thought, and Darlo-as if on cue-came out of his house waving a camera over his head.

"Found it, Patty!"

"Well bring it over here! Lee proposed to Kara last night!"

"What? He did?"

"That's what I said!"

Kara and Lee chuckled to themselves as the watched their neighbors verbally spar with each other. It was almost like what they did with each other.

Lee pulled Kara close and pressed a kiss to her temple. He wondered if he and Kara could be like that as they grew older. And when Kara looked up at him with love written across her face, he knew that they were going to be alright for a long time to come.

A flash suddenly broke them out from their little world.

Darlo had snapped a photo of them and they looked up to see him, Patty, and their grandkids looking at them with wide grins on their faces.

"Well, we'll leave you two alone now," Patty said. "Come on, kids. Let's go sledding!"

As the four of them began walking away Darlo stopped and slightly turned back to face them, suddenly remembering something. "Oh, and guys…"

"Yeah?" Lee replied.

"If you're willing to part with a dollar, Mikey here," Darlo lightly slapped his grandson on the shoulder, "will shovel your driveway for ya."

"I'll take him up on it," Lee said with a laugh as Mikey let out a theatrical moan.

"Come on kids, let's go sledding!"

Patty led the children away, with Darlo following close behind, holding the toboggan.

"Lee?" Kara asked as she watched their neighbors walk off with their grandchildren to enjoy the snow.

"Hmm?" Lee mumbled absently.

She turned around in his arms so that they were facing each other.

"Do you think we can be like that?"

Lee gave her a small smile.

"Yeah," he said pulling Kara close to his body. He placed a small kiss on her forehead as their arms tightened around each other. "I know we can."

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A small hand landing her on her foot broke Kara out of her reverie as she looked down to see two big blue eyes staring back up at her.

"Hey, honey," she cooed as she bent down to pick Billy up.

"You know…you'll get to see snow for the first time in a month or so," Kara said as she settled her son onto her lap. "You're going to love it."

"And," she gave Billy a conspiratorial grin as he played with a stray lock of her hair, "when you're old enough, we're going have so much fun messing with your father."

Lee's voice suddenly rang through the house. "I'm home!"

"Speak of the devil…we're upstairs, Lee!"

A/N: Darlo is based on and named after a custodian at school who had befriended me in my first year of college. It was a particularly low point in my life and my conversations with him were the only bright spots during a particularly dismal span of several months. Everyone should find their own Darlo. He turned out to be a lifesaver.