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Waking the Bear
Callie was sleeping so peaceful that the Moms decided that they would go home. That the ice cream would wait, it was more important to let her sleep. Callie didn't even wake up when Stef got her out of the car and carried her upstairs placing her in the Moms bed. Callie curled up in a ball, placing her thumb in mouth and rubbed her nose a few times but didn't mummer nor open her eyes. Stef had gotten in the bed next to her, with her laptop to do some paperwork. Callie felt Stef beside her she had reached out her free arm finding Stef and had grasped tightly onto her shirt and had gone back to a sound sleep.
Lena came into check on them; it had been over two hours since they had gone up. She found that Stef had finished her paperwork and had decided to take a nap also. Lena had tried to be quiet but Stef being a light sleeper anyway, started stirring as soon as the door and started opening.
"Hey Babe, have a good nap?" Lena asked as she walked over to Stef's side of the bed with a cup of coffee.
"Yes, thanks" Stef replied quietly as she took the coffee from Lena. After a sip she asks "We can make room if you would like"
"No thanks, Babe do you think she will be ok for a few minutes? We need to talk" Lean asks as she nods to their bathroom. Stef nods and quietly gets out of bed putting the extra pillows down where she had just been laying and then went to the other side and did the same thing on Lena's side of the bed. For Callie's part she had just brought her arm in and had tucked into her body making herself go into a tighter ball when Stef had gotten up.
The Moms left the door open a little so that they could hear if Callie needed them. They embraced each and had started making out like teenagers for a few minutes.
"Hi ya Mrs. Adams Foster, been awhile" Stef said as she smile and let her hands run Lena's body as she stole another kiss.
"Hello, Mrs. Adams Foster" Lena had replied trying not to moan as Stef's hands made her feel so good. She knew where this could head and they didn't have time so reluctantly she pushed back from Stef, interlocking their hands. "Focus" she says smiling as Stef sneaks in for another kiss.
"Ok Babe first off how is Callie?" Lena asks
"She hasn't moved since I settled in bed" Stef replies, still trying to steal more kisses
"Good…Bill called he wants to do a home visit tonight, he request both kids be here." Lena says. The minute she mentioned Bill Lena had Stef full attention.
"Both kids?" Stef asks
"Yes both, he was on break from a hearing at the court house and couldn't give me much details except he needed both of them and he would be here between four and five. Do you think we should be worried?" Lena asks and looks down she knows she has to tell Stef about their earlier conversation. "I kind of lost my temper when I talked to him on Wednesday when I reported and asked him to get the adoption papers ready. I practically threaten to strong arm him with the press if there is a problem with the paperwork" Lena tells her wife embarrassed.
"OO Love, I wouldn't worry about it Wednesday was a hard day and I have always found Bill to be understanding." Stef says seriously then with a smile says "I thought I was the one who let her mouth get ahead of her brain? You are supposed to be the calm one" Lena returns the smile to Stef's teasing and reaching out to play tap Stef arm.
Stef grab her arm and starts playing it up like she is hurt "Assault to add to your charges you are becoming a real Bruiser. I might have to arrest you" as she leans in to get a real kiss from her wife bring her into a hug.
After a few moments Lena asks "How do you think the kids will take a visit? Callie did well this morning once we got her settled down, but she was a bear before. Jude seemed to leave on a good note."
Stef nodded her agreement "We need to check in with both before Bill gets here, I am sure it will be twice as bad if it's a surprise to them. Remember the twins hiding every time Bill came by?"
Lena nodded "I remember you having to climb the tree to get Marianna down after Jesus talked her into following him up there to hide and she got too scared to come down. After it took us over a half hour to find them for Bill"
"See Love, if he can understand why two of our children who were supposed to be waiting for him in the living room for a quick check in somehow ended up in the top of the tree. He can understand a Mom Tiger moment" Stef says to reassure Lena. "It is almost two now do we want to wake the Callie? She hasn't eaten anything except toast today and two bites of sandwich last night. And we don't want her to sleep too much today, so she will sleep tonight"
"Yes, I know but she is finally sleeping soundly, this is the longest she has slept at a time this week." Lena says
" Yeah but if we have to settle her down like we had to this morning we are going to need time and I would like for her to be calm when Jude gets home. She was very intimidating to him this morning which she needs to fix." Stef says
Lena nods her head "Yes, he is so worried about her, but he seems to be on board with us. We still need to talk to them about the adoption. If we do it now it might help with them feeling more secure, that we are committed to them."
"Let's handle this morning's issues, before Bill's appointment. If we have time we can deal with the adoption if not we can do it tonight at bed time. The twins will not be home until dinner B doesn't have lessons tonight so I can send him store to get the stuff for ice cream sundaes while Bill is here. After he leaves how about we have dinner on the deck? I will grill; you throw together a quick salad, ice cream for dessert. Maybe a fire in the pit or a movie nice quiet night at home." Stef says
Lena answers "Sounds great…but your turn with the bear she is not the most pleasant when she first gets up."
"Fine" Stef says in her best Callie voice and crosses her arms. "At some point we need to discuss her special rules, that we got side tracked from this morning." as she walked out the bathroom door.
Stef was glad to find Callie sleeping soundly in the same position she had left her in. She moved the pillows and slid back into her place.
"Sweets, you need to wake up" she says as she starts to move Callie hair from her forehead." Sweeeets, wake up for me…come on Sleepy Head wake up for me" When Callie doesn't move Stef shakes Callie's shoulder and then started rubbing her hand up and down her arm. Callie starts to struggle to come awake. "Callie, you need to wake up" After a few minutes she hasn't made much progress, Stef takes Callie by the wrist and tries to take her thumb out of her mouth.
"Doooonnnnnnn'ttt" Callie says loudly, as she jerks back her hand and tries to put her thumb back in her mouth but Stef will not let her by interlocking their fingers.
"Callie, you need to wake up" Stef says in a louder voice as she again goes back to moving Callie's hair off her forehead, running circles around and around with her finger tips on the girls forehead.
Callie all of sudden jerks awake like Stef hadn't been trying to get to wake up for the last five minutes. She quickly sits up in the bed a scoots up, placing her back against the head board; she has a confused, dazed look on her face.
Stef was glad to see that she hadn't let go of her hand though. "You are in our room…you are safe it is ok…Hey Sleepy head how did you sleep?"
Callie shrugs but when Stef gives her a look she says "Fine" as she becomes more awake and less confused
Stef asks "It is time for lunch, your pain pills and it looks like you need some ice for your hand there. What do you want for lunch?"
"Ice Cream" Callie mumbles
This made Stef laugh "I don't think we can get that by Momma…Lets go see if we can find us something to eat" as she helps Callie out of the bed to go downstairs.
Callie lets Stef lead her into the kitchen, but she lets go of her hand. She sees fresh coffee, walks over to make herself a cup.
"No Ma'am it is nearly two in the afternoon." Lena says as she walks in. Callie ignores her and keeps making herself the coffee.
"Callie, don't ignore your Momma" Stef says from the open door of the fridge where she was finding stuff for sandwiches.
"Callie would you like water, milk or juice?" Lena asks trying to have patients with the girl. When she doesn't answer her Lena says "Callie look at me and tell me what you want please" when the girl turns around to look at Lena she can tell that Callie is trying to maintain her emotions "Calm down, breathe and use your words please" Lena says in her Momma voice
"Why?" Callie finally mumbles
"Why what Baby? Why you can't have coffee right now?" Lena asks Callie nods her head
"Because it is late in the afternoon and it is too late for you to drink it. It will just make you jumpy. Now would you like water, milk or juice for lunch?" Lena asks again
"Sweets the deal was one cup Yes?" Stef asks Callie nods her head "I believe you helped me with mine this morning yes?"
Callie doesn't like it but she slow nods her head. She finally mumbles "FINE, Water" as she crosses her arms
Stef replies "Watch your tone. What kind of sandwich do you want?"
"Your grilled cheese please" Callie mumbles. This made Stef stop and look at Callie none of her children ate her cooking much less ask her to cook something. "Mine?" Stef asks to make sure she heard her correctly. Callie nods her head.
This makes Stef come over and give her a big hug "I knew you had great taste Sweets...Grilled cheeses coming up"
"Let's try not to burn down the house Stef, the fireman was nice enough to give us just a warning last time you tried to make them" Lena says smiling as she brings all their waters to the table. Now her plan is to go switch out a load of laundry before leaving she calls out to Callie "Callie can you get the plates and napkins please?" It takes a moment but Callie goes and does what she is told. By the time she is done the Moms are seated at the table and have left the corner spot open between the two of them for her. Callie sees it she grabs her plate and her sandwich, which she has to jungle in her hands because it hot. She quickly slides it onto the plate as she sits down at the other side of the table as far as she can from them.
All this makes the Moms laughs, Callie starts to get mad Lena says "You must have really burnt the sandwiches, if she has to hide to eat them" teasing Stef
"She must think you are going to take her delicious sandwich, she is protecting what is hers" Stef teases right back.
The teasing banter calms Callie and she is smirking when she starts eating her sandwich with her eyes on the table never looking up from it until she was finished.
Lena gets up and brings Callie water and her pain pills around to her, sliding another sandwich on her plate "Here Baby, we don't want you choking on your sandwich"
Callie takes the pills without comment, but when she sees the other sandwich on her plate she shakes her head "No thanks full". She sits there quietly as the Moms finish with their lunch and their discussion when it gets to the plan for the rest of the afternoon.
Stef brings Callie into the conversation "Sweets, Momma and I want to talk to you and Jude when he gets home. We are not finished with the conversation we started this morning." Callie looks up and glances at Stef when she mentions the conversation. "Callie your behavior this morning is not what is expected out of you." When Stef says this, Callie glares at Stef who keeps the girls eye. "You were not very nice to Jude and you were trying to undermine what Momma was telling Jude… Use your words" Stef tells Callie when she sees the girl getting frustrated at not being able to get her thoughts together
"WE have rules, she got him to break them" Callie growls between hitched breaths "She was changing the rules" Callie is get angrier by the moment.
"We are the parents we get to make the rules" Stef says
"NO, we follow The Rules always." Callie says as she stands up with her clinching and unclenching her fist, clearly losing the battle to maintain control.
"You need to take a deep breath and watch your tone Young Lady" Stef calm tries to tell her. "We will make whatever rules or adjustment to the rules as we see fit. We are both of your and Jude's Mothers. Our house, our rules" Stef says in a very stern voice the one that the kids didn't cross.
As soon as already mad Callie heard "Our house, our rules" comment come out of Stef's mouth, which Fat Ass had said a version of it to her as she was beating her with the belt for some slight. Callie loses her temper and throws the closes thing she could which was her water bottle at Stef. Callie was so pissed and frustrated at point that the bottle went by Stef head by a foot and slammed into the oven door landing on the floor.
"FUCK YOUR RULES "Callie yells than launches her plate at Stef who by this time was moving quickly around the table to stop Callie.
"NO Callie" Stef says in a stern voice.
"I TAKE CARE OF US, OUR RULES ALWAYS!" Callie yells as she turns to running out of the kitchen.
A/N: Thank you Lacorra for the edits I couldn't do this without you