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:
"After the first two foster homes, I thought they were all the same. My dream would have just been a dream and would never be reality. Those foster homes made Jude and I long for a family to love us as if we were biologically theirs, it was just a dream in our minds back then. Jude and I use to stand at the window in the room that was temporarily ours at the foster home and we use to wish on stars all the time but none of our wishes ever came true, not until Mama picked me up at Juvie." Callie chuckled along with Stef at the thought of Juvie.
"Juvie might have been the best thing come to think of it, even though I hated that you were sent there. Im just glad we made that dream come true. The Adams - Foster family wouldn't be the same without Jude and Callie." Stef left a lingering kiss on Callies temple as they both smiled.
"Amen to that Mom."
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The Adams- Foster clan entered the hospital around 9am Monday morning with Sharon in tow. Rylan clinging to her mama the entire time, meaning Sharon had to drive while Lena sat in the back seat next to Rylans car seat.
"Mommy." Rylan whispers as she sees blonde hair in a room from where she was in her Mamas arms at the nurses station. Rylan wiggles out of Lenas arms and continues to look at the room. As soon as she recognises her Mom, she runs towards it.
"MOMMY." Rylan yells as she runs. Tears falling down her face as she takes off into the room. Lena on her tail and the other kids walking behind with their grandma.
"Rylan no yelling baby girl." Lena called behind the little blonde as she ran towards a hospital room that they had been to see Callie in the day before.
"Mommy." Rylan cried a little softer this time and pummelled right into her Moms arms as Stef stepped out of Callies room and bent down to scoop the little blonde into her arms.
"Hey shhhh, mommy has you." Stef rocked slowly, her hand rubbing up and down the little girls back.
As soon as Lena got to where Stef was holding Rylan outside of Callies hospital room, Lena gave Stef a look that said 'I told you.' Stef nodded and hugged the little girl to her, Rylan clinging on for dear life.
"Why is she in pyjamas still?" Stef asked over Rylans sobs. The little girl was in her flannelette pyjamas but had Lenas sweater over the top and was still clutching tightly to Stefs shirt she had been given by Mariana and Callie. Lena sighed and explained, Reaching over with her right hand to rub Rylans back aswell.
"She wouldn't let me go long enough to change her." Stef gave Lena a sad smile and then leant over and greeted her with a kiss on the lips. Stef could see that Lena was tired, she could see that her wife was exhausted and she felt bad.
Each of the kids gave Stef a hug as they entered Callies hospital room behind Lena. Sharon hugged her daughter before going into the hospital room. Everyone knowing that the two blondes needed to talk.
Stef moved over to the side, closer to the wall so she wasn't in anyones way. She knelt down and got Rylan to stand infront of her. The little girl stood but didn't remove her face from where she had buried it in Stefs neck.
"Rylan, baby girl, look at mommy." Stef asked softly. Rylan sniffled and pulled back from her moms neck to look her in the face. Stef reached up and wipe a few of the fallen tears from the little girls face before laying a kiss on her forehead.
"Did you have nightmares last night?" Stef could see the little girl was tired. She looked just like Lena did when she was tired and exhausted. Her family needed her at home but Callie also needed one of them. She didn't know how she was going to work this out but she would find a way.
"Yeah." Rylan mumbled through a hiccup. She had cried too much and had given herself hiccups. Stef gave the little blonde a sad smile and kissed her temple.
"Oh thats no good baby girl. Why didn't you eat?" One of the rules of the Adams-Foster household was they were to eat breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Even if it was a small meal not just a bite.
"Rylan baby, answer mommy please." Stef tried to coax the little girl. Rylan just shrugged and tried to bury her face in her moms neck. Stef wasn't having it, she held the girls biceps gently and waited for a proper answer.
"I...i..wanted...you." Rylan finally said, the tears started to flow again and Stef sighed pulling the blonde into her arms. Rylan clinging to her mom. Stef stood and situated the little girl on her hip.
"Im here now, you need to eat some of the breakfast mama brought for Callie and I. Can you do that for me?" Stef whispered into the blondes ear. Rylan nodded into her moms neck.
"Good girl." Stef smiled and kissed her temple before stepping into Callies room.
Jude was on the bed next to Callie, who was eating her breakfast. Mariana was sitting at the end of the bed. Lena was in one of the arm chairs while Sharon sat in the other, and the two older boys stood on the opposite side of the bed near the window.
"Hey my babies." Stef was finally able to greet them as she entered. Rylan still clinging to her neck but she was looking around the room with her head on Stefs shoulder.
All the kids, Sharon and Lena stop conversation to greet the two blondes hat had just entered the room.
"Hi mom." Jude smiled at his mom from his position next to Callie where she was smiling like Lena and Sharon.
"Hey." Brandons response.
"Sup." Stef rolled her eyes but smiled at Jesus's response.
The conversation the others were having started back up as Stef got closer to Mariana. Stef grabbed a pancake from the container her family had brought and gave it to Rylan. Stef kissed Rylans temple as the little girl nibbled slowly at the pancake. At least she was eating just like her mom had asked.
"Hey miss thing." Stef greeted getting closer to the bed so she could kiss Marianas temple.
"Hey mom."
"You had a nightmare too I hear?" Mariana nodded as she answered.
"Yeah, it wasn't that bad." Stef gave Mariana a sad smile and a kiss to the temple as the girl shrugged. Mariana didn't seem to fussed with her nightmare but Stef would always worry. Her daughter had a nightmare and that wasn't good. She would keep an eye on her kids especially Mariana, Callie and Rylan.
"Ok, mama and I are here if you need us sweets." Stef whispered to Mariana before planting another kiss to the girls temple. Mariana nodded and looked over at Callie. Sharon cleared her throat and everyone looked at her.
"So I was thinking, ill stay with my Callie girl and you two go home with the others." Sharon announced. Stef was the first to say something.
"Mom you don't need to do that, Lena and I can trade off." Stef gave her mom a thoughtful smile. She couldn't let her mom stay at a hospital.
"…..or you can all go home. Im fine by myself." Callie added her two cents in. Both moms giving Callie a stare. Callie shrugged like it was no big deal.
"One of us wants to be with you cal, just let us please?" Lena asks looking at Callie. Callie sighed, looking from her moms to her grandmother and then back again.
"Alright fine. Let grandma stay. Rylan and Mari need both their moms for their nightmares." Callie gave her answer. It wasn't what the moms had hoped for but at least Callie wasn't alone.
Lena and Stef gave each other a look. Stef moved Rylan to the other hip and then nodded at her mom.
"Alright its settled, ill stay here with Callie." Sharon clasped her hands together and lay them in her lap as she looked at her daughter and daughter in law.
"Thanks mom." Stef walked over and gave her mom a hug. Rylan still clutched tightly to Stef. Everyone could see the little girl was content with being in her moms embrace, that she needed the safety net that Stef provided.
"Dont worry about it Stefanie. Its my duty as a grandma to look after my daughter and grand kids." Sharon said standing from the chair to kiss Callies temple. Calle smiled at her grandmother before looking at her moms.
"Whatever you say mom." Stef chuckled and shook her head.
"Well I say you go home, shower and sleep." Sharon said pointedly. Stef sighed along with Lena. That actually sounded really amazing.
"Yeah go, grandma and I will be fine here." Callie spoke up. She could see how tired her parents were.
"Ok, lets get going kids. We will leave Callie and grandma to themselves." Stef said as the kids all got up and gave Callie hugs goodbye.
"Bye Callie-Q we love you. Call us if you need anything." Lena said placing a kiss to Callies temple as she picked up Stefs breakfast that hadn't been eaten yet.
"Love you too moms and I will." Callied responded as her family started to exit.
"Bye guys." Callie called to her brothers and sisters.
"Later" Jesus responded.
"bye." Brandon spoke.
"love you cal." Jude smiled and waved before saying this.
"Bye cal." Mariana called back.
"bye bye." Rylan waved over Stefs shoulder.
Callie chuckled at her family. They were crazy, but they were hers. They were her crazy family.
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The kids had all had lunch and then Mike rocked up to take the boys out for the day. Brandon had called his dad and talked. Mike thought that the boys would need a distraction, something to keep their minds off of what had happened and so he rocked up and picked the three boys up to take them out for the rest of the day leaving Mariana and Rylan with the moms.
Mariana, Rylan, Stef and Lena sat in their bed. Well the two adults sitting up awake in the bed with the two girls sleeping between them. Lena has Mariana snuggled up to her while Rylan was snuggled up to her Mommy.
As soon as the boys had left for their day, Rylan had started yawning and was falling asleep on her mothers shoulder. She had been clinging to Stef since the hospital and showed no sign of letting go.
Seeing that they all were tired, Lena suggested to go lay down in their room. Once they were all situated in the big bed, Mariana and Rylans heads hit pillows and they were out like lights.
"I think they need therapy, actually we all do." Stef spoke up in the quietness of the room. Her left hand was running through the little blondes hair and her right ran through her own before settling back on her lap.
"I was just thinking the same. Maybe Rylan will be able to talk about her mothers death. That must be weighing down on her." Lena voiced her thoughts. Stef nodded. Mariana stirred a bit but as soon as Lena put her hand on the girls fore head, she settled down and drifted back off. Both moms giving each other sad looks.
"Ill give the therapist a call. Rylans doctor Jamie Gleeson gave me a number, recommended for us to go see her." Stef announced looking at Lena. Lena nodded and scooted down the bed so she could lay down. She was tired as well. While the boys where out and the girls were sleeping, a nap sounded like a good plan.
"Ill call her now since my hands are free and I don't have little miss hanging off of me." Lena chuckled and nodded, closing her eyes as Stef dialled the number after grabbing the number from her nightstand.
The phone began to ring after Stef dialed the number. Within two rings it was answered.
"Alyssa Bankcrofts office, how may I help you?" A receptionist on the other end answered professionally.
"Hello, this is Stef Adams foster. I would like to speak to Alyssa Bankcroft?" Stef responded. Hoping that she was available right now.
"One moment please and ill find out if she is available to speak." The receptionist spoke.
"Alright thankyou." Stef waited as she was put on hold. She looked down at her wife and two daughters. They looked so peaceful, carefree. Rylan bringing the shirt she continued to carry around, to her nose. She took a deep breath and sighed in her sleep. Stef smiled and chuckled.
"Hello, are you still there Mrs Adams-Foster?" Stef was broken out of her staring as the receptionist on the other end of the phone took her off hold.
"Yes im here."
"Ok, Miss Bankcroft will speak to you now, ill connect you to her." The receptionist responded after a few minutes
"Mrs Adams Foster, I was wondering when you were going to call. Jamie said she recommended you speak to me. Im Alyssa Bankcroft." Stef smiled as she listened to the woman on the other end. This woman sounded friendly and warm, maybe she would be alright to speak to, her kids needed someone who was friends and not intimidating.
"Yeah thank you for speaking to whole family are going to need your help." Stef explained as she looked at her wife and two daughters. Rylan turned over in her sleep so her back was against Stefs leg. Rylan buried her face in Marianas back, let out a little sigh and drifted back off into a deep sleep.
"How many am I looking at?" Alyssa asked, she was writing details down in her note pad so she could create a file for them.
"6 kids varying from 17 to 6 and two adults. It will be 5 kids for now until my daughter gets out of the hospital I think the first session should be a group one so you can meet us and the kids can get comfortable with you and then move on to individual one." Stef rambled. Alyssa smiled on her side of the phone as she wrote.
"Ok no problem. I was going to say the same thing." Alyssa loved when she had clients on the same page as her, it made things a lot more smooth sailing.
"Least we are on the same page then." Stef chuckled quietly.
"Yeah thats a good thing. Alright so ill schedule you in for 10.45 Tuesday morning, that sound ok to you?" Stef didn't care what time, she would rearrange her schedule to fit this in because it was important.
"Yes, sounds perfect." Stef smiled. She was glad she was taking the step in getting her family back on track.
"Alright, thank you for givng me a call." Alyssa smiled on her end of the phone. She was interested to hear their story, to get to know them and to help them on whatever they needed help with.
"Thank you for agreeing to see us." Stef sighed out as she looked down at Rylan who looked like she was starting to stir, maybe an early stage of a nightmare.
"Ill see you and your family tomorrow Stef, take care." Alyssa farewelled.
"You too, bye." The line went dead, Stef put the phone on the night stand and scooted down the bed so she could cuddle Rylan. Immediately Rylan turned back over to bury her face in her moms chest as Stef lay on her left side. Stef chuckled at how the little girl could sense her, maybe it was true that the two of them had an unbreakable bond.
"When?" Lena mumbled leaning up on her right hand to look at her wife over the two sleeping kids.
"Tomorrow 10.45. group therapy first, then individual ones." Lena nodded and lay her head back down on the pillow with a yawn.
"Sounds good...we really need to go. It will be beneficial in the long run." Lena whispered, tucking a strand of Marianas hair out of her face and behind her ear as she slept.
"I know." Stef sighed and placed a kiss on Rylans temple and snuggling down more into the mattress.
"We can only go up from here." Lena said befre yawning and slowly drifting off.
"Mmmhmmm." Stef mumbled out as she too drifted off.
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