16. Clark Meets the Twins / Prom*

It was a full month before Clark and Lois were able to visit the Danvers family and meet the twins.  Alex felt like a mess.  The twins kept her constantly nursing with their little Kryptonian appetites, so she was exhausted.  In fact, she and the babies were sleeping when the couple arrived.  The elder Kryptonian and his wife sat downstairs with Kara and Eliza until she woke up.

“Hi, baby girl,” Kara greeted her with a kiss before she let anyone come upstairs.  “Are you ready for some company?”

Alex yawned.  “As ready as I’ll ever be.”

“OK!” Kara called down the stairs to let the others know they could come up.

Lois was the first one in.  “Hi, sweetie!” she greeted Alex with a hug.  “How are you feeling?”

“I’m OK.  Pretty tired, though,” Alex answered.  “How are you guys?”

“We’re good,” Lois told her, glancing at the bassinets.  “Can I look at them?”

Alex smiled.  “Of course.”

Lois walked around the bed and peeked into the baby beds at the sleeping infants.  “Oh, my goodness!  They’re so cute!  Look, Clark!”

Kal-El walked slowly towards them, and when he looked down, his face softened.  “Wow,” he breathed.  “They’re perfect.”

Kara beamed.  “They’re the best babies in the whole universe!”  She threw her arms wide for emphasis.

“And they really do look like you, don’t they?” Clark added.

“Yeah,” Alex agreed.  “They have their Mama’s appetite too.  Makes it hard to get anything done.  I pretty much just sleep and nurse right now.”

“Poor thing,” Lois commented.  “Do you guys have everything you need?”

“Yes, thank you,” Kara answered.

Jessie started fussing.

“Uh-oh,” Kara lamented.  “Someone needs a diaper change!”  She went over and gently picked up her baby daughter and laid her on the bed.  “Hi, honey bunny!” she cooed.  “You want a dry diaper?  Huh?”

Jessie kicked her feet and stopped crying, but still made noise.

“Who’s my talking girl?” Kara grinned, grabbing the wipes and a clean diaper.

Jessie gurgled at her some more.

Lois beamed.  “That’s so cute!”

“Isn’t it?” Kara agreed, putting the fresh diaper on her daughter.  “Jessie is a real talker, but Jamie just watches you really intently.”

“Aww,” the female reporter leaned over and smiled at the baby.  “Hi, Jessie!  Hi!  You’re so cute, little baby!”  She played with the baby’s little toes, making her feet kick in glee.

“She likes you,” Kara told Lois.

Lois looked hopefully up at Clark.

“No,” he answered.

Lois rolled her eyes.  “Spoil sport.”

“You can come visit Kara’s babies all you want,” he told her.  “We don’t need any of our own.  They’d be in way too much danger all the time.”

“Yeah, yeah,” she dismissed him with a wave.  It didn’t really seem like she was all that upset about the situation, honestly.

“You want to hold her?” Kara asked.

“Yes!” Lois exclaimed, holding out her hands.  When she had the baby in her arms, she rocked her.  “Hi, sweet girl!  My name is Lois.  How are you?”

Jessie kicked her feet and flailed her arms, babbling away at her new friend.

That’s when Jamie started fussing.  

“Oh, someone else needs a diaper!”  She scooped up her older daughter and changed her too.  “Kal, do you want to hold Jamie?”

The man fretted a bit.  “I don’t want to hurt her.”

“You won’t hurt her.  If I can hold her, so can you,” she assured him.  She walked across the room and placed the baby in his arms.  “See?” she encouraged.

Clark had a look of awe and reverence on his face that Kara hadn’t expected as he gazed down at her daughter.  “Hello, little one,” he whispered.  “I’m your cousin Clark.  I hope you don’t mind that I came to meet you.”

Jamie just stared at him.

“I don’t think she likes me,” he told them sadly.

“Yes, she does,” Kara promised.  “That’s just how she is.  If she didn’t like you, she’d be crying.”

“They’re going to be hungry soon,” Alex informed them.  “Cuddle while you can.”

Jessie took that as her cue to start fussing.

Alex groaned, “I should have kept my mouth shut.  I think they know ‘hungry’ means food.”

“OK.”  Kara took Jessie from Lois and handed her to Alex, then she took Jamie from Clark.  “You guys should head back downstairs for a little while.”

“Alright,” they stepped out of the room.

Jamie must have sensed it was feeding time because she started fussing as soon as the bedroom door closed.

Kara grabbed Alex’s nursing pillow and helped her arrange the babies around her.  Once they were set up, she made sure Alex had water, then she curled up next to her little family.  They were so perfect, and she was so smitten.  She loved watching the babies while they nursed.  She thought it was so adorable how their little tongues poked out while they ate.

Kara cooed at Jessie, who kicked her feet happily.

“Kara, stop it!  You’re making her wiggle around too much!”

“Sorry!  I can’t help it!  She’s so adorable!”

“You’d better help it!  It’s not your nipple she’s hanging off of while she’s moving all over the place!”

“Sorry!”  Kara tried not to rile her daughter up anymore.  “I’m really glad Clark and Lois finally came out to visit.  For a while there, I thought they weren’t going to.”

“I’m glad too,” Alex told her.  “He needed to see how amazing they are.  They’re not something to be disappointed with us about.  They’re something to be so, so proud of.”  She smiled at her girls who both smiled back.

Kara practically purred at her partner’s words.  “I love you so much, Alex.”

“I love you too, Kara.”

“And I love you, Jessie.  And I love you Jamie.”  The Kryptonian just couldn’t help herself.

Alex rolled her eyes when Jessie started squirming again.  “Why don’t you go ahead and be with your cousin?  You know we’re gonna be here for a while.”

Kara pouted.  “Do I have to?”

“No, I guess not.  I just thought you would want to visit with them.”

“I…  I just have a hard time leaving you guys, that’s all,” the blonde admitted.

“Aww,” Alex cooed.  “It’s OK, Angel.  You can stay here with us, if you want to.”

“Would you like me to read to you?” Kara offered.

“Yes, please.”

“Which book?”

“Um…  How about Anatomy and Physiology?”

“You got it.”  Kara read the textbook to Alex until the twins were done nursing, then she burped Jessie, while Alex burped Jamie.  “You wanna come downstairs?”

Alex nodded.  “Yeah.  I’d love to get out of this bed for a little while.”

They carried the babies downstairs and handed them off to Eliza and Lois before they sat down and cuddled into one another.

“So, Alex, Kara said you’re basically homeschooled right now?  How are you liking that?” Clark asked while Lois was distracted by Jamie.

“It’s good for now,” Alex answered.  “I’ll be happy when I can get out of the house for more than five minutes at a time.  I actually like school, unlike some people,” she nudged her head at Kara.

“Kara, you don’t like school?” Clark seemed surprised.  “I thought you were going to be a scientist?”

The little blonde rolled her eyes.  “Yeah, that was before I realized that earth science is soooo boring, and anything I invented, I got in trouble for because it would have given me away as an alien, so I kind of just stopped with all that.”

“Oh,” Kal clearly was at a loss for words.  “Well now what are you going to do?”

She smiled brightly at him.  “I’m going to raise my children.  That’s the best thing there could be.”

“But, I mean, what are you going to do for a job?  Are you going to go to college?”

“I have a job.  I’ve been working since this past summer when we found out we were pregnant.  Alex was working too, until she had the girls.”

Clark sighed.  “You can’t be a barista all your life, Kara.  That’s not a great career path if you really want to give your children a good life.

“I know that!” she crossed her arms over her chest.  “But it’s something for now.  I’ll figure something out.  I have to graduate high school first.”

“Maybe you could do some online classes at first,” Lois supplied helpfully.

Kara’s eyes lit up.  “They have those?”

The elder brunette made faces at the baby while she talked.  “Yep!  I bet even Stanford and NCU have a ton of them.  You should check it out if you’re wanting to stay home with the kids.”

Kara clapped her hands and bounced in her seat.  “Oh, yes!  That would be awesome!”

“I don’t want to do online classes,” Alex complained.  “I want the college experience.”

“That’s fine, my love,” Kara assured her.  “You can go to your classes, and I’ll take mine at home.”

“OK, fine.” Alex agreed.  “You can stay home with the kids, and we don’t have to pay for childcare yet.”

Kara pumped her fist victoriously.  “Yes!  This is the best deal I’ve gotten since I’ve been on Earth!  I’ve got my wife; I’ve got my kids; and now I get to stay home with my kids and NOT go to school, while still taking classes.  Haha!”

Alex grinned at her enthusiasm.  “I like this deal too.  I’d rather you stay home with our girls than have to ship them off to be with strangers all day.”

“That does seem ideal in theory,” Eliza commented.  “We’ll see how well it works out in practice.”

Kara pouted at her.  “You don’t think I can do it?”

“That’s not what I said, dear,” Eliza defended.  “I just think you need to give it a try before you say it’s the best deal ever.  Taking care of two babies by yourself is going to be very hard.  We might still have to hire outside help.”

“I’m sure it will be fine,” Kara brushed her off.  "We still have quite a few months before we have to worry about it."

“Those months are going to be gone before you know it,” Eliza told her.

“Don’t say that,” Kara said, taking Jessie from her mother-in-law and nuzzling her little nose while she cuddled her.  “You’re not going to grow up too fast, are you, little baby?” she cooed.

Jessie flailed around happily.

“You’re supposed to say no,” Kara told the infant.

Her daughter flailed some more, babbling back at her, as if she was offering her part of the conversation.

“Who knew they would talk back at such a young age?” Alex joked.

Kara giggled.  “Are you gonna grow up to be big and strong like your Mama?” she asked.

Jessie squealed.

Kara laughed again, while rubbing her ear.  “I’ll take that as a yes!”

Jamie started fussing.

“Was it something I said?” Lois asked jokingly.

Eliza pouted at the baby.  “What’s wrong, princess?”  She picked her granddaughter up and snuggled her, and the baby stopped crying.  “Did you just need a familiar face?  Hmm?”  She rocked back and forth a little.  “You made some new friends today, didn’t you?  What a good girl!”

Jamie smiled at her grandma.

“Oh, my God!” Lois squeaked.  “That’s so cute!  Look at her little baby smile!”

Clark smiled patiently at his wife, then more genuinely at the baby.  “She’s beautiful.  Which one is this?”

“That’s Jamie,” Kara told him.

“How do you tell them apart?” he asked.

Kara smirked.  “We usually color code them.  Jamie wears blue, Jessie wears red, Jamie wears white, Jessie wears black, etc.  I can tell them apart, but I’ve been watching them since we found out they existed.  Plus, it’s easy, if you just watch them for a minute.  Jessie is noisy and squirmy, and Jamie is quiet and watchful.”

Her cousin and his wife nodded thoughtfully.

“I’m starving!” Alex complained.  “I’m gonna go find some food.”  She extracted herself from between Kara and the arm of the couch and headed for the kitchen.

Jessie hollered fairly loudly when she left the room.

“Jessie wants one too!” Kara called out to her.

Alex snickered.  “I wouldn’t put it past her!”

Clark furrowed his brow.  “They can’t actually do that, can they?”

“What?” Kara wondered.  “Eat a sandwich?  No.  They’re newborns.  They drink milk.”  She gave him a look.

“I was just wondering because they’re half-Kryptonian.  We can eat a lot of crazy stuff, you know.”

Kara looked curiously at the infant in her arms.  “Well, now you’ve got me wondering, but I’m not gonna push it.  They’ve been mostly human since they were born, so it probably wouldn’t work anyway.  Maybe if they ever get powers...”

“Yeah, honestly, I was afraid they were going to be born with lasers shooting out of their eyes,” Kal told her.

“Me too!” Kara admitted, wide eyed.  “I’m really glad that didn’t happen.”

“You and me, both, kiddo,” Eliza seconded.

“Seriously,” Clark agreed.

Lois nodded solemnly.

Kara looked down at Jessie.  “If you feel like you're gonna shoot lasers, speak up, quick!”

The baby kicked and gurgled at her.

“Yeah, who's my good girl?”

Jessie smiled and cooed some more.

Alex came in with two ham and cheese sandwiches, an apple, a banana, some celery and cucumbers, and a couple of pudding cups.  “Shoot!  I forgot to get something to drink!” she lamented after she sat down.

“I'll get it for you,” Kara offered, passing Jessie to Clark.

“Uh…” the man stammered, holding the infant gingerly.  “This is the wiggly one.  I don't know if I should hold her.”

“You’ll be fine,” Kara assured him.  “Just hold her in the crook of your arm against your chest, and let her feet dangle a little bit.”

Lois helped him do this.  

“See?” Kara encouraged.  “She likes you.”

It's true - Jessie was smiling at him.

He gazed reverently down at her and smiled back.  “Hi, baby.”

“Now,” Kara turned back to her wife, “What would you like to drink?”

“Just water for now, please,” Alex answered.

The young blonde zipped to the kitchen and back with a glass of ice water.

“Thanks, Angel.”  Alex looked over at her mother, “Is Jamie asleep?”

Eliza looked at the infant in her arms.  “She's working on it.”

“Uh-oh,” Kal cried out.  Jessie had spit up on him.

“Aww!” Kara tried not to laugh while she helped clean them up.  “Now you're officially initiated into the family.”

“Joy,” he drawled.

Lois snickered.

“Here,” Kara liberated the baby from her cousin.  “She'll probably want to go to sleep soon, anyway.”  She sat down and rocked a little.  “Did you have fun spitting up on your cousin Kal?” she asked her daughter.

Jessie babbled and sucked on her fist, her eyelids drooping as her Mama rocked her.

Clark and Lois stayed the weekend, helping the family with little odds and ends that needed to be taken care of, and by the time they left, things were more cordial between Kara and Kal than ever.  It seemed her kids had magical powers to tame the hardest of hearts.  Maybe they were Super after all - just a different kind of Super from herself and her cousin.

Two weeks after the Kents left, a package arrived from Metropolis.  The girls opened the box to find coordinated binkies with each girl’s name written on the strap - Jessie in red, and Jamie in blue.

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The last week of April marked Alex and Kara’s penultimate high school experience:  Senior Prom.  Eliza bought them some inexpensive, but still beautiful, dresses, let them get their hair done, and agreed to watch the babies for the evening.  They even invited Eliza’s best friend Maureen over to help.  The woman was already like a second grandparent to the girls.  She spoiled them rotten.  The girls wouldn’t have to worry about anything while they were out, since the kids were in such experienced hands.

They went out to dinner first.  Alex thoroughly enjoyed getting out of the house.  She smiled brightly and held Kara’s hand the whole time.  They didn't really talk much at dinner, but that was fine with them.  They spent all their time together anyway.  There wasn't really anything to say.  They people-watched and spaced out and tried not to worry about the kids.  This was already the longest time they had spent away from the girls since they'd been born.  

After dinner, they went to the hall where the prom was being held.  Before they even got inside, they were greeted by friendly faces.

“Alex!  Kara!”  Alex’s friend Jonathan whistled at them.  “Look at you!  No one would know you just had a baby!” he exclaimed.

“Two babies,” she reminded him.

“Even better,” he flirted playfully.

Alex smacked his shoulder.  “Thanks.”

“Can we see pictures?” Alex’s friend Tiffany asked.

Kara gleefully pulled out her phone and started showing off her girls.  Of course, to these people, the girls were her ‘nieces,’ but that was beside the point.

“Aww!” they all cooed over the baby pictures for a few minutes.  “They look like Kara!” Tiffany exclaimed.

“Are you guys looking at baby pictures?” Rick Malverne and his three buddies came up behind them and poked his head over their shoulders.  “Can we see?”

They handed him the phone, and they looked through the pics.  “Yep.  You heard it,” he said to his friends, “You guys all owe me fifty bucks.”

Rick’s friends grumbled and pulled out their wallets, giving him the money he’d won.

Smirking, Rick handed Alex a twenty and winked.  “Get something nice for yourself,” he told her before walking away.

“What the heck was that about?” Kara wondered aloud.

Alex bit her lip nervously.  “I don’t think you want to know.”

“Um…  OK…”  Kara’s eyes bounced between her wife and the three guys that just passed them to go indoors.    “Were we just insulted?  Do I need to hurt someone?”

“Kara, no, it’s fine.  I promise.  You know what?  I’ll tell you later, OK?  It’s fine.  We don’t have to worry about those guys.”

The young Kryptonian had a hard time believing her partner on this, but she let it go anyway, and they headed inside.  The decorations were everywhere - balloons, streamers, confetti - all shiny and in the school colors, displaying the school mascot proudly.  They took hold of each other’s hands and walked out to the dance floor.  “How are you feeling, my love?” Kara asked, wrapping her arms around Alex’s waist.

The brunette smiled and put her hands behind the blonde’s neck.  “So far, so good.  It’s weird being here without the girls.  They haven’t been around for very long, but now I can’t imagine my life without them.”

“I know what you mean,” Kara agreed.  “We don’t have to stay long.  Just long enough to have a couple dances, get our pictures taken, maybe say hi to a few more people, if you want.”

“Yeah.”  They swayed to the music blaring from the DJ booth.

A faster song came on, and Rick and his friend Ian came over and asked the girls to dance.  Rick snatched Alex up and whisked her away to where (he thought) Kara couldn’t hear.  “Hey,” he smiled at the brunette.  “You didn’t tell Kara what I said, did you?”

“Not yet,” she remarked.

“Don’t,” he pleaded.  “I don’t want her to come to my house and kill me in my sleep.”

Alex rolled her eyes.  “She would never do that…  Even if you did deserve it.”

“Good to know!” He smirked.  “Come on!  We were just having a little fun, that’s all.  What?  You didn’t like your cut?  You want more?”

“More wouldn’t hurt,” she gave him a smirk of her own.

He paused their dancing and pulled out his wallet, giving her another thirty.

She laughed and they went back to dancing.  “What was the bet exactly?” she wondered.  “That Kara was an alien that impregnated me?”

“So, you admit it, then?”

“Of course not!”

He laughed heartily.  “I bet them that your kids would look just like Kara.  It’s all in the wording, you know,” he shrugged.

“I see.”  Alex wondered if this was going to be a problem.  If he did know their secret, how did he even find out?  If he didn’t, why would he say these things?  Was the universe testing them?  “But the reason behind you saying that, is that you believe Kara to be an alien who impregnated me…”  She wanted to make sure she understood correctly.

“Prove me wrong,” he whispered in her ear.

She wanted to wipe that stupid smirk off his face, so she ‘accidentally’ stepped on his foot.  “Oops.  Sorry,” she said, unremorsefully.

“Fine, be that way,” he pouted, but he didn’t make any kind of threats toward her, and honestly, she didn’t feel threatened at all - just annoyed - so she let him be and wandered around until she found Kara.  

“You want to get in line for pictures?” she asked the blonde, who was still dancing with Ian.

“Sure!”  Kara turned to the tall, lanky guy who’d been awkwardly leading her around the dance floor for the last couple minutes.  “Thanks for the dance!” she told him cheerfully.  When they were away from him, Kara asked concernedly, “Is everything OK?”

“It’s fine,” Alex assured her.

“You didn’t even dance the whole song,” Kara pointed out.

“I just…  I guess I just didn’t feel right dancing with someone else besides you.”  Kara always knew when she was lying, but it wasn’t technically a lie, so she got away with it.

“Aww,” the Kryptonian took her human partner by the waist and kissed her cheek.  “I love you, beautiful girl .”

They got in line to get their pictures taken behind a bunch of people they didn’t know that well and waited patiently.  They leaned against the wall and held hands and people-watched some more, giggling about some of the guys’ strange choices of tuxedos.  When it was their turn, Kara stood behind Alex and wrapped her arms around her waist, letting her chin rest on Alex’s shoulder.  They both smiled beatifically and let the photographer take his shot.

Afterward, Kara insisted they get some punch.

“But what if someone spiked it?” Alex worried.

The blonde tried a bit of it.  “I think it’s OK.”

The brunette sniffed her partner’s cup warily.  “It’s not like you could tell.  I’m gonna pass.”

“Suit yourself.  I like it.”

“You like everything with sugar.”

Kara shrugged.  She couldn’t deny it.  She finished her drink and threw the cup away.  “Shall we dance to a couple more songs?” she held out her hand.

“Sure,” the human allowed herself to be lead back to the dance floor.

One of Kara’s favorite songs came on, and she sang it to her wife, “...Your love is like a river - peaceful and deep.  Your soul is like a secret that I never could keep.  When I look into your eyes,  I know that it's true - God must have spent a little more time on you…”

When the song was over, Alex leaned in and gave her partner a loving kiss.

“Wow, you guys aren’t even, like, trying to hide your perversions anymore, are you?”

The girls looked toward the accusing voice, frowning deeply.  

Alex's heart clenched.  Vicki was standing there looking stunning, but with a nasty look of disdain on her face and a confused guy on her arm.

“You’ve got something against lesbians?” the guy with Vicki asked her.

“They’re not lesbians, they’re sisters!” Vicki insisted nastily.

“We’re not fucking sisters!” Alex yelled at her.

“Yes, that’s exactly what you are!  Fucking sisters!  Sisters who fuck each other!  Step-sisters, adopted, whatever, you’re still fucking sisters!”

Alex looked very much like she was going to lunge forward and punch her old best friend, so Kara grabbed hold of her and started pulling her away.  “Let’s just go home,” the Kryptonian insisted to her partner.

“Yeah, take your disgusting selves home where no one has to look at you,” Vicki spat.

Of necessity, Kara wasn’t really holding Alex that hard, so the human easily snatched herself away from the Kryptonian and slapped her old friend across the face.  Everyone around them stopped and stared.  Even Kara gawked at her before she regained her sensibilities and dragged her wife away ASAP.  Lucky for them, Vicki wasn’t really the brawler type, or who knows what would have happened after that.

Alex passed Kara the keys and started sobbing as soon as they were in the car.  “Why does she have to be like that?” she mourned.  

“I don’t know, baby.  I’m so sorry.”  Kara drove them home.

“We used to be best friends!  We used to be inseparable!”

“I know, sweetheart.”  She stroked her wife’s hair at the light.  “We’ll get through this, OK?”

Alex just cried in answer.

“You wanna go somewhere and get some ice cream or something to make you feel better?”

The brunette shook her head no, so Kara just went straight home.  When they got inside, Eliza and Maureen were sitting on the couch watching The Food Channel and feeding the babies.

“Oh my God, please let me nurse them!  My boobs feel like they’re going to explode!” Alex whined.

To say the babies were upset when their grandmas took their bottles away might be a huge understatement, but Kara got them and Alex all set up on the couch, and soon they were suckling happily again.

“So?” Eliza asked when the babies were settled.  “How’d it go?”

Alex frowned.  Kara bit her lip.

“Not well?” she gathered sadly.  “What happened?”

“Vicki showed up and started saying mean things,” Kara answered.

“Oh, dear,” Eliza lamented.

“But I slapped the shit outta that bitch,” Alex informed her mother unremorsefully.

Eliza’s eyebrows shot up.  “Alex!”

“Alex!  Don’t swear in front of the babies!” Kara complained.

The brunette rolled her eyes.  

“I can’t believe you did that!” Maureen laughed.

Kara pouted.  “It’s not funny!”

“I beg to differ,” the woman defended.  “That girl deserved it.  Being mean to my Alex.”  She petted the brunette’s hair affectionately.

Alex leaned into the touch.  “Thanks, Aunt Maureen.

“Don’t encourage her,” Eliza scolded.  “I’m bound to be getting a phone call from the school any time now.”

“What are they gonna do?  Send me to detention?” Alex scoffed.

“That’s not the point, Alexandra.”

“What is the point, then?”

“The point is that you can’t just go around slapping people.  Even if they deserve it.  Is that how you want your kids to solve problems?  Going around hitting people when they don’t get their way?  What happens when they grow up, and that’s the only way they know how to negotiate?  Will you be able to go up against them?  Will Kara be able to?”  She raised her eyebrow pointedly.  Maureen didn’t know about Kara’s secret, so she couldn’t say the words directly, but the girls knew what she meant.  What if they developed powers, and their moral compass was skewed to the point that they decided they could and should have whatever they wanted?  How would they stop them?  Could they stop them?

Alex clenched her jaw while she thought about her mom’s point of view.  She found herself doing that a lot lately, since the kids were born.  She thought about how appalled she would feel to know that one of her sweet little angels had hit someone, and then realized that that’s probably how Eliza felt about her.  “Sorry, Mom.”  She felt tears prick her eyes.  “I just got so mad.”

“I know, sweetheart.  And I’m so sorry she’s treating you badly, but let’s deal with it some other way, OK?”  She kissed her daughter on the head, over the back of the couch.

“OK, Mom.”

They all sat and watched cooking shows until the babies were done nursing.  Eliza and Maureen took them to burp them, and Eliza all too casually told the girls, “You know, we really thought you girls would be out later.  If you want, you could go upstairs and have some alone time.  I know you guys haven’t really had any time to yourselves since the babies were born.”

They almost dismissed what she’d said, but then they realized exactly what she was getting at... well, Alex did.  “You mean…”

“Quietly!” Eliza insisted.  “Oh, and by the way,” she pulled her daughter close and whispered in her ear.  “If you get pregnant again, I will never forgive you.”

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Alex stared at her mom for a few seconds, then jumped off the couch and dragged Kara up the stairs with her.  When they got to their room, there was a box of condoms on the bed - small, medium, and large sized - and a small bottle of lube.  

“Oooh!” Kara caught on to the situation, at last, and grinned salaciously.  “You want this?” she asked, waving the box around.

“Yes!” Alex answered, pulling the blonde in for a kiss.  “I’d say it’s been more than long enough, wouldn’t you?”

“Definitely!”  They stripped to their underwear and laid down on the bed, kissing leisurely.  For once, Kara wanted to take her time and go slow.  She kissed Alex’s lips and let her hands wander.  Honestly, she’d been aching for this for a while now, but she didn’t want to push.  She reveled in the feel of their naked skin touching and let her tongue find its partner.  “It feels so good to touch you like this again,” she whispered.

“I hope you don’t think I’m not pretty anymore,” Alex worried.

Kara’s heart clenched.  “Alexandra, you are the more beautiful woman in the whole universe .”

“I doubt it.”

“You are to me,” the Kryptonian insisted.

Alex kissed her in answer.  “I think you’re the most beautiful one.”  

“Mm-mm,” Kara argued, rubbing her wife’s softened belly.  “You are.  No one could possibly be more beautiful than the mother of my children.”  She nuzzled her partner’s nose.  “You’re perfect, Alex.  I love you so much.”

“I love you too, Kara.”

The blonde kissed her way down to her lover’s chest and began peppering her breasts with kisses.

“Wait!” Alex exclaimed before letting her remove her bra.  “Don’t touch my boobs, please!”

Kara pouted, but detoured around them to her wife’s stomach.  She reverently kissed every inch of the soft, wrinkly skin that used to house her babies.  Then she kissed down soft, delicious-smelling thighs and sighed happily.  “You smell so good.”  She nosed Alex’s clit through her underwear, teasing her pantyline with her fingers.  

The brunette panted and squirmed under her touch.  She trembled with the need of someone who hadn’t had sex in four months.  “Kara,” she breathed, “Please, touch me.”

The Kryptonian liberated her partner from her underwear and tossed them across the room.  “There's my beautiful girl.”  She gave the thighs under her hands a few more kisses before diving in.  Remaining gentle, Kara traced her tongue along the outside of Alex’s folds, then did the same on the inside, slowly working her way further in.  Everything felt different than before the babies, so Kara tried to adjust the strokes of her tongue accordingly.  It was like she had to relearn every millimeter of skin, and she took her time doing so.

“Yes!” Alex hissed.  She was determined to remain quiet with Maureen downstairs.  After a while, she grew tired of the teasing.  “On my clit, Kara, please,” she whimpered.

The Kryptonian obeyed and raised her tongue to her wife’s clitoris, circling slowly.  As Alex bucked her hips into Kara’s face, they slowly picked up the pace together, climbing higher and higher, until Alex was a writhing mess, and she had to cover her face with a pillow to muffle her cries.  “Oh, God, Kara, don’t stop!” she begged through the pillow.

The blonde kept up her ministrations on her wife’s clit.  Luckily, that part of her hadn’t changed, so Kara licked and suckled the little nub patiently, letting Alex enjoy herself.  When she figured enough time had gone by, she picked up the pace a bit and started humming lowly.  The brunette’s legs shook with pleasure, and soon she got really, really quiet before letting out a low, animalistic groan as she came, still clutching the pillow to her face.

“God, I love you so much, Kara!”

“I love you too, Alex,” Kara answered, delicately palming her wife’s sex to help her through the aftershocks.

Alex lay bonelessly, panting, while she recovered.  “Come here,” she reached for Kara’s half-hard cock and started to stroke it to full length.  When the Kryptonian leaned into her touch with a sigh, she asked, “Does that feel good?”

“So good,” Kara answered.  It wasn’t the first time Alex had touched Kara in the past four months.  Miraculously, Alex seemed to enjoy watching Kara or making Kara come herself, even when she didn’t want it yet, so the blonde wasn’t as desperate to be touched as Alex had been, though she still ached to be back inside her wife.  She picked up the box of condoms and opened it, pulling out one of the large-sized ones.  She ripped the package open and tried to roll it on, but she struggled, and eventually, it broke.  “I think it’s too small,” she told her wife.

“Crap!” Alex lamented.  “Try another one, just in case.”

The Kryptonian pulled out the other large condom and tried to put it on, but the same thing happened.  “Shoot!” she pouted.  “Now what?”

Alex thought for a minute.  “We could go down to the gas station on the corner and see what they’ve got?”

Kara gave her an incredulous look.  “I can’t go out like this!” she indicated her very prominent erection.

“Fine,” Alex huffed.  “I’ll do it.  I wanna have sex, dammit!”  She got up and started hurriedly putting her clothes on and grabbed the money Rick had given her.  “I’ll be back as quick as I can.”  

She ran downstairs, and before she had even left the landing, Eliza was commenting, “That was quick.”

Out of habit, Alex looked for her kids, who were sleeping peacefully in their little bouncy seats in front of the couch where Eliza and Maureen were still watching The Food Channel.  She whispered to her mother about their little problem and ran out the door to go solve it.  When she got to the gas station, she stared at the condom selection a little cluelessly.  There were a handful of different XXL-type condoms, so she bought two different ones, in hopes one of them would be sufficient.  Thankfully, the gas station clerk didn’t comment on her purchase, like she feared would happen.  She raced home and took the stairs back up to their room two at a time.  “Hopefully these will work,” she told Kara, tossing them over and stripping back down to just her bra.

Kara grinned hopefully, and ripped open one of the packages.  “Come on, baby, work!” she talked to the condoms.  She pulled one out and rolled it on.  It went on much more easily this time, and she sighed with relief.  “Yes!  Come on, baby girl!” she helped Alex climb into her lap.  At first, they just kissed languidly again, letting the feelings build back up.

Alex pulled away and looked behind her.  “Where did we put that lube?  I’m horny, but I don’t want to take any chances right now.”

Kara grabbed the bottle off the bedside table where she’d moved it.  “Here we go,” she pulled off the safety wrapper and tried pouring some into her hand.  Way too much came out at once, and it spilled over her hand, and into their laps.  “Oops, sorry.”  She used her other hand to dip her fingers into the fluid and swipe it over the condom.  “This isn’t awkward or anything,” she commented dryly.

Alex chuckled.  “Next time, don’t pour so much out at once, that’s all.”

When the condom was dripping, there was still a bunch of lube in Kara’s hand, so she decided to swipe her palm over Alex’s sex, letting her fingers dip inside to spread the liquid there too.

“Oh-ho-ho, yeah,” Alex rocked into her wife’s hand enthusiastically.  “That feels awesome.  Keep doing that.”

Kara slowly stroked her lover on the inside.  “Who's my good girl?”  Again, she had to get reacquainted with the flesh beneath her hand because everything felt slightly different after the babies.  Also, the lube felt funny - more slick than the natural stuff, and a little stickier.  She scissored her fingers to spread it around, letting Alex thrust against her.  “How's that, baby?”

“So good,” Alex breathed heavily, dropping her forehead against Kara’s.  “I’m ready for you,” she husked.

“Mind if I flip us around?” Kara asked.

Alex shook her head and let the Kryptonian put her on her back.  She wrapped her legs around the blonde’s waist and pulled her down on top of her.

They kissed, and Kara fumbled around the slick flesh to press herself inside.  “Are you OK?” she asked when Alex whimpered.

“Yeah” the human assured her.  “It feels good, don’t worry.”

“It doesn’t hurt?”

“Mm-mm,” Alex shook her head.  “Keep going.”

Kara pumped slowly but steadily in and out, not one-hundred percent sure she liked this whole condom deal, but she didn’t want Eliza to kill them for getting pregnant again.  Besides, she was tired most of the time from just the two babies.  More than that at a time would just be too much for them all, especially Alex, though she did hope to have more someday when they were older.  She would just have to learn to live with the feeling of wearing a condom.  Besides, there were always other sexual activities they could get up to that didn’t need a condom at all.  For instance, Alex’s blowjobs were often even better than penetration.  Everything would be fine.

“Harder,” Alex directed.  

Kara obeyed all too willingly.  The harder the better, in her book.

“Oh, yeah, that’s amazing!” the brunette exclaimed.  She pulled Kara down into a deep, hungry kiss, grunting and growling as the blonde thrust steadily inside of her.

“I love you so much, Alex!”

“Oh, I love you too, Kara!” Alex whimpered.  Her legs were trembling now, and she held onto her partner for dear life.  “Oh, God, yes!”  She really was trying to be quiet, but it was so hard when Kara could fuck her so well.

Kara kissed her some more to muffle her cries, but it just made her climb higher in her pleasure, and soon she was crying out way too loudly.  “Sshh, baby girl!  Keep it down.”

Alex whined, “Don’t stop!”

“OK, but you’ve gotta be quiet!”

“I’m trying!”

The Kryptonian resumed her movements, but slower this time.  

“I wanna come, Kara.”

“OK,” the blonde dropped her hand to her wife’s clit and rubbed circles around it.  She wanted to try and come together, so she thrust a little harder again.

“Yes!” Alex writhed underneath her.  “Fuck yes, Kara!”  A few short minutes had her bucking into her wife hard, biting Kara’s shoulder to keep from screaming.

The bite triggered Kara’s orgasm as well, and they managed to come together in a lubed-up, sweaty mess.

“Ohmygod, that was awesome!” Alex exclaimed happily.

“Definitely,” Kara agreed, taking off the condom and throwing it away.  They lay there panting and grinning for a few minutes.

“I don’t think I can handle anymore right now, Angel.”

“Oh,” the Kryptonian pouted.  “OK.”

“I’ll finish you off, don’t worry,” Alex assured her.

Kara smiled appreciatively.  “Thank you, my love.”

“Actually, could you get me a washcloth?  This lube feels funny, and I want to clean it off.”

“You got it.”  Kara zipped to the bathroom and back with a warm, wet cloth and handed it over.

“Thanks,” Alex cleaned herself up and handed back the towel.

The Kryptonian tossed the towel onto the bedside table and climbed back into bed.

“Come here, Angel,” Alex brushed her hair behind her back and settled down onto the mattress, drawing her tongue down the length of Kara’s shaft before putting as much of it into her mouth as she could fit.

“Oh, Rao!” Kara sighed happily.  “Your mouth feels so good.”

Alex swirled her tongue around the tip of Kara’s cock and sucked hard.

“Fuck!” Kara exclaimed.

The brunette smirked at the expletive and began bobbing her head up and down to encourage more.  She added her hand to the base of Kara’s cock and stroked it in tandem with her mouth.

“Alex!  Yes!”  the blonde tried not to buck her hips, but it was hard.  She couldn’t help but bounce a little.  “Rao, you feel so good!  I love the feel of your mouth on me.  Oh, God, your tongue is the best thing ever.  Please, don’t ever stop sucking me!”

Alex hummed her acquiescence, making Kara cry out.

“Yes!” she whimpered, trying to stay quiet.  “Don’t stop!  I’m gonna come!”

The human took this as her cue to suck and stroke harder.

“Oh, Rao!  Oh, Rao!  Oh, fuck!  Ah!”  she pulled Alex’s head away, but not fast enough to prevent getting a little cum on her wife’s face.  Kara found this extremely hot, but Alex didn’t really seem to appreciate it.

“I hope it only takes one more time for you to knot because I’m tired.”  Alex stroked Kara’s cock hard and fast, just like she liked it, and when Kara came, Alex covered her mouth with her hand to block the noise.  “Shh, Angel!”  She looked down to see if the Kryptonian had knotted.  “Good girl,” she whispered when she saw that she had.  She cleaned her hands off with the wet cloth and relaxed while they waited for Kara’s knot to deflate.

“How do you feel?” Kara asked her wife with a kiss.

“Fabulous,” Alex grinned.  “I needed that.”

“I know, I’ve been so looking forward to being able to give it to you again.”

“Me too.”  They kissed lazily.  After Kara’s knot deflated, they cleaned up themselves and the bed and headed back downstairs to get their kids, who were still sleeping in their bouncy seats.

ENDXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

They thanked Eliza and Maureen profusely and took the girls back upstairs to bed.  If they were lucky, they could sleep for an hour before the babies woke them up wanting to be fed again.