779. Chapter 779

“Wait,” Monica held up her hands dramatically.

“So you’re Kara Danvers. You’re Alex Danvers. And you’re Carol Danvers.”

“No relation,” Carol gestures between herself and the sisters from National City. “But still pretty cool, huh, Lieutenant Trouble?”

“Cool?!” Monica leaps up from her chair, and Maria puts her head in her hands.

“Watch this,” she leans into Maggie with a grin on her face. “My daughter, everyone.”

Sure enough, Monica doesn’t disappoint. “This is only the coolest thing on the planet! You shoot lasers out of your eyes, you shoot photons out of your hands, you save the world just as often as these two with no super powers of your own? This is like a TV series! This is a best selling comic book! You guys need jackets! Danvers Girls jackets! Danvers women, whatever! It can be a band name, a superhero squad name! So versatile!”

“Kara’d be lead vocalist, Alex would drum, and Carol, what instrument do you think? Guitar? You look like a guitar kinda lesbian,” Maggie takes Monica’s mantle.

“Definitely,” Maria agrees, biting her lip as she makes heated eye contact with a highly bemused Carol.

“Mom, when you and Carol get married, are we taking her last name?”

Carol spits her beer all across the table, and Alex thumps her back while laughing heartily.

“And Maggie, are you gonna take Alex’s last name when you two get married?”

It’s Alex, this time, that needs thumping on her back. Kara takes care of that while Carol takes care of Maggie.

Maria, however, is nearly rolling on the ground with laughter, living her best life with her daughter’s perfect antics.

“Then we could all be Danverses!” She spreads her arms out wide, like she’s just made the most life-altering proclamation of the century.

The laughter that follows carries them all through dinner and dessert.

“I thought we weren’t gonna tell your mom about the ring yet, Lieutenant Trouble,” Carol whispers to Monica later, all wide eyes and secret smile.

“She knows I get overexcited, she won’t give it too much thought,” Monica shrugs happily.

They turn to watch Alex, Maria, and Maggie laughing about some undoubtedly embarrassing Carol story or another.

Kara slips up behind her and Monica quietly. “You have a point you know, Monica,” she takes a knee next to her. “The three of us - maybe including Maggie, you, and your mom soon, it seems like - should definitely get jackets. In the meantime, though, I was thinking. If it’s okay?”

Kara looks up at Carol for approval, and Carol - knowing she’s Monica’s other mother in all but legality - nods her permission.

With a flourish, Kara reaches into her duffel bag in the entryway and pulls out her Supergirl outfit. She detaches her cape and wraps it around Monica’s shoulders. “Maybe not as cool as a Kree uniform, but still kinda awesome.”

“And it looks perfect on you, kiddo,” Carol scoops her up and flies her just as easily as she did when Monica was tiny.

“I’m a Danvers superhero, too!” Monica puts her hands straight out in little fists, her trust in Carol pure and absolute.

Maria bites her lip again as she watches Carol and her daughter.

“We’re gonna be lucky, aren’t we? Marrying into this last name?” Maggie murmurs to her, and Maria nods as Alex joins Carol and Monica in the simulated flight.

“We sure are, Sawyer. We sure are.”