#vox-ex

hi & hello to @vox-ex as well because you two sent this one practically at the same time!

29: Have you ever actually remembered one of those 3am “I’ll remember it in the morning” ideas?

favorite cold drink: this isn't the only favorite cold drink i have but these questions do not have one winner. anyway i love a gatorade cool blue i cannot help it i think it's the best one

favourite hot drink: i don't drink coffee or tea unless socially but in the fall/winter time i enjoy myself an apple cider so perhaps that

favourite sweet: im a basic bitch and love chocolate; right now i am really into sponge candy

favourite actor: idk if i have a favorite considering how criminally bad i am at watching things but also im more into characters than the actors themselves but i thoroughly enjoy watching sandra bullock on my screen so let's go with her

favourite singer: whoever the kpop girl is who sings for rumi in kpdh

favourite movie at the moment: lmao i am such a basic girl atm but kpdh and we're gonna watch a singalong this weekend

favourite song at the moment: gabriela by katseye (but also the entire kpdh soundtrack i am getting ready for the singalong movie ok)

favourite video game at the moment: lol i am playing screw sort 3d on my phone does that count?

favourite season: im a fall/spring gal even though it's so fucking hard to dress for these seasons because they transition in and out of hot and cold. although i will say that i will pick a whole entire season of crisp morning air

favourite flower: sunflowers (i am basic upon basic) but i really like cone flowers as well they look like UFOs and i love that for them

favourite scent: fresh laundry and there's this one perfume that makes the rounds in the trains sometimes or on the streets from women who wear it because it has a sweet lingering scent but not cloyingly sweet and it's nice to get a waft of it every now and again

Hi! Thank you so much for the ask (and sorry for my slow reply!)

3. What was the last thing you looked up for a fic?

Towns along Argentina’s east coast, I think? I’ve only been dabbling recently so haven’t gone down any really deep research rabbit holes of late.

33. What is your favorite line from *insert fic name here*?

Since you left the fic choice open and I haven’t revisited anything I’ve actually shared for a while, I’m going to cheat and offer a line from something unpublished (and unfinished/very short, because I am indecisive and this limits how many lines I have to choose from):

“The earpiece shatters with surprising ease beneath the point of Lena’s shoe – one quick crunch of delicate electronics, and it’s over (and over, and over, and over again in the most vivid of her nightmares).”

38. Fic idea you're most excited to get to?

I'm trying to cheer you up+you’re not making any sense

(holy crap how long has this ask been here I'm so sorry)

For @vox-ex, a probably VERY delayed response!

“I really don’t understand how you get yourself into these situations,’’ Lena mutters around the knife clasped in her teeth as she uses both hands to tug at the waterlogged netting. Satisfied that it’s far enough away from Kara’s skin, she begins hacking at it.

“What was I supposed to do, just let them fish there?” Kara asks, standing semi-meekly in a puddle of seawater on Lena's italian marble floor.

Lena grunts as she manages to saw through one of the ropes. “No, just… how?"

Kara flushes crimson. “I was dropping off a friend.”

“A friend,” Lena repeats flatly. “In the middle of the Pacific?”

“Yes.”

“Did this friend have gills, perchance?”

“... maybe.”

“Kara,” Lena laughs, shaking her head. “We’ve talked about this.”

“I know, but I just… she needed help. And the DEO-”

“-isn’t what you thought,” Lena murmurs, eyes sympathetic. “I know.”

“Anyways, I was like, so close, too- I’d already gotten her where she needed to be, and I was on my way back-, then I heard a dolphin, and it was clearly hurting, so I went down, and he was tangled in a bunch of netting- illegal netting! And it wasn’t just him, a few other dolphins were too.”

Lena’s eyes flash. “Did you see the boats? What company they worked for?”

“Oh, I saw the boats,” Kara grumbles. “My friend Arthur took care of them, though.”

“Arthur…?”

“Oh! Um… Aquaman?”

Lena snorts. “Jesus. Of course, why would you not know Aquaman?” At Kara’s pout, she continues her careful sawing. “Alright, sorry, continue.”

“Anyways, I’d already been up for a long time, and I was like, really pushing my powers to the limit on that trip out there. And then there were all the dolphins, and I was holding my breath a bunch and having to swim pretty deep- by the way, it like, royally sucks, being that deep underwater. There is no light, at all. And it sounds weird, and it’s-” She cuts off, shuddering slightly. “I dunno. The ocean is beautiful and amazing and must be protected, but it freaks me the heck out."

"That's fair, it's not my favorite either. So, the net?"

"Right! So turns out, I like, sapped my powers doing all the ocean rescuing, and I got my foot caught and I struggled a bunch and sorta kinda almost drowned…"

"Kara!" Lena yells, slapping at Kara's legs through the netting.

"Hey, I am weak right now, woman! That means no hitting!"

"Sorry, I'll hit you when you feel better."

"... thanks, I guess? Anyways, obviously I'm fine, Ar-Aquaman saved me. Even brought me back here! He's a nice dude."

"If your friend rescued you and dropped you off, why are you still wrapped up in a fishing net?"

"..."

"Kara?"

"Okay, so he's not that nice: he said he thought it'd be funny."

Lena snorts, grinning victoriously as she finally cuts the last bit of the net free, moving to her feet just in time to catch Kara as she staggers forward. "Hey there, Supergirl, take it easy."

"'m tired," Kara murmurs, soaked to the bone and shivering in Lena's firm embrace. "And cold."

Lena tucks a lank lock of hair behind her ear and presses a kiss to her forehead. "Okay. How about the world's hottest bath to warm up and scrub the ocean off of you, and then bed?"

Kara hums in agreement, stumbling a bit as Lena half-carries her off to the en suite, leaving the very heavy fishing net on the kitchen floor to worry about later.

Lena starts the hot water running in her ridiculous, amazing pool/tub before they work together to strip Kara out of her suit (and with as clingy as the material is when it's not soaking wet, that's no mean feat). Finally free of her suit, Kara trips her way into the tub, and when Lena moves to pick up the shopping wet cape, she pouts and makes grabby hands at her. "Please?"

Lena shakes her head, chuckling at her utter inability to say no to Kara ever, before stripping out of her own clothes and lowering herself into the scalding hot water.

"Mmmm," Kara hums happily, wrapping Lena up with arms and legs. "Much better."

"I'm gonna boil alive in here," Lena laughs, dropping her head back onto Kara's shoulder. "This is how I die- turned into soup in my own bathtub."

Kara giggles, nosing at Lena's neck. "My favorite soup." Lena can feel the smile that spreads across Kara's face. "Makes sense, since you're already my favorite thing to ea-"

"No," Lena says firmly (though it's undercut by her smile), clapping a wet hand over Kara's mouth and sloshing some water over the side of the tub. Kara's eyes are squinty and twinkly as Lena feels a trail of wet heat across her palm. She recoils on instinct. "Did you just lick me?"

Kara shrugs with a devilish smile. "You usually respond better when I lick you."

"Oh god," Lena laughs. "You know, I got in here to help you feel better but I think all you wanted was to make terrible sex jokes."

"And for you to be naked," Kara corrects. "That part was very important to me, and it is definitely making me feel better."

"You're a scoundrel," Lena tells her, dropping a quick kiss to her lips before settling down again. 

"I know. Don't tell anyone else, though. I have an image to maintain."

"Noted."

It's quiet for a bit as they just take break, soaking (or boiling) and enjoying each other's company before finally, Lena speaks. 

"I can't believe Aquaman's real name is Arthur," she mutters. "Just... what a nerdy name."

18. do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) tell us about them

actually most of the reason ch2 of give me mercy no more took forever to appear was because i initially was going to write (and did basically write 10k of) kara and lena as being trapped TOGETHER by lex’s evil plans instead of kara alone. i was having an absolute ball writing all sorts of imprisoned-and-forced-to-talk-to-each-other angst but it didn’t end up making sense w lex’s motivations so i scrapped it, but i still think it would have been a cool exploration

20. tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

I would prefer to write in google docs because it’s so easy, but I usually wind up starting at a blank screen for three weeks until I open a notebook and then all the words come spilling out. It’s an exercise in stubbornness, truly

85. fairy tales or mythology?

23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?

Oh wow, well, that would be my original idea, which is roughly 9 years in the making, and I am working to outline into a trilogy with one short story that fits (sort of) between the second and third books.