654. Chapter 654

“Someone’s going to explain to J’onn why you three hacked his music system with 90s girl power pop when we get back, right?” Lena wants to know, leaning casually into Kara’s arms, her feet dangling slightly off the side of the door as she and her girlfriend sprawl across the back seat while Alex drives, her arm around her fiancee in the front.

“Um, yeah, Lena, here’s the thing,” Alex calls over the blaring Spice Girls tunes. “This is all J’onn’s music. Britney, No Doubt, all of it.”

Lena sits up straight at that and she shoves the back of Alex’s shoulder gently.

“You don’t have to lie to me because I’m a Luthor, Agent Danvers,” she teases, but Maggie turns in her seat to grin at her sister-in-law’s girlfriend.

“Nope. Not lying. It’s entirely true, Lena. Although we’ll probably both get our DEO privileges, and possibly even our girlfriend privileges, revoked if we ever speak of this to anyone, so… you know… mum’s the word.”

Lena’s face splits into a wide grin, then. “Well, you know what we have to do then. Live it up while we’re out here on the open road,” she smiles, because she’s never had a road trip with a group of friends, let alone a group of her girlfriend and their family, and this is…

This is amazing.

So when they all laugh and high five and let the wind flow through their hair and guide their fingers through the highway’s currents, none of them care that they’re singing off key or that they all – except Kara, maybe – have reputations to uphold.

They just care that they’re together.

It continues late that night, after Eliza has gone to bed, when they all crawl through Alex’s window and out onto the roof, Kara wrapping a blanket around Lena and Maggie helping Alex carry four steaming mugs of hot chocolate.

Lena lays back into Kara’s arms, and Alex into Maggie’s, as they trace the Milky Way onto each other’s bodies with their fingers, as they count the shooting stars with their souls, as they listen to Kara’s stories of Krypton with their entire beings.

“When I was a kid, I’d drive out for hours in my pickup, and when I got too tired to drive back, I’d lay out in the back and just watch the stars until I fell asleep. Always alone, though. Never like this.”

“Never with Eliza’s perfect hot chocolate,” Kara grins, and Lena kisses her hand.

“True,” Maggie grins, clinking her mug with Kara’s. “And never with family.”

Alex snuggles deeper into her, and the two couples shift closer together, all their eyes trained on the stars above, all their hearts beating with each other’s.

Lena and Alex are the first to fall asleep, and for a long time, Kara and Maggie lay there and stroke the hair of the women they love, holding them close and keeping them wrapped in warm blankets and warm feelings.

Maggie falls asleep next, her head drooped onto Kara’s shoulder and a small smile on her lips.

Kara gently flies them all into the bedroom softly before collecting their mugs and heading in herself, pausing to glance up at the rest of the universe with glistening eyes and, for once, a peaceful heart.

“Thank you,” she whispers in the first spoken language she ever learned, and she swears she sees that stars twinkle in response.