#people getting cut up is your bread and butter but im the freak for doing taxidermy ONCE.

[abyssaldyke]

New coworker was talking about how much she loves autopsy stuff and historical serial killer true crime and I was like oh cool! Yk I took a taxidermy class last year 😊 and she was like ok... that's like, actually weird though.

[magicrested-a]

okay so far i’m thinking Wyatt comes to the Salvatore School in episode eight while the focus is on Hope & Alaric finding Landon. But, here we go! a plan of what he’s been doing. my sweet dumb son. Just a little note too that Wyatt is very hush hush about the fact that he fights demons. @melliwell​ and I have come up with a lil hc that explains why demons aren’t very common in legacies and it has a lot to do with Mystic Falls almost having a ‘barrier’ against demons (shay can explain it better like i suck at this stuff haha) so demons aren’t as common for them. They’re the ‘baddest bads almost’ while for wyatt, they’re bread and butter. 

However, Wyatt doesn’t keep it from them for that reason. He mostly just doesn’t talk much about demons simply because he doesn’t want to seem like a freak - or to scare people. Only Alaric knows the full history and details about Wyatt thanks to Piper. But in student teacher confidentiality, he keeps it private.

( also this is hecken long and im sorry i get way into shit so it’s under the read more! )

SEASON 1

EPISODE EIGHT - Maybe I Should Start From The End

After losing control of his powers in a very severe way ( detailed explanation here ) Wyatt is brought to the school by Piper and Leo who are shown around by Emma and Dorian (while Alaric is off with Hope on ‘business’). They are given a tour and eventually Dorian and Emma take Piper and Leo to Alaric's office to talk further about ‘details’. Wyatt is then left with MG who gives him a tour, shows him where all his classes are and where his room is. Wyatt is less than enthusiastic and while he’s not rude - he just doesn’t show much attention to it all and is a little sassy about the whole vampire deal. He doesn’t talk to anyone other than MG and a few people who are curious about him. But when Hope and Landon come back. Wyatt is immediately drawn to Hope - who wouldn’t be?

EPISODE NINE - What Was Hope Doing In Your Dreams?

Wyatt is introduced to Alaric and has a conversation with him about the school, why he’s there and how they can help. Wyatt doesn’t accept Alaric’s promise at first. He finds it all very insincere and is sarcastic towards him. He doesn’t mean to be so cold towards him, rude even, but the whole situation has left Wyatt very bitter - while he’s trying to hide how scared he is. Being separated from his family is extremely hard for him but Wyatt knows that he needs to be at that school.

Though, when he hears about the monsters targeting the school and eventually the night hag. Wyatt goes from bitter, to annoyed really quick. This school was supposed to be a safe, calm place. In some part of his mind, he was hoping he’d get the chance to just live as himself - to leave all the monsters and demons behind. Eventually, after asking around, he’s caught up on the history of the monsters and their obsession with the school. 

For the first few days that Wyatt had been at the school he’d only met MG and seen the rest around. But when Hope gets the team together and explains the plan he sneaks in, sits in and listens for a short while, until volunteering to help. It’s then that Wyatt meets Kaleb, Landon, Rafael, and properly - Hope. None of them trust him, they don’t know him and he followed them and eavesdropped on them but when he says he can and wants to help, they let him stay.

He doesn’t actually have as much as a nightmare that the rest do. Rather, he’s stuck in darkness - not like malivore (more like the underworld only less caves), but full of thick shadows that wrap around him. While the rest are dealing with their nightmares, he’s just stuck in that empty place trying to find a way out. 

EPISODE TEN - There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True

In this episode Wyatt mostly just focuses on his classes and has his first session with Emma. He’s very reluctant to open up, despite Emma knowing a lot about him already. Wyatt just has never felt comfortable being open and vulnerable. He’s had too much of a history where being that has hurt him, or others, even more. So its not as much of a productive session and more just Emma trying to make Wyatt feel comfortable with her. She teaches him some tricks to manage his anger and encourages him to try meditation. On the way out from his meeting with Emma he accidentally bumps into Josie while her and Lizzie were storming towards their fathers office. 

In the first two dream worlds, Wyatt doesn’t actually attend either schools. But in the third world he’s a vigilante who isn’t good or bad. He’s just angry (when is he not ha) and lost and scared. The world thinks he’s dead because he’s in hiding but he works to keep witches safe from Triad. 

EPISODE ELEVEN - We’re Gonna Need A Spotlight

In this episode Wyatt becomes more comfortable with Emma and begins to open more and more up to her. Only Emma, Alaric and Dorian know about who he is. While he doesn’t keep his past/his lineage much of a secret - the details of his life are things he tends to keep from people (like how powerful he really is, his twice blessed status and the demons/torture esp the demons considering Mystic Fall’s lack of them). He doesn’t want to seem like any more of an outcast, or that he’s reaching for sympathy. So when Emma becomes the only one he’s ever had the chance to talk to about everything. It really begins to help. Hope and Wyatt become closer and in her preppy (infected state) she encourages him to hang out with them more. 

He’s been a loner at the school since then, only really talking to MG and a few others. And really, he still doesn’t feel comfortable hanging around the gang. But when he’s infected by the slug his personality changes from guarded to arrogant and ‘charming’. He’s instantly talking to more people, showing off his powers and just telling everyone things he usually wouldn’t. And maybe, when it gets worse. Probably scaring them - getting too intense with his powers - thinking its just ‘harmless fun’ which, physically, it is but he is scaring people and getting too reckless with his powers. He becomes a bit too prideful, not so much that it becomes a problem for everyone, or that he’s going to hurt anyone or trying to but he’s definitely not himself. 

When the slug is expelled from him and killed he reverts back and becomes even more guarded, avoiding a lot of the students - especially Hope and the gang. He goes to Alaric and demands that he expel him. He’s terrified of what he could do if something like that happened again - he knows he’s dangerous and by staying there he could ruin everything, hurt too many people. But Alaric convinces him that everything will be okay. 

EPISODE TWELVE - There’s A Mummy On Main Street / EPISODE THIRTEEN - The Boy Who Still Has A Lot of Good To Do

While he’s closer with the gang, spending the odd days more and more with MG. Wyatt still feels like the odd one out. When Landon, MG & Raf go on their trip for spring break, MG convinces Wyatt to come with them just so he’d stop ‘moping around’ and being a loner. At first, he tries to get out of it, saying he has too much homework to do and catch up on. But eventually he ends up going with them and the boys actually get him to open up to them more. It’s a good little bonding moment and Wyatt finally relaxes around them - especially after his lapse with the slugs and lowered inhibitions. He becomes like he is when he’s home. Dorky, confident, ready to help anyone and make them smile and tells them more about himself. (tbh i forgot that these two eps happened at the same time and look there is a reason why wyatt doesn’t go home immediately for spring break i just havent thought of it yet - and that is a new panic! at the disco song title).

But eventually, when things go bad. Wyatt, vulnerable to vampires, is knocked out after trying to pull MG off Landon. He doesn’t wake up till the morning and barely remembers what happened. 

Without the use of his orbing, in the middle of nowhere - a large gash on the back of his head -  he wonders around the forest looking for the guys. But when he gets too light headed, struggling to see and breathe he passes out nearby a main road. He never should have left the school. In fact, he wasn’t supposed to. He was Wyatt Halliwell out with a few kids who didn’t know the severity of his life and the danger he was always in. In the end, he’s kidnapped by demons, lost to his parents, the school and the whole magical world. 

EPISODE FOURTEEN - Let’s Just Finish The Dance 

Waking up, all he sees is darkness. There’s a thick sludge on the back of his head, stuck to where the wound was. There’s no pain, no blood, he’s still dizzy but he’s okay. At least, he thinks he is. But leaving the school - no one even knowing where they were - Wyatt knew it wasn’t going to end well. He made a promise to his mother to stay at the school, to be smart because they weren’t there to keep him safe. But he screwed up and now he’s stuck in the underworld because of it. 

At first, he’s cocky. He’s always cocky - poking the bear as much as he can. They don’t scare him. Not completely. But when he starts to realise that these demons aren’t just winging it. He begins to lose more and more of his faux confidence. The demons start to torture him, cutting him with athames, using their powers, burning him. And when they remind him that he’s alone - it really starts to break him down. 

It’s all payback of course, for Wyatt not only being who he is - but for vanquishing one of the members in their clan. But shortly, being trapped for two days, Wyatt is saved by his family. Alaric helps to find him, feeling extremely responsible for it all but after everything, furious, Piper pushes him away. With that and the looming threat of Malivore Alaric focuses on his students. It’s only two days after it all that he hears about Wyatt being safe again and that he won’t be returning to his school (at least until Wyatt convinces his mother to let him go back in s2). To keep Wyatts secret he tells everyone that Wyatt had to go back home because his grandfather was ill. Only Landon, Raf & MG know more details, but even they are a lie. To explain what happened to Wyatt after he was knocked out, Alaric tells them that - essentially he’s home safe. But before that he was found by a family, after waking up trying to find help, and taken to a nearby hospital. 

EPISODE FIFTEEN - I’ll Tell You A Story & EPISODE SIXTEEN - There’s Always A Loophole 

After being found by his Mother and Aunts Wyatt spends the last episodes of s1 recovering from his torture / kidnapping. He finds out from his Mom that everyone is okay but doesn’t hear the full story or that Landon is a Phoenix or what happened after he was knocked out (Rafael being stuck between turns, MG killing Landon / being bit). A lot of his injuries couldn’t be healed, so his body takes a little longer to mend than usual. He’s exhausted and Piper isn’t ready to let him go back to Salvatore's. In fact, she pulls him out of the school all together and tells him that she doesn’t want him going back. But eventually after a lot of back and forth fighting Wyatt convinces her to let him return to the boarding school.

However, he doesn’t start back until the new year/semester in season 2. He misses everything that happens with Landon (and essentially Hope but ofc, like everyone else, he doesn’t remember her) and the attack on the school. 

SEASON 2 

EPISODE TWO - This Year Will Be Different

Returning with a better attitude than when he first started attending the Salvatore School Wyatt meets up with the gang and is completely filled in. He’s distraught for Landon, knowing how he would be if Chris was trapped in a situation like Raf is and offers Landon any help he needs with Raf. 

With Emma gone. Wyatt tries to rely more and more on the techniques she left him. He starts a journal, not really writing down what’s happened that day but more what’s bothering him. It becomes single words, drawings and even spells. Its just somewhere where he can empty his mind, really empty it, without anyone judging him or being scared of what’s really going on inside him. 

Hearing that Alaric is no longer the headmaster leaves Wyatt a little apprehensive about the situation. He talks about it to Dorian, who he’s grown quite comfortable with too - being reminded of one of his uncles in him. But eventually he understands. However, when the new headmaster is introduced, alarm bells immediately go off in his head. Throughout the whole assembly, he’s watching him, fighting the urge to say something. He doesn’t like his ‘we’re better than people’ conversation and it really rubs him the wrong way. No matter what, he doesn’t trust him - at all.

EPISODE THREE - You Remind Me Of Someone I Used To Know

In this episode Wyatt mostly just focuses on his studies and work on controlling his emotions / powers. He sneaks out late at night to the gym to train but also to use more of the powers that he keeps hidden from everyone else. But while he’s training, he uses it to relieve his anger and fear. Its the one thing he’s always found helps and doing it when others are around is always dangerous so he hasn’t had much of a chance to do so. 

However, while he’s doing just physical training, punching a boxing bag, his scars start to hurt. While he is mostly fully healed from when he was kidnapped he over does it and has to stop. (idk why this is relevant but shh i’m putting it in). 

When the morning comes and the announcement is made about the football match Wyatt wants to participate at first but ends up storming out muttering ‘that’s cheating’ when everyone is cheering for Landon. After ‘disappearing’ when things got tough for the school, Wyatt hasn’t got a good reputation with the other students and they all just think he’s jealous. But he’s just angry with how the Headmaster treats people. After all, he’s been taught a very different way to most witches. That and half his family are human, he, for all intents and purposes, is more or less human. Its wrong to him and it bugs him to no end. 

He ends up going to speak to Vardemus who, speaks first (’thinking’ wyatts going to him to ask to play with the stallions) and says its ‘not a good idea, with wyatts temperament’ to play. And all that does, is make him even more furious. So he’s back to the chalk board, punching that boxing bag while everyone is out watching the game. Eventually, after cooling off, he goes to watch the second half, which turns him from mad to genuinely concerned. 

EPISODE FOUR - Since When Do You Speak Japanese?

tbh i’m dumb and just see wy being pretty absent in this ep/can’t think of much he’d be doing. But he probs is just hanging out with MG a bit more and listens to MG when he tries to tell him about Lizzie’s new date. After the game from the past episode, he’s definitely more convinced that Vardemus is not who he says he is. He’s obsessed with it, determined to find out the truth and ends up threatening him in a very ‘non obvious way’ something like ‘if the people i care about are hurt, there’s nothing i wont do to protect them.’

[purge-that-urge-rhackathon]

Heya purge! I saw in one of your tags that you’d been consuming fic for around 20 years! That’s like my whole life. Mind telling us how things have changed? I’m sure places like ao3 have changed things a lot. I’m just really curious in fandom and fanfic culture! :3 x

Ao3 is a fucking godsend let me tell you. I won’t make a lot of the same points and stuff that fannish history folks have already documented (how it literally changed, and all the fic we’ve lost that isn’t backed up on floppy disk somewhere… I’d say we’ve lost an equivalent to the digital burning of alexandria honestly) but i can tell you my experience :3

I’ll stick it under a cut cuz i kind of rambled… but i had fun doing so ahahha xD sorry you unleashed the tiger from the cage xD

We all make jokes about ‘being there’ when stuff in fandom history happened, but i’ve been around since all the major purges (LOL my name is so fitting in retrospect ahahha). ff.net’s various purges (and the whole anne rice suing fanfic writers and shit… i never DID agree to their new terms of service haha), geocities sites going down, obviously the more recent shit too, but like I’ve been around even for the creations of certain, older fanfic sites too (one of the oldest slash forums for lord of the rings fics for example… I was there, Gandalf LOLOL!!… and now that i check the date on that i feel old as balls thanks anon xDDD and wow my one fic is still up there PFFFFT) but like, I come from an era where you took your floppy disk and copy/pasted shit from online (once it even loaded) for later reading, and also so you could find it again, because also before ff.net it was hard to find stuff. I’m pre-google ya’ll xD You dont UNDERSTAND the horrors of trying to find anything pre-google. Ya’ll have it so fucking good D:

There was never an abundance of content like there is today, and so you can bet your shit we were grateful as fuck for what was out there, let alone for someone with a decent command of writing and storytelling. Everyone commented on everything (once that was something even implemented… it was email lists before that, and comments sent in that way… i still have my e-mailed comments from fic readers haha), and it was (and still is, in my honest opinion because people entitled as FUCK now) one of the GREATEST faux paus you could do to be reading a fic (esp. multi-chaptered) and not comment. The indignity of not giving back a little (and it still is a little, which is why i get so damn fired up on this subject) for aaaaaaaall the words and story and everything you just read was a serious sin against fanfic writers. I still think its seriously fucked up not to comment (and again, i’ve mentioned that if you dont got the spoons, thats obviously different) but like, the entitlement that runs rampant today did not even exist back then. Yeah, you still had the assholes whose comment would literally consist only of “where’s the rest?” with ZERO actual thanks or input while expecting/thinking they deserve more (and THEN you could remove chapters or stories, cuz god giveth and damn does she taketh away xD), but it wasn’t nearly as prolific as it is today.

The commenting culture today and the backlash against writers wanting comments on their work in return for providing said free content makes me mad enough to wanna curb stomp some people. I’m a bartender, I don’t put up with shit HAHA xD But the entitlement especially now and people who act like writers are being uppity for wanting a small return on their craft are disgusting. Same type of entitlement as art thieves (we all know the type). We didn’t put up with that shit back then. People acting like little bitches wanting free stuff for literally nothing? We’d pull the whole fic. And the community would handle it and it usually turned into a teaching moment about how damn important it is to comment and just how much freaking control writers DO have over their media. We’d pull it from public view unless amends were made (whether that be a private note from someone entitled finally paying their fucking due with proper humility, or reaching a comment count when you had hundreds of people reading but not commenting). Damn i miss taking away fic xD We played hardball back then xD

That was the fucking worst and people were rightfully denied access to fic if hits didn’t coincide with comments. You could publish a chapter and then decide to remove it from view (either for editing, or hostage taking for comments…. which i miss dearly AHAHAH it forced people to learn to be proper commenters and interact with those whose media they were consuming). It’s a big part of what I miss because just like a proper community, people kept each other in check and made sure everyone played nice. You enjoyed a fic? You sure as hell let that writer know. Now though…. the entitlement drives me up the fucking absolute walls and makes me wanna put stuff behind a paywall sometimes…. everyone is lucky im lazy as shit tho AHAHAH and im usually fine after venting xD

But yeah, fanfic culture in general has shifted in a major way to constantly consume and NEVER give back, either in comments, or creating new content yourself to also add to the community (for example as i’m sure we’re all aware, like ALL the people who bitch about certain ships or ‘why ship this when you can ship THIS?’…. Like, instead of bitching that ‘WAH WAH this author doesnt WRITE the ship I LIKE why can’t they write THAT??’ people came up with the radical idea of CREATING the content they wanted to see :| And if weren’t that good of a writer/artist to do so? Well then you SUPPORTED the writers/artists you enjoyed by leaving comments on their shit OR getting a commission… Goddamn i remember when even ‘commissioning’ people was a wild concept… Ya’ll dont know ahahah xD

I do believe that this is a huge source of where Anti-shipper behavior has stemmed from; entitlement gone berserk. And public schools and shit are still largely full of my parents’ generation who were not computer-literate either in function or courtesy, so even as internet social skills are not being taught correctly (or safety; they scared the SHIT out of us back in the day and now everyone has all their shit and pictures online haha) so there’s also a huge disconnect socially which i think has impacted online fandom spaces and what is considered acceptable or not. People also turn into fucking swine when they think they’re anonymous online (and boy do they change their tune fucking quickly when you out them) and i think the whole anonymity thing is also a factor of this whole entitlement issue in fandom spaces; making demands without giving ANYTHING back. Like I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t put up with that shit, and it’s not a coincidence I was going to work for the CIA after I just left Japan about 3yrs back (thank fuck I didn’t cuz FUUUUCK this administration) cuz people are dumb as shit and basic tracking skills to call someone out on their bullshit has been my bread and butter since i was like 12 haha. You act dishonest and entitled, and it’s gonna come back to you in some shape or form. You’re going to reap what you sow. That was the motto back then and I still believe in it today.

Hell, it has shocked the FUCK out of me the few times i’ve had people tell me ‘omg me and my friend were talking about your latest update!’ and i’m just like O_O????? because also back in the day, ‘fanfiction’ was kind of a taboo word. You never said you were into fanfic in mixed company. You more or less NEVER discussed it publicly (I’m not even talking dirty stuff, just normal, sfw fanfiction) because it primarily existed only online (for me; i’m post-fan magazines but pre-internet fanfic sites LOLOL). Hell, I got my college english professor into fanfiction. She didn’t even know what it was, let alone that something like that existed, and I had to explain it to her my first year of college kind of with a red face xD She was a writing-professor too so like, let that date the culture a bit. Like, if that was literally her major field of expertise and she didn’t know about it, that should tell you how not-mainstream fanfic was.

I’m kind of out of touch with that myself. Do kids (ya’ll are kids to me okay? xD) mention fanfiction as a reading/entertainment medium in normal conversation? Like, you could mention, without getting weird looks, ‘oh i enjoy reading fanfiction’ or (and i’m like internally gasping at the idea here) being able to say ‘yeah i enjoy writing fanfiction’? Is that a thing? I sure as hell don’t tell my peers that I write fanfic, let alone that i’m approaching 1million words for borderlands stuff alone AHAHAH It’s STILL taboo and seen as a lesser writing medium to folks my age. If you weren’t in a ‘geek’ circle (and i mean, i had friends who played D&D at lunch, and one friend who we mentioned fanfic together with) then culturally, as an art form, it wasn’t acceptable to discuss. Like, i’m STILL in that mindset that fanfic is not something to be discussed off the internet with people and it makes me very very uncomfortable to do so unless i know 100% I can speak discretely with someone. That’s what the offline culture was. I know its way different in some respects, like me and my youngest sister are 10yrs apart and her experiences with fandom are wildly different, but the idea of people actually talking about someone’s fic together with friends absolutely blows my fucking mind.

So, it’s changed in good ways too xD I just fucking HATE people who think they’re entitled to never comment or give back to the community sooooo i tend to get stuck on that issue, ESPECIALLY, again, as a writer approaching 1million words. *salute* doing my duty to the fandom community LOLOL or polluting the fandom community if you’re an anti AHAHAH antis can suck my entire ass and i’ll go on to put another million words of what they HATE into the world and they cant stop me ;3 spite is a fabulous motivator xD

The tools back then were a lot more crude, abilities and functionality was limited (but also better in some ways; moving fic to the ‘backroom’ so to speak), and even finding stuff was hard and relied on the hushed whispers of friends, but damn the community was better. So much better. So much more positive and accountability made people decent. So like, I do LOVE a lot of what we have now, but we have lost SO much. Both in terms of content and sense of community. I wish people would put more positivity into the content they’re consuming and lift up others. It’s why i try my damnedest to leave commenting tags on EVERY SINGLE THING i ever reblog here, because i *know* firsthand how much it means. To scream your art into the silence and only get the equivalent of stares back is maddening.

So yeah. Stuff has changed. Capitalism and censorship are running especially rampant hand-in-hand right now, and lord forbid we come full circle where there are no more places for us. I mean, if we have to go back to email lists, hell I’m already ready and an old veteran to that system anyhow. I’d miss all the content we all have access to…. but then there’s also that 90% commenting rate you get with that kind of system so HEEEEEY let it all fall down! bahahah xD

[jedifighterpilot2727]

I think something that would be really cute (besides kara and Lena asking Lexi if she wants to live with them and like her first day at home) would be some quality Eliza/Lexi and Alex/Lexi fluff. Ps I love your writing and the first time I read anything with Lexi in it my heart almost exploded

Sorry for any mistakes, Im sleepy and tired of looking at it!Aunt Alex Read it on AO3 - http://archiveofourown.org/works/10189040/chapters/23567397

Alex locks her eyes with the wide blue ones across the kitchen table.

She is not prepared for this.

She drums her fingernails on the wooden surface and the blue eyes shoot down to lock on the source of the noise.

Right.

Lexi doesn’t like loud noises.

She stops drumming to clasp her hands in front of her.

She really hopes it doesn’t take Kara long to beat up that alien.

 ”Hey could you come over?”

 “To your apartment? Shouldn’t you be off fighting that massive pink alien that’s terrorizing downtown?”

 It’s one of Alex’s rare nights off and Maggie had gotten called in for a an alien murder in the financial district. She was actually debating on just going into the DEO - you could never have too many hands on deck when there was a rogue alien the loose- when her phone had rang.

 “Yeah, that kind of the problem, Lena has conference call with Tokyo that she can’t miss and I can’t exactly leave Lexington at home by herself.”

 Lexington.

 Right.

 It’s so easy to forget that her baby sister is a mom now.

 “So just bring her in with you, I’m sure Winn can babysit.”

 “I am NOT bringing my three year old daughter into a top secret government agency when she can barely stand to hear the doorbell ring without freaking out!” Kara hisses.

 “The DEO has quiet rooms! Besides, that’s like the safest place she could possibly be.”

 “Alex!” Kara huffs and Alex can practically see the pout forming on her sisters face. “Please just come over and watch Lexi! I want her to at least be with someone she’s seen before, and I think she’ll be more comfortable here than some where she’s never been!”

 Alex sighs and begins tugging on her shoes.

 She should have known this was going to happen sooner or later.

 “Do you have food at least? Last time I was at your place the only food in the entire place was a can of spaghettios.” The fresh fruits and vegetables Lena kept the fridge stocked with didn’t count.

 “Lena has all of her … ingredients, but I don’t think she has any leftovers put away. We have peanut butter and jelly? That’s all Lexi really eats. ”

 “Strawberry jelly?”

 She’s forced to pull the phone away from her ear when Kara squeals.

 “You’re the best sister ever. I totally owe you one!”

 “Yeah, yeah you keep saying. I’ll be there in ten.”

 … … .

 As soon as she shows up at Kara and Lena’s penthouse, the door swings open and Kara jerks her inside, tugging her towards Lexi who’s sitting at the kitchen table coloring.

 “Lexi?” Kara kneels down beside the little girl’s chair, pulling her attention away from the outline of Supergirl she’s filling in. “Hey, little one.” She smooths back the brown hair falling in Lexi’s face. “You remember your Aunt Alex?”

 Lexi’s eyes turn to Alex and study her carefully before nodding.

 “She’s going to watch you for a little bit while I go take care of some things, okay?”

 There’s a moment’s pause before Lexi nods again and Kara leans forward to place a kiss on her forehead.

 “Thank you so much, Alex!” A kiss to her cheek and Kara’s gone, leaving her alone with her three year old niece.  

- - - - - - - -

That had been ten minutes ago.

Now she’s sitting across the counter from her niece, who she’s met a total of two times before. And it isn’t that she doesn’t like the kid, she just doesn’t really like any kids.

And now she’s alone with one.

One that doesn’t speak.

And keeps staring at her.

She’s sat across the interrogation from hardened criminals and been less stressed than this.

“What are you coloring?” She asks softly.

That seems like a safe topic.

Lexi turns around her coloring book, pointing at Supergirl, flying through the air with a giant fluffy dog.

She isn’t sure where the idea of Krypto the dog came from, but he’s adorable, even if he isn’t real. She gets an idea.

“You know, I have a dog that kinda looks like Krypto, wanna see?”

Lexi nods enthusiastically and Alex flips through her phone for a picture. She finally finds one of Leo with his coat all fluffed out and Maggie’s aviators  perched on his nose. She shows it to Lexie, who giggles and claps her hands.

“He’s pretty cute, huh? Maybe you can meet him soon.”

Lexie nods and looks contemplative for a moment before passing one of her coloring pages to Alex and moving her crayons to the middle of the table.

“Is this for me to color?”

Lexi nods.

“Thank you.” They share a smile before Lexi turns back to her page, leaving Alex to color her own.

It’s quiet, quieter than Alex is used to in her own apartment - but then she doesn’t live in the penthouse apartment in the nicest building in National City either. She can see Daisy and Mac snoozing in the corner and Lexi has her tongue between her teeth as she fills in the ’S’ on Supergirl’s chest.

She totally has this babysitting thing down pat.

Carefully, she selects just the right color of blue and fights the urge to laugh as she starts coloring in her sister’s super suit. She wonders for a moment if she should tell Lexi that she knows Supergirl, but she decides to save that for another day. Long minutes pass as they color in silence, the only sound is that of their crayons scratching against the paper and that of the air conditioner cutting on and off.

It’s oddly relaxing.

Eventually, the grilled chicken salad Maggie had insisted they eat for lunch is gone, and her stomach growls.

“Are you hungry?” She forgets to speak softly, and Lexi startles slightly. “Sorry,” She lowers her voice. “My stomach’s growling. Do you want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?”

Lexi nods and watches her carefully as she steps into the kitchen. It’s probably time to eat for the dogs too, so she scoops kibble into their bowls, bracing herself as the sound of nails scrabbling on hardwood floors grows closer. The dogs careen to a stop in front of their bowls and she looks over to see Lexi standing in her chair, peering over the table at them in fascination. She crinkles her nose at Lexi before moving to the refrigerator to dig out the jelly. In the cabinet, she finds the peanut butter and the bread, along with a jar of Ovaltine. She hasn’t had chocolate milk in forever, so she fixes them both a glass.

The simplicity of it all makes her smile, and she thinks maybe Kara and Lena aren’t so crazy for adopting after all. She was a little worried, at first - because Kara and Lena are good people, sure, but she’s never really seen them as parents. Obviously Lexi thinks differently though, because she somehow seems happier and calmer than when Alex first met her.

Carefully, she carries the plates and glasses (Lena only has ridiculously expensive dishware, and Alex wonders briefly how long that will last with a three year old in the mix) into the kitchen and sets them in front of Lexi. The little girl peers at the sandwich for a long moment, frown stretched across her face.

Uh-oh.

“Is that not right?”

She digs out her phone and dials Lena.

“What’s wrong?” is the immediate answer, and it’s the voice Lena uses when she has a conference call on mute.

“Is there a wrong way to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Lexi won’t touch it.”

“Did you cut it in half?”

“No?”

“Ah, you have to cut it in half. Triangles! Not rectangles! Hold on -“ Lena begins speaking in what Alex vaguely recognizes as Japanese, and she walks to the kitchen for a knife as she waits and then carefully cuts Lexi’s sandwich into triangles.

That seems to appease Lexi, because she stacks her papers and crayons to the side.

“Oh, and you have to wash her hands first, don’t forget.”

“Right, of course, hands.” Alex agrees like she hadn’t completely forgotten.

“Everything else okay?”

“Yeah, yeah, we’re all good here.”

“Good, I should be home in an hour or so.”

“Well we‘re just fine without you, so take your time.”

“Thanks, Alex, sorry to spring this on you last minute.”

“Hey, what are aunts for, right?”

She hangs up to see Lexi staring at her.

“Hands, right?”

Lexi nods.

“Come on.”

She lifts Lexi by the arm pits and carries her over to the kitchen sink, giggles following them the whole way. Carefully, she braces her knee against the counter and balances Lexi atop. She squirts soap on their hands and scrubs them together, washing and rinsing before reaching for the hand towel on the stove.

She carries Lexi back to the table, hoping that everything is finally right.

It must be, because Lexi digs in, her face quickly becoming smeared with jelly.

Obviously, Lena hasn’t had the opportunity to teach her table manners yet, because even Kara eats politely at this point, and that’s a feat that Alex would have never thought possible. It’s kind of adorable though, she thinks as she sits back down to eat her own sandwich.

Absently, she wonders what she would have to do to get Maggie to let her eat peanut butter and jelly. It would probably have to be some almond butter and organic peanut butter. It can’t be any worse than the farmer’s market brand that Lena stocks - which actually isn’t that bad if she’s being honest. Neither is the chocolate milk, which she assumes is Kara’s doing.

She’s so lost in the thought of trying to firgure out which fair trade chocolate company has the best chance of having chocolate drink mix that he sound of her phone ringing startles her, and Lexi even more so. She fumbles for it, wiping her hands on her pants and swiping to answer.

“Hello?”

“Hey!” Kara’s voice is on the verge of breathlessness. “I’m in the elevator, on my way up.”

“That was fast!”

“Nothing a little laser vision couldn’t fix.”

A part of her wishes she had been there for the fight, but she knows she was needed more here.

“Well, we’ll be here.” she promises as she ends the call and looks back to Lexi who is completely reabsorbed in her sandwich. The sound of a key in the lock sends the dogs into a frenzy, and Lexi looks up, pb&j leaking between her fingers. Her face lights up when Kara enters, and if Alex had her doubts about this adoption then this moment sends them flying out the window.

Kara kicks off her shoes and pads over, pressing a quick kiss to Lexi’s hair.

“Peanut butter and jelly, huh? Did Aunt Alex make it like you like it?” Lexi nods and Kara grins, turning to Alex.

“Thank you so much, I just didn’t know what else to do!”

“No problem, we had fun! Right Lex?”

Lexi nods and Alex feels her heart swell just a little.

“Oh, Lena says she should be home in about -“ She checks her watch, “-forty- five minutes.”

“You talked to Lee?”

“There was a slight issue with my sandwich cutting skills, but we got it all sorted out, no worries.”

Kara seems to settle, just a little bit, and Alex leans forward to wipe a smudge of soot off her forehead.

“Oh, thanks!”

“No problem! Like I said, what are aunts for? And just a heads up, I kind of promised a play date with Leo soon.”

“I see you’re getting sucked in already, huh?” Kara laughs. “Hey, don’t you have a wife to get home to?”

“Mmm, if she’s done solving all of National City’s murder mysteries -  which wouldn’t surprise me.” She stands and stretches. “I’ll see you tomorrow?”

“I’ll swing by the DEO first thing on my way to CatCo.”

“Perfect. Tell Lena I said thanks for the crisis aversion.”

“Will do. Thanks again for the help.”

“Anytime.” She waves to her niece, “Bye, Lexi!”

The little girl waves back, all smiles, and Alex can’t help but grin back - the smile staying glued to her face all the way home.

[angelixii]

do 1-98 on the question thingy

 oof ok

1: Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?- definitely closed

2: Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?- nah

3: Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out?- out

4: Have you ever stolen a street sign before?- uhmm why would I?

5: Do you like to use post-it notes?- maybe just a little c;

6: Do you cut out coupons but then never use them?- don’t think i’ve ever cut out a coupon ever so no

7: Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a swarm of a bees?- uhmmmmmm swarm of bees?

8: Do you have freckles?- nah

9: Do you always smile for pictures?- yes cause its weird if you don’t and it makes you look mad when you aren’t :c

10: What is your biggest pet peeve?- oH when i’m talking to someone and they are too ‘busy’ doing something like being on their phone and completely ignoring me c:

11: Do you ever count your steps when you walk?- nah

12: Have you ever peed in the woods?- I might have when I was littler, but not that I can remember

13: What about pooped in the woods?- I seriously hope not

14: Do you ever dance even if there’s no music playing?- not really no

15: Do you chew your pens and pencils?- ew no my school is extremely gross and im slightly a germaphobe (it’s not too bad) so no

16: How many people have you slept with this week?- UHM

17: What size is your bed?- twin I believe

18: What is your Song of the week?- uhm i’ve been listening to Stray Kids - Mixtape #1 all week so ig that XD

19: Is it okay for guys to wear pink?- is that even a question? (of freaking course)

20: Do you still watch cartoons?- same answer as the last quesiton C:

21: Whats your least favorite movie?- I haven’t even watched it but the emoji movie ..

22: Where would you bury hidden treasure if you had some?- uhm idk but if I told you it wouldn’t be hidden anymore so c;

23: If you’re a girl, bra size? If you’re a guy, pants size?- ima girl and its 38C

24: What do you dip a chicken nugget in?- either ketchup or nothing (depends of the type of nugget)

25: What is your favorite food?- chicken!!

26: What movies could you watch over and over and still love?- oof probably The Maze Runner series or The Greastest Showman (id also cry over and over c:)

27: Last person you kissed/kissed you?- cant tell you if its never happened srry

28: Were you ever a boy/girl scout?- nah not my thing

29: Would you ever strip or pose nude in a magazine?- hell no

30: When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper?- ..

31: Can you change the oil on a car? - ..

32: Ever gotten a speeding ticket? - ..

33: Ever ran out of gas? -..

34: Favorite kind of sandwich? - C: a dorito sandwich (literally just doritos on bread) (ikr so healthy)

35: Best thing to eat for breakfast? - pancakes with syrup and butter c:

36: What is your usual bedtime? - oof

37: Are you lazy? - I think my last url answers that one (kassidyislazy)

38: When you were a kid, what did you dress up as for Halloween? - uhm i still dress up heh but normally animals

39: What is your Chinese astrological sign? -  year of the chicken i believe

40: Are you horny? - NO NO NO I DONT LIKE THIS QUESTION

41: Do you have any magazine subscriptions? - im not even sure if i get this anymore or not but National Geographic Kids (idc if im 80 im still reading this magazine)

42: Which are better legos or lincoln logs? - idek what lincoln logs are so legos

43: Are you stubborn? - mayyyyyyyybbbbbeeeeee C:

44: Who is better…Leno or Letterman? - im sorry idk what this question is talking about

45: Ever watch soap operas? - yeah no

46: Are you afraid of heights? - maybe a little c:

47: Do you sing in the car? - all the time

48: Do you sing in the shower? - all the time

49: Do you dance in the car? - if its just me and my sister and im hyper

50: Ever used a gun? - i really hope not too unless its like at a shooting range

51: Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer? - uhhh picture day?

52: Do you think musicals are cheesy? - no not really but depends on the musical

53: Is Christmas stressful? - as a 13 year old no

54: Ever eat a pierogi? - im sorry what?

55: Favorite type of fruit pie? - ive never had any other pie except pumpkin (ik i live under a rock it sucks)

56: Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid? - animal vet, zookeeper, and photographer

57: Do you believe in ghosts? - eh never seen any so idk

58: Ever have a Deja-vu feeling? - all. the. freaking. time.

59: Take a vitamin daily? - haha no

60: Wear slippers? - do flip-flops count?

61: Wear a bath robe? - nah

62: What do you wear to bed? - either t-shirt and leggings or shorts

63: First concert? - haha i like this question ._. (never been to one)

64: Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart? - Walmart definitely

65: Nike or Adidas? - oof probably Nike

66: Cheetos Or Fritos? - BBQ fritos for the win

67: Peanuts or Sunflower seeds? - never had sunflower seeds so peanuts

68: Ever hear of the group Tres Bien? - uhm no

69: Ever take dance lessons? - hA no

70: Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing? - nope

71: Can you curl your tongue? -  yes?

72: Ever won a spelling bee? - possibly in like 2nd grade but idk

73: Have you ever cried because you were so happy? - many many times

74: Own any record albums? - nope

75: Own a record player? - nope

76: Regularly burn incense? - nah

77: Ever been in love? - c: with people i know ill never have yes

78: Who would you like to see in concert? - C: Bts Stray Kids Got7 Exo Monsta X...i’ll stop now

79: What was the last concert you saw? - c:

80: Hot tea or cold tea? - neither

81: Tea or coffee? - neither

82: Sugar or snickerdoodles? - snickerdoodles

83: Can you swim well? - i mean kinda?

84: Can you hold your breath without holding your nose? - uhm yeah

85: Are you patient? - hA no

86: DJ or band, at a wedding? - hmm idk

87: Ever won a contest? - no i dont think so

88: Ever have plastic surgery? - nope and certainly dont plan on it

89: Which are better black or green olives? - how about neither

90: Can you knit or crochet? - nope

91: Best room for a fireplace? - oof idk

92: Do you want to get married? - i mean yeah

93: If married, how long have you been married? - hA

94: Who was your HS crush? - aint been there yet

95: Do you cry and throw a fit until you get your own way? - used to as a kid

96: Do you have kids? - uhm no

97: Do you want kids? - not now

98: Whats your favorite color? - dark blue

Oh my that took way too long and i know who sent this ask thank you so much my friend C: