oh i’ve been waiting ages to be able to post this—
@supercorpzine gave me an incredible opportunity to participate in their project again this year, and i’m unbelievably grateful. it’s been a brilliant experience, they’ve done so much incredible work, and i’m really honoured to be able to share this one with you x
(if you read the zine, you’ve seen the shortened version of this, but here it is in it’s entirety!)
thirteen birthdays
It’s nearly Lena’s birthday. She knows it’s coming, because she’s been watching the days creep forward on her calendar at work for weeks, but she still doesn’t know what to expect. Lena had always been largely content to ignore her own birthday. She’d buy the slightly higher shelf whiskey for herself, maybe, or book tickets to a particularly extravagant show in town, but that was the extent of it. Kara, on the other hand, had a history of placing heavy importance on birthdays.
She had first witnessed it with Alex; Kara spent two weeks planning the most intricately planned surprise party Lena had ever seen, complete with the participation of almost the entire DEO, a cake flown in directly from Alex’s favorite Midvale bakery, and some kind of heartstoppingly expensive, as-yet-unavailable-on-the-market, limited quantity body armour that Kelly had promised she’d love. And it was cute, Lena had to admit, the excess that Kara was willing to go to in pursuit of being sure that the people she cared about felt celebrated, but it also seemed like it was probably a little bit exhausting to be on the receiving end of all of that attention.
With Lena, it was different.
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