Worlds Apart

Chapter 5 // School

Kara slowly opened her eyes and after a couple of seconds she looked around. She smiled when she saw Connor clutching her side. But Kara missed Lena in bed so she quickly looked around and was met by Lena feeding Lexie on a chair in the room, softly whispering things to the child. Kara smiled and popped her head up, so she could watch Lena with ease. 

Lena was quite perfect with the child, holding it perfectly and focused completely on Lexie and Lexie only. Kara looked back at Connor, thinking about what these children had to endure, what Lena had to endure alone. Kara sighed, in the corner of her eye she saw Lena's head snap towards her but Kara kept staring at Connor.

Still Kara was the first to break the silence "I'm sorry."

Kara didn't see Lena's confused look but she heard it in her voice as Lena said "For what?"

"For not being here. I-If I knew I would have never left this earth. I know this- You and our children are my priority, okay?" Lena nodded, this time Kara was looking at her "So if I you ever need my help, and I am doing Supergirl rounds just text or call. If I am literally saving people it's a bit more difficult, but in the meantime I will make sure somebody will take over my duties." 

Lena looked visibly relieved so Kara smiled and said "We are in this together now, understand?" Lena nodded again "So that means that I will take care of you and our children. Even though Connor isn't really my child."

Lena spoke up "He kinda is, in the adoption papers it's stated that he is ours. So- He is ours." Kara slowly nodded and looked back at Connor. 

"You might want to explain to me how things go," Kara chuckled "I am a, what do those gamers call it? A noob? Yeah, a noob. The last time I held a baby was more than 35 years ago. And that was Kal-El."

Lena looked shocked and she asked in disbelief "You are older than Kal-El?" Kara nodded "Wow- I didn't expect that. How is it that you look 25?"

"To set things straight, I am 24. But I have been in the phantom zone for 24 years, stuck in time. But hey, now I am here! So- no need to talk about things like that anymore."

Lena hummed in response and said "We won't talk about it ever again if you want that. Just- so you know I am also here for you if needed." Kara nodded and stared at Connor again.

Kara sighed and said "Do we already have school planned out?"

Lena chuckled, making Kara lookup, with that Lena shook her head and explained "He is only three darling, he has to be five for Kindergarten."

Kara slowly nodded but countered with "But we live in a city, we want the best school, so putting him on a list or something does sound good."

Lena raised an eyebrow and tilted her head to the side "Maybe he will have powers, what will we do then?" 

Kara looked back at Connor, putting a hand through his hair "You're- No, we can pull him out of school then. But until that moment we will give him the best youth he can get."

Lena hummed in response, the bottle was empty so she pulled it from Lexie and made her burp. In the meantime Kara was staring at her, learning how to do it. When Lexie burped the oxygen in her stomach up Lena laid her down in her crib again and turned to Kara "You're right, we need to give them the best childhood they can have. They need to feel human. But in the meantime- how are we going to take care of these two. I don't want a nanny, and I can take them with me to L-Corp, but I have meetings and things like that. And I don't want Jess to have another job extra."

Kara thought for a second "I have no idea what I can do- Snapper will never let me work from home. So- Lena, do you have Cat Grant's number?" Lena nodded "Call her."

"You want me to call Cat Grant and make sure you have an paid leave or something?"

"I don't need to be payed. I need to be here at home, that is more important than work." Lena slowly nodded and grabbed her phone. She dialled Cat's number and called it, putting the call on speaker.

After a couple time ringing Cat answered. Sounding quite tired and irritated, like she got called awake. "Cat Grant speaking."

"Cat, Lena Luthor here, I need a favour in return for an exclusive."

"Straight to the point I see, thank you. So what's the exclusive about?"

"My wife and children."

"You have a wife and children?" Lena hummed in response "And nobody will get an interview with you except Catco?" Another hum "What is the favour?"

"You see, my wife is an employee of Catco, and due to some circumstances we have these two wonderful children. But we didn't expect it. So the question is, can you give her a paid leave."

"Of course, about who are we talking?"

"Kara Danvers, or Kara Luthor."

"You know all the articles she has written are biased now?"

"No- they are not. Since this hasn't been going on for too long. We were just dating for a couple of weeks, no article was written in that time. But she married me since I didn't want these children to have a terrible fate. So I asked her to marry me, and she accepted."

Cat hummed "Hmmm, and you expect Sunny to have a paid leave so she can take care of the children?"

"Yes- Or we can work out less work, which I think is better, but the easiest solution is to let her on paid leave."

"I can't do that, but I will reduce her work to only two days, with the possibility of working from home."

Lena looked up at Kara who gave her a nod "Then it's settled. We will work out the details soon about the exclusive, but respect my wishes for keeping it silent for some time."

"No problem, congratulations with your children. I will speak to you soon."

And before Lena could answer back Cat ended the call, probably since she wanted to go to bed again. Lena looked at Kara and smiled "Good job." Was all that Kara said before they Connor woke up and their day started.