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Kara had never felt anything like it.
Of course, she’d gone through heats before but none like this. Her first one had been scary too, for entirely different reasons. It had been an exceptionally bad year by all accounts. Her father was between jobs and crushingly depressed about it, and Alex would leave for college in the Fall. Already, she’d begun to strip her room bare, to the point it didn’t look like it belonged to her at all. That, combined with her father’s black mood, made the air inside their house unbreathable.
To make matters worse, an unseasonable heat had settled over Midvale. It was searing and humid all at once. Kara was forced to sleep with her window open, naked under the lightest sheet she could get her hands on, and still it was not enough to find relief.
When the first signs had shown, she’d discounted them as allergies. After all, sex-ed in school had been more about alpha anatomy and siring litters, so how was she to know?
Kara had taken an antihistamine, but the pounding headache and the fatigue making her limbs leaden didn’t lessen. By the third day of it she was near burning through her clothes with fever — when she could tolerate to wear any at all — and the headache seemed to have spread to the rest of her.
She still remembered, bolting awake in the middle of the night, screaming for her mother, Alex, anyone as her body seized out of her control.
This was a thousand times worse.
The fever had brought along an unendurable itch, like an army of fire-ants crawling under her skin. The water had helped some, a more gentle kind of heat seeping deep into her bones, but with the bathtub mostly empty the relief was gone.
Her skin felt flushed again, rippling with goosebumps and over-sensitive. Even Lena’s touch on her stung, despite being welcomed.
It took her a moment to realize that Lena’s fingers inside her had stilled. The orgasm that had taken her vision away, left her gasping for air, was nothing but a fading tingle. An ebbing flow rippling through her one last time, almost delicately as her walls relaxed around Lena’s fingers, allowing the alpha to pull out.
The sudden, gaping emptiness filled her eyes with tears.
“Hey there,” Lena whispered, low and wavering, her voice cracking ever so slightly with concern. Her face twisted with it briefly, fear darting through those gorgeous, forest green eyes before she could conceal it.
“I’m sorry,” she let her head fall back a little, feeling the cold edge of the tub cut into the nape of her neck. “I think—” She’d drifted. For a moment, the past and the present had merged, and even now, she had trouble staying focused.
“This isn’t normal, is it?” The words had barely made it out of her mouth when her belly tightened unexpectedly, the pain so sharp that if it weren’t for Lena’s hands holding her steady, Kara would have been bent double.
She clenched her teeth around a whimper, brows drawn together in the effort of keeping the crushing agony at bay. The fever was devouring her from the inside out, and as the world broke into a vortex of dizzying color, nausea settled in her gut.
“No.” Reaching out, Lena cupped her cheek, thumb tenderly tracing the quivering curve of her lips. In contrast with the gesture her eyes were flashing slits, tempestuous with her anger. “No it’s not normal. It's getting worse." She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, frustration coloring her words. "I would take you to the hospital, but…”
But a blood test would reveal traces of the drugs Kara had used, and staff was required to get authorities involved. Considering how rabid the prosecutor’s office was when it came to illegal heat-drugs, there was little Lena’s name — or money — could do to keep Kara out of trouble. Provided she was even willing to take such a huge risk for her.
“Don’t.” Kara mouthed with difficulty, pushing her face into the crook of the alpha’s neck. Lena’s skin was damp with water, smelling both of roses and sweat. She tasted like it too, Kara found out when she forgot herself enough to trace her tongue over the alpha’s leaping pulse point. Sharp and sweet all at once. Intoxicating. “No hospital, please.”
She was shaking again, knees drumming an uneven rhythm against the sides of the tub, fear and arousal going to war inside her.
“I won’t.” Lena pressed a kiss to the side of her head, then more along her jawline. “I promise.” She looked perfect, kneeling there between Kara’s shaking thighs, droplets of water snaking down her shoulders. Kara wondered how she could so easily ignore her own erection when all that she could think of was how it’d feel to have the alpha slide on top of her and then inside her, filling her, stretching her, claiming what was hers.
“I want you.” Kara followed the words with a plaintive, desperate kind of sound she hoped would help align the alpha to her way of thinking. “I need you Lena.”
“It’s the heat talking.” Lena answered by rote, but her eyes were round with hunger, and between her legs her cock gave a visible throb. “You will regret it once it’s gone, and you will hate me for having taken advantage of you.”
“I’d never.” Kara whispered urgently, fingers scrabbling for purchase against the steam-slicked porcelain. Lena was still bending over her, close enough to kiss.
She surged up, heart hammering in the hollow of her throat and bridged the gap between them, kissing Lena like she had something to prove. And she did. She willed her body to convey her choice; she was Lena’s if only for a night, and without the contract hanging in between them she could give of herself freely. When the alpha softened and began kissing her back, Kara thought she had succeeded.
“Kara… Are you…” She nipped on Lena’s lower lip and the alpha’s question ended in a growl.
“I’m sure. Please, Lena. I need you. I’m burning up. Please make it stop.”
“I think I have some alpha scented toys in the bedroom—” Lena offered in a last ditch attempt at being chivalrous. She was so stupidly kind-hearted, so un-alpha-like, and Kara fell in love with her a little for it. “Maybe we can—”
“I don’t want toys.” Kara ran blunt fingernails along the curve of Lena’s pale shoulders, making her shiver. “I want you. Inside me.”
She was surprised at her own bluntness, but the admission seemed to breach through what remained of Lena’s defenses.
It was as though a door had been thrown open inside the alpha. A gate coming unlocked, and beyond was every frenzied instinct Lena kept so tightly under control. Kara watched, aroused and short of breath, as Lena darkened and burned with the same force of a dying star intent on turning every nearby planet to dust and scorching ashes.
“I’m going to drag you into the bedroom,” Lena grunted against her ear, hands sliding underneath her so that she could pick her up. “And I’m going to fuck you until you’re too tired to go on. Until the heat is nothing but a nightmare.”
“Oh, god .” Kara whined and pressed into Lena’s welcoming arms, fingers resting right atop her heart. “Please, Lena!”
Cradling Kara to her chest, Lena stood, what dregs remained inside the bathtub splashing out in soapy waves as she stepped over the edge. She’d lifted Kara before, effortlessly so, but this time the show of strength had the effect of lit up gasoline swirling down her lungs.
She was carried out into the hallway, and then set down, pushed against the coolness of the nearby wall and pinned there by one shoulder, Lena kissing her like she had gotten lost wandering the desert and Kara was her shelter. The alpha held her by her damp hair, a fist wrapped around them, tugging her back for another kiss whenever Kara tried to break away for air. She slumped in Lena’s arms, dizzy and light headed, and when the alpha’s other hand went back to work between her thighs, Kara melted entirely. She dripped on Lena’s fingers, whimpered for her cock, and when Lena moved them along toward the bedroom, she went eagerly, incapable to put an end to the mess she was making on the floor.
Lena was panting in her ear, whispering filthy sweet nothings as her fingers hooked and curled against her walls. By the time Kara was guided down onto the bed, she was on the brink again, but just as her cunt began to flutter and clench down, Lena pulled out.
“You’re going to be so sore by the time I’m done,” Lena promised, breath hot and insistent against her neck. Her fingers hadn’t left Kara’s mound entirely; they swept through her wet folds, maddeningly close to her hole or to her clit but never touching. Never giving in to what she wanted most. “I will make sure you’re well taken of. Don’t you worry now.” Her eyes were pools of shadow, as tender and inscrutable as the night outside. She grabbed Kara by her waist, shifted her around until she was bent over the bed, forearms firmly planted on the mattress.
Behind her, rubbing firmly against her upturned ass, Lena was an open furnace.
“Will it hurt a lot?” Kara asked, a sudden fear washing over her like a bucket of iced water. She could feel how big Lena was against the back of her thigh, how firm. She wanted her; the drops of leaking pre-come splashing on her skin were enough to drive her insane with lust, but she’d never been touched. Lena’s two fingers inside her had already bordered on too much.
“It will hurt some,” Lena admitted against her shoulder, hands rubbing circles on the small of her back. “But I will go slow. I’ll be so gentle with you, Kara you’ll be spoiled for anything other than my cock. My mouth. My fingers.”
Considering the way Lena had proved she could make her feel, Kara had no doubts that it would happen.
There came the sound of a torn wrapper, and when she lifted up to throw a look over the ball of her shoulder, she saw Lena carefully rolling a condom over her leaking shaft.
“I wish there was no need.” The lilt of the alpha’s voice was sandy with need. “But this heat is a strange one. I think it would be easy for me to give you a child.” Kara’s fingers flexed at those words, her hips bucked involuntarily. “I feel a rut coming on, even though it isn’t time.” A faraway look crossed Lena’s eyes, different emotions flitting through the green too fast for Kara to decipher. Then, the alpha blinked, and caught her staring. “I’m not saying I don’t…. God, Kara, I barely know you and you make me wish for things I never—”
“Kiss me.” Kara climbed onto the bed and turned around, opening her arms. “Come here and kiss me.”
Having Lena mention children had filled her with a yearning only the alpha’s touch could soothe. It had been something contemplated in the contract Lena had destroyed, something Kara had resigned herself to happening if she landed with the kind of alpha who saw her only as a breeding bitch. But there had been more than that in Lena’s eyes, a longing that run deeper, which Kara wanted to take the time to learn about.
Lena flopped onto her, bore her down onto the bed. She kissed Kara with abandon, hands lighting on her arms, her hips, her belly. Every touch was reverent, as though Kara was a goddess worthy of being worshipped.
When two fingers pushed lightly inside of her again, Kara grew stiff, her breath ragged. Lena found her most sensitive spot with unerring ease. She massaged and stroked it, coaxing another tide of slick out of her depths. “There you are,” She grinned, nuzzling along Kara’s jaw. “Nice and wet for me. So ready for me.”
“God, Lena. Will you just—”
“Patience.” Lena was sliding lower, mouth trailing a wet path down Kara’s flexing stomach. When the alpha’s breath tickled the thatch of curls at the apex of her thighs, she couldn’t help but raise her hips and spread her legs just a little more.
“Mmmm.” Lena hummed her approval and followed suit with the tangible sharpness of love bites on the inside of her thighs. “Lovely. You’re so beautiful, Kara.”
She opened her mouth, to reply she wasn’t really, that Lena was being far too kind, but the alpha didn’t give her time to let the words out. She pushed forward with her shoulders until Kara’s thighs were draped over the rippling muscles there and then dove in, tongue lashing at her center.
“Oh, oh fuck! Lena!”
The alpha took that as encouragement and sucked Kara’s stiffened clit into her mouth, moaning her pleasure around it. Kara didn’t know whether it was that sound, reverberating through her spine until her skull was full of it, or if it was the glide of Lena’s hand around her cock, she glimpsed when she pushed up on her elbow to watch the alpha eat her out, but her climax whipped across her like a summer storm, and she came undone embarrassingly fast. She crumbled on the satin sheets, twitching feebly as the waves of her release rocketed through her. Lena didn’t seem to mind. Her lips unsealed, her tongue darted out to catch the overflow of Kara’s slick, and after that she was crawling up her shuddering body again to press a hungry, come-smeared kiss to Kara’s mouth.
Tasting herself on Lena’s tongue, musky with traces of her heat, was enough to make her ready all over again.
“No.” When Lena tried to flip her on her stomach she resisted, fingers tangling through raven colored hair. She pulled the alpha down until their foreheads were touching, till they were resting nose to nose, breathing of one another’s air. “I want to watch you fuck me, please?” Her voice cracked over the request, and Lena nodded, rumbling deep within her chest.
“Alright.” Kara’s thighs were pushed apart and canted back so that she could easily settle in between them, Kara’s ankles resting atop her shoulders. “Alright.”
She watched entranced as Lena’s hand dove down between their bodies, the alpha grunting as she lined up, groaning when the blunt head of her cock grazed Kara’s slit for the first time. The condom might as well not have been there for all the barrier that it was. Kara could still feel every throb, every beat of Lena’s heart as it raced through her length.
The alpha’s hips jogged forward lightly, once, twice. Exploratory nudges that parted Kara’s fold and sought her entrance, before Lena bore down firmly, slowly breaching the tight ring of her opening.
“Slow!” At the first lick of pain, Kara cried out, her body naturally trying to get away. “Please, be gentle, Lena. Please!”
“I’m going as slow as I can, darling.” Lena gritted through clenched teeth, her eyes reduced to jade slits of concentration. She was, truly, holding back with a fierceness that made her entire body shake, but she was just so big , and the channel of Kara’s body was so narrow.
“I know, honey.” Lena soothed as she slid a little deeper, the pressure against Kara’s maidenhead increasing. It was a weird feeling, not exactly painful, but uncomfortable. She wanted Lena to push past it and fill her up, but the tension that had gathered in her belly, fuelled by her fear, prevented the alpha from going any further. It frustrated Kara, and made her want to cry.
“God, just do whatever you want, Lena, but please, make the ache stop! I can’t—”
“I want you to take a deep breath and hold on to me as tight as you can.”
Without thinking, Kara did as she was told, nails digging into Lena’s sturdy shoulders. She breathed in, held it, and when Lena filled her up in one powerful stroke, air left her in a rush, accompanied by a sob of relief.
Lena draped over her, pinning her to the bed by her body weight alone. She was humming in her ear, nipping at her earlobe, kissing down her neck, utterly still inside of her to let Kara’s body adjust to the intrusion.
“You took me so well.” Lena praised, making her blush a deep shade of crimson. “You feel so tight around me Kara. It’s wonderful. You’re wonderful.”
It was warm inside the bedroom, and as they lay there, lost into one another, the heat piled thickly over their bodies. A favorite blanket on a wintry afternoon.
Kara stared in Lena’s eyes, which gleamed the perfect green of open waters. There was something grounding in the way the alpha stared right back, drinking her in, and the burning between her legs slowly died down to something far more pleasurable.
“I think…” Kara wet her lips, aware that Lena was keenly following the flicker of her tongue across her lips. “I think you can move now.”
“Yeah?” Lena released the breath she had been holding, burrowed firmly against her neck, teeth closing over her pulse, right where a mating bite would go. “You want me to make you feel good? You wanna come over my cock?”
“Please,” Kara whimpered, all reticence abandoned. “Please, Lena. Please, I want you to fill me up and knot me. Please?” She was a broken record, her mind stuck on the feeling of Lena’s hips starting to sway back and forth. Of Lena’s length, every inch of it dragging against her walls, the alpha pulling out almost completely before she slipped back in, more forceful each time. Faster with each thrust.
“Like this?” Lena worried a mark on the hollow of her throat, careful that her teeth did not break skin. “Does this make you feel good?”
“Oh yes!” She felt more than good. She felt blissed out, and Lena sounded like it too.
“You’re close, aren’t you?” The words were snarled against her breastbone, Lena’s lips bruising along the curve of Kara’s breast until her damp mouth found one of her nipples, teeth tugging and scraping at it. Making it ache. Making Kara grind up into Lena’s savage thrusts.
“So close, Lena.” She managed to reply, nearly drowned out by the obscene sound of Lena’s hips striking into her upturned thighs. “So close. I need—” She faltered, and Lena stopped with her, nipping at her collarbone with a questioning noise. “I don’t know…” Kara shook her head, bewildered by what her nerve endings were telling her. She was filled to bursting, and yet felt an emptiness inside that seemed to grow larger the more she dwelled on it.
“You want my knot, babygirl?” Lena said wetly into the dip of her throat, sucking on the bruise she had left there. It was already purpling, and would be a spectacular black shade come morning. “Is that what you need, Kara? You want to be knotted? You wanna feel me force it inside that tight cunt of yours, and feel it swell until you’re tied to me and I have to stay buried in you for hours?” Her tone was deceptively soft, her eyes sparkling with boundless hunger. “Is that what my little omega needs?”
“ Lena !” Kara’s moan was low and plaintive, her body responding to the alpha’s words with another gush of slick.
“I’ll take that as a yes.” Lena rumbled all her satisfaction, and this time, when she rolled them around so that Kara was trapped on her stomach beneath her, she didn’t fight at all.
***
“This angle will be easier.” Lena said, hand running along her spine. Then, Kara was pulled up by her hips and made to kneel, and all the while the alpha managed to remain buried inside her to the hilt. “It’ll also be much better if you do this while I knot you.” She was back to being tender now, and Kara slipped a little further into love. “Give me your hand, Kara.”
She did, and Lena guided it down between her legs. Down to her straining clit.
“Play with yourself, darling.” Lena urged, even as something at her base started to swell. “I know you’re very close, and it’s okay if that’ll make you come. I’ll get more than one out of you tonight.” She squeezed Kara’s wrist once, then brought both of her hands around her hips, steadying her as she started to rut. “Mmm. It’s gonna be such a tight fit, but you’re gonna take it all for me, aren’t you?”
“Anything for you!” Kara could feel Lena’s knot know, pushing against her entrance. Her fingers slipped somewhat past her clit, and grazed it, out of curiosity at first, but when the fleeting touch was greeted by a moan, Kara began stroking it. The heel of her hand pressed down against her clit, her fingers finding Lena’s knot with each sloppy pass.
“Oh god, don’t stop.” She pleaded, her cunt stretching wider than she thought it could to accommodate it all. “Please Lena, don’t stop.”
“Can’t”. Lena was driving into her with abandon, head thrown back and fingers digging into the dowy flesh of her hips. “Need it all inside. Need to knot you. Mine!”
A wave of claiming pheromones filled Kara’s nose, and in what was an incendiary reaction, her body opened. Lena’s knot slotted inside her as though she had been built for it, and she came with a sharp cry, dragging the alpha down with her when she collapsed atop the bedsheets. “Please!” She begged, not really knowing what she was asking for. “Yours! Please, Lena. Please!”
A hand closed around her throat and she was fucked into the bed, the condom swelling with spurts of Lena’s seed inside her rippling cunt. It was Lena’s teeth she would have wanted, Kara realized as she tumbled head-first into a second peak. It was a mating bite she had begged for, but Lena’s fist around her throat would have to do — at least for now.
***
“I didn’t peg you for someone who could do dirty talk so well.” Kara murmured idly, fingers playing with the fine fuzz on Lena’s forearm.
The alpha was spooning her, nuzzling into her shoulder, their bodies still joined just the way she’d promised they would be.
“I didn’t think I had it in me, to be honest.” Lena’s laugh was dripping honey, and when she pushed her cheek along the flare of Kara’s shoulder blade, she could feel it heat up with a blush.
“Oh, I didn’t mind.” Her cunt gave a sharp twinge of agreement, making them both groan. “It was really a turn on.”
“There were many things I didn’t think I had in me before you came along, Kara.” Lena admitted quietly, snuggling a little closer. She sounded strained, fragile to the point of breaking, and since Kara couldn’t turn around to wrap her in a hug, she did the first thing she could think of, and released a cloud of pheromones, much the way Lena had done when she had knotted her.
She’d never had cause to deeply tap into her omega side and accompanying instincts before tonight, but the soothing chemicals seemed to work, the alpha relaxing against her back with a contented sigh.
“Promise me something?” Kara asked, beginning to feel a little drowsy.
“Whatever you want.”
“Promise me you won’t just be gone, tomorrow. I—” I want to get to know you — she almost said — pretty sure I want to date you .
“Promise.” Lena’s lips ghosted over her shoulder, her arms tightening around Kara’s waist. “When you wake up, I’ll be right here.”
***
“Are you so intent on dragging our good name through the mud, Lena?”
The angry voice was like the buzz of a mosquito in her ear. Kara buried her face into the pillow, and tugged the blankets until only the tip of her nose emerged from the warm nest she’d dug for herself in Lena’s bed.
“I don’t understand what you’re complaining about, mother.” A familiar voice, tight with restrained fury, pulled her back to full awareness. “You wanted me to find a suitable companion and I have. Doesn’t that satisfy you?”
“I meant someone of good standing. Someone with a pedigree, Lena. Not the first whore you could get off of an auction block.” The word were punctuated by a slap, aggression so heavy in the air Kara bolted upright with a gasp. Next to her the bed was warm, but empty, and for a moment she feared Lena was gone, her promise broken. Then, the alpha’s scent filled her nose, warm and soothing despite the anger lacing through it.
“Don’t you dare speak of her like that.” Lena was seething somewhere down the hall. “She’s the one I chose, and you will speak of her with respect.”
“Respect? Respect?! Veronica was right to call me. You’re out of your mind, Lena! You will contact our lawyers and rescind this contract that you signed, whilst obviously thinking with your knot!”
Kara was very, very awake after that. The voices lowered to spitting hisses impossible to eavesdrop, unless she got closer, and she used the lull to gather her thoughts and make sense of what she’d heard.
She remembered Veronica from the parking lot, and the threats which she had hoped were empty posturing, clearly had been carried out. Veronica had called on Lena’s mother, just the way she’d said she would. And, judging from the screaming match in full swing a few doors down, said mother was none too pleased with Lena’s actions.
Well, perhaps she could help with that.
She cast around for anything to wear and settled on a button up shirt carelessly draped over the back of a nearby chair. It belonged to Lena and barely covered her buttocks, but that was the entire point of her little charade. Kara left it open, and only took care to raise the collar and hold it to her neck, as if the bruise darkening her skin there was an actual mating bite she was getting acclimated to. Between the acting, and Lena’s scent clinging to her every pore, it ought to paint a convincing picture.
It was surprising, how much her confidence had grown in the last 24 hours. She didn’t have to struggle to remember how terrified she’d felt, naked on the auction block, as a throng of hungry alphas stared at her like she was food. And now she was ready to barge in on Lena’s mother practically naked, just so that she could (hopefully) embarrass her into leaving.
As it turned out, she didn’t have to go very far at all. Lena and her mother — who didn’t look like her at all except perhaps for the arrogant tilt of her chin — were squaring off at the far end of the hall, the air between them so electric it was a wonder sparks were not igniting the nearby upholstery.
“Alpha?” Kara chimed in demurely, just as Lena’s mother was opening her mouth to resume her tirade. “Won’t you come back to bed?” She made sure to keep her eyes glued to the floor, deferential and submissive. When she raised her gaze — the quick flinch of someone who expected to be beaten for the smallest transgression — Lena was gaping, and her mother had gone white around the eyes.
“Won’t you please, come fill me up again?” Kara slid up to the alpha, and firmly rubbed into her side, allowing the camisole to slip down one of her shoulders. “Make me round with a pup, just like you promised?”
“Kara...uh...this is…uhm.” Lena’s voice was weirdly high, but the front of her pants had tightened, and completely unaware, she wrapped an arm around her waist, a possessive sort of scent filling the hallway. “Mother, this...uhm...this is Kara.” She seemed to note the way one of Kara’s hands was pressed into her neck, and added, tone roughening. “My mate. Kara, this is Lillian Luthor. My mother.”
“I see.” Lillian sounded strangled, like a fish bone was caught in her throat. “Well, at least she’s eager. And she’s good looking enough, I guess.” Before Kara could draw back, two fingers were thrust under her chin, her face tilted up for inspection. “She will give you pretty children too, and you can train her to behave in a suitable manner. Seems like there’s plenty of room in her head for at least that.”
“Yes.” Lena shot her a guarded look. “That was uh… the plan. She’s a little, eager breeder, aren’t you Kara?” The last was directed at her, and if Lena’s face was a mirror of her mother’s, the hand on the small of Kara’s back was an entire bible of apologies. “Only keen to please me, right?”
“Yes alpha.” Kara keened, playing the part. Nevermind that it was making her more than a bit wet. “I’ll be good. I’ll do anything you need.”
“See, mother?” Lena laughed, cutting and smug. “There’s really nothing to worry about.”
“Mmm.” Lillian was staring at Kara again, appearing mollified if not entirely convinced. “I guess time will tell about that. Bring her to dinner next week. I’ll have a few friends over, see how well she can behave around her betters, yes?”
And with one last speculating glance thrown her way, Lillian was gone.
“ Kara .” Once they heard the car’s engine roar into life in the front yard, Lena broke the silence. She stared at her aghast, as if she was seeing her for the first time. “You didn’t have to do that! God, I love you for it...uh…” The tips of her ears reddened. “I mean, I’m grateful, but really—”
“You’re helping me out.” It had been a slip-up that Lena couldn’t possibly be meaning, but her heart found that answer unacceptable and kept thundering on. It was difficult to talk. “It’s only fair I help you in return.”
“Yes, but—” Lena ran a harried hand through her hair, and her ponytail came partially unbound. “Now she thinks we’re mated. You realize you’re stuck with me for a while, yeah?”
As though that was a bad thing.
“I know.” Kara took Lena’s hand in hers, drew her close. “And I’m not trying to trap you or anything.”
“I didn’t think you were.”
Kara went right on over her.
“Look, we can pretend for a bit. She’ll get off your back, and then I can cause a scene, or you can say I’m infertile or something and call the contract off. You already destroyed your copy, I doubt the Auction House will make a fuss, since they’ve been paid. You just gotta make sure to release them from any liability in regard to me being… unsuitable .”
“You’re the furthest thing from unsuitable, Kara.” Lena pulled her into a fierce hug, then crushed their mouths together. “And that’s a perfect plan. But there’s kind of a big problem with it.”
“Which is? I’m sure we can figure out—”
“The problem is I don’t want to pretend.” Lena kissed her again, and this time she didn’t stop until it became clear Kara would not interrupt her. “The problem is I thought I could help you through your heat and let you go, but I can’t. The problem is that I like you and god, I’d love to have a chance at dating you. So tell me, Kara. How do you think we can fix that?”
Oh.
Kara could tell the moment her heart stopped beating, only to pick up twice as fast when it resumed.
OH .
“Well,” she answered, weak in the knees, a low pounding starting up inside her belly. “I guess for starters you should take me back to bed, because my heat’s not over yet apparently. And then I guess we’ll figure the rest out.”
***
“You don’t have to wait with me, you know that, right?” Kara shifted on the plastic chair, but there was no comfortable position to be found. Thanks to Lena’s check, Alex had been transferred to a private clinic, and was brought into surgery soon after that. Four hours later and it was still ongoing, one of the surgeon's assistants appearing every now and again with an update.
“I know I don’t have to.” Lena stretched her legs with a sigh. “But I want to.”
“Well, then we should figure out a way to pass the time, since it looks like Alex’s going to be in there for another couple hours.” Everything was going well, the doctor had reassured her, but these types of surgeries took a lot of time. Alex would be fine. She would be.
“Kara Danvers, we’re not having sex inside a hospital.” Lena quipped in an attempt to lighten up the mood.
“Mind out of the gutter, Luthor.” she smiled, elbowing her slightly, and grasped the alpha’s — her alpha’s — hand. “I was thinking we could come up with new ways to horrify your WASP-y mother over dinner, actually.”
“Oh, that .” Lena perked up, and reaching into a pocket, fished out her phone. “We definitely should make a list…”
THE END (for now)