They took her out to the balcony to see the sun.
Alex had been angry – livid more like it – that she hadn't been informed the moment Lorra had woken up. But when Kara and Lena had explained to her the events following Lorra opening her eyes – in hushed whispers, as Lorra looked around wonderfully at the various things scattered in the room (they had brought in some balloons and flowers while she was asleep) – she had understood and had diverted her attentions to cementing her image as the cool aunt. With that in mind Alex pranced over to Lorra and started explaining the function of the big machine Lorra was inspecting.
Lena looked on fondly as Lorra's eyes brightened a little when listening to Alex.
"She's definitely your daughter, look at her 3 years old and already interested in machines." Kara's voice came from behind, startling her.
It was such a couple-y thing to say. It made her think about their situation they were in. Until now Lena had had no time to think about how they were going to manage being parents to a child, as in together. She had spent the five days that Lorra was asleep formulating plans upon plans to tackle any and all scenarios she could come up with. But she hadn't for a second stopped to think of a plan to tackle the fact that she was supposed to be a parent to a child that was half her and half her crush. She had nothing on how to be a half of a team when the other half was the person with whom she was maybe – definitely in love with.
Taking her silence the wrong way, Kara got a stricken look on her face and started to backtrack. Lena interrupted before she could start a rambling speech, "Oh I won't be so sure about that, miss 'the youngest person ever to join the science guild'."
Kara did the blushing while staring at the floor and pushing up her glasses thing, and Lena in response did the biting on her lip to stop her smile from turning to a full blown grin thing.
They were interrupted by a giggle, specifically their daughter's giggle. They both turned around to see Alex and Lorra sharing a conspiratorial grin. When Lorra had caught them looking, she instantly lost the mirthful expression. It was replaced by a guilty one with an unhealthy dose of fear mixed in. It was as if she expected to be reprimanded for laughing.
Kara understands the situation a second after Lena does (who is frozen in place due to being too scared by the similarities between herself and this little child) , and moves to crouch down in front of her daughter, "Well doesn't that special sound deserve a special gift. You know it's right about that time."
Lorra's guilty look is replaced by a questioning one, at which Kara continues wistfully, "It's sunset time. The sun is a beautiful reddish colour and the sky is in multiple hues. Your cells soak up the last of the sun rays. It's the greatest feeling."
Lorra's face was taken up by an expression of awe, but she looked hesitant to ask anything. Lena's heart melted. She reached out with a hand holding it out for Lorra to grasp on to. An immense feeling of glee erupted within her when she tentatively took it.
And here they were standing on the balcony of the D.E.O., both Kara and Lorra taking a sun bath.
Lena just stood back and enjoyed watching Kara smile so brightly at sun, quite like Lena was used to smiling athersun. Lorra too was smiling, but her smile wasn't as fond as Kara's. Where Kara smiled at the sun like she was greeting an old friend, Lorra smiled like she was meeting a pen pal, of whom she had only read about. Her smile was filled with realized anticipation, happy yet fretful, as if waiting to wake up from a good dream.
Lena placed a hand on Kara's arm, motioning towards Lorra. And Kara understanding her meaning instantly, pinched Lorra's upper arm.
"Hey! What gives?" Lorra exclaims affronted.
Kara giggles, "It's not a dreaminah."
Lorra got a petulant look on he face, "I am notinah. I amedhyv."
Kara let out a twinkling laugh, "You are notedhyvyet myzrhueiao inah." she said and then pounced on Lorra, enveloping her in a hug.
Lorra squirmed for a minute looking uncomfortable. Lena wondered if a full body Danvers hug was too much for a kid who had just opened her eyes to the world for the first time after going through an accelerated growth and being fed information through a pod, but as it turned out she needn't had worried. It seems that the Danvers hug was the cure all, as Lorra relaxed into the hug and her arms came up to wrap themselves around Kara in return. Lena not wanting to be left out went in to join the hug.
Holding her daughter in her arms for the first time. Lena was reminded of another first time. The first time she had felt like a daughter, enveloped in a mother's hug. The time Eliza Danvers had come around for Thanksgiving.
'Shit!' a cold shiver ran down Lena's spine. We haven't yet told Eliza that she has a granddaughter.
That thought was shelved, when Kara untangling herself from the hug, started bouncing on her toes. Taking both of Lorra's hands in hers and peering deep into her eyes, Kara asked in her most serious voice, "So, think carefully before answering. This is a very serious question, punching concrete or flying?"
Lena's head whips in their direction, appalled.
But Lorra has been overcome with exhilaration and she starts bouncing too, "Flying of course. Do you even have to ask."
'Oh no!' Lena has to stop this before it goes any further. "No. No way. Uh-huh. Nope. Nyet. Non. Not happening. You are not going flying right now young miss." She tries to emulate her best Eliza Danvers - when she catches Kara sneaking food before meal-time - as she puts her fists on her hips. "And you!" she rounds up on Kara, "What are you teaching our daughter? It's not okay to test her powers out in the open like this. What happens when something goes wrong? We are in the middle of a city! How do we keep her safe in these environments? And anyway she just woke up for the first time don't you think that she would be exhausted."
Kara deflated, "Oh! Yeah I didn't think about all that…"
Whatever more she was gonna say in apology was drowned out by Lorra's loud groan, "Don't berateIeiu, mom she was just excited. And I don't need to rest. See, I am perfectly fi-." She trailed off when she saw the expressions on Lena's and Kara's faces.
"What did you call us just now?" Both asked at the same time.
"Oh!" Lorra blushed and started toeing the ground, "you know… umm… Alex used that term when she referred to you both, and uhmm… I'm so-."
She was cut off as they both enfolded her - at the same time – in their arms, sobbing. After a shocked moment she too returned the hug and began sobbing in tandem.
And Lena for the first time heard her daughter cry.
Author's Note
Kryptonian vocabulary
Inah - progeny daughter child
Edhyv - Adolescent Girl
Zrhueiao - Beautiful
Ieiu - Mother