A/N so this chapter introduces a lot of Sara's family. I've made up a list of what kids belong to who, how old they are, who's married to who, and what their relationship to Sara is. So here is goes...

Ryan Scott- Sara's dad, married to Elizabeth

Elizabeth Scott- Sara's step mom,

Nathan Scott- Sara's step brother, 24

Hanna Scott- Sara's held sister, 19

Fay Nelson- Sara's mom, married to Charles Nelson.

Charles Nelson- Sara's stepdad

Lorraine Evans- Sara's sister, married to Luke, 32.

Luke Evans- Sara's brother-in-law, 33

Madison- 6

James- 4

Mark- 2

One on the way

Brittany Foster- Sara's step sister, married to Michael Foster, 39

Michael Foster- Sara's brother-in-law, 40

Mitchell- 11

Lacey- 6

Christopher Nelson- Sara's step brother, married to Mary Beth, 37

Mary Beth Nelson- sister-in-law, 35

Erin- 5

Elsie- 3

Eric- 6 months

Tomas "Tom" Nelson- Sara's brother, married to Jenna, 30

Jenna Nelson- Sara's sister-in-law, 28

Audra- 1/2

Alexandra- 1/2

One on the way

Abby Nice- Sara's sister, married to Nick, 28

Nick Nice- Sara's brother-in-law, 31

Cody- 3 months

I hope that'll give you at least a little clarity. Now, on to the story.

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Around 1 am, Callen woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. He quietly walked up the stairs, making his way to the kitchen. He pulled a stool up to the counter, where the toaster was, turned on the small LED lights, placed under the cabinet, and set to work on the toaster.

As he was starting to put it back together, Ryan came out of his room.

"What are you doing up, George?" He asked.

"I'm sorry, did I wake you?"

"No, but bak to my earlier question. What are you doing up?" Ryan asked again.

"Insomnia,"was all Callen said, "you?"

"I have trouble sleeping. My back bothers me a lot and my sinuses are messed up from a gun accident years ago."

"What happend?" Callen asked.

"Longs story short, I shot of my thumb and it got my eye."

"But it still have both your thumbs," Callen replied.

"But not both of my big toes," Ryan smiled.

"Now, if you'll excuse me. I'm going to go back to bed," Ryan said, popping a pill in his mouth, "feel free to take one. It'll help you sleep."

Callen yawned. He nodded goodnight to Ryan, finished putting the toaster together, and went back to bed around 2:30.

When he laid back down, Sara was sound asleep and to Callens surprise he fell asleep a half hour later.

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Callen woke up that morning around 7:30 to Sara lying with her head on his chest, an arm around his stomach and his arm around her, on her lower back.

Sara stirred a little bit right before her eyes fluttered open. Callen could feel her eye lashes through his shirt.

Sara must have realized the position they were in because she squirmed a little and then rolled over to the position she'd started the night in.

"I know you're awake," Callen whispered, leaning over. His slight stubble tickling her neck, before he rolled back over to his side.

Callen could practically see her eyes fly wide open and he could see the blush creep up her neck.

"One word about this and your dead," Sara said, sitting up and glaring at him.

"Understood."

Brunch was a loud and chaotic affair. The four Scott kids all seemed really close. The family over all was close but you could tell if you hurt one of the kids you'd have the other three to deal with.

As the family went through the meal with loud 'debates', as they called them, equally as loud discusions, and Lorraine's children getting into the occasional fight, Callen sat back and observed the family.

He noticed, in particular, Sara smiling a lot. Her and Nathan arguing about sports. Elizabeth complaining about not being able to have a nice, normal meal. The young children playing with there food. All of it was very domestic and foreign to Callen and he saw the appeal. He saw what Sam saw in this life style and the fact that he found it appealing startled him.

"So, George," Nathan said, "what are your intensions with my sister?"

The whole table fell silent. The only noises were Lorraine's kids. Sara thought she couldn't turn a brighter red and Callen was knocked off guard.

Everyone wanted to hear what he was going to say.

"It's only been six months," Sara replied.

"You brought him home, didn't you?" Nathan asked.

"Nathan Joel Scott," Sara warned.

"No, it's ok, Sara," Callen said, "as of right now, I'm not sure where we are headed, but I know I do care and respect her greatly. I can't wait to find out where we're headed." He said the last bit looking at Sara.

"Aweee, how sweet," Hanna gushed.

"Sounds good to me..." Nathan said, clapping his hands together, "how about we play some football now."

"Sounds good to me," Sara said, happy to get off the topic of her's and Callen's 'relationship'

They cleaned up brunch and put on hats, sweaters, and gloves.

The teams were divided up. Sara and Ryan were team captains. Luke and Nathan were on Sara's team and Callen and Hanna were on Ryan's with the young kids divided between the two teams. Loraine couldn't play because of her being pregnant and Elizabeth wasn't really big on playing and she wasn't needed to even out a team.

G enjoyed the game. They didn't play with many rules and he quickly discovered that Sara got her competitiveness from her dad. They both played dirty. The whole team had experienced her competitiveness during a basketball game.

"And you lose again," Sara said, to her dad at the end. "Is that 10 years now?"

"9, You missed Christmas last year," Ryan commented.

"Oh, yeah," Sara said, kind of sad, "but my team still beat you," she smiled.

"Yes, they did," Ryan said rolling his eyes.

"I'm going to take a shower," Sara said, "we've got to leave for moms in an hour and a half, G."

"Ok," Callen replied, as Sara disappeared down the steps.

"Why does she call you G?" Ryan asked, taking a sip of his drink.

"My partner, he says George doesn't fit me and decided to call me G. Sara told me on the first date that George didn't seem to fit me, so I told her to call me G," Callen said, coming up with yet another lie.

"Hey, dad," Lorraine said, "we're leaving now."

"Ok," Ryan said, hugging his middle daughter.

"We'll be back Christmas Eve around 6:30," she replied, "I'll see you later, George."

"Bye," Callen said.

And hour later Sara and G were ready to go.

"Hey dad, can we borrow the truck?"

"Why don't you use yours?"

"You still have it?"

"Yeah," Ryan grinned, "Nathan keeps bugging me to drive it."

"You said no, right?"

"Of course," Ryan replied, "that truck can barely handle you much less your brother."

Sara rolled her eyes, "where are the keys?"

"Here," he said, grabbing them off a hook and tossing them towards her.

"Thanks dad," Sara smiled, kissing his cheek. "See ya later."

30 minutes later they pulled into the Nelson's, Sara's mom and step dad's, drive way.

"Now this is where we enter the zoo," Sara said, turning off the car, "think you can handle it?"

"I deal with terrorist and psychos all the time."

"You're not the most social person on earth."

"I think I can handle a few people."

"I few people?" Sara laughed, "its over 25 people, 2 of which are hormonal pregnant women."

"I can handle it," Callen assured as they got out of the truck.

"Ok," Sara laughed.

"Aunt Sara!" Two girls, about 6, yelled, Jumping off the swings. The girls, red-cheeked and runny nose from the cold, came running to give their aunt a hug.

"Lacey, Erin," Sara smiled, hugging the girls, "Wow! You two have gotten big."

"Auntie Sara!" 4 year old, James yelled, sliding off the swing.

"Whose that?" Erin asked, pointing at Callen.

"That's aunt Sara's special friend," James said, "I meeted him yesterday."

"You met him," Lacey corrected.

Sara and G both laughed. "We're gonna go inside now," Sara said.

"Ok," Erin said.

The smell of homemade cookies and bread greeted them.

"Mom! We're here!" Sara called, as they walked into the kitchen.

"Sara," her mom said, enveloping her in a hug, "oh, I've missed you."

"I've missed you too," Sara smiled.

"And who is your friend?" Fay smirked.

"No Grammy, it's special friend," James interrupted.

"This is George, George, this is my mom."

"Nice to meet you mrs. Nelson," Callen smiled shaking her hand.

"Please, call me Fay," she smiled.

"Sara!" Abby, her younger sister, yelled, running to give her sister a hug.

"Hey Abbs," Sara smiled.

"Abby, are you trying to wake Cody up?" Her husband, Nick, asked.

"Yeah, I just put Eric to sleep," Mary Beth, Sara's sister-in-law, said.

"Good to know y'all missed me," Sara joked.

30 minutes later Callen had been introduced to the rest of the family.

They sat down to dinner and if Callen thought meals at the Scott's were hectic they didn't seem all that hectic now.

"So George," Christopher started, after dinner. "Sara tells me you're a cop."

"Yes, I work for LAPD," Callen replied.

"And what's that like?"

The guys started talking about laws and regulations.

"How about we women go into the living room and talk," Mary Beth, Christopher's wife, suggest, "I wanna hear how you two met."

"Since I've already heard this, I'm gonna put my kids to bed. They had a late night last night," Lorraine said, "Maddie, James, Mark, come on."

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"Why am I not surprised you met because of a speeding ticket?" Britney, Sara's oldest sister, asked, laughing.

"Because she's a speed ninja," Callen said, coming into the living room.

"Look who talking mr. I-got-sent-to-comedy-driving-school-for-speeding-to-much-while-off-duty," Sara laughed.

"I'm gonna kill Sam for telling you that," Callen said.

"Who's Sam?" Jenna, Sara's sister-in-law, asked.

"My partner," Callen replied.

"Hey, what time is it?" Mary Beth asked.

"Um.. 10:30," Abby said, looking at her watch.

"Oh, my goodness," Mary Beth said, "I need to get my kids to bed."

"Come to think of it, they've been really quiet," Britney said.

"To quiet," Jenna commented.

"That's cause we put them to bed and hour ago," Tom, Sara's brother and Jenna's husband, said, from the door way.

"What sweet husbands you are," Mary Beth said, giving Christopher a kiss.

"Well, I'm gonna get to bed," Sara said.

"I guess I'll go too," Callen said.

They said goodnight and before they went up stairs, Britney yelled at them to stay where they are.

"What? why?" Callen asked and Sara groaned.

"We're underneath the mistletoe."

"Nelson tradition," Lorraine explained, "you and Sara are under the mistletoe and since it's the first time in this house, we'll take a picture when you kiss her."

"Oh," Callen said he looked over at Sara who was blushing.

"Ok," Britney said, "ready when you are."

"This is so stupid," Sara commented

"Just kiss him," Britney replied

"Yeah," G smirked.

"You're supposed to be on my side," Sara glared.

"Just kiss her George," Lorraine said.

Cupping Sara's cheeks, he kissed her gently.

Sara was shocked. She didn't know why though. She'd kissed Callen before but in this setting, it was different.

And the weird feelings she'd been getting when they were in close contact or when she watched him play with her nieces and nephews.

"Perfect," Britney smiled.

Sara wounder if Callen felt the way she did because he looked a little shocked.

"Well goodnight," Sara said, running up the steps.

"Are you ok?" Callen asked, once they got to their room.

"Yeah, why?"

"You're just acting sort of weird," Callen replied.

"What? I am not acting weird." Sara said, hiding badly.

"How'd you get I be such a good undercover agent? You're a terrible liar."

"Only with people I know," Sara replied.

"Well you seem to be great at pretending to be dating me in front of your family," Callen replied.

"I'm gonna get ready for bed," Sara said, storming to the bathroom.

"Damn, she's sexy when she mad," Callen said to himself. Then he proceeded to ask himself were that came from and scold himself. He was cut from his mental exploration of were it came from when Sara came back into the room.

"You ready to sleep?" Sara asked, anger in her voice, coming back into the room.

"Yeah," Callen said, climbing into the bed. Sara followed suit.

Callen turned out the lamp and the two laid with their backs to each other, with as much space as possible between each other, and tension so thick you could cut it.

"What did I do?" Callen asked, turning toward her, after a few minute of uncomfortable silence.

"My family loves you," Sara replied, Sara turned to face him and the distance between the two closed, "I've never seen them take to someone, one of us kids brought home, so fast. It's just hard doing this."

"I've never had a group of people welcome me and treat me so much like family so quickly," Callen replied, his voice cracking, "out of all those foster homes, only one treated me close to what your family does."

Sara was surprised at the emotion she heard in his voice.

Before they knew it, they'd pulled each other in for a hug. Callen had one hand tangled in Sara's hair, another around her waist and his face nestled in her crook of her neck. Sara had an arm around his neck and another around his waist.

"I'm sorry you had to go through that," Sara whispered.