Two plus six plus five equals family

Chapter 19

Kara stroked Lena's hair, whose head was resting on her chest in their bed. She hated how her best friend had gotten upset, hated how Lillian created the children all on June seventh, in different years. It had to be on purpose to give Lena a jab and if her aunt hadn't already sent Lillian off to the Phantom Zone in a pod to suffer forever, she'd have done it herself.

"Their birthday is only a month and a half away," Lena whispered, exhaling. "We should make it special for them, they never celebrated anything and April Fools didn't count and neither did Valentines."

"Mhmm," Kara hummed, agreeing with that. April Fools was more a day to pull pranks rather than celebrate and Valentines was a day they were too young for. "We can throw them a birthday extravaganza," she suggested, picturing tons of balloons, for starters.

"I'm not sure if what you might have in mind would be a good idea," Lena replied, shifting slightly in Kara's arms so she could look at her. "Personally, I think we have to be careful not to overwhelm them. So I would suggest no loud music for sure, given loud noises startle them."

"Yes, I agree, no loud noises," Kara whispered, nodding. "If we do play some music, we need to keep the volume modest. I was thinking we could have some balloons."

"We could arrange balloons with helium in them," Lena suggested, wondering if their children had ever seen a balloon, though it was doubtful they had.

"Good idea," Kara agreed, smiling. "Those are a lot better than balloons we have to blow up ourselves, plus I'm kind of bad at blowing up balloons."

"Kind of is an understatement," Lena replied with a teasing tone. "You take blowing up balloons very literally."

"Hey," Kara whispered, giving Lena a light push that was more of a brush. "I can't help it."

"I could order cakes at a bakery," Lena suggested, thinking how making cakes would take a long time with so many mouths to feed. "Their names could be written on them."

"Yes, we should have one cake for each of our children, maybe two," Kara replied, smiling when Lena chuckled. "We could go shopping for gifts together."

Lena groaned at the thought of going shopping, which was something she had always loathed doing. Shopping was a dreadful tiring way of spending time and with Kara it was even more tiring because she'd need to holler after her to keep up. Then again, her best friend's smile and enthusiasm made it all much more bearable.

Kara smiled while she began to think about which gifts they could buy for their children. Truthfully, she wanted to give them more than one gift each because she wanted to spoil them, but she had to keep in mind not to overwhelm them. On the side she would have to discuss with her sister, Maggie, Lucy and her aunt how they were going to do something for Lena's birthday.

"The girls will be easier to select gifts for," Lena mused aloud, thinking how they'd be happy with dolls for example.

"Oh Rao, I have an idea," Kara whispered, silently clapping her hands together. "Lucius loves magic and our other children like magic as well. How about we organize a magic show for their birthday?"

"Kara Danvers, you are a genius," Lena replied as her eyes lit up. She smiled when Kara's cheeks reddened, likely because of the compliment, which always made her friend shy.

"We could invite some friends," Kara suggested, making air quotes when she said friends, "to help us with our magic show."

"Well, considering Lyra is close with Lilith, she would probably be happy having the Gotham gang over," Lena whispered thoughtfully, frowning when Kara chuckled as she said Gotham gang. "I suppose Leslie and Ivy can help out with our magic show."