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Lena was typing away at her desk when Kara came rushing into her office clearly excited over something. “Have you seen outside?” she asked quickly, “Should I have?” Lena responded spinning around in her chair as she did so while Kara walked up to her desk, looking outside to her balcony Lena firstly noticed that it was evidently later than she had realized but most importantly not only was it snowing quite heavily outside but Kara must have snuck onto her balcony at some point as some of her snow had been used to construct a well-made snowman. Lena swung back around to a Kara that had a dopey smile on her “Did you use one of your own carrots?” Lena quipped sarcastically “Well I wasn’t going to distract you from your work.” “But now is okay?”
“Well yea you were supposed to finish an hour ago, you can afford to spend some time with a well-earned break. Come on.” Kara defended as she outstretched her hand waiting for Lena to accept it which she did with a raised eyebrow. To some surprise Kara led her out onto the balcony where Lena immediately noticed the difference in temperature “Sit with me?” Kara asked hopefully as she gestured to the snowy floor. “Kara sweetie this dress costs triple digits.” Kara responded swiftly pressing the button on the side of her glasses activating her super suit and unclipped her cape laying it down on the ground, she then sat on top of it with her back against the glass of Lena’s office. Lena looked down at the hopeful expression on Kara’s face and after a moment of internal dispute she relented and sat in Kara’s lap keeping her legs up to her chest both to ensure that she kept on the cape but also in an effort to stay warm though having a solar-powered being behind her certainly helped in that aspect.
Kara let out a relaxing sigh as she wrapped her arms around Lena who lent back onto Kara resting on her, Lena watched the snow fall as Kara had her own eyes closed feeling the snow fall lightly onto her face. “It didn’t snow on Krypton.” Kara spoke softly and quietly. “Why not?” Lena asked gently, of course everyone knew the end result but Kara barely spoke about what it was like beforehand and she wasn’t going to discourage her if Kara wanted to. Kara took a long pause before responding.
“It used to before I was born, I remember my dad took me to this planet and it’s orbit meant it was permanently covered in snow. That was the first time I’d ever seen it other than a video or in a book, I felt who it crunched it my hand and how soft it was incomparable to how it was described. I turned to my dad and said I wanted to live here from now on, he chuckled and placed a lump of snow on my head and ruffled my hair. He said before Kryptonian’s can claim the right to own other planets we must first fix our own. I asked him why it didn’t snow on Krypton, he said it used to but we had squandered our environment in favour of progress. He finished by saying that no matter what progress was reported by the council and the guilds on the progress of restoring our planets climate and stability, the day when the snow returned would show that our planet had recovered.”
Lena moved her hand to hold one of Kara’s as she finished “Is that why you love the snow?” Lena queried not wanting to leave Kara on a low moment. Lena felt Kara give a small nodding motion before speaking “I think so, each year it snows I know it’s in a better place than Krypton… that and Christmas, Krypton didn’t have Christmas…shockingly.” Lena laughed at Kara bringing up Christmas, standing up as she did so and pulling up Kara with her who looked slightly confused but understood when Lena proceeded to pulled her into a deep hug as the snow fell on them. They stayed like that for a moment until Lena spoke. “Kara Danvers and Christmas, trying to match that standard is more daunting that Lex could ever be.”
“What do you mean?” Kara asked not following what Lena was meaning. “Well your quality and thoughtfulness of your presents are, may I say… out of this world.” It was Kara’s turn to laugh. “I know whatever you do will be amazing, cause it will be from you.”
Lena blushed at Kara’s words but quickly changed the convo but taking Kara’s hand into her own again and gesturing for them to start walking back into the office. “Come on let’s get dinner, as you say I’ve I was supposed to finish an hour ago.” Kara quickly grabbed her cape off the ground as she retrieved her glasses to return her suit responding as she did so. “I want potstickers”