This had been in my head for a while. It will be a two or three shot.

Stef and Lena had planned this trip to the waterpark for over 6 months and it was finally here. Lena and the kids were all on spring break and Stef had managed to get 4 days off of work. They all piled into their van and made the two hour trip to a great and much needed break.

The first two days were spent sight-seeing, much to Lena's happiness. She didn't want her children to spend the entire time lying in bed or watching T.V.

However, the last full day of their break, the kids, and Stef, pleaded to spend the bulk of the day at the gigantic waterpark. Lena smiled at her children, and wife, and agreed. She was just happy to have all of her babies with her, she knew that there would be few more chances for a full family vacation and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.

So, to everyone's pleasure, the family woke up on their third day of vacation, packed up for the afternoon, and headed to the waterpark.

Mariana had immediately found a spot to work on her tan. Claiming that she could not go on vacation and not come back tanner than she was before. Lena, however, required sunblock on all of her children, knowing the harms of the sun. With little argument, the teen agreed and applied it before pulling out a book and settling down on a chair.

Callie took Jude down all of the slides right away. The two of them had never been to a waterpark and Callie wanted Jude to take full advantage of everything it had to offer. She knew that he had already been adopted, and he might be able to go back again with the Adam Fosters, but she didn't know if her adoption was ever going to be official, no matter how many times Stef and Lena said it would. Regardless, she wanted to spend this fun time with her brother.

Brandon and Jesus found a spot to create an obstacle course and were racing one another, something they had done anytime they were at any sort of waterpark. It didn't matter how old they were or where they were, they loved trying to beat each other, pushing one another into the water and taunting one another when one lost.

Both Stef and Lena were content with watching their children have the time of their lives, especially their two newest members. They weren't worrying about anything and were finally able to live a part of the childhood that they were robbed of so early in life.

After spending the better part of two hours in the water, Stef was sent to gather everyone while Lena took out the lunches they had packed. The boys scarfed down their food, eager to get back into the water. Brandon and Jesus wanted to get Jude in on their races and were determined to show him the best courses they had made up.

"Try tasting your food, piranhas." Stef said with a chuckle. "I worked hard on those sandwiches."

All of the kids looked at her with a look of disbelief.

"What?" She faked confusion of their looks.

"When is the last time you made a sandwich, mom?" Brandon asked with a smirk.

Stef opened her mouth in surprise. "I make them all of the time!"

"How many of those are edible?" Mariana scoffed.

All of the children stifled their laughs as Stef mock glared at her youngest daughter. "Oh you better watch it missy."

Mariana rolled her eyes with a giggle. "Or what? You'll make me a sandwich?"

Stef narrowed her eyes at the girl and placed her half-eaten sandwich down. She bent down, picked Mariana up, tossed her over her shoulder, and began walking towards the side of the pool.

"Mama!" She shrieked as Stef easily moved towards the water, the squirming of her daughter making no difference.

"Stefanie. Put our daughter down." Lena warned. She didn't think her wife would actually throw the girl in, but she didn't want to take any chances.

The blonde stopped a few feet away from the edge. "You wanna tell me what you think about my sandwiches again?" She asked.

Mariana picked her head up and looked at her siblings with a pleading look.

"Sorry. Too busy eating this edible sandwich." Jesus said with a chuckle as Mariana's jaw dropped in frustration.

"Hmmmm?" Stef asked, inching closer to the edge.

"Ok! Ok! Fine! They're amazing. Best food I've ever eaten. Ok? Now put me down or I swear..."

"You swear what?" Stef asked with a chuckle as she backed away from the water and placed the girl back down on her feet.

"I swear I'll make you eat only your sandwiches." She said with a giggle before running towards Lena and sitting on her lap, using her as a shield.

Stef narrowed her eyes and used two fingers to point at her own eyes and then at her daughter's. "This isn't over." She joked before she picked up her sandwich again.

Lena smiled at her beautiful family. She didn't think her heart could be so full and yet everything she could ever want was right there in front of her.

"Could you chew any slower?" Jesus whined at his older brother as he and Jude bounced from foot to foot waiting to go back in the water.

Stef snorted. "Slow down, speedy speedster. Spend some time with your mamas."

Jesus exhaled in frustration. "We spent the past two days with you two. There's only so much we can take of you guys."

Stef raised her eyebrows at her son. "Don't think I won't throw you in the water too."

"I'd just like to see you try." Jesus teased.

"Ok. Enough. Finish eating." She said towards her wife. "And Jesus, Jude. Sit down and wait for your brother to finish." She told her sons.

Callie sat silently, watching. She couldn't be happier that her brother had been officially adopted into such a wonderful family. She could finally breathe knowing he would have someone to take care of him for the rest of his life. And although she desperately wanted to have that same assurance, she felt like she would never catch a break. But, to Callie, none of that mattered as long as Jude was safe. She could remember all of the times that she was afraid to close her eyes, afraid to say the wrong thing, to even breathe too loud. All of those nights in those terrible homes were made up by this home. Callie was finally safe, at least for now.

"Callie?" Stef's voice broke through the teen's thoughts.

The blonde was sitting next to Callie, tilting her head to try and reach her seeming far off gaze. The boys had finished eating and were back in the water, and Stef had been calling the girl's name a few times.

"Hmm?" Callie mumbled as she looked up at her foster mother. "Sorry, what?"

Stef smiled. "Whatcha thinkin' about Slugabug?"

Callie shook her head "Just wondering which one of the boys is gonna hurl first." She said with a small smile. She didn't want to ruin this perfectly happy vacation with her petty thoughts.

Stef laughed out loud while Lena and Mariana looked disgusted.

"Come on, ladies. Let's take advantage of this beautiful day!" Stef said as she pulled Callie and Mariana up by their hands before reaching down to help her wife up.

"I wanted to tan!" Mariana whined and sat back down.

"You tan any longer and you're gonna look like one of those reality T.V. people with the foundation that is 3 shades too dark." Stef shot back as she helped Lena stand up.

"Someone has to stay with the stuff." Lena protested, not really wanting to get into the water.

"Oh come on, party poopers! We'll just go in right over there." She pointed to a spot close to their location. "We can watch our stuff while we're in the water."

Lena looked from the water to their spot. "If anything gets taken..." She began before Stef smiled and began to pull her towards the pool. She turned back to her daughters. "I will toss you both in." She said with an almost complete serious tone.

The brunettes looked at one another, got up, and made their way towards the edge of the water. They sat away from the moms and began talking about nothing in particular. Mariana was so glad she finally had someone sh could talk to about teenage girl issues. There were only so many things she would dare go to her moms about.

Stef and Lena waded in the shallow end of the pool, cooling off and keeping an eye out for their kids. Although they both knew they were all old enough to know to be extra careful, both women would rather be over cautious than find out too late that they weren't cautious enough.


"Has mom ever taught you how to do a spinning dive?' Mariana asked Callie as they both treaded water in the deeper end of the pool.

It had been about a half hour since they all got in the water and many of the other vacationeers had left, leaving much more room in the water. The boys had gotten tired of their races and joined the rest of their family in the giant pool. They begged their sisters to play games with them, but both girls knew they would most likely end up getting dunked in the water, which meant a firm no.

"Uhh don't think so." Callie said as the women were talking.

"Mom!" Mariana yelled to the blonde.

"Mariana!" Stef yelled back.

"You have to teach Callie how to do a spinning dive!" She exclaimed.

Stef smiled. She loved that her children still wanted her to teach them things and wanted to be around her. All joking aside, she really was lucky to have such wonderful children and she would do almost anything for them at the drop of a dime.

"Yeah?" She asked as she made her way over to her daughters.

Callie shrugged her shoulders. "Sure. I mean I don't know how to do a regular dive, but yeah why not?"

Stef winked at the girl. She knew Mariana wanted her to do it more than she herself wanted to, but she silently thanked her for being such a good sport about it.

"Alright, my loves. Watch and learn." She said as she got out of the water, took a few moments to check and make sure there wasn't anyone where she would be entering the water, prepped her form and pushed off the side of the pool. She spun sideways and ended up diving in stomach up instead of back up.

As she emerged from the water, her children and wife were all clapping for her. She dramatically thanked them and swam back over to her daughters. "So? Wanna try?" She asked excitedly.

Callie looked at Mariana to see what she wanted to do.

"I'm not very good, but mom's been helping me. Let's see you try it. It's fine if you can't get it on the first time. It took me forever to even get it a little right." The Latina said with a hint of sadness in her tone.

"You just gotta keep practicing, sweetheart." Lena said as she made her way over to her daughters and wife. She had gotten out and had her towel wrapped around her body while she stood on the side of the pool to talk to her family. "Do you know how long it took mom to nail down that dive?" She asked with raised eyebrows.

"Mom said it only took her a few tries!" Mariana exclaimed, looking from one mother to the other.

Lena scoffed. "Yeah, after the first few years."

Mariana looked at her mother with disbelief. "You liar!"

Stef shrugged her shoulders. "Pretty sure I told you that when you still believed everything that came out of my mouth was the truth. I think that was also around the time when I told you that your pet hamster was given to a very needy family in order to live out his life duty."

Lena chuckled. "Oh yeah, I remember that. She went around school telling everyone that her hamster was doing his duty."

"I couldn't bring myself to tell you that he died!" Stef defended her actions.

"Yeah yeah whatever." Mariana playfully rolled her eyes. "So you gonna do it?" She changed the subject and looked at Callie.

The teen bit her lip as she thought about the question. "Sure. Yeah. Let's do this." She said with more enthusiasm than she typically would and made her way out of the pool.

Mariana and Lena watched as Stef helped Callie position her feet and hold her hands in the right way. She then told her to try the regular dive before going onto the spinning dive.

It took many tries, but Callie finally got ahold of the idea of the dive. She still couldn't get it completely, but she was much better than before, especially never having don't any sort of dive prior.

By this time, Mariana had gotten out of the water and was back on her chair, using what little sun they had left to tan and finish more of her book and talk with Lena, who had also sat back down.

The boys had taken over the shallow end and were taking turns throwing each other into the deeper end- mainly taking turns throwing Jude in since he was significantly smaller than the other two.

"You've almost got it, Cal!" Stef praised as Callie's head emerged from diving in once again. The teen was tired, but she was determined to get this right. She couldn't believe how much she enjoyed simply being with Stef- sharing just this simple activity made her feel so much closer to the woman.

"You wanna take a break, babe?" Stef asked as she saw Callie breathing deeply. She knew it was taking a lot of energy to continually dive in and swim back out.

Callie shook her head no and climbed out once again. She was going to get this.

The occupancy of the pool had gone up significantly since the start of the diving lessons and Stef knew that they wouldn't have much room to continue for much longer. However, she was so happy to see Callie open up to them and act like a normal teenager, that she wanted to give the girl what she wanted. And at that moment, she wanted to dive.

Callie pulled herself up and out of the water, careful not to bump into the growing number of kids around and in the pool. She positioned herself and pushed off of the side of the pool.

Before she even made it two feet under the water, a boy jumped into the pool, not looking, and landed on Callie's head. The girl's body jolted further down and the air was suddenly pushed out of her lungs. She suddenly felt the need for oxygen, but her head was slightly spinning from being hit. She tried to swim up, but wasn't making the fast progress she needed. She started to panic.

Stef, who was watching from a couple of yards away, saw the entire incident. "Callie!" She yelled as she swam over to where she thought her daughter was.

However, it took Stef longer than she wanted to find her because of the number of people in the water. She ducked under the water and opened her eyes, scanning for the brunette. She spotted her a few feet under the water, scrambling around almost as if she didn't know which way was up. Stef went up for another breath of air before diving down towards the girl. She grabbed her by her waist and began swimming up towards the air.

As soon as they surfaced, she began to swim to the edge of the pool. She was met in the water by the lifeguard who too had seen the incident and was also trying to help the girl. Together, they reached the side of the pool and a team of lifeguards pulled Callie up and out on a backboard.

"Callie? Callie love!" Stef called out as the lifeguard looked the teen over.

"Starting compressions" was all she heard .