Stef and Lena find out about Callie and Brandon's intimacy and give them an ultimatum.

(A short story where Stef finds out about Callie and Brandon having sex and Callie realizes it was a mistake. I can't stand Braille and I really hope the show finds a way to drop it completely. They did it, they stretched it, now they are just rubbing it too far.)

"Callie and AJ do make a cute couple." Lena said as she watched the two kids through the kitchen window.

"They do." Stef agreed, turning to look where her wife was looking.

"He's a good kid." Lena observed of the boy in question.

"He's so excited to go to San Fransisco." Stef said. "And I think Mike is just as excited to take him." She laughed.

"It's nice that Mike is giving this talk." Lena said, feeling oddly proud of her wife's ex-husband. "He's really come a long way."

"Yeah." Stef agreed, smiling at how much her ex-husband had struggled to get to where he is. "He's earned it."

"It'll be good for him." Lena added. "He seems to do well when he has someone else to take care of."

"I doubted it when he started helping Ana out, but he proved me wrong." Stef stated humbly. "These kids need a role model and Mike's good."

"AJ seems to think so." Lena said as she finished pouring herself a bowl of cereal.

"Right now, I don't think AJ can think at all." Stef laughed, watching the boy and her daughter make out as though they were never going to see each other again, unaware of the dirty look she was getting from her eldest son.

The two finished getting their breakfasts together and joined their oldest and youngest sons at the table.

"So what's on the agenda for today?" Stef asked one of the only two kids in the house, the other still currently occupied out back.

"Just hanging around here." Brandon shrugged, trying to avoid staring out the window at the couple still glued at the lips.

"I'm taking Callie down to school with me." Lena said between bites of cereal. "She wants to use the photo lab for the twin's party pictures and then she said she'd help me get the groceries."

"That sounds like fun." Stef smiled, glad that her wife was getting some one on one time with their newest daughter.

"It will be, if I can pry them apart." Lena laughed, turning to watch the two still making out.

"They're young and in love, leave em be." Stef said, remembering the days when that was Lena and her.

"She definitely has good taste." Lena teased. "If I were seventeen and straight, I might have fought her for him."

"Hey, you didn't see me at seventeen." Stef pointed out proudly as she teased Lena back.

"Oh, I'd pick you over anyone any day." Lena assured with a grin, boosting her wife's ego.

"You'd better." Stef warned playfully.

"They'd make cute babies though." Lena laughed, turning her attention back to the couple and imagining a brood of little Callie's and AJ's running around the house.

"Please, let's not give them any ideas." Stef said. "One pregnancy scare was plenty." She recalled Mariana's close call.

Lena laughed, she occasionally loved working her wife up. She would become all flustered and Lena loved to watch her squirm and she'd been so tense and serious lately that it was nice to finally be able to just joke with her and make her laugh.

"Well, we'll give Romeo and Juliet over there another couple of minutes and then we really have to leave." Lena said, pointing to the two still outside.

"Please, they are anything but Romeo and Juliet." Brandon mumbled in disgust. Callie was definitely Juliet but AJ wasn't Romeo - no, Brandon was supposed to be Romeo.

"What was that?" Stef asked, frowning at her son.

"Nothing." Brandon snapped, getting up to dump his bowl in the sink and go upstairs.

"Hey." Stef called him back. She had a feeling of what her son was so upset about but she wanted to be sure.

"What?" Brandon asked in annoyance as he spun around to face her.

"Tone it down please." Stef said warningly. "Want to tell me what's going on?" She asked, afraid that her son hadn't fully gotten over his crush on Callie.

"Nothing." Brandon spat. "I'm just sick of watching them and hearing about them and listening to them." He ranted, pointing outside.

"Well, I'm sorry but you're going to have to get used to seeing her with him." Stef said flatly, hoping that over time he'd get over all this.

"It's not like she's in love with him." Brandon scoffed with a disgusted laugh.

"Maybe, but she will fall in love one day and you need to accept that Brandon, don't ruin everything we have over a crush." Lena said, hoping to make him see reason..

"It's not a crush, we're in love." Brandon corrected, forgetting that he was supposed to keep quiet about it.

None of the three noticed AJ finally leave and Callie head back towards the kitchen just in time to hear her brother.

"BRANDON!" Stef yelled in anger. She knew her son had been hurt by his feeling for the girl but she honestly thought it was all over and they had moved past it.

But by now Brandon had accepted the fact that he'd said too much and wasn't going to stop until he'd made his feelings perfectly clear. He'd kept it all bottled up for far too long and now that he'd opened that can of worms, he was just going to let them all loose.

Callie couldn't believe what she was hearing and before she could try and stop him, Brandon just said the words she hoped would never be spoken.

"It's true." Brandon said with just as much force as Stef. "We love each other and we're committed to each other."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Stef asked with an uncontrollable fire in her eyes. She knew what it meant. It was crystal clear what it meant but a very small, very optimistic part of her hoped like hell that she was wrong.

"We had sex okay." Brandon said, eyeing Callie for a moment, trying to judge her reaction.

Stef and Lena both looked between the two in absolute shock. They couldn't believe this was happening and they'd had absolutely no clue about it.

"When?" Stef asked in horror, ignoring the apologetic look Brandon was giving Callie and the terrified one Callie was giving back. "When did the two of you have sex?" She asked in slight disgust.

"Um..." Brandon swallowed thickly. Suddenly his determination and bravado had disappeared. His mother was looking at him with daggers, his other mother looked so worried and worst of all, the love of his life looked terrified.

"WHEN?" Stef bellowed, turning to Callie for an answer since her son didn't seem to be giving her one.

"Stef." Lena said gently, hoping to calm her down a little. She'd never seen the woman this angry and while she herself was angry and upset she knew she had to reign it all in, for everyone's sake.

But that just added more fuel to the fire for Stef instantly turned to face her wife. "Do you get what they are saying?" She asked in terrified surprise. "Do you understand what this means Lena?"

Lena had no response for she did know what it meant and she was just as angry and worried as her wife and while she had better control of it - she didn't fault Stef for her reaction. It seemed as though their entire family was falling apart right in front of them and there was nothing anyone could do about it.