"Kara, Kara, put me down." Lena cries
"No." says defiantly
"Kara, I'm not joking don't you dare."
Alex walks in the door a puzzled look on her face as she looks between Kara and Lena and Maggie and asks "do I even want to know, Kara put your wife down."
"no, she's never even had a piggyback ride, Alex," Kara says "never" she continues drawing the word out to emphasise how unnatural she finds this
"so, it's not that uncommon," Maggie says
The look of utter shock Alex gives her brings her up short as she questions Maggie "no, really, you've never had a piggyback ride."
"No, don't even think about it …" Maggie says seconds before Alex grabs her by the waist "ALEX! Put me down" Maggie screams as she is hoisted in the air
"Kara, I swear to god if you don't put me down I will divorce you right now" Lena cries in jest
Kara freezes and immediately Lena is on the couch, and Kara is rushing for her room "shit" Lena swears under her breath before taking off for the bedroom,
"Kara, wait" she is met by the sound of a slamming door, the wall beside it rattling despite its reinforcement
"Kara, Darling, please open the door."
"go away" comes Kara's voice muffled by the door
"Kara, please, open the door I didn`t mean it, I`m sorry."
"nice work," Alex says shouldering past Lena until she is standing before the door "Kara, it's me, open up."
Seconds later the door opens for a flash, and then Alex is gone, and the door is shut again as Lena is left in the hallway. She paces back and forth like that for an hour and a half, determined not to leave, lest Kara emerge and she isn't there. Maggie for her part just sits on the couch and stares daggers at her, clearly disappointed, the stare doesn't hurt, Lena`s had far worse, what hurts is the knowledge that despite everything, despite all her efforts she hurt Kara. One stupid backhanded joke and she hurt Kara. All she can do is wait, and hope, hope Kara forgives her.
Eventually when the door opens and Alex steps out she is surprised to see not anger but sorrow in the elder Danvers` expression. "you two need to talk, Maggie and I are going to leave for a while, we`ll be back with dinner, you have until then to fix my sister's heart, or I swear… never mind, just fix it."
She waits until they leave and then psyches herself up for what she is about to see, when she enters the room she sees it blanketed in darkness, on the bed in a ball sits Kara, her back to the headboard as she waits
"Kara, Darling?" she doesn't receive a reply and moves closer, when she reaches the side of the bed, she feels more than sees Kara reach out for her hand and without hesitation, she moves until she is seated beside her. The Most unnatural thing becomes immediately apparent when Kara doesn't immediately crush herself into Lena`s side, and Lena can't help but worry what this might mean.
It takes a while before she manages it but eventually Kara says "I'm sorry, I overreacted."
"no, it's my fault I spoke before I thought, I shouldn't have said it."
"no, you didn't know, Alex helped me realise, I never told you so you couldn't know."
"know what Kara."
"I was engaged once before, it was right out of high school, we were going to college together, we had it all planned out, until one morning I awoke and he was gone, no note, no trace he was ever there, just poof gone."
Lena moves to take Kara's hand as she rubs it softly, letting her know she is here for her
"I spent three days looking for him, I even went to visit his parents thinking they may know where he was, when I eventually found him he was on a train in Texas, when I asked why, why he left without so much as a note, he said that I was too much, that I was too annoying."
Lena feels her anger surge towards this man and she wishes desperately for just a few minutes alone with him in a locked room with no witnesses, instead of saying that though she pulls Kara closer until she can look directly into Kara`s tear stained eyes as she says "Never, Never, doubt my love for you, I promise you, you're not annoying, you're a ray of sunshine, you light up a room like you've light up my life. Whoever he was, was an idiot and if I ever… he was wrong, you are not annoying, and I promise, no matter what happens, no matter if I am angry or sad, I will always love you, Kara Zor-El Danvers, you are my wife, you are my life, and my love. I will never leave you."
Later that day when Alex and Maggie return with the food everything seems to be better, less painful, Lena taking every chance to assure Kara that she loves her and will never leave her, and if later that night she finds out the name of the man-child from Alex, well no one needs to know that.