The Long Life of Kara Zor-El

Chapter 26

It is now late September, Kara is well over 32 weeks pregnant. She clearly has a very large stomach right now, and she's gotten to the stage where she is pretty miserable. Kara finds it difficult to move and do normal things because her belly is weighing her down and has completely changed her centre of gravity. Then at the same time Kara just feels basically unwell all the time, a feeling Kara hasn't had since she lived on Krypton as a child before it exploded. But also to top things off Kara is completely hormonal and emotional. There have been times when she has been at work and someone has just looked at her what Kara thinks is the wrong way and she snaps at them. Then there was one occasion where Lena was trying to cheer Kara up and all it did was piss her off, resulting in Kara yelling at Lena. Then of course about 10 minutes later Kara just broke down crying because she hated that she yelled at Lena. Lena in response was just simply incredibly. She cuddled Kara and told her it was okay, as she knew it was only the hormones talking. Kara of course still apologised as she didn't want Lena to be a punching bag for her emotional distress.

Over the last few months the couple have tried to pick out names for a girl and a boy, but the problem is they can't seem to agree. However Kara has just put this don't to the fact that she is not in the right head space to pick out names that she will like, and so will Lena. So Kara and Lena ultimately both decide that they will figure out names after their son and daughter are born.

Kara's pregnancy itself has been going very well. Both Lena and Alex have probably tested Kara more times than any other pregnant women in history. Then at the same time Lena makes sure to call Kara for lunch, if for some reason they can't have lunch together. Then also Alex basically has been coming over to Kara and Lena's apartment every day just to check on Kara, although Alex makes a bad lie and says she just wants to talk to the unborn babies so they know her voice. Either way, all of the testing that Lena and Alex have done on Kara has been positive, with no issue found. In fact the testing has been so good that Lena is very confident that if in the future they do want more children that she will be able to carry the babies without any complications that would harm her. Lena theoretically believes that if she were to become pregnant with Kara's babies then either one of two things would happen. The first would be that she would temporarily develop powers like Kara, which would essentially be given to her from the baby for the duration of the pregnancy. Then the other scenario would be that she wouldn't develop powers and the pregnancy wouldn't kill her, as a baby is essentially programmed to die itself before it kills the mother, but it could harm Lena. Just imagine a baby with a small amount of Kryptonian strength kicking Lena from the inside. That would not be pleasant. So for that particular situations Lena theories that she would just have to wear Kara's red sun lamp bracelet 24/7, just to keep her body and the baby safe. That said, Lena has no idea if they will ever have any more children, as of course the first two are not even there yet. But at the same time when they discussed Lena possibly getting pregnant in the future with their child they didn't consider that Kara would give birth to twins. But that would be a conversation that they will have at some point in the future, after they have learnt to be mothers to two half Kryptonian children.

Currently it is a Friday and Kara has just made her way home from work. It has been a long day for Kara. It was just one of those days where she had nothing important to report on. Then at the same time she is pretty frustrated with her work at the moment because Andrea hasn't been sending her to do any real difficult journalism pieces that would require her to travel to various places around the city, and the country. All Kara has basically been doing is reporting on the work done by various companies and charitable organisations in National City. So all the interviews have basically taken place in very comfy office chairs. Obviously this is fine by Kara, as it is still journalism that needs to be written for people, as there should be a wide variety of journalism topics for people to read. But at the same time Kara finds these interviews, and writing these pieces, to be incredibly boring. Although Kara knows that Andrea is technically sort of in charge of CatCo, she is well aware she is basically just a figure head for Lena. So Kara realises that it is Lena sending her on these boring assignments, most likely just to try and keep her safe. Either way it's annoying, but Kara has learnt her lesson about taking out her annoyance and anger on Lena.