Chapter 6
A/N: This chapter contains things that are of a dark nature. It tells the story of Callie's rape. It will also show you the stronger side of Callie and the weaker side of Brandon. I know that is a complete flip flop, but when you read it you will understand. I know at the end some may hate me, but stick with the story and you will see how it all falls together, as always read and review! Thanks again for reading the story and thanks for all who have reviewed.
Callie walked to the top of the stairs in the Fosters home. She descended them knowing she was on her way to do the hardest thing she had ever done. As she hit the last step her phone vibrated, she quickly looked at the text.
Brandon
'I will be right there with you the whole time, keep your chin up.'
Callie
'Thanks I needed to hear that.'
"Callie sweets, Bill is here. There are a couple of detectives here as well. We figured we could do this all at once. So you could start moving on, well at least as much as you can." Stef says.
"If it is to much just say so and we can do it separately. There is no shame in not being able to talk about this in front of 3 men who are mostly complete strangers." Lena says.
"No I want to get this out of the way. I will talk to them all." Callie tells them.
"Ok lets go then." Stef says as she leads them into the living room.
"Hi Callie." Bill says.
"Hi Bill."
"Callie this is detectives Ross and Collins. They will be asking you a few questions about what happened. I believe I can get all I need from listening to you answer their questions. Will that be ok with you?" Bill asks.
"Sure ok." Callie says as she turns toward the detectives.
"Hi Callie I am Mike Ross this is my partner Steve Collins. We have a few things we want to ask you. I know it will be hard so we will try to do this as fast and with as little pain as possible. So if you are ready we will begin." Ross says.
"I'm ready." Is her quiet response.
"Good lets get to it then. On the night in question what was it that you were doing?" Ross asks.
"Well, we had just finished watching a movie, me and Liam that is. Everyone else in the house was in bed asleep. I went and took a shower and got dressed for bed. I then went back into the room I was staying in." Callie starts her story.
"What did you normally wear to bed?" Collins asks.
"PJ's, Um I think those were the ones Jude gave me so they had Snow White on them. They had long sleeve pull over shirt with long pants with elastic in the waist band." She says.
"Ok please continue." Ross says looking at his partner.
"Ok well as I said I was back in my room and had just gotten under the covers when Liam came in. He came over and sit on my bed as I asked him what he was doing. He said he just wanted to talk. I asked him what about and he said me. I was like what about me. He wanted to know why I didn't see myself as beautiful and sexy. I told him cause too many people had told me I wasn't either of them. He then started to run his fingers through my hair. I told him he should stop. But then he leaned down and kissed me, I was frozen in fear, this was something that could get me kicked out of the house and even put into a group home." Callie stops to take a shuddering breath not sure if she could go on.
Just as she was about to tell them to stop that she couldn't do this her phone vibrated with another text.
Brandon
'Don't stop now you can do this. :)' The smile was enough to give her the strength to carry on.
"Callie you ok?" Lena asks.
"Yeah sorry. Any way when he kissed me for the second time he laid down in the bed beside me. I tried to get up but he wouldn't let me. He asked if I had ever had sex before, when I said no, he was like first time for everything. He asked if I would have sex with him. I told him that I wasn't ready for that, that I wasn't old enough. He told me I was old enough and that he wanted to be my first. I told him no I wasn't ready yet." She stops again to take a breath.
Brandon
'Go on tell them the rest, you can do.'
"What happened next?" Ross asks.
"Well I tried again to get out of the bed, but he was to strong and he shoved me back on the bed. He crawled over top of me and started kissing me again. I told him to stop but he then put his hand under my shirt and shoved it up around my neck. I had a sports bra on under it and he frowned before he shoved it up to. Again I told him to stop and tried to get out of the bed and pull my bra and shirt back down. He let me get partially up. I was thinking he was going to stop, but it was a ruse. When I was partially up he grabbed the waist band of my pants and yanked them and my under ware down to my ankles. Doing this made me fall back on the bed. He then jumped on top of me and used his fot to kick my pants and under ware all the way off. This allowed him to force my legs apart." Callie has to stop for a minute.
Brandon
'I will kill him!'
"Could you excuse me for a minute." Callie says with tears in her eyes.
"Of course. Take your time." Ross tells her.
Callie gets up and heads toward the stairs as if she is going to the bathroom. As she starts up the stairs she can see Brandon sitting half way down them with a tear running down his cheek. She walks up the stairs and kneels down in front of him slowly reaching out for his hand. She squeezes his hand gentle while looking in to his sad but angry eyes. She knows what he is feeling as it is written all over his face. She smiles at him but shakes her head no. Raising a little bit she quickly kisses him, then stands and heads back to the kitchen to finish her story.
"Sorry this is just bringing back some bad memories." Callie says.
"Sweets if this is too hard we can stop for now." Stef says.
"No I think I would like to get all the pain out at once thanks." Callie says, knowing it is from Brandon and his mom's that she is drawing her strength from.
"After he got my pants off he then kicked his off still holding me down. That was when I tried again hoping he was distracted enough trying to get his pants off that I could get away. Didn't work he grabbed me again and threw me down. He was mad cause I tried again so he bit me. He then proceeded to rape me." She says tears running down her cheek.
"Do you think you may have lead him on a little, maybe letting him think you wanted more?" Collins asks.
"What?!" Came from 4 voices at once.
"I mean is it possible you gave him mixed signals?" Collins asked again.
"I heard you the first time." Callie says, she also hears foot steps coming down the stairs and gets up and rushes out of the kitchen.
She catches Brandon just as he reaches the bottom stop and puts her hand on his chest. She slowly pushes him back up the steps their eyes never leaving the others. She again shakes her head no and gives him a soft smile. She knows it is dangerous but kisses him again. This time a little longer and with a little more passion in it. When they break the kiss, he looks at her and nods his head. She turns around and heads back into the kitchen ready to face the question she was asked.
"To answer your question Detective no I don't think I lead him on. Yes it was nice to be getting attention from someone, but I never gave him any kind of signals as you said that I wanted him to rape me. Now if you don't have any more questions I think I am done talking about it." Callie tells him.
"Callie I am sorry for my partner here. He seems to have forgotten who the victim here is. I think we have enough for now. But I have to warn you. if this goes to trial you will have to testify against him." Ross says.
"I understand." Callie says.
"Ok I think I would like Collins to leave our house now." Lena says.
"Look Lady I am doing my job and nothing more." Collins says
"How by attacking an innocent girl who is trying to tell the story of a crime?" Stef asks.
"Sorry I don't bye her story, I don't think any of it went down as she says it did." Collins says.
"Really?!" Callie raises her voice, she grabs her shirt and lowers it and her bra so you can see most of her left breast. There on it is a distinct scar that looks like a set of teeth. "Mind telling me how I got this then?"
She puts her shirt back to normal and raises her head up to stare the man in the face. She sees the shock in his and everyone else face, but is beyond caring. This isn't the first time she had been called a liar.
"I see the look in your eye detective, I know to you I am nothing more than white trash. Who is accusing a fine young upstanding young man from the right side of the tracks of a terrible crime that could ruin his life. But did you ever consider that I may be telling the truth and that it is me you should be trying to protect instead of a guy like Liam. No of course not no way a person like me could be in the right. Go on and think what you want, act how you want, believe what you want. Cause in the end I know what happened and the people who really matter know I am telling the truth. So I don't give one rats ass what you believe. I have to carry that mark on my body for the rest of my life. After he was done and I was laying there in pain and bleeding he fingered his little bit mark and said look I branded you. And I will have to live with that as well. So go ahead think the worst of me, most people do. I am tired of always cowering away, of worrying if I have done something to get myself kicked out of another home. I am tired of people like you detective, who think they know what really happened when they don't. So write up your report any way you want cause I just don't give a shit any more." Callie says, she then looks and Stef, Lena and Bill. "Sorry I know that may be a little crass but I couldn't hold it in any more."
Callie runs out the back door in a flash as the three adults look at each other. Had they let her down? Should they have stepped in and stopped Collins? They hear the front door open and close in a hurry and then all is quite.
"Detective Ross I think you two should leave. If you have any further questions feel free to contact me and I will arrange a time for you to talk to her again, under one condition." Stef says.
"What is that?" Ross asks.
"You leave the ass at the station and come alone." Lena finishes for Stef.
Collins goes to comment on what was said when Ross looks at him and shakes his head no. he then looks back at the moms and nods his head as they turn and leave.
"Well that was interesting." Bill says.
"Yeah." Lena breathes out.
"Bill what have you decided about us being Callie and Jude's legal Guardians?" Stef asks.
"Yeah the more I hear the more I know we can't let them leave this house." Lena says.
"Are you two sure this is what you want? As you have heard, Callie has had a rough time of it. I never knew about the rape or the bite mark. But there have been home where I have had to remove them due to physical abuse. Times where it just didn't work out. She can have an abrasive attitude some times. So I need to make sure you understand what it is you are getting into?" Bill asks.
"We understand and think it is the best for all parties involved. It will get them out of the system and in a more stable environment. I think that will do them more good than anything." Stef says.
"Very well, I will file the paper work Monday morning. I will push for the t rule n it by the end of next week." Bill says.
"Just remember once I file and they rule to allow you two guardianship, there is no turning back. They will be yours till they turn 18." Bill says with one more attempt to allow them to back out.
"Your wrong Bill. It will mean they are a part f this family for life." Stef says.
"Very well. Tell Callie I am deeply sorry that this happened to her under my watch. If she needs anything like counseling, have her call me and I will set it up on the states dime." Bill tells them.
"Thanks Bill we will talk to her and see what she wants to do." Lena says.
"Ok Ladies you have a good night and rest of your weekend."
"You two Bill." Lena says as he walks out the door.
"Did we mess up in there, babe?" Stef asks.
"I don't think so. It was rough on her yeah, but I think she needed to say what she did. Maybe it will help the healing begin." Lena says.
"I hope so, that girl has been through enough in her life. She has been let down one to many times. I just want to make sure we don't let her down too." Stef says.
"We won't. She will figure out we are on her side eventually and come around. We just have to give her time." Lena says.
"Ok, I will take your word for it." Stef smiles at her.
Brandon ran out the door as fast as he could looking for Callie. He made his way to the park to look for her there. As he is jogging through the park he sees her stand close to the pond. He slowly walks up to her and puts his hands on her arms. She pull away from him and then walks a few feet away. Brandon looks at her in wonder as he goes to follow her.
"Don't Brandon." Callie says.
"Why, I just want to be there for you." He says.
"No!"
"Why?"
"I don't need you pity. I should have seen from the beginning that is what this was.?" She tells him.
"Pity? I don't pity you Callie. I just want to comfort you, to let you know you are not alone. That I am here for you." Brandon says.
"Sure you are. Why though? Cause you want something from me. So you can say look I helped the troubled little teen foster girl out All you guys are a like." Callie says with tears running gown her cheeks.
"Callie, that's" Brandon says with pain in his eyes but is interrupted.
"No Brandon. me a lone." Callie says as she runs off again leaving Brandon standing there trying to figure out where this all went wrong.