Work Text:
Lena pushed up her black-rimmed nerd glasses as she skimmed down her AP Biology 2 notes in the library on her college campus. It was quiet and late at night, giving her the library pretty much to herself to study, minus the media center specialist and a couple other students who were cramming for their exams in the next week. Exams week sucked.
She tugged her jacket closer to bundle herself in comfort as she yawned, threading her fingers through her hair messily to one side before slumping against her fist, closing her eyes for a minute. Her brain needed a rest from all the mitochondria floating around the pages.
When she heard a small clink on the wooden table, she opened one eye and saw a large to-go coffee cup on her left to where her notes were. "I don't know why you're studying, you've got this in the bag." Strong arms wrap around Lena from behind, making her chuckle at the action.
"It's not for you, it's for me."
"Wait, were we supposed to have a study session?"
"No, darling," Lena says as she reaches up and rubs the side of her girlfriend's short hair affectionately, scratching lightly at her scalp that was exposed from the beanie on top of her head. "I'm just making sure you and Nia— who's probably hiding in the shadows like a wimp—"
"I am no wimp, Lena Luthor."
She snorts, tilting her head back to smile at her. "I'm just making sure that I know everything so that when you two show up eventually, I can help you accordingly." Kara kisses her forehead, making her match her idiot-in-love smile with that head-over-heels look on her face. "So this is a study session, I guess."
"I was trying to go to a party, but someone—" Kara tickled her sides and Lena squealed when she peppered her face in kisses "—stole my varsity jacket."
Lena buries herself in what is indeed Kara's number two green and white varsity jacket when Kara lets her go and sits next to her. "It has your scent, it's comfy, and I like it."
Kara grins when she sees her last name on the back of her jacket. "Yeah, you look cute in it. Nia's nowhere as cute as you are in varsity jackets."
"Hey, your girlfriend has the same reasons I have," Nia says, coming from the shelves with a fiction book and sitting across from them. "So back off." Nia was in number nineteen's, Dox on the backstitched in.
Kara grins when her hat is snatched off her head but she snatches it back out of Alex's hands. She and Kelly walk over hand-in-hand, Kelly in Alex's varsity jacket.
Her sister scoffs. "What is this, varsity nerd night?"
"Alex is a jock and nerd in one, so it fits," Kelly teases, sitting at the end of the table with her.
"Oh, hush," she says with a playful shove to where her own number eighteen was on the sleeve. "No one's supposed to know."
"Yet the whole gang does." Everyone turns to look and gape at Winn and Brainy as they bring in four pizza boxes.
"Winn, how did you even get that in here?"
"I have some magical ways," he teases, setting down the boxes in the middle of the table.
"He keeps saying that even though there is no such thing as magic," Brainy comments.
"Stop killing the mood," he whines.
"He had help from the rich redhead." Maggie and Kate came in with takeout bags. Behind them, Imra, Lucy, Vazquez, and Mike with drinks, fries, burgers, Tex Mex, it was a feast. Most of them were in their varsity gear, too; Vasquez had Lucy's number eighty-one jacket on, Maggie and Kate wearing matching snapbacks, and Imra had on Mike's number seventeen jacket and a school beanie.
"Have I mentioned I love my rich friends?" Nia asked aloud. "'Cause I really do."
Maggie scoffed playfully. "Yeah, us lesser class pitched in, too."
"Regardless, I love you all."
"Agreed," Kara murmured to Lena, kissing her smiling face. "So, food then study? 'Cause we all need our carbs for our game tomorrow."
Lena rolled her eyes and kissed her cheek. "Fine. Wouldn't want you to pass out on the field, would we?"
"Especially at the championships," Alex added, grabbing a milkshake and handing it to her girlfriend, getting a kiss on the temple in thanks and making her grin. "We're definitely getting it against Metropolis."
"I love Sam and Lois, but they're going down," Maggie said, getting the others to agree with her in small cheers.
Lena gets pulled onto Kara's lap after she stood up to reach for her own drink and she sighs. "We're probably not going to get any studying in, are we?"
"It was really funny that you thought all of us together that we would actually get something done." The brunette shakes her head with a grin, straw poking between her set of teeth as she did so.
"All of you will be the death of me."
"Yeah, that's the ideal way to go," Kara said with a smile, beaming when she got a kiss.