Lena looked at her wife with worry in her eyes. "It's a long story. Let's go talk with Leslie. Plus the kids really want to see Callie." She whispered so she wouldn't wake Callie.

"Ok. Ok. Lets go get the kiddos and then talk to the Doc." Stef said. She brushed hair out of Callie's face, then kissed her forehead. Lena looked at her daughter. She looked peaceful. Oh bug what are we going to do with you? She thought. They had to find a way to get her to fully trust them. She bent down and kissed Callie's cheek. Then made her way to the door with Stef behind her.

"Hi my babies!" Stef said when she saw her kids in the hall. They were standing there just talking. She was so grateful that they had such great kids. Always watching out for each other.

"Hey mom!" They said and hugged her one by one.

"How was school?" She asked them.

They all gave meaningless answers like, good and boring, same as always. But Jude was the one who really spoke up. "How's Callie? Can we see her?"

"Well guys, Callie is sleeping. The medicine they are giving her makes her sleepy, so please be quiet. You can all stay with her in the room as long as you do your homework and you don't disturb her." Lena told her kids.

"Ok; Yeah of course; We'll behave; No problem." They all answered at the same time.

"Ok good. Mama and I are going to have a word with Cals doctor. So we will be back as soon as we are done. Ok?" Stef said and they all nodded.

The kids made their way into the room. One by one they made their way towards Callie and squeezed her hand or kissed her cheek.

Jude noticed that she looked sick and his mama was right. She was a little swollen. He could also see the rash on her arms.

He stayed there a little longer than the rest of the kids. They found where to sit and started pulling out school work.

Lena and Stef saw the concern on Jude's face. Stef gave him a side hug. "She's going to be fine bub. She's just sleeping right now. She'll wake up in a little while and you guys can talk." Jude just nodded his head.

After they made sure the kids got settled in Callie's room and that they were going to keep quiet, the moms made their way to the nurses station so they could contact Callie's doctor.

"Hello, can I help you?" One of the nurses asked the mothers.

"Yes we need to talk to Dr. Carlson. It's about our daughter, Callie Adams-Foster." Lena stated.

"I'll page her to come and meet with you." The nurse said while picking up the phone.

"Thank you." Stef said.

The moms went to Callie's door to check on the kids. They were all sitting down, doing their homework. Jude was sitting in the chair next to his sisters bed. Every once in a while he would look at her. After the third time Lena was going to go in and see if he needed some help, but she heard her name being called by the doctor.

"Lena? Stef? The nurse said you needed to talk to me about Callie?" Leslie said as she walked towards the moms.

"Hi. Yes we found out some information that you need to know." Lena said.

"Sure. What's this about?" Leslie asked with curiosity.

"Well, when I went to pick up the kids at school today they started asking me about Callie. I started to explain to them what was happening with Callie and when i got to the part about the antibiotic, Jude asked if it was penicillin. Turns out that according to Jude, they already knew Callie was allergic to penicillin."

"Wait? What? She already knew but was taking the medication anyways?"

"Well, I was thinking about that. I remember looking at the bottle and it didn't say penicillin on it. She probably didn't know it was the same thing."

Leslie pulled out her tablet to looked at Callie's file, she had noted the medication the hospital doctor had prescribed, and it in deed did not say penicillin specifically. "No it says Amoxil. But if we would have known she's allergic to penicillin, she wouldn't have been given the drug. And why wasn't it in her file?"

"Well it looks like she got sick at some point and her foster parents had to take her to the doctor. When she started to take the medication she had a reaction to it, but the foster parents said that they were not going to lose another day of work because of her." Lena said while looking at her wife.

"So it never got recorded into her file. This is just very irresponsible. And Jude said this?" Leslie said nodding.

"Yeah. Oh, and apparently Jude has a mild allergy to bees, like his mom did.

"Colleen was allergic? And no one got the kids tested? What was CPS thinking? I think we should call Bill." Stef said outraged.

"And what is that going to do? They are ours now." Lena stated.

"Maybe he can find more information than what he gave us…?" Stef said. "Or get us Colleens records. She might have information in there about when she had Callie."

"I don't know. I guess we can try." Lena said defeated. It was times like these that she wished she would have gotten all her kids as babies. The not knowing and the secrets.

"So Jude is allergic to bees too?" Leslie asked.

"He said that he got stung and within minutes his whole arm was swollen, but that Callie took care of him."

"What do you mean she took care of him?" the doctor asked.

"She gave him some allergy medicine and watched him for a few hours to make sure he was ok. They tried to tell their foster parents but they said it was Jude's fault for bothering the hive. Callie was in the house when it happened so she didn't get stung that time."

"That explains a lot." Stef said exasperated.

"What do you mean?" Lena asked.

"When Callie got stung, she was acting like she knew what was going on the whole time. She kept telling me that certain thing ,like pain and soreness was normal. Yet she had told us that she never had gotten stung." Stef knew something was going on. She just didn't act on that feeling. She knew her daughter wasn't feeling well.

"Well I guess she knew from taking care of her brother." Lena stated.

Leslie nodded. She stayed quiet for a while thinking. "Did he mention anything else?"

"He said that Callie gets migraines and that she's allergic to a flower, but he can't remember which one."

"Migraines? I've never seen her with a migraine. And I know migraines." Stef said.

"According to Jude she hasn't had one since a about a month after she moved in with us? I'm not sure, but maybe she gets stress migraines?" Lena guessed.

"Oh my poor baby. During that time we wouldn't have noticed. We didn't know her well enough." Stef said sadly.

"Exactly! And she wouldn't have said anything because she didn't trust us." Lena said exasperated.

"Not that she trusts us now…" Stef mumbled.

"Ok, so this is what's going to I will test the kids, especially Jude, and based on his results we will be extra careful with Callie. Then after about a week or two we will do the test on Callie so that we finally have answers. And since we already know she's allergic to bees and penicillin I can also concentrate on the flowers and plants. I will also look at foods and stuff. I really don't want to miss anything." The doctor said.

"Ok yes please. And do a complete test on the kids. I don't want to have to go through this not knowing again." Stef said.

"Can we get a full physical on Callie? I have a feeling she's hiding stuff Jude isn't even aware of."

"I was planning on doing that with Callie. I want to make sure I don't give her any medication that might counteract with each other. And like I said, this was going to happen one way or another. Even if you guys knew she would have been in the hospital."

"But we would have given her the epipen at home, she wouldn't have gotten penicillin because we would have known so she would probably be ok right about now."

"If you think about the 'what if's' your going to go crazy. The important thing is that she's ok and that we can get past this." Leslie said to the moms. "Was that all Jude said? Or did he say anything else?"

"No that was all he said. But we are going to talk to Callie about this also.

"Ok. Let me know what she tells you. I'll schedule Callie tests and exams. I want to do a full work up. I'll even check for the migraines. If she's had them we will be able to tell." Leslie said while looking at her beeping pager.

"Ok will do." The mom's said.

Leslie left the mom's to go take care of another patient. And the mom's made their way back to Callie's room.

When they arrived at the door of the room, they saw that Callie was awake and laughing. Jude was telling her about something funny that must of happened at school. Jesus was helping him by acting it out with him. Brandon and Mariana were on either side of Callie's bed laughing with her.

The moms stayed by the door just watching their kids. When they saw that Callie's face was turning red and She started to cough a little, they decided that they had to get the girl to calm down.

"Ok guys that's enough." They told the kids. "Cal you shouldn't be laughing like that. Your oxygen levels are still a little low." Stef said.

Lena had gotten her a cup of water. "Here bug, drink some water. It'll help."

"Thanks mama." Callie took a couple of sips of water before giving the cup back.

"How do you feel honey?" Stef asked her.

"I feel better. A little tired still but other than that ok." Callie did look tired but not as bad as she did in the morning.

"You look better." Lena said brushing hair out of the girls face.

"Hey guys we need to talk to Callie for a minute, why don't you guys go get some snacks from the vending machines? Cal do you want anything?" Stef said.

"No I'm good. Thanks."

"Ok can you bring mama and I some waters." Stef handed them some cash.

"Yeah sure mom." Brandon said, while the other kids nodded. Jude looked a little afraid. He knew they were going to talk about the information they hid.

"Is everything ok?" Callie asked. She was a little worried. Maybe something else is wrong? Could they know?

"Callie, we um… we talked to Jude" Lena said seriously.

"Ok?" Callie answered trying to sound aloof.

"He told us that you already knew that you are allergic to penicillin."

Callie closed her eyes and sighed. "Um…"

"Callie?" Stef pushed.

Callie just looked at her lap.

"Cal? Is it true you knew that you're allergic to penicillin?" Lena asked directly.

"Yes?" Callie said while looking at her lap.

"Are you asking or telling?" Stef prodded

"I… um… I already knew that I'm allergic. But I read the label to make sure it wasn't penicillin." Callie said slowly.

"Callie… you were taking penicillin, Amoxil is penicillin." Stef said.

"I didn't know that!" Callie looked shocked. Her eyes were wide and she was shaking her head.

"If you would have told us we would have made sure that you didn't get any kind of penicillin." Lena said.

"You could have died! We almost lost you twice in less than a week. Why didn't you tell us?" Stef said.

"I don't know. I guess I just didn't want to cause any more problems." Callie said quietly.

Lena sighed. They had to work with her so she didn't see herself as a burden. "Bug, this stuff is important for us to know. It's how we take care of you." Lena touched Callie's face.

"I didn't think it was going to be an issue. I wasn't going to take any penicillin." Callie defended.

"Well you did. Callie there are a lot of medications that have penicillin." Stef stated.

"And why didn't you tell us about Judes allergy to bees? Or that you get migraines? And that flower are you allergic to?" Stef started to raise her voice. Lena put her hand on Stef shoulder. She didn't want Callie to shut down.

"I haven't had a migraine in a long time. And I've been taking care of Jude. He knows to stay away from bees."

"But did you know to stay away from them?" Lena asked cautiously.

"Well no. I had never been stung."Callie said matter of factly.

"What about this flower Jude said your allergic to? How allergic are you?"

Callie started to play with the blanket she was using. "When we were little, my mom wanted to plant a flower garden. So, she went to the store and bought some seeds. We helped her plant them, it was so much fun. We got to play in the dirt and we spent a lot of time outside just having fun. She would take us out every evening to water them and we would weed the garden. After a couple of weeks the seeds grew and flowers started to bloom. When the monkey flower bloomed, every time I went outside, I would start sneezing and my eyes would get itchy and watery. My throat would get scratchy. If I touched it I would have a mild rash wherever it made contact. So mom took me to the doctor. He said it was allergies and gave me some medicine. Mom had to pull out the plant. They were such pretty flowers. And me and Jude liked to play with them."

"Callie, that's a fairly common flower here in San Diego. What if we ever planted those? We have a lot of flowers in our garden." Lena said.

"I walked the garden when I saw it. I saw that you didn't have any. I've been careful." Callie stated trying to defend herself.

"Not careful enough. Look what happened." Stef said exasperated.

"This wasn't my fault. I didn't do this on purpose! I'm sorry I caused so many problems. I didn't know about the bees." Callie was getting agitated. "The social worker we had first said that if we were too hard to take care of that nobody would want us."

"Oh Bug. That's not true. We want you!"

"Yeah but I'm already adopted. It's not like you have a choice."

"Callie! That is not fair. We have always wanted you and you know it! We accepted you knowing that you had a past and that we might never know everything. But stuff like this we need to know. Your health is very important to us and we would never let something like this get in the way of our love for you."

"I'm sorry. I just… I don't know. I wanted to be adopted so badly that I didn't want anything to jeopardize it."

Look I say we make a deal. How about we will talk to the doctor to see if we can get you home faster, but you have to be completely honest with us. No more lies no more secrets. Tell the doctor everything. After a couple of weeks you are coming back to get your allergy test done and we are going to get you set up with whatever you need.

"Everything?" callie asked quietly.

"Everything medically important. Yes." Lena stated. She needed the girl to trust them and let them take care of her.

"But the test is going to tell you everything anyways. And what about Jude?" Callie asked.

"We would really like his information also. But Jude is getting his test done tomorrow. Your test isn't till a couple of weeks so we want to know everything you know." Stef said.

"I'm sorry." Callie said while looking down to her lap.

"For what bug?" Lena asked. She put a finger under Callie's chin and made the girl have eye contact with them.

"For hiding this from you." Callie said with tears in her eyes.

"Cal, I understand why you did it. I'm not happy but I understand. Dr. C. is going to do a full physical on all of you kids. Including allergy tests. The whole nine yards. She is going to check everything." Stef said.

"Ok." Callie nodded.

"So are you going to tell us?" Lena questioned her daughter.

Callie took a deep breath and nodded. "So when I was around 13, I got a really bad ear infection. I had told my foster parents that I didn't feel good but they just told me to go away. That I had chores to do. So that's what I did. But the pain kept getting worse. And I knew I had a fever. We weren't allowed to stay home alone and they didn't want to stay with us so they made me go to school. One day I was in so much pain that I passed out in class. When I woke up I was in the nurse's office and they told me that they were waiting for the ambulance."

"Oh bug. That's horrible."

"Well, when they told me that I kinda freaked out and kept telling them that I was fine. I didn't want my foster parents to get called. I knew I was going to get in trouble."

"So what happened?"

"Nothing! They said that they had called my foster parents and that they were going to meet us at the ER. I had a dangerously high fever. When the ambulance arrived, I was trying to convince then that I didn't need to go. That I was fine. But when I stood up, I got dizzy, so I was taken to the hospital anyways. Turns out I almost lost all hearing in my ear. The infection was very severe. I was in the hospital for two days. They were giving me some really strong antibiotics. But when I got discharged. They said that I was getting penicillin because that's what they gave kids. My foster parents were not happy. They said that because of me they missed work and that because of that I wasn't going to eat to compensate the money they lost.

"When I took the first dose, I felt funny. Itchy and hot. I just thought that it was because I was taking them on an empty stomach, But after the second dose that day I had a full blown allergic reaction. Minus the breathing problems. My foster parents said that they were not going to take me back to the hospital. That they had already lost two days of work. So I stopped taking the medicine. My infection cleared up but it messed up my hearing a little."

"What do you mean?" Stef asked. Could she really not hear from one ear and them not notice?

"Well I can hear but it sounds a little muffled. I barely notice it now. Just when I'm concentrating really hard and someone talks to me from the right. It looks like I'm just not paying attention." Callie explained.

"Oh baby… Why didn't you say anything?"

"Well there's nothing that can be done. And the past is the past.:

"We are going to take you to an audiologist."

"What? Why?"

"To see what's going on and what can be done. They can see if you're a good candidate for a hearing aid." Lena said. "And we can make sure that your teachers know so they don't think you're ignoring them. I've actually had a few say that when your working, you're so focused that you don't pay attention to anything else.

"I didn't know I was doing that. Plus I don't need a hearing aid, nor do I want one! I'm fine!"

"Cal, not hearing correctly is not fine." Stef argued.

"But…" Callie tried but was cut off by her mama.

"Ok let's talk about this latter. What else?" Lena intervened before things got out of hand.

"About me?" The mom's nodded. "That know of, nothing. That's it." Callie said.

"And Jude?" Stef prodded

"Jude has always been healthier than me. Aside from the bee sting he got, I have nothing. And it wasn't anything like my reaction. It was just his arm." Callie felt bad that she couldn't do more for him, but without her foster parents help she was limited.

"Why do you think he's always been healthier than you?" Lena asked.

"I don't know. But it seemed like I was always taking some kind of medicine when I was little. Jude never did." Callie said scrunching up her nose.

"Cal I'm going to ask Bill to find your medical files from when you were born. Is that ok?" Stef asked.

"Sure. It would be nice to know why." Callie yawned and rubbed the bridge of her nose.

"Ok, I'll give him a call tomorrow." Stef stated.

"Why don't you take a nap, bug. You look tired." Lena said.

"I'm fine. I've been sleeping all day." She felt tired but she wanted to spend more time with her family

"Bug, you need rest." Lena tried again.

"But it feels like I've been doing nothing but sleep all weekend… that's all I've done." Callie complained. The mom's looked at each other. She was really tired. She sounded so young. She looked like a toddler fighting to stay awake past her nap time.

"I know it feels like that but you have to rest. Your body has gone through a lot these last few days." Lena started to run her hand through her daughter's hair. It was something she knew soothed her. After a few seconds she could see Callie's eyes start to close and another yawn escaped her.

"Just rest a little." Stef said soothingly.

"Don't leave without saying goodbye…" Callie yawned mid sentence. She was already falling asleep. Her voice sounded muffled and tired.

"Don't worry bug. We're right here." the moms said at the same time.