And here is the final chapter of Episode 5! Thanks for the reviews, fun to see a lot of dread for Kasey - poor kid! I do put her through the mill. I hope you don't mind the shift of Mike's attitude in this chapter for her. It wouldn't be realistic to keep it fluffy all the time but I do promise everything always works out in the end!

Episode 6 may be a little while away but I will work on it as fast as I can. They do take time and I am pretty busy at the moment. How excited is everyone for tonight?! Been desperate for some Callie/Moms so glad it looks like we will finally be granted some!

Would love to know what you've thought of this episode, especially the format with it having been a bit different from the others (Kasey's through storyline/changing the pill scene). I'm keen to know so that I know whether to try and do future episodes like that or whether you prefer her being a more passive observer. I never know how much Kasey people want! Anyhow, any and all feedback welcome.

Thanks to TheTBone and Mea23 as always and hope you enjoy!

Cooper turned to look between the mother and daughter before realising it was his time to bail.

"Yeah...good luck..." Cooper chirped before dashing away from Stef.

Kasey looked at her through lost words as Stef pulled her further to the side.

"What is going on with you? I want answers." She folded her arms firmly as Kasey looked back and forth to Mike. She finally took a deep breath, Stef was bound to find out eventually anyway.

"Well - see...I was kind of worried about Dad and his lack of friends so I wanted...well, really Cooper suggested..." she tried to deflect blame as she fumbled through. "...he suggested that maybe we should look to more innovative - "

"Kasey!" Stef cut off her rambling to force her to the point. She bit her lip and winced.

"We signed Dad up to a finding friends website...only...we may have signed him up to the part that was more...for dating."

Stef looked across at Mike and the handsome man next to him before looking back at Kasey in horror.

"You signed your Dad up to a gay male dating website?"

"It's not a gay website - it's just a website Cooper found..." Kasey raised her arms.

"Your gay friend Cooper, Kasey!" Stef motioned a strangle, partly to assert the point and partly because she genuinely had to stop herself from just motioning it. Kasey stuttered for a second before collapsing into a sigh.

"I know! I'm sorry, I was just trying to help..."

"Oh you are batting a thousand this week, my friend. What's the matter? Two gay parents not enough for you?" Stef swung round in disbelief as Kasey took a step away. "Are you telling me that you engineered this entire thing through the internet? Let's put the interfering in people's private lives aside - which by the way I warned you about two days ago - do you have any idea how dangerous it can be to use internet dating websites?"

"We checked him over really carefully so there was no danger. It's a safe website!" Kasey protested.

"Oh OK, so you checked this guy fully." Stef swapped her tone to a more accepting one.

"Yes. We looked into everything." Kasey's hope lifted slighly at Stef's reasonable tone. It quickly switched.

"You mean aside from a pretty crucial fact about his sexual orientation and intentions!" She flicked Kasey's forehead. Her daughter rubbed her head but didn't do anything to complain.

"You need to tell him now. That poor man has completely the wrong impression." Stef folded her arms firmly.

"Are you kidding? He's gonna kill me!" She looked at her mother in horror.

"Yes! As I would! And no, I am absolutely not kidding. You can't do something like this behind his back! It's invasive and controlling - and incredibly dumb!"

Kasey looked over Stef's shoulder to them.

"But they get on so - "

"Kasey!" Stef shot at her snapping her attention back.

"Can't we just leave it - I'll explain it to Danny. Let him know the mix-up. There's no reason to embarrass Dad. You can punish me for it and everyone will be happy..."

"You want me to punish you for it?" Stef confirmed.

"As an alternative to being murdered, yes."

"Fine." Stef agreed. "Wanna know your punishment?" Stef grabbed her daughter's shoulders and walked behind her.

"Go tell you father!" She pushed her towards them as Kasey struggled round stepping back towards the furious blonde. She was saved by the sound of the applause and the MC.

"Oh - wait...next poem's up..." she took the opportunity to run back to her seat before Stef could groan her response. She shook her head and followed as the applause concluded. She threw a further look at Kasey who moved her chair back slightly in response to the piercing glare. It continued throughout most of the poem and only eased off once the speaker had finished, Kasey only daring to glance at it a couple of times. She could feel the eyes darting the side of her face. With the end of the recitation also marking the end of her avoidance, the stare turned into an urging head nod.

"You need to go now and fix this, I mean it..." She turned back to a cowering Kasey who was cut off before she could come up with a futher delay tactic.

"I'm not too sure you're gonna have to..." Cooper observed, noting Mike speeding towards them.

He grabbed the back of Kasey's shirt and hauled her up.

"Mind if we have a word?" He asked Stef, exasperated, who waved her hand in approval.

Lena looked at her for an explanation as Garrett was announced to the stage.

"Let's just enjoy the poems - we have enough going on." Stef assured her as they turned to watch their friends' boy wow the room.

"I cannot believe that you would do something like this!" Mike yelled as the two of them went to the street outside.

"Daddy, I'm sorry - I swear I had no -"

"Sorry?! Kasey, what were you trying to accomplish here? To humiliate me?" He swung his body round, fuming.

"Of course not! I was looking for a friend for you, I had no idea he was looking for something else." She flailed her arms towards the café, genuinely regretful of how badly this had gone.

"Well that's what happens when you try and do things over the internet! God Kasey! The internet? Do you think so little of me that you think you have to play with me like some doll?"

"I was just trying to help you, Dad. You seem so lonely all the - "

"That is not your business!" He roared back as Kasey was dumbstruck. This had cut much deeper than some stupid misunderstanding. She knew she deserved to be yelled at but it couldn't help but awaken her defences that she'd suppressed in the wake of their previous disagreements.

"Well who's business is it Dad?" The old frustrations rushed to her surface and before she could regulate her feelings she was shouting back. "You need to decide if you want us in or out. You can't have it both ways!" She was at a loss for how she could help Mike. She could do no right recently, no matter how good her intentions.

"You know - I just can't. I can't deal with you right now."

He turned to stride towards his car. Seeing him flee reawakened her compassion. Watching him try and go off, once again alone. She had to try and keep her emotions in check and pulled herself back down. She knew she was wrong and he was right to be mad. She shook her head and bobbed behind him, stubbornly resilient to giving in yet.

"You're embarrassed, I get it. I'm sorry - I never meant for this to blow up." She picked up her pace as his too quickened. "Dad please, I just hate seeing you with nothing going on..."

Striking a nerve Mike flung his body round, causing her to step back. "So, what? You think I'm some kind of loser?" He looked back at her, his eyes were brimming with hurt. It cut right through her and her voice dropped low. Her feelings flew all over. Compassion, sympathy, regret, frustration.

"I didn't say that...I just think you can do with some help." Mike softened, his head twitching to the side. Kasey put her arm on his arm.

"Come on, Dad. You guys had fun didn't you?" As much as she thought she was making progress, Mike thoughts couldn't avoid flashing back to his wounded pride.

"Right, up until the point where his daughter told us what a lovely couple we were making." He sniped back after a scathing pause.

Kasey closed her eyes and took it in. Stef was right, she should have stopped this straight away. She was desperate to try and rectify it.

"So there were crossed wires, but you must have enjoyed the bits before then" Once again she tried to plead to his reason despite Mike's patience for it being too thin. "Maybe you should talk to him, see if he wants to - "

"Kasey - let it go!" He stormed away around the corner leaving her with just the cold stone of the building to slap her hand against, angrily. This was pointless. She had to let him cool and hope that he would regulate his anger before going to sleep with it.

Mike buzzed as he strode, anger and humiliation penetrating his veins and prickling every hair on his body. It wasn't even because of the mix-up - more because of the idea that his daughter had seen him so vulnerable that she felt she needed to arrange his social life. Had he really become that pathetic? He thought it had picked up, that it was going well. Now it seemed their relationship had gone from loving to distant to hostile to happy to pity and he almost longed for them to go back to anywhere else but that final stage. He sighed as he realised it was clearly now back to hostility and would be for the foreseeable future after that exchange. She would have her walls up and he wouldn't be able to look at her without seeing her sympathy. He couldn't bear it. He couldn't face anything else right now, not in this frame of mind. He was her father! He was meant to be the one who looked after her, not the other way around. How had it come to this? He lingered at the door of his car but a flash of a sign next to him caught his eye. This realisation of what Kasey had exposed of his situation had opened a can of worms and he was desperate to lure them back into their can - and there was only one way he knew how.

He strolled through the welcoming doors and ordered a whiskey.

There was a soft knock on the basement door as Kasey lay, staring at the ceiling.

She turned, slightly shocked, to see Stef.

"Mom? I thought I heard you guys get back ages ago." She mumbled.

Stef cleared her throat guiltily at the thought of what had kept her. She and Lena had finally found some time to reconnect, though they had since snuck back in and got ready to join their children in going to bed.

"We had some things to do." she responded. "Just wanted to check you were OK. Got your text but I still would have preferred you to come and tell me in person you were heading home."

Kasey took a deep breath and returned to her position staring up at the ceiling.

"What's the point? I think it's safer for everyone if I just keep to myself." she grumbled, as Stef blew out a laugh through her nose.

She made her way to Kasey's bed and took up a similar position laying next to her recklessly affectionate daughter.

"Surprised this thing squeaking doesn't keep you awake." she commented as the bed shook and screeched. She was disheartened to see Kasey too down to reply.

"Kasey." she grabbed her hand, whispering softly. "You are annoying as hell sometimes, you know that?" she chirped as the young girl turned to her looking hurt.

"Wow Mom, super pep talk. Jeez!" she replied deflated as Stef chuckled gripping her hand tighter.

"You know why though, don't you. You can't help but try and help people. Sort everyone out."

She turned back to look at her, slightly confused at the direction she was taking.

"My sweet girl." Stef continued. "What you have to learn is that sometimes people don't want your help - and they especially don't want you to try and help them behind their back." she threw her a warning look.

"Mom, I can't just sit by and watch him be so miserable. He needs something in his life!"

"I know babe, but there are ways to approach it. You can't decide that for him. Maybe he's happy being alone."

"You know he isn't." she shot back calmly.

Stef took a deep breath and clasped her hands over her stomach, Kasey's still in her grip.

"It doesn't matter anyway. He's never going to speak to me again after this." her daughter moaned.

"Don't be so dramatic." Stef scoffed. "He'll just need some time to recover his pride. I don't think it's really in your father's make up to have his daughter trying to organise play dates for him - and you should have known that."

"Well that's why we did it in secret..." Kasey protested as Stef let go of her daughter's hand to free hers. She rubbed her face with frustration.

"What am I gonna do with you." she sighed.

"Aren't you supposed to be making me feel better or something?" Kasey complained as Stef laughed.

"Sweetheart, I feel for you, I do. I know what it's like to deal with the consequences of acting first and thinking later, but I can't just make things go away when you insist on getting yourself into these situations in the first place." She stared at Kasey for a few moment before approaching the next topic on the list.

"Speaking of which - care to finally explain this nose piercing brainchild?"

"Oh come on. That was not my fault - I was kidding! I was trying to get her to understand that maybe she wasn't the kind of person he was into. I didn't mean for her to try and become one. For one I still think she'd need to grow a..."

"Kasey." Stef scolded, having a feeling she knew where it was going.

"I'm sorry." she whimpered. "I can't get anything right this week."

Stef tilted her head and propped herself up onto her arm, getting a better angle to see Kasey's face.

"Well maybe you should take a step back and stop trying to get things right. Just stop trying to do things at all...let us catch our breath and you worry about you for a little while."

She looked down at her and used her free hand to pat her girl on the leg, squeezing it after she had spoken.

"Come on then, is this where you ground me or something. Just get it over with."

Stef laughed to herself. "Kasey, I'm not going to punish you. I think you're doing that to yourself right now. I just want you to understand that you need to stop interfering! You don't have to run the world. It's like with Jesus and the pill..."

"I was wondering when that would come up...come on Mom. If I hadn't have bought that you would have had to - and you know that you would have. I know you gave it to them without Lena knowing." Kasey pulled herself up into a seated position to now be able to stare down at Stef.

"Honey if we start discussing both of our flaws we'll be here all night. As I said to you on Monday - the point with that is it's our responsibility. You need to distinguish when things are yours so you can try to fix them and when they're not so you can step back. Trust me when I say that right now - your responsibilities only concern you and your school work. Well, that and your responsibility to respect us of course." Stef poked Kasey firmly on the arm.

"Fine." She replied reluctantly, flopping her head back against the wall.

"Sweetheart, be there for your family, but you have to think further ahead of the repercussions of what you say and do, understood?"

"Yes, yes. Understood."

"Good - because any longer on this bed and I'm gonna slip a disk." Stef groaned pushing herself up with a wince of pain.

"Well you don't get that wise without age, Mom." Kasey teased to the response of a very brisk slap on the knee.

"Ow-how. Come on!"

"Here I am trying to enlighten you and all you can do is snark at me."

"I'm sorry, Mommy." She laughed in reply with deliberate sweetness as Stef rolled her eyes. The momentary confirmation of improved attitude was enough to encourage an easier tone of Stef's.

"Kasey, sweetheart. Speak to me like your five and I'll put your bedtime to six." She threatened before kissing her hand.

"Good night, my love." She said firmly squashing her palm onto Kasey's face.

"Good night, Mom." Kasey replied as Stef made her leave.

She made her way up from the basement and collapsed into her hands on the table. She rubbed her eyes until she could see spots, thinking back over the events of the day and let out a long sigh. She couldn't believe it was over. All that was left now was to decide if they would make Mariana go to school looking like Rudolf.

She was pleasantly distracted by the sudden feeling of warm hands massaging her shoulders.

"Wow does that feel good." She murmured in pleasure as Lena nuzzled the back of her neck.

"You know...I was thinking that it was time we do something we've not been able to do properly yet in what seems like forever." She whispered in her ear. Stef turned her head and thought back to the bliss of their backseat tryst. A knowing grin crept across her face. She knew exactly what Lena was thinking.

"Sleep?" She whispered as Lena burst into a chuckle.

"Oh how I want to sleep." She sighed back in affirmation, rolling her head onto Stef's shoulder. The two of them of them laughed and made their way to the first worry free night they'd had in days.

Next Chapter Preview: As the constant bickering with Jesus takes its toll, Mariana revisits her feelings towards Ana and Stef and Lena coerce Kasey into helping them out with Jude.

"I've got a better idea." Stef added with a smile before leaning on the table in line with Kasey.

Lena caught her drift and joined in her stare with a stern smile.

It took Kasey a couple of moments to register the room was silent but eventually the eerie pause caught her attention and she looked between the gazing eyes.

"Did I miss something?" She asked cautiously, folding down the corner to get a better look.