"Are you okay?" (2x17)

Soon the cops got up to leave. Jamie could tell that his girlfriend was a little shaken up from the whole encounter.

"Are you alright?" Jamie asked his girlfriend.

"Think so" Callie answered, still clearly shaken up from the whole experience. Suddenly Callie started to have a panic attack, she hadn't had one in years, but there she was having one,

Jamie was so confused, "Callie, Callie are you okay?"

"I can't… I can't"

"What's going on, are you having a panic attack? Okay, Callie I am right here, here I am going to place your hand on my heart, just focus on your breathing."

Ten minutes had passed before Callie's panic had started to subside.

"Callie, my girl, are you okay?"

"Yes, sorry, I have had a history of having panic attacks, I have only had a few since I graduated high school but sometimes, out of nowhere they happen."

"Oh honey, that's okay, I am glad you told me, I am sorry that this event brought on that."

"Thank you, I think I am going to go and take a bath if that is alright?"

Jamie led Callie into the bathroom and started to run them a bath. Together they relaxed into the warmth of the bathtub. Jamie rubbed Callie's back making sure that she was calm, making sure that she wasn't going to have another panic attack.

Thirty minutes had passed and Jamie looked at the time.

"Are you alright?" He asked for about the 3rd time.

"Yes, I am fine this bath really helped, I am glad I am here, the Coterie doesn't have a communal bathtub and whenever I was at home, after a panic attack, I would always take a bath and that would help."

"I am glad, stay in here as long as you need. Would it be alright if I got started on dinner? If you need anything, I am right here" In the back of Jamie's head he wanted to ask Callie about her history of panic attacks, but he figured that this wasn't the time.

"Thank you so much, Jamie, I just wanted to say, thank you. Ever since I have moved in here you made me feel so special and I just wanted to say that I love the way you make me feel."

"I love you Callie, it is really that simple, you deserve to feel this way" He softly gave her a kiss. "I am going to make dinner now."

Thirty minutes later Jamie called out, "hey honey, dinner is ready", Callie came out from the room wearing one of Jamie's shirts and a pair of shorts.

"Awe, you made me my favorite, you know how much I love your chicken piccata."

"Yes, that's why I made it, your my girl, you deserve your favorite meal"

After exchanging a kiss, they sat down to eat.

"Hey, babe, I don't mean to pry but you said something earlier and I just wanted to check in if that's alright?"

"Yeah, what?" Callie asked before taking a bit of the chicken piccata.

"You said, 'whenever I was at home, after a panic attack, I would always take a bath and that would help', you have had these before?"

"Jamie, if I'm being honest I've had them before I struggled with them all throughout High School, and I haven't had one in a while but yes, I have a history of panic attacks, Jude and I were in some pretty messed up foster homes before Stef and Lena's five out of the six we were in pretty much sucked and one of the homes had a son and he forced me to do something against my will and I have PTSD from that and sometimes, for six years it was like we were consistently living under water from the age of 10 to the age of 16, like I said, sometimes when I am around people I don't trust I just panic. I hope you don't see me as someone who is weak".

"Callie, my girl you are not weak you are strong, you have survived so much, you are so strong, I just hope that you know that around me, you don't need to be strong and put up a shield you can trust and come to me, I will always be there for you."

"I know, I do"

They continued to eat their delicious dinner that Jamie had prepared talking about their past and their families. Jamie was amazed at Callie's story, what she had been through in her past and how she survived in spite of everything she had been through. He knew that he wanted to spend the rest of his days with this incredible young woman.

Soon they were finished cleaning up the kitchen and putting the dishes away, then they went on to Jamie's balcony to watch the nightlife, they sat on the two lawn chairs that Jamie had on his balcony.

"I love the view" Callie said

"I know, I do too, but not as much as I love you"

"Aww, aren't you a sweet talker, I love you too, thank you again for this evening, you really helped calm me down."

"Anytime, I am here for you and I always will be"

They exchanged a kiss and then looked out to the Staples Center. The Staples Center was hosting a concert and you could hear people in the street and in the stadium yet within 15 minutes, Callie was asleep. Jamie gently picked up Callie and took her to bed.

"Good night, my princess" Jamie said before getting himself ready for bed and crawling into bed next to the woman he wanted to be with for the rest of his life and make sure that the next 7 years were as good as the last 7 and nothing like the 6 years before that.

The End