@peoplexlikexus / kara said: if i could legally adopt her, i would.
“oh, wouldn’t we all.” there’s a rehearsed chuckle that leaves her lips almost too gladly, and a smile that can’t be put off by the smell of pulled grass and dirty soccer bibs. the sun is shining, which makes a welcome change for metropolis, and ruby darts up and down the pitch to the sound of her own mother cheering her on. (it makes her sad, momentarily — there’s a dull pit in her stomach that reacts this way sometimes, like tar that needs something else to latch on to. lillian never made it to a fencing bout, and no matter what sport lena’d tried her hand at, there’d been an empty seat to the side that lex would fill in as the ever-supportive brother before he went crazy. ruby is nothing but lucky to have a mother like sam.)
“though i think sam would have something to say about that.” there’s a gentle brush of her shoulder over kara’s, before offering a supportive go ruby! and a couple of awkward hand claps in the meantime. (sam’d invited her — something about a championship game that she was almost too certain that lena would be too busy for. a quick meeting with the japanese office and a trip downtown to kara’s loft later, and they’d been on her jet to metropolis with just moments to spare. meetings can be pushed back. family is different.)
“— you’d make a great mom though, kara. and that’s coming from someone who really knows what they’re talking about in this situation.”