Hi, talented author! Could you write a OS of Lexi having a nightmare and crawling into bed with her mamas for the first time and of course Lena and Kara end up a mess after consoling their daughter? Because I totally head-canon them as being the crying for every milestone moms. I love your work. Lexi has become an obsession, really. They are going to be the cutest family.
Okay, it's officially been too long since I've written toddler! Lexi because I had to go back through old fics to remember Lena's pet name for Lexi (oops). I'm going back through my prompts for inspiration so if you see something you sent me a long time ago, I'm sorry for the wait! (But better late than never?) Hope y'all enjoy! Forgot how much I love writing this family!
Nightbears
It's an odd sixth sense that one develops when you've been the victim of too many assassination attempts. A sort of constant awareness, (well, fear, really), that's always on alert, even when Lena is asleep. Amazing what having a homicidal brother could do for your reflexes.
At one time, Lena would have called it a useful talent, because it had indeed saved her life on several occasions. Now, however - with Lex in jail and her security systems being top of the line; and you know, sleeping next to an actual super hero - now it was mostly annoying.
There were a lot of false alarms - like when she thought the chef at Kara's favorite hibachi place was trying to poison her but it turned out the "special ingredient" was just hoisin sauce.
Or it could be helpful but misleading; like when she thought the person hiding in the bushes to take pictures of her was a contract killer but it turns out they were just trying to get footage of Lena and Kara making out for a tabloid.
One such consequence was that she could just feel when someone was watching her.
It was unsettling really.
And mostly unnecessary.
She usually ignored the feeling to be honest.
But sometimes, sometimes the feeling was just too creepy to pass off.
Like when it woke her up from a dead sleep in the middle of the night in her and Kara's penthouse National City apartment.
She kept her eyes closed at first, using the guise of sleeping to take in the sounds around her - Kara's soft snoring, the air conditioner, the soft sloshing of waves from the sound machine in Lexi's room -
"Mama."
Compared to the other sounds, the harsh whisper in her ear is loud and grating; and the breath on her face sets every one of Lena's internal emergency alert detectors off.
Her heart immediately starts racing and her eyes fly open to find blue eyes inches away and a tiny nose almost brushing her own.
"Holy shiitake mushrooms and fudge crackers!"
Somewhere amidst the warning bells going off, the back of her mind is pleased with her language censorship, and she makes a note to gloat to Kara - if she survives whatever sort of attack this is.
Lena jerks backwards, one hand slapping at the covers to wake Kara, and the other reaching for the bedside lamp switch and her glasses.
She feels Kara stirring behind her as she fumbles the glasses onto her face, almost taking an eye out in the process.
"Mama."
The voice is less startling this time, and Lena's heart slows with recognition as she blinks into the lamplight.
"Lexi?"
"Mama, I had a bad dream."
Lexi's dark hair is tousled straight up in a cowlick, and her glasses are askew on her troubled face, hands gripping tightly at her stuffed dog.
"Wha's goin' on?" Kara's voice rumbles behind Lena.
"You had a bad dream?" Lena asks.
Lexi nods as Kara speaks up again.
"Who had a bad dream?"
"Lexi had a bad dream." Lena blinks slowly, the excitement of the moment quickly fading into sleepiness.
"Lexi?" Kara repeats.
"Mommy, there was bears chasing us."
"This is what happens when you let her watch nature documentaries before bed." Kara grumbles into Lena's shoulder.
"Mama, can I sleep with you?"
"Mmm, of course; come on up, Chickadee.
Lena's eyes open just enough to reach out a hand and tug the little girl towards her. She tries to help leverage Lexi onto the bed; but despite her training with Alex, her upper body strength leaves something to be desired. That is, until Kara reaches over and grabs the back of Lexi's shirt, hauling her onto the bed between them .
Lena sets her glasses on the bedside table and turns off the light, and by the time she rolls over to face her girls, both of them are breathing deep with sleep.
Carefully, she pulls the quilt up around the three of them before settling in herself, quickly returning to her own dreamworld - thankfully one sans bears.
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The first thing Lena notices as she wakes is that she's freezing - which is saying something considering her wife is usually a person sized space heater.
The second is the dull ache in her ribs.
She slowly props herself up on her elbows, blinking as she takes in the scene around her.
The quilt and top sheet have been kicked mostly off the bed, and the pain in her ribs is quickly determined to be due to the red socked foot jabbing into her side.
Lexi is splayed out diagonally across the middle of the king sized bed; her feet relegating Lena to a small sliver of the mattress. The hand that isn't clutching Krypto the stuffed dog is pressed against Kara's face, pinky almost in her mouth and index finger dangerously close to picking her nose.
Lena can't help but laugh at the sight. It was definitely a frightful middle of the night wake up, but she would suffer through a thousand of those jump scares to be able to wake up like this.
Once again, she pulls the quilt up to tuck them all in, barely getting settled before Lexi's foot finds its way back to her ribcage.
Despite her awkward positioning, she'll take a terrified toddler over a heavily armed hit man any day - although maybe Kara's right and she should lay off the late night nature docs; or at least the ones with bears.
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Since my family did Christmas yesterday, I had a free morning today. I decided to replay all of Mark Kurko's Banjo Kazooie christmas hacks. I haven't replayed any of them since their year of release. I believe we're up to four now.
I forgotten that a lot of DNA is shared between some of them, I was wrong about the unique NPCs being new to Santa's Village. The Grunch had an elf boy who could turn his head, and Snowglow village had these Master Jiggywiggy expies with an N64 logo for a head that would turn to face you. Captain Blubber losing letters to Santa happened before, and so did a stealthy section where you sneak around Gruntilda, though the UI having a noise meter was still new to Santa's Village.
Anyway, this may be a new yearly tradition for me moving forward, playing all the christmas BK hacks, but i'll try to space them out so I don't play them all in one day. I can't pick a favorite, I think Santa's Village might be the best in terms of presentation but I can't pick between Snow Glow Village or the Grunch for second place. Sorry Nightbear before Christmas but i'm docking points for Halloween Town not being fun to explore.
I'd love it if there were more christmas hacks on N64 of games like Mario 64 and Zelda. To be fair, there probably are Christmas hacks for Mario but I doubt any of them run on N64. Why do I specifically want N64? I dunno. I guess that's the console that makes me think of christmas the most. Lots of christmas imagery in all the snow levels, lots of personal christmas memories related to the console that I don't have with anything that came before or after... that and I just like 3D games.
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