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:
"I don't know, love. I for one want Rylan in our life." Stef said more strongly. The little blonde has a piece of her heart and nothing was going to rip that piece out.
"Maybe she can visit?" Lena whispered as they both tried to compose themselves before going back into the Cafe.
"Maybe." Stef said, hoping that they could get more then visiting, hopefully adoption would still be on the table.
"We shouldn't tell the kids just yet. Wait until after the trial?" Stef nodded. It would be for the best.
"Yeah, we have a lot to worry about now. Rylans adoption halting, the note with the knife. We have to give it time before we tell the kids. They have been through a lot. It just never ends." Both of them sighed. Feeling like they are composed enough they looked at each other and nodded. Stef pecked Lenas lips and gave her a hug before the two of them headed inside the cafe.
Xxxxxx
The courtroom filled up after the 15 minute recess and Liam was brought back in just before the judge entered.
Lena and Stef focused on the trial, pushing everything else to the back of their minds for now. They needed to focus on this first, the rest later.
"I hope you enjoyed your small break. So lets get things going again." The judge spoke as he looked around the courtroom. Soon the jury entered back in and took their seats and then the court was able to get back into the swing of things.
"Miss Peabody, your next witness." The judge called. Miss Peabody stood up and called her next witness.
"Thank you sir. I call officer Jenna Morales to the stand." Callie heard Officer Morales stand up and then she saw her walk past, Officer Morales winked at Callie and Callie smiled. She was glad she had amazing people on her side.
"Raise your left land and place your right hand on this bible and State your full name please."
"Officer Jenna Morales." Officer Morales stated before sitting down in the seat and waiting for her questions.
"How are you Officer Morales?" Miss Peabody asked.
"Im fine thank you." Officer Morales sat still, calm and collected.
"Thats good. Now you and your partner Officer Jones were the first ones to interview Callie Adams Foster and Rylan Elizabeth when the claims where made, am I correct?" Miss Peabody started.
"Yes my partner and I were asked to interview the two girls by our captain. We handle similar cases like these all the time." Officer Morales explained.
"What was your first reaction to the girls?" Miss Peabody raised her eyebrow as she said this. From her interaction with the girls, she didn't doubt that anyone could fault them, they were delightful girls.
"Callie was nervous and unsure. I could see that she really didn't want to do the interview and Rylan was afraid aswell but mainly quiet and shy, she didn't really speak at the beginning." Officer Morales said, smiling as she remembered back to when she first met the girls.
"Thank you. Now when you were interviewing Callie, did you see that she was putting the whole thing on, faking what had happened to her?" Miss Peabody asked, even though the case was in their favour she had to make sure all her boxes were ticked.
'Definitely not. Her emotions were genuine. She was really nervous, she didn't want to do the interview and I could see she didn't. No one could really fake the emotions Callie wore when I interviewed her." Officer Morales explained in the best details she could. She wanted justice for Callie and Rylan.
"Why did she go through with it then?" Just for the Jurys sake Miss Peabody asked this question.
"She went through with it so her foster sister Rylan would get justice. From what I saw of Callie and what I still see now, is a teenager looking out for her family and friends and putting them ahead of her own needs and safety. Shes a selfless girl, Callie and selfish don't belong in a sentence ever." Callie smiled, Lena nudge Callie and Kiss the teen on her forehead.
"Love you." Lena whispered to Callie. Callie replied that she loved her Mama back before facing the front of the courtroom. Callie felt Stef squeeze her hand and so she looked to her mom, Stef gave her a big smile and then the two turned to face the front of the courtroom.
"What happened the second time you met Callie?" Callie and Officer Morales eyes connected. Officer Morales gave Callie a smile before answering the question Miss Peabody asked.
"We had another interview with her. Mr Olmstead had confronted her at her school and physically harmed her and threatened her family. She always puts her family ahead of her, she sees herself as a protector, doing whatever she can for the ones she loves. My partner and I called her a hero because she really is one." Callie blushed and slouched in her seat, she wasn't use to all the compliments.
"From the interviews that you had with Callie, what types of things has Callie done to protect her family? Why would you call her a hero?" Callie Blushed again. Lena chuckled a little at her daughters blush and wrapped her arm around the teen.
"You're a hero Callie. A beautiful, wonderful, caring woman." Lena whispered into the teens ear. Callie rolled her eyes but nodded. She was going to have to get use to the compliments because it looked like it was going to be a regular thing.
"This girl really is a hero. From our interviews with her we found out that a former foster brother sexually assaulted her and she didn't speak up about it because the house was a safe home for her brother, he wasn't been hurt and thats all that matters to Callie. Callie also went to juvenile detention for destroying a foster fathers car with a baseball bat only so that he would stop beating Jude. She feels like that she is disposable, worthless, unloved and her whole world revolves around her family." Officer Morales explained, not mentioning that Liam was the former foster brother as he wasn't convicted, YET.
"Thank you. Now Officer Morales, when you spoke to Rylan, what did you think of her? Explain to us your knowledge of the little girl." Rylan sat up straighter from her position cuddled into Mike, she was still hidden from Liams view though.
Officer Morales smiled at the little blonde that was trying to hid herself. Callie and Rylan were an unlikely pair and she was glad to have met them but she wished that it was under different circumstances.
"Where to start. Rylan is the most beautiful soul you could ever meet. She doesn't have a hateful bone in her body. Shes so innocent, the things that have been done to her, have not effected her kind and beautiful nature and its really uplifting to see." Rylan smiled at Officer Morales, she liked her. She was a nice cop just like her Mom and Mike.
"Now lets get to your search at the Olmstead house. When you were searching through the Olmstead home, did you happen to find anything?" Miss Peabody asked.
"Yes, when we reached Liams room we discovered things in his closet." Officer Morales explained.
"Explain more to the jury and court please." Officer Morales nodded. It would be her pleasure.
"Well when we entered his room we went to the closet and opened it. The closet walls were covered from the roof to the floor in pictures. Some of Callie and her brother Jude. Some of Callie and Rylan, Some of Callie with her Family the Adams fosters but most were just of Callie. It looked like he had been taking photos of her since she was 15. The worst photos were the ones of her changing and sleeping where she was blissfully unaware of the photos that had been taken."
"Are these the photos that you found?" Miss Peabody said as she grabbed a few evidence bags and brought the photos over to Officer Morales to show her.
"Yes that is them." Callies Jaw hit the ground at the amount of photos. She felt really uncomfortable now. Stef felt Callie tense and so she turned to look at the teen and saw that she looked shocked and pale.
Stef wrapped an arm around the teens shoulders after Lena had put her arm back down and gripped Callies hand instead. Stef pulled Callie into her so that she could whisper to the teen.
"He can't get you any more Cal." Stef whispered. Callie nodded and sighed.
"I know, im alright mom. Its just creepy and shocking that he has that many photos of me." Stef knew Callie was pushing her emotions back so that she could stay strong and not show Liam that he was affecting her in anyway. Stef decided to leave her be for now, let her deal with it on her own. Callie would come to her if need be.
"Ok."
"Thank you no more questions." Miss Peabody said as she took her seat.
"Mr Troode your questioning of the witness?" The judge asked after Officer Morales took her seat next to her partner up the back with Captain Roberts.
"No sir." Mr Troode had nothing to say. The evidence against his client was stacking up, he really honestly didn't care. His client was crazy as.
Officer morales was finished being questioned and then Officer Jones took the stand. Similar questions were asked so that the stories matched up and they did. Then when the questioning of the injured security guard from when Liam escaped was finished Miss Peabody was able to call her next witness.
"I call Rylan Elizabeth to the stand." Miss Peabody called her next witness.
Rylan tensed a little but she took a deep breath and stood from her seat between her mom and Mike. She walked slowly up the the witness stand, making sure that the whole time she focused on anyone, anyone but Liam.
"Raise your left land and place your right hand on this bible and State your full name please."
"Rylan Elizabeth." Rylan spoke out loud enough for everyone to hear. Rylan sat on the chair in the witness stand and waited for Miss Peabody to speak. Rylan focused on her and not looking at Liam at all. He scared her a lot, but she wouldn't admit it to anyone.
"Hello Rylan." Miss Peabody smiled at Rylan.
"Hi." Rylan responded shyly but she was heard around the courtroom. A few people awwed at her cuteness.
"So Rylan, how old are you?" Miss Peabody asked. Rylan knew all the questions that were going to be asked by Miss Peabody, she just didn't want to speak to Mr Troode, he was mean to Callie. She hoped he wasn't going to be mean to her.
"Almost 7."
"You're a big girl. You're almost a woman." Rylan giggled a little and smiled.
"Now can you tell me when you first meet Liam?" Rylan nodded.
"Umm, a couple of months a go. Maybe in April." Miss Peabody nodded and smiled.
"Did you like Liam? Was he a nice foster brother?" Rylan looked at Callie and her family for support.
"Yeah, at first he was. He use to play games with me and watch movies with me." Rylan explained.
"When did he stop being a nice foster brother?" Rylan frowned. She hated remembering the times with Liam but she knew she had to be strong like Callie was.
"When he started watching me in the shower and when I had to touch his boy parts and when he put a hot knife on my stomach." Rylan said, she glanced over at the jury and could see the sad faces and some slightly angry faces. She didn't like that she made them look like that so she decided she wouldn't look at them or Liam.
"That doesn't sound like a very nice foster brother. Why were you taken from his home?" Miss Peabody asked Rylan.
"The police came and got me and another foster girl from the house because we weren't safe there."
"Ahhh, was it scary?" Rylan nodded her head up and down fast. A couple of people chuckled.
"Yeah, I didn't know what was going on." Miss Peabody gave the child a small smile. She hated what had happened to these two girls, she hoped that the jury would find him guilty on all counts.
"That sounds very horrible. Now Rylan can you tell us what happened before you got burnt?" Miss Peabody was treading lightly, she didn't want to scare the little girl. Rylan tensed and looked over at her mom. Stef was smiling at her and giving her a thumbs up. Lena was mouthing 'I love you' and putting her thumbs up aswell. Callie was smiling and nodding, her whole family was making her feel brave and so she took a deep breath and began to speak.
"Umm, I was in Liams room getting a book that he said I could get. I found a picture and Liam caught me looking at it." Rylan explained.
"What was the picture of?" Miss Peabody asked. Callie looked intrigued. What photo did he have that would make him hurt a child for looking at it?
"It was a picture of Callie but I didn't know it was her because I hadn't met her yet." Callies eyes went wide. 'Rylan was burnt because she was looking at a photo of her?' Callie thought, she felt sick just thinking about it.
"Is this the picture you saw?" Miss Peabody said pulling an evidence bag off of her table and showing Rylan. The police had found it in a book like Rylan had said.
"Yeah. Liam got awfully mad and then he was smiling and then left the room." Rylan explained thinking of that night.
"What happened next?" Rylan looked at her family, they were still encouraging her, making her feel strong and confident.
"He came back with his hand behind his back and pushed me onto his bed and lifted my shirt. His hands came to the front and thats when I saw the hot knife. It really hurt when he put it on my stomach." Rylan cringed as she remembered what had happened to her. Her brand even started to tingle.
"Did he say anything to you?" Miss Peabody was trying to get everything she could. Every detail was going to help and add more into the evidence for the jury to consider.
"He told me that im now a part of his collection. That me and the girl in the photo are his." Rylan said remembering what Liam had told her that night.
"Thank you no more questions." Miss Peabody winked at Rylan and took her seat.
"Mr troode your questions for the witness." The judge spoke. Rylan tensed as Mr Troode stood up. She wasn't going to like the questions he was going to ask, he was mean to Callie, surly he would be mean to her.
"Hi Rylan." Mr Troode smiled. Rylan had to hold back a laugh at his funny thing he called a smile. He looked constipated.
"Hi." Rylan said confidently back.
"So you know you are under oath right?" Rylan looked at him like he had two heads.
"Yes sir." She confidently replied.
"You do know that you can't lie under oath, is that correct?" Rylan held back the need to roll her eyes. She was almost 7, not dumb.
"Yes sir." She was giving simple replies to him.
"Ok good. Im going to ask you questions and you need to answer truthfully, ok?"
"Yes sir." Stef had to chuckle and so did Callie. The little blonde was annoying the lawyer and she didn't even know. Callie could see the little blonde was trying to act confident but Callie knew the little girl was scared shitless. She got an A for acting in her books.
"Good. So you first met Miss Adams Foster in the Adams foster home, Is that correct?" Mr Troode asked. He was getting really annoyed with the simple 'yes sir' answer.
"Yes sir."
"Are you sure?" He asked, trying to hold back his annoyance to the 'yes sir' business.
"Yes sir." the courtroom was all smiles with the way the little girl was answering.
"So you didn't meet her in another foster home?" He asked, hoping to get a different answer.
"No sir." Rylan replied, she could see the whole courtroom was smiling and she realised why, she held back a smile. She looked at Callie and saw her wink and it took a lot of will power to not burst out laughing after realising that she was annoying the Lawyer with her 'yes sir, no sir' answers.
"Ok, that brand on your stomach, is the person responsible for it in the room right now?" Mr Troods asked. He was trying to trick her. Well he was asking questions because he was paid to ask questions. He knew the moment he walked into the courtroom he was going to lose this case.
"Yes sir."
"Good. Now can you swear under oath that neither Callie or yourself put the brand on your stomach?" He asked, he was still trying to trip her up.
"We didn't do it sir." Rylan responded. Mr Troode used his left hand and rubbed his left temple before looking at the judge.
"No further questions your honour." Mr Troode said giving up. The judge nodded but he had to smile a little when Mr Troode turned around to go back to his seat. The almost 7 year old just outsmarted a lawyer, an adult. It was hilarious and everyone was keeping it locked in, all ready to burst at the seams from laughter.
Rylan headed over to her seat between her mom and Mike. She scooted onto the seat in the middle. Mike wasn't as scary as before and now she wasn't as afraid of him, he had hidden her from Liams view and that made him good in her books.
"Mr Troode your witness please."
"I call Liam Olmstead to the stand." Liam walked to the stand casually.
"Raise your left land and place your right hand on this bible and State your full name please."
"Liam Olmstead." Liam stated before slouching in the seat to wait for his questioning. He really couldn't give a rats about the trial, it was entertaining though.
"So liam, how old where you when you met Miss Adams Foster?" Mr Troode asked his Client.
"She was Callie Jacob back then, but to answer your question, I was 19." Liam smirked at Callie and at Rylan. All he got in return is an eyeroll and glare from Callie and a glare from Rylan. He frowned, this wasn't going the way he planned.
"19, so an adult, an honourable citizen." Mr Troode said trying to make his client sound better then he actually is.
"Yes sir." Liam sighed out.
"So did Miss Adams foster like you?" Mr Troode asked Liam. Liam smiled and sat up more straighter.
"She did sir." He smiled and winked at Callie. He got a disgusted look in return. Callie had to smirk at him, his eyes were changing from what she could see and she knew he was going to get angry real soon and thats when things could get interesting.
"So Miss Adams foster could have branded herself to get back at you for not wanting her?" Mr Troode asked. Liam glared at Mr Troode before smiling at Callie. Callie shifted, uncrossing her legs and crossing them back the other way, pretending to be bored and that made Liam angrier.
"Ahahaha, oh I wanted her. The moment I set eyes on callie I wanted her. So feisty, adorable innocent. It wasn't rape, I love her and I would do it again if I had my chance. Im going down for what I did, there is a lot of evidence against me so I can say whatever the fuck I want." Liam spat at his Lawyer, basically everyone around the room. Everyone was appalled and flabbergasted.
"Lia..." Mr Troode tried to get his client to stop talking, but it was no use and so he gave up and just waited for Liam to finish speaking.
"No, im speaking now so shut the fuck up. I love Callie, she left my house and I was miserable. The little blonde came into our home and she had a similar personallity Callie had and I knew I had to have her as well. I branded her, she is mine. I would wait for her to get old enough then I would have them both. Ill do anything to get them, they are mine permanently now, they carry my mark. MINE, THEY ARE MINE." Liam got angry, Callie smirked. She had been waiting for this moment where he snapped and spoke the truth.
"I have heard enough. Jury you may go to the chambers for your verdict discussion." The judge said, having heard enough of Liam. Liam was restrained and cuffs were placed on his arms and legs as the judge saw him as a danger to his courtroom.
The judge looked over the evidence and his notes as they waited for the Jury. It didn't take long as the Jury all filed out and back into their seats.
"Liam Olmstead Please stand." The judge said. The judge looked over the Jurys findings and nodded before handing it back to the juror. Everyone was on the edge of their seats waiting for the results.
"On the count of escaping custody, how do you find the defendant?"
"Guilty your honour."
"On the count of assault on a prison guard, how do you find the defendant?"
"Guilty your honour."
Each count, the people in the courtroom had smiles that were getting bigger and bigger. Callie was in shock. She couldn't believe after everything and all the time, she was finally getting justice.
"On the count of false imprisonment, how do you find the defendant?"
"Guilty your honour."
"On the 2 counts of assault on Minors Rylan Elizabeth and Callie Adams Foster, how do you find the defendant?"
"On the count of carrying a weapon to harm/threaten, how do you find the defendant?
"Guilty your honour."
"On the count of stalking, how do you find the defendant?"
"Guilty your honour."
"On the count of Rape on a Minor, how do you find the defendant?
"Guilty your honour."
"On the count of threats to inflict injury, how do you find the defendant?
"Guilty your honour."
"On the count of threats to kill, how do you find the defendant?
"Guilty your honour."
"On the count of breaking and entering, how do you find the defendant?
"Guilty your honour."
The judge nodded. He agreed with them and he had already written down the sentencing way before the jury came out. He knew how they would vote and he was right.
"Liam Olmstead, the charges against you have amounted to a decent number. After listening to everything and taking everything into account this court finds you guilty on all charges.
I have decided to give you the maximum sentence for each charge.
"Liam Olmstead you are sentence to 102 years of imprisonment without parole. Take him away."
"Case dismissed." The judge banged his gavel and left the courtroom. Liams parents cried as they watched their son be stood up.
The courtroom cheered as the case was dismissed. Callie sat in shock, she was happy but shocked. She was sure that the world was against her and Liam would get away with just a slap on the wrist.
"YOU WONT SEE THE LAST OF ME CALLIE. I WILL COME FOR YOU, I WILL GET YOU. YOU AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS WILL BE MINE YOU HEAR ME." Liam screamed as he was dragged away. Callie didn't even flinch, she was in her own world. She still couldn't believe they won the case.
"We won Callie, we won." Rylan cheered as she scooted out of her moms arms and stood in front of Callie.
Rylan frowned, Callie didn't look excited, she looked sad maybe?
"Callie?" Rylan tapped Callies thigh and looked at her sister in the face. Hopefully Callie would get excited.
"Huh, wh...What?" Callie snapped out of the world she was in and looked at a beaming little girl in her face.
"We won." Rylan smiled out brightly as she said this.
"We won...we won." Callie whispered as she looked into Rylans eyes, still trying to register that this was actually happening. Callie looked around at the excited occupants of the courtroom before a big smile plastered on her face. Callie stood up fast and flung Rylan onto her hip in excitement.
"Oh my gosh Rylan, we won." Callie beamed as she chuckled and laughed with Rylan. Stef and Lena joined the two girls in a group hug as they laughed and cheered.
"This is one of the the happiest days of my life." Callie said, tears of happiness falling down her cheeks as she held her moms and sister close to her.
"Our to sweets, ours too." Stef said to them as she layed a kiss on the girls heads as Lena nodded and did the same.
"Thanks for sticking with us through out this moms." Callie smiled and thanked her mom. She was glad to have been adopted into a family like this, it was rare for a foster child to land a loving home like this one.
"Theres no place Id rather be then here to support my callie Q and Mini." Stef smiled. Callie rolled her eyes and shook her head. Callie handed Rylan over to her Mama because she was getting heavy but also so that she could hug her moms properly.
"Mooooooom." Rylan whined at being called Mini but she giggled and shook her head and she held Lena closer to her.
"I love you moms." Callie hugged each of her moms to her. Tears still falling from her happiness.
"We love you too bug." Stef said for her and Lena.
"I Love you all." Rylan cheered from her spot on her Mamas hip making the four of them including Rylan all laugh.
"GROUP HUG." Mariana called from behind them and giggling filled the courtroom as Mariana, Stef, Lena, Callie, Brandon, Sharon, Jesus, Rylan, Jude and Mike all joined in the group hug together.
The excited group headed out of the courtroom so the next case could enter. The moms walking behind their excited group. Rylan walking between her sisters, talking about random things that interested her.
"Im soo glad that is over." Stef said as her and Lena walked behind the group, arms linked together. Just the feeling of contact between each other like this was enough for now, their life could move to the next stage.
"Me too." Lena sighed out with a smile. Stef Leant over and kissed Lenas temple as they all headed out of the courthouse and down the stairs towards the carpark.
"One down, more to go." Stef sighed out. Lena nodded.
"Yeah, lets go celebrate before we have to ruin the happiness with our horrible news about the adoption. We also have to let Callie know about the knife before one of the other kids tells her." Lena explained as they walked slower behind the group so they could talk.
"I know, celebrate first, worry later yeah?" Stef asked.
"Yeah." Lena agreed as they headed towards the kids, glad that the two of them were on the same page which is how they make their relationship work.
"Pizza and soda for dinner?" Lena suggested as she reached the group, which earned her a raised eyebrow from Stef. Stef wasn't going to complain, she was just shocked that Lena would suggest it.
"Yeah, best day ever." Jesus fist pumped the air making everyone around him laugh.
"Pizza and Soda it is."
The Trial is over. I am glad Liam got what he deserved and Callie and Rylan got Justice.
More to come.
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