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Chapter 67

The brunette stepped forward holding out her hand. "Are you Shelby Corcoran?"

Shelby shook it still looking confused. "Yes I am what can I do for you?"

The brunette smiled taking her hand back. "I'm here to see Santana, I'm her aunt. My name is..."

"What the hell!"

They both turned to see Santana and the others in the doorway of the den. "Aunt Calliope? What are you doing here?"

Callie Torres smiled stepping toward her, "Hello mija…"

Santana took a few cautious steps putting herself slightly behind Shelby grabbing onto her arm. "I… I thought you were in Africa working with Doctors Without Borders or some shit."

Callie sighed. "I live in Seattle right now. I'm a Surgeon at a hospital there. I've never been overseas like that."

Santana shrugged unimpressed, "Um, whatever, but why are you here? Did your sister send you?"

Callie shook her head. "No sweetie. Can I come in so I can explain?"

Turning to Shelby for the answer she's looking at Santana who just looks scared clinging to her. Sue walks up putting a calming hand on Santana's shoulder. "I think you can just tell her what you want and then we will see if she wants to let you in further."

Callie looked to her, "and you are?"

Sue held out a hand, "Sue Sylvester."

She just gives a curt nod shaking her hand figuring that's all she's getting for the moment. "As I was saying, I'm Callie Torres." She looked back to Santana and smiled. "My god you're so beautiful. Sorry, I'm here because I heard what happened with my sister and wanted to make sure you were ok."

Santana scoffed leaning further into Shelby. "Like you've ever cared what happened to me. The last time I saw you was the day they released me from the hospital before my sperm donor left. Why show up now?"

"I didn't know where you were. After Antonio left your mami…"

Santana cut her off. "I don't have a mami. I have an egg donor. The only good thing that woman ever did for me was giving birth to me, nothing more."

Callie sighed sadly, "Ok, after Antonio left Aria, she lost all contact with us and I guess you two moved here. Until a month ago I didn't know that my mother has known this whole time where you were. I didn't know until I finally got it out of her this past Thursday where you are and why. I came as soon as I could."

Santana rolled her eyes. "That woman is worse than my donor."

Shelby turned to Santana and whispered in her ear. "Do you want me to invite her in and let her finish this?"

Santana nodded still clinging to her, now holding Sue's hand tightly and Shelby turned back to Callie. "Ms. Torres, let's go on into the living room and you can continue."

Callie smiled. "Thank you and please, call me Callie."

When they all made their way into the living room Sue sat on the arm of the couch with Shelby in the seat next to her. Quinn sat beside her and pulled Santana down to sit between her legs with Rachel on the other side holding her hand tightly and Judy on the other arm of the couch.

Callie noticed how they all surrounded Santana and smiled. "Aria is my older half-sister. She and my daddy never got along. She wouldn't let him be in your life the way he wanted to even though he adored you and she barely tolerates my presence."

Santana chuckled humorlessly. "Well we have that in common than. She barely tolerated my presence either after my sperm donor walked out. She said it was my fault somehow that I got sick and that he was a spineless bastard."

"That man was always a spineless bastard. Anyway, after all that happened she moved you and I didn't know where you were. My mother told me that she hired an investigator trying to figure it out where she took you. She acted so sincere. I had no reason not to believe her so I left her to it but asked her every time we talked if she'd heard anything."

She took a deep breath before she continued. "I'd been having a hard time with some personal stuff and I took a weekend to run home and see my daddy to just talk you know. I didn't tell him I was coming so when I got home he wasn't there but my mom was and I overheard her on the phone. I stayed back to give her some privacy but when I heard your name I was excited thinking she finally found you but I listened some more and she was saying these horrible things about you and how Aria did the right thing kicking you out and I lost it."

Tears were now streaming down her face and she was trying to compose herself. Santana got up and moved to sit on the coffee table in front of her grabbing her hand. "Breathe, it's over now, I'm fine. She can't hurt me anymore."

Callie looked up sharply. "What do you mean 'can't hurt you', what did she do?"

Santana shook her head. "It's doesn't matter. She's out of my life and I'm so much better now without her."

Callie sighed figuring she wouldn't get an explanation from her yet so she decided to drop it for now. "After that I was yelling and begging my mom to tell me where you were. My daddy came in hearing us yelling and demanded to know what was going on and I told him. He was furious with her for keeping secrets in the family and keeping you from us but it took us a while to get her to crack and tell us where you were."

"Why didn't he come with you if he's supposed to adore me so freakin' much? I haven't seen him since I was sick either." Santana said, hurt lacing her voice. He had been one of her favorite people when she was little and it hurt her deeply when he didn't come to see her when her Abuela did.

"He's at the hotel. We didn't want to overwhelm you and I thought that seeing me would be enough of a shock for the moment. He's really emotional finally knowing where you are and I didn't want him to smother you and freak you out before we had a chance to explain."

Santana nodded conceding the fact as she continued. "We were so mad at my mother for lying to us. I called my job and extended my leave so I could come and see you. Daddy came with me and we grabbed the first flight out as soon as he was able to cancel his business for the next week and pack. So, here I am. I have no idea why any of this even happened. All my mother would say was that Aria was right to throw you out and that you were now living in a house of sin, whatever that means."

Santana chuckled humorlessly, "She threw me out because I'm a lesbian and she caught me kissing one of my girlfriends."

Callie looked to her shocked. "You said one of your girlfriends? How many do you have and are they aware of the fact that you have multiples?"

Everyone in the room laughed as Santana moved back over to her girls. "That's what you took from that? I say lesbian and you have nothing to say about that part of my sentence?"

Callie just shrugged, "What can I say about that without being a hypocrite. My girlfriend may not like it if you being a lesbian bothered me. The more than one girlfriend thing she may have a word or two about."

Everyone laughed again and you could visibly see them all calm slightly. Santana leaned back into Quinn holding Rachel's hand tightly for a moment for comfort and strength before sitting back up to address her aunt. This did not go unnoticed by Callie.

Taking a breath Santana takes Quinn's hand in her unoccupied one looking back to her. "I have two girlfriends and they are well aware of each other as we are all in a relationship together."

Callie watches stunned as both girls lean in closer to her niece and she smirks. "Well I'll be damned. That I was not expecting. Um… how does that even work?"

The girls shrug and Santana smirks. "It just does. We love each other equally and I'm just pimp like that."

Callie throws her head back on a laugh shaking her head as Rachel and Quinn both slap her shoulder. "Oh Sanny you are too much."

She shrugged unapologetically. "I have my moments. So, do you have a problem with it because if you do I can show you to the door?"

"No mija I don't have a problem with it. If you are happy I am happy for you. I'm only here to make sure you are ok and see if you needed me and hopefully have a relationship with you. I'm not here to judge you. I'm the last one that needs to be judging anyone."

Santana moved back to her and hugged her tight. "I missed you."

Callie choked back a sob and held her close. "I missed you to Sanny."

Shelby smiled picking up Sue's arm to look at the watch on her wrist. "Ok, it's getting late so why don't I check on the food in the crockpot and we continue this conversation over dinner?"

Santana pulled back looking up at Callie. "Can you stay for dinner? We're having portabella caps with this awesome tomato sauce with pasta and broccoli spears."

"Are you vegetarians?"

"My girls, Sue and I are Vegan, Mama Shelby is vegetarian and Mama J is a carnivore but eats what we do most of the time."

Callie laughs and stands. "Well vegan or otherwise it sounds good."

They all stand and make their way to the kitchen where Santana moves to the crockpot to check on the sauce and prep the mushrooms still talking. Quinn moves to prepare the broccoli and pasta while Rachel set out to make the smoothies and batter for banana bread.

Shelby offers to cook so Santana can visit but she insists that she can do both. It's one of the girls' favorite dishes that she makes and she wants to do it herself. All the adults sit and talk while the girls work.

Callie watches as they work and leans toward Shelby. "They work well together in the kitchen. Arizona and I constantly bump into one another and can never accomplish anything but a mess if we try and cook together."

Shelby smiled. "They have been cooking like that together since before they started dating. They just work seamlessly together and not just in the kitchen. In all parts of their lives whether it be at home, Cheerleading or Glee club they just fit."

Callie looked up to Santana, "You're a cheerleader mija and you're in a glee club?"

Santana nods putting the mushrooms on a baking sheet in the oven. "Yes ma'am, I'm Co-Captain with Quinn on the Cheerios and Rachel is our trainer/manager and an amazing flier too. She's also our Glee Captain and Quinn and I are her Co-Captains, second in command beside her. She choreographs all of our routines and trains us. We're going to the Nationals level competition for both in May."

Rachel bumped her shoulder and smiled. "Don't act like I do it all by myself angel," she turned to Callie. "Santana does all of our musical arrangements and she and Quinn help me train them."

Callie smiles proudly. "That's wonderful. I'd like to see you in either or both of those competitions. Let me know when and where they are."

She nods and goes back to cooking. "Glee is in DC this year and Cheerios is in LA I think."

She looks to Sue who nods. "That's right, leave your number with San and I will text you the full info about both competitions. When, where and what hotel..."

Callie nods looking to her a little confused. "I know that Shelby is Santana's guardian and Rachel's mother. That's as obvious as Judy being Quinn's mother, she looks just like her, but who are you to Santana Sue?"

Her voice and face held nothing but curiosity so Shelby grabbed Sue's hand and just smiled. "Sue is my fiancée."

Santana smirked and came over putting a hand on Sue's shoulder. "She's more than that though. She's our Cheerleading coach and one of our Glee coaches with Mama Shelby. She's also been there for us all for so long. She's just… she's ours."

Callie just smiled her understanding as Sue choked back her emotions and rubbed the hand on her shoulder squeezing Shelby's hand still in her other. "I've known them for almost two years. These girls are my family, they're my kids." She blushed profusely as Santana kissed her cheek followed by Rachel and Quinn on either side before they all turn back to their tasks.

It wasn't long before dinner was on the table and they all ate just talking. Callie was amazed at the meal complimenting all the girls and Santana excitedly told her all about cheerleading, glee and her love of all things music. After dinner they retired back to the living room to continue talking and getting to know each other again.

Santana was currently telling her about the first time she and the girls went shopping with Rachel all together. "I'm telling you when she politely ripped the man a new one it was priceless."

They all laughed and Rachel huffed crossing her arms. "Hey, in my defense he was treating us like deviants that were about to run off with half the store."

This just caused them all to laugh harder and Quinn leaned into her. "It's not what you did baby it's how you did it, with a straight face and haughty attitude talking like a forty year old lawyer. It was great, the guy never knew what hit him and I would bet money that he no longer has a job there. His boss was not amused."

Rachel turned from her to Santana and back with a stricken look on her face. "You don't really think he lost his job do you? I just didn't want him to get commission for the sale, not take his livelihood away."

Santana smiled indulgently and grabbed her hand. "I don't know if he did or not but if he did it was his own fault for treating customers that way. Don't worry yourself over it querida."

Rachel just sighed with a nod and they continued talking a little while more than Shelby looked to the clock and turned to the girls. "Ok girls it's getting really late. You need to head on to bed, you have school tomorrow."

They all nod and Santana moves to Callie. "When will I get to see Papa? Do you think he will be ok with me? I mean I figure he'd be ok with the lesbian thing if you're one too but what about the having two girlfriends thing?"

Callie pulled her in and hugged her close. "I'm not sure mija. It took him a little while to be ok with me being with a woman so I don't know how he will react to this. I'll talk to him and tell him all of it before I bring him near you but regardless of anything else you will always have me."

Santana sighed into her and just held on for a moment then pulled back kissing her cheek and moved toward Rachel and Quinn. "I'm glad you found me again. When will you be back?"

Callie smiled. "If it's ok I'd like to come back tomorrow to see your glee rehearsal and maybe take you to dinner and catch up more. If daddy is ok with everything and I decided to bring him along we can bring everyone if you want. We can bring everyone if you want either way. It's up to you."

Santana looked to Shelby. "It's up to you baby. Whatever you want we will do," She said taking her hand.

Looking back to Callie Santana smiled. "I think I'd like them all to come either way. It's not that I don't trust you but I really don't know you and I would just feel better but you are welcome to come to Glee and see what we do. I'd invite you to Cheerios in the morning but we have practice at like 6 am and you are staying in Columbus."

Callie looked at the time and sighs. "Send me a text with the times of both practices and the address to your school and I'll see what I can do. I will definitely be here for Glee."

With one last hug Santana grabbed a hand of both her girls and they kissed all the moms and headed up to bed. When they got to the bottom of the stairs Shelby called after them. "Leave your door open tonight girls so we can hear if you need us. Rachel baby don't hesitate to come to me if you need me."

The girls nod agreeing and continue on. Callie watched confused until they were up and out of site. "Um… They are going up to bed all together? Is Quinn not going home?"

Shelby stiffened. "There is a lot more that you don't know about so don't judge but Quinn lives here too. Actually they split their time between this house and Judy's but we don't separate them."

Looking to her sharply Callie shakes her head. "I'm sorry what? It's one thing to date and be together but they are just 16. How can you be so flippant about them sleeping together, living together? I don't understand and I really don't think I'm ok with this."

Sue stands and squares her shoulders. "Frankly what you think doesn't matter or factor in to how we deal with our girls. Shelby is Santana's guardian so the decision is hers and like she said, there is so much you don't understand or know and if you try and pull them apart right now I will destroy you. You will not hurt my girls"

Judy moves in beside them and puts a calming hand on Sue's arm. "Hey, she doesn't understand or know anything so calm a bit until she knows what is going on." Turning to Callie she shakes her head. "You don't get to judge us. Those girls have been through so much, you have no idea and honestly it's not for us to tell you about it. It's for them. All I will say is that all of them have had to deal with a shity lot in life until recently. I wasn't the best mother to Quinn and her father was a piece of shit. Your sister and her worthless sperm donor did a real number on San. Rachel was basically stolen from Shelby and she is just in this last year been able to be with her and really get to know her and that is just skimming the surface of what they have been dealing with."

Judy pauses taking a deep breath trying to stop the shaking in her hands as she starts to get upset. Shelby shifted to stand in between them grabbing her hand to calm her. "Those girls need each other and if Santana chooses to let you in and tell you what has happened to them that's up to her, Rachel and Quinn."

Callie just stood still in slight shock at what was going on. This didn't sound good at all. "Ok fine, I'll reserve judgement until I can talk more with Santana but when I learn it all if I am still unsatisfied I will not hesitate to fight you for her."

Sue looks her up and down sizing her up and steps toward her. "You can reserve judgement all you want but the fact of the matter is Santana is ours. Our daughter, our responsibility and it is our privilege to have her in our life and finish raising her. I guaranty if you fight us on this you will lose. I will bury you. Don't fuck with my family or I will destroy you."

Shelby grabbed her hand again trying to calm her. "I can promise that if you try and take her from us she will never speak to you again. Hell, if she knew we were having this conversation she would kick you out and tell you to never come back. Sue's right, we will destroy you so do what you will but know that we will fight to win."

Judy came up beside them grabbing Shelby's other hand showing a united front and Callie sighs. "I don't want to uproot her life but I don't understand any of this right now. I just want what's best for her and if that is me fighting for her so be it. I have my own set of lawyers and as much money as any of you so your threats don't faze me but I will not do anything at all if I feel she is ok after I find out everything else. I'm not trying to hurt her. I only want to help."

Judy shakes her head sadly. "If you want to help you will talk your father into being ok with her having two girlfriends so she can see him again. You will come around as often as you can and continue to be in her life after you have to go home and you will not take her from the only security that she has had in her life since she was 6 years old. That's what you can do to help."

Callie looked her in the eye and nodded. "That is my plan as long as she is in a good situation here. That's all I want. If she's safe and happy then you won't have any problems with me. I just need to understand all of this because if I don't and my daddy finds out before I can explain it to him he won't hesitate to call in his lawyers. I need to be able to back you up so I need the whole story here."

They all shared a look and Shelby turned back to her. "I'll talk to them in the morning. For now it's late and we all have work in the morning so we'll bid you good night."

Callie nodded and let them walk her to the door. Once she stepped out she turned back to them. "I honestly don't want to fight any of you. You all seem like great people and your daughters are amazing young ladies. I just want to make sure my niece is safe, healthy and happy. Please understand that that's all I want."

Shelby smiled slightly. "Then we can all agree because that's all any of us want. And Callie," She paused grabbing her hand, "she is."

Callie squeezed her hand looking all of them in the eye, "good. Send me the information for her cheer and glee stuff and I'll see you all tomorrow."

With that she turned and descended the porch steps and headed to her car. Once she was out of sight Shelby turned to Sue and pushed her back into the house feeling the rage still coming off of her in waves wrapping her arms around her. "She's just looking out for her. Santana is ours and she will not take her from us honey. Breathe baby breathe."

Sue deflates into her and takes a shuddering breath. "She can't take our baby."

Shelby pulled up her face and kissed her softly. "She can't, we won't let her. She just needs to understand. We'll talk to the girls tomorrow about telling her all that has happened. It'll be ok."

Sue nods into her hands and buries herself back into her neck. "Ok, I just need them all to be safe and together."

Judy came up and rubbed a hand up her back. "They are and they will stay that way. We'll make sure of it. No one will break up our family."

They all shared a hug then locked up and moved to the stairs. Tomorrow would bring a long hard talk with the girls and possibly an even longer and harder talk with Callie. At the top to the stairs Judy hugged them both once more and they headed off to their own bedrooms to try and get some rest.

A/N: Ok my lovelies there it is. I know it's been an extremely long time since I updated any of my stories but real life has been beating me with a stick. Don't lose hope I will never leave a story unfinished even if it takes me a bit to get back to them sometimes.

Up next: Talking with the girls, Callie and her father.