Thursday, January 22nd

It was after five and normally Sofia would be on her way home from the lab. There was no urgent case on her desk, no open work to be finished, no results she was waiting for. All in all, there were no reasons to keep her away from her family. Except one. Her new job. Today she was driving to Hollywood, meeting with Lou at the set of his new movie. The Hollywood actor had sent her the script a few days ago, she had checked it, corrected little mistakes and sent it back to him. Today she would see how good he was pretending to be a CSI and a former cop.

The guard at the entrance let her in without any problems after she showed him her ID. He gave her a map of the studio and told her how to get to Lou the easiest way. In this case it wasn't the shortest way, as the road, which would have taken her straight to her friend, was blocked due filming.

"Hello gorgeous, thanks for coming here." The trailer he lived in had the size of an apartment. A spacious living room with connected kitchen lay in front of her. At both ends of the room were a door. In the middle of the living room area were Dean and Gabriel sitting and playing with their nanny.

"Hey boys." She greeted them.

"Where Sue?" Dean asked.

"Susan is with Sara, I'm here to work with your daddy. Have you watched him working?"

"No." Gabriel shook his head.

"They think it's boring what I'm doing. They're too small for the action scenes, watching their daddy saying weird words and standing around with strangers is boring."

"Especially when daddy says something, that makes no sense."

"Yeah, thanks for the correction, I brought them to the script writer. He changed everything. How about we're having a coffee before we go over to the set and you show me how to look professional and like I know what I'm doing."

"Do I get paid for drinking coffee with you?"

"Your work time started the second you entered the trailer." He laughed.

"Perfect."

"I do have your first check, what are you going to buy from it?"

"Half of it goes to my accountant, I want to pay off my debts for the house. The rest will be saved for family activities. Somebody want to go to Disney Land again."

"Disney?" Both boys asked unison. That was something they understood and what got their attention. "Going to Disney Land? Dad?"

"Soon, boys." Lou gave Sofia her coffee. "I'll be flying to Florida next week, we'll shoot there for a week before we go to Chicago."

"You or all of you?"

"All of us of course. Unless you want to look after the boys." He joked.

"Let me check with my mother, if she wants two extra kids to look after, you can leave them here."

"I was kidding, it's Florida and Chicago, I can take them there. If they sent me further away, or to a place, where it's not safe or perfect for them, I call you back on this offer. Your mother is amazing with kids, no wonder you became such a wonderful woman."

"Cori is so busting your rear end if you don't stop."

"You want to tell her?" Shock was written all over Lou's face.

"You never know what I might do." Sofia finished her coffee. "Come on, lets get started. Even when you pay me good money, I want to go home to my family. This is not supposed to take longer than three hours."

"Okay let's get started. Do you have a nice saying before you start work?"

"No."

"Oh. What a shame. I thought there was something like a line to make yourself ready for everything."

"Sorry, you have to rely on your writers for one."

"Something like: I'll trace you! I'm going to get you."

"It's a good thing other people are writing the lines for you, Lou. Otherwise nobody would want to watch a movie with you." The blonde chuckled.


Three and a half hours later she was back home and tired.

"Hello stranger." Sara pulled her in her arms and kissed her. "How are you?"

"Almost a thousand dollars richer. Minus tax."

"Yeah, you're a good catch. How was it?"

"Mommy!" Susan came running to her and jumped into Sofia's arms. "Hey my big girl, you are still awake?"

"Missed mommy."

"Oh, I missed you too." Sofia kissed her daughter, feeling her heart making somersaults. Was the money worth staying away from her family? She could have been here four hours earlier if she hadn't gone to see Liu.

"Mommy worked?"

"Yes, I worked with Lou this evening. Dean and Gabriel were missing you."

"Lou boom!"

"She has watched a trailer of a movie of Lou and when Lou jumped off a roof the building explored. After a little shock and asking three times if he was all right, she thought he is cool. A hero." Sara rolled her eyes. Way too many people believed Lou Lee was a hero, why had daughter be one of them?

"He's a movie hero, nothing you see is real, Honey. They're just playing, like when you're playing with Louise, Eric and Jorja."

"House boom."

"Yes, they've a lot of money to make it look like a house explores." Sofia kissed her daughter again. "How about I take you to bed? It's late and you need to sleep otherwise you'll be too tired to play tomorrow."

"Play boom. With captain."

"I'm sure the captain will enjoy this game." With Susan in her arms the blonde went upstairs and took her daughter to bed. She read a short story to her while Sara was leaning on the doorframe and watched them and when Susan's eyes were closed, she switched off the light and left the room. Her little angel was in her own world now, probably jumping off exploring buildings.

"So how was it at the set? Did you meet somebody famous?" Sara asked, got her arm around the blonde's waist and pulled her with her on the couch.

"You mean except Lou? No, his co-stars were somewhere else, we had the set for ourselves."

"Was it fun?"

"Yes, he is not too bad. There are some of the typical Hollywood moves he does, especially when he pretended to be the cop. So much macho attitude. That he didn't try to let the run roll over his finger a couple of times, like they do in the old wild west movies, was everything. A big kid happy to play cop."

"Don't expect Hollywood to come up with a real story. The real life of a cop is too depressing for a movie. Nobody wants to see what cops are really have to do."

"True." Sofia kissed Sara gently. "I missed you. It's nice to know we can afford a little more thanks to this job, but it keeps me away from you and the kids. I didn't get to see the twins going into bed."

"Sometimes when you work overtime you don't have the chance to do so neither."

"No. It sucks."

"They don't anymore." Sara grinned. Since they were back from Tahoe Sofia had stopped breastfeeding the twins. It was strange not to have them this close anymore, but her milk wasn't enough and when she was away, they needed the formula anyway.

"It seems to be unfair to change them to formula already. I breastfed Susan much longer."

"She was your only child, the milk was enough."

"Now my breasts are useless now."

"I wouldn't say that." The brunette smirked and got her hands under the blonde's shirt. "I know a few things I could do with them. Which would really excite and satisfy me. And I think you as well."

"You have such a dirty mind, Mrs. Sidle."

"Because you're so irresistible, Mrs. Curtis. Don't we have some house duties to do? Cleaning, washing, checking the books? Things, responsible mothers do."

"Let's see. The three little ones are in bed, the teenager is with his best friend, so the kids are taken care of. Your mother did the laundry, your father cleaned the kitchen after he prepared dinner for us. The books don't need to be checked at the moment, there's no cleaning here upstairs urgent, so no, we could lose ourselves in fun strictly for adults." Sara's hands cupped the breasts of her wife and her thumbs started circling the nipples softly, which made Sofia moan quietly.

"I'm trying to be an adult. How does it look when I come home, take our daughter to bed and then have passionate sex with you instead of … I don't know, doing whatever housewives are doing."

"Housewives have sex, a lot of sex. Didn't you watch Desperate Housewives?"

Sofia's nipples responded to the attention, they were getting from Sara's thumbs. Since she had stopped breastfeeding, her nipples were more sensitive when touched than before. It was like they remembered, they were for more than feeding babies.

"How about socializing with friends?"

"You did, you saw Lou."

"That was." The blonde had to swallow because it was getting harder and harder to talk. And also her nipples were getting harder and harder. "Business."

"Sure. In this case I've to reward you for being such a great worker today, for bringing home so much money. Want me to strip for you and give you a lap dance? You could reward me with a dollar bill."

"You'd do a striptease and a lap dance for me?"

"Honey, I'd do even more."

"Like what?"

"Get on my knees for you."

"Forget about housework, books or socializing, I want you in our bedroom. Now!" Before one of the kids woke up and ruined the sex show she was about to receive from her more than willing wife. If that was what happened every time she owned almost one thousand dollar, she'd see Lou every day!


Wednesday, January 28th

"Grandma … Lea … Lea is … is in … troub… trouble." Steve could barely speak, he was out of breath from running to his grandparents' house. The short, yet steep hill to their residence was more than his fitness could handle. He was sweating, huffing and puffing hard and tried to get more air by bending forward and supporting himself with his arms on his tights. This made it obvious, he had to spend less time in front of the Playstation and more outside.

"Take a couple of deep breaths." Marie said, not sure what to make out of the exhausted and visible scared teenager in front of her. "Is she injured?"

"No."

"Good." No reason to call a doctor. She guided him into the house and pushed on the couch. "Now tell me what is going on?"

"I … she … I tried to call her, she doesn't answer the phone."

"Honey, I hate to tell you, some people are not like Siamese twins with their cell phone."

"No, we were supposed to meet an hour ago, wanted to go to the movies, there's a movie on, she wanted to watch for weeks. When we separated after school she told me to call me when I'm ready so we could meet halfway. I tried over and over, she never answered. Then I called her parents and father told me, she's at home and has no time to go to the movies with me. His voice was ice cold, like I did something wrong."

"Grounded?"

"If so, he's so mad that he doesn't tell me why. Before he ended the call, he told me, she won't be around for a while."

Marie looked surprised. Teenagers were grounded every day for various reasons, she couldn't figure which one had gotten Lea into this trouble. "He didn't say anything else?"

"No. Grandma, I'm afraid they found out about Lea and Lauren. Lea will be grounded until she turns twenty-one."

"That would be truly ridiculous."

"For most people, yes. She overheard a conversation of her parents with somebody from their church group, saying they'd send her to one of these 'un-gay your child camps' if they ever suspected Lea to be too close to a woman. They're nice people unless it comes to homosexual love. What if they really send her away to one of these camps? You know they're abusing children and teenager there. The documentation I've seen about one reminded me a lot of The Exorcist."

"He's right about this." Marc had been quiet until now, only listened to his wife and his grandson.

"These camps are crap, you don't send somebody to a camp to change the color of the eyes, it would be the same, you can't change who you are, who you love."

"They believe different."

Marie grumbled. "I think you should go home, Steve."

"And tell my moms? Maybe they can talk to them, make them understand, nothing is wrong with Lea and isn't doing anything bad."

"They won't listen to your mothers, quite contrary, they might accuse them to get Lea into her position. I'm going to talk to them, I'm a mother, who has a lesbian daughter. And you." She looked at Marc. "Will join me. Please."

Marc smiled. His wife changed into captain mood and remembered the last second, he wasn't one of her subordinates. "Absolutely my dear. Let us handle this, Steve."

"Can't I come too?"

"No, this is something which has to be solved from parents to parents. And maybe some police force. Your grandfather will make sure I'm not falling into the captain act too much."

"You don't have to act like a captain, you are the captain, no retirement can take this away from you."

Marie smiled slightly. "You've got that right, my dear. Anyway, go home, or better, go and talk to Lauren. Tell he what you're suspecting, it's possible Lea's parents will reach out for Lauren's and it can't hurt when they're prepared for it. The contact could be rather unfriendly, depending on the reaction of Lauren's parents."

"They know about their relationship and approve. Completely."

"Good. get them in the boat." Marie grabbed her coat from the rack. "Go!"

Steve hugged both and stormed out of the house.

Marc sighed and got his coat. "This was going to happen sooner or later."

"Yes, we knew it, they knew it too, yet it will be a shock when Steve isn't mistaken. Any suggestion for the special operation?"

"Go in slowly, make a point, if there's too much resistance, make your point more clearly and use your weapons."

"Right." She knew he wasn't talking about her guns. Side by side they left the house, got into the car and drove over to Lea's house. The lights were on, so they knew somebody was at home. People were moving behind the closed curtains.

"I've got your back." Marc said after Marie rang the bell. It was better to let his wife speak, she wasn't good in listening and letting other people something, she wanted to handle herself. He was used to stay in the background, observe and step in when needed. In fact, he preferred his strategy, it gave him time and opportunity to study the other party and come up with a strategy to overpower them. Literally speaking.

The door was opened and Lea's father appeared. His face was deep red.

"Good evening." Marie said politely. No point in introducing herself, they had met twice at Sara's and Sofia's house.

"Mrs. Curtis, what are you doing here?"

"Our grandson informed us, he worries about Lea."

"I doubt your grandson worries about our daughter the way we do."

"Is she all right?"

"She will be when we're done with her."

"Mrs. Cardwell, you know my husband and I like Lea, we'd like to see her."

"There's no reason for that."

"Marie! Captain!" Lea called from the inside.

"Shut up, Lea, this is not your business. You had your chance to come clean."

"Lea, I'd like to see you."

"She's not going anywhere."

"Anthony." Lea's mother appeared at the door. When she saw Marie and Marc she added surprised. "Good evening Captain Curtis, Mister Curtis. What are you doing here?"

"Steve worried about Lea, we told him we'd come here and check on her."

"This is not a good moment."

"It's family business."

"My daughter treats Lea like her own daughter, Lea was with us for various holidays and other days." Marie said.

"That won't happen again." Lea's father grumbled.

"May I know why?"

"Your daughter and her wife are not what Lea needs in her life."

Out of the living room a drenched in tears Lea stormed into Marie's arms before her father could stop her. Marie held on tight to the teenage girl and gave her father a hard look over. Time to change strategies.

"Get back into the living room, Lea. Now!"

"What happened?" Marie's voice was soft when she talked to the girl.

"They snooped around my cell phone."

"We're your parents, we've got every right to know what's going on in your life. Especially when you're hiding things."

"My relationship is not your business."

"Oh, you got that wrong, young lady. It is our business, we're your parents and until you're twenty-one, you'll do what we tell you to do. This nonsense will stop and you won't see this person anymore, otherwise you'll spend the rest of your days in your room. Am I clear?"

"You're her father, you got that right. It doesn't give you the right to hold her like a prisoner." Marie said.

"Stay out of this, Mrs. Curtis."

Marie felt how Lea held her breath. It was one thing to call Marie Mrs. Curtis and not Captain Curtis, a completely different thing was to tell her what to do.

"Mister Cardwell, we should not talk about this outside." Marc stepped into the conversation. "Why don't we go inside and talk like adults?"

"This is not your business."

"We're not Lea's blood family, but she is like a granddaughter to us. We've spent a lot of time together and we love Lea. It hurts us to see her like this and you can't be happy to see your daughter crying and afraid of you, her own father. No child should be afraid of her parents."

"Anthony." Lea's mother got her hand on her husband's arm. "Let's get into the living room."

Lea's father stepped aside to let Marie and Marc into the house. Lea stayed in Marie's arm and sat next to her on the couch, almost hiding behind the older woman.

"Okay, how about you tell us what happened." Marc said to Lea's mother.

"We found Lea's cell phone and decided to check, if everything is all right with her. She had been a little bit away with her thoughts the last weeks and seemed to spend less and less time here. Her marks in school are good, they didn't give us a reason to worry, but her withdrawal made us wonder. We found a message from another girl, telling our daughter, she loves and misses her. There were also several photos of our daughter and this other girl on her phone."

"Her name is Lauren, don't act like she's a disease with a name you cant pronounce." Lea said angrily.

"We don't want to know what her name is, you won't see her again. Whatever she did to you, it's over."

"She doesn't do anything bad to me, in contrary to you she loves me."

"You've no idea what you're talking about, Lea."

"You're mad because your daughter is in love with another woman?" Marie asked the obvious.

"She's not in love, she doesn't do such things, she's a normal girl. She's confused because this girl manipulated her." Anthony Cardwell corrected Marie.

"Have you met Lauren?"

"Don't tell me you know her? Did you also know what she did to Lea?"

"The only thing Lauren did to Lea was she made her happy. Yes, I am aware of their relationship and I can assure you, your daughter is not at risk nor is anything wrong with her. She's in love, which is absolutely normal for a teenager."

"She is not in love with a woman!"

"Yes she is and Lauren loves Lea. They're both very happy and I don't think it's a good idea to prohibit your daughter to see her."

"Lea will see a therapist, who will make her understand her feelings, she believes to have, are wrong."

"Lea has spent over a week with one of the best therapists of the city after Christmas and doctor Weinberg didn't say once something is wrong with your daughter. In fact, she left Lea alone with her toddlers, you don't leave your toddlers with somebody, you think isn't absolutely reliable and sane."

"Lea, I don't understand you." Her mother started. "You always said you want children. Why are you doing this to yourself?"

"Loving Lauren doesn't mean I don't want children. Sara and Sofia have children and love each other. You don't have a problem with that."

"They're not our daughter."

"So this is about you and not about me? You want me to be the way you want me to be, no matter how I feel about it."

Marie placed her hand on Lea's shoulder to stop her. Accusation wasn't a good idea. "I think my husband and I can rely to your situation. We too weren't that happy when Sofia told us, she wanted to date women. It made us believe we won't get any grandchildren. As you know, we've got four wonderful grandchildren now and a daughter, we've never seen more happy than since she met Sara."

"We want our daughter to marry a man and have a family the way it's supposed to be."

"But it's not what Lea wants. Not at the moment. It can change. Sofia dated men for years. I never understood how she could change to women, it was a mystery for me, as I never had any romantic feelings towards a woman. Oh, there were women we absolutely didn't like, wanted out of her life as soon as possible, but there were also men, we thought the same about. In the end we came to the conclusion we had no right to tell her who was good for her, she had to decide it for herself. We did tell her our opinion, which usually didn't impress her much. In the end we decided to support her because otherwise we had lost her."

"You can make Lea stay at home, not see Lauren anymore." Marc added. "But by doing this, you'll make her hate you. When you take away the freedom of a person, take away her love and make her feel like you don't care about her at all, she'll leave and never come back the second she has the chance to. Which is her eighteenth birthday. You can't keep her locked up until she's twenty-one. You can make her decide between you and her lover, but you should think really about this. It can make you lose your daughter."

"She's a child, she can't just leave."

"She's not a child, she's a teenager and yes, she can leave. Either go and live on the streets or go to a shelter for teenagers. We work in soup kitchens, you have no idea how many teenagers are living on the street because they fought with their parents. When you don't want to lose your daughter, you don't lock her up, don't forbid her to see the one she loves. It's not like she's in love with a criminal. Lauren is a nice girl, she's going to be a doctor and her mother is a doctor."

"She's the reason my marks at school are this good, we're studying together. She helps me out with all the subjects I've got problems with." Lea sniffed. "Without her I couldn't be this good."

"You can go to a study group." Her father said. "And why knows everybody this girl while you didn't bother to tell us?"

"Because I knew you'd act like this. You're both so up in your church shit, so much stuck in the medieval that you'd rather sell me to a creep, who keeps me like a prisoner, than see me happy with somebody, who loves me. Do you think I don't know about your plans for me? Marrying a man from your church, become a housewife, have children and wait for my husband to come home in the evening. Guess what, I want to marry a woman, have children with her and have her take care of the same things I have to take care of. Your dreams are not mine."

"You'll ruin your life."

"Sara and Sofia don't look like they've ruined their lives. Unless a ruined life looks like their lives. In this case I want to ruin my life because they're in love, have kids, work and have parents, who support then. Well, the latter one will be the difference between their and my life, my parents don't care about me and my feelings."

"Honey, they do care about you." Marie disagreed.

"Locking me away from the one I love is caring?"

"They're not locking you away."

"You heard what they said, it's exactly what they're planning. I'm not going to stay in my room until I'm eighteen, I'd rather live on the streets." She looked at her parents. "You can't control me all the time, when you keep me away from my friends, my girlfriend, I'm going to run away. And don't think I'll ever come back to you."

"Lea." Marc said, his voice softly. "Don't say such things."

"Why not? They're threatening me! Well, if they don't want it any different, this is what they'll get. I'm not letting them take my life and Lauren away from me."

"Threatening each other doesn't help anybody." Marie looked at Lea's parents. "Do you really want her to run away? Is it worth to lose your daughter because you believe you need to decide what's right for her?"

"Children need their parents to decide what's good for them."

"She's not a child anymore, she's seventeen."

"She's our responsibility."

"And nobody will say you are irresponsible when you let her be with her girlfriend. As a cop, a former cop, I know who is trouble and who isn't. Lauren is no trouble, she loves your daughter, cares for her. I bet if she knew about what's going on here, she'd be here in front of your door to support Lea, not caring what you might do or say to her."

"I just want to be happy and she makes me happy. And people like you are the reason why so many teenager commit suicide, because they feel like they're doing something wrong and are a huge disappointment. I'm not a criminal, I'm not crazy and I'm not a freak of nature, I'm only in love with somebody, who loves me as much as I love her." Lea buried her face in Marie's shirt and cried.

"Doesn't it break your heart to see her like this?" Marie caressed softly Lea's shoulder and looked at her parents. It broke her own heart to see the best friend of her grandson like this. She wanted to rock her softly, tell her everything would be all right, but it was up to Lea's parents to make everything all right. Or at least better.

"Why does it have to be a woman?" Lea's mother sighed.

"It's like asking why do you have blue, green, brown or gray eyes or the shoe size you have. It's nothing you can decide, you fall in love with somebody and can't control who it is. Or did you make a rational decision to fall in love with your husband? I didn't, I he swept me off my feet and believe me, I wasn't happy about it first. He wasn't a cop, I wanted to marry a cop, they understand the hours I worked. Fate had other plans, fate wanted me to fall in love with a former army soldier and then future professor at the university. A civilian, who worked normal hours and had no idea what it meant to be on the job. My parents weren't also happy first, they were both cops too and a civilian in the family didn't sound right. Until they met Marc and saw what we had."

"My family was also not happy I wanted to marry a cop, they were afraid I'd get a call one day that Marie won't come home from work. Took some work to make them change their mind. In the end both of our parents were happy we got married. And so am I. Most times." Marc smirked. "Not when she tries to boss me around, but it's up to me to ignore it."

"Have you ever met Lauren?" Marie asked.

"No." Lea's mother said.

"Why don't you meet her and her parents before you worry she's bad for your daughter? You don't have to invite them over, don't have to go to their house, you can meet somewhere else."

"It doesn't change the fact it's against nature." Lea's father said stubbornly.

"There are animals, which are in homosexual relationships. I doubt that animals, who are a part of nature, can be against nature. It's against what religion teaches us, but a religion is something you believe in. People are entitled to believe different things and it would be wrong to force your beliefs on somebody else. And even if it was against nature: I'd rather see my daughter happy than nature."

"Why don't you want to date Steve?" Her mother tried. "You said you like him."

"I love him, he's like a brother. My best friend."

"Believe me, my daughter wanted them to be a couple too, I remember how she told me over and over again how cute they are together and how happy they're making each other. Steve feels the same for Lea, he loves her like a sister, she's his best friend. I doubt they'll ever be lovers, but they're got something, which most people will never experience: a love that is stronger than other things. Lea would never forget about Steve over Lauren and Steve never let Lea down because of a girl." Maria smiled. Love was more than attraction and sex. Love was about trust and it was absolutely possible to love somebody, you never felt having sex with.


"How is Lea? Is she all right?" Steve asked as soon as his grandparents entered the house. "You were there, weren't you? You talked to her."

"Yes, we talked to her and she's okay."

"Her parents found out about Lauren?" Sara asked. Steve had told his mothers what happened, or he thought, what had happened.

"Yes. They were very mad."

"How did they find out?"

"They found her cell phone, checked it, found a message from Lauren and photos of them."

"Seriously? They sniffed around in Lea's phone?" Steve was angry and looked at his mothers.

"Don't look at us like that, we're not touching your phone." Sofia defended them. "And I don't agree with what Lea's parents did. What did they say about the two?"

"They wanted Lea to stay away from Lauren. All three got quite heated at one point, Lea saying, she'd rather run away and live in the streets than being a prisoner for a year."

"Could you talk sense into her parents?" Sara asked.

"We tried. They believe it's wrong to love a woman when you're a woman."

"They were here, had dinner with us."

"It's different when it's your own child. Sofia."

"They're not going to lock Lea up, are they?" Steve asked carefully.

"No. We could talk them into meeting Lauren and her parents. I doubt Lea's parents will change their opinion after a meeting, but if they can start to accept their daughter and her feelings, it's a good start."

"When they see Lea and Lauren together they must understand it's love and nothing wrong. Lauren makes Lea so happy, it can't be wrong."

"Don't expect too much, Steve. Lea's parents won't change overnight. If they don't forbid Lea to see Lauren it's a start. Of course they'll be suspicious when Lea wants to stay somewhere else, I can't see them agreeing on that the girls stay the night together, they might even not want her to stay here anymore."

"That sucks."

"Language please." Marie reprinted her grandson.

"Sorry. I'm just so sad because Lea suffers for no reason. I want to help her and Lauren."

"This is something she has to work out with her parents. Did you talk to Lauren and her parents?"

"Yes. Lauren was about to drive over and get Lea out of the house. Her mother had to stop her."

Marie smiled. "I thought something like this."

"Is there anything we can do?" Sara asked.

"No. You and Sofia are not exactly the two people Lea's parents want to see now. You won't see much of her the next days or weeks, but she'll go to school, Steve can visit her and I'm sure she can see Lauren too. Not at her place, not as often as before, but they will see each other."

"Did she get her phone back?"

"Yes."

"Good." Steve knew there was no point in calling her now. If Lea was alone in her room, she would be talking to Lauren. He had to wait until they had talked about everything, then she would call him. As her friend he knew when it was his time to step back without being mad.

"I guess we're lucky you and Marc don't think like Lea's parents." Sara said.

"I told them I can understand them to a certain degree. When Sofia told me she wanted to date women, I wasn't all too happy. I feared there wouldn't be any grandchildren. Then she told me she still wants them, it made it easier for me. When she brought you home, I knew she found the one. Lea and Lauren are far away from finding the one, but they found each other, they love each other, they make each other happy. As a mother, who had two dating children, it does make a difference when you know, your child is loved and happy."

"Sara makes me more than happy." Sofia took Sara's hand and kissed it. Sara was her life. Her everything. As long as she had her wife, there would always be a solution. Life would always go on as long as they were together.


NOTE OF AUTHOR:

That's the end of the Silver Lake series. Thanks for reading and reviewing this story and all the stories I have written before. With the end of CSI and the decreasing interest in Sara/Sofia stories I decided to stop publishing any new stories. I've got one more story of these two lovely ladies, which I haven't published here and will upload it on my Internet page so anybody who is interested in it can download the full story there. You can find the link to it on my profile page.

Take care,

Fleppy85