Looking After Alura

It has now been around a week since Lena first went over to Kara's apartment to spend time with her and Alura exclusively. Since then Lena has seen the mother and daughter a couple more times. Once more like she said on the Thursday, and then in the afternoon on that following Sunday. Of course Lena wants to spend much more time with Kara and Alura than that, but she knows she has to stick to what she said to Kara. She has to allow Kara time to actually process her feelings, and make sure that what she feels for Lena is real, and isn't just feelings born of gratitude. To achieve this Lena knows she can't spend a significant amount of time around Kara, and by default, around Alura either. Lena knows that if she were to just start spending time almost every day with Kara and Alura they would move to the dangerous territory of being some sort of 'family', and that would defeat the purpose of allowing Kara to process her feelings. Not to mention it could hurt Alura if Lena spends all that time with her and Kara, only for Kara to realise she doesn't actually have genuine feelings for Lena, resulting in Lena having to see them both far less frequently, if at all.

Frankly the thought of being a family scares the life out of Lena, so she quickly shoves that brief thought to the back of her mind. She knows she isn't ready for that. For now she is just going to take it one step at a time and get to know Kara more, while also spending time with Alura. Then hopefully Kara will be able to eventually confirm that she does have true feelings for Lena, or at the very least wants to explore a romantic relationship with Lena, and not just because of a sense of gratitude. But if not Lena would settle for a friendship, if Kara wants that, as much as it might hurt Lena at first.

Presently it is Thursday afternoon and Lena is in her office at L-Corp. Lena's had a long week, it's been one struggle after the next. One battle with some sexist pig who clearly thinks she, a woman, shouldn't be running the company, or that she is running the company in a horrible direction, despite profits and share prices being up, from varies medical and technological breakthroughs. So it has ultimately put Lena in a pretty bad mood. Lena is 100% sure that that is the reason, not because she hasn't seen Kara and Alura in 4 days, that would be pathetic. Okay, maybe Lena is 70% sure, or more realistically it's 50-50. Lena will never admit that she is so entirely whipped and caught up in Kara and Alura that she basically now needs to see them regularly for her to be in a good mood and survive. No, Lena will never admit that to herself. Although deep down she is secretly well aware that that is the case.

Lena is currently reading over yet another document about some bullshit project which Luthor Corp was working on while Lex was in charge. She has recently just been sifting through it all, going over it slowly to make sure there isn't some secret doomsday device hidden in one of her company's vaults or something. Lena does realise that for most people that would be a joke, but for her and L-Corp in regards to Lex, Lena knows it's a very real possibility. Even though it's a real possibility it doesn't make looking through the thousands of pages of documents any less tedious. Most of the documents are just mind numbingly dull, and Lena is pretty sure Lex wrote them that way so if anyone were to read them they wouldn't read them all. Lena however knows her brother and is determined, obviously not being willing to pass this off to someone else. Lena doesn't trust anyone else to do this, maybe Jess, but Lena doesn't want to scar her assistant any further than she already has. Lena is well aware that Jess could read through the files and just so happen to find something that Lex worked on, or built, that either scares the life out of her, or permanently traumatises her. Thankfully after a long while, Lena is interrupted from reading over the piles of documents on her desk by her intercom.

"Sorry to interrupt Miss Luthor, but Miss Danvers is here, with her.... daughter?" Jess says, the last bit a question.

"Okay, thank you Jess." Lena says with a smile on her face, her mood immediately improving. She may be in the middle of a bunch of boring file reading, but the idea of Kara and Alura both coming to see her makes Lena not give a single shit about the files, at least for now.

As Lena waits for Kara to enter her office she actually begins to wonder why Kara is even here with Alura. Kara has never brought Alura over to L-Corp, and if Kara wants to hang out with Lena, or invite her over, she will usually text her. The only surprise visits Kara usually gives her is when they have a surprise one on one lunch which Kara brings with her to L-Corp. So Lena has no idea why Kara, and Alura, are here at L-Corp right now. She can't help but feel a bit of anxiety build in her stomach. Before Lena can spiral any further Kara walks through the door holding Alura's hand. Lena wants to get up and smile and hug her two favorite people in the whole world, but then she sees the look on Kara's face. A look that Lena doesn't even have time to think on the fact that she actually considers Kara and Alura to be her two favorite people in the world, so she files that also for later.

Kara walks up to Lena's desk looking incredibly nervous. Alura is just looking at her mommy looking anxious and nervous too. Lena knows that something is up, causing her anxiety to increase tenfold.

"Kara, what's wrong?" Lena asks as she stands from her desk and moves over to the other side to approach Kara and Alura. As Lena approaches Alura she gives the young girl a brief smile, but Alura just looks at Lena anxiously. That increases Lena's anxiety even more so.

Kara sighs.

"I'm sorry to do this Lena..... but...... can you look after Alura for a few days?" Kara begins. "I know you are probably busy and everything, but I have to go away for a few days to help a friend, and Alex is coming with me. I was going to just drop Alura off to stay with Winn or James, or even J'onn, but she demanded we ask you. She's honestly been an absolute terror about it."

Alura bites her lip and frowns upon hearing her mom say that about her, even though it's true.

"Uhhh.... of course I can...... but...... if you would prefer her to stay with someone else..... I can..... just go see her..... a few times." Lena says, realising that Kara may be wanting her to say she can't in front of Alura because she doesn't really want Lena looking after Alura. After all Kara has known James, Winn and J'onn for much much longer, whereas she has only known Lena 'intimately' for just over a month.

"No." Kara says quickly, "After Alex and Eliza you'd be my first choice to look after Alura. I trust you, and I think it would be better if she stayed with a female, ya know. It's just, like I said Alex is coming with me, and I can't ask Eliza to come down to look after Alura. She has missed enough work already when she was helping us try and fix her, and Alura can't miss any more school. But if you are too busy, or you just don't think you can, I totally understand. I know I'm asking you a lot after only knowing each other a while." Kara rambles nervously.

Lena looks between Kara and Alura and then finishes her gaze by smiling down at the young half-Kryptonian.

"I'm more than happy to take care of her." Lena smiles widely.

Alura breaks out into a massive smile and goes running over to Lena. Lena reacts quickly and uses Alura's momentum as she runs over to her to swoop her up in her arms, spinning her around. Alura then hugs Lena tightly while Lena hugs her back as she holds her.

"Thank you Lena." Alura says excitedly.

"It's okay darling." Lena smiles back.

"Are you sure you're okay with this?" Kara asks, just to be sure.

"Yes Kara. It's fine. Actually saying fine doesn't sound right. I'm more than happy to look after Alura. I'm really looking forward to it." Lena smiles.

Kara then turns her gaze to Lena's desk and notices the piles of paper.

"Oh shoot, you're busy with work and I've just laid this on you." Kara says, nervously.