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Maggie was sitting at the bar while her aunt cooked dinner when the front door opened. The quiet was disrupted by Luna talking about her hide and seek game with her aunt and Alex interjecting the conversation with various grunts, groans and juggling of items that was in her hands. She handed Luna her bag and threw her purse on the couch before heading over to Maggie, handing off Maia. The cop kissed her daughter’s head as she settled the baby on her lap before pulling her wife down by her collar to kiss her.
“Hi.”
“Hi.” Alex smiled at her before kissing her a second time and stood straight to see Luisa by the stove. “Oh Luisa you didn’t have to cook, I was going to make quesadillas for you.”
The woman turned and pointed her tongs at Alex. “After nearly burning down my kitchen during your only visit to Lincoln, you don’t belong in a kitchen!”
“Auntie!” Luna ran around the counter and was caught by Luisa, who hugged her tight.
“Oh my little fairy!” She hugged the girl and pulled back to look down at her. “You’ve grown, you have your mother’s height for sure.”
“I don’t have Mommy’s DNA, I can’t be tall like her.”
Luisa waved her, “details.” She smiled at her niece, “happy birthday, I hear you’re eight now.”
“Yes ma’am. Supergirl came to my birthday party today.”
“Supergirl! Well aren’t you important.”
Maggie watched the two but her eye caught the clock and sighed as she interrupted. “Baby, it’s time for your shower. Go get clean and come back down so Mommy or I can comb your hair.”
“But Mama!”
“No buts Missy, go now.” Alex looked at her daughter, leveling her with a serious look. “Just because Auntie is here doesn’t mean your schedule is to be ignored.”
“Go on chica, maybe I’ll get to comb your hair if you’re especially well behaved.” She patted Luna’s back and the girl dramatically dragged herself upstairs to get a shower.
Alex placed her hands on Maggie’s shoulders and leaned her chin against her wife’s soft crown as she watched Luisa flip what appeared to be homemade tortillas. “Kismet visit went well, ask me about details later.”
“Hmm, will do.” Maggie hummed as she looked down at her daughter slapping her tiny hands on the bar. “Someone’s demanding, must have inherited Aunt Kara’s appetite.”
“She drank a bottle on the way home.” Alex kissed Maggie’s head and sat beside her on the bar stool. “Luisa, how was your flight?”
Luisa smiled as she turned off the burner, “quite loud, the couple in front of me fought over their tablet like a couple of divorcees over a child. I offered the man my business card on my way off the plane.”
“Aunt Luisa!” Maggie gasped at her, “that right there is probably the reason why so many of my relationships in the past have failed. I was raised by a divorce lawyer so I expected breakups.”
Luisa put the plate down and pointed at her niece. “No! Your relationships failed because God intended them to fail. He needed you exactly as you are, complex emotions and all, so when you met your soulmate you were ready for each other. This woman right here,” she pointed to Alex, “was intended for you before you were born. She was waiting for you as much as you were waiting for her so all your relationships, for both of you, were meant to fail.”
Alex met Maggie’s eyes as she smiled. “She does make sense, not the whole higher being part but everything else, yeah.”
Luisa hit Alex on the head with a spatula, “and at the rate you’re going, you’ll be in Hell.”
“You know I’ve taken down men twice your size for less right? Hitting me with a spatula is the last thing you should do.”
“I will hit you with this spatula till you get some sense in your brain. My niece is good for you, expect in the fact she makes you lose all sense!” She put down the spatula and put her hands out, “now let me see the baby.”
Maggie handed Maia over and Luisa cooed at her. “She’s not usually so friendly with strangers.”
“Well I’m not a stranger.” Luisa waved her hand at them in a ‘go away’ motion. “Go away, go do something that doesn’t involve standing here. Go have sex, I’ll manage the babies.”
Alex’s hand went to her face, “your aunt did not just say that.”
“Yep.” Maggie stated while running a hand across her face. “Wine on the porch?”
“Sounds good.” Alex stood up and headed to the back door. “I’ll set the fire.”
Maggie found Alex covering the above-ground firepit when she closed the door. The cop placed the glasses down on the table and uncorked the wine, pouring them both healthy amounts. Handing a glass to Alex, she grinned and sat on her wife’s lap. “Peace and quiet at last.”
“Hmm.” Alex took a sip of her wine as she wrapped her free arm around Maggie. “Having Luisa here is going to be interesting.”
“Always has been.” Maggie wrapped her free arm around Alex’s shoulders. “I just hope she can knock some sense into my dad.”
Alex nodded and set her wine down, holding Maggie’s legs once her hand was free. “I could always have Kara throw him into the sun.”
“It’s a nice sentiment babe but I’d prefer not having to deal with the missing persons hunt that’s bound to happen.” She leaned forward and put her wine glass beside Alex’s on the table before settling back against her wife. “How’d the meeting go?”
The red head gazed at her wife as her fingers ran up and down Maggie’s free arm. “Declared our youngest the perfection of the human race and our oldest as something amazing due to her existence. Apparently Frayans don’t often reproduce with other species due to a complex genetic structure so all in all, Luna is the first hybrid they’ve ever met.”
“That’s our daughters.” Maggie stated with pride as she played with Alex’s hair. “So, we haven’t celebrated our anniversary yet.”
“We don’t have to…”
Maggie raised an eyebrow, “Alex Danvers giving up a chance to be wined and dined by her wife, what did your mother pop in your vitamin shot?”
Alex chuckled and shook her head. “I just mean we go out every year and as much as I love it, maybe I just want a quiet night in. I want a night that is just ours, be like it was when we were dating with dinner, movie or game before going to bed not having to worry about being woken up in the middle of the night.”
“And sex because I know you Alex Danvers, alone time means sex.”
“Of course sex because having you to myself for a night without it, that’s a crime.” She leaned in and kissed Maggie’s neck, nipping slightly. “You’re too irresistible.”
Maggie leaned back and looped both her arms around the red head’s neck. “Maybe we could convince Aunt Luisa to visit Eliza. They got along rather well at the wedding.”
“My mom has been asking when your aunt was visiting again because she’d like to have lunch with her. Maybe I could convince her to host Luisa for a night if it means they get the girls.”
“Sounds like a plan.” Maggie leaned down and kissed Alex, cupping her neck as she ran her tongue along her wife’s lips. Alex opened her mouth for her and pulled Maggie closer. When they parted Maggie smirked, “I love you Alex Danvers.”
“I love you too Maggie Sawyer-Danvers.”
The door opened and Luna stepped outside in her Frozen 4 pajamas. “Can you comb my hair?”
Maggie chuckled as they both looked at the girl, “who is the lucky winner tonight?”
Luna put her finger to chin and tapped it while cocking her head slightly. “Umm, I choose Mama.”
Maggie stood from where she sat on Alex’s lap, the agent helping support her wife so she didn’t fall. Once sitting in the chair next to Alex, Maggie patted her lap and Luna ran over with her comb, sitting on her mother’s legs. “So, how long are you going to grow your hair? It’s getting so long one of us has to help comb it.”
“I think,” Alex held her wine glass after taking a sip, “we should donate it whenever Luna wants to cut it.”
“Donate it?” Luna looked at her mother inquisitively. “Who wants old hair?”
“Well, you remember when we read that book about different illnesses?” Luna nodded, “one of the side effects of the medicine for treating cancer is that kids and adults lose their hair. People donate their hair so wigs can be made for those people without it. So, whenever you want to cut your hair we can pack it up and send it off so a kid or adult somewhere can have a wig made for them.”
Maggie smiled as Luna tilted her head slightly, a sign she was thinking. Finally, the girl made her decision because she spoke. “I’d like to do that but do I have to cut it all off?”
“No baby.” Maggie chuckled as she continued running a comb through the brunette locks. “You donate only what you cut off so you can decide how long or how short you want your hair.”
The backdoor opened and Luisa stood in the doorway with Maia in her arms. “Supper is ready, all three of you girls wash up.”
Maggie patted her daughter’s thigh softly, “hairband.” Once Luna handed her the hairband she quickly braided the long hair and handed her the comb. “Go put that up and wash your hands.”
Luna hopped off her mother’s lap and headed into the house. “Excuse me Auntie.”
Alex stood with her wine glass and held out Maggie’s, the detective took the glass once she was standing. “I was thinking…”
“Oh, that’s dangerous Danvers.” Maggie chuckled as she wrapped her arm around her wife.
“Tonight after the girls and your aunt are settled, me and you have a bath date.” She smiled softly, “candles and bath salts included.”
Maggie turned her head back and forth while thinking. “Sold but,” she put up a finger, “massage afterwards, I did after all have to run about ten blocks after some nut job only to find out my partner crashed my squad car.”
“Deal.” The agent leaned down and kissed her wife. “You do know J’onn wants to hire you right? Something about being the only the force in the universe I’m scared of and you’d being one hell of agent regarding both alien capture and equality.”
They headed inside and Maggie shut the door behind them, “well, I maybe a dumb local cop but I prefer my easy bake oven to your fancy gadgets.”
“You know your jurisdiction ends where I say it does…”
Maggie nodded as she looped her arms around Alex’s neck, “and where is that Danvers?”
“On the other side of eternity.”
“Sounds about right.” She pulled Alex down for a kiss and grinned, “but you do still watch bad movies. That video for visitors that I had to sit through…”
Alex groaned and turned away, “I know, I told J’onn about that a decade ago.”
“Honey, I fell asleep at least two dozen times.” Maggie ragged on her while catching her arm, watching Alex groan even more. “Me, the person who can sit through a sexual discrimination and harassment lecture for the twelfth year in a row. Me, who endures Ivanov’s horrible jokes that would have the Russians hanging him. Me…”
“I get it.” Alex turned to her wife, “maybe if you say something he’d change it to an interactive lecture of ‘do this and this is what we do to you’ so no one thinks twice.”
Maggie grinned as she gripped Alex’s hips, “would you demonstrating because if so, I’m so, so, so onboard.”
“Girls.” They turned to see Luisa in the kitchen, “children are present, save that for later.”
Luna cocked her head to the side at her aunt, “save what for later Auntie?”
Luisa tapped Luna on the nose, “when you grow up and marry a nice boy or girl or person or alien, then you will know but it’s not for little ears.”