Chapter 61

"Make my wish come true. All I want for Christmas is you." Karen and Donna finished singing the last line, neither of them noticing M'gann using her telekinesis to hover a piece of mistletoe over them until it was right in front of them and Karen couldn't help but roll her eyes at her teammates, all of whom were smirking at her, even the newbies Connor, Jax, M'gann and even Kaldur.

"You know the rules girls. When two people are under the mistletoe, they have to kiss at Christmas time. Besides, you'll probably wind up thanking us for this." Jen was the one to say it.

"Well, rules are rules." Donna said, not looking all the disappointed as she and Karen proceeded to kiss, finally breaking the awkward romantic tension that they'd both felt building between them as they developed feelings for each other, though they'd both been too afraid to risk their friendship to act on their feelings, but now, this felt very right and they both regretted waiting so long and needing their friends to push them to do it.

"Okay, that's enough. Even Amazons and Kryptonians need to breathe." Diana was the one to say, only to be stunned when her little sister flipped her off without breaking from the kiss with Karen, causing Clark and Anissa to laugh.

"Should we do what ma and pa did whenever Lana and I got a bit carried away around here when we were their age?" Clark asked, since Lois was not the jealous type and she was good friends with Lana Lang.

"I'll get the hose." Martha said with a grin.

"Allow me." Kaldur said as he pulled out his water bearers and used them like water guns to hose the new couple down until they broke apart.

"Oh you are so going to pay for that." Karen said as the rest of the team burst out laughing at the fact that she and Donna were now soaking wet.

"Zatanna, would you mind before Karen roasts Kaldur?" Diana asked, though she was trying to stifle her own chuckles at her little sister's predicament.

"On it. Yrd ffo neraK dna annoD." Zatanna said and in a puff of smoke, Karen and Donna were both dry.

"Thank you Zatanna." Donna said.

"And where's our thank you for pulling you guys out of your denial, since it was driving all of us insane?" Tim asked.

"I'll thank you by not putting you all through your paces during our next training session." Karen said, since one of the perks of her position as the leader of what they'd dubbed as Young Justice, was that she could control, to an extent, training for the team, though any member of the Justice League could overrule her. Her authority was second to them.

"You're welcome." Stephanie said with a smirk.

"Tim and Stephanie are the only members of our team who have the right to be smirking, since they're already together. Karen and I can return the favor to the rest of you." Donna said, since they weren't the only ones on this team who'd been in denial.

"Still, totally worth it." Jen said.

"Can't argue with that." Karen admitted as she wrapped her arm around her new girlfriend's waist.

"You do know that we have to inform Kara of this development, since you'll need to prove that your relationship won't affect your ability to work together and Karen, you'll need to prove that your relationship won't hinder your ability to lead your team. Prove that you can put the good of the team over your relationship. A team is only as good as its leader." Diana said.

"I know. And I'm prepared to prove that I can balance that life." Karen said.

"Good. Now, let's get back to this party." Donna said and Karen nodded as the party resumed as Zatanna took over the entertainment with a display of magic for the younger kids, conjuring up fireworks and other shiny affairs.

Later on that night, Karen had decided to end the party by making sure that there was one more winter phenomenon that every member of her team needed to experience.

S'mores. Which was why she was currently helping Clark set up wood for a fire while the others pulled up benches and got bundled up, since it was so cold outside the barn that it was lightly snowing. Not that Clark, Diana, Karen, Connor, Donna or M'gann were really affected by the temperature, but it was only right to dress for the weather with the others.

"Thanks again for helping me with this. Not only was it a good team building exercise, but Donna and I are finally a couple, since I wasn't sure what it would take to get one of us to crack. Now we just need to get Connor and M'gann to realize they have feelings for each other." Karen said to Clark, since that was the only other pairing that Clark was interested in.

"One thing at a time. Connor and M'gann are still getting to know each other, not to mention while you and Donna both live in National City, M'gann lives there too and Connor lives here in Smallville. It's a bit trickier for them, but if it's meant to be, they'll figure it out. And so will Jen and Jax, since I can see you plotting to get them together too. You can't force these things Karen. They have to happen naturally. Just like you and Donna did." Clark said.

"True. But it's nice to get together in a normal scene instead of needing to wear our supersuits." Karen said and Clark smiled.

"That we agree on. I think that Kara's trying to implement something similar for the League to help with team building." Clark said as Jon walked up to them.

"Dad, can we get started before Jordan eats all the chocolate." Jon asked his father.

"Just Jordan?" Clark asked, raising an eyebrow at his oldest child, since Jon was 10 minutes older than Jordan.

"Maybe." Jon admitted, right before he sneezed due to the cold, shocking everyone, including himself, when bright red laser beams fired out of his eyes, conveniently setting the firepit Clark and Karen had set up on fire.

"Did he just?" Karen asked her cousin, who nodded.

"It looks like I'm going to need to take the kids to the Fortress tomorrow to run tests on them to track the development of powers." Clark said, though he was proud of the fact that it looked like his son had inherited his powers, since he wanted to be able to share his kryptonian heritage with his children beyond the records in the fortress.

"But for now, it's S'more time." Karen said.

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