Ok, so that episode…god damn it. I mean we all knew that it was most likely going to end up being a situation where Callie got raped, but I deep down wished we were all wrong. Anyway, I'm going to resolve this particular part of the story, do a chapter for Pride and then I want to bring in what is happening with Liam. I'll probably have her telling Stef and Lena the way they had it in the show, but just change the time of year so it still in the summer time. Also, is anyone else concerned that in the promo you see Stef leaving with her side arm and the summer finale is titled Vigil? I swear to fucking God if she gets shot my heart will break.
Stef was usually the first one up during the summer time, mostly because everyone else had the luxury of having a later start than she did. She showered quickly in an effort to save some of the hot water and when she threw her PJ's back on she quietly slipped out of the room, trying to give Lena the chance to sleep a little longer. It didn't occur to Stef to check on the kids as she made her way downstairs and as she reached the top of the stairs she realized that if she had she would have found Callie's bed empty. Stef walked down the stairs and could clearly see the teenager with her back pressed against the front door. When Stef reached the landing she could see that Callie was asleep, but she didn't look like she had slept much so Stef figured she must have fallen asleep within the last hour. Stef was about to approach the sleeping teen and tell her to go lie down in her bed, but then something caught Stef's attention. Clutched in Callie's right hand was a knife. A thousand things ran through Stef's mind and none of them were positive, but she knew that waking Callie up needed to be done carefully. Stef took two steps back before calling Callie's name out softly.
"Callie. Honey wake up." Callie's eyes snapped open and her grip around the base of the knife tightened and she looked panicked. When she looked up to see Stef, she breathed a sigh of relief and slumped back against the door.
"I didn't mean to scare you, but you do realize that you are sleeping against the front door right?"
"I know."
"Want to tell me why?" Stef took a seat next to the teen with her back know resting against the large door as well.
"Only spot in the house where you can see both entry points. My back is to this door and I can see into the kitchen where the other door is."
"And you needed to do this because?"
"I'm not letting him get me twice." Callie looked straight ahead and barely spoke above a whisper, but Stef heard her answer.
"And the knife?" Callie looked at the knife in her hand and seemed almost mesmerized by it. Stef held out her hand, "Callie let me have the knife." Once again Callie looked intently at the object in her hand before slowly offering it to Stef. Once Stef had the knife in her hand she placed it on the other side of her body far away from Callie's reach.
"I didn't do anything with it." Stef nodded her head, "I know you didn't, but the way you looked at it just now, tells me you thought about it."
"But I didn't."
"What stopped you?"
"I promised you I'd try to stop, this is me trying."
"Why didn't you come wake one of us up Callie, I told you we can talk to you about it and I'd rather you talk about it than do it?"
"I didn't grab the knife because I wanted to hurt myself."
"Then why have it at all?"
"Because if he finds us again I'm not going to be caught defenseless twice." Callie kept her eyes trained toward the kitchen like she still thought he was about to come bursting in. Stef reached her arms around Callie's shoulder and the teen closer to her.
"You know I would never let anything happen to you or anyone else in this house."
"If he wants to find me bad enough, he can and he will."
"Callie, he isn't going to come near you again I swear, I already have people working on checking his info and tracking him down and as soon as I have something we will take care of it. Not you, understand." Callie nodded her head, but said nothing. Stef kissed the side of the teen's head and stood up from the floor.
"Why don't you try and get some actual rest, let me keep the watch?" Callie looked like she was about to say no, but Stef jumped in.
"How much sleep did you get last night?"
"That depends what time is it?"
"5:30."
"I think I dozed off when I heard you get in the shower."
"Callie that was 20 minutes ago, go lie down, please." Callie stood up and started to go into the living room, but Stef stopped her.
"No, you aren't going to sleep on the couch, go sleep upstairs." Callie turned to meet the blonde's gaze and there were unshed tears in her eyes. Stef knew that there was no way around this one so she walked into the living room and moved some of the pillows around. Stef took a seat at one end of the couch and Callie took the hint and settled into the other side of the sofa. Stef was going to say something, but she was silenced when Callie took a pillow and placed in against Stef's lap and the teen quickly rested her head on the pillow while curling her body into a self-protective ball. Stef silently rested her arm on top of Callie's shoulder. Within minutes Stef could tell that Callie was asleep and for that she was thankful, but Stef also knew that for at least the time being she was stuck in the position.
She didn't mean to fall back to sleep, but she did and that was the scene Lena found when she came down stairs two hours later. The scene would have been a cute one all except for the knife that was now sitting on the living room table in front of Stef. Lena wasn't sure why it was there, but she figured that whatever the reason it had something to do with the events of the day before. Lena took the knife with her into the kitchen and put it away so that the other kids wouldn't see what she had. She didn't wake up her wife and she didn't have the heart to wake up Callie either, so she just let them be, knowing that once they both woke up they would have to start to figure out their next move in dealing with this new enemy that got unceremoniously dropped into their normal family routine.