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“I can’t believe you have never gone skating before! Like, never?” Kara stood in the doorway shocked. The champion figure skater has been dating someone who’s never skated before in their life for three months, and Lena still didn’t know how to skate. Lena shook her head in response and shrugged as she stirred the pasta, boiling in a pot of water on the stove top.
“This is absolutely ridiculous. You’re coming with me to training tomorrow, and afterwards you’re getting on the ice, Luthor. You are NOT getting out of this. “
The next day, the couple arrived at the rink at 6:30 am, with enough time to get Lena fitted for some skates before Kara’s 7:00 am 1:1 practice with her coach. Kara brought her into the changing room and left Lena half asleep, cradling her coffee as she sat on a bench, while Kara had changed into a pair of thick black tights, a long sleeve white top and then put on her black puffer vest on top to help keep her warm while she has on the ice. She
slipped her compression socks and a pair of sandals on before heading over to her girlfriend. The two left the room after Kara grabbed her bag and they went to the rink to find Sam and Andrea waiting for them. Kara introduced her girlfriend to Sam, and the two of them went off to fit Lena for a pair of skates. After giving her a quick kiss on the cheek and a goodbye, Kara sat down and began to put on her own skates before joining Andrea on the ice. Nearly two hours later Lena and Sam returned, and Andrea and Kara got off the ice. Lena Informed them that after they got the skates covered, they had gone to the cafe down the street for breakfast. When Kara had pouted and said “aww, without me?” Lena had handed her the box in her one hand containing two sticky buns. Kara took them with a smile and a “thank you” before she went and sat down, scarfing down the first sticky bun in between large gulps of water. After a much earned break, Kara helped Lena into her skates, and took her hands into her own as Lena stood up. Immediately Lena started to wobble.
“It’s okay, I got you!” Kara quickly reassured her and wrapped an arm around her waist. “Okay so we’re gonna take small steps towards the rink, okay? When we get there you’re going to hold onto the edge as you step onto the ice and I won't let go until you’re steady, alright?” Lena nodded to that and Kara held her up as they waddled over to the edge. Lena grabbed onto the edge like Kara had told her before and took a shakily step onto the ice. Surprisingly that went fairly smoothly, so Kara stepped onto the ice and pushed herself beside Lena. “okay, so do you wanna try pulling yourself along the edge first to see how that is? The ice hasn't been cleared since before I started practice so it may be a little rough, however slightly less slippery.” when Lena nodded, but still held a death grip on the side, Kara frowned. “Hey..” she moved a little closer and stroked Lena’s cheek softly, making Lena look her directly in her eyes. “I’m right here, I’ll be right here in front of you. The worst you could do is fall, but you’ll do great. I know you can do this! I believe in you, Lena!” That speech made Lena smile widely and lean in for a kiss, but was only greeted with a small peck. Before she was able to question her girlfriend, Kara had said “more kissing when we get you to skate, alright?”
From there Lena began to pull herself along the edge of the rink as Kara stood in front facing Lena, skating backwards slowly. After going around the whole rink once, Lena told Kara that she was ready to try something else, so next Lena carefully placed her hands into Kara’s and Kara gently and slowly pulled her away from the edge, once again facing Lena. Lena was following Kara’s tips she had given her through the first roundabout, bending her knees slightly, but not too much that her back was hunched over. After the first minute or so of Kara slowly pulling her along, Lena carefully started pushing herself off the ice as she saw Kara do, making her girlfriend smile proudly, “you’re doing it!! Do you wanna try again on your own?” Kara asked gently, but the statement made Lena gasp and mess up her footing, causing her to fall over and roll her ankle. Kara immediately stopped their movements and bent down to see her girlfriend with her eyes squeezed tightly and silent tears rolling down her face.
“My ankle..” Lena whispered, looking up at Kara in fear and pain. Lena pointed to her right ankle and Kara untied and took the skate off as gently as she could. She unrolled the long sock and revealed a bruise starting to form already around the red angry tissue.
“Oh Lena, I’m so so sorry, t-this should have never happened. Oh no.. Andrea!” she called out looking at the two women who had been standing on gerd by the entrance of the rink, waiting to hear what’s going on, “she rolled her ankle, code two! I think it might be broken!”
Kara turned back to her girlfriend with a frown, “do you think you might be able to walk on it, or no?” When Lena shook her head with wide eyes, Kara sighed before standing up. “Okay, so I'm going to help you stand up, I want you to keep your ankle off the ground and try to steady yourself on the one skate, alright?” Lena bit her lip, but nodded. She shuffled around a bit on the ice, and after grabbing Kara’s hands, managed to stand up using just her one foot. Kara wrapped a supporting arm around Lena's torso and slowly started to skate towards the entrance/exit, having Andrea and Sam grab Lena from her and help her off the ice without using her bad foot. They sat her down and Kara bent down in front of her and took off the other skate as quickly as she could. They had Sam compare the two feet, as Sam had just completed Medical school and had been working at the rink as a side job, and it was clear that there was something wrong with it. The area had begun to bruise and swell, unfortunately for Lena.
Later on that day as the two girls were waiting in the Emergency Room for Lena’s foot to be casted, Kara frowned and kissed the crown of Lena’s head that had been resting on her chest, as Kara had somehow convinced the nurse to allow her to lay down on the bed with Lena on top/beside her. “I’m so sorry,” she apologized for the 82nd time (Not like anyone but Lena was counting), “maybe the ice just.. Isn’t for you?” Kara suggested, making lena throw her head back and laughter filled the small room with walls made out of curtains hanging from the ceiling.
“Definitely not. I think I’ll leave the ice to my pro,” Lena smirked and nudged Kara before giving her a quick kiss (that was 100% appropriate for the ER).