Foster to Foster Chapter 11, a fosters fanfic

AN: Thank you again for the reading and reviewing. Disclaimer, I don't own Fosters.

Lightly combing her fingers through the thick brown Stef smiled. She felt the body lean back into her. Placing a kiss on the forehead she wrapped her hands around the waist. "I love you." Feeling the body turn she sees her wife's face.

"I love you too. I'm so glad that the trail is over and now I get to spend some time you." Michelle buried her head in Stef's neck. Their silence was interrupted by a cell phone.

"No. They can leave a message." Stef held her wife closer.

"Babe it might be the office or your mom." Michelle untangled herself from blonde women's arms.

"Fine." Stef sat back against the headboard. The house was quiet, Brandon was at her mom's house so that Michelle and Stef could have the weekend to themselves. Hearing the one side of the conversation Stef knew that something was up.

Michelle rolled back onto Stef's lap. Placing her head in the crook the blonde's neck. "I must have forgotten to put the closing remarks in the folder because Brittany just called saying that she can't find it. I'm sorry babe but it will only take me a couple hours. How about you run that bath and when I get back we can put a movie on and have movie night downstairs." She pulled back and placed a kiss on blonde's forehead and got dressed.

Stef heard the front door close. Getting out of the bed and walked into the bathroom, turning the water on sliding her body into the warm bath. Stef couldn't help but feel hurt by Michelle going into work even though they always have the weekend by themselves.

Knowing that she couldn't relax when her mind was racing. Stef climbed out of the still warm bath, dressed in sweatpants and her baseball jersey. Stef set herself up at the TV, turning it on she puts on some TV film that is playing.

Halfway through the movie she is still unable to rewind. Stef walks back up to her bed to find her phone. She sees a text Michelle saying that she won't be home for another hour and a text from her mom saying that Brandon is fine and asleep.

She just holds the phone in her hand thinking about whether to text Michelle or to just leave it. Stef feels it buzz in her hands. Looking down hoping to see Michelle texting her that she on her way home, Stef's face falls and then split into a smile within seconds.

Are you up? – Lena.

Stef walked downstairs. Once her feet hit in the bottom she sends Lena a text.

Yup, I'm home waiting for Michelle to come home and Brandon is at my mom's. Stef backspaced the first part.

Yes. I'm home alone as Brandon as it my mom's – Stef.

What are you up to? – Lena

Nothing. I was watching a TV movie and now I'm texting you. What about you? – Stef

Walking on my furniture naked. – Lena

Stef chocked on her water. She could imagine Lena walking around, the problem is that she shouldn't be thinking about a friend like that.

You're bluffing! – Stef

Alright fine, you got me. I was filling out grants and I was walking around my living room trying to find the right words. – Lena

She felt this feeling in her gut that she should text Michelle saying that she got her message, but she has enjoyed texting Lena. There is this lightness in their conversations that she hasn't had in a while. She keeps trying to remember if she and Michelle ever talked like this.

You still haven't told me about this no passenger date. – Lena. Stef laughed. She has forgotten about that conversation, they still have yet to pick a winner for worst date.

I'll call you it's easier describe over the phone than in text form. – Stef. Going to her contacts she calls Lena's mobile.

"Hey" Lena's voice rang through the phone.

"Hi. You ready to hear the worst date ever." Stef laid back, she had the throw pillow behind her head and the afghan wrap around her body.

"It may be terrible but, there is no way that you have had the worst date. You still haven't heard mind." Lena chuckled.

"Oh alright well Lena Adams get ready to cringe." Stef cringed herself just thinking about it. "It was about the 5th girl that I dated. She was in college and I was in the academy. Her name was Lori, she wanted to be a mechanics. Well she had this old and broken down car. When I mean broken the paint was falling off, the door handles didn't open from the outside so the window was always kept open enough for her hand to open it. She opened the door from her side. I went to go sit down to find that there was a lawn chair. There wasn't even a seatbelt. The only good thing was that she welded the chair into the floor of the car. I think she told me that she was taking it apart and fixing it."

"Isn't that a little unsafe? What if something happened?" Lena asked once Stef took a breath in her story.

"It was all types of unsafe. I was scared every time she stopped. We went to this burger place which sold the worst burger. I'm still surprised that I didn't get food poisoning or died from it. The food was cold and it didn't look cooked all the way through."

"Was that the end of your date?" Lena intrigued. She hasn't heard any type of date like this.

"No. I was in it for the full experience. I thought this was going to be a good story to tell people." Stef pulled the afghan tighter around her.

"Well you're not wrong. So what happened next?" Lena closed her laptop knowing that she won't be getting anymore work done.

"Well after I eat the worst fast food in my life, oh which I had to pay for because she used her money to weld the lawn chair in." Stef heard Lena chuckling. "Oh yeah that food cost me $30. After that dinner, I think we were head to the movies or something and her car broke down. Right in the middle of the road. She told me that she needed to stay in case someone stole it too all my courage not to say that no one would steal that piece of junk. I think the only valuable thing in that car was the lawn chair."

"I sat in the cold car while she was outside talking to a mechanic about getting it towed. It took over an hour for this guy to come. I was freezing by the way. I wore a deep blue v-cut top with a light blue flannel matched with skin tight jeans. It was one of those nights were the wind was chilling to the bone. We went to her house and she asked me if I wanted to continue it to the bedroom. I called a cab that second." Stef finished her story.

"I'm not usually a competitive person but I thought that I would have won this. Maybe in the next couple of months I will come across a crazy girl. That could rival that date." Lena chuckled. Stef realized that she couldn't picture Lena with someone. She liked thinking about Lena being with no one. It was selfish of her to not want Lena to be happy but there was this feeling in her gut that she couldn't get rid of when she thought of Lena holding hands or kissing someone.

"Well I can't wait for a date that could top this one." Stef stifled a yawn with the back of her hand. Pulling the phone back she sees that it's 1am. They have been talking for over an hour. "Lena if you are tired it's ok to tell me."

"I'm fine Stef tomorrow is the weekend and I have nothing better to do than complete the work that didn't do tonight. So I don't mind." There was a moment of silence before Lena spoke again. "I'm just hope that I'm not keeping you up."

Stef thought for a moment that she should say that she is waiting for Michelle but she closed her mouth. "Um nope. I'm just glad that I have someone to talk to."

"So how is Brandon enjoying his last summer before school?" Lena asked as she rubs her eyes trying not to sleep.

"He is excited and nervous. I mean he is going to same school as a couple of friends at his daycare. But he is worried about talking to new people and going into a new environment." Stef smiled as she thought about Brandon a couple days ago. He was running around with his backpack and pretending to be in school.

"If you want you can come by the school on the weekdays. I can walk him through the school, that way it won't be so scary for him. I can set something up for around lunch time on Tuesday, if you and Brandon would like?"

"I'll ask but I'm pretty sure he will say yes. Maybe I'll use as practice that way when I drop him I won't a blubbing mess." Stef lightly laughed.

That night they stayed up until 2am talking about what has been going on for the last couple of weeks since they haven't been able to meet up. They set a date for Tuesday and just fell asleep with the phones by their head.

Stef woke up, feeling the sun on her face. She stretched her body out, her right arm was thrown to the right side of the bed feeling around for her wife's body. Turning to lay on her side she saw the way that the sun light hit off her wife's pale face, showing the light freckles. Stef lightly ran a finger on her nose where most of the freckles laid. Stef pulled her wife into her arms.

"Good morning sweetie." Stef laid a kiss on Michelle's forehead. Feeling the brunette move in her arms she just pulled her tighter. She could hear the mumbles of her wife's voice vibrating off her skin.

"Babe can you go brew some coffee please. I just want a couple more minutes of sleep." Michelle asked rolling her face into the pillow.

"Alright. I have to get B ready anyways." Stef laid a light kiss to Michelle's cheek and nuzzled her nose into her neck. Hearing a door open Stef realized that Brandon must already be up.

Stef saw the open bedroom door. 'He either went to the bathroom or to the playroom.' Stef thought. She went to the playroom seeing it empty she knocked on the bathroom door. "B buddy are you in there?" Waiting a couple of seconds there is no response. Trying again just a little louder, "B are you in here sweetie?" Stef starts to venture downstairs thinking that he was downstairs watching morning cartoons.

It doesn't take her long to find the head of brown poking out from the afghan. She slowly walks over the bundled blanket. "B what would you like to eat for breakfast?"

"B isn't here." The little voice said.

"Well if B isn't here than who is?" Stef lightly laughed as she kneeled down beside the couch. Sometimes it reminds her of herself when she was younger. Other times it would bug her, especially when they were on a time schedule.

"No one." The voice come out again. Stef placed a hand on his ribs. She slowly starts to roll Brandon around. Finally getting him to his side, Stef picked up the boy and throwing him over her shoulder. "Mommy put me down." She slowly starts to bounce him on her shoulder. "Mommy I'm hungry."

She placed the blanket boy down on the floor. Unwrapping B from the blanket she sees her baby laying in his PJs. "Good morning B." She picked him up and placed a kiss on his forehead. "So my hungry boy, what would you like to eat?"

"Waffles!" The boy jumped up onto his chair as Stef pulled out the frozen waffles. They waited the two minutes until they popped up from the toaster. Stef sat down beside him eating some fruit salad that Michelle brought home from the store. "Mommy do we have to go today? I want to stay and play with you."

He tried his best puppy eyes and laid his syrupy face on Stef arm. Stef felt the syrup on her skin. "Buddy we talked about this. You are going to be able to see your teacher and a couple of the other adults that work there. I know how you get when you are in a new place. We will do a walk through and see that the school isn't a scary place." She kiss his head.

"Alright. But when we come home can we play." Brandon picked his head from his mom's arm.

"Sure buddy anything you." Brandon finished his waffles and was told to get dressed. She saw Michelle walk down the stairs. That's the moment that she forgot about putting the coffee pot on.

Michelle took a cup out of the cupboard and poured the empty coffee pot into her glass. Not feeling the warm she looks to the coffee pot. There was only a couple of seconds before she turned to Stef. "Why isn't there any coffee? I thought you were going to make some?"

Stef felt guilty for forgetting. "Babe, I'm sorry but Brandon and I were talking about going to the school this afternoon and he was nervous and didn't want to go so I talked to him and now he is fine. I, just with everything I must have forgotten. I'm sorry." She could it in Michelle's face that she was angry.

"It's fine. I'll just get some on the way to work." Michelle put the cup back in the cupboard and slammed the door.

"Hey, whoa I thought that we were going to this together. Remember how we talked to Brandon last night saying that we were both going to be there for him. We need to be here for him. He is scared and worried everyone goes this and they need their parents to walk them in. We need to show him that there is nothing to worry about, that school is nothing be afraid of." Stef held Michelle's hands in hers.

"Fine. What time is this thing?" Michelle slowly pulled her hands.

"Noon." Stef smiled as she tried to fix this.

"I will take an early lunch. I might only be able for an hour and a half." Michelle finished and walked up the stairs. A couple minutes she heard the front close. Putting her head on the table she starts to wonder what is going on.

They stopped going to therapy because of work, and with Stef wanting to spend the last summer before Brandon goes school together, she worked a lot of night shifts. They have stopped talking although unless it involves Michelle saying that she has to go to work and about Brandon's school. Although they did have a couple of days when the trail was over. It was nice but Stef kept thinking that they only had sex once. Usually they barely slept. Her thought was that maybe that they were just getting to old for countless nights of sex.

She and Brandon played for a couple hours. She tried not to wear him out too much or else he won't go down for his hour nap before supper. "Mommy, how come mama doesn't play cars with me?" He asked as she walked the blue dinosaur over to the block built town.

"Well sometimes she gets busy and her job is very demanding. Other times she is very tired and can't keep her eyes open. But I promise you that she will be at the school with us." Stef pulled Brandon on to her lap. She hated lying to him but it was hard to tell your kid that their parent picks work over family.

"Ok." They continued to play until Stef saw the time. "B it's time to start putting everything away." Seeing the disappointment in his eyes, Stef saw the only song that got him to enjoy putting clothes away. "Clean up, everyone's got to clean up." Clapping her hands to the rhythm of the song. "Put your things away. Pick up your dinosaurs." Brandon picked up a couple dinosaurs and deposited them into the correct bin. "Pick up blocks." Knocking down the city they pick up blocks. Stef sang until everything was picked up.

"Alright let's go get our shoes on. So we can go meet your teacher and your classroom." Stef helped Brandon slip on his shoes and they walked to vehicle.

Stef was nervous and she didn't know why. She held Brandon's hand as she walked to the front desk. "Hello. What can I help you with?"

"Um yes, I'm Stef Foster I have a meeting with Miss Adams." She picked Brandon up and placed him on her left hip.

"Ah yes. Her office is down the hall to the left." The secretary pointed out the door. Following the directions, Brandon was pointing and awed. She smiled when she saw the words, 'Lena Adams Assistant Vice Principle'.

Knocking on the door. Brandon wiggled from her hip, wanting down. She placed him down as the door opened. Lena was dressed in a pair of black pants matched with a blue button-up blouse and a black cardigan. Her curly hair was done and it framed her face beautifully.

"Hi." Was all Stef could say. Stef was dressed in simple flannel with a white tank top and faded blue jeans.

Lena tried to put on her most professional façade. "Hi Stef." She shook the women's hand, than dropped down to Brandon's eye level. "And you must be Brandon." She held her hand out for the boy to shake it. The boy looked up at his mother for the approval. Nodding her head, Brandon quickly shook the hand and said a muffled hello.

"We can start outside and make our inside or start inside and then go finish with the playground. It all up to you and Brandon." Lena waited to hear Stef's response.

"Well buddy where do you want to start?" Stef look at Brandon. It was a lot to ask of a 4 year old but she wanted him to feel involved. He pulled on Stef jeans, and whispered in her ear. "Good choice. B would like to start inside, that way he play on the playground before we leave."

"Alright. So this is my office." Lena felt silly saying it but was the start of tour. Walking out the door with Stef beside and Brandon still on her hip, they make their way to the elementary side of the school. "Like I told you before we keep our elementary kids away from high schoolers which is why my office is the middle. The elementary side also has their own doors and it doesn't connect with any other part of school." Lena stopped in front of a classroom door. "This will be Brandon's JK/SK room." Lena knocked and opened the door, when the voice behind it said open. "And this is Brandon's teacher, Mrs. Burfield."

Mrs. Burfield is a smaller women about 5'4. She had long brown hair that curled at the ends and her skin has this olive tint to it. Her green eyes stand out against her skin. "Hello Lena. I heard you were coming by." She turned to Stef, "Hello, my name is Mrs. Mary Burfield." Holding out her hand to Stef, the mother shakes it.

"Hello. I'm Stef and this is Brandon." She pointed to the little boy on her hip. Brandon slowly looked up from his mom's neck. "Brandon can you hello to your teacher." He picked his head and said a quite hello.

"Please feel free to walk around the room. I just ask that you don't move anything too much, thank you." Stef nodded in agreement. Setting Brandon to let him explore by himself, while the adults stood and talked about the schooling year.

"Mom!" The little boy shrieked with joy. "Look its dinos!" Brandon pointed to the plastic dinosaur toys in the blue bin.

Mrs. Burfield walked over and squatted beside Brandon. "Do you like dinosaur's Brandon?" The boy nodded his head. "I also like dinosaur. We use them a lot. We can count with them and we can learn what type of food they eat. You can also use them at play time." Brandon's hand hovered over the bin. "You can play with some of them but only while your mom and talk some more." Brandon dropped his hand and brought out a grey t-rex. Sitting down right beside the bin her started to play.

They had spent most of time inside only going out when Brandon was finally ready to leave the dinosaurs. She sent a text to Michelle asking why she wasn't here and that she is going to do a little of the grocery shopping that needed to be done.

The end of tour came when Brandon could no alone keep his eyes open. Picking up her boy Stef, placed him on her left hip lightly running her hand through his thick brown hair. "Thank you so much Lena. It seems to have calmed him down." She pulled Lena into a side hug, feeling Lena's arm wrap around her.

"It was my pleasure. I glad that Brandon has enjoy his day here. Now the only question is how did you enjoy it?" Lena asked as she pulled back from the hug.

"I don't know if I will ever be ready to let him go." Stef rubbed circle's into Brandon's back. Lena walked to Stef to her vehicle. "Thank you again." Stef placed a light kiss on Lena's cheek, before putting Brandon in his car seat. She waved goodbye as she went back to the driver side. She watched as Lena walked back into the school before she lightly touching her lips.

While leaving the school, Stef was disappointed in Michelle for not coming even when she promised. Stef buckled Brandon in his car seat, and buckled herself in. Placing her phone in the cup holder Stef saw that Mike was trying to contact her.

"Hello Mike. What do I owe this call to?" Stef rolled her eyes.

"I need you to come to station and bring that report. Captain is asking for this week's report and I forgot that you have wrote it so I need you to bring so that we won't get in shit." Stef looked back to see Brandon's eye where slowly dropping. She figured that she could quickly run in and leave him in the car with the windows down.

"Alright, I'm on my home and then I will head to the station." Stef ended the call and start the engine. Pulling up Stef knew exactly where the report was. Walking into the house she bee lined it to the guest room, where their printer and computer are set up.

Opening the door Stef stops. Her hearts stops. Looking at the bed Stef's jaw drops. There was Michelle and her boss, Brittany, naked entangled in the bed. She quickly looked into Michelle's eye. There was really that she could say. Than in a quick second, Stef became heart broken, sad, disappointed, and angry. In the end she stuck with being angry. Not knowing how to form words, Stef quickly grabbed the report out of the printer and left towards the station.

Stef hoped in the car with report in one hand and drove as legally fast as she could to the station. Once there she opened the door and drop the report off to the front desk. She knew that she could get in trouble but Stef didn't want to talk to anyone right now. She was scared that she would spill everything and all the emotions that she harbouring would come spilling out at once. The only place she knew was safe for that was her mom's house.