37. Valentine's Day (Part 1)*

Kara woke up early that Tuesday morning, ready and raring to go. She didn’t feel any of the effects of the Joltorian’s poison. She just felt happy and loved and full of wonder. She quickly showered and headed for the kitchen where she would make breakfast for everyone. She’d bought a heart shaped ring for her frying pan, so she could make heart pancakes, plus she'd bought a bunch of strawberries and raspberries for color. She put on the coffee and by the time she was finished mixing her batter, Lena came out and wrapped her arms around her waist. “Hi, sweetie pie!” she put the pancake batter on the counter and hugged her partner properly, giving her a big kiss. "Happy Valentine's Day!”

“Happy Valentine's Day to you!” Lena kissed her again, which turned into a long, languid make-out session.

After a couple of minutes, Kara pulled away. “Alright, you vixen, go sit down, so I can make breakfast.” She playfully swatted the brunette’s rear end as she walked away with her coffee. Kara then returned her attention to the frying pan, testing to see if it was to temperature yet. When it was, she started pouring her batter in.

She was almost finished when the kids shuffled in, hair a mess, but with cute little smiles on their faces. “Yummy!” “Yum yum!” they said, poking their noses around Kara’s shoulder.

“Happy birthday, girls!” Kara beamed.

“Thank you, Mama!"

“You wanna get the strawberries and raspberries out of the fridge?” she asked them.

“OK!” the kids raced to the fridge to see who could get to them first. This ended in a wrestling match/tickle fight on the floor, instead of anything actually being retrieved.

“Whoa!” said Alex, as she and Maggie came into the kitchen. “What’s happening?” She put a stack of greeting cards on the table.

Kara shook her head. “They were supposed to be getting stuff out of the fridge.”

Instead of breaking up the fight, Alex walked up to them and hollered, “Birthday tickles!” before assaulting them. The twins howled with laughter, making everyone else laugh too. Their laughter was always contagious.

“Alright, you little goofballs,” Alex stopped assaulting them. “Pull yourselves together, will you?”

The girls panted and giggled and pushed themselves up off the floor before they actually grabbed the stuff out of the fridge. “Here you go, Mama,” Jessie said, offering the bowl of sliced strawberries.

“Put them on the table,” Kara directed. “Thank you, babies.”

“Mama!" Jessie shrieked. “We're not babies anymore!”

“Yeah!” added Jamie, putting her fists on her hips.

“I'm sorry, but you'll always be my babies,” she answered.

The kids groaned.

Alex chuckled and shook her head. “I'm with you, Kara,” she assured her wife. “They’ll always be our babies.”

“Thanks, baby girl,” Kara kissed her.

“Mom's not a baby either!” Jamie complained.

“It's not about being an actual baby. It's just a term of endearment,” Kara defended.

“Why?”

“I don't know. It just is. Lots of people use it. If they didn’t I wouldn’t say it.”

“I don't like being called a baby!” Jessie huffed.

“Me either!” added Jamie.

“Oh, Rao, here we go again.” Alex rolled her eyes. “We used to have this argument all the time from, like, ages three through six. Kara never stopped, though.”

“And I never will,” the Kryptonian said.

The kids groaned again.

“You should just be thankful that you have parents who love you,” Maggie told them.

“Yes, Mommy loves you,” Alex smooshed them in her arms and kissed their faces until they squealed.

“Ah! Mommy! Stop it!” the girls giggled and pushed her away. They were only free for a second, though, because Maggie and Lena snatched them each up and started attacking their faces with kisses again. The twins just giggled until they were breathless. “OK! OK!” they panted, still grinning. The women released them and shoved them into their chairs at the kitchen table.

“Time for Valentines!” Alex announced. She picked up the stack of greeting cards that she’d left on the table and started passing them out.

“We should probably go get ours then,” Lena observed.

“Yeah!” the kids cheered.

Everyone scrambled to get the cards they’d bought and bring them out. It was quite the affair with six people passing around Valentines  to one another, but they made it work. Even Maggie had bought cards, and that simple fact made Kara tear up a little. Her card said simply, ‘I’ll celebrate every Valentine’s Day, as long as you’re in it. Love, Maggie.’

“Aww!” the blonde cooed. “I love you so much!” She reached over and gave the detective a kiss. Then, of course, she had to kiss the rest of them as well. They all seemed plenty moved by their cards, then she heard a noise. “Lena, you’re phone is ringing in the bedroom,” Kara informed her.

The CEO wandered away to get it, “Thanks, Kara.”

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Lena padded into the bedroom to get her phone. The Caller ID said ‘Jess Cheng,’ her secretary. She grew concerned at her assistant calling her this early. She answered the phone cautiously, “Good morning, Jess.”

“Miss Luthor, we have a big problem!” the Korean woman exclaimed without any preamble. “I sent you links in your texts. Someone recorded you kissing your detective friend and sent it to the press!”

“Oh, shit,” Lena blurted out. Who could have done that? They were very private. “Do you have any idea who it was?”

“No clue, ma’am. Maybe after you’ve watched the video, you might have an idea, but it looked like someone was hiding behind a pillar in a parking garage somewhere spying on you.”

“Lovely,” Lena groaned. “Jess, I- I need you to know that I’m not cheating on Kara, OK?”

“It’s really none of my business!” the assistant tried to say.

“I know, but listen, we… have an arrangement. Kara and I, and Maggie and Alex. We’re… we’re all together... romantically. I know it’s weird, but I would rather be weird than be a cheater, OK?”

“Miss Luthor, I’m not judging you. It’s fine.”

“Thanks, Jess. I don’t want the press to know about them all. We’re just going to have to run with the Maggie thing, I guess. I’ll have to talk to her to get our stories straight, but until then, just let it run its course. No one knows about Kara and me except you, anyway. It should be fine for me. I’ve been called worse things than ‘lesbian.’ We’ll just have to wait and see how things turn out. No official statements until further notice.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Lena hung up the phone and sighed. This was going to be fun. She pulled up her texts and looked up the links. “Lesbian Luthor!” the first one proclaimed rather uncreatively. It showed a video of the pair of them yesterday in the DEO parking garage, followed by a short commentary wondering who the other woman was. She sighed again, then headed for the kitchen. “You guys, we have a bit of a problem,” she announced before handing her phone over to the detective.

“Lesbian Luthor?” Maggie raised her brow, just at the title. “Oh, shit!” she exclaimed, realizing what she was looking at. She watched the video with Jessie looking over her shoulder. It was just a few kisses, but Maggie was the prominent face throughout the whole clip. Lena’s face didn’t even fully appear on the screen until she turned around to leave at the end. “Oh, boy,” she sighed.

Alex snatched the phone away, so the rest of them could see what was happening. They watched the video with wide eyes, and when it was done, handed the phone back.

“Where was this taken?” Alex wondered.

“It had to be at the DEO yesterday,” Maggie told her.

The look on the agents face darkened, and she looked a little scary. “Excuse me a second.” She stomped off to the bedroom.

“She’s going to call J’onn and tell him about the breach in security,” Kara informed them. “And I wouldn’t put it passed her to hurt someone, if she finds out who recorded you guys.

“I wonder how much money they got for that footage,” Maggie commented.

Lena crossed her arms over her chest. “Whatever it was, I’ll make sure they have to pay ten times that in legal fees.

“If it was anyone at the DEO, I guarantee you J’onn will fire them in a heartbeat,” said Kara.

“Someone did this for money?” Jessie asked.

“Yes, that’s how the paparazzi works, darling,” Lena told her.

“That’s rude,” Jamie scowled.

“Indeed, it is.”

“Alright, well, scandal or not, you kids need to eat your breakfast, so you can get to school on time,” Kara directed.

The twins loaded up their plates, smearing peanut butter over all their pancakes before loading them up with fruit and whipped cream. “Mm-mm! Thank you, Mama!"

“You’re welcome, babies.”

“Mama!" the kids complained, even with their mouths stuffed with food.

“Oh, hush,” she brushed them off and sat down to eat too.

When Alex came back in the kitchen, she was a little less scary. “J’onn and Winn are going to figure out who took that video, and when they do, their ass is grass.”

“Are you gonna beat them up, Mom?” Jamie asked nervously.

“Of course not. I won’t have to,” she answered confidently. “If it’s an agent, then they won’t take his breach of contract lightly. They’ll nail him so hard to the wall, he won’t know which way is up.”

“And if it's not an agent, we’ll sue him blind, just to make an example of him,” Lena said coldly. “In the meantime, we need to get our stories straight. What do you want to tell people?”

“Fuck off, and mind your own business?” Maggie suggested.

Lena chuckled. “You might be able to say that, but I can’t. I need a more refined way of putting it.”

“I think we should just decline to comment,” the detective pointedly readjusted her phrasing.

“I think you’d really be missing an opportunity to give a good name to the LGBTQ community, if you did that,” Kara told them.

Alex nodded in agreement.

“What do you mean?” Jessie asked.

“Well, I mean, if they came out publicly, they could possibly give some hope to a lot of people who feel alienated in their lives by being ‘different.’ They could be an inspiration just by existing and letting the public see that they’re happy and in love, and there’s nothing perverted about that love. Even though, I’m gonna be honest here, and say, I’m a little bit jealous because I wanted to be the one that Lena came out in public with, but I won’t begrudge you this. It’s dangerous for me to be in the public eye anyway.”

“True,” Alex agreed, finally deciding to eat something. Unlike her children, she just spread a little butter and syrup on her pancakes, with a sprinkle of fruit.

Lena and Maggie split a pancake on one plate between them, and ate more fruit than anything.

Kara, of course, had already devoured a half a stack of pancakes with the works on top.

“It is something to think about,” Lena mused.

“Yeah, I guess it is,” Maggie agreed. If there was anything the detective could do to help people move forward in the LGBTQ+ community, she would do it, and they all knew it.

“I could write something for you guys, if you want,” Kara suggested.

“That would let us come out more on our own terms,” Lena said, mostly to Maggie.

The detective sighed. “Yeah, I guess you’re right. Alright, so how do we do this?”

“How about I think up some questions, and you guys can pick the ones you want to answer and choose how to answer them?” Kara suggested.

“OK, sounds good.” The Latina seemed resigned to follow the reporter’s plan.

“Kay, I’ll think of a list of questions, and email them to you guys, and we’ll have a full draft of something written by the end of the work day.”

“You’ll be teacher’s pet for sure,” Lena grinned at her.

“Yeah, right,” Kara scoffed. “I’ve gone from one angry boss to the next. I don’t think I’ll be winning any awards anytime soon.”

“You won our hearts,” Alex grinned. “Does that count?”

Kara beamed. “That’s the best prize of all.” She leaned over and kissed her wife tenderly.

“Wow, sappy cheese monkeys,” Maggie teased with a grin.

“Fine, don’t have a kiss, then,” Kara crossed her arms and stuck her nose in the air.

“What? I coulda got a kiss too? Dang it!” The detective fake pouted.

“Do I get one?” Lena asked mischievously.

“Of course!” Kara stood up and leaned across the table to kiss her while the twins covered their eyes.

“Aw, man!” Maggie faked disappointment. “I take it back, OK? Can I have my kiss now?”

Kara smirked. “Well… I suppose so.” She stretched a little further to give the Latina her own kiss filled with sweetness.

“Mmm,” Maggie hummed with approval. “Glad I didn’t miss out on that.”

“Me too!” The Kryptonian sat back down and started another stack of pancakes on her plate.

“I need to shower,” Lena commented off-handedly.

“I think I’ll join you,” Alex said, taking their plates to the dishwasher.

“Excellent.”

“Maggie, your phone is ringing,” Kara informed her.

“Oh, Lord, I dread to think who could be calling me this early.” She trudged into the bedroom to answer the call. “It’s my aunt,” she informed them before clicking the answer button. “Hola tia, como esta’?”

Lena and Alex closed the door to the bathroom to give the detective her privacy.

“You up for a quickie?” Alex wiggled her eyebrows.

“Certainly,” Lena purred. She wrapped her arms around the agent's neck and pulled her into a deep kiss. They wasted no time in undressing each other, and once they were naked, the CEO found herself pressed against the wall with the redhead’s knee pressed into her center. She loved the power play between them. Aggressive Alex was incredibly sexy.

“You may be Maggie's in the public eye, but don't forget who else you belong to.” Alex teased Lena’s nipples with her thumbs. “You’re mine too.”

Lena melted into Alex's touch. “Oh, yes!”

“Say it,” the agent demanded.

“I'm yours, Alex,” Lena panted.

“Good girl.” The redhead kissed her.

Lena was still quite sensitive from all the fucking they'd done the night before, so even though she liked Alex being dominant, she had to ease her back a little while they made love this time. She fought back her ever-present fears that this would all end soon, and that she'd be left alone again. Her partners made her so full and complete. She let Alex's love wash over her as fully as the shower, and it wiped away that filthy doubt.

She felt more than satisfied when they were through, and she just couldn't stop smiling. Who cared, if the press was after her? They couldn't say anything worse than what they'd already said about her, especially after her mother's escape from her trial. This was going to be easy. All she had to do was publicly acknowledge that she loved Maggie Sawyer. That would be plenty easy. A relief, even, if she were being honest. At least she would be able to kiss one of her partners in public from now on. It was a start.

She and Alex finished up in the shower and dressed themselves in the bedroom. Maggie was no longer in the room, so they had to wait to find out how her conversation with her aunt went. When she exited her walk-in closet, dressed and ready to put her makeup on, she found Kara about to come in. “Hello, my love,” she kissed the reporter sweetly, but Kara had other ideas. She found herself backed against the doorframe by the Kryptonian’s full towering height, looking into the most predatory eyes shes ever seen. The blonde had a firm hold on her upper arms, keeping her from escaping.

“I swear to Rao, I want to mark you so badly right now.” Her voice was nearly a growl.

“Kara don’t,” Lena swallowed nervously.

“You’re mine.”

This must be that whole Alpha thing they’ve been telling her about. It was a little unnerving to be honest. She tried not to panic. Kara would never hurt her.

“Mine,” the Kryptonian said again, lowering her teeth to nip at Lena’s earlobe.

“I’m yours, Kara,” she said, trying to soothe this beast.

“Mine.” The blonde nipped at her jawline, just below her ear.

She swallowed thickly. “Kara, please.”

“Please, what?” the Kryptonian asked, a dangerous smirk on her face. “Please take me for all I’m worth? Please, fuck me until I can’t walk? Please, remind me that there’s nobody that can make me come like you? Is that it?”

“No,” Lena tried to wiggle away, but she couldn’t. “Kara stop it!” she said firmly.

Kara stopped with her teeth firmly against the flesh of Lena’s shoulder, ready to bite down. She’d found out a long time ago that her bites didn’t take permanent residence on human skin. If they did, Alex’s body would be littered with them. What they did do, however, was make her horny as hell for a few days. She was just going to leave a little mark for the day to make sure Lena came crawling back to her. It wasn’t fair that Maggie got to be the one to call Lena hers! She was Kara’s!

“Kara, I swear to God, if you bite me, I will find a way to kill you.” Lena did not want to have to try to cover that up, nor did she want to walk around with it.

“Kara, are you starting your rut already? You always go crazy with the biting when you’re in your rut.” Lena wasn’t sure where Alex was this whole time but she was glad for the sudden save.

The blonde frowned and turned around. “Mind your own business. You’ll get your turn.”

“Oh, ho, boy, that sounds like a yes,” Alex shook her head.

“What’s ‘your rut?’” Lena wanted to know.

“Her mating cycle,” Alex explained. “It usually starts in March, but sometimes it’s early. Never this early, I don’t think. It only lasts a few days, but it’s an intense few days.”

“I'm not starting my rut!” Kara defended.

“Yeah, right. That's why you want to bite everyone.”

“I- I… I don't know! I just got a little jealous I guess.”

“A little?”

The blonde looked sheepishly back at her. “OK, a lot!”

Alex softened. “Look, I know you want to shout it from the rooftops that Lena is yours, and I do too, but we’re just gonna have to roll with this, OK?”

Kara pouted.

“Is it so bad being stuck with me?” Alex pouted back.

“Of course not!” Kara pulled her wife into an embrace. “I love you.” She pulled Alex’s shirt collar back, exposing her shoulder and sunk her teeth into the flesh there.

“Kara, no!” the redhead exclaimed, but it was too late. “God damn it! You know what that does to me!”

The Kryptonian looked anything but sorry. “Good. It’s Valentine’s Day. You’re supposed to be horny.”

“Not while I’m at work!”

“We could call in.”

“Are you sure you’re not starting your rut?”

“I guess I’m not sure. I am pretty worked up right now. Wanna stay home with me and find out?”

Alex rolled her eyes. “You call me, if you really think you need it, but I have stuff I have to do at work unless it’s an emergency.”

“Darn it!” Kara stuck her lip out exaggeratedly.

“Actually, call me at lunch time,” Alex changed her mind. “I’m gonna be going crazy all morning now.”

The reporter smirked. “I’ll do that.”

“You need to get going and get the kids to school,” the agent reminded her. “It’s getting late.”

“Oh, alright.”

“And I think you owe Lena an apology.”

Kara looked forlornly at her other partner. “I’m sorry, Lena.”

“It’s alright, I forgive you,” Lena gave a half-smile.

“I love you so much.”

“I love you too, sweetheart. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to finish getting ready.” Lena headed for the bathroom to put her makeup on.

“Alright.”

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Maggie sighed with relief as she got off the phone with her aunt. The woman just wanted to ask a few innocent questions about Maggie’s ‘new girl.’ It wasn’t so bad. Her aunt acted like she didn’t even know who Lena Luthor was, though she knew that was practically impossible with the way her aunt loved celebrity scandals. It was probably the nicest side of the spectrum of reactions she was going to get today. She expected a lot of suspicion when she headed in to work.

When she was finished on the phone, she headed back to the kitchen to make sure everything was completely cleaned up. The twins were playing music on one of their phones and dancing around the kitchen table, wiping it down. Kara was just starting the dishwasher.

“OK, girls, go get dressed. We have to leave shortly,” Kara told them.

“OK, Mama!"  The twins scrambled off to their room to change into their school clothes.

The reporter sauntered over and gave Maggie a big kiss, then wrapping her up in her arms. “Alex and Lena are making me really horny,” she whispered.

“Oh, really?” Maggie smirked. “Are they fucking in there?”

“Mm-hmm,” she confirmed, kissing down the detective’s neckline sensually, reaching down and grabbing her ass.

“Hey, now!” Maggie exclaimed, surprised at Kara’s behavior when the kids could come out of their room at any minute. When she looked up into those crystal blue orbs, she felt a little intimidated. “Kara?”

“While you and Lena are out there proclaiming your love, don’t you dare forget that you have me at home waiting for you too. You belong to me, too. You hear me?”

“Oh, is that how we’re playing this?” Maggie was suddenly, inexplicably very turned on at Kara’s sudden Alpha behavior.

The Kryptonian’s nostrils flared, and she smirked. “Mm-hmm.” She had almost sunk her teeth into the detective’s neck when the kids came bustling out of their room, loaded down with backpacks and empty lunchpails. Maggie sighed in relief.

“Mama, we’ll have to stop and get snacks on the way! We didn’t go to the store yesterday cause you were sick!”

“Damn it!” Kara whispered, irritated at being interrupted. “OK,” she said louder, “We’d better get a move on, then.” She headed into the bedroom.

“I’m pretty sure there’s food in the fridge that you guys can take with you to school,” Maggie told them.

“There is? What?”

“Um, let’s go look. I think there were some oranges, and some grapes. It’s not a lot, but it’s a start. Oh, and there’s still some chips from Sunday in the pantry.”

“Ooh!” The kids raided the kitchen with her help. They’d all been pitching in with groceries, so it’s not like they were stealing from Lena or anything. The food was fair game, at this point. They also found some broccoli and celery that was still good, and some bananas in the pantry. All in all, they seemed to have about as much as they usually did, even though it wasn't the usual.

“Alright, my job is done here. I need to go shower for work. Hugs and kisses! You guys will be gone before I get done.”

The girls hugged and kissed her enthusiastically before letting her leave.

On her way into the bedroom, Kara was coming out. “Don’t forget what I said,” the blonde reminded her, with a slap to her ass. She didn’t wait for an answer. Just called her mini-me’s and headed out the front door.

“Jesus!” Maggie responded. “What’s with Kara?” she asked the other two.

“That’s what we were just wondering,” Lena informed her, applying her foundation in the mirror.

“That brat bit me!” Alex complained.

“Yeah, I think she was gonna bite me too. Luckily, the kids walked in,” Maggie told her. “What the hell?”

“Well, either she’s starting her rut, which she swears she isn’t, or she’s in a real jealous tizzy right now.”

“How will we know which one it is?”

“I guess, we'll see if she let's me go back to work after our ‘lunch break.’" Alex used hand quotes. “If she doesn’t, we’ll know she’s in her rut.”

“Alrighty, then,” Maggie shook her head. “I need a shower before work.” She headed into the bathroom and closed the shower door, so she didn't splash Lena.

“I'm already feeling the effects a little,” Alex said a bit breathlessly. “If I wasn't already dressed, I’d be getting in the shower with you.”

“Didn't you just get done fucking Lena in the shower?”

“Yeah, but Kara’s… Saliva? Venom? I'm not sure what. Makes me feel like I’m going to burn up from lust for days on end. It's helpful when she’s going into rut, but not really good for much else.”

“Lovely,” Lena piped up from doing her eyeliner. “So you’re gonna be in heat for the next few days, huh?”

Alex turned her nose up at the expression. “Yeah, I guess so.”

Lena adopted a devilish smirk. “Oh, this is gonna be fun.”

“Oh, yeah?” Alex retorted. “You’re not the one who has to go to work all worked up and horny.”

“Hmm, well, maybe I’ll join you for your lunch date.”

“That would be cool,” the agent nodded.

“I can’t miss out on this,” Maggie said from the shower. “Count me in.”

“All the better,” said Alex. “Wait!” she exclaimed, as Lena was about to put on her lipstick.

The CEO looked back at her with wide eyes. “What?” she asked with a bit of alarm.

“I just wanted a kiss first.” The agent drew her in by her hand and kissed her passionately.

Lena let her tongue dance teasingly against Alex’s, enjoying the agent’s desperation. This was gonna be a fun day for them. Maggie was already thinking of a million teasing comments to text to the redhead throughout the morning. She assumed Lena was probably doing the same in her own head. Lena nipped at the agent’s bottom lip, eliciting a beautiful, low growl that made her grin with pride. “I’m afraid that’s going to have to tide you over until later,” she said, as she pulled away.

“Wait! Me too!” Maggie had climbed out of the shower and stopped her from putting her lipstick on to catch a few kisses of her own.

Finally, Lena was able to finish her makeup, and she gave her love as she walked out the door.

Maggie looked at the clock. Technically, they still had a half an hour before she and Alex had to leave. She decided to go right for it. She backed Alex up against the wall and pressed her fingers against the agent’s center.

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“Oh, fuck!” Alex exclaimed, pressing her hand against Maggie’s. “Harder.”

Maggie pressed harder, circling her fingers around Alex’s clit through her clothes.

“Oh, yes!” The redhead let her head drop back against the doorframe. “Maggie!”

The detective unzipped Alex’s jeans and tugged them down off her hips, slipping her fingers back between her legs, caressing her through her underwear. “Who’s my girl?” Maggie nuzzled her neck.

“Don’t tease me!” Alex begged. “Fuck me like you mean it!”

The detective grabbed her by the arm and dragged her across the room to the bed, throwing her face down and pulling her pants down further. She could just see those sweet pink lips between her thighs, begging to be taken. She felt through the redhead’s folds for wetness, finding a surprising amount - enough so that she felt no qualms whatsoever about plunging her fingers straight inside, as deep as she could go.

“Oh, yes!” the agent bucked into her hand, swallowing her fingers into that gorgeous, wet pussy.

“God, you’re hot!” The Latina pumped her fingers in and out, going as deeply as she could and curving her fingers down on the way out to make sure she hit that sweet spot every time.

Alex clutched the bedsheets for dear life, crying out in her pleasure. “Rub my clit, please!”

Maggie obeyed, snaking her other hand between the redhead’s thighs and circling the hardened nub without holding back. She continued this way for the next few minutes, working the agent up until she finally felt the telltale clenching around her fingers.

“Ooooohhhh, fuuuuuuck!” Alex screamed. “Yes! Yes! Yes! Don’t stop!”

Maggie stroked her until her orgasm subsided. “That’s my girl.” She cleaned her hands off with the tissues on the bedside table before cleaning Alex up too.

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“Better?”

“A little,” Alex panted. “Thanks.”

“My pleasure,” Maggie kissed her on the back of the head and patted her ass. “We need to get going, or we’re gonna be late for work.”

“Fine.” The Agent cleaned herself up and put her pants back on.

They walked out to the garage together. Maggie decided to drive her own bike instead of the porsche, just to try to downplay any extra attention she might be getting from the whole Lena ordeal. “See you at lunch,” they kissed one another and parted ways for the morning.

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Alex tried to be as inconspicuous as possible about her ‘dilemma’ at work, but J’onn, of course, noticed something was off.

“Are you feeling alright, Agent Danvers?” her boss peered suspiciously down at her, arms crossed with concern.

“I’m fine,” she lied. She knew it was no use lying to a Martian who could read her mind, but no one else around them could do that, so she still tried to cover.

“You do look a little flushed,” Winn observed. “You want me to get you some water?”

“I’m fine!” she insisted.

“You don’t look fine,” Vasquez piped up. “Maybe you should sit down? You look like you’re gonna pass out any second.”

“I’m not gonna pass out! Just drop it!”

“I think I should call Kara,” Mon-El pulled out his phone.

“No!” She covered his cell. “Kara’s working on something really important right now. Don’t disturb her.”

“Oh!” Vasquez said excitedly. “Does she get to write an article about Lena Luthor and your friend Detective Sawyer? They’re so cute together! I hope she does a good job!”

Alex looked at Mon-El to see if he was going to correct her, but he kept his mouth shut. “Yeah,” she said, “So don’t bother her right now. I’m fine. I have work to do. If I still don’t feel right by lunchtime, then I’ll stay home. Otherwise, let’s just get back to work.” She stared down everyone around the briefing table until they all relented.

“Hey,” Mon-El flagged her down after their morning meeting. “Um, why don’t you let me help you out with whatever it is you’re doing, so you don’t hurt yourself.”

Alex had never noticed how good the Daxamite smelled before. She shook her head to clear her mind. “Thanks, but this isn’t stuff you can help me with.”

“Are you sure? I think I should come with you anyway.”

“Mon-El, I’m already going to be struggling to focus, I don’t need you asking me a million questions on top of that.”

The man frowned. “Alex, I’m so bored!”

She sighed. “OK, fine!”

“Ah, thank you!” He hugged her. “Hey, you smell funny.” He sniffed her shoulder where Kara had bitten her. He pulled back the collar of her shirt to reveal the bite mark Kara had left in her skin. “Aha!” he smirked. “That’s why you’re not right!”

“Shh!” she slapped him. “Stop that!”

“Congratulations. What took her so long?”

She scratched at her shoulder. “This isn’t the first time she’s bitten me, Mon-El. It just doesn’t stick around like a Kryptonian. It always heals.”

“Oh,” he nodded, but still seemed perplexed. “That’s… not cool.”

“Why?”

“A mating bite is supposed to be a symbol of forever. It kind of defeats the purpose, if it heals all the time. Plus, it can’t be very comfortable to run around feeling like you probably feel right now.”

“Yeah, it’s not, really.”

“It was wrong of Kara to leave you in this condition. She shouldn't have done that.”

“She wasn’t thinking very clearly this morning,” she informed him. “I think she might be starting her rut.”

“Ah,” he nodded. “That could explain it. You should definitely be with her right now, then. Especially since she doesn’t carry your bite to, uh, you know, reign it in.”

“She reigns it in just fine,” Alex defended. “She’s not a big slut like you.”

“Hey! Eve and I have been happily dating for a month now. I can check myself when I need to.”

“Have you guys fucked yet?” Alex wasn't normally so bold, but Kara’s bite was affecting her.

“Yeah, loads of times.”

“No pun intended, I’m sure.”

“What?”

“Nevermind. How do you explain the knotting?”

“Well, that’s easy, I just told her I was an alien.”

“You what?!”

“Relax! She’s cool about it. She likes that I can outlast her in bed. She says most human guys can’t hold a candle to my staying power.”

“Oh, God, I’m sorry I asked.”

“Hey, don’t be jealous,” he smirked.

“I’m so not jealous.”

“Sure.”

“Look, I have work to do. If you’re going to come with me, then fine, but try not to break anything.”

XXXXXXXXXXXX

As soon as Kara walked into the editorial office, Snapper barked at her, “Danvers! Olsen wants to see you.”

Oh, boy. She knew what was coming. She took a deep breath, adjusted her glasses and headed to James’s office.

“Hey,” she said nonchalantly as she could manage.

“Kara,” James greeted her coolly. “Care to explain this?” he asked, playing the video of her two girlfriends, one of whom was not supposed to be her girlfriend, on the TV behind him.

“Um…” She fidgeted with her glasses and chuckled nervously. “Well… I guess the cat’s out of the bag. Lena is a part of our relationship. She has been since before Christmas.”

“Wow.”

“She didn’t want to tell anyone.”

“I see.”

“Are you mad?”

“I’m a lot of things, Kara. Confused and concerned being on the top of the list.”

“What’s there to be concerned about?”

“I just wonder if this isn’t gonna have some sort of long-term effect on the kids. I mean, this kind of thing may have been normal on Krypton, but on earth, it’s deviant behavior. What if the kids grow up and think they can have the same thing? Do you know what that’ll do to their relationships? It could make it so they never can have a normal relationship like a normal human should.”

Kara frowned. “My kids are smart I’m sure they can figure things out for themselves without any trouble. The only real long-term effect this is going to have is that our girls get to have two extra people in their lives that love them unconditionally. They need that. They don’t have that many kids their age that get along with them, so they need all the love they can get. Maggie and Lena are terrific with the kids. They act like they’re their own kids. I couldn’t ask for better partners for Alex and myself.”

“Look, it’s not like I don’t like Maggie and Lena. I do. They’re terrific people. I just question your judgement in having three different partners at the same time. That’s gotta be extremely complicated. I thought it was bad enough with you just adding Maggie. Lena is a complicated person to begin with. Do you really think this is wise?”

“Wise or not, it’s happening, and we’re not breaking up. We’re happy together. The kids are happy. I like things the way they are.”

The man put his hands on his hips and sighed. “Alright, Kara. I’ll respect your wishes.”

“Thank you, James.”

“In the meantime, you know what we need to do.”

“Yeah, they already agreed to let me interview them.”

“They did?” James seemed quite surprised. “I thought I was going to have to beg them or bribe them or something.”

Kara chuckled. “No, they plan on finding out who took that video and suing them blind, though.”

It was his turn to laugh. “I’d hate to be that guy.”

“No kidding! Well, I’d better get to work. I have an article to write.”

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Maggie pulled her bike into her parking spot at the police department and headed inside, not knowing what to expect. The first thing she heard when she walked through the door was a catcall from Detective Murray. He was one of those guys that was obsessed with lesbians and was always trying to get Maggie to tell him stories of her escapades. She could probably get him into trouble for it, but she knew he was harmless. She rolled her eyes at him, and he sidled up to her.

“Sawyer!” he greeted her jovially. “You are like, totally my hero, you know it? I mean, yowzas!”

“Shut up, Murray!” she bumped him with her shoulder, but he was a big dude, and she just kind of bounced off.

He laughed. “You’re one lucky woman, I have to say. And so is she, if you don’t mind me saying.”

“Thanks, Murray. Now buzz off.” She headed to her desk and actually managed to get some work done before someone else bothered her.

“Dude! Sawyer! Nice catch!” said one of the rookies. “How’d you land that?”

“None of your beeswax,” she huffed. “She’s not a fish, she’s a person.”

“I didn’t mean anything by it,” the kid defended. “I just meant… You have nice taste in women.”

Maggie smirked, remembering just how good her ‘taste’ in women was. “Thanks. Now beat it.”

She checked her email, finding a set of questions that Kara wanted her and Lena to answer. She did her best to be courteous and discreet to respect all of her partners. She hoped they appreciated this whole thing. She was nervous as fuck about it. She’d never been in the public eye before. It was intimidating. People wanted to know things about her. Strangers. Just because she was dating Lena Luthor. Definitely bizarre. It was difficult to try to talk about her relationship with Lena apart from the Danvers family. They were the reason they were all together in the first place, and they honestly deserved the credit for bringing them together, but they had to pretend that the Danvers were irrelevant. In answer to the question, ‘How did you two meet?’ She put simply, ‘Through mutual friends.’

It didn’t take her long to get through the questions, and soon she was back to work on her regular cases. Actually, there was a female metahuman in custody that was nearly as strong as Mon-El that had been arrested for public intoxication, drunk and disorderly, and destruction of public property. Maggie wanted to go talk to her. It wasn’t her case, but still. She liked to get to know the metahumans and aliens in the city. This one apparently went quietly, despite the fact that she could have ripped the arresting police officers in half with her bare hands. She assumed there was a story behind this behavior, and she wanted to hear it.

She didn’t get the chance because as she was standing to leave, her chief came in and started bombarding her with questions about Lena Luthor. Where did they meet? How long have they known each other? Were they dating when Lena was arrested? Did she have anything to do with her mother's escape? She stayed and answered all his questions to the best of her ability, but she couldn't shake the feeling that she was under interrogation. Not everyone was fond of Luthors, after all. That gave her an idea.

“You should meet her, chief,” Maggie offered. “She’s terrific. I don’t date just anybody. Even if they are rich beyond your wildest imaginations.”

The man stopped questioning her and raised his brow. “You’re serious about this girl, hmm?” Maggie had a long history with this man, and he was like a father figure to her. She didn’t know exactly how he felt about her, but she knew he was very fond of her. He lead the pack in helping establish LGBTQ rights back in his own day, and they continued to work together on projects to this day. Asking him to meet her girlfriend was a big step, especially when said girlfriend was as intimidating as Lena Luthor. He could hold his own though, and he could see for himself how wonderful Lena was.

“Yeah, very,” she told him honestly. “See for yourself. She’s genuinely a good person. A great one, even.”

“Do you love her?” he asked.

Maggie couldn’t hide the grin that spread over her face. “Yeah. I do. And you will too, I know it.”

“I just worry you’re getting swindled somehow.”

“How? She’s the one with the money!”

“Well, who knows? It could be awfully convenient to have a partner at the PD that could tell her a few things, or wipe a few things away?”

“It’s not like that. Lena is the real deal. She doesn’t ask anything about the department, and I don’t offer any information, and I certainly don’t ‘wipe things away,’ as you say.”

“We’ll see. I expect a set date by the end of the week.”

“You got it.” She waved as he finally left her alone. A crowd had gathered behind his towering form that she hadn’t seen before. She glared at them, and they dispersed. She picked up her phone and pulled up her conversation with Lena. ‘Hey, babe, guess what…’