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“So, please, just... just... just stop. Stop believing me, okay? I am not worth it.”
“I'll always believe you, Lena,” Kara whispers softly, staring intensely into Lena’s eyes. Lena drops her gaze first, closing her eyes and pitching into Kara to bury her face in her neck.
“Always?”, she mutters into Kara’s neck, her voice shaky and vulnerable as she nuzzles further into the warmth Kara is emanating. Kara pulls back from Lena, catching her eyes again with a soft, slight smile gracing her features.
“Always.” She finds herself lost once again in strikingly mesmerising green, seemingly unaware of the matching enthralled expression on Lena’s face. Lena leans forward again and Kara finds herself close to Lena’s face, closer than she ever thought she would be. Their noses gently brush together and this time, Kara is the one who drops her gaze if only to flick her eyes down to Lena’s lips, prompting Lena to wet them with her tongue. Kara feels her face flush and somehow finds the words she’s looking for.
“Can … can I kiss you?” Kara says against Lena’s lips, and the answering nod comes barely after the question has been asked. Kara’s eyes slip closed as she slowly leans back in.
The first touch of their lips together defies Kara’s expectations. She thought she would find fireworks; an ignited and inextinguishable spark growing into flames. Instead, she brushes her lips against Lena’s and is overwhelmed with the feeling of home , a warm, enveloping sense of belonging and completion .
Kara breaks the kiss to catch Lena’s eyes again, silently but surely asking if she was okay. With the confirmation she is looking for, Kara leans back in for a second kiss, more exploratory but just as endlessly soft as the first.
When Kara first brushes her tongue up against Lena’s lips, she feels Lena melt right in her arms, a small sound escaping from her throat only to be swallowed by Kara’s mouth. Lena reaches around to grasp at the back of Kara’s neck tugging gently on the soft baby hairs, while her other hand finds Kara’s bicep and clutches tightly. Kara’s hands slide up Lena’s the sleeves of Lena’s soft sweatshirt to cup her face briefly, before one slips back down to circle Lena’s waist and pull her closer into Kara’s arms.
As Kara loses herself in Lena, she can’t help but think that this, this , is what she has been looking for since she came to earth. Home .