Chapter 84

After the second explosion, everyone's on edge and even more exhausted. It doesn't take long for J'onn to order everyone to just stay around here and rest. They'll be moving again in a couple of hours to the rendezvous point with the backup agents, but right now, they need to rest.

He has volunteers watch the prisoners and the night to make certain they're not attacked again. His "space daughters" (and step-space daughters) all insist on him getting rest. He complies on the condition that they do too. To his surprise, they do. So he keeps up his side of the deal and sits with his back against a tree and closes his eyes.

The night is cold, so to stay warm Lena, Kara, Alex, and Maggie all cuddle up on the ground together with Kara's cape laid over them like a blanket. They sleep in that order, with Maggie and Lena on the outside (but still warm beneath the cape) and the Danvers sisters in the middle. Though the sisters both argued for their girlfriends being in the middle, Lena appealed to their sense of logic with this setup. This way, Maggie can cuddle with Alex, and Lena can cuddle with Kara. And Kara can cuddle with Alex, too.

When they finally conceded, they both urged their girlfriends to tell them if they're cold, so they'll switch. Especially since Kara technically doesn't need anything to keep warm. When Kara points that out, Lena argues that she can be their built-in furnace.

"Now that we have that figured out, can we please nap?" Maggie grumbles, blinking tiredly.

Alex nods and tugs Maggie closer. She hums and rests her head on Alex's shoulder, her arm draped over her stomach. They all shift for the first minute or so, trying to get comfortable, and then settle down. It's easy for them to fall asleep, with the warmth of the blanket (and Kara), as well as the comfort of being by each other.

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Lena wakes up to someone gently tapping her shoulder. She sighs in distaste and cuddles closer to Kara. Whoever it is can go away, she's comfortable and still tired.

"Lena." Maggie says.

Lena opens her eyes at the familiar voice. She blinks the effects of sleep away and waits for her tired eyes to focus. Maggie is out from underneath the cape, kneeling beside her, and now Lena realizes most people are standing, looking slightly less exhausted than before.

Lena yawns and taps Kara, who's in one of her deep sleeps where it's really difficult to wake her up. Kara mumbles something about wanting more puppies and continues sleeping.

"Kara." She says quietly, knowing that even asleep Kara will respond to her voice. Kara's head twitches towards Lena and she hums, her eyebrows scrunching. "Kara, darling. Wake up."

At that last sentence, Kara's eyes snap open and she sits up, her eyes wide as she looks around. "What? Huh? What happened?"

Lena, used to Kara's antics, sits up from where she was forcefully (and accidentally) moved when Kara sat upwards quickly, without regard for her super strength. She ignores the chuckles of Maggie and Alex nearby. She puts a hand on Kara's shoulder and she turns to Lena, her eyes wide with worry.

"What happened? Who do I have to punch?" Kara asks.

Lena chuckles softly and kisses Kara's cheek, loving how the action still makes her blush.

"You don't have to punch anyone, darling. It's just time to get up." Lena explains.

Kara grins sheepishly. "Right. I knew that."

Lena takes Kara's hand in hers. "I'm sure. Come on, darling. We need to get moving. See Winn again."

Kara's eyes brighten and she grins. "Oh yeah! I hope he's doing okay."

"He's sitting around with a bunch of DEO agents. I'm sure he has managed to invent something new or bore them to death by now." Lena teases.

They get up and Kara's practically vibrating with energy. Lena can't help feeling jealous of how quickly Kara has woken up and gotten this much energy. Then she realizes something.

"Kara? As much as I appreciate you in a skin-tight bodysuit, I figure you might want your cape." Lena says.

Kara's eyes widen and she flushes deeply. There's a blur of motion and then she's standing back in front of Lena with red cheeks and her cape back on. Lena swallows down her laughter and instead smiles at Kara.

"Hey Lena! Stop checking out my sister, it's time to go!" Alex shouts at her.

Lena appreciates that she didn't call her Luthor. Even though, with the help of them, she has been finally understanding that being one of the Luthors isn't bad, but today... Today, being called by her last name would remind her that she's the last Luthor now.

"She's just checking out an attractive Danvers sister. Kara doesn't call me out when I do that." Maggie teases, poking her girlfriend in the side.

"That's because Kara blushed at the fact her girlfriend was checking her out. When she sees you checking me out, she squeaks and goes the other way." Alex says.

"Hey!" Kara protests as she and Lena walk the short ways to join Alex and Maggie's sides. "That's because when you guys do it, it's like... It's like... Seduction eyes!"

Maggie and Alex exchange an amused glance. "And when Lena looks at you, that's not seduction eyes?"

Kara stammers for a second and then huffs, her cheeks just as red as they were before. Lena chuckles and kisses her girlfriend's cheek.

"Let's get going before Kara's face turns permanently red." Maggie teases.

Lena squeezes Kara's hand and smiles softly at her. Kara's blush dims slightly and she smiles.

"I didn't know Kryptonians could blush before I met you." Lena remarks.

Alex laughs, surprised and delighted by her remark. She keeps it quiet, knowing they're trying to not make a ton of noise as they go to the rendezvous point.

The walk is mainly quiet after that. It isn't a treacherous walk or steep, which is good for the exhausted victims of Cadmus'. They move in the light of the day, the sun having long since risen. They make good time, but as they're closer to the back, they can barely tell when they've gotten to the rendezvous point.

They can definitely tell when Kara yells out. "Winn!"

It startles the others, and Kara gives them an apologetic grimace before beaming in one direction, watching Winn follow her shout with her X-ray vision. She grins and shouts his name again when he gets lost. He starts carefully making his way through the crowd of people, apologizing when he accidentally bumps into people.

When he finally makes his way to them, using some of Kara's expertly times shouts, he beams when he sees the four of them. He rushes at them and practically tackles Kara in a hug, keeping one of his arms outstretched.

"Group hug!" He cries.

Alex groans and rolls her eyes but complies, wrapping her arms around her little siblings.

She notices Maggie and Lena watching them with soft expressions. "Get over here, you dorks. Group hug means a group hug."

Lena and Maggie join the group hug and Winn lets out a happy noise when they do.

"I'm surrounded by my favorite people!" Winn declares.

"What about your girlfriend?" Maggie teases.

"We... She hasn't... I..." Winn sighs in defeat, slumping in the still-ongoing group hug.

"What are we, chopped liver?" A familiar voice asks and they all look up.

"Vasquez! J'onn! Winn cheers. "Get in here! It's a I'm-so-happy-you-didn't-die  group hug!"

"I didn't know hugs could be so specific." Vasquez jokes, reaching in to ruffle Winn's hair before joining the hug.

J'onn joins in as well, smiling fondly down at all of his space children. They may not know that he knows this, but he knows that they all love his hugs. His own children did as well, and now that he has his own family again, weird and broken but perfect in every way. When he hugs them it's like he can feel his dead family again. The holes in his heart that they left in his heart don't fill in, but his heart has made more room for his new family.

They break the hug apart after a bit and J'onn pretends like he can't feel how their emotions are all over the place because of that hug.

"We need to set up tents, we cannot expect them to move anymore after going all this way. If you all wouldn't mind taking ove-" J'onn cuts himself off when Kara disappears into a blur, setting up tents with her superspeed.

He doesn't have to wait long until Kara's back in front of them, the tents having been set up. She's breathing noticeably more heavy than before and gives him thumbs up.

"All done!"

J'onn shakes his head fondly, smiling softly. Scolding her would do nothing. "Thank you, Supergirl." He turns to Lena. "Make sure she gets some rest tonight. I don't want her to overexert herself."

Next chapter, more of this! I love the idea of J'onn (not so) secretly loving that everyone thinks of him as their space dad and mentally calling them his space children. I promise, some actual plot and slight angst (just slight because I live them too much to put them through too much more) will be coming up! Especially with Lena being Queen of her own Kingdom and Kara being a Princess... And there was that one not-at-all-subtle between Alex and Maggie that basically foretells everything that'll happen! Which I probably shouldn't have reminded you guys of to keep up the air of mystery, but oh well! Thank you all for reading and for your amazing comments! Stay awesome!