9A/N: This is going to be three chapters long and the last chapter is Sanvers! More pick-up lines for you!
Lena can't keep it together long enough to propose to her girlfriend-
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Chapter One: Luthor in need
Lena is in front of the mirror, where she's been for a good half an hour. She's holding a hand behind her back while her other one fidgets with the bottom of her blouse.
"Kara, love, will you marry me?"
She shakes her head and lets out a stressed grunt. She runs a hand through her hair, looks at the mirror again and tries another time.
"Kara Danvers Zor El, I love you and I really want to wake up to your smile every morning of my life. Will you do me the honour of marrying me?"
Again, she shakes her head and releases a small frustrated scream.
She turns to the mirror casually and throws the sentence at her own image, "Kara, would you marry me?" she grins slightly and winks. Then her expression falls once again and she lowers herself to the ground groaning. She will never get this right.
Is there even a right way to ask someone like Kara to marry someone like her?
And then, even if she does get this right, what if Kara says no?
Oh god, what if Lena ruins everything proposing to Kara when the blonde is not ready to take that step? What if Kara doesn't want to ever take that step with her? What if Kara doesn't even mean for their relationship to last that long?
Damn, what if Kara hates marriage? What if on Krypton there was a totally different tradition? What if-
The doorbell saves Lena from going into full panic mode. When she opens the door Maggie flashes her a grin, shoves a couple of beers in her arms and steps inside.
"Maggie, hi! Thank you so much for coming here on such short notice", Lena greets her as she tries to get a grip on the beers and close the door.
"No problem, gotta look out for Little Danvers and her girl", she sends Lena another grin and sits at the counter in Lena's kitchen. "You said it was about Kara?" she beckons Lena closer and snatches back a beer before standing and walking around the kitchen to find a corkscrew.
When she turns around Lena is handing her one and nervously drinking from her beer.
"Okay, what's going on here? You don't drink beer, what's happening?"
Lena makes a face as she tastes the bitter liquid in her mouth, but she doesn't bother exchanging it for a glass of wine. "Why did you bring it then?"
Maggie shrugs, "You never have any and I can definitely drink more than one" she winks.
"I'm not giving it back", is Lena's reply as she takes another huge sip.
The detective laughs and nods, "Alright, what's got you so nervous and tense?"
Lena takes an exaggerated breath and then blurts it out, "I want to ask Kara to marry me".
Maggie almost spits some beer out. She coughs a little before speaking, "You're going to propose?!"
"Yes? But not if I can't solve this! What do I say? How do I do it? When do I do it! What if she says no! What if I make a fool of myself! Oh god, what if I'm so nervous I can't even ask her and then I get awkward and chicken out? What if I'm so bad she thinks I'm breaking up with her and-"
Lena is saved yet again by Maggie as the cop bursts out laughing.
"Smooth, Luthor, smooth".
"Sawyer! I need help here! I'm freaking out!" Lena takes another gulp of beer and revels in the disappointing taste.
"Okay, okay, calm down Lena. Kara will not be impressed if you choke on that beer before you even give her the chance to say yes". Maggie is still laughing but she controls herself enough to tuned it down to smiling hugely at the red-faced brunette who looks constantly on the verge of a panic attack. "Though Alex would find it hilarious".
Lena glares at her and Maggie raises her hands up in surrender.
"Are you gonna show me the ring, Luthor?"
Lena chuckles nervously, "I didn't know what she might like", she says as she retrieves the small box from her pocket. "In the end I turned to Alex for help. I still don't know if Kara will like it, but… well… it is a special ring, so at least it will serve a purpose" she catches herself before starting to ramble uncontrollably.
Maggie pouts, "So I'm not the first one who finds out about this?"
Lena chuckles, "Sorry, I thought the sister kinda had a right to know first", Lena shrugs apologetically.
Maggie smiles, "It's alright. I'll need to have a talk with Alex, though. I can't believe she didn't tell me!"
Lena chuckles again, nervously. "Yeah well… I kind of didn't want anyone to know because I was too afraid Kara would say no", she pauses, "I still kind of am". She sighs, "but I hadn't realised how much help it requires to plan a proposal. I thought I could totally handle it, I mean how difficult could it be? I'm a Luthor, I'm supposed to be good at choosing fancy rings and planning moves. And I'm supposed to be able to do all of that with style and with a clear head. Instead I am fucking losing my shit!"
She's gone into full ramble, Maggie thinks Kara might have rubbed off on her. Oh, they definitely rubbed off on each other, she smirks, her thoughts taking a turn for the worse. Alex would hate the joke, she'd be freaking out telling Maggie that she most certainly doesn't need to picture that about her sister!
"Lena!" she exclaims at some point during the brunette's ramble. "Calm down, for your girlfriend's sake, and open the box".
Lena finally looks up at the other woman and nods, taking a breath and eventually lifting the box's lid with care.
Inside something sparkles and Maggie breaks out into a huge grin as she looks up to Lena before looking back down at the ring, her gaze shifting between them for some time.
"Lena, it's beautiful", she says softly.
"Well, I do hope Kara likes it, although its beauty is not the main point… I mean… it has kind of a purpose, that's also something Alex helped a lot with." Lena smiles at herself, thinking back to when she asked Alex for help.
"You're crazy, Luthor. What you want to do is very likely impossible" Kara's sister told her, arms crossed and eyes serious. "I'm in", a blink of an eye later she was smiling widely, beaming at Lena and excitedly guiding her to the lab. Then, just as suddenly, she turned, stopping Lena in her tracks and almost making her stumble into Alex. "I swear to Carrie Fisher, if you end up hurting my sister I'm going to..." and she proceeded to threaten Lena with horrible consequences, some of which made her laugh, and some of which made her shake just a little. In the end, Alex's help was fundamental to her success. The ring should perfectly serve its purpose.
"Lena?"
"Huh?" Lena is brought back to the present as Maggie reaches out to touch her arm.
The cop chuckles, "where did you just go, Luthor?"
Lena smiles and shakes her head. "Nowhere. So, do you think Kara will like it?"
Maggie laughs, "Lena, it's lovely".
"Yeah, but… do you think she will like it? I mean… It couldn't be very elaborate, it needed to be simple and comfortable enough in case she ever has to fight with it on. But I didn't want it to be lame or common or too simple. But then again, Kara is the simplest beauty in the world and she's so perfect. I kinda wanted it to be a little like her, simple maybe, but beautiful and special and… and I'll stop talking now."
"God, Kara's a bad influence on me" she says under her breath, but Maggie catches it and laughs at her.
"Yeah, but you're almost as cute as she is when you ramble", Maggie comforts her.
Lena frowns at her, then, when Maggie assures her Kara will love the ring, she remembers her panic and gets back to freaking out.
"Maggie, you have to help me! How do I ask her? And when? And WHERE? Do I do it at a fancy restaurant? Do I plan a romantic date under the stars? What do I do?"
"Get it together, Luthor", Maggie refrains from laughing again and instead stands up and walks up to Lena.
"It's gonna be fine".
Lena shakes her head, "It is not if I kneel and look at her like a fish with my mouth open and without uttering a word!"
"Hey, if nothing else comes out, you can always go for 'I like your last name. Can I have it?'" Maggie winks and laughs as Lena hides her face in her hands.
"Damn it, Sawyer! I need help!" Lena cries out.
Maggie sees that she's close to the breaking point and becomes serious. "Ok, ok, let's move to the couch, shall we?"
When she manages to have Lena sit on the couch, the detective takes a last sip of her beer before setting it down on the small glass table in front of them and turning to Lena.
"So, you love Kara. I believe one normally starts with that. Then you could say something cheesy like telling her the reasons you like her and you want to spend the rest of your life with her", Maggie has her hands on Lena's arms, trying to soothe her and keep her calm.
But Lena stares at her with panic still in her eyes, "I don't want it to be lame! Kara deserves something special".
Maggie thinks about it for a while. "You know, Lena, I think Kara has enough 'special' in her life. I think she might appreciate something quite normal for once. I think she has struggled a lot to have some normality in her life and I believe it wouldn't be bad to give her that for once. Your relationship is special and wonderful and I know that Kara loves it as it is. But I know she also revels in the little things between you two. I've never seen her quite as happy as when I catch you two snuggled together on the couch watching some lame cheesy movie."
Maggie pauses to let the words sink in. "Although I've never been in your bedroom while you two were rubbing off on each other," she uses air quotes and winks here, "so that might be where she is the happiest after all." she jokes to break the emotional tension.
Lena blushes and chuckles before Maggie continues, serious once again.
"Whenever your name gets called out in a conversation, you can see that she can't hold back a small smile. It's cheesy and maybe lame, but it's beautiful.
"You're a Luthor and she's a Super, even as friends you didn't have the best odds at getting together. Your lives are both complicated, you both receive death threats as a weekly occurrence – when it's a good week. Yet, you managed to find stability and safety in each other, you managed to find your normality with each other, your rightful place. You can still find a way to have common and lame little things in your relationship, you still find the time, between fighting aliens and fighting human extremists, to enjoy simple and normal things couples do.
"I think that's something very special in itself. I think for you two the normality you found with each other is a very special gift. Maybe you should go with that when you ask her to marry you".
As Maggie finishes, Lena's eyes are a little watery and she's looking at her cop friend like she has just given her a star, or, better, the means to get Kara a star. Suddenly Lena leans in and hugs Maggie tight – another way Kara has rubbed off on her.
The brunette detective smiles into Lena's hair as she hugs her back, rubbing the other's back comfortingly. "And if you forget all of that when you're in front of her, I still think the pick-up line from earlier could do the trick".
Lena smacks her shoulder playfully but gives in to a laugh anyway.
They break the hug and Maggie smirks. "You could also go with 'Wouldn't we look cute on a wedding cake together?'"
Lena shakes her head, "I think I've had enough pick-up lines to last my entire life".