Dreams do come true

Chapter 33

97 days to Earth

"A lot of you had been asking if Sam and I had sex in Zero-G." Alex said to the camera. "While that's not really any of your business, I understand the curiosity behind it."

"Alex!" Kara floated fast right into the shot.

"What?! Scientific minds want to know!"

"You do realize Eliza watches these videos, right? And Ruby?"

Alex gasped dramatically, "No!"

When Kara rolled her eyes, she added, "I'm a big girl, Kara, mom knows I have sex. Ruby's a teenager and if she's watching after seeing the title..." She turned to the camera, "Well, that's on you, kid."

"I can't believe Sam's letting you do this."

"She understands the importance of people knowing."
Then she shifted towards the camera again. "As I was saying... if they sent us here without men so we wouldn't have sex, I'm sorry to let them know that we did. It's not easy to be comfortable and enjoy it. And even when you figure out how, you get tired pretty quickly."

"Oh my God, that's why you're recording this? Because of all those headlines and questions?"

Alex smirked. "Nah, why would I want to do that after all the queerphobic, homoerasing, and misogynistic bullshit we had to deal with?"

"Yeah, okay, I get it. But you know the six of us are here because we were the best of them. They just needed an excuse so men everywhere wouldn't whine too much about it."

"The fact that they even needed an excuse, I swear to God..."

"I know. Also, as bad as that was, it was about the baby-making thing, not the sex, anyway."

"Yeah but people, even other reporters, don't read more than the headlines these days. In any case, now they know the truth thanks to you. You heard it here first, folks, we're the best crew... if you hadn't figured that out already."

"Wait, Alex, you're not going to edit this out?"

"Not even one single second."

Alex wasn't having nightmares about Mars anymore, now they were about her being too late to save Kara. Her little sister floating away into space or dying in different ways. She hated them.
She hated that the bigger risk was still to come.

So she hugged Kara every chance she got. Like right then and there, before ending the video, for everyone to see. For her to have forever. "I love you, sis."

"I love you too, Alex." Kara didn't know about her nightmares, but she didn't have to. She was always ready for her anyway. Ready for her embrace, ready to say those words, ready to remind Alex that she was still with her. She figured that Kara probably had gone through something similar after almost losing Alex on Mars.

She uploaded the video and went back to Sam.
While she talked about Lena and Nia's newest invention to make the landing a bit safer, Alex stroked her hair and had hope for the first time that they could make it back to Earth, back to Ruby and her mom. Back to a normal life with normal nightmares. And she could not wait.

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