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:
Bill and the board allow Rylan to remain in the care of Stef and Lena.
Rylan and Callie on their way home to surprise Lena and the other kids.
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Thursday evening - Adams foster house
Stef, Callie and Rylan entered the house. The kids could be heard upstairs doing their own thing, waiting to be called down to meet the new guest.
"Lena? I'm home." Stef calls out knowing Lena would hear her from where ever she was in the house.
"In the kitchen." Came her reply. Callie and Rylan smiled at hearing their Mamas voice. It had been too long. Stef moved first with Callie and Rylan trailing.
When Stef entered the kitchen she could see her wife fiddling around with things. She could see how tense Lena was, hopefylly that will all change, no that will definately change at the sight of her two kids.
"Lena." Stef called softly as she stood in the doorway to the kitchen with Callie and Rylan infront of her. All that Lena had to do now was turn and turn she did. Her response was immediate.
"Hey...Oh my gosh." tears sprung to Lenas eyes at the sight of the two girls. Different hair but she looked right past that and saw the features of her two girls.
"Mama." Seeing that Lena had seen them. Rylan called out with a smile as she rushed over to Lena and Lena reacted immediatly, bending down to scoop the little girl in her arms. She moved forward, Rylan on her hip and pulled a crying Callie into her arms. The teen clung to her and continued to cry happy tears.
"My babies. My beautiful babies." Lena softly whispered through her tears and between planting kisses on the girls heads.
"Sorry I lied to you but this was worth it." Stef said as she stood in the doorway watching the scene.
"It is, it is." Lena said with a happy smile, well she had a smile on her face till something caught her eye.
"Is this blood? What happened?" Lena asked frantically putting Rylan down and putting Callie arms length away so that she could look closely at the bandage on her eldest daughters arm.
"Its just a graze." Callie says just as Rylan chimes in with. "she was shot."
"Shot! Are you ok?" Lena asks the teen, horrified that her baby had been shot.
"I'm fine mama, it really is just a graze." Callie said softly trying to reassure her worried mother.
"I already told them that we would be taking them to the doctors tomorrow. Ill call up in the morning and book an appointment." Stef spoke up to ease her wife worries about the gunshot wound.
"Ok, ok, that will be good...I'm so glad you girls are home." Lena said in relief and pulled the two of them back into her body for another embrace.
"We are too Mama, so very much. We missed you." Callie whispered into the hug as Stef joined into the small group hug.
"I missed you my babies." Both Stef and Lena whispered as they held their daughters a for a while longer.
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After their reunion in the kitchen, Stef left Lena and the girls in the living room while she headed up the stairs to collect the others.
She could hear the four of them talking and so she headed for the voices. Sure enough all four were gathered in the boys room. All waiting to be called down. They had heared the car pull up and had heard Stef when she walked in the front door.
"Hey Babies." Stef said as she entered the boys bedroom. Jude and Mariana sat on Judes bed, Jesus sat on his desk chair in front of them and Brandon sat on Judes desk chair.
"Hey Mom." The kids all responded. All waiting to be given the go ahead to head down stairs.
"So what is she like?" Mariana asked, wanting to get some information before they met the girl. Stef smiled at the teen before looking around at the kids faces. She could tell they were interested in the new girl but could see aprehension and fear. Stef knew that the kids felt like they were betraying Rylan and Callie with the new foster child.
"Shes nice, you guys will like her. Before we go down there I just wanted to tell you all the be nice, shes been through a rought time recently." Stef explained as she looked between the four of their faces. One by one the kids nodded and thats all that Stef needed to know. She gave them a smile.
"Ok lets go, ill walk in first so you all don't overwhelm her, ill call you in." Stef explained as she headed down the stairs with the kids behind her.
The kids followed Stef down the stairs. All intrigued at meeting the new girl. They were definatly in for a surprise.
Stef gestured for the kids to wait at the bottom of the stairs as she headed towards and into the living room.
The kids waited where they were. Just waiting for the signal that they were allowe to head into the living room.
"Ok, kids. You can come in. I would like you to meet your sisters." They heard their Mothers voice and began to move but what their mother said just registered and they froze before dashing into the living room.
"YOU'RE HOME!" Jude yelled excitedly as he dashed towards his sisters. Immediately Callie and Rylan are engulfed in a sibling group hug.
Tears trailed down every single persons cheek as they reunited with their sisters.
The mothers watched from the sidelines cuddling each other with smiles on their faces and tears flowing down their cheeks in happiness.
Mariana and Jude laughed as they cried happy tears. It felt like this day would never come but now it has and it was just amazing.
Brandon and Jesus just joined into the sibling group hug, tears flowing down their cheeks aswell. It wasn't manly and made them look weak when they cried but they couldn't care at this moment. This was by far the best thing ever.
Callie and Rylan laughed and cried as they hugged their siblings. It was amazing, it was all Callie had dreamed of since they had been kidnapped. She was home, they were home.
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Tears had been wiped away but smiles still remained all around the room as the family sat around the living room. Jesus and Brandon sat with their backs to the coffee table. Stef and Lena sat on the single sofas with Rylan cuddled up with Lena. Jude, Callie and Mariana sat on the large sofa, cuddle together.
"Whats that from?" Jude asked looking at the bandage around his eldest sisters arm.
"I got shot on accident." Callie told the four of them.
"SHOT!" All the boys and Mariana yelled in shock. Callie and Rylan chuckled while the Moms just cringed, knowing that their daughter had been shot was something no mother or parent should have to hear.
"Like I told moms, just a graze." Callie explained. The boys and Mariana nodded in releif but eyed the bandage wearily. Knowing that their sister was shot was daunting. Even though their Mother had been shot a while ago, it was still scary.
"So whats with the hair?" Jesus asked as he looked at the red hair on his normally blonde baby sister and the blonde hair on his normally brunette older sister.
"We had to look different. We hate it by the way. We had to wear dresses nearly every day." Callie said screwing up her face in disgust as she looked down at the dress she was currently wearing.
"Yeah the dresses are really nice but are so not you and your hair colours don't suit you at all." Mariana said as she gave Rylan and Callie a once over. The little girls head resting on her Mamas shoulder, her eyes looking tired after a long and emotional day.
"Yeah, they are nice but wearing dresses nearly everyday was horrible, you all know that we hate dresses. You guys are just use to me being normal brunette and Rylan being blonde." Callie explained and the others nodded, it was true.
"It washes out right?" Mariana asks with a raised eyebrow. Callie Laughed.
"Yeah, after some time. So you're tuck looking at the red hair and blonde."
"We can deal with that, we have you both back which is the main thing." Brandon piped up from his spot on the floor.
"Having you both back is more important then your clothes and hair." Stef said from her spot next to Lena and Rylan. The little girl nodding slowly as she rubbed at her eyes and burred her face into Lenas neck more. It was getting late and it had been a busy evening.
"So what happened?" Brandon asked curiously and cautiously but before Callie could reply Stef interuppted.
"We arent going to talk about that now, until the girls have spoken to the FBI first. When they want to share what happened to them, its up to them." Stef told the kids and they all nodded in understanding. Callie gave her Mom a nod in thanks. She was tired and really didn't want to explain all of the things that had happened right now.
"Well can we have a family campout down here tonight?" Jude asked looking over at their Moms pleadingly. Lena and Stef shared a look before Stef spoke up.
"I think that a great idea. What do you girls think?" Stef said before looking at Callie and Rylan to ask their opinion.
"Honestly, that sounds like the best thing in the world." Callie responded and Rylan nodded, agreeing.
"Ok, why don't you and Rylan go shower and change out of those clothes." Lena suggested as she looked at her daughters who hate wearing dresses, wearing dresses. Callie nodded with relief, happily agreeing with that. She wanted out of this dress and into a pair of her comfortable pyjamas.
"Can I wear Mommys shirt and Mamas sweater?" Rylan spoke up, looking at her Mothers from her position curled up on Lenas lap.
"I'm sure that can be arranged." Lena replied before placing a kiss to the little girls head. Rylan beamed a smile at the two of them before getting off of her Mamas lap and heading upstairs with Callie beside her.
The family chuckled watching the little girl go with Callie before they began to get up out of their position in the living room to start getting ready for their campout in the living room.
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Half an hour later Rylan sat on the closed lid of the toilet, underwear on and a towel wrapped around the top half of her small body as she waited for her Mom to bring her the clothes she had asked for.
To Callie and Rylan, being in the same room as they showered felt normal.
All both of them had was each other during their week in the drug house. Callie protecting the little girl in the house and Rylan feeling safe knowing that Callies was in her sight. For the time they were in the house, it became so much of a routine of being so close together that the little girl and Callie were so use to it now.
Stef and Lena had dressed into pyjamas while Rylan showered and then Callie jumped into the shower after the little girl,the three boys were currently downstairs putting blow up mattereses in the living room with blankets and pillows and Mariana was in the Moms bathroom getting changed and doing her bed time routine.
Stef walked into the girls room and stopped in confusion, not seeing the little girl in the room. She could hear the shower running and knew that Callie was in there but where could the little girl be?
"Rylan?" Stef called out, hoping the little girl would appear so she could be dressed.
"In here Mom." Callie called from the bathroom as she stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around herself, givng the little girl a smile.
Stef opened the bathroom door and raised an eyebrow at the sight of the little girl sitting on the closed toilet lid while Callie stood infront of the mirror brushing her teeth, a towel wrapped around her wet body.
"She stayed in here while you showered?" Stef asked with a raised eyebrow. Callie just nodded, not thinking too much about it.
"Come on sweets." Stef told the little red head as she ushered the little girl from the bathroom to give Callie privacy. The little girl bouncing into the bedroom.
"Leave the door open." Rylan called behind her, Stef gave a confused nod but did so anyway.
"Lets get you dressed huh?" Rylan nodded as Stef knelt infront of her. Rylan let the towel fall and held her arms up so Stef could slip the shirt and sweater on.
"I missed you Mommy." Rylan said as she placed her arms around her Moms neck. Stef smiled and placed a kiss on the girls small nose.
"I missed you to my sweets." Rylan beamed and kissed Stef on the nose as Callie walked into the bedroom and over to the closet to get her pyjamas.
"Alright, lets get down stairs to see how your brothers went." Stef said as she stood up from her kneeling posistion and grabbed Rylans wet towel and hung it up behind the door before looking over at the little girl.
"I'm staying in here with Callie, I just need to brush my teeth." Rylan told her Mom. Stef nodded and placed a kiss to the little girls head and then Callies before she left the room.
Stef was confused and desperately needed to talk to Lena about what she had witnessed.
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Once they had done everything they needed to upstairs, Callie and Rylan headed into the living room to see four matresses laying on the floor and the furniture pushed out of the way to make room. Blankets and pillows piled onto the matresses made the beds look so comfy and inviting.
As soon as she stepped into the living room, Rylan crawled onto the second mattress with Callie close behind her.
The boys headed upstairs to change ino pyjamas now that the beds were set up.
One by one the family came down dressed ready for bed and slid onto the mattresses, all ready to enjoy a night cuddled together, relishing in the fact that the two of their family members had been returned safe.
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