Lena was completely stunned at what she found. She'd walked around a bit looking for Stef after she'd had some time to cool down. She'd checked the pool, the gym and the beach and then headed to the bar. She expected to find Stef there but she hadn't expected to find her with her face buried in some woman's naked crotch.

"Stef?" Lena said questioningly, still unable to process what she was seeing.

"Lena!" Stef smiled excitedly as she looked up from her task at the sound of her name. "Come join us."

Lena had absolutely no idea how to respond. She was too shocked to even form words. Somewhere in the back of her mind her brain managed to register that Stef was drunk and cheating on her and with no control over her mind or body Lena turned around and walked away.

She headed straight for their room and began throwing her things into the one overnight bag that they had brought with them, tossing anything of Stef's out in the process. She was too mad and too hurt to care about anything besides getting away from her wife. As Lena zipped up the bag she covered her hand protectively over her belly wondering what was to become of their life. Things hadn't been completely great between them lately but never in her wildest dreams had she ever imagined Stef doing something like this to her.

Just the though brought forth another wave of anger and Lena quickly picked up the bag, grabbed the car keys from where Stef had left them and drove home. She didn't bother to tell Stef she was leaving or leave a note or even pay for the room - Stef could deal with all that. The only thing she could think about was what she saw and what she was going to tell the kids for even in her state of shock she knew that questions would be asked when she showed up at home, late at night without Stef.

Lena reached home just before midnight and before she got out of the car she could already tell that something had happened - every light was on in the house, there was a bit of trash littered across the yard and she could see the kids moving about in the living room.

None of the kids noticed when the front door opened - they were all too busy trying to figure out what to do with the window. Jesus and Mariana were busy cleaning up the back yard with Matt's help while the other three kids and Wyatt were doing the living room. When the door opened not one of them looked up thinking that it was just one of the twins but it was Jude who finally noticed Lena standing at the entrance to the livingroom with her mouth hanging open and her face still streaked with dried up tears.

"Mom!" Jude said, causing the others to look up too.

"Mom." Brandon repeated, for lack of something better to say. "What... what are you doing back?" He asked, wondering how they were going to explain the trashed up house and worse, the broken window.

Lena just shook her head in disbelief as she glanced around the room and then back at the four teens staring nervously at her.

"Wait, are you okay?" Callie asked, suddenly noticing the tear marks on Lena's face. "Where's Stef?" She asked, more worried about what had happened to them rather than how to explain the house.

The reminder suddenly brought Lena back to reality as a look of anger crossed her face. Not only was she angry with Stef but on top of that she had been right - the kids did have a party and that only angered Lena more. Without a word to anyone she began to climb the stairs, leaving her bag at the bottom, afraid to carry it up herself.

The four kids looked around at each other wondering what had happened and what to do about it when Callie finally sighed. "I'll go." She said, realizing that being the only girl in the room it was best if she went to find out.

They stood still for another few moments until Brandon looked out the broken window to see if Stef was sitting in the car. But it was dark so he couldn't really see clearly but he was certain that Stef wasn't in there. 'What had happened?' He wondered, just like everyone else in the room.

Stef groggily woke up and looked around. She couldn't figure out quite where she was. She was on some sort of couch she gathered but where and why were completely lost on her. The room was dark and stuffy, like there was no central air or windows and it smelt of stale alcohol and oil. Suddenly Stef's began to remember little bits and pieces - alcohol, she'd been drinking last night. She tried to remember why she'd been drinking so much and gradually she remembered her fight with Lena and her need to get some space.

She carefully got off the couch and realized she was in a storage room with all the spare bottles and chips. There was one small window that was closed and she realizd why she found it so stuffy. As she stood up her head began to throb and she wondered just how much she'd actually had to drink. Obviously enough to have kept her from going back to her room. She wondered how she'd made it to this couch as well and figured the bar man probably didn't know who she was so set her up here.

She made her way to the front of the bar and found it absolutely empty. Once again she wondered who had just left her here like this, completely unattended. The cop in her couldn't help but wonder what would happen had she been an alcoholic or a thief and was left amongst all this unguarded alcohol.

She cautiously opened the bar door, knowing the bright daylight would hurt her already throbbing head but she knew she had to do it - she wanted to get back to her room and talk to Lena who, no doubt, would be upset that she never made it back to the room last night.

Stef took a deep breath, marched herself as fast as her head and unsteady legs would allow to their room and knocked. She waited a minute before knocking again and then tried the knob, surprised to find it unlocked. She figured Lena had gone to breakfast or was perhaps looking around for her. But a quick glance around the room told her that something more had happened for all she could see were her own clothes strewn around the room and not a single item of Lena's too be found. Stef frowned as she headed to the window to see if she could spot their car and sure enough it was missing. Stef suddenly felt a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach as she sat down on the edge of the bed, trying to remember exactly what had happened the night before.

Authors Note:

It's not normal for me to put author's notes in the middle of stories but there are just a few points I want to make.

1. I don't know squat about any date-rape drugs so I may be making a ton of mistakes and for that I apologize. I am getting some help as I mentioned before but still, any errors are mine.

2. I'm pregnant myself so, to the person who requested Lena going into premature labour, I'm sorry I just can't bare to do that. The baby is obviously not viable yet so I can't just kill it off - call it pregnancy hormones.

3. I'm not too thrilled with this chapter (which is why it's so short) but I'll get more like myself once the actual story starts :).

Thanks for all the support and reviews. Even the person who religiously reads my stuff even when they absolutely hate it - it's very flattering.

Enjoy.

Love Junebug.