The three of us (karamel baby AU)

Welcome (Part 1)

The moon stood proudly amidst the darkened sky, a bright jewel in an otherwise dull and depressing canvas. No stars could be seen tonight, the city's polluted atmosphere taking away from their beauty, rendering their light too weak to pass through the toxic fog. A chilly breeze slipped through the opened window, the curtains swaying in a forced welcome, and although Kara couldn't get cold, she pulled at her sweater to cover her unaffected form.

With uninterested eyes she stared ahead, at the city stretching out in front of her, a view familiar to Kara from every possible angle. She'd seen every corner of that city, had run and walked it block by block. She had flown over it and studied it from high above and up close. She knew it, knew its secrets and its best spots, knew the loudest and quietest parts of it. She knew it like the back of her hand, really. And she loved it. She loved how it looked early in the morning, as it struggled to catch the faint light of the still half-hidden sun. And she loved how it shone late into the night, how it buzzed with different kinds of music blasting from every neighborhood and welcomed her with exciting eyes watching from the streets whenever she stopped mid-flight to cherish the image. Still, no matter how much Kara loved the city, at the moment she couldn't appreciate it. It was still beautiful, bright and loud in all the right ways to draw her attention and leave her stunned. But to her it felt empty tonight, just like it'd had for the past week. The noises hurt her ears, the lights blinded her eyes and the sounds of laughter and random squeals only made her feel lonely.

She wasn't alone, and she hadn't been for the past month, truth be told. Her due date was close now, although nobody could estimate exactly how close. Alex had tried, but Kara's invulnerable physic and impenetrable skin hadn't given the older Danvers sister much to work with. Kara had used her x-ray vision on her own self, she'd checked to see whether her baby had moved into the appropriate position before entering the outside world, but she was no doctor. So that left them all a little clueless, buzzing with nerves and anticipation, not being able to do anything other than wait and try to be prepared at all times, day after day.

Albeit, Kara hadn't been alone for a while, but the one she wanted around at all times was currently gone. Mon-El had flown to Metropolis for a few days, after Clark had asked for help in dealing with an alien group of smugglers. Obviously, in her state, Kara couldn't have gone, so Mon-El had taken her place. He hadn't been supposed to stay for more than a couple of days, National City and Kara herself needing him back as soon as possible, but a hindrance in Clark's plans had required that the Daxamite extended his visit. It'd been a week already, and although Mon-El had tried to convince Kara that he didn't mind flying back and forth between cities so that she wouldn't be without him, the blonde wouldn't have it. She was okay and she could definitely go seven days without seeing him, so of course she couldn't let him waste time and energy on anything other than helping Clark out. Plus, she had Alex, and she didn't mind staying over at her sister's for a bit.

She didn't want to at first, but as hard as Mon-El had been to convince that nothing was going to happen to her while he was away, in the end he'd agreed, albeit cautiously. Alex was a different story however. The older sister had just been an overprotective and overstressed mess during the blonde's pregnancy. Alex was the kind of person who needed to have a plan, to have everything analyzed and mapped out, but in that particular case, with Kara being the first Kryptonian to be carrying a child on Earth, superpowers and unique abilities included, the redhead had been left with too many blind spots. So after Mon-El had left, she'd been even more overbearing, reluctant with the knowledge that Kara would be alone when something they couldn't prepare for could happen at any given moment. In the end, the Kryptonian had begrudgingly agreed to stay with Alex - and Maggie - until her boyfriend returned.