Summary - Brandon and Callie tell what happened in the incident with Liam
Disclaimer - I didn`t create most of the characters in this story. They are the property of Bradley Bredeweg, Peter Paige and ABC Family. All infringements are unintentional.
Author`s note - A portion of this part will be a flashback of the altercation between Brandon, Callie and Liam and will contain some strong violence.
"Brandon we need to know what happened." Mike said as he leaned on the ambulance.
Brandon hesistated for a moment to gather his thoughts. "It all started when me and Callie-"
"Excuse me." One of the EMTs interrupted. "We need to get him to the hospital."
"Alright." Stef said. "Brandon are you going to be okay?"
"Yeah mom, i`m going to be fine."
"I`ll ride with Brandon if you two won`t mind." Callie said.
"We`re fine with that." Mike said.
"We`ll make sure the car is towed back home." Stef said as Callie got in the ambulance with Brandon. Stef and Mike went to get in their car and follow the ambulance to the hospital.
Stef brought her car to a stop in the hospital parking lot. She immediately felt a pit in her stomach being back at a hospital for the first time since the shooting. However she composed herself and went inside with Mike. Stef waited for twenty minutes in the waiting room, while Mike went outside to make a couple of calls before they were told that they could head up to the fourth floor to see Brandon.
"A couple of detectives are on their way to question Brandon and Callie." Mike said to break the silence in the elevator.
"Who are the detectives? Stef asked.
"Detectives Carmichael and Guerrero."
"I`ve heard Carmichael`s a standup guy, but i don`t know much about Guerrero other than that she recently got promoted."
Stef and Mike got off the elevator at the fourth floor and headed over to the room where Brandon was being held. A doctor was there to greet them.
"Hi there i`m Doctor Fields." Doctor Fields introduced himself to Stef and Mike. "You must be his parents."
"Yes we are." Stef replied.
"How is Brandon?" Mike asked.
"Brandon sustained no serious injuries. He has some bruises, a bloody lip and sore ribs. He`ll need to take it easy for a few days at least. Other than that he`s free to leave."
"Thank you doc." Mike said as he and Stef went in the room to check on Brandon, who was putting his shirt on. Callie came in the room a couple of minutes later after using the restroom.
"Hey you`re alright?" Mike asked as he sat down next to Brandon.
"I`m fine Dad." Brandon replied. "My ribs feel pretty sore."
"I hope that you`ll take it easy for a few days." Stef said.
"Look about what happened-" A knock on the door immediately interrupted Brandon. Everyone turned around to see a middle aged man and younger woman standing at the door.
"Excuse us." Detective Carmichael said. "I`m Detective Joseph Carmichael and this is Detective Valentina Guerrero."
"Hi there detectives." Stef greeted the detective. "I`m Officer Stef Foster, Brandon`s mother and this is-"
"We know who you are." Detective Guerrero interrupted Stef. "How have you been doing after the shooting?"
"I`m doing better, although i`m still not there physically."
"Everyone was pretty worried about you."
"Listen we need to ask Brandon and Callie some questions about what happened."
"Can this wait until the morning?" Mike asked. "They`ve been through a lot and need some rest."
"I`m sorry, but it can`t wait."
Stef, Mike, Brandon and Callie looked at each other with very wary looks. They badly wanted for this night to be over with so that they can go home.
"Look i`ll answer your question." Callie said to break the silence.
"Yeah i`ll do the same thing." Brandon said.
"Do you want to question them separately or together?" Stef asked.
"We`ll go ahead and question them separately." Detective Carmichael replied.
"Callie you don`t mind if we go into another room?" Detective Guerrero asked.
"No i don`t." Callie replied with a nod.
"I`ll come with you." Stef said as she got up to escort Callie and Detective Guerrero down the hall. She took one last look at Brandon as she was walking away and saw him sitting with a haggard, but poised look on his face. Stef wanted very much to be in the room with Brandon, but felt secure that he was in good hands with Mike there with him.
The ladies went down the hall to an empty room. Callie and Stef sat down as Detective Guerrero closed the door. Callie took a deep breath as she got ready to tell Detective Guerrero what happened.
I can`t believe that he tried to do a freestyle." Callie said.
"Yeah he sounded so bad." Brandon said as he drove the car. "I can`t get over how much he struggled to get the words out while trying to rap fast."
"I know and he had that deer in the headlights look." Brandon and Callie both laughed at their retelling of what happened at the concert and then shared a mutual smile at each other. They both felt a lot more at ease with each other since they decided to slow things down after their kiss before Stef and Lena`s wedding and felt good about having a nice night together with no pressures and worries.
"Hey i`m going to stop here to get some ice cream." Brandon said as he drove to the Exxon station. "Mom forget to get some. You want any?"
"Yeah." Callie said as Brandon parked the car. "Please don`t forget to get cookies & cream. You know how Jude and Mariana get when they don`t get any."
"Oh i know their disapproving looks all too well." Brandon said as he and Callie entered the store. Brandon went to get a pint each of chocolate and cookies & cream ice cream, while Callie got some candy for Jude.
"Did you get me any?" Brandon asked playfully as he and Callie got in line at the cash register.
"You`ll have to share with Jude." Callie replied with a sly smile. "I can`t guarantee if he`ll save you any."
Brandon and Callie shared a nice laugh as they moved up the line to pay for the ice cream and candy. They went outside the store and sudden heard a familar voice in the night.
"Hey." A man yelled.
Brandon and Callie turned around and saw that it was Liam, who walked over to them.
"Just walk away." Brandon said as he and Callie moved toward the car.
"I was talking to you." Liam said as he blocked Callie`s path to the door.
"What do you want?" Callie said. "You`re not suppose to be anywhere near me."
"I wanted to let you know what you`ve done to my life with you being up those charges. I`ve lost a good job because of you. I was about to be promote and then the manager told me that i was being relieved of my duties, saying that this is a family company and they didn`t feel comfortable with me working there. Plus there was Sarah being taken from my parents, who can hardly look at me."
"That`s not my problem."
"I think that it is." Liam said as he got closer to Callie.
"Don`t say another word." Brandon said as he stepped in front of Callie to come face to face with Liam. "I think you better back off now."
"Oh so you`re going to play the white knight now are ya?"
"My parents are cops and they wouldn`t hesitate to kick your ass if you touch either one of us."
"Oh so you`re going to let mommy and daddy fight for you." Liam said as he shoved Brandon. "What are you going to do about? Huh?"
"Get in the car Callie." Brandon said as Liam shoved him harder, knocking Callie against the car door, which caused her to drop the ice cream to the ground.
"Are you alright?" Brandon asked as Liam gave him a shove against the car door as he was about to help Callie get the ice cream up.
At that moment, Brandon had enough of Liam shoving him around. He immediately flared with anger and with sudden force, hit Liam with a left hook in the nose. Liam was stunned by the punch. He immediately touched his nose and saw some blood on his hand.
"You`re fucking dead!" Liam yelled as he charged toward Brandon, pinned him against the car with his weight and landed a couple of punches to Brandon`s ribs. Brandon moaned with pain when Liam`s fist landed on his ribs. However he showed some resolve by wiggling away from the car and landed some punches of his own to Liam`s stomach. Then Liam wrapped his arms around Brandon and used his superior strength to wrestle him over to a dumpster behind the store.
"Leave him alone!" Callie yelled as Liam landed a hard right to Brandon`s nose and then landed four more punches to his ribs and stomach before Brandon collapsed to the ground.
"Stay down." Liam said while breathing heavily. "Don`t try to be a hero."
Just as Liam was about to walk away from a beaten and battered Brandon, he was suddenly hit in the face with a beer bottle by Callie and yelled out in pain.
Callie quickly rushed over to Brandon. "Come on lets get out of here." Callie said as she tried to help Brandon to his feet. However she got interrupted by a hard slap to the face by a bloody Liam, which caused her to trip for a moment before Liam grabbed her left arm.
"See what you made me do!" Liam yelled in Callie`s face. "This is all your fault you stupid bitch."
"Let me go." Callie said as she tried to fight back by kicking at Liam`s groin, which he blocked by moving his hips and then he tightened his death grip on Callie`s arm, which caused her to moan in pain.
"All this could`ve been avoided if Brandon didn`t try to play the hero." Liam took a quick look back at Brandon, who was slowly trying to get back on his feet. "Oh i get it now. He must have a thing for you. This is so typical of you to fall for your foster brother. It`s too bad he`s finding out the hard way what a no good piece of sh-"
Out of nowhere, Liam was suddenly interrupted by a hard blow to the head, which knocked him down. Callie quickly loosen his grip off of her arm and saw Brandon standing by with, holding a lead pipe.
"Are you alright?" Brandon asked as he got near Callie. "Did he hurt you?
"No." Callie replied.
Brandon and Callie looked at each other for a moment. They were relieved to see that neither of them were seriously hurt. Then Brandon turned his attention toward Liam, who was very dazed and slowly staggering to his knees. Brandon stared at Liam right in the eyes and immediately felt a smoldering anger inside him verging on hatred toward Liam. All he could think about at that moment was Liam raping Callie, causing her so much pain that still haunts her, getting her and Jude kicked out of the house and then getting away with it. Brandon`s anger built up to an inferno inside him, which caused him to tighten his grip to the pipe. Then he took three steps toward Liam; who was almost up on both feet; grabbed the pipe with both hands much like a baseball bat and took a swing.
"Brandon no!" Callie yelled as Brandon took a forceful swing with the pipe and connected with Liam`s skull. The only sound they heard was the sickeningly thud of the pipe hitting Liam`s skull, which caused him to collapse on the ground in a heap. Brandon briefly readied himself to take another swing before he felt Callie`s hand on his right shoulder.
"Please don`t do it." Callie pleaded to Brandon. She was frightened by the look of rage and hatred on his face. Callie had seen Brandon angry before, but she never thought that he was capable of losing control like this. Brandon gathered himself by taking a deep breath and dropped the pipe to the ground. He took a quick look at Callie and then saw Liam lying on the ground with blood coming from where he hit him in the skull. Brandon and Callie slowly made their way toward the proned Liam, who immediately started having a convulsion.
"Oh my god." Callie said with a fearful look on her face. "I`m going to go get some help."
"I`ll call 911." Brandon said as he dialed the numbers on his cell phone and then went to get a blanket to cover Liam. As he looked down at Liam, Brandon felt a mixture of relief, regret and distress over the situation he found himself in. All he could do was stand there and wait on some help to arrive.
"And that`s what happened." Brandon said.
"I think that we`re done here Brandon." Detective Carmichael said as a couple of knocks on the door was heard by him, Brandon and Mike. Detective Carmichael opened the door and saw Stef, Callie and Detective Guerrero standing outside after he opened the door.
"Are you done here?" Detective Guerrero asked.
"Yeah." Detective Carmichael replied. "We just finished up here."
"Can i talk to you and Mike outside for a moment?"
Mike and Detective Carmichael made their way outside, while Callie came inside and saw the door being closed by Detective Carmichael.
"How did it go?" Callie asked as she moved near Brandon.
"It was so tough having to relive what happened." Brandon replied with a weary tone in his voice. "How about you?"
"It was pretty much the same thing. What do you think they`re talking about?"
"Probably something about Liam."
Brandon and Callie sat silently in the room for a moment. Neither could hardly look at each other briefly before they took a quick glance at each other to break the tension. Brandon and Callie felt very much in the dark about everything in that moment as they waited for Stef and Mike.
Stef and Mike walked down the hall with Detectives Carmichael and Guerrero to a secluded spot.
"We like to know why we`re having meet so secretly." Mike asked impatiently.
"We didn`t want to say this in front of the kids," Detective Carmichael said. "but it`s about Liam."
"What about him?" Stef said. "He`s not dead is he?"
"No," Detective Guerrero replied. "but he`s in critical condition. We asked around and found out that the EMTs lost him for a moment, but were able to bring him back. That`s all we know right now."
"Normally we wouldn`t do," Detective Carmichael said. "but this is a professional courtesy to both."
"We understand." Stef said. "Is there anything else you want with the kids?"
"No we got all that we need from them."
"We`ll be in touch with you both and your captain." Detective Guerrero said.
"Thanks a lot." Mike said as he shook the detectives` hands.
"Hey no problem." Detective Carmichael said. "Just get back home safely and get some rest."
"We will."
Stef and Mike headed back to the room after parting ways with the detectives and got Brandon and Callie to come with them to head downstairs. The elevator ride was very silent with everyone feeling exhausted.
"You guys alright?" Stef asked. Brandon and Callie replied with a silent nod.
"Listen mom," Brandon said. "Is it alright if i stayed with dad tonight? I need some time to myself."
Normally Stef would`ve questioned Brandon on him going back with Mike instead of coming home with her, but she saw how spent he was by the forelorn look on his face. "Okay B." Stef said as she touched his hair. "Get some rest baby."
"I will. Tell everyone else that i`m doing fine and thinking about them."
Stef gave Brandon a hug goodbye before she and Callie went back to the SUV. As Brandon walked to Mike`s, he took one last look back at Callie, who also looked back while Stef called Lena on her cell phone. They didn`t say a single word and only nodded at each other as their way to say goodbye and silently reassure one another.
To be continued