dog
The Little One had been playing in the backyard of their new home; Lena and Big Kara had decided to buy their first home together, rather than going back and forth between Lena’s condo and Kara’s apartment. In the four years they had been together, they never officially moved in with each other, however in the last three out of four years together, they had only spent two nights apart voluntarily (the other seventeen are made up of business trips, girls/sister nights, and sleepovers). In year two of dating, Kara had woken up one morning after a night of nightmares, wanting her Mommy. It had progressed from there, and the two of them had found out that Kara was age regressing because of her childhood trauma. Lena would never forget the first day Kara had called her Mommy. Lena had never wanted children, but she couldn’t explain how happy and fulfilled it had made her. Kara was scared of how this would progress in their relationship. Lena did a lot of research before setting Kara down and the two had a long talk. From there, Lena was considered her Mommy, and Little Kara had come out more frequently when she was around Lena.
“Kara, honey,” Lena called from where she was standing at the doorway to the backyard
Little kara’s head popped up, in her yellow raincoat and hat,because it was supposed to rain and Lena didn’t want her little one getting wet, “food?” she called back in question, slightly muffled because her thumb was in her mouth
Lena shook her head and Kara came running, wrapping her one arm around Lena's torso, the other still occupied in her mouth. Lena grinned and hugged her little one back before bending down, nudging the thumb out of Kara’s mouth (with a grunt in response), and clipped a pacifier clip onto Kara’s shirt peeking out from underneath the rain jacket. “Mommy has to go to the bathroom. Keep your dirty fingers out of your mouth and use your sucky, okay? You are not to leave this backyard, you understand me?”
“Yeees mommy.” grabby hands were already going for her sucky in order to bring it to her mouth. Just before it was placed into her mouth, Kara placed a slobbery kiss to Lena's cheek before running back off into the backyard. Lena chuckled and shook her head, “I’ll be right back!” she called and turned away, heading upstairs to the washroom.
Little Kara giggled and skipped around the gardens Mommy had put in just a few months ago. Kara liked the pretty colours. As she was skipping around, she noticed something poking out from one of Mommies rose bushes, the one she wasn’t allowed to touch because of the spiky thingies. She gasped when she heard a whimper and the bush shook, it revealed a puppy caught up in the tangles. Little kara pouted and tried to pull the puppy out of there. When she got the puppy free, she used a little too much force and fell flat back onto her bottom, the puppy now rested in her lap. She sat up slowly and examined the puppy in her lap, having thorns stuck to him all over. She carefully pet his head where she saw no thorns, “it s’okay baby, mommy u’ll take care of yuh!” she said gently to the babe in her lap, a pout on her face thinking of how much pain the dog might be in. She took a moment to look at herself, she saw a couple of scratches and spots that had started to bleed. The thorns must have gone through her jacket. She frowned. Mommy won’t like that she hurt herself, even though it wasn’t her fault!
She heard the door open and close just as tears escaped her eyes. Seeing her minimal wounds had made her more emotional, she wanted her mommy. Lena rushed over when she saw her little one sitting down with her back to the door. As she heard cries, she rushed over to see Little Kara in tears, holding a wounded puppy. Lena bent down “Mommy’s here, sweetheart. What happened? And who is your little friend here?”
Little kara sniffled and looked up through her teary eyes, “mommy! I-I heared a noise and I found the puppy in the flowers. I-i got him away but he hurts and I hurts! You gotta help ‘em mommy!” Kara wrapped her arts around the puppy’s torso and carefully stood up
“Oh honey.. Okay, come on, let's go inside.” Lena led her inside without removing the dog from Kara’s arms. At this stage she didn’t have the heart to say no. Lena brought her into the living room and had her sit down on the couch while she went and fetched an older towel and some new clothes for Kara. Once she came back, she carefully took the puppy from Kara and wrapped him in the towel and set him on the couch, and then helped Kara strip and put on less ripped clothes. “Can I have my big girl, please, darling?” lena had asked after sitting kara back down.
“Nuh uh. She’s tired.” Little Kara pouted and crossed her arms. Lena sighed and shook her head before grabbing her phone.
“Okay then. I’m gonna call Alex and she’s gonna help your arms and leg, okay?” Lena had her change into a short sleeve top and some loose shorts that way it was easier to get to the wounds. Kara nodded and closed her eyes, obviously tired after her little rendezvous. Lena took the time to call Alex, who agreed to come over immediately. Lena kept a watch on both Kara and the dog, who had curled up and falled asleep in the towel, for 20 minutes until Alex came and showed herself in with the key Kara had given her for emergencies. Lena greeted her at the main entrance when she heard the door opening and led her over to kara.
Alex bent down in front of the sleeping girl and observed the thorns in her leg and arms. It wasn't too bad but they’d still have to be removed. She placed a hand onto Kara’s good leg and carefully shook her awake, revealing that she had been in the same headspace she was before her little snooze. Kara brought fingers up to her mouth with a grunt as she refused to open her eyes. The fingers were quickly, but gently pulled away by Lena, “come on now darling. Alex is here to help your boo-boos.”
A small murmur, “alex is here?”
Alex chucked and nodded, “yes Kara, I’m here. Can you wake up for me? How about you introduce me to your new friend, hey?”
Kara's eyes opened after she rubbed each one with her fists, looking at Alex, “this is… sunshine. I hulped ‘em in the garden wifh da flowers,” she explained, patting the puppy gently on it’s head.
“Sunshine?” Both Alex and Lena replied
“Kara named the puppy. We’re never getting rid of him now are we?” Lena mumbled under her breath as Kara nodded proudly over at the chocolate lab laid beside her, curled up in the towel.
Not too long later, the thorns had been removed from Kara’s body, and then Lena had taken off her bracelet that contained the smallest amount of kryptonite, that Lena had created for Kara for when he was in a younger headspace, after a couple incidents of Little Kara accidently flying or setting something on fire. Once Kara had returned to her normal headspace they had taken the puppy, sunshine, to the emergency vet. The dog had been put to sleep by anesthesia in order to painlessly remove the thorns, the whole process had only taken an hour or two. Kara and Lena had waited at the vet, much by Kara’s wishes, until everything had been done. They got the pain meds for the next couple days and took Sunshine home with them. Kara had claimed him as her dog, and as much as Lena tried to protest, the Mommy in her said yes, but only if they couldn’t find the original owners of the puppy. After two months of posters, social media posts, calls, text messages and even a newspaper, they hadn’t found Sunshine’s owners. They officially claimed him into their small family and Little Kara was so happy to have a new friend.
Six months later, as the trio had been taking a walk down the beach, Lena had pointed something out in the water that interested Kara. Just as Kara was distracted, she tied the ring to Sunshine’s collar and sent him over to kara. It had taken her a moment, but once she found the ring and realised that Lena had been down on one knee she couldn’t stop saying yes to Lena’s proposal.