Hey guys, I am so sorry I haven't update in over a week. I just got super busy with school work and piano work, and then I got sick (I still am :() But anyways, here is the new chapter!

Lena sighed as she worked her way into the hospital room. She had a new big bag of stuff, since she already went through her first set of clothes from being her in the hospital. It had been a week since Callie had the nightmare, or rather the memory, of being raped by Liam. No one was really sure how Callie would be dealing with it, but Callie tried to push it aside. It looked like she felt strong when Stef told her that it had happened over two years ago.

Callie did try to shake it off, but it just wasn't easy for her to let it go.

She dropped her stuff on the chair beside Callie's bed. Callie watched her. One thing Callie knew about Lena, was that she was beautiful. She loved how gorgeous Lena looked, and it just seemed for effortless.

Lena looked back at Callie, and tried to swallow the lump in her throat from seeing her daughter so injured and hurt still. The medicine the doctors gave her helped her pain, but she still hurt inside.

Lena picked up the notebook they bought just for Callie and wrote something in it.

Would you like to meet the rest of your family? If it's too soon, that's okay. They have just really wanted to see you.

She handed the notebook back over to Callie and waited for her reply.

Callie was caught off guard the Lena so easily asked her if she wanted to meet the rest of her family, whom she didn't know. Nonetheless, Callie had been waiting to meet them… she just didn't know it would be so soon.

Yes. I would like that.

Lena smiled at her reply, and leaned in to give her daughter and hug. She pulled away, and sighed 'I love you' to her daughter.

Since the doctors guessed that the hearing loss was permanent, a specialist has been coming in to teach Callie sign language, and Lena and Stef were learning sign language online and in books. None of them knew much, barely enough to talk to each other, but it was a start.

Callie smiled shyly and signed 'thank you'. She felt awkward whenever her mothers told her they loved her. She wanted to say it back, but it wouldn't be true. She didn't love them… she just didn't know them.

Lena sat back into her chair, pleased that Callie agreed to meet her siblings.

She felt so weird thinking that… Callie was going to meet her brothers and sisters.

She pulled out her phone and texted Stef.

Lena: Callie said she's okay with meeting her siblings.

Stef, who was out grocery shopping for her kids at home, nearly dropped her box of rice when she read the text.

Jesus, who was there helping his mother shop, noticed her shock.

"Mom, you okay?" he asked.

Stefs mind flickered back and forth from Jesus and her phone, and she tried to process what this meant.

"Is it Callie?" he asked.

Hearing the urgency in her sons' voice, she pulled herself back into reality.

"Uh, yeah…. Yeah, Lena says that Callie wants to meet you guys," Stef said.

Jesus was confused by her word choice. Meet?

"She wants to meet us?" Jesus asked.

Stef wanted to face palm herself, realizing she never told her other children the extent of Callie's brain damage.

"She doesn't remember us?" Jesus asked.

Stef sighed, disappointed in herself.

"Callie has severe brain damage. She doesn't remember any of us, and she can't hear," Stef confessed to her son.

Jesus shook his head in disbelief that his mom hadn't told him that.

"She's deaf?" he asked.

"Yes. They think that she may gain her memory back, but she won't get her hearing back," Stef said.

Jesus slumped into the shelves, shocked. His sister is deaf. His sister doesn't even know she's his sister.

"I'm so sorry we didn't tell you sooner," Stef said, rubbing her sons' arm.

Jesus just continued shaking his head.

"I just can't believe this," he said.

Stef looked at her almost empty cart of groceries, and decided that she would take the kids out to eat instead.

"Come on, let's check out and go home," Stef suggested.

Jesus pierced his eyebrows together as he studied the cart.

"There is hardly anything in this cart," Jesus said.

Stef tried to lighten things up.

"Hey, I'm the adult in this situation, and I say were ready to go! Why don't we just go home and… tell everyone the good news?" Stef said.

Jesus scoffed.

"What's so good about brain damage and deafness?" Jesus asked.

"No, I mean that Callie wants to meet you guys. She doesn't remember us, but she's starting to get some of her memory back already, and she isn't pushing us back, and now she wants to meet you guys again. That's a good sign," Stef pointed out.

Jesus agreed, but he was still pretty disappointed with this news.

They checked out and hurried home to tell Mariana and Jude.

As they came through the door with only two bags, they ran into Mariana listening to her iPod. She pulled her ear buds out as she studied her mom and brother.

"Why are you guys' home already? Weren't you grocery shopping?" Mariana asked.

"Yes, but we have news about Callie so we came home. Can you please get your little brother and gather in the kitchen?" she asked.

Mariana was taken aback by her mother's urgency. She wondered why she was so quick to tell.

"Is she okay?" Marian asked.

"Yeah sweetie, she's fine, but there are just a couple things we need to tell you and Jude about," Stef said.

Mariana nodded her head.

"Okay," she said, and quickly ran upstairs to get her brother as Stef and Jesus headed into the kitchen.

They waited as Mariana got Jude and brought him into the kitchen. Jesus was still taking in the news, and Stefs heart was beating a little harder and faster and her breathing was getting shallower as she prepared to tell her two kids about Callies condition.

Mariana and Jude waited silently for Stef to begin talking.

"Callie has had some brain damage done," she began.

She looked over at Jude, wondering how he might take this news.

"She has lost some memory and she is deaf," she said very slowly.

"She's deaf?"Jude asked. His nerves began to sky rocket and his stomach dropped to the floor.

Stef took a shaky breath.

"Yes, sweetie, she is deaf," she said.

Both Mariana and Jude felt pierced. They both couldn't decide what was piercing them though. Hearing that Callie was deaf was certainly better than hearing that Callie was dying. However, they both felt guilty knowing that was their standard; as long as she isn't dying, she is okay. They knew that Callie must be scared, and she probably wouldn't see it that way. Callie probably wouldn't think she was okay as long as she wasn't dead. However, deafness is not all that Stef mentioned, and curiosity peaked in Mariana's mind.

"You said she has memory loss?" Mariana asked.

Stef nodded her head.

"Yes. She doesn't remember coming to live with us, or getting adopted. Apparently the last house she remembered living in is…" Stef hesitated to say the name, because she knew how Jude would feel about it.

"Liam's family," Stef said.

Jude felt angered as he dug his fingernails into the table. Liam, she only remembers Liam?!

"What do you mean?" Jude asked.

Since everyone in the family knew about Callie and Liam, Stef didn't feel hesitant to tell them the truth.

"I think, though I don't know, the last thing Callie remembers is being…" Stef was careful with her words again, as she was afraid to use such hard words.

"Hurt by Liam," Stef finished.

Jesus scoffed. He wished his sister never had to remember something like that.

Mariana shook her head. Why Liam?

"How come that's what she last remembers?" Mariana asked.

This was something that Stef and Lena had talked about a lot. They honestly wanted to know why she remembered someone as horrible as Liam, and not them. Stef shrugged.

"I don't know. That was something very traumatic for Callie, and now because she lost her memory and is regaining it, she's had to relive it. If it's the last thing that she remembers, and then it's like it just happened," Stef pointed out.

Jesus began to understand what this meant, while his siblings were still confused.

"So, she basically feels like she just got raped?" Jesus asked. He wasn't shy with his words, like Stef was.

Stef felt worried that that word was being used in front of Jude, but she nodded.

"Basically, yes," Stef said.

They all waited to see Jude's reaction, since he was the only one who would know what Callie was like at that time. Stef hoped that from Jude, she could take away things that would help her deal with Callie.

They watched as Jude shuck is head and a tear fell down his cheek.

"That's so horrible… that's cruel," Jude said.

Stef walked over to her young son and hugged him, letting him cry into her arm.

"Why did this have to happen to her?" he cried.

Mariana and Jesus began to feel tears creep down their cheeks, because inside, they asked the same thing. Jesus walked around the table to hug his sister. Ever since Callie got shot, he felt a brotherly instinct to protect her, but since he couldn't protect Callie, he tried his hardest to protect his other siblings – from their fellow students who asked never ending questions, from the press that didn't care how incredibly rude and hurtful their questions were, from everyone.

Stef took a break from comforting Jude to turn to Mariana and Jesus.

"Mariana," she called out.

Mariana separated from her brother so that she could look at her mother.

"Callie said she wants to meet you and Jesus and Brandon. Would you want to do that?" Stef asked.

Mariana pondered for a moment. She would have to meet Callie again, even though she was never separated from her. She'd have to rebuild that sister connection that they had. That was something that she dreaded. She didn't want to rebuild a relationship with Callie, because the one they had before was so perfect. Of course, though, whatever the reason, Mariana had to rebuild her relationship with Callie. It's the only way she'd really get her sister back.

Mariana nodded, and Jesus felt relieved that he wouldn't be the only one to go see Callie.

That Night

Just like Lena herded her kids into the hospital waiting room the day Callie got shot, Stef herded her kids into the hospital hallway, just outside her room. They stopped when they reached the window from Callie's room.

Brandon, Mariana, Jude, and Jesus all stopped to look in on their sister. She had a bandage wrapped around her head, and she had a lot of machine's hook up to her. They all wondered how they would talk to Callie, since she couldn't hear.

Callie took in the sight of her new family. She obviously immediately picked out Jude, but the other's three, she didn't recognize. She had heard about the others but when they all stood together… it just seemed like a lot of people. A lot of new faces she had to learn about. Even though she didn't know the others, she waited anxiously for her little brother.

Lena hurried out into the hallway before any of them came into her room. She hugged her wife and her children. She hadn't gotten to see her kids yet, and she felt happy to finally see some familiar faces, besides Stef and Callie.

"How is she?" Brandon asked immediately. He was nervous to see how his sister was.

"She's doing okay, besides the memory loss and the hearing loss," Lena said.

"Is she in any pain?" Jesus asked.

Lena never really thought about that. She wasn't sure what to tell her son.

"Um, their giving her medicine to help, but I'm sure that if she wasn't given any medicine, she'd be in a lot of pain," Lena said.

"Can we just go in now?" Jude asked. He really just wanted to see his sister, and he wanted to tell her about their new life, and he wanted to know how she felt about this new family… he wanted to know everything, but more than anything, he wanted to see his sister.

Lena was surprised by Jude's sudden burst, but she nodded her head and began to lead her children into Callie's room, when she stopped for a moment.

"There's a bandage wrapped around her head that's from surgery. It isn't anything too scary, you can't see where they did the surgery, but the back of her head near her neck is bald, and it bleeds a little sometimes, so you might see a little bit of blood on her bandage or on her pillow. If you do, you need to tell me and Stef, it just means that we need change her bandage and her pillow sheet," Lena said.

Hearing that, they all felt that piercing sensation they couldn't quite put a name too. It felt a little gross, but mostly real, to hear their mom say that. It was like, finalizing that Callie was shot in the brain.

Callie sat in her bed and watched as one by one, the Fosters started to fill the room. First there was the Lena, then the curly haired kid, then the other boy in a orange shirt, then a pretty girl who was probably no older then she was, then Stef came in, and then, finally, a familiar face… her brother.

She began to weep as she saw her brother, the first person she actually remembered. He was so much bigger now and so handsome too. She outstretched her arms to her little brother, and her brother happily ran into them. She felt so relieved to finally see someone she knew.

The Foster siblings all smiled as they saw the happiness in Jude and Callie, and cried little tears of joy, but they all felt secretly a little disappointed. They all knew that Callie wouldn't feel the same about them.

After what felt like hours of hugging and crying, Callie and Jude broke apart as she turned her attention to her family. Lena took that as a cue to begin introducing her to her siblings.

"Callie, this is Brandon," Lena said out loud. She pointed to Brandon as she finger spelled B-R-A-N-D-O-N with her other hand. Callie nodded, and Lena pointed to Jesus.

"This is Jesus," she said while she spelled J-E-S-U-S.

Callie watched as Lena then pointed to the young girl and spelled with her fingers M-A-R-I-A-N-A. It felt weird to Callie, having another girl. She actually had a sister now!

She used her little bit of sign language to sign sister.

Lena and Stef nodded. They both signed 'yes', and the pointed to Mariana, then to her, and then signed sister.

Mariana watched and listened to her mothers.

"What's the sign for sister?" she asked.

"Oh, well, you tape the bottom of your head with your thumb and your fingers out, and you put your other hand down with the thumb and finger out, and then you bring your hand together like this," she showed Mariana.

Mariana practiced a couple of time, and Lena and Stef nodded, telling her she was doing it right. Mariana smiled as she turned around to face Callie. She pointed at herself, then at Callie, and signed sister.

"I'm your sister," she said.

Callie grinned, happy to see that her sister was so happy to learn a little bit of sign language to talk to her. She felt herself giggled, but she didn't hear it.

"What's the sign for brother?" Jude asked.

Lena then did the same thing, only this time, she tapped the top of her head before bringing her hands together. Jude then also practiced a couple times, but he didn't need to introduce himself.

Jesus and Brandon also practiced brother, and once he felt confident enough, Jesus tested his new skills to introduce himself and Brandon.

"Me and Brandon are your brothers," he said, pointing to himself, then to Brandon, and signed brother. Brandon was still practicing both signs, trying it over and over again until he was sure he had it memorized, similar to what he did when memorizing a piano piece.

"Isn't there a variation for brother and sister if there is more than one?" Lena asked. She could have sworn she read something about it on that website.

"I think so, but I don't know what it is," Stef shrugged.

Callie looked at the teenagers, and wondered something else. Stef watched Callie's fingers as she slowly spelled O-L-D.

"Old?" Stef asked. What did she mean old? Was she trying to say they were old?

"Oh, how old!" Lena said, excited she understood. She walked over to Brandon and stuck up one finger, then stuck up six, slowly saying "sixteen." Then she signed that Mariana and Jude were both fifteen.

Callie nodded and looked to her younger brother, and pointed to him. Jude stuck up on finger on one hand, and two on the other.

Callie felt a pinge of sadness when she understood what Jude signed. He was twelve. She last remembered him being ten. He grew up so much, and she missed it all, even though she was there. Still, she tried to hide it, and tried to see happy so she wouldn't upset everyone.

She signed something that Jude didn't understand, so Stef translated it for him.

"She said, 'Wow, 12, really?'" Stef said, trying to sound as enthusiastic as Callie looked when she signed it.

Jude nodded his head.

"Really," he said, realizing this was all new to her, all of it. He hadn't really realized till then just how serious this was.

Callie turned to look at her siblings, and her eyes rested on Mariana. Just then, at that very moment, looking at Mariana, Callie started to… have flashbacks?

She was wearing a hot pink dress all the way down the floor and Mariana was wearing a light pink ball gown. Her first reaction was that it was Mariana's sweet sixteen, but she remembered she was only 15. She was Latina, but her family wasn't. Perhaps they threw her a quinceanera anyways? And, she was there?

Walking into the front doors of house, Mariana in a jean jacket and blue shirt with a tote bag, and her in her beat up camo tank top and jacket. Was that… her house?

Eating at the dinner table, Brandon was grabbing a plate and forks, Jesus and Mariana at the table staring at her, Lena and Stef peering at her at the end of the table, Stef still in her police uniform.

Back in her bright pink dress, walking the runway with some guy, at that party again….

Watching Brandon, Jesus, and Mariana get ready for school, Lena and Stef get ready for work, and she was just in her t-shirt and sweatpants. Why wasn't she getting ready?

Mariana sitting on her bed, showing her the pictures she took on her phone.

Both Mariana and her standing against the lockers, chatting, before walking down the hall way and…

Bam.

Callie's mouth dropped open as the scene played out in her head. Everyone watched her as she began to hyperventilate.

This was it, the moment that made her like this. She remembered…

She kept her eyes locked on Mariana, since she was frozen in space, and Mariana began to silently freak out in her own body, not knowing what was happening to her sister.

"What's happening to her?" Jude asked.

Stef only remembered seeing Callie like this when she woke up from that dream about Liam.

"I think she's having a flashback," Stef said. She flung herself onto Callie's bed and sat right in front of her, and began to stroke her hair. She told her slowly so that Callie could read her lips "your okay".

Callie took a deep breath, actually being able to understand what Stef had just said, but she started to weep again, as the memory continue to play in her head of her getting shot.

Lena grabbed her children and started to move them out of the room. She didn't want them to be scared by how loud Callie was as she cried. She couldn't hear herself cry, so she didn't realize how loud she was.

Stef said in the room with Callie, stroking her hair as Callie cried into her side.