Chapter 19

AN: XXX mature scene

After Alura, Zor-El and Eliza head home, with promises to visit after they get settled with the new baby, life settles down. Lena is much happier without the morning sickness, and far less stressed with Sam and Jess handling most of the business side of L-Corp. Kara is continuing as Editor-In-Chief and helping out as Supergirl when she can.

Bi-weekly game nights continue as normal, Lena is no less competitive even as she has to reach around the ever growing bump. Kara is just as doting as ever. Sister(in-law) nights continue at least once every other week and thankfully life is quiet.

Lena and Kara both enjoy the quiet Saturday mornings, waking up slowly and staying in bed as long as possible before heading to Ruby's game.

"Come on, can we just go look?", Kara asks, as they head down the street after Ruby's game one week, "we have to set up something eventually".

"My back does feel better today", Lena agrees.

"Yes!", Kara cheers, fistpumping, "We've got to get a crib, a dresser, paint, oh oh some glow in the dark stars for the ceiling, we can do constellations''.

"That sounds like a great idea", Lena says.

"I know, I'm full of them", Kara preens, "That's what I've been telling you".

"Full of something", Lena teases, "and ice cream on pizza is not a good idea, darling".

"It's two of the top foods together", Kara defends, "it's a great idea".

"Whatever you say", Lena acquiesces, "just as long as I don't have to eat it. Baby boy has calmed down with the food choices and I'd rather keep it that way".

"Awww I think he'd like it", Kara says, before putting her free hand on Lena's stomach, "isn't that right buddy".

"The kick to my rib just now says he doesn't agree", Lena says.

"Fine", Kara relents, "more for me then".

"Ok where to first?", Lena asks.

"Paint probably, right?", Kara says, "we don't want to have to move everything in just to move it to the middle and paint around it".

"Good thinking", Lena says, "What color?".

"Something calm", Kara says, "not blue just cause he's a boy. Maybe light walls and dark furniture or darker with white stuff, or will that just get dirty".

"Why don't we look at cribs first pick the color wood we want and then pick paint", Lena offers trying to head off a level 5 ramble.

"Oh good idea", Kara says, still off in her head.

"I know", Lena chuckles, "I'm full of them".

"Haha", Kara says, sarcastically, kissing Lena's head as she pulls her close, "To the baby furniture store. Where is the baby furniture store?".

Lena already has her phone out searching for the one with the best reviews.

They quickly agree on color scheme and Lena buys the safest crib on Earth.

"You know he might just fly out of it", Kara says, "plus he'll be invulnerable".

"Clark didn't have powers as a baby and Jonathan hasn't gotten his yet so unless we get an early developer we're playing it safe", Lena says, leaving no room for argument.

They go ahead and buy paint, tape, and plastic sheets so they don't ruin the carpet. The furniture Lena ordered is set aside at the store to be picked up by Kara as soon as they're ready.


After a nice lunch out, the conversation flowing easily just like old times, they head home ready to do the first coat of paint. Thankfully, the penthouse walls were already a light grey so they won't have to do anything special, just two coats over it. Lena lays out the plastic and tapes off the baseboards and around the outlets after removing the covers while Kara hovers to tape off between the top of the wall and ceiling.

They agreed on a light blue/grey color for the walls with dark walnut furniture. The simple colors will allow them to easily decorate and redecorate as he gets older, hopefully without having to repaint(a foresight Lena is thankful for when Kara spill the paint, "And that's why we got the plastic", she says, looking at a pouting Kara).

Kara favorite piece is that instead of doing an accent wall, they're doing an accent ceiling, painting it a dark navy so that the stars glow even brighter.

Lena starts off strong easily cutting in all the edges, getting the top with a lift from Kara, and moving on to roll on the rest. Three hours later, (they got a little sidetracked) she lets Kara do the last wall on her own, claiming she's going to fix dinner.

Kara takes her times finishing up the first coat and reseals the paint bucket and heads down the hall to wash out the brushes and throw away the pan liner. Ready for dinner, or a pre-dinner snack, Kara heads to the kitchen but catches sight of Lena curled up asleep on the couch. She calls in a delivery order before carefully scooping Lena up and floating her to the bedroom.


On Sunday, even though she wasn't on the couch long, her back is stiff, so Lena plays a more supervisory role while Kara does the last coat and they admire the work, both seeing the amazing bright future in front of them.

They both agree they don't want to rush getting everything set up as they still have just under three months, so Kara picks up the furniture and they agree to set it up next weekend, opting to have a relaxing Sunday evening before work starts again.


Lena learned quickly that it was extremely uncomfortable to constantly bend over so she brought in several pillows and set up a little cushion in the middle of the room to assemble the furniture so Kara could put it in place. The problem is that Lena has trouble reaching around her belly and everytime she drops a screw it disappears in the pillows. She also fights a losing battle with the four slightly different allen wrenches, unable to find the right sized one. Needless to say it leads to a lot of muttering curse words and of course, Kara has to say "language", everytime she hears one, which is all of them. Lena relents and agrees to stop cursing, only to come up with more creative words as she continues to fight a losing battle with the pillow that keeps eating the screws.

Eventually they get the last piece in place, a sturdy rocking chair in the corner and Kara helps Lena off the floor, pulling her close, molding her front to Lena's back as she holds the bump.

"It's perfect", Lena says, tears in her eyes.

Kara kisses her temple, "he's going to love it".

Lena turns in her arms, craning her neck the rest of the way to connect their lips, "I love you".

"Even though I made you stop cursing at the tools?", Kara jokes.

"I suppose he does have ears now even if he won't remember", Lena concedes.

Kara chuckles, knowing that is the closest Lena will get to 'I was wrong', and kisses her again. They spend a little while longer admiring their work, picturing moments they'll get to spend with their son in the future, until Kara's stomach growls.

They manage to agree on Thai from the place around the corner and Kara leaves Lena curled up in her reading chair and goes to pick up the order.

They have a calm night, Kara continuing to introduce Lena to all of Disney movies, stating, "The first time you see Aladdin can't be with your son".

By the time the movie ends, the food is gone, courtesy of Kara, who now has a lap full of Lena. Once she entered the second trimester and really started showing, they had to come up with new ways to cuddle to get maximum contact without baby boy being in the way. The best one, they've decided is Kara leaned against the corner of the couch with Lena stretched out on top of her.

When the movie ends, Kara's hand, which was tracing meaningless shapes up and down Lena's side, rucking up her shirt and caressing the skin from her ribs to her waistband, stills and Lena shifts slightly, just enough to crane her neck to kiss the underside of Kara's jaw, as she's focused on backing out of the movie before shutting down the TV. The kisses get a little more intense as Lena vies for her attention, adding a slight nip to the last one that finally draws Kara's eyes to her as they are lit by only the light coming through the sheer shades across the balcony windows.

"Bed, darling?", Lena draws and Kara quickly picks up on her heart rate.

Kara nods, using their position to slide her other arm under Lena's legs and scoop her up. Lena's arms tighten around her shoulders, her lips not leaving her jaw as Kara carries her down the hallway.

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One more nip to Kara's pulse point causes the superhero's knees to buckle slightly as she lets a moan slip but she levitates to place Lena in the center of the bed.

Lena rucks up her shirt, and Kara quickly grabs the hem, pulling it off as Lena scrapes her nails down Kara's abs, causing the Kryptonian to curse as she drops down beside her, head tucked into Lena's neck as she returns the kisses.

"If you ever want to teach him Kryptonian, you'll have to watch your language too", Lena teases, kissing up the side of Kara's neck before nipping at her pulse point.

"Oh Rao", Kara moans, "Ok, ok. I'll watch my mouth just Lena don't stop".

Lena smirks in victory, as she trails her hand down to Kara's waistband, pushing the sleep shorts off her hips.

It doesn't take long before she pushes Kara over the edge, chuckling at Kara's valiant effort throughout to not curse in English or Kryptonian.

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For the last three months of her pregnancy, Lena agreed to work from home most days, only going into the office if she couldn't avoid it, ie board meetings. Thankfully, she had gotten rid of most of the grumpy old white men and the members left included three mothers, another woman, and men who had learned not to mess with a pregnant woman, especially not a pregnant Lena Luthor. Her last board meeting of the year went smoothly, and she trust Jess and Sam to handle the last one before the new year on their own while she'll be at home with the baby.

Most days Kara would catch her in her home office, looking over paperwork or blueprints, sketching out projects she wanted to work on once she went back, but lately Lena's favorite place is in the big reclining loveseat, curled up with pillows and blankets and no less than three books.

The first time Kara catches her there, tired after Supergirl saved a derailed train, she just curls up around her, teasing her about nesting, before being lulled to sleep by Lena's voice as she reads and her nails scraping along her scalp.