Karry Universe
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A Very Karry Birth
Barry was pacing the lab at super speed, doing some work on the lab's Gideon as he did. He was also talking faster than either Cisco or Caitlin could understand him, which was starting to annoy the two.
"Barry!" Caitlin called from her position next to the unconscious Jesse – she had been looking over Jesse's vitals and giving her the treatment Eobard Thawne had made for Barry originally. "You're driving us insane," Caitlin commented as Barry paused. "What's wrong?"
"It's May 28th," Barry said indignantly. "You know, the end of May. That's when you said the baby should be born. Any day my baby will be born. I should… I shouldn't be here. I should be with Kara."
"Why are you here then?" Cisco asked.
"Updating Gideon," Barry said. "By the way Caitlin, she can monitor Jesse now for you."
"What?" Caitlin asked surprised.
"What do you think I've been doing with the monitors?" Barry stated. "I've been connecting her to the systems so Gideon can keep an eye on her, and alert you. Soon I'll be able to connect her to the suits too." Caitlin bit her lip. Despite Barry and Kara assuring them that Gideon was not meant to take her job, she wanted to believe them but she could see the way Gideon was processing and how quickly and easily she was already taking over from Caitlin's workload. Gideon would be able to do a lot more soon… at least there was no way Gideon could deliver a baby. Yet. "You know, with this update, once I work out all the kinks, it will help in hospitals too."
"Barry… go home," Caitlin sighed. "Who's with Kara anyway?"
"Iris," Barry took a breath. "And yeah I think I will head…"
"Might want to wait on that," Cisco said as an alert came up at that moment on his monitor. "There's been a kidnapping – well not a kid, a Professor… Jenkins."
"No way," Caitlin said, distracted now as she moved to the computer.
"Who?" Barry asked; the name not familiar to him.
"He worked for the labs," Caitlin said. "Not recently…. Long before you and Kara were here. He was one of the first people Eobard put on the Particle Accelerator job. He did a lot of work on it, but he retired a year before it was ready. He had health issues… I really didn't think he had long for this world."
"Anyone know he was on the Particle Accelerator?" Barry asked. His mind already racing to the reasons behind this professor-napping.
"Be pretty easy to find out," Cisco said awkwardly. "The list of all people who worked on it is public knowledge after all." He sighed, considering both his and Caitlin's name were on that list, as well as Ronnie, people did sometimes threaten them, but since STAR was now in an unbelievably good light lately and the Allens were popular their closeness to them had reduced the hate.
"So, an angry meta?' Barry groaned, telling Kara mentally he would be gone longer than he expected. "Get on the satellites. I'll search the city." Barry was in his outfit in a flash and sped out of the lab.
"Barry," Cisco said over the com after a moment, suddenly worried. "He's not the only person who worked on the accelerator that has gone missing recently. It seems someone is kidnapping the old team."
"Caitlin and yourself are on that list?" Barry asked, worried himself at this.
"So is Ronnie," Caitlin added. "Barry, get to Ronnie. He should be at our apartment" Barry had to turn around, but by the time he got to the apartment the door was broken off.
Barry looked around sadly at the mess in his friend's place. "He's not here." Barry said. "Ronnie gone."
"Get Stein," Cisco said automatically.
-Superflash-
Kara was lying on her couch watching the TV. Krypto by her feet keeping an eye on his mistress. Iris was sitting on the armchair, working at her laptop. "It's weird you sitting here with me doing my job," Kara commented, and Iris laughed, putting the laptop down.
"I wasn't doing your job, this time." Iris said now and showed Kara the screen. "I was looking at my next one," Kara saw the familiar CatCo website on her screen.
"I thought you said CatCo was too far," Kara said.
"To be a writer, yes," Iris said. "But this is for CatCo TV. An anchor position, and Cat is setting up a small studio in Central for the TV branch since this has the most meta human activity, and since I am willing to go near attacks and have some very good connections she's willing to give me a shot. This doesn't start though until you're ready to take over at the labs again."
"That's great Iris," Kara grinned, mentally telling Barry to remind her to thank Cat. "Ow." Kara said, as she suddenly felt a pain in her back. "What was…?" Kara looked down as she felt something moisture between her legs and knew instantly what had happened. "My water broke." Her voice was suddenly deathly calm.
Iris stood up automatically, forgetting all about the job and only just saving her laptop. "Where am I bringing you?" Iris suddenly remembered to ask as she sped around, looking for keys.
"Nowhere," Kara said, finding amusement in Iris' panicking. "We're doing a home birth. I just need Caitlin and Barry… and Clark." Iris stared at Kara, not sure how to go about getting Clark here, but Kara was sending a thought to Barry: I need you.
-Superflash-
Barry got Kara thoughts the moment when he'd gotten Stein into the Superflash cave. "Oh god no… bad timing… very bad." Barry groaned, confusing everyone. "Kara's in labor."
"What?!" Caitlin snapped, sitting up, worried about her husband but now knew the moment she had been training for months for was upon her. "But… I… Are you sure?"
"Oh yeah," Barry said, suddenly leaning over as he felt Kara's pain. "She's in labor." He now groaned in the pain himself.
"Wait… dude can you feel….?" Cisco asked as Barry simply nodded. "Damn, I've heard of sympathetic labor pains, but man…" Cisco laughed but Caitlin merely slapped him.
"What do we do?" Caitlin turned to Barry. "I need to get to Kara but Ronnie… I'm in danger as well, but right now…"
"Okay… Okay…" Barry muttered, putting his hands on his face. "Get Clark on the line. Tell him to come here and get you, Caitlin, and then the two of you go to Kara. You'll be safe with Superman with you." Barry made the hard choice here. "She's wants Clark there anyway." Cisco was fast to send Clark a message. "Stein, can you find out where Ronnie is?"
"Ronald and myself share a bond not to dissimilar from yourself and Kara, I can feel…" Martin started.
"Just do it," Barry demanded, almost wanting to run to the penthouse and get Krypto, but he knew if he went there he could not pull himself to leave. "Jax." Barry called to Firehawk – Jax had showed up earlier in the day to sit by Jesse's side as he'd done since the start of her coma. "We're saving Ronnie and the others."
"But Jesse…"
"Jesse's is in a coma and not on the list. She'll be fine. I have a kid to meet and I'm doing it. You're a hero and part of the Justice League. Do your duty or make me call someone else." Jax sighed, but nodded as he knew Barry was right.
"Okay, let's get this over and get you to your kid," Jax said.
-Superflash-
At work, Clark ran over to, and pulled Lois aside. "We've got to go," Clark whispered, looking around the Daily Planet offices. "Kara's in labor and she needs me there. Someone who won't break."
The conversation had been had before. Both Clark and Kara had some doubts on Clark being in the delivery with her, but Lois had insisted Kara needed someone who hands she could at least squeeze without shattering, especially since it seemed her super strength had not weaken with the rest of her powers. "Go," Lois said, nodding. "I'll grab the kids. We'll be there soon."
Clark nodded as he ran out of the office and Lois took out a cellphone. "Hey Cat," Lois said. "Think you can help arrange a quick transport from Metropolis to Central for two adults and two kids?" While Clark would fly the Superman way, Lois knew she had to grab Eliza as well.
-Superflash-
Ronnie looked around at the group of familiar fellow scientists; all people who worked on the Particle Accelerator some years ago now. Their kidnapper, a middle-aged non-descript man, stared at them. "You did this. Now you will fix me," the man said angrily.
"We did what?" One of Ronnie's former colleges asked.
"You made the accelerator!" the man snapped. "Everyone in this room… Everyone! Played a part."
"Look…" Ronnie said, getting up and not afraid of another meta. He dealt with much worse than this man…. although he wished he had his co-Firestorm with him. "What's your name?"
"Griffin Grey," Griffin spat.
"Griffin, what's your power?" Griffin scowled as he picked up a large metal rod and bent it with ease. "Well, Griffin, I don't see how being strong is a bad thing…"
"I didn't at first either. Oh, I had a lot of fun with it… until I found the downside." Griffin took out a picture from his pocket. "That was me before the Accelerator blew." Ronnie stared at the picture; it showed a young man, of similar appearance to Griffin, but by no way only a few years his younger self.
"How old are you?' Ronnie asked.
"18," Griffin said, causing the others some disconcert.
"Seriously?" Ronnie asked, shocked. "Look, I'm sorry, but this is not the way… I mean, look around…" Ronnie indicated the other people in the room. "You grabbed a bunch of people who worked on the Accelerator without knowing what we actually did. I was a structural engineer… I wouldn't even know where to begin to help you. Let us go and I'll take you to STAR myself. The Allens, they are good people. If they can help you they will."
"The Allens didn't do this to me. You did." Griffin hit Ronnie, causing him to fly against the nearby wall in sudden pain. "Anyone else?"
"We'll help you," an older man said, standing up. "Just get us some supplies…"
"There's only one door out and I have it blocked," Griffin said once agreeing to, and taking down the list of supplies, as he left they heard a sound of something heavy being moved.
"We can't help him," someone else said, turning to the man who talked.
"I was just buying us some time," the man said going over to Ronnie. "You okay?" Ronnie nodded, sitting up.
"Jenkins?" Ronnie said. "I thought you were a dead man."
"Nearly was. My cancer went into remission, though," Jenkins smiled meekly. "Did you mean what you said? Are the Allens really that good of people?"
"The best," Ronnie said, and then felt something on his arm. He pulled his sleeve up to see the word 'Where?' being written on it. Jenkins raised an eyebrow at that. "I need something sharp. Hurry." Ronnie looked around. No one else had seen. That was good. He didn't want people knowing he was Firestorm, obviously.
Jenkins nodded and got a piece of broken glass, handing it to Ronnie. Ronnie knew where they were; he had seen a bit of it when he had been brought in. Well, enough to recognized the place was the amusement part. He wrote 'C.C.A.P.' on his other arm, knowing Martin was smart enough to decipher this without himself bleeding to death, writing the whole thing. "Help is coming," Ronnie said, wincing.
-Superflash-
Clark had arrived at the labs and taken Caitlin to the penthouse. Caitlin had immediately checked on Kara, making sure everything was set up right. "We have some time still," Caitlin said to Kara who was lying down on her bed. "And our friendship is officially the weirdest."
Kara tried to smile at that, but stopped as pain took her over and she squeezed Clark's hand. "Lois was right," Kara said after it was over. "I needed you in here just for that."
Clark smiled and a laughed. "Always here for you," Clark said, not having felt the pain of the squeeze… yet.
"Barry… I need him too…" Kara said, tears appearing in her eyes. Her husband should have been here.
"Calm down, he'll be here," Caitlin said, smoothing her friend. "Clark." Caitlin signaled for Clark to follow her. "Do you know if there is anyone in the League who can take Barry's place? To let him come here?"
"Surely the fastest man alive can take care of that and get back here on time on his own?" Clark joked.
"He can feel her pains," Caitlin said, Clark's mouth instantly dropped open. "He has Jax with him, but I'm concerned here. Not just that he will miss this but… this guy has Ronnie as well."
Clark nodded, trying to think and took out his communicator. "Gideon," Clark said into it, signaling for the Watchtower Gideon – they had updated the communicator to connect to Gideon so they could talk to her instead of just sending messages.
"Yes, Superman?" Gideon's voice said through the speaker.
"Besides myself, Flash, Firestorm, and Firehawk, are there any nearby available Justice League Members?" Clark asked.
"J'onn and White Canary would be the closest," Gideon replied. "Followed by Atom, who is several hours away."
"Ray and Lucy are looking into wedding venues." Caitlin automatically commented at that information. Ray still had a lot of money in savings and he was using it to give himself and Lucy their dream wedding. "And I called J'onn," Caitlin replied. "He has a meeting, although Alex and Sara are on their way here… maybe Sara can take a detour."
"Gideon do you know where Flash and Firehawk are going?" Clark asked.
"Yes, they are heading to the Central City Amusement Park," Gideon replied.
"Send the location to White Canary. Tell her to join in," Clark told Gideon, who replied with "of course" before Clark hung up.
-Superflash-
When Stein had received Ronnie's location, they had waited for Cisco to bring up satellite images of the place. They got the images in time to see Griffin's return with some chemicals. Then the two were gone, but Barry was unusually the one slowing them down. Every time he felt Kara's pain, he had to stop just to breathe.
"Maybe you should let me do this and you should go to your wife?" Jax suggested, the third time this happened.
"Kara will be upset if I don't save Ronnie or if something happens to him. Our kid's birthday will forever be darkened," Barry answered, wanting more than anything to head to his wife, but knowing he had to save Ronnie.
"I think she would be more upset if something happened to you," Jax pointed out, but they were already at the park and before anymore could be said, a large object flew into the sky and collided into Jax. Apparently they had been seen.
"Hey," Barry said running around the man stopping in front of him. "Why are you doing this? Why kidnap these people?"
'To fix me," Griffin yelled, going to punch Barry, but Barry was too fast. "Not everyone got the good powers you two did, Flash." Griffin went to punch again, but before Barry could dodge he felt Kara pain and paused. The punch that hit him sent him flying and, the moment he landed some feet away, he saw Griffin physically age to his surprise.
Before Griffin could punch again there was a roaring noise and White Canary appeared on a motorcycle, circling Griffin before stopping and taking out her bo-staff. "Make him use his powers!" Barry called out to Sara, not even surprised by her arrival. Upon seeing Griffin age Barry understood what was going on with him and knew that by making him use his powers, they were weakening and aging him.
Meanwhile Jax had recovered from his hit but went to the entrance with a metal object barricading his entry. It was too heavy for Jax to move, but his fire blast was powerful enough to partially melt it, and he could open the door. "Okay everyone, you're free," Jax called, the scientists in the room immediately started moving out. Jenkins helped Ronnie, who barely gave Jax a nod.
Jax went to where Barry was running circles around Griffin, and Sara was kicking and hitting the man with her bo staff. The man seemed to physically be aging as he fought back. Jax flew up in the air and Griffin picked up a barrel and threw it at him. This time he avoided it and he could see Griffin age up again. He was already an old man, barely on the cusp of 80 now.
"Over here," Sara called, seeing Barry paused and Griffin turned around and went to punch her. Sara narrowly avoided it and Griffin punched the ride Sara had been standing in front of. Griffin aged up again but then collapsed.
"Is he dead?" Jax asked, landing as he looked over the body, unsure what the plan had been.
"I think so," Sara breathed, unsure herself. She had seen a lot of death in her time but nothing like this. "Officially the weirdest death I have ever seen though."
"Should have seen Brainiac," Barry mumbled as he groaned. "Oh man… I got to go…"
"Go!" Sara and Jax said together, and Barry sped off. "Did he seem in pain?"
"It's the bond," Jax said simply, and Sara was confused for a moment before understanding and stopped herself from laughing.
"No wonder Gideon told me to come here," Sara muttered.
"Lucky she did. I don't know if Barry would have survived without you," Jax stated.
-Superflash-
Barry didn't bother going to bring his costume back to the labs first. He ran right into the penthouse and straight into the bedroom where Kara, Clark, and Caitlin was ignoring the ever-growing number of people in the living room. "Hey, I'm here!" Barry called, taking Kara's other hand and kissing her forehead.
"I didn't think you would make it," Kara panted, tears mixing with sweat but clearly relieved her husband was here.
"Nothing could keep me away," Barry said. I was always going to be here. He added in his head, and sent calming emotions to his wife.
"Is Ronnie…?" Caitlin had to ask.
"Safe," Barry said, nodding to Caitlin. "How much longer here though, because these pains seem to be getting closer together?"
"Yeah, well this baby wants out," Caitlin said. It had only been a couple of hours since Kara's water broke – the fight against Griffin seemed quick, but it hadn't been, really – but things were moving fast. "It's time to push."
"Just squeeze my hand and try not to break Barry's…" Clark said, comforting his cousin as she did as he instructed, and started to push.
"It's okay," Barry said, trying to ignore the pain himself. He had to be strong for Kara. He had to make sure to tell all the guys that yes labor pains were bad.
"Kara you need to push," Caitlin said.
'I can't… I can't do this…" Kara shouted, her face red and shock and worry evident through the pain she now felt. She had never felt so much pain before – not to this extent, at least.
"Yes you can," Barry said, moving a strand of hair out of Kara's face. "Every day in this country and around the world babies are born. Normal woman give birth every day… and you're not normal, you're super! You can give our baby life."
Kara nodded, more to herself, as she yelled out and continued to push. No-one else but Caitlin spoke as she instructed Kara, a little hysterically, to continue to pushing, that the baby was coming...
"I see a head!" Caitlin suddenly cried. "A healthy head… and body… Kara, there's a tiny person coming out of you!" Kara half-laughed, half-screamed as she continued to push a few minutes later, Caitlin had said tiny person in her arms. "Hey," Caitlin said soothingly to the child, "Barry, grab the scissors over there. Cut the cord." Barry took a pair of scissors that were speciously glowing slightly green.
"Is this Kryptonite?" Barry asked, shocked.
"It's only a little… How else was I going to cut the cord?" Caitlin asked.
"She got you there," Clark said, almost smiling as Caitlin told Barry where to cut the baby free from the mother and, once separated, Caitlin took the baby, smiling down at it as she cleaned off some of the gunk and wrapped the baby in a small blanket.
"Hey there, we've all been waiting for you." Caitlin cooed to the crying baby as she grinned at it, looking up at Kara.
"Are you going to leave us wondering?" Clark asked and Barry had to agree. While he cut the cord he had not seen the sex of the baby.
Caitlin smiled. "You two have a beautiful baby girl," Caitlin said. "And I have to rub this in Cisco's face…." She had been getting annoyed with her friend continuously insisting it was going to be a boy.
"A girl," Barry sighed as Caitlin brought the baby closer and he took his baby girl from her. "A little princess… just like her mom."
"Let me have her," Kara demanded, wanting more than ever to hold her child, and Barry sat down on the bed so Kara could get a better look at her daughter. "She's beauti–" Before Kara could finish her sentence, she cried out in pain once more.
"What…?" Barry asked and Caitlin seemed startled but went back to her position.
"No way!" Caitlin cried in shocked
"What's going on?" Barry asked, suddenly concerned.
"Barry hold onto your daughter. Kara, squeeze Clark's hand again until you break it as you need to push again," Caitlin instructed, not answering Barry. "Just do as I say!" Caitlin called out before anyone could argue and Kara went back to pushing, and squeezing Clark's hand. Almost ten minutes passed before crying was heard. Another baby. "Congratulations, it's a girl… Again." Caitlin took the new baby. "Clark could you…?" Clark took the scissors, feeling a slight effect from them, but cut the cord regardless where Caitlin indicated.
"Twins…?" Barry said after a moment, his face turning white. "How… How did we not know this?"
"The ultrasounds didn't work," Caitlin said as she cleaned off the new baby and wrapped her in an extra baby blanket they had. "We must have just missed the extra heartbeat." Caitlin held the new baby, smiling down at her.
"Is… Is that all?" Kara asked weakly, wondering if a third was coming.
"The only heartbeat I hear inside you is your own," Clark confirmed, feeling shocked himself and surprised that he hadn't realized there were two either.
"All we have to do is deliver the afterbirth," Caitlin said, handing the second baby to Kara and glad Barry had been sitting down for that. He looked ready to faint so Caitlin quietly told him to take deep breaths. The couple looked beyond shocked. "Clark, I think you can go and inform everyone downstairs that everything is fine here. More than fine, in fact."
Clark nodded, taking one look at the two babies before kissing Kara's head. "You did great," Clark whispered before leaving, mumbling about how he thought she broke his hand as he awkwardly flexed it.
"Hey there, baby," Kara now cooed as Barry positioned himself next to her, his own arms full with the first baby. Caitlin excused herself to the en suite bathroom to give the new family a moment of privacy. "I'm your mummy…" Kara looked to the baby in Barry's arms too as she saw he was still pale and couldn't help but send calming vibes his way for once.
"This is your daddy… and we're going to love, care and protect you for as long as we live," Kara continued addressing her children, a grin on her face. She'd already forgotten the pain she had just gone through as she stared upon, and held, her girls. She only felt love now. A raw, almost overpowering love. It fueled her as much as it nearly scared her.
-Superflash-
Clark went downstairs to find Lois and his kids were already there with Eliza. "That was fast," Clark said, knowing it wasn't a short flight from Metropolis to Central, especially with air traffic.
"Cat Grant has her ways. She got us a very fast jet on short notice," Lois said, not sorry about using her work rival to get here on time. There was no way she wasn't getting here.
Along with his family and Eliza, in the room was Iris, Eddie, Joe, Cisco, Sara, Alex, Stein, Astra, Karen, and even Ronnie. The large room looked very small with the gathered crowd.
"How is she?" Alex asked, worried. They had heard the screaming and crying of course.
"Kara is good," Clark said. "And so are their daughters."
"Oh man," Cisco said, kicking the carpet. He had been so sure.
"Hang on… daughters…?" Eliza said catching Clark's word that Cisco hadn't.
"Yes, daughters… Kara and Barry had twin girls!" Clark cried, surprising everyone.
"And they are all good," Caitlin said, appearing on the stairs some blood on her clothing. "Everything is fine…. I told them we would give them some time to themselves. They are pretty shocked. They'll call for us when they want us." Caitlin smiled at Ronnie. "I'm glad your okay."
"Just a couple of broken ribs, I think," Ronnie said, holding his stomach. "Decided to come here instead of the hospital though."
"I'll look at that… and your hand," Caitlin said, turning to Clark with a smirk and Clark laughed. "Once I'm cleaned up, of course."
Caitlin disappeared into the downstairs bathroom. "So who do you think they are going to ask to see first?" Sara asked after a moment. She wanted to see the babies too, but knew it wasn't going to be her first and no way were they all going to over-crowd the bedroom.
"I bet on the grandparents," Cisco said. "Joe and Eliza."
"I'll take that bet," Eliza said right away. "It's going to be Clark and Lois. They have a special connection." No one in the room could deny that.
"Clark already saw the babies though." Alex said. "Maybe Iris. She was here when the water broke."
"That was dumb luck." Iris said. "Maybe…"
Before Iris could finish Barry voice was heard. "Krypto!" Barry called from up the stairs. Krypto, who had been playing with Jason and Ella, paused. "Come." Krypto turned and ran up the stairs to where the voice had come from to the disappointment of Ella and Jason.
The group paused for a moment before laughing. "Should have seen that one coming," Joe said, rolling his eyes.
"Krypto is their first child," Eliza said, nodding to herself. That dog was more special to the couple than anyone here.
"Should have seen what coming?" Caitlin asked, coming out of the bathroom in a new pair of clothes she had clearly prepared in advance. The group laughed again and sat there waiting.
"You know they only bought enough stuff for one kid," Clark said. "They need another crib."
"More clothes," Alex added.
"More diapers," Lois realized.
"Maybe we should take care of this for them?" Joe said, to nods all around.
Clark got up, planning on going on the round, but then heard Barry call.
"Clark, Lois, we want you to meet them first." Barry said from the top of the stairs. "And bring the kids."
"Come on Jason, Ella," Lois said with a smile as they went up the stairs and into the room. Kara was holding the two babies in her arms. Krypto was at the bottom of the bed looking at the trio adorably.
"Aunt Kara," Jason and Ella said together, going to the side of the bed.
"Hey," Kara said. "Meet your cousins."
"They are so small," Jason said, looking at them.
"You were once too," Clark said with a smile, coming up to his former position next to Kara and taking a proper look at the kids. He hadn't been able to take them in before. "They look just like their mom." Kara smiled and Barry laughed.
"You want to hold them?" Kara asked, and Clark nodded, taking one of the babies and Lois came up and took the other.
Lois smiled down at the little girl. "Oh, I miss these days," Lois cooed as Jason and Ella both looked on.
"Well you can always have another," Barry joked and Lois smiled politely.
"Two little monsters are enough," Lois said playfully, looking at her own kids. "I'll just have to come here to see them as often as I can."
"What are their names?" Clark finally asked the most important question.
"Well, we only planned one girl name and one boy name so we had some thinking to do," Barry said. 'But we're very happy with what we decided."
"Lois, your holding Alura Felicity Allen," Kara introduced.
"And Clark, you have Nora Lara Allen," Barry announced, and Clark paused, his eyes going to Kara at this.
"I hope you don't mind," Kara said. "But my Aunt Lara was always nice to me. I loved her."
"I'm happy," Clark said smiling, looking down at his niece. "If we had another daughter I was going to do the same, but we decided not to." Clark looked at Kara. 'Thank you, but I also need to ask. What are their Kryptonian names?"
"Since Barry is an Allen and does not have a house, they take the house of El and repeat the same as me, so they are Alura and Nora Zor-El." Clark handed Nora back to Kara, and looked to Lois.
"Did you bring it?" Clark asked, Lois who nodded and handed Alura to Barry, going into her pocketbook and taking out a superman necklace. "I only brought one, so bare with me."
"What…?" Kara asked, and was shocked as Clark suddenly went into the traditional prayer to Rao, thanking him for the safe birth and then the traditional greeting into the house of El. Ending it with: "…Alura and Nora Zor-El, daughters of Kara Zor-El."
Kara had tears in her eyes. She had not been expecting Clark to do it. She had done it for Jason and Ella, of course, but she hadn't thought… "I didn't think, you would… thank you."
"I couldn't let my nieces not be welcomed into the family," Clark grinned, handing the Superman necklace to Kara. "You did it for Ella and Jason."
"That was good dad," Jason said, knowing his father sometimes had problems with Kryptonese and Clark smirked at his son.
"Should be – he's been practicing for months," Lois stated, "making sure he got all the words right. And in the proper order." Lois smirked as Clark wrapped an arm around her. "Now, as much as I would like to hog the four of you, there are a lot of other people who want to meet those two. Who do you want us to send up next?"
'Before that…" Barry said quickly. "There is something we wanted to run by you two." Clark and Lois looked at one another and then back at the couple. "We want you to be godparents."
"If something were to happen to us we can't think of anyone we would trust more with our kids," Kara said.
"We'd be honored," Clark said after a moment with Lois, who nodded her agreement. Clark bent down and kissed Kara's forehead again and then hugged Barry. "Welcome to the dad game."
Ella took a piece of paper out of her pocket and held it out to Kara. "I drew this for the baby," Ella said, holding it up to show that she had drawn the house of El symbol and then four, what seems to be adults, two small children, and what looked like a baby. "Us. The house of El. But I need to add baby two."
"Well, why don't you take it and finish it?" Kara said with a smile. Ella grinned back, kissed her Aunt, and ran out of the room to go finish her drawing.
"Jason," Clark said to his boy, meaning him to follow as the two were going to go send Joe, Iris, and Eddie up on Barry's request, but Jason was looking at Kara and the baby, not moving. "You can come back and see them later."
"Okay," Jason said, but was still paused. "Aunt Kara can I hold one… Later…? Not now…"
"Of course," Kara said with a smile. "But you'll have to be very careful." Jason nodded with a smile and followed his parents out.
A few moments later Joe, Iris, and Eddie came in. "It's Pop-Pop," Barry said to his daughters and Joe had to smile, taking Alura from Barry the moment he could. They didn't stay as long as Clark's family had, but it was a lovely few minutes before Alex, Sara and Eliza replaced them.
"So named after the moms," was the first thing Alex said when she came in, making Kara and Barry look at each other. "Clark and Lois told everyone. Should have guessed it though, what with the major mommy issues you two have." Kara and Barry choose not to comment on that.
"I knitted this," Eliza said, taking out a knitted yellow baby blanket. "I'm going to make another one now too."
"You have the time?" Kara asked.
"Well… I took early retirement," Eliza confessed. "Maybe now is a good time to tell you, maybe not, but anyway… I'm selling the house and planning on moving nearby. Be closer to my girls…. All five of them." Eliza smiled at the five girls in the room, Sara little surprised she was included in that. "And of course my one boy." Eliza put a hand on Barry's shoulder. Krypto barked from his spot. "Okay two boys." Eliza corrected and Krypto calmed down making Eliza laugh and give him a quick pet. "Now, let me hold my granddaughter."
"Of course," Barry said, still a little shocked.
Barry and Kara spent the next few hours getting visitors. Literally everyone in the super-family had come to see the new additions; that was until Caitlin told everyone to leave and that Kara needed some rest.
Caitlin was nearly alone in the living room of the penthouse when Ronnie called to her – Lois, Clark, and Eliza had left to get a hotel room for the night, not heading back home yet. They were still planning on going out the next day and getting the extra things Barry and Kara now needed. Everyone else had also left but Caitlin wanted to be close in case she was needed. "You know… I'm still concerned on leaving a kid fatherless someday," the couple had had the conversation about Ronnie's fears after Caitlin had plucked up the courage to tell him she already knew, "but seeing everyone come here to just see those babies makes me realize something…" Caitlin nodded, waiting for Ronnie to go on, not holding her hopes though. "If I were to die, you would have a lot more support than my mom had. The kid would have multiple men step up to be a father figure."
"Ronnie… what are you saying?" Caitlin asked.
"I'm not ready yet. I don't think you're ready to be a mom either, really, and I still can't risk having a biological kid, but maybe in a year, if we're ready, we can talk about adoption again," Ronnie stated quickly, and Caitlin paused for a moment before smiling and hugging her husband
-Superflash-
Thea ran into the renamed Canary Cave where Laurel, Curtis and Paula were waiting for her. "You're late," Laurel called out.
"You don't know?" Thea said. "Have you not checked your messages?"
Thea saw the confused looks. "Kara had the baby… Well it should be: Kara had the babies. She had twins. Two girls."
"Seriously? Awesome!" Paula grinned, and Curtis nodded with a smile himself.
"Do you know their names?" Laurel said with a smile. Not only were they nieces because of the superfamily, but since Sara was marrying Alex, Kara's sister, she was their Aunt through marriage… Sort of. She planned on being an awesome Aunt for them regardless.
"Nora Lara Allen and Alura Felicity Allen," Thea said and the group paused at the name.
"Alura Felicity…" Laurel quoted with a small smile, wondering if time had progressed how it was supposed to and she had been the one to die if that would have been 'Alura Laurel' instead. "Well ladies, we have to take care of this deal going down in the city and then we're getting our asses to Central. We have nieces to meet."
Post Chapter Note (MUST READ!): So, Kara gave birth and its twins! That was the secret I was keeping… even if some of you realized this already. Anyway, while I still love this story and have a ton of plans, but I need to take a break. I want to work on some other ideas I have and this story is huge and takes up everything so it will go on pause now for me to peruse other projects. This will be back soon though!
These other projects? Well, read below…
Millma Verse stuff!
Soon (probably in a week or so) I will be posting up two different two/three shots.
This first one is a pure Supergirl story (located solely in the Supergirl section obviously) and will be called 'X-Power' and is the third in my Kryptonite Series (the first two being 'Trapped' and 'The Two Karas'). Like the previous two it will involve a mother/daughter relationship with Kara and Cat Grant but will also feature Kara becoming romantically involved with someone. Not a Karry obviously, since it's not a crossover, but this is currently my third favorite pairing for Kara (my first obviously being Karry and second being 'Monara' – Mon-El/Kara – in the actual show).
The Second one-shot will be a pure Flash story! It's simply called 'A Different History' and takes place on an alternate Earth where Barry's history is slightly different and will feature my second favorite couple for Barry (which was my first before Supergirl premiered, actually, and I fell in love with Karry instead.).
After I am done with these I will be coming back here to continue Karry Universe though. As for what you can expect here, what with Barry and Kara dealing with being parents, superheroes, and running a major corporation, we'll have Salex's wedding! Some new faces, some returning faces, and a few surprise twists are all to come, which I will not reveal here.
Also, somewhere near the end of November (we sort of know a date but don't want to promise anything in case the date gets blown) my beta will be bringing back his story 'Power Girl and The Flash', too, for the final three episodes. It will come back on a Monday, be updated again on the Friday, and then finish the following Monday.
Somewhere after Christmas now, hopefully my beta will be delivering his sequel to SuperEarth, taking place on SuperEarth with his budding Karry of that Earth, along with some special Suicide Squad references and influences. I didn't watch the movie, so have no idea what to expect there.
Now, around the same time as that, this will once again go on break as I deliver my 'New Karry' sequel. Yes, you guys will get to see Kara Kent, Kal, Barry-White, and everyone on Mutant Earth again! It will have an extremely obvious title if you know my Millma Verse, but not 'New Karry 2' so feel free to speculate there.
Then after the new year we have something extremely special planned for the Millma Verse… but keeping a very tight lid on that one.
So stay in tune to everything we are doing and always remember to REVIEW. We love hearing from you and knowing what you think.
Okay that's it. No teasers for next time as above…
Karry Master OUT!