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.
Previously:
Stef heard some crunching and when she looked down, Rylan held up a piece of Stefs toast with two Rylan sized bites in it.
"Hey thats mine baby girl. You already ate...alright fine ill share." Stef said before caving in seeing the little girl was smiling an no longer mad. How could she deny her baby girl anything when she smiled like that. Lena chuckled as she watched the interaction between her wife and youngest daughter, two peas in a pod those two.
"Why do I put up with you?" Stef said letting out a pretend sigh causing Rylan to giggle.
"Cause you love me mommy." Rylan said as she shrugged and took another bite from the piece of toast, smiling up at her mom as she did. Stef chuckled and shook her head.
"That I do...that I do."
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"Alright, lets go find a nice shady spot yeah?" Rylan looked up at her Mama with a smile and nodded.
The three had finished breakfast, gotten dressed and had packed a picnic lunch to take to the park, which is where they were right now.
"I pick Pleeeeeeease?" Rylan gave her moms a puppy dog pout causing all three to laugh. Both moms nodded and Rylan cheered as she tucked her soccer ball under her arm and headed through the park with her moms close behind her.
"This one good Mama?" Rylan asked standing under a tree. On one side of the tree was a large open area and the other side had access to a playground.
"Its perfect sweetheart." Rylan beamed at her moms. Stef put the picnic basket and cooler down as Lena spread the blanket on the grass.
"Alright, Mom and I are going to sit her for a bit. Why don't you go play on the swings and then we will go play with the ball and then lunch ok?" Rylan nodded loving the idea and as soon as she nodded and got a smile from her mom, Rylan was bounding over to the play area where a bunch of other kids were.
"She seems a lot better. I guess the doctor appointment tomorrow will turn out positive. She really needs to go to school and become social." Lena rambled on as she scooted back to sit between Stefs legs so that her back was resting against Stefs chest.
Stef placed her chin on Lenas shoulder and wrapped her arms around Lenas waist as she looked at their youngest talking to some kids on the playground.
"Im glad shes not angry anymore. She does look quite better though, so I am praying that she can go to school on tuesday." Lena nodded.
"If all goes well tomorrow, you can bring her in and we can give her a tour and she can meet her teacher and her classmates." Stef nodded, that idea was a good one. She sealed the deal with a kiss to Lenas cheek.
"I like your thinking My love." Stef whispered, Lena just nodded and placed her hands on Stefs that were on her belly.
"Do you ever think how our life would be different if Frankie was still here?" Lena whispered after a few moments of silence.
Lena caught herself a few times during school time imagining Frankie as a toddler running around after Rylan and getting chased by the other kids. It hurt to think about it but she was glad that she hadn't forgot her baby.
"I do. It would be more crowded and we would be in over our heads but we would love the chaos all the same. I imagine her as a spitting image of you my love. Her beautiful curly hair and big brown eyes that Rylan would have taught her to use to her advantage." Stef rambled on, a smile on her face. Lena chuckled at Stefs last sentence. It would have been very true, Little miss Rylan was very good at wrapping people around her finger and she would have no doubt taught Frankie.
Just like her wife, Stef always thought about Frankie. At work, listening to Rylan laugh, watching the kids play. She was still apart of their life, just in their minds and hearts.
"I really miss her." Lena whispered as she let out a sigh and leant back into Stef more.
"I miss her too my love."
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When Rylan ran back to the picnic blanket, her moms were laying down looking up at the sky, they looked relaxed and happy which made Rylan smile.
She was breathless as she took a seat on the blanket between her moms, she had been playing tag with the other kids and now she was panting, her face was red from her running and she was thirsty.
"Hey baby girl, are you having fun with those kids?" Lena asked as she sat up and got Rylan a bottle of water from the cooler they brought with them.
"Thanks mom,Yeah I am, there is a boy over there, his dad is firefighter. Isn't that cool?" Rylan explained with a smile on her face before opening her water and taking a few big gulps.
"Thirsty baby girl?" Stef smiled with an amused face as Rylan drank more then half of her water bottle. All that Rylan did was nod.
"Want to go kick the soccer ball?" Stef asked holding the soccer ball up. Rylan nodded eagerly and stood up.
"Mama, come play too." Rylan begged, giving her mama a pouting puppy dog face. Lena remembering the conversation earlier burst out laughing with Stef and nodded.
"Oh, alright. Ill come play with two of my favourite girls." Rylan cheered and stole the soccer ball from Stefs arms and bolted onto the clearing.
"Hey!" Stef yelled as she sprinted after the little girl who stole the ball out of her arms.
"Come get me mom." Rylan yelled as she ran with the ball to escape her mom. Lena chuckled as Rylan was lifted into the air, a squeal and laughter exiting her mouth as she was picked up by Stef.
"Mommy thats not fair. You have longer legs then I do." Rylan giggled out as Stef spun her around before setting her on her hip and heading over towards Lena in the middle of the clearing.
"Well you're younger and have more energy then me so it is fair." Lena chuckled at the bickering that her wife and youngest were doing. Stef really loved to rile up the kids and annoy them, it was really entertaining on some days like now.
"You have longer legs so its not fair." Both Lena and Stef chuckled at Rylans reasoning even though she had just said that as her argument before.
"Stef your not going to win and she is right though." Lena interrupted before Stef could say anything else.
"See mama agrees with me." Rylan said poking her tongue out at her mom as Stef placed her on the ground. Rylan looked up at her mom with a smirk and her hands on her hip. Stef rolled her eyes in a playful way and then let out a sigh.
"Ok, yes I have longer legs but..." Before Stef could finish her sentence Lena interrupted making Stef groan and Rylan giggle.
"Stef just admit defeat." Lena suggested with a smile on her face, she was highly amused.
"Fine...your it." Stef sighed before tapping Rylan on the head and bolting away from the little girl and her wife, laughing as she did so.
"Hey you cheated." Rylan called out as her mom ran away laughing. Stef got to the edge of the clearing and put her hands on her hips, smirking and laughing at her wife and daughter.
"Sooooooooo?" Lena said waiting for Rylan to go chase Stef.
"lets get her." Rylan all of a sudden said as she looked from her smirking mom across the clearing, then to her Mama next to her.
"Yeah, good idea." Lena smirked and both Rylan and Lena took off towards Stef.
The smile on Stefs face vanished as she watched her wife and daughter run towards her. She legged it, knowing that Lena was fast.
"Hey no fair two against one." Stef called from over her shoulder as she ran as fast as she could to get away from her wife and daughter. She wasn't lucky because Lena managed to catch up to her and jump on her back sending the two toppling onto the floor in a fit of giggles.
"Got you honey." Lena said through giggles just as Rylan flew into them. She sat on top of Stefs stomach and tickled her mom.
"I win I win." Rylan said bouncing and cheering. Stef chuckled, out of breath but she managed to get Rylan off of her and laying on the grass to tickle her.
"Mama, help me." Rylan giggled out through her panting. Stef stopped seeing her little girl going red in the face. Rolling onto her back next to Lena and Rylan, all three looked to the sky, all panting with smiles on their faces.
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"Listen to that tummy bear baby girl." Stef said from her spot on the grass laying next to Rylan. Lena had gone off towards the blanket about ten minutes ago to get lunch ready. Both blondes just happy to get their breaths back and relax on the grass.
"Its really hungry mommy." Rylan giggled as she placed her hands on her stomach.
"I bet it is, I guess we need to feed it." Stef said as she sat up making Rylan do the same.
Everyday Stef looks into the face of her little girl and couldn't be happier that she was in their lives. She just loved looking at the little girl who is a spitting image of herself. If Stef and Lena could have a child naturally with both their DNA, Rylan would be what Lena and Stefs natural child would look like, if that were possible she would have a a few little Stef/lena look alikes running around. Stef chuckled at her thought.
"Yep we do. Do you have a tummy bear Mommy?" Rylan looked at her mom and then poked her in the stomach causing Rylan to chuckle when Stef playfully poke her back.
"Oh I really do, mine is probably bigger then yours." Stef smirked as she rubbed her tummy, she really was hungry.
"Nah mine is bigger." Rylan said just as her stomach made a large rumbling causing the two of them to burst out laughing.
"Ok, judging by the sound yours is making I guess yours is bigger then mine." Stef announced as she stood and helped Rylan to her feet. The little girl happy that she had won another playful argument.
"Told you, I am really really really hungry." Rylan explained rubbing her tummy with a smirk as another rumble came from her stomach.
"Well lets go sit with mama and eat." Stef suggested as the two headed towards the blanket where Lena was setting lunch up.
"Ok, im gonna beat you mommy." Rylan said over her shoulder as she bolted past her mom and over to the blanket. She laughed when her mom called back to her.
"Cheater."
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Rylan sat on the picnic blanket eating her peanut butter and jam sandwich. Stef and Lena eating their ham and salad sandwiches.
"Here baby girl." Lena handed Rylan her water bottle. Rylan thanked her and smiled before taking a long drink from her water. She hadn't realised she was so thirsty.
Rylan looked up when she heard some kids laughing really loudly. She smiled at them from her spot on the picnic blanket. Two boys and a little girl, probably brothers and sister were swinging on the swings. The two boys were running through the swings dodging the little girl as she swung back and forward. The boys would pretend to be hurt and she would crack up laughing.
Rylan took another bite of her sandwich as she scanned the park. Her eyes found a man and women and two little girls playing around with a ball. They were a family.
For so long Rylan had wished her mom and dad were still around to be just like that family. She wanted to go to the park like they were and have family dinners and do all the family things she never got to do when she was really little.
Rylan now had two women who she called moms but they weren't really her moms, not yet that is. She could be taken at any time because she wasn't adopted, although she knew Stef and Lena would do anything they could to keep her and she definitely knew that for certain.
As Rylan looked around the park she could see a mom and a dad with every kid. Rylan loved having two moms, she just wished she had a dad, just to see what it would have been like. She never really got to know her dad, well that she could remember. She remember him being there where she was really little and then with a blink he was gone, dead or alive she had no idea.
Rylan wiped away a tear as she continued to search the park, just looking at the happy families and glad to be in a happy family. She scanned the other side of the playground and smiled, she was just getting to look at the clearing when her head snapped back to the playground and her heart sped up.
"Mama hes here." Rylan whispered loud enough to Alert her moms that she was speaking but she was looking at the man, her eyes never leaving his form.
"What honey?" Lena asked looking at Rylan from the conversation she was having with Stef. Stef looked at her daughter aswell and they could both see her face was pale and both became worried.
"The man...the man that keeps looking at me...the man from the park last time." Rylan managed to get out as she continued to look at the man. Lena looked at Rylans line of sight and her heart sped up.
"STEF!" Lena almost shouted but kept her cool, but her hand was on Stefs thigh.
"Yeah I see him. Stay here with mama ok baby." Stef said as she stood from the blanket, getting ready to go after the man. He was the lead they needed to figure out who Rylan was.
"Don't do anything stupid Stef." Lena pleaded as she watched her wife get ready to go talk to him. Stef turned and looked at her wife and daughter.
"I wont, I just want to talk to him." Lena nodded, she could see it in her wifes eyes that she was telling the truth. Rylan continued to look at the man before looking at her mom.
"Be careful mommy." Rylan whispered. Stef smiled a sad smile as she knelt infront of Rylan.
"I will be right back. I promise." Stef whispered before placing a kiss to Rylans cheek and then one on Lenas as she stood and headed over.
As Stef made her way to the man that apparently killed her little girls biological mom, Stef started to become mad and angry. She knew she couldn't hurt this man but she really wanted to. If he really was the man that killed Rylans mom infront of her and threatened Rylan, Stef wanted to put him away so bad.
As Stef got closer to the man, he looked straight at her. He noticed who she was and he was not going to get caught. He knew she was a cop, he had been spying on/ watching Rylan for some time.
"Hey you, can I talk to you a moment?" Stef called as she was closer. The mans eyes went wide and he bolted. It was run or get caught and die. He knew what he needed to do and so he did it.
"Hey you...police stop." Stef called as she took off running after the man. The man dodged families waling together, people walking dogs and people on bikes. He was heading towards the road and Stef knew that once he got to the road she would lose him and she couldn't let that happen.
"Someone stop that man." Stef called out but no one did, they just looked at her like she was crazy. Stef let out an angered groan as she pushed herself to run faster.
"Police freeze." Stef called again, she was going on him but he was still a good twenty metres in front of her.
She stopped running when she lost sight of him on the road. A lot of people and cars were on the street and she could no longer see him. This is what she hated about many chases.
"Shit." Stef groaned as she scanned the crowded street. It was times like this, that she really hated the weekend.
"Im sorry Baby." Stef whispered to herself as she bent over and put her hands on her knees as she regained her breath. She wanted to catch this man so she could get answers for her little girl but that wasn't happening.
"I saw your face, ill find you, you son of a bitch." Stef whispered. She couldn't say it too loud as there were a lot of people around.
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"…..then mommy chased him but he ran off into a lot of people and so she couldn't catch him." Rylan finished the story of the incident at the park. Everyone was sitting at the dinner table eating dinner. The kids were all listening intently at Rylan story, Jesus and Brandon were a little mad that the man wouldn't leave their sister alone and wished they had been there to help their mom chase him.
"I have seen his face now baby girl. Its a start." Stef explained. She would look at mug shots and see if he comes up. Its a start but she was more determined then ever.
"Alright, Brandon, Callie, Mariana are on cleanup duty tonight, jesus take the trash out please." Lena said as she placed her plate in the sink.
"Rylan upstairs to the bathroom, Jude and Mama homework time." Stef said as she also placed her plate in the sink along with Rylans.
Rylan slid off the stool and headed up the stairs.
"Are you going to find him mom?" Brandon asks once Rylan had gone upstairs. He really wanted to make sure his littlest sister was safe and he couldn't think she was safe when she has a stalker.
"I will do anything and everything I can to make sure she is safe, you all don't need to worry." Stef reassured the kids who were all listening in.
"We will always be worrying, its part of being a big brother or sister." All the kids nodded, agreeing with Jude. Stef and Lena exchanged a smile as Stef headed up the stairs to go do bath time with Rylan.
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Lena sat at the dining table with Jude, helping him with homework. Callie was washing the dishes, Mariana and Brandon were drying them and putting them away.
"I um...im just gonna..." Callie said as she dried her hands and went out to the backyard now that she had finished washing dishes. Lena watched her go with a frown. She looked to see Jude had only one question left and so with a kiss to his temple she stood.
"Im going to check on Callie, can you give us some privacy and not come out please?" Lena asked the kids.
"Ok mama." the three kids in the room said in some form before she headed outside and over to her eldest daughter. Callie was sitting on the deck stairing out into the yard. Lena could see by her shaking for that Callie was sobbing.
"Bug." Callie sniffled at the sound of her Mamas voice.
"Im sorry." Callie whispered, her voice thick from her crying. Lena moved over and sat right beside Callie and wraped and arm around her shoulders. Callie fell into her Mamas embrace and sighed.
"Why are you sorry?" Lena asked, Callie hadn't done anything and so she was confused as to why her Eldest daughter was apologising.
"I dunno mama... Im just...Im just tired of everything. Im tired of being scared, im tired of worrying about my siblings being in danger. I just want our family to get a break and just focus on being a family. No more stalkers, no more trials, no more anything. I would give an arm and a leg to have a really boring year for once." Callie rambled, not once moving from her embrace with her mom.
It all made sense to Lena now. Her daughter was breaking down from all the emotions and she was stressing over things she didn't need to stress about. No matter how hard she tried, Callie would always be an adult, now matter how hard she tried Callie couldn't let go an be a kid like she needed to be. The system had ruined it for her and that made it all the more heartbreaking. She had a family, she was adopted and she still couldn't settle into being a kid.
"Without an arm ad a leg it wouldn't be boring, hard but not boring." Callie chuckled which made Lena smiled. She was glad Callie laughed.
"Mama im serious." Callie said with a hint of amusement in her tone, Lena still had a smile on her face.
"I know sweetheart. Everything will work out, our past and these trials will make us all stronger. These trials are what we all need to go through to put your pasts behind you. One day in the future you are going to look back and think ' hey I survived that and look at me now'. You are strong Callie, don't let anything like this push you down because afterall you are better then your past history. But as you know a day as an Adams-Foster will never be boring." Lena explained as Callie listened in carefully, every time Lena talked to her she always felt better, heck every time her mom or mama talked with her she felt better and she was glad that she became apart of this family.
"Oh I definitely know that but I can wish for it, can't I?" Callie whispered as she played with the hem of her shirt.
"Oh you sure can wish for it but one day of boring and you would be begging to go back to crazy." Lena knew what Callie was getting at and she too had thought of it many times before.
"Oh that is so true." Callie said deciding that boring wasn't her thing, she wouldn't be able to cope an hour of non crazy life because she was use to the crazy life. Callie sat up to look in her mamas eyes.
"I think im going to be ok mama as long as I have my family." Lena placed a hand on Callies cheek and lent forward, placing a gentle kiss on Callis temple. Callie smiled and wrapped her arms around her mamas neck and let out a sigh of content. Lend hugged her back with the same amoutn of passion. No matter how many times she hugged her kids, each hug got better and better.
"You will always have us bug, you are out daughter, you are loved." Lena felt Callie smile into her neck at the sentence. Callie then sat back and face the yard again as Lena placed her hand around Callies shoulders again.
"What about rylan? Shes so much younger then I. I cant help think that shes not going to tak all of this well and soon shes going to explode with emotions because shes handling this really well for someone her age." Lena knew that what Callie was feeling was also to do with Rylan. The two had been through some of the same foster home and that connection was their strongest, that made them strong.
"She is just like you and Mom. She will be fine if she has all of us around her. When the time comes we will deal with it. We may even get her into therapy." Lena explained, she knew Rylan needed therapy, it was helping Callie and It could help Rylan.
"That would be good for her, she needs to open up. She is very strong and brave." Lena smiled. Callie was also strong a brave but she always thinks less of herself.
"That she is and so are you my bug." Callie blushed and snuggled into her mama more. Callie grabbed her mamas free hand and held it in her own.
"I love you mama." Callie whispered before she planted a kiss on Lenas cheek. Lena smiled and looked at Callies face.
"Love you too, my Callie- Q." As soon as Lena said this Callie burst out laughing Lena frowned but was amused as to why her daughter was laughing.
"What are you Dr Seuss now?" Callie chuckled out. Lena smiled wide as she realised what she had said.
"It just came out." Lena shrugged. Callie laughed again.
"Sure it did mama." Lena rolled her eyes, sometimes her kids really confused her.
"Mama, Mom is calling you upstairs." Both women turned to Brandon at the door Lena nodded at Brandon and he headed inside.
"I guess thats my cue." Lena said standing up after pressing a kiss to Callies temple.
"Thanks for the talk mama." Callie smiled up at her Mama and Lena gave her one back. Lena crouched down infron of Callie and tucked a strand of her hair behind the girls ear before speaking.
"You are welcome bug. Mom and I are always here if you need to talk. No matter what is on your mind we will listen." Lena smiled as Callie nodded.
"I know, thank you mama." Callie said before Lena stood from her crouching position and headed inside. Callie looked up to the sky and smiled.
"I miss you mom, thank you for guiding these women to me so that they could become my moms."
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