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Even if Kara insisted ongoing and putting the twins back to sleep every time they weren’t hungry, it didn’t mean wasn’t Lena still awake. In her defence, it was very hard to sleep without her resident Kryptonian hot water bottle. Which was largely why Lena was just lying there, staring at the ceiling and waiting for her wife to return. Which was when Lena learnt she was thrilled to be unable to sleep without Kara.
It started as just some quiet humming through the baby monitor. Lena moved to grab the screen, aiming to turn it off while Kara was in there in the vain hope she might fall back to sleep but instead, she stopped and just watched. Her wife was illuminated only by a small light in the room and she had both babies balanced in her arms.
Zaria was lying the only way she liked, like a sloth in a tree, lying on top of Kara’s arm with her hands wrapped around it while her head lay in Kara’s hand. Leona was more versatile but this time Kara had her against her chest, the familiar cape wrapping around her in the swaddle Kara had perfected with a teddy a little while ago, so Kara was left with a free hand which she used to alternate between rubbing Zaria's and Leona's backs.
Her humming changed tune a little and she started to sing, a Kryptonian lullaby by Lena's guess. She had heard it from Alura in a baby video of Kal when Kara had sung him to sleep.
Rao krym kryp rruhsh
Rraop tahvot tiv ewuhshehd
Zhehd nahn zhindif otem
(Rao guides us always
You reach the end
He is always there)
Lena smiled to herself and pulled herself out of bed, going over to the door to the baby room and pushing the door open a little so she could watch Kara. Kara switched out of the singing.
“ Vahdhah Mommy chao khap (Like Mommy and me), ” she whispered conspritally, placing a kiss to the top of both of the twins’ heads.
Lena leant gently against the doorframe watching Kara as she began to sing again. She could only smile, the fact it was three in the morning and Lena was completely tired just flew out of the window of her mind. It was just pure happiness as she watched Kara with their girls.
Rao shovuh rraop uldif
(Rao loves you forever)
Kara laughed to herself slightly. “Vahdhah Mommy chao khap ath (Like Mommy and me again) ,” she whispered again in her little dorky conspiratorial way.
“Jeju nahn dhugh (Jeju’s right) ,” Lena laughed from the doorway, pushing the door open a little with her foot and stealing into the room as Kara spun around to face Lena as she lit up with a smile.
“How long have you been standing there?” Kara smiled widely, letting Lena take Zaria from her arm. Zaria smiled a little in her light sleep as she settled onto Lena’s arm and Lena held her close to her chest, placing a kiss to the top of her head.
“I can’t sleep without my beautiful wife and then I got very drawn to her beautiful singing voice,” Lena whispered, leaning forward to place a quick kiss to Kara’s lips.
“I’m not that good at singing,” Kara denied, shaking her head. Lena looked around to Kara’s back and Kara’s eyes followed hers with a lot of confusion.
“It’s probably the Kryptonian biology which stops your pants from being on fire,” Lena muttered under her breath as Kara shook her head with a pout. Kara was silent for quite a bit.
“I’m a little too tired to thinking of a comeback,” Kara sighed.
“I’m a little too tired to thinking of a comeback,” Lena laughed mockingly.
“Leave me alone,” Kara pouted again, “Mommy’s being mean, Lea,” she laughed to the baby now snuggled in her arms instead of swaddled by the cape.
“I still think Lele is a better nickname,” Lena smiled, rocking Zaria slowly.
“That's your nickname,” Kara pouted, “So Lea or Leonie or Nini,” she insisted. Kara had taken baby nicknames very seriously, apparently, it was the most important thing.
“And then Zaria is Zari or Riri or Ari or Ria but not Zaza because that’s Eliza,” Kara went on proudly. Zaria wriggled in Lena’s arms at the mention of her name, she was still only half asleep.
“We should stop talking,” Lena suggested, placing a kiss to the top of Zaria’s head and holding her closer.
“Yep,” Kara smiled guiltily, like Milla when Lena caught her flying up to steal sweets from the top shelf last week.
It didn’t take them long to go down as Kara hummed slowly to the same tune she was singing earlier. They both laid them down in the crib, Zaria instantly turning to face Leona as soon as they were laid down. Kara got rid of her cape and took Lena’s hand, Lena leaning into Kara’s side. They just watched them for a small second.
“How are they so perfect?” Kara whispered.
“Well, they’re part of you,” Lena laughed at a whisper and she could feel Kara blush in the darkness.
“I think it’s the you bit that makes them perfect,” Kara replied with a small smile that Lena could easily hear. Lena leaned into Kara’s side a little more.
The twins were definitely not identical, Leona had small tufts of blonde hair while Zaria’s was brown, like Lena’s. Their skin was the same colour, a pale shade in between Lena’s and Kara’s but they both seemed to have inherited Lena’s heterochromia. They both had one blue eye and one green eye; Leona’s blue eye was in the right whereas Zaria’s was in the left. Luckily there were no powers yet. Lena still insisted on keeping the red sun lamps on at night, she did not want to rescue babies from the ceiling at Rao knows what hour of the morning.
“What time is it?” Kara interrupted Lena’s thoughts.
“Three fifteen-ish maybe,” Lena smiled.
“We should go to bed,” Kara mumbled, her eyes never leaving their babies.
Lena hummed in agreement, it was a familiar routine. They might make it to bed by three-thirty or maybe three forty-five if their willpower evaded them.
They got to bed at four in the morning.