Same Day (a few hours later)

Stef and Lena are in their room, getting ready to go meet Callie and Jude's father.

"I still don't understand why you'd tell her we'd go see her father first. For gods sake Lena, he planned to scare us into giving up Callie and Jude," Stef complained.

Lena started throwing on some jewelry, "I don't want to do this either, Stef. But in all fairness, he wasn't exactly the one doing the planning. That was Chris's doing."

"Yeah, but he took part in it though. Come on, you saw him yourself back at the hotel in Arizona. He scared you to death. How could you just go volunteer to meet this sick—"

Lena interrupted her, "Would you have preferred Callie and Jude go alone? Would that have been a better choice?" Lena's frustration with her wife was coming out through her voice.

"I would have preferred that we forbid it. This could have been over if you would've let me finish talking."

"Why? Because forbidding things always works to our advantage? Callie would have gone anyway. And at least this way, we can examine the situation for ourselves, and then determine if—"

Stef interrupted this time, "If what? If they should forgive him? Move in with him? Why don't you just start packing their bags now?" Stef stared at her watch, "We could get them moved outta here by dinner time."

Lena was shaking her head and getting even more agitated with her wife, "No, Stef! That is not what I'm saying. I just think we need to see this from his perspective. He lost his wife, his children, spent ten years in jail—"

"For good reason," Stef interrupted.

Lena ignored her wife's comment, "Anddddd has spent the last year, trying to do better for himself so that he could get his kids back. Chris is obviously fond of him—"

"Chris is an idiot," Stef interrupted again.

Lena took a deep breath, "Maybe so. But that idiot is Callie and Jude's brother, and we can't ignore the fact that their father is back. If we don't try to at least meet him and give him the benefit of the doubt, Callie and Jude are never going to trust us again."

Stef sighed, realizing that her wife was making a lot of sense, "Fine. But can't we just say we met him, and then forbid it?" She smiled, silently hoping that her wife would agree, but knowing that it wasn't going to happen.

"Stef."

"Okay. Okay. We're doing this because it's for the best. I gotcha...Which reminds me."

"Yeah?"

"Guess who called me mom earlier?"

"No way," Lena said in disbelief.

"Well, more liked yelled it at me," Stef chuckled.

"When? Why?"

"I may have been inflicting pain on her brother, when I handcuffed him and threw him on the ground," Stef mentioned in an innocent voice.

"Stef," Lena said in a disproving voice, but she couldn't help but smile at the image. "Did she realize that she said it?" she asked out of curiosity.

"I have no idea."

Stef and Lena arrive at Donald's apartment and Stef starts knocking on the door, a little to hard.

"Stef!" Lena scolds.

"What?" Stef responds innocently. "Just making sure he's there. Don't wanna have to leave a mysterious note and throw a rock through his window," she jokes.

"I'm glad you can joke about, because I still can't."

A man's voice comes from right behind them, "Me neither." Both women are startled and jump slightly, by the sound of Chris's voice.

"Oh, hey, you made it," Lena says, attempting to give him a warm smile, even though she feels even more uncomfortable than before.

He pulls his keys from his pocket and shoves one into the doorknob, "Of course I made it. I had to be here in case your wife decides she wants to handcuff my dad and throw him onto the ground too," he smiles back.

Stef couldn't help but chuckle, "Yeah, well you have no idea how plausible that is, young man."

Chris opens the door and leads the two women inside.

Lena turns to her wife, "You said you'd be nice," she whispers.

"I never said that," she replied honestly.

"Have a seat," Chris offers the couch in the living room. Both women take a seat and glance at each other in confusion.

"So. Where's your dad?" Stef asks the question that they both wanted to.

"He's on his way. He got held back at work. But he should be here in a few minutes…Do you ladies want something to drink."

"Water would be nice," Lena said. Stef gave her a worried look, but Lena brushed it off.

"And you?" Chris looked at Stef.

"I'm good. Thanks," Stef smiled, just to be polite. She wasn't taking any chances, and she still didn't trust these people. She couldn't understand how her wife could be so forgiving.

Chris walked into the kitchen and came back with two waters. He placed both of them in front of the women, "Just in case."

"So," Stef started. Might as well not waste any time. "Do you live here too?"

"No. I live near Lakeside."

"Alone?"

"No. With my dog, Rusty."

"How nice," Lena spoke as she reached for her glass of water and took a small sip.

"How long have you been in contact with your dad?" Stef asked.

"Stef!" Lena scolded. She didn't think her wife would start interrogating the poor kid, the moment she stepped foot inside.

"No, it's okay," Chris tries to assure Lena. Even though he couldn't help but feel nervous around them. "A little less than a year, but I've known him since I was born."

"How interesting," Stef said, even though she wasn't interested at all. "And did you know about Callie and Jude? Are there any more of you that we should be worried about?"

"I remember them from a long time ago. My dad used to bring them by my mom's house, when they were really little. And there aren't any more that I know of," he offers a small laugh.

"And how come they don't remember?"

"Because he stopped bringing them over, as soon as Callie learned to talk. He didn't want their mom finding out about me."

"Who? Callie and Jude's mom? Why would he keep that a secret from her?" Stef knew that she was catching on to something, something that their dad probably wouldn't tell them about otherwise. She needed to get as much information out of this kid, while they were alone.

"Because he had an affair with my mom, while he was still married to theirs. And he didn't want to risk losing her. You know? By having her find out about it."

Stef turned to look at Lena, "And that's the kind of man you wanted to meet with? A man that couldn't even admit to his wife that he had another son?" Stef obviously wasn't taking the news too well.

Another man came up from behind the moms and started speaking, "I know I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, and I don't blame you two for hating my guts." Donald walked over and sat on the couch beside his eldest son, "But I'm trying to do right by all of them. I'm not the same man I was ten years ago. Hell, I wasn't even a man. I was a coward... But one thing's never changed; I've always loved my children, all three of them."

"Then, why did you wait so long to contact them? It's been over a year? And why is it that when you do contact them, it's by having your son sending us threatening notes?"

"I wanted to wait until I knew I had a stable job, and until I got an apartment big enough for them. I didn't want to jeopardize my chances of getting them back, until I knew that they wouldn't be taken away from me soon after… I didn't want to disappoint them a second time. And when I finally got that good job, and this apartment, I contacted social services, but they told me Callie and Jude were with you guys. I knew that my chances to get them back were slim to none. There's two of you and one of me. And I heard that you two already had positive experiences with your adoptive kids." Real tears were beginning to fill Donald's eyes and he tried to wipe them away, "I was desperate. I just wanted my family back, but I know that's not an excuse. I shouldn't have done what I did to yours, and for that I'm truly sorry. I just hope that Callie and Jude could forgive me one day, but if they don't I'll understand. They don't owe me anything and neither do you…"

Phewww… Ending this chapter was sooooo freakin hard for me. But I left it as a blank.

Next Chapter= Last chapter

I'm finally completing this crap. Just kidding. It's not crap, I'm actually kind of proud of it, but I just wanna finish it soooo badly.

And I'll most likely upload it before this Monday's episode, since their father is going to be in that one, and I don't want it to interfere with whatever the heck I come up with.