The return of Callie ch 1
Stef got off the phone both relieved and worried. She decided she was going to wait until everybody got home to tell the news. Callie had been found in Los Angeles, California. Stef was worried because although Callie had been found alive she was beaten up and bruised all over her body. She had an idea of who might have done this to Callie, he moved there after the trial, that's where he went to college. But again she would wait until tonight to tell Lena and the others.
When Lena got home she noticed her wife Stef was not herself
"What's wrong"
"I have some news but we need to wait until everybody gets home". Lena was a little perplexed at this but didn't ask any more questions.
Brandon was driving home, thinking about Callie and why she left. He was also thinking about Jude who would barely glance at him. He wished Callie hadn't left, though he thought he understood her reasons. She left because if my moms found out what we did then she and Jude would get kicked out of the house, and that was why Jude wasn't talking to him too and why he couldn't answer everybody's questions on why would Callie leave. Brandon sighed as he turned into the driveway. When he walked into the house he heard his mom say
"Who is home?"
"It's Brandon!" Answered Brandon as he put his bag down, I wonder what mom is doing home.
"Come sit in the living room we need to have a family meeting." Brandon sat and started texting.
Jesus and Lexi were walking down the beach holding hands when Jesus got a text from Brandon telling him to come home ASAP he made a quick reply asking why and got an immediate reply to that. Lexi looked at him with a question in her face
"Stef and Lena want me home for a family meeting, I don't know why but Brandon thinks it might be about Callie."
"Let me come with you!" Jesus nodded and together they headed back to the Fosters.
Mariana was with Jude helping him with his math homework. She noticed that ever since Callie left Jude started hanging out with her a lot. She didn't mind, Jude was a good kid, but it made her sad to think that he had lost the one person who made him feel safe. Her phone buzzed in her pocket, she took it out and looked at a text message from Brandon. "Pack up your stuff we gotta go home. Family meeting. She left out the part about Brandon thinking that it has something to do with Callie because she didn't want to get his hopes up. Jude looked confused but he did as he was told.
When everybody was home Stef gathered them in the living room.
"A few hours ago, I got a phone call from an old friend of mine who works in LA, California. She told me that a girl matching Callie's age and description was found dumped on the side of the road, she was admitted to the hospital." Stef was about to say more when Brandon interrupted, "what happened to her?" Stef took a moment before replying.
"Callie was attacked, raped and beaten to an inch of her life." Stef looked around the room. Jude and Mariana looked shocked, Brandon had his head in his hands, Lena and Lexi were crying and Jesus was comforting her.
"I'm having Callie transferred to the same hospital where I got treated, she should be there in a few days. Meanwhile I am going to do everything I can to find her attacker." Everybody slowly left the room quietly, all in shock or scared for Callie.
The next day Brandon was walking to class when Thalia came up behind him
"Why didn't you answer my text messages and why are Mariana and Lexi acting differently?" to get his ex girlfriend to shut up he explained the situation
"They found Callie barely alive because she was beaten and raped by some perp. Thalia was surprised and a little flustered.
"I hope that she will be ok." said Thalia.
"I have to get to class." And he went off in the opposite direction that Thalia was headed in. At the end of the day Brandon noticed that at least Thalia had kept what he told her to herself.
The next day Callie was transferred and Stef went to visit her, Brandon wanted to go too but Lena didn't want to let any of the kids miss a day of midterms.
Callie woke up in a new white room and noticed Stef was standing at the foot of her bed. She was still in a lot of pain and couldn't move.
"Do you know who did this to you?" She nodded and tried to speak but Stef interrupted her,
"Was it Liam?" Callie nodded again but didn't try to speak.
"Don't worry Callie that son of a bitch is going to jail for the rest of his life!" Callie then fell asleep and was grateful that the painkillers were working. When she woke up again she saw Brandon sitting beside her bed. He looked at her,
"Why did you leave?"She avoided the question
"Where's Stef?"
"She went with my dad to LA to try and find Liam." Callie was happy at this, because she was tired of being scared of Liam especially since he landed her here.
"Where's Jude?"
"Taking an art midterm, I'm the only person not in school today because my music excuses me from taking an art class." Callie kept thinking about how she needed to explain to Jude why she left. Brandon seemed to read her mind
"Jude knows why." Callie noticed that he wasn't happy
"I'm sorry for leaving, Brandon."
"At the wedding when we..." He stopped when he heard footsteps. Lena walked in
"Hey Callie how are you?"
"I'm gonna get something to eat." He left the room to let them talk because he knew that Lena had some questions for Callie.
When Lena walked into the room she saw that Brandon and Callie were talking but she didn't want to eavesdrop so she waited until they had reached a stopping point and then walked in. Her heart broke like it did when she first saw Callie that day at the juvenile detention center. But today Callie looked a lot worse. Lena remembered when she spoke to the doctor outside. He had told her that the range of Callie's injuries suggested that she was held against her will and tortured and raped for days on end before she was finally dumped like trash a block from the hospital. This kind of thing made Lena so mad! Who would want to treat someone like Callie like this? She knew Stef had an idea of whom and was on her way to find him.
"Did the doctor say when I can leave?" This brought Lena out of her mind Lena told her
"Maybe in a few days, we need to wait for your X-rays to come back to know for sure."
Stef was also thinking about past conversations. One was with Wyatt, whom she called about Callie. She was just following another lead of where Callie might have gone. Wyatt informed her that Callie had hitched a ride with him. He had tried to get her to go home but when he saw her walking along the street headed for a bus stop he picked her up. He was headed to Indiana, Callie had left him along the way, she said she had a friend nearby who she wanted to see. She told him to go on without her. He hadn't seen her since. Stef decided to call Wyatt again as Mike was driving. Wyatt picked up at the second ring. "Hey Wyatt we found Callie she was kidnapped and tortured for days on end." Wyatt took a moment to digest this news
"Is she going to be ok?"
"She will be."
"Was it Liam, that prick who hurt her before?"
"That's what Callie told me" Liam went quiet for a minute; Stef could tell that he was trying not to lash out in anger.
"Thank you for calling, I was really worried about her."
"No problem." And she hung up. Stef saw that they still had a few hours to go before reaching LA and decided to sleep.