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18. After the Aquarium*

 

Maggie chuckled to herself and followed the group out the door.  She climbed back into the front seat of the minivan and took some of the M&M’s that Jessie was passing around.  The next thing she knew, Alex was shaking her awake at their place.  

 

“Come on, Maggie!” Jessie opened her door.  “We’re gonna order pizza and watch Transformers!”

 

“Alright!” Maggie grinned at her.  That was much better than watching otters.  She groggily walked upstairs with the group, and upon entering the apartment, headed straight for the coffee pot to make some coffee.  Kara and Alex let her have the run of the place, so they didn’t even comment on her helping herself.

 

“Mmm, coffee sounds good,” Kara sighed.

 

“I agree,” said Lena.

 

“Blech,” Jamie commented.  “Can I have a soda?”

 

“You can have one with dinner,” Alex answered.  “Water or tea for now.”

 

“Aww,” Jamie pouted, getting a mug of water and putting it in the microwave.  “How about a cocoa?”

 

Alex shook her head.  “Not if you want soda.”

 

“Fine,” the girl conceded.  She pulled down a box of raspberry tea bags and took one out, then put the box neatly back on the shelf.

 

Maggie hovered over the coffee pot like it was her lifeline.  As soon as it was done brewing, she began doling out coffees to all the grownups.  “Here you go, beautiful ladies,” she schmoozed.

 

“Thank you, most kindly,” Alex drawled playfully, batting her eyelashes.

 

Maggie snickered.  “You’re most welcome,” she drawled back.

 

Lena and Kara laughed, while the twins rolled their eyes.

 

“I’ve got the movie ready,” Jessie informed them.  

 

“Alright!”  Alex answered.  “Let's go!  Oh, wait!  I almost forgot to order the pizzas!”  She pulled her phone out of her pocket.  “You guys go ahead.  I'll be right there.”

 

Maggie followed the group into the living room, and sat down on the loveseat, while the twins and Lena and Kara sprawled across the couch.

 

Jamie pressed play on the DVD, and the movie started playing.  

 

When she was done on the phone, Alex came in the living room and laid down on the loveseat with her head in Maggie’s lap and her feet on the armrest.  Maggie caressed her cheek and played with her hair instead of paying attention to the movie.  Alex Danvers was such a beautiful woman, and sometimes Maggie just couldn’t resist touching her.  She idly wondered how easy it would be for the two of them to sneak away to the bedroom for a while.

 

About half-way through the movie, the pizzas arrived, and Maggie mused that this family must have to spend a fortune on food.  No wonder they couldn’t spare a few extra bucks for a dumb otter movie.  Kara alone could eat a whole large pizza to herself.  The twins could probably split one between them.  Only Alex ate the normal, healthy amount of food a human should eat, but she was constantly on the go, and she burned a lot of calories, so she could eat a lot too.  Maggie herself wasn’t a big eater, and if the last couple of meals they’ve shared were any indication, Lena wasn’t either.  At least the CEO didn’t give the Kryptonians a hard time about their eating habits.  She knew Kara was a little self-conscious about it.

 

They all went back into the living room and sat down, but the twins started fighting when Jessie took Jamie’s seat between Lena and Kara.

 

“You girls are going to bed early tonight, if you keep on fighting,” Alex threatened.  “Or we can just turn the movie off now, and take Lena home, so she doesn’t have to deal with your craziness.”

 

The girls whined.  “No, we don’t want Lena to go home yet!”

 

“Then I highly suggest you stop fighting right now.”

 

“How about this?” Maggie spoke up,  “Jessie can sit on Kara’s side, Jamie can sit on Lena’s side, and Kara and Lena can sit next to each other with no kids in the middle.  Problem solved.”

 

The twins must have took this as directions because they both did what she said without argument, though they pouted the whole time they switched themselves around.

 

Alex gave her a funny look, and Maggie could tell why when she could see the barely contained glee sparking from Kara’s eyes.  Thankfully, the blonde kept a respectful distance from the brunette and kept her hands to herself.

 

Jamie turned the movie back on, and they all settled back in.  When they were done eating, Alex laid her head back on Maggie’s lap, and the detective absentmindedly started stroking her back.  The agent purred and leaned into her touch.  About twenty minutes later, Maggie noticed that Kara and Lena had leaned into one another.  With their ponytails and boots and skinny jeans, each with a twin wrapped around them, they looked like bookends - a perfectly matching pair.  She wondered if Alex had noticed this yet.  She tapped her girlfriend on the shoulder and nudged her chin toward the couch.  Alex looked at the sight, and took out her phone to snap a picture.

 

Kara looked over at them.  “What was that for?”

 

Alex showed them the photo.  They all  “awwed.”

 

“Can you send me copies of the pictures you took today?” Lena requested.

 

“Of course,” Alex agreed.  She texted Lena the picture she just took.  “The rest of them are on the camera.  I’ll have to email them to you later.”  She laid back onto the loveseat on her back this time, so Maggie put her hand on the agent’s stomach, absently stroking the soft, blue t-shirt under her fingers, while stroking red hair with the other hand.  Alex’s eyes closed in pleasure.  By the time the movie was over, she thought the redhead was asleep, but her eyes opened as soon as the credits started rolling.

 

Everyone stretched and yawned.  

 

“Well,” Lena said, “That movie was… interesting.  If I was a sentient robot car person, I’m not sure I would want a human riding around inside of me, touching all my pedals and levers.  It seems a bit violating.”

 

Everyone laughed, especially the twins.

 

“Alright, girls, it’s time to take Lena home.  I’m sure she’s had quite enough of us for one day.”

 

“Aww!” the twins pouted.

 

“Nonsense,” Lena objected.  “I can’t imagine having enough of these little angels.”  She schmooshed the one beside her.

 

“OK, well, now that Fate has officially been challenged,” Alex rolled her eyes.  “Maggie and I are going to stay here while you drop Lena off, OK?”

 

This was news to Maggie.

 

“OK,” Kara answered pleasantly.

 

Alex gathered up all the coffee mugs and put them into the dishwasher, while Maggie cleared the plates.  As soon as Kara, Lena and the kids were gone, Alex was shoving Maggie against the counter and kissing her hard.  “You’ve been teasing me all fucking night, and now you’re going to give me what you promised.”  She grinded into Maggie hard.

 

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She hadn’t meant to get Alex all riled up, but here they were.  Maggie kissed her back eagerly.  “You want me to give it to you?” she pulled Alex’s hips against her thigh.

 

“You fucking better.”  They stumbled to the bedroom as quickly as their kissing would allow.  Alex closed and locked the door behind them, and pushed Maggie to the bed.  She didn’t follow, though.  She walked around the bed and unlocked their ‘Magic Sex Box,’ as Maggie called it, and pulled out a strapon harness with a purple phallus attached.  “Put this on,” she told the Latina, and grabbed the lube.  She helped her girlfriend strip and adjust the straps to her smaller hips, then liberally applied the lubrication to the silicone.

 

“You might want to get undressed for this,” Maggie teased her fully-clothed partner.

 

“Right.”  Alex quickly disrobed and climbed on top of her girlfriend, letting the phallus rub against her sex.  “Mmm, yeah,” she breathed.  She reached down and guided the cock inside of herself.

 

“God, you’re sexy,” Maggie told her, stroking her breasts.

 

Alex rocked slowly, letting the lubrication do its job.  “Oh, Maggie,” she whispered.  “Oh, yes.”  When she was nice and slick inside, she picked up the pace, sighing in her pleasure, pressing in deeper when she could.  After a while, she started to get louder, and Maggie’s heart skipped a beat, out of habit, from being used to having the kids in the next room.  When she remembered they were alone in the apartment, Maggie bucked her hips into Alex to make her cry out louder.  It was crazy hot, and she loved the sounds Alex made in her pleasure.

 

“You’re so beautiful, Alex.”  She knew, from Kara’s example, that Alex got really turned on when they talked to her during sex.  “God, I love the way you ride my cock.  You’re so fucking sexy.”

 

Sure enough, Alex thrusted harder

 

“You like my cock inside you, don’t you?  Good girl.  Such a good girl.  Ride that cock.  Fuck, you look so hot right now.”

 

Alex rode her strapon like there was no tomorrow  “Rub my clit, please, Maggie,” she whimpered.  “Oh, please!”

 

Maggie obeyed and expertly rubbed her thumb in circles over the agent’s clitoris.  “Like that?” she asked.

 

“Oh, yes!” Alex cried out loudly, pounding onto the strapon, her breasts bouncing wildly.  Her cries were half-gasp, half-growl, and soon she was grabbing the headboard and screaming in her orgasm, “Fuuuuck!  Fuck!  Shit!  Oh, Rao, I love you so much, Maggie.”  She panted and fell bonelessly against her partner.

 

The detective froze.  “You do?”

 

Alex suddenly realized what she’d just said.  “Shit!  I don’t-  I mean-  I-  I didn’t mean to say it like that.”  She panted, then sighed.  “But yeah.  I do.  I love you, Maggie.”  She looked down openly at the detective.  “Is that OK?”

 

Maggie smiled, and her heart raced.  “Yeah.  It’s very OK.”

 

“Yeah?”

 

“Yeah,” the Latina confirmed.  “I love you too, Alex.”

 

Alex grinned and leaned down and kissed Maggie deeply.  A few minutes later, her phone chimed from Kara.  She climbed off of Maggie to check the message.

 

Kara:  We’re going to get ice cream.  I’ll text you when we’re on our way home. ;)

 

Alex:  Thanks! [3

 

“I take it she knows what we’re up to, then?” Maggie asked when Alex told her about the text.

 

“Yeah, I’m sure she could tell how turned on I was before we left.”

 

“Right.  The nose that knows.”

 

“You want this?” Alex asked, unlatching the strapon from Maggie’s hips.

 

The detective shook her head.  She wanted to be able to take Kara, if it came to that later.  

 

The agent put the toy on the bedside table for later cleaning and grabbed Maggie by the hips.  “It’s your turn.”  She shoved the Latina back on the bed and got on her knees on the floor.  After she tucked the bedside rug underneath herself, she kissed her way up Maggie’s inner thighs.  

 

The detective scratched the back of Alex’s head as she nosed her way closer to her sex.  When Alex grazed her tongue across her clit, Maggie sighed happily.  “Oh, yeah.”  She moaned quietly as Alex settled into a rhythm.  The agent was getting better and better at this the more she did it, and Maggie absolutely loved how in tune the redhead seemed to be with what the she wanted.  Alex worked her up and up, drawing out her pleasure, knowing the rest of the family was going to be a while.  Maggie’s legs shook with desire and pleasure and need.  “Oh, fuck, Alex!  Yes!” she cried out loudly.  “Oh, God!”  She grabbed the bedsheets and clung to them for dear life.  “Christ Jesus, yes!”  When she came, she let out a deep, animalistic groan, shuddering and gasping for air in her aftershocks.  “Oh, my God, Alex.  I really do love you so much.”

 

The redhead hummed in pleasure.  “I love you too, Maggie.”  She kissed the detective’s thigh.

 

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They grinned stupidly at each other for a few moments before Alex got up and started cleaning up.  Kara hadn’t texted them yet, so Maggie just laid there and enjoyed her high.  They received a text a few minutes later, saying they’d be home in ten minutes.  They redressed themselves and took the trash out, and were making out on the couch when the others came home.

 

The kids looked like the cat that ate the canary.  

 

“What are you looking so smug about?” Alex asked them.

 

They bit their lips to hold back the giggles, “Nothing.”

 

Kara came over and kissed Alex and Maggie.  “Jammie time!” she declared happily.

 

The twins pouted.  “I don’t want to go to bed early!” they whined.

 

“I didn’t say anything about going to bed,” Kara answered indignantly.  “I just said ‘jammie time.’  Meaning, I’m going to be in my pajamas for the rest of the night.”

 

“Oh!  Me too!” the girls agreed.

 

“Sounds great,” Alex added.

 

Maggie followed Kara and Alex into the bedroom to change into their PJ’s.  “So what were the girls trying to hide when they came in?” she asked Kara.

 

The Kryptonian chuckled.  “I told them not to tell you guys that we went to get ice cream.”

 

“Oh,” Maggie laughed.  “That’s funny.”

 

“Did we give you enough time?” Kara asked casually.

 

“Yep,” Alex answered, popping the ‘P.’  “You want some?”  She waggled her eyebrows.

 

“Nah, I’m good.  I just want some cocoa and some snuggles.”

 

“Suit yourself,” Alex told her.  “I wouldn’t mind having a drink or two.  How about you, Mags?”

 

“I’m always up for a drink,” Maggie answered.

 

They finished getting changed and headed to the kitchen to get their respective beverages.

 

“Ice or no ice?” Alex asked the detective.

 

“Yes, please,” Maggie answered.

 

The agent poured them each a half a glass of whiskey on the rocks, while Kara puttered around getting cocoa.  

 

The twins bounded in a minute later.  “Will you guys play Just Dance with us?” they begged.

 

“OK, but only a couple songs, and then I want to relax,” Kara answered.

 

“OK,” they chirped happily.  “Mom?  Maggie?”

 

“Sure,” the two agreed.  

 

“One song,” Maggie amended.  She and Alex danced one song each with the girls, and Kara danced two, like promised, then they all retired to the living room to cuddle on the couch and watch TV until bedtime.  Kara only had to pop out once to take care of a fire across town, but half an hour later, she was back home and in her PJ’s again.

 

When the twins were in bed, Maggie internally debated with herself for a few minutes before deciding that open communication was best.  “Um, so, can we talk about Kara’s giant crush on Lena Luthor?”

 

Kara looked like a deer in the headlights.

 

“Yes,” Alex answered, obviously unsurprised by the big reveal.  “Let’s do that.”

 

“I don’t have a giant crush on Lena!” Kara whined.

 

“It’s so big you can see it from space!” Alex retorted.

 

“I…  I...  I don’t know what you want me to say!”

 

“Let’s start by coming clean,” Maggie suggested.

 

The Kryptonian pouted, but gave in.  “OK, so I might, possibly, maybe be a little attracted to her.  But I wasn’t intending to do anything about it!  I just…  I don’t know.  I mean…  We’re just friends, and that’s probably all it’s ever going to be, so…   I don’t know why we have to talk about this.”  She crossed her arms over her chest.

 

“Honey, it’s not like we don’t like Lena,” Maggie started to explain, “But that is just so many, many levels of complicated.

 

“I know!” Kara exclaimed in frustration.  “Don’t you think I know that?”

 

Maggie put her hand on Kara’s leg.  “Babe, this isn’t an interrogation, OK?  We’re just trying to have a conversation.  You don’t need to get so defensive.”

 

The Kryptonian took a deep breath.  “Sorry,” she said more calmly.

 

“It upsets you that you think you can’t be with her,” Alex said matter-of-factly.  “Doesn’t it?”

 

Kara clenched her jaw and didn’t answer for a minute.  “I’m not looking to make things more complicated than we can handle,” she answered vaguely.  “Besides, even if you guys wanted her too, there’s no way she likes me back, or that she would be interested in polyamory.”

 

“How did you know I would be interested?” Maggie inquired.

 

“We didn’t,” Kara answered.  “We just asked and hoped you would say yes.”

 

“Wouldn’t it then stand to reason that you would have to do the same with Lena too?  Not that I’m giving my approval, mind you, but if?”

 

“Yeah, I guess so.”

 

“And it’s obvious Lena likes you too,” Alex added.

 

“It is?” Kara asked hopefully.

 

“Yeah.”

 

“OK…  Well, now you guys know how I feel.  How does it make you guys feel?”

 

Alex and Maggie looked at each other.  “You go first,” they said at the same time.  They chuckled and said, “Jinx!”  They laughed again.

 

“OK, I’ll go first,” Alex told them.  “Honestly, I have a lot of mixed feelings about it.  I mean, I like Lena as the person we’ve gotten to know, but what if she turns out to be different?  And I'm not talking about her being evil, I’m just talking about... the unexpected.  I’d like to know her longer before I make any real decisions about how I feel, or what we do about her.  Besides, we only brought Maggie into the relationship a couple of months ago.  I think it’s way too early to be bringing someone else in.”

 

“I agree with that last part,” Kara let her know.

 

Maggie nodded.  “I’ve only met Lena a few times, I’d really like the chance to get to know her better.  Maybe by the time we all feel comfortable together, you’ll have your answer as to whether or not Lena would be interested in polyamory.  But the most important thing to me is time.  ‘Time reveals all things.’  And let’s not forget that dating Lena means having Lex and Lillian as potential in-laws.”

 

Alex made a face.  

 

Kara pouted.

 

“And your mom wasn’t exactly happy with the fact that you’re dating me," Maggie pointed out.  "How do you think she’s going to feel if you tell her you’re dating Lena too?”

 

Both women frowned.

 

“At least you know the kids wouldn’t mind.”

 

They chuckled dryly.  “Yeah, if they kids had their way, you and Lena would be living with us already,” Alex said.

 

“Are we done here?”  Kara did not look happy.  “I’m gonna take a shower.  I can still smell fire smoke in my hair.”

 

Maggie and Alex shared a look as Kara left the room.  They couldn’t really talk freely with the Kryptonian in such close proximity, but she was pretty sure Alex was thinking the same thing she was:  Why did it suddenly feel like they’d made a bit of a mess of the situation?

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Kara trudged to the bathroom and turned on the water.  She didn’t really need to take a shower, but she needed some time to herself to think.  She had been perfectly content to try to ignore and repress her feelings for Lena, but here Maggie and Alex had to bring it up and make her face them.  She didn’t like it.  Intellectually, she knew all the reasons she couldn’t be with Lena, but hearing Maggie and Alex say some of them out loud really upset her.  It grieved her heart to think that she might never be with Lena in that way.  Yes, she loved her wife and her girlfriend, and she didn’t want to give them up for anything, but she wanted to add Lena to the family so badly.  She tried to hold back her tears, but they streamed down her face anyway.  Why did fate have to be so cruel?  She went through the motions of showering, taking her sweet time in washing herself, hoping to wash away the ache in her heart that just wouldn’t seem to dissipate.

 

Lena was such an incredible woman.  She was clever and brave and sweet.  Not to mention how amazing she was with the kids.  Kara felt so much sympathy for this woman who had been through so much, yet still stood tall and strong, determined to blaze her own path, no matter who tried to stop her.  How could anyone not love a woman like that?  Plus, it didn’t hurt that Lena was drop dead gorgeous with a body to die for.  She wondered if Alex and Maggie were attracted to Lena.  They hadn’t exactly said one way or the other.  They were too busy shooting her down before she even got started.

 

She imagined what it would be like to kiss Lena.  The thought got her heart pounding, and she prayed to Rao that he would help her figure this whole thing out.  She thought about touching herself, but ultimately decided against it.  That would just make more emotional complications.  She would do what her partners asked.  She would give them time to get to know Lena, and hopefully everything would work out.  She honestly hadn’t thought about the fact that they didn’t know the youngest Luthor as well as she did, so it was only fair that she give them the time they needed.  Maybe with that time, they would grow to be as fond of Lena as Kara was.

 

She finished in the shower and dried herself at a slow human speed, taking her time blow drying her hair and brushing her teeth.  She prayed to Rao that Alex and Maggie weren’t taking this personally.

 

When she was done, her partners were cuddled up on the bed waiting to get in the bathroom themselves, so they could all go to sleep.  She kissed them and crawled into bed while they got up to do their nightly routines.  She was always in the middle because she could float over the others without waking them, if she needed to get up in the middle of the night.  When her partners came back to bed, she cuddled into Alex and buried her nose in her neck - her go-to comfort move since they were kids - and wrapped Maggie around her back.  The cuddles helped, but it still took forever for her to fall asleep.

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Alex was glad it was Maggie who brought up Kara’s crush on Lena - that way the Kryptonian couldn’t lie and tell her wife she was imagining things.  She wondered why Kara didn’t want to talk about it.  She was the one who said Kryptonians were polyamorous in the first place.  Why would she feel the need to hide her feelings?  Habit maybe?  She wondered if Kara had ever had feelings for anyone besides her and Maggie and Lena.  They had been together for over a decade now.  It seemed like the odds would say she had, but she never mentioned anything about feelings for another woman until Maggie came around.  Did Kara only invite Maggie in because Alex liked her?  But Kara had confessed to liking Maggie from the beginning, so it wasn’t just her.

 

She told Kara she needed more time mostly because Maggie needed more time, and they needed more time with Maggie.  These were people, not puppies.  They couldn’t just collect them.  They needed time to let each relationship develop naturally and fully.  A juggler doesn’t start out with four balls - he has to learn with two, then three, then work up to four.  And this was juggling with people’s lives and hearts.  She wanted to juggle very carefully.  

 

And honestly, her mother had been right.  They weren’t just messing with their own lives and hearts.  They were involving their children as well.  And if they fucked things up with Lena or Maggie, they were going to be in big trouble because those kids were smitten.  Of all the hearts she wanted to keep in tact here, her children’s were the most precious to her.  They were such good, sweet kids.  The only real trouble they ever got into was from tricking people about which of them is which, and the normal, everyday bickering that comes with being a family.  Oh, and not wanting to go to bed.  And Jessie never sat still.  But really that stuff was like nothing.  They didn’t deserve to have their hearts ripped out.  Alex couldn’t handle the fall out.  It would tear her heart to shreds over and over again.  She wasn’t looking to let anyone get their hearts broken here.  

 

Lena seemed like a genuinely good person.  Even without her kids’ perceptions, Alex liked her.  She was beautiful to be sure, but she had an incredible mind.  They had only had the briefest of conversations about actual scientific studies, since the kids tended to get bored with those talks, but what they had discussed made Alex a little giddy.  It was nice to have another scientific mind around that wasn’t the nerdy man-child Winn Schott.  Lena was a grown up, through and through.  A clever one too. Alex appreciated that.  And that’s not to mention all the things she had done to be helpful to Supergirl and the community.  The company name change, the alien weapons, the fight club, the Medusa virus - Lena Luthor had been on their side through it all.  Alex felt no reason not to trust her, despite the Luthor name and reputation.  

 

She liked Lena.  She wanted Lena around.  She just wasn’t ready to be in a relationship with her yet.  She really hoped Kara could understand that.  She knew her wife was upset about the conversation they’d just had, but Alex hoped that, given time, the Kryptonian would come around to being patient.  She felt bad for making Kara face her feelings, but the situation had to be addressed.  There were too many lives that were affected by it for it to fester even a little.

 

She let Kara snuggle into her, nose to neck, like she always did when something was bothering her.  Maggie laced their fingers together over Kara, and soon they were out like a light.

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