Protection
“Come on, Kaz! Say something weird!” One of the twins yelled. Kaz wasn’t sure which one; she never bothered with learning to tell the difference.
“Ms. Griffin said that kids reflect their family. The weirdo’s parents must be weird! Is that it, Kazy? Is your mom a freak like you?” Kaz knew she shouldn’t take to the bait, but she refused to let them say anything against the closest thing to an actual family she ever had.
“At least my family aren’t a bunch of criminals!” The clone was normally above gossip. She heard so many rumours about herself, it seems hypocritical to involve herself in them. But if she happened to hear a few girls talking about how the twins come from a family of alien hating criminals, it’s not bad for her to store that information away is it? She might also have stored away the word the Luthor used before he smacked her in the face.
“Lincoln just hit Kaz!” The alien heard a child yell, but she didn’t care about that. What she did care about was not letting the brat get away with hitting her. Unfortunately for the twins, Kaz had spent the last three years being trained by Alex to fight. Unfortunately for Kaz, the girl didn’t have the best control of her powers when she got really emotional. So, she might have shoved Lincoln so hard she skid across the ground and hit a tree. When Morgan went after her, she made sure to not knock this twin out. However, it still didn’t take very long for the girl to defeat the boy.
~~~~
Kaz hated this. She had been close to crying when Kara walked in, it made her want to punch something. Of course, that was what got her in trouble in the first place.
“Kara!” The twins yelled before running over to the alien. “What are you doing here?” Before Kara could explain, Morgan(Kaz only knew it was him because he looked less beat up) whispered into his brother’s ear. “Where’s Kaz’s mom? I bet the freak doesn’t have one.” Of course, both of the Danvers could hear him.
“Morgan, Lincoln. This is my daughter, Kaz.” Kaz would have laughed at the boys’ face if she wasn’t in trouble, and if her adoptive mother didn’t seem to have some sort of connection with the children.
“Miss Luthor, Miss Danvers. I have decided that since it is the children’s first time offense, I have decided to suspend them for the rest of the week. I would appreciate it if you could spend their three days off trying to fix whatever issue they seem to have. If they fight again, their punishment will be worse. This school is very strict on our policies.” The mothers assured the Principle that they would work out the children’s issues.
“Lena!” Kara called out to the CEO as they exited the building. “I get off around four today. I can take the boys for a play date with Kaz? It’s best to try and prevent this again.” Kaz couldn’t help but notice how Kara’s heartbeat was slightly faster every time she glanced at Lena, and how Kara was gripping her shirt so hard Kaz thought it would rip.
“I agree. If you don’t mind, I’d like to join in on this play date. I feel like there’s a few things the grown ups could discuss.” Lena said, using her most formal voice. Kara knew exactly what Lena wanted to talk about, and she wasn’t ecstatic about discussing it.
“Of course.” Once Kara was in the car with her clone, she let all the tension. “I have to go to work, and you’re going to come with. Okay, Kaz Tinn?” Kara once the only one who used Kaz’s Kryptonian surname, and only when they’re alone.
“Yes, Miss Kara.” The car descended into silence as Kaz thought about the earlier events, and Kara pondered what she was going to say to her CEO friend. “Miss Kara? What’s a bitch?” The super almost crashed the car hearing the six year old’s question.
“Where did you learn that word?!”
“Lincoln called me that before he hit me.”
“Kaz, why did Lincoln hit you?” Kaz went into a big long explanation about the fight with several apologizes mixed in. By the time Kaz had finished her explanation, they had arrived at the Catco building.
~~~~~~~~~~~
“I’ll get the door!”
“Kaz, no! Stranger danger! Stranger danger!!” Kara yelled as she chased her clone through the apartment.
“Don’t worry, Miss Kara! I’ll just use-”
“Kaz, you know you’re too short to see through the peephole!” Kara cut the clone off in case someone was listening. Kara then used her x-ray vision, before opening the door for the Luthors.
“Kara! Look! I brought my superman! You could play with your supergirl with me!” Morgan shouted excitedly, waving his toy at the reporter.
“Actually, Mo. The supergirl toy belongs to Kaz. You could play with her, though!” Kara suggested to which Morgan made a face, before running into the living room with Lincoln following closely behind. “Kaz, go play with the boys. I’ll be there shortly.” Kaz knew that based on the look Miss Lena had on, that Miss Kara would not be there shortly. But, she left anyways.
It was silent for quite some time after Kaz left. Kara had no idea how to start the conversation, and Lena had no idea how. After a while of listening to the kids play(more like bicker), Kara knew she had to say something.
“Lena-” She began, but the CEO quickly cut her off.
“Why didn’t you tell me Kara? I thought we were friends.” The way Lena’s voice broke on the word ‘friends’ blew every excuse Kara had out of the water. What was she supposed to say to her? Kara had been Lena’s only friend. Not just only friend, but only true supporter. Kara just left. She left. Without ever telling her why. “I guess I just wasn’t as important to you as you were to me.” Before the Alien could object to that, there was suddenly a lot of ruckus from the living room.
“Give it to me!”
“It’s not yours! Leave it alone, alien hater!”
“Fucking bitch!” A loud slap sounded throughout the apartment followed by the adults footsteps.
“Kaz are you okay?” The tiny alien nodded before bouncing off to her room to leave the two grown ups to deal with the twins.
“Morgan Lex Luthor!” The boy cringed at the use of his middle name, scooting closer to his brother. “We do not hit! And just where did you learn that word?!”
“Daddy taught it to me.” The boy admitted, timidly.
“Y-your father? Mo, you’ve never met your father.” Lena said, all the color drained from her face. She looked ready to faint, and she had to grab Kara’s hand to try and gather some strange.
“Uh-huh! Whenever Miss Griffin is late, he talks to us. He also gives us ice cream. He said he was our daddy!”
“Yeah! And he said if we’re good boys, he’ll give us a present!” Lincoln confirmed his brother’s tale.
~~~~~
Three hours later and all the kids were asleep. Kara and Lena were in the kitchen; Lena having a mini panic attack.
“What am I supposed to do, Kara? Their father’s a criminal! I haven’t seen him since that night! Oh god. If he’s cussed around them who knows what else he told them?! And what about this present?! Kara, what if he hurts my babies?” By this point, Lena had tears rolling down her cheeks. The super could feel her heartbreak at the site of the panicking CEO.
“I won’t let him. We can have them stay inside with the teacher until the nanny comes to get them. They’ll never be unsupervised at school. Lena, we will not let that man harm a hair on the twins’ head.” Kara sounded so confident, Lena believed her. Kara would help her just like she did when the twins were born. Kara would help her.