I do not own the fosters. I wish I did because it is an amazing show and is very inspiring.
IMPORTANT DETAILS for this story:
Callie got Adopted the same day as Jude, her biological father is Donald.
Callie did go through the ordeal with Liam but she kept a few things hidden from everyone.
LENA got the principals position and lost the baby.
I don't know where Sharon, Dana and Stuart live. So Im saying that Sharon lives in the California area. While Dana and Stuart live in Florida.
TO THE GUEST THAT HAD THE IDEA OF RYLAN BEING CONNORS SISTER, THAT IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA AND IS DEFINATELY NOT TERRIBLE. IF I HADN'T ALREADY DECIDED WHICH WAY I WANTED MY STORY TO GO THEN I WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE USED YOUR IDEA. YOU SHOULD WRITE ONE YOURSELF ABOUT THAT, IT DEFINITELY WOULD MAKE A GOOD STORY AND I WOULD DEFINITELY READ IT.
Previously:
"Ok, will she be able to come home tonight or would it be better for her to stay over night for observation?" Stef asked after taking in all the information that the doctor had given her.
"I would like to keep her in for observation and so that I know for sure that the medication I will be giving her works. She will be saw for a few days from the draining so keep that in mind. Ill let you know more tomorrow when she leaves, we will be taking her to the OR to do the draining very have a nurse come in and prep her in about half an hour." Lena and Stef nodded as the doctor gave one more look at the three of them before heading out, it was going to be a long
night.
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"I …..wa...want to...to.. stay with you." Rylan cried out reaching for her moms. Her voice wasn't strong like it usually was, she was trying really hard to breath as she spoke. Everyone can tell it was hard for her to take breaths and thats why they needed to get her into the OR before she got any worse.
"Mommy and I will be right here when you get back." Lena held the tears a bay. Both moms were being strong for their little girl, it took a lot of strength not to breakdown infront of their child. Just listening to her trying to breath was heartbreaking enough.
Both moms could still hear the little girl screaming the best as she could as she was wheeled to the OR. Lena turned into Stefs arms and sobbed. Both women sobbed together as they held each other for support and comfort.
"We should call the kids and update them." Lena whispered out into Stefs neck. All Stef could do was nod. Both women headed back into the room that Rylan was staying in. Stef sat on the chair and pulled Lena into her lap. Whipping out her phone, Stef dialled the home number and put it on speaker phone and waited for one of the kids to answer.
"Hello, Adams- foster Residence, this is Jude." Lena and Stef smiled at the formal way Jude had answered the phone.
"Hey bubba. Its us." Lena answered
"Hi mom, Mama. How is Mini?" Both women could hear the happiness in his voice and then fear as he asked about his little sister. They weren't going to lie to their kids about this, they had every right to know whats going on with their baby sister.
"Not doing so good at the moment, can you put us on speaker so the others can here." Stef explained as she gave Lena a squeeze. The two women could hear fumbling with the phone and then the voices of the kids pierced through the phone.
"Whats wrong with her." Came Callies voice, they could hear the concern lacing the girls voice, the concern she always had when one of her siblings was sick or hurt.
"She has got fluid on her chest. The doctors have taken her to surgery to remove it.
"Surgery! Is she going to be ok." Both moms could hear the panic in Marianas voice. The other kids had all yelled out surgery in panic. Usually surgery meant something bad, but in this case it really wasn't.
"Her doctor thinks shes too young to have her chest drained while she was awake and didn't want to scare her. So they took her to surgery so she didn't have to watch. They just have to drain the fluid so that she can breath better and feel better." Stef explained as she rubbed Lenas back up and down with her free hand while her other held onto the phone.
"Will she be coming home tonight?" All the kids were asking something along the same lines as they all called out a sentence similar to each others but Jesus's loud voice was the main one they caught.
"No sweetie, mom will stay with her tonight and Ill come home to be with you guys." Lena, knew her other kids needed her too. Stef was capable to be alone here without her.
Is she coming home tomorrow?" Jude asked, his voice was just a whisper. He was basically just asking the questions everyone wanted to hear the answer to.
"The doctor says she will, she will be just a little bit sore though." Lena explained as a nurse popped her head in. Lena got up from Stefs lap and headed over to the nurse to talk to her while Stef continued to speak to the others.
"Oh, if she doesn't can we come up and see her?" Jude asked. His brotherly instincts to worry about his little sister was so adorable. Bieng a big brother came naturally and from what everyone had seen, he was born to be a big brother.
"Im pretty sure she will come home tomorrow, but if not then yes, I think she will love her big brothers and big sisters to come visit her." Stef smiled at her answer. Big brothers and Sister, hopefully Rylan would officially be an Adams foster like everyone else and that made her happy.
"Ok thats good, how long does the surgey go for?" Callie asked, curiosity taking over. Stef looked up to see Lena walking back over after talking with the nurse. She retook her position on Stefs lap and answered Callies question.
"An hour and a half to two hours maybe. Did you guys want me to bring dinner home?" Lena asked looking at her watch.
"No its fine, dad is coming around with Pizza. I wanted to stay home with my family and asked dad if he wanted to join us since it is his time to be with me." Brandon explained. Stef smiled at that and gave Lena a peck. Her ex husband and her may have only been together for a while but Stef knew that Mike was a sweet guy and he was a good male figure to the kids, having him help and around was amazing.
"Thats good, ill talk to him when I get home ok. I love you." Lena replied.
"I love you all. Be good for your Mama when she gets home." Stef replied giving Lena a smirk and then a kiss on the cheek. The kids were usually really good for their parents. The 'be good for your mama' was just to annoy them.
"We know mom. We love you too." Stef let out a laugh as she heard the groans before that sentence was spoken. Lena playfully smacked Stefs arm as she tried to hold back a giggle but failed miserably. The line went dead and Stef placed her phone in her pocket before asking Lena about the nurse that had poked her head in the door.
"What did the nurse want?"
"she was asking which one of us was staying the night. Dr Jamie asked to get a portable bed set up in here." Stef nodded.
"I really like that Doctor. Probably the best one I have met in the paediatrics ward." Lena nodded, agreeing with Stefs words. It was true, many doctors really didn't care but Dr Jamie Gleeson was one of a kind.
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Lena and Stef sat in the room sipping on a cup of tea each that the nurse had brought them. They continued to talk and just hold each other, while they wait for their little girl to be brought back from surgery.
"I still plan on taking you on a date." Stef whispered as she kissed Lenas neck. Lena sighed and looked down at her wife, whose lap she was still sitting in.
"After we get things sorted ok. I want nothing more then to go out on a date but until Rylan is better and in school and the case is moving along, then we can go." Lena explained. They had to much going on to even think about leaving the kids alone to go on a date just yet.
"I know love. I know. Just something to look forward to I guess." Stef kissed Lenas cheek before taking a sip of the tea in her hand.
The door opened and the bed was brought in, their daughter lay asleep on the bed, hooked up to oxygen. Dr Gleeson smiled at the two women as the bed was placed back in the same spot. She adjusted a few things and then the nurses left again to let the Dr talk to the mothers.
"How is she?" Lena and Stef stood, both of them roaming there daughters body with their eyes, to see anyting out of the ordinary.
"The surgery went very well, there was a lot of fluid but we were able to get what we needed out and fixed. There is just a small cut which we stitched up from where we placed the tube. She should wake in a few hours, Im just going to hook her up to the medicine that will help fight any infection. If all is well tomorrow and she shows signs of improvement, I don't see any reason to keep her again."
"Thank you. Thank you for everything you have done, not very many doctors care for their patients like you do and so again thankyou." Lena says as she smiles at the doctor and then places a hand on her daughters cheek, leaning down and placing a kiss on her temple.
"No problem. Just doing my job. Kids are amazing, I care for the kids here as if they were my own. I treat them the way I would treat my own. No point being rude to a child when all they will do in return is be horrible back." Dr Gleeson explained smiling at the little girl asleep in the bed and then back at the two women. She started hooking Rylan up to the medication that a nurse brought in, being gentle to not jostle the IV she already has in her arm.
"I should be going now. Ill see her in the morning to check on her stitches and see when she can go home. Night ladies." Dr gleeson left the room after one more glance at Rylan.
"Now that I know she is alright, Im going to go see our other kids. Ill bring you back some clean clothes as well as Rylan when I come back tomorrow since Im the one with the car seat." Lena chuckled at her own explanation and kissed her wife before turning to place a kiss on her daughters cheek.
"Mama loves you sweet girl." Lena whispered into her daughters ear before giving her wife another kiss and heading out of the room.
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"Hey Im home." Lena calls out as she hangs her Jacket up and places her handbag down and heads into the kitchen where the voices and music were coming from.
As Lena enters the kitchen she smiles at her kids and Mike. All of them were mucking around as they tried to set up the table for dinner. Brandon, Mike Jude and Jesus were using a dish towel each and trying to whip each other which left Callie and Mariana dancing around to music using whatever they could find as microphones. All the kids had smiles on there faces and that made Lena smile aswell. Seeing her kids happy made her happy.
Lena slowly took pictures of the 6 of them, wanting to share the moment with her wife, Lena sent the pictures off to Stef before clearing her throat and speaking.
"I thought this was a house, not a zoo." The kids and mike all stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Lena, she had a smile on her face so she wasn't mad.
"Hey mama." Judes face lit up and he bounded over to his mom and gave her a hug. She rubbed his back and kissed his temple before he released her and heading back over to keep putting plates on the table.
"Hi mama."
"Hi Lena"
Each kid and Mike greeted Lena as she walked further into the kitchen.
"Hope your hungry." Brandon gestured to the 4 boxes of pizza sitting on the counter top. Lena smiled and nodded.
"Starving." She grinned as she took a seat followed by everyone else.
"Thanks Mike." Lena looked at Mike with a smile.
"No problems. Its the least I can do. You guys are family." Mike explained. He was family he was Brandons dad and so that made him family. Their family was strange but its the way Lena liked it and she wouldn't change a thing.
Everyone dug into the pizza and began the normal chit chat. Her family together talking and acting normal. Lena sighed at noticing the two people missing, hopefully they would be home tomorrow and her family would be complete and back together.
As the conversations died down, Lena decided to talk to the kids.
"What do you guys want to do tomorrow when Rylan gets out of Hospital? Its going to be Sunday afternoon and you kids have school the next morning." Lena asked looking around at the kids, waiting for any suggestion.
"Can we have a BBQ and then sit around the fire and roast marshmallows tomorrow night before our long week of school?" Jude asked after a few minutes of silence. He always had the best ideas.
"That actually sounds good. I think Mom and Rylan would love that. You in Mike? Sharon will be here aswell." Lena asked looking at Mike. He was family.
"Yeah sure. Why not." Mike shrugged before taking a bite of his pizza.
"Ok so its settled, BBQ with Mike and Grandma." Everyone nodded and agreed.
"I can take the others and we can go shopping while you go to the hospital. We can get the ingredients to make toasted sandwiches and Tomato soup for lunch tomorrow as well." Brandon suggested earning a nod from each of his siblings. Lena smiled at her oldest son kindly.
"Thanks B, I appreciate that. Ill give you my card in the morning."
Lena smiled at each of her kids as they ended up starting conversations between them. She had gotten so lucky to have each of the kids in her life and she never ever thought what her life would be like without them. She was blessed.
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The kids were still in conversation and thats when she remembered that she hadn't even invited Sharon around for the BBQ, she had only assumed she would come.
"If you would excuse me, I just have a phone call to make." Lena said as she looked at her kids with a look of apology before heading to the living room to make her phone call to Sharon. Hitting call on her phone Lena held it to hear ear and waited.
"Lena dear, how are you?" Sharons voice came through the phone. Lena smiled and relaxed a little. Something about Sharon was so calming just like Stef. She was glad that she had a mother just around the corner if she needed a moment. Although it wasn't her mother, Sharon always welcomed her into her arms.
"Im fine, just having dinner with the kids and Mike." It sounded weird saying that she was having dinner with mike even after all these years.
"Where is Stef? Is she working again? Wait Mikes her partner so shes not working, where is Stef?" Sharon rambled. Lena couldn't help the smile that crept on her face. Sharon was a worrier and she worried a lot about her daughter, daughter in law and grand kids.
"Shes fine Sharon. Stefs at the hospital with Rylan. Rylan just had some surgery and will be home tomorrow. That is why I am calling though." Lena explained.
"Is Rylan alright? Why did she need surgery?" Sharon worried, like always.
"She had some fluid that needed to be drained from around her lungs. It was making it hard for her to breath and so its been fixed now. They have her in for observation and to make sure she is fever free before they release her." Sharon sighed in relief at hearing that.
"You want me to come down and watch her while you guys are at work?" Sharon knew her daughter and daughter in law too well, and when she heard the sigh in relief from Lenas end of the phone she knew she was right.
"That would be amazing. It would be very helpful if you could. I cant take anymore time off and Stef will be here with her. If you could, I don't know just help her in case she needs to do paperwork or gets called in." Lena said as she poked her head in the kitchen as she heard the kids laughing at something Mike was saying, smiling she shook her head and went back into the living room and looked out the window.
"No problem darling. I would love to watch her. Stef would be able to handle it but Ill just be backup in case. I would love to Spend one on one time with my new little grand daughter. Ill be there after lunch tomorrow?" Sharon asked, smiling that she got to get to know her future littlest grand daughter.
"Yes, Ill be going to the hospital at visiting hours at nine. Probably be home around lunch, We are having a BBQ for dinner and then roasting Marshmallows around the fire. Jude Idea. Mike will be there aswell." Lena thought for a second before she has said this sentence.
"Alright sounds like a great idea. I will see you tomorrow darling. Give my grand kids a big kiss from me and tell them ill see them tomorrow." Sharon said.
"See you tomorrow Sharon. Thank you and I will." With a last goodbye, Lena hung up and headed back into the kitchen to talk to her kids. A she enters the kitchen the conversation drifts off and the kids look at her, all waiting to hear what she was doing on the phone.
"Grandma says she loves you and she will see you tomorrow afternoon and wants me to give you these." Lena says as she walks around the table placing kisses on each of the kids temples before taking her seat between Callie and Jesus.
"Grandmas definitely coming tomorrow?" Mariana smiled at the thought. She loved her grandparents as much as she loved her mothers.
"Yep. Shes going to come over and help your mom watch Rylan. Shes just a backup incase mom gets called in or something." All kids were smiling. They loved their Grandma.
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"Mama?" Callie and Mariana poked there heads into their Moms room. Lena was laying on the bed just staring at the ceiling. Her two girls voices broke her daze and she sat up and looked at the two of them.
"Whats up girls?" Lena patted the bed on Stef side, the two girls walked in and scooted into the bed on each side of Lena. Both snuggled up the their mama and sighed.
"We just missed the sound of Rylan breathing and then we thought of you in here alone and we wanted to come and snuggle with you. Is that alright?" Mariana whispered into the dark room. Lena smiled and squeezed her girls hands in her own.
"I love you girls and its more then alright. Rylan and mom will be home tomorrow. I promise. Now give me a kiss and go to sleep." Both girls kissed Lena on the cheeks then sighed and snuggled together.
"We love you too." Callie whispered as she buried her face in her Mamas hair and drifted off.
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