A Leap of Faith (Part 2)

Chapter 334 - Alura Holds Lori

Kara, Lena and Alura all remain in Lori's bedroom for about 10 minutes, just looking down at the sleeping child. As the trio do this, Elizabeth remains sitting in the rocking chair the entire time, and by the time they plan to leave the room, they look over and see that Lena's birth mom has fallen asleep in the chair. Lena can imagine that it has probably been very tiring for Eliza, Elizabeth and Lillian in regards to looking after Morgan, Alura and Lori over these last few days. There may have been three of them, to look after 3 of the girls, but Elizabeth, Eliza and Lillian are all older women. They are not the same age as they were when they originally had their children, so they don't have the same amount of energy to keep up with them, and therefore tire a lot easier. So, upon seeing Elizabeth sleeping in the rocking chair, Kara and Lena decide to just leave Elizabeth be for now, with Lena grabbing a pillow and carefully placing it behind her mother's head, just to make sure she doesn't wake up with a stiff neck or anything. Doing this does make Lena feel a bit weird inside, because she remembers, when she was very young, she couldn't have been more than 3-years-old, that there were a few times when she had just fallen asleep, sometimes in the most random places, and she would always wake up with her head laying on a pillow, because her mom had been able to carefully place a pillow under her head, without waking her up, every single time. It made the young Lena think that her mom had a sort of magic touch to be able to do that without waking her. So, in this very moment, as the grown Lena does something similar to her birth mother, who until a few months ago, she thought was dead, it does give Lena a very strange feeling inside.

So that Elizabeth can have some peace, to have a little nap, Lena decides to pick Lori up out of her crib, and carry her in her arms. Lena knows that soon enough she will probably need to feed Lori anyway, which frankly, she has kind of been missing over these last couple of days. Feeding Lori may make her nipples sore and everything, but it's still a joy to know that she is giving her daughter sustenance from her own body. It truly is a special moment of bonding to breastfeed a child. So, now that Lena has Lori in her arms, she, Kara and Alura all quietly make their way out of the room, giving Elizabeth some peace, and make their way downstairs, where they will join Eliza, Morgan and Alura, who have hopefully ordered their pizzas by now.

Soon enough, Kara, Lena, Alura and Lori make their way downstairs, and they find that Morgan and Alura are all cuddled on the couch with Eliza, with Eliza's phone now having been put away, clearly suggesting that they have ordered the pizzas for everyone. It's clear to Alura, the older, just how much of a special bond Alura and Morgan have with Eliza, and she really really hopes that she gets to develop a similar type of bond with her grandchildren one day too. Alura just thinks that this is another thing that was taken away from her, due to Krypton exploding. Alura thought that the worst possible thing to happen to her, after Krypton exploded and she survived, is that her daughter was killed and sucked into the phantom zone, with her husband actually being killed too. However, a far worse outcome was Kara surviving and her thinking that she was dead for all this time, with Kara living a life on Earth, getting a family, and even having children, her grandchildren, which she didn't even know the existence of until a day ago. Of course, Alura is so happy that her daughter is alive, as Kara being alive is one of the best gifts she has ever received. However, Kara being alive has also made things a bit painful for Alura, because she has realised just how much of Kara's life she has missed out on, and that truly hurts. It's a hurt that Alura hopes will go away with time, the more time she spends with Kara, and the rest of her family. But, for now, it's just a hurt that Alura knows she will have to deal with. After all, Alura has gotten pretty good at carrying hurt in her heart before now, as when she thought Kara was dead, she carried that hurt for multiple decades, for almost 40 years, and she got through that, so she knows she will get through this hurt too. At the end of the day, this type of hurt that she is feeling is far less than the hurt she felt when she thought Kara was dead, and knew that her husband certainly had died.