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Seven years later…
“Mo-om, I’m too old to go trick or treating,” Ruby complained, groaning. “Can’t Kara just go with Sirius?”
“We talked about this, Ruby,” Samantha replied, getting her camera ready. “You’re never too old to go trick or treating.”
“Precisely,” Astra agreed with her wife. “Your cousin is older than you and she goes trick or treating each year.”
“Think about all the candy we’ll collect,” Kara said to Ruby with a smile. This year she was clad as a vampire and it was an important year for her, more important than previous years had been. “Your outfit is cute.”
“She doesn’t look cute, Kara,” Alex said. “You look spooky,” she said to Ruby, winking. “I wish my costume would be as awesome as yours.”
“Are you kidding me?” Ruby asked Alex. “You’re going as Catwoman. Your costume is way cooler than mine.”
“The kid’s right,” Maggie commented, winking at her wife. “Hands down, you’re wearing the best costume.”
Kara smiled as her sister interacted with her wife, having beat her to getting married first. Not that it was a competition in any way and she was so happy to see Alex happy.
“No, no,” Alex said, shaking her head. “Sirius is wearing the best costume.”
“Can you guess what I am, Alex?” Sirius asked in his natural excited nine year old voice.
“Hmm let’s see,” Alex answered, crouching down to be at eye-level with Sirius. “You’re a handsome young man,” she said, smiling when Sirius chuckled.
“I meant my costume, silly,” Sirius replied, pointing at his outfit.
Kara glanced at her aunt, who was smiling at the way Alex interacted with Sirius. Ever since the day she’d introduced her sister to her cousins seven years ago, they’d been pretty much inseparable. Alex, who was twenty-eight by now, didn’t mind going trick or treating with Sirius and Ruby, she didn’t even need to ask her.
“Ah, I got it,” Alex said, tapping Sirius’ nose with her finger. “You’re the mad scientist who created Frankenstein.”
Sirius nodded enthusiastically. “Can we watch scary movies later?” he asked, batting his eyelashes at Alex.
“Sure, kid,” Alex answered, ruffling Sirius’ hair. “I think my wife would love that,” she said, glancing at Maggie. “What do you say?”
“I can’t say no when you two look at me with those pleading eyes,” Maggie answered, sighing as a smile appeared on her face. “And it helps that I love scary movies almost as much as I love action movies.”
“You’re going to be such a sucker someday when you’re a mom,” Alex teased Maggie.
“Don’t I know it,” Maggie replied, laughing.
“So when will I be an aunt?” Kara asked casually, though she failed to hide her giant smile.
“Not so fast, little Danvers,” Maggie answered, raising her hands. “My paycheck as a detective isn’t that impressive and each time you visit you empty half of our fridge,” she said, chuckling.
“I can’t help it I have a super appetite,” Kara replied sheepishly. “Lena offered to pay for whatever I eat.”
“I wouldn’t take money from family, Supergirl,” Maggie said, patting Kara’s shoulder.
Kara smiled, remembering how only a year ago, she revealed herself to the world and became Supergirl. It was as if she’d found a purpose in her life by helping people, protecting them from harm. “Is everyone ready to go to the annual Halloween fair?” she asked, rubbing her hands together excitedly.
“Someone’s eager to see her fiancée,” Alex commented, smiling. “I can’t believe it’s been seven years already. Time flew.”
“Yeah, I can’t believe it either,” Kara agreed. “I love her so much and I’m happy that tonight is the night.”
“People might start asking if you aren’t a bit too old for Lena,” Maggie teased, laughing when Kara swatted her arm. “You should tell her to get a phone already, this isn’t the Stone Age.”
“Nope, not a chance,” Kara replied, shaking her head. “I love sending letters back and forth, especially because-”
“There were no birds on Krypton,” everyone said in unison.
“Yes, Kara, you told us a hundred times,” Alex said.
“That bird is available whenever, wherever,” Kara said proudly. “When the battery of your phone dies, you have to wait until you can recharge it.”
“You can fly and yet you let that poor bird fly to send all those letters back and forth,” Maggie said, grinning.
“Well, after tonight I won’t be separated from Lena anymore, so birdy will have a break,” Kara said, smiling at the thought of not having to be apart from Lena anymore.
“Birdy?” Alex scoffed. “Very original.”
“Thanks, I try,” Kara replied, laughing as her sister laughed. “And can we please for the love of Rao go now.”
“I think your fiancée wasn’t able to wait any longer to see you,” Samantha said to Kara, smiling before she opened the door. “Hey, it’s good to see you again,” she said to Lena.
“Likewise, Sam,” Lena replied with a smile.
“Awe, I changed my mind,” Alex cooed, making grabby movements for the little girl in Lena’s arms. “She’s the cutest little cutiepie.”
“I missed you, milady,” Kara said to Lena, smiling. She leaned forward to press a kiss against her lips. “Hey, baby,” she whispered, grabbing Morgana’s tiny wrist, shaking her hand.
Morgana was a three year old little girl Lena had adopted recently. It was funny how they’d been doing everything in the wrong order. Firs they got engaged, then they dated, then they adopted a child and tonight they would get married.
“She looks so much like you it is almost scary,” Maggie said to Lena. “Or she would be if she wasn’t clad as such a cute little vampire.”
Kara shook her head when her sister took Morgana into her arms. “This is going to be the best Halloween ever,” she said, signaling at everyone to get together for a picture. “Say trick or treat.”
“I believe I have a treat already,” Lena said, snaking her arms around Kara’s waist.
“I like your costume,” Sirius said to Lena. “Can I see your fangs?”
“What did we talk about, little darling?” Astra asked Sirius with a slight reprimanding tone.
“You said it’s not polite to ask a vampire if I can see their fangs,” Sirius answered, sighing. “And you also said asking for their age is rude as well.”
“I do not mind at all,” Lena said, resting a hand on Astra’s upper arm. “It is quite alright, aunt Astra.”
“Whoa,” Ruby said when Lena showed her fangs. “Can I touch them?”
“Ruby, sweetie,” Samantha said with a stern look.
“But, mom,” Ruby replied, sighing. “It’s so cool we have a vampire in our family, even cooler than Supergirl being my cousin.”
“Hey,” Kara objected, chuckling. “And to think I was going to share my candy.”
Ruby smiled and shook her head. “You never share your candy,” she pointed out.
“Well I was considering sharing it this year,” Kara replied, smiling as they all went outside. “I’d like to have my daughter now,” she said to her sister, holding her hands out.
Alex sighed while she handed Morgana to Kara.
“I want candy, mommy,” Morgana said, clinging to Kara.
“We’re going to get some, sweetie,” Kara promised.
“I see something behind your ear,” Lena said to Morgana, bringing her hand to her ear and pulling it back with a piece of candy. “Tada, magic,” she whispered, smiling as Morgana smiled.
Kara smiled happily when Morgana clapped her hands together in joy. Lena had changed a bit during the seven years she had known her and had adapted her language, but she was still a dork who joked around from time to time.
“Do me next,” Sirius said to Lena.
“And me,” Ruby said.
“A little birdy said you felt too old to go trick or treating,” Samantha said teasingly to Ruby.
Ruby shook her head. “I don’t know what that bird was talking about,” she replied, shrugging. “Maybe Lena didn’t train him well enough.”
“I may have named our bird birdy,” Kara explained to Lena.
“Adorkable,” Lena replied, chuckling.
“No, you are adorkable,” Kara countered.
“Ladies, ladies,” Maggie cut in, grinning. “You’re both dorks.”
Lena raised an eyebrow when Kara chuckled. “Penny for your thoughts?” she asked, brushing her hand through Kara’s hair.
Kara smiled cheekily and bit her lip. “You know, I’m twenty-five, so I’m physically older than you now. Oh how the tables have turned,” she said, poking Lena’s ribs. “How does it feel to be the youngster?”
“Physically, I am a year younger than thee,” Lena replied, feigning a gasp. “This is quite scandalous,” she whispered with a smile that reached her eyes.
“Yes, imagine the horror,” Kara said with a serious tone, taking a step back and then another. “Imagine if you’d actually looked your age. Six-hundred and seventy-three, oh Rao, now that would be horrifying,” she said laughing as she made a run for it.
She kept her speed at a human pace, given she was at the annual Halloween fair and therefore in public. In the distance she could hear Samantha retell what she had told Lena to Maggie, Alex, Lucy and Susan, causing the two married couples to erupt in laughter.
Lena caught up with Kara effortlessly and wrapped her arms around her. “Thou shall be in heaps of trouble when we are home, my love,” she whispered, brushing her hair aside to kiss her neck.
“Mhmm,” Kara hummed, turning around to face Lena. “It’ll be midnight soon and then we’ll be married.”
Lena brought her hands up to her own neck where she wore Kara’s necklace. “I kept this safe, as I promised,” she whispered, about to unclasp it.
“No, wait,” Kara replied, halting Lena. “I want you to keep it and one day we’ll pass it on to Morgana so she can pass it on to her children someday, if she’d choose to have any.”
“As you wish, my love,” Lena whispered, leaving the necklace on.
Kara chuckled when another thought struck her. “It’s kind of funny how a vampire and an alien are raising a human child, don’t you think?” she asked, smiling. “It kind of makes the circle complete.”
“The circle would be complete if there was a zombie as well.”
Kara’s eyes were like saucers. “Zo-zombies?” she asked, swallowing. “Zombies exist? I mean, I’m not scared or anything… hah, pft, I’m Supergirl.”
Lena laughed. “Thou art gullible after all,” she answered, grasping Kara’s hand. “No, dearest, zombies do not exist.”
“Oh Rao, just you wait until we’re home,” Kara said, shaking her head. “Maybe I’ll sleep in Morgana’s room tonight instead of yours.”
“The cruelty,” Lena replied with a dramatic air. “How can I possibly survive one night without thee?” she asked, resting the back of her hand against her forehead. “Without thy lips, what is my existence?”
“Dork,” Kara whispered, chuckling. “I love you.”
“I love you more,” Lena whispered, kissing the corner of Kara’s mouth.
“I love you most,” Kara replied, hugging Lena.
Lena hugged Kara back. “I love you mostest,” she whispered.
“That doesn’t even exist,” Kara whispered, rolling her eyes while she smiled, because no matter what Lena said, she still loved her most.
“That is because my love for you is so big people think it does not exist,” Lena explained.
“Are you two dorks ready to get married or what?” Alex asked from a small distance. “I did so not need Sam and Astra to translate those last cheesy parts.”
“Awe come on, don’t be mopey,” Lucy said to Alex, nudging her side. “I think it is sweet how in love they are.”
“You haven’t witnessed as much as we have throughout the years, Luce,” Maggie said, shaking her head. “Their sweetness has been giving me cavities and that on top of my wife’s sweetness has my dentist in tears.”
“What do you say, Lena?” Kara asked, holding a hand out. “Are you ready to get married?”
Lena smiled and placed her hand in Kara’s.
“Oh by the way, did you bring the music?” Kara asked, recalling Lena told her she’d arrange the music for their ceremony.
“Certainly, dearest,” Lena answered with a nod. “Leslie,” she said, snapping her fingers at her apprentice who was nearby.
Kara nearly fainted when Highway to Hell began to blast loudly from speakers Leslie had placed all over the grassy area.
“Thou should see the look on thy face, my love,” Lena chuckled. She held a thumb up at Lucy who snapped a picture. “It may have been father’s idea.”
“Rao, you and your family are truly something,” Kara whispered, sighing and smiling as the music changed. “Awe, I love this song,” she said when a thousand years began to play. “It sounds very Twilight, but at least you don’t sparkle in the sun and I think it is fitting.”
Leslie whistled when Kara and Lena walked over the red carpet, hand in hand. “Sexy ladies,” she commented.
“I am not crying,” Gabriel whispered, accepting a tissue from Lexa. “You are.”
Clarke chuckled and patted Gabriel’s back. “Let’s face it, we’re all going to be emotional messes,” she said, holding her free hand out for a tissue. “Our family is gaining a special member tonight.”
“Nonsense, Clarke,” Lexa said, handing her wife a tissue. “Kara has been a part of our family for seven years already.”
“Of course, I stand corrected,” Clarke replied, grasping the tissue to dab at her eyes. “Time to pass up your throne, dad,” she jested, nudging Gabriel’s side.
“According to Leslie, my streak has been flawless,” Gabriel said with pride. “I have been the king for almost ten centuries.”
“Getting a little dusty, dude,” Leslie commented, smirking.
“My little niece is all grown up,” Astra whispered to her wife.
“She’s a beautiful young woman,” Samantha whispered. “I think your sister would have been smiling.”
“Lena is an excellent choice,” Astra whispered approvingly. “Her heart is pure.”
Alex encircled her wife’s waist, sighing as she rested her head on Maggie’s shoulder. “That’s my little sister,” she whispered, tearing up. “I’m so proud of her.”
“Little Danvers did good,” Maggie hummed. “She carries a lot on her shoulders, being Supergirl and raising a kid on the side.”
“Kara said she always looked up to me,” Alex whispered. “It’s the other way around now though, I look up to her.”
Kara smiled and caught her sister’s eye. Even though Alex looked up to her now, she still looked up to her as well. Her sister may not have been some superhero wearing a cape, but she was an amazing agent and was her hero simply for being her sister. Heroes were more than people with powers and capes. They were everyday people who made a difference to make the world a better place.
Morgana strutted after her parents, holding a small blue pillow with rings on it.
Ruby had changed into the pink dress Lena had promised her seven years ago, which was made for her. She had a basket in her hand, filled with white rose petals, which she threw onto the red carpet in front of Kara and Lena’s feet.
Kara cried when she saw the tables filled with food to the side, courtesy of the restaurant Lena owned. The wedding cake they had prepared was covered in a red layer that looked a lot like blood, but was actually some kind of syrup.
“My dear betrothed,” Lena whispered, dipping her head when they reached the makeshift altar. “Are you certain?” she asked, voice extra silent.
Kara smiled and nodded. She tried not to wince when a blade, forged out of kryptonite, was handed to her. “With this knife I will bind my blood to yours, for eternity,” she said, speaking up. She took a deep breath and cut her palm, squeezing her hand into a fist to let drops of her blood drip into a bowl.
Lena bit the palm of her own hand and spilled drops of her blood into a different bowl while her palm already began to heal. “With my blood I shall bind our lives together forever.”
Kara handed the kryptonite blade to Leslie, who ran off with it, allowing her hand to heal. She wasn’t too fond of the next part of the vampires’ tradition in marriage since it was a little morbid in her eyes, but this was Lena and she loved her.
Lena grasped the bowl with Kara’s blood and emptied it, licking her fangs as her eyes widened for a moment.
Kara could tell from Lena’s expressions that she enjoyed the first taste she ever had of her blood. She took the bowl with Lena’s blood and hurried to empty it to get it over with. It was cold, metallic and coppery and simply gross, but she swallowed it down. In all fairness, she had asked a few days ago if they couldn’t just shake hands instead to mix their blood that way.
“I shall love thee in sickness and in health, regardless of what the future may hold,” Lena said while she held one of Kara’s hands in both of hers. “Never shall I leave thy side or let thy needs slither past me.”
Kara chuckled, shaking her head at the small joke Lena snuck in. Leave it to Lena to add humor to it all. “I love you and will always see you as beautiful, even when you’ll tip over the border of being seven centuries old,” she said, teasing slightly. “I’ll do my best to make you smile every day, although that’s also me being a bit selfish because I love seeing you smile. You hooked your claws in me and I’m happy you don’t plan to let go because neither do I.”
After more words, Lena crouched down to take the rings from Morgana. “My little angel,” she whispered, caressing Morgana’s cheek.
Kara was crying as she slid a wedding ring around Lena’s finger and didn’t stop crying when her wife slid one around her finger. “I believe I’m allowed to kiss you now,” she said, smiling.
“Thou ramble too much, dearest,” Lena teased, smiling when Kara gasped. She grasped Kara’s shirt and gentle pulled her closer.
Kara cupped the back of Lena’s neck and kissed her frozen lips, feeling them melt against hers. Seven years ago she was stunned vampires existed and now she married one. Her mother was right on the day Krypton perished when she told her she would do extraordinary things on earth. She was a wife and a mother, and nothing was more extraordinary than that.