AN: I know right now it is a slow read and i promise it will pick up a faster pace soon. but this chapter is necessary to just show Amy and Callie's relationship which I think is needed. Thank you for reading and sticking with me. Your reviews, follows and favorites mean a lot.
Amy POV
We are driving back to precinct from the funeral. Stef was at wheel today. I kept my eyes out through the side window, I traveling in my own thoughts rather than talking with Stef. She was always delightful to talk to. I just wasn't in a mood to talk as I kept thinking about the conversation I had this morning with Callie.
"What's with you? You have been all quiet today" she asks and that takes me out of my own thoughts. I take a deep breath in and she automatically says "That bad, huh?"
"How did you-?" I turn to her and ask
Stef simply says "You have a tell," she pushes her lips together and smiles at me, after a brief moment she asks me "Is it Callie?"
My hand goes up to my forehead and I rub my brows "She wants to find her brother"
"What did you tell her?" she knew all too well about foster care, she had adopted 3 foster kids. She had 5 kids, the oldest Brandon, that Callie competed with at music school, then there were twins Jesus and Mariana, a boy, Jude, and the little one, Frankie who was just 4.
"Don't get your hopes up," I sight again and look out of the window "How can I tell her that the system doesn't want for her to know where her brother is?"
"You know as well as I do, the system sucks. Big time. It has done more bad to those kids than anything else in the world." Couldn't agree more, I think to myself, when she says that.
"What would you do?" I ask her looking to her, knowing she has adopted 3 kids of her own, fostered even more than that
"I would get the judge to get the files unsealed and tell my kid where her sibling is. Whatever it takes. If that is what she wants-" she says without thinking about it. I knew she would do anything for her family. She loved them too much, to not give them what they want or earned.
"It will take weeks! If not months!" I say frustrated, just thinking about the system, and then again glace to side window, watching the trees go by, I chuckled
"What?" Stef asks as I give out a small laugh
"She wants that as her Christmas present! I already bought her a camera! Do I bring it back? Return it? Or still give her it to her as a gift on Christmas Eve?" I chuckle again
"Keep ahold of it. You know, for rainy days!" Stef says and I know it is true.
Callie still needs a real gift. Even if it is just one. Every kid needs something they can hold in their hands for Christmas. That is under the tree. The joy of opening the present. The curiosity of what is inside. She needs that too.
When I pull up by the house I can see Callie sitting in the living room, the TV was on. I smile at how normal her life has turned out.
Flashback
2 years ago
"I will be waiting out" Aaron, my husband, says as he drops me off at the Juvenile Detention "I think I won't be longer than 40 minutes. I doubt the girl will talk"
"Well, you said you saw something in her"
"Yeah. My gut feeling was talking to me" I say looking to the fences around the building
"Your gut is right most of the time" he snickers
"Most? Of the time?" I raise my eyebrow at him
"So you won't get cocky" he says and leans to kiss me "I will be outside waiting. No matter how long"
I get out of the car and look back to see how Aaron drives to park in the parking lot, because he dropped me off right at the entrance.
I make my way in and till I even get through all the processes there are, it has already been 30 minutes. I text Aaron that I just only now got thought security and then after yet another 10 more minutes I am finally taken to the visitation room.
There are maybe just 5 other visitors. I just sit patiently waiting for the doors to open and the girl walking in. Finally the doors open and a guard is talking in the girl, dressed like all the other inmates, in blue jumpsuit.
I see her scoff and roll her eyes as she sees who her visitor is. She sits down only because she is told to. The guard walks away to the doors and looks over the room.
"Hi!" I start, but I know I won't get an answer back. Probably just more eye rolls, silence, maybe a shrug or two. If lucky a nod.
"Do you remember me?" she nods back and looks away to the window on her right
"I'm Amy. Amy Scott" she looks back not saying anything just looks to me.
"How are you doing? I mean, I know, it probably sucks…but…like, do you have everything you need, slippers, toothbrush, shower gel? Stuff like that"
She doesn't even blink at me this time
"Your bunk mate ok?" I ask what just popped in my mind trying to keep the one sided conversation going. It was pretty hard. Like talking to wall.
She shrugs this time.
"Yeah? That's good. You know, bunkmates are usually the ones you stick with"
"Really?" she asks sarcastically
"What?" I ask surprised that she spoke
"You are telling ME who to stick with. Do you not remember YOU were the one who PUT me in here in the first place!" she snapped harshly at me, grabbing the guard's attention. I show him it is ok and he walks back to doors and looks around some the room..
"You almost shattered your foster brother's leg and you damaged his car. You can't blame me for something YOU did. I just did my job!"
"Yeah, thank you for doing such great job the first time around when I called you people for help!" She snaps back at me. I was taken aback bit by her statement
"I'm DONE!" she looks back to the guard and he walks up and just takes her away. I am left sitting at the table alone. I was confused about her last sentence to me.
End of flashback
I open the front doors and call out like always "Callie I'm home!" I kick my shoes off and hear a response that comes from the living room "In here!"
I walk in to find her sitting with a pizza in front of her, big coke and the 5th Harry Potter movie "I left you some" she says pointing to pizza
"Does it have olives?" I ask falling in the couch next to her
"No. It's your favorite" Callie replies
"I taught you well!" I smile and she hands me the box that still had 3 pieces left
"Haven't you seen this one already?" I ask chewing with full mouth looking at the movie
"I was waiting for you to start the 6th one" she grins and stands up. Then walks to the TV and changes the DVD to the sixth movie.
"I bought chips too" she says and I see how she is waiting for my reaction
"Chips for supper?" I raise an eyebrow at her, if she could she would have pulled her head in her shoulders, disappearing
"With cheese" she adds and I can't hold the stern look anymore
"Bring it! Pour it in bowl so we don't make TOO MUCH NOISE!" I call after her as she disappeared in the kitchen. I hear her opening the pack and then she comes back with a bowl full of chips. She then pours some coke in the glass and slumps down next to me.
"It is not moving" I say as I bite another piece off the pizza and chew, nodding to the TV screen. Callie reaches for the remote and hits play.
"You know" I say and reach for the coke, sip some as the intro is going on "Sometimes…I think I should have married you instead of adopting you"
She frowns her face "Ew, gross! Since when are you gay? Since when am I gay?" she says after with a small smirk on her lips
"I'm not! But…you leave me my favorite pica, coke, with ice" I point out and lean back in the couch "and chips for supper! What else could I ever want from anyone else, but this sweet welcoming home after work!"
"Probably sex" she says so seriously and I almost choke on the pizza I just chewed "Joking" she says grinning at me
"Since when do you joke?" I ask suspicion to her
"Since you allow chips for supper!" she smiles at me. I finish the pica and drink some more coke on, then lean back in the couch and Callie quickly snuggled up to my side, I put my hand around her shoulder
"You chew loud" I tease her a bit and toss a chip in my mouth
"I learn form you" she says and I place a kiss on her temple back, then turning my attention back to movie as Callie is safe in my arms