"Callie! Come down so we can talk to you!" Lena called as she knocked on the girls room door. Taylor came out blushing and bright red breathing a quick hello and running down the stairs out into the backyard. Lena slowly opened the door, "Everything alright in here Callie? Taylor looked pretty red." Callie laughed, "She was on the phone, besides shes always pretty red." Lena smiled, "The lawyers here he wants to talk to you Stef and I." Callie's smile flattered but she nodded and followed Lena down the stairs into the kitchen.

"So you're basically saying that it's his word against mine." The lawyer nodded to answer Callie's question. "This is the case," He started, "which could make it hard for us but if say the sex was consensual, we could get him on age difference." Lena felt Stef's hand squeeze her own as she snapped, "It wasn't consensual!" Defending Callie. Callie just nodded numbly and considered her options. "Stef." Lena warned. The lawyer realized that he had put his foot in his mouth and slowly stood, "Alright well I'll see the three of you ladies tomorrow. Goodbye." He practically ran out the door. "I'mma go upstairs." Callie mumbled. Lena nodded and watched as the girl ran up the stairs to her room. Stef was stilling fuming with anger and Lena stayed downstairs trying to calm her wife down. Callie fell onto her bed but couldn't seem to cry. She had to be strong and not let anyone see her.

"Callie?" Brandon asked as walking into the room seeing his sister sitting on the bed playing guitar. She looked up and motioned him in. "So, how'd it go?" Brandon asked taking a seat in front of Callie. Callie shrugged, "Not great." Brandon nodded, "What happened?" Callie almost laughed, "Like they were ever going to believe me. He said a jury wouldn't believe me." Brandon shrugged not knowing what else he should say, "Well it could work out somehow...you know maybe." Callie shook her head, "No. You do not get to say those things to me. I'm not you I don't live in this magical world where everything always works out. So stop, with the pep talks and telling me everything is going to work out. And you know what they want me to do now? They want me to lie. How is that right!?" Brandon just nodded and quickly left the room. Callie finally broke down into tears lying on her bed.

"Callie?" Taylor whispered as she slowly closed the door seeing her older sister crying. Callie shot up and wiped away her tears, "Hi." She mustered. "You can cry, I've cried to you plenty." Taylor whispered and Callie let the flow of tears go down her face. "Liam?" Taylor whispered crawling up next to Callie. Callie nodded and wiped away her tears once more. "Taylor, I'm fine don't worry about it." Callie smiled seeing her younger sister give a look that mimicked one that Lena would have given her. "They want me to lie because a jury won't believe what he did to me." Callie whispered. Taylor nodded, "I'm sure you're scared, I would be if it was me but if you lie doesn't that make it seem like what he did wasn't bad?" Callie hugged Taylor, "Taylor stop talking and just sit here with me for a minute." Taylor giggled at this and nodded.

After an awkward dinner Taylor grabbed Jude and told Stef and Lena they were sleeping over Abby's and going out tomorrow, Lena and Stef realized the distraction and gratefully told the two children to go. Jesus escaped to his room, Brandon left to go out with Tayla and the two remaining girls went to their room for bed knowing tomorrow would be a long day for Callie. Stef and Lena did dishes then slipped into their rooms. "Callie, do you know what you're going to say tomorrow?" Mariana asked in the middle of the night. Callie sighed, "No." Mariana nodded, "well whatever you say we'll all support you." Callie smiled, "I know." Mariana turned over, "But I really want to see that bastard put into jail." Callie just nodded and pretended to close her eyes.

It had been a fairly quiet ride over to the courthouse and the trail had gone by in a blur for all three women sitting there but even faster for Callie. Callie was called up as the last witness, "State your name please." Callie took a small breath, "Callie Rose Jacob." The lawyer nodded, "Thank you. Now at the time of the incident how old were you?" Callie smoothly replied with, "I had just turned fifteen." The lawyer nodded, "And Mr. Olmstead? How old was he?" "Nineteen." The lawyer nodded, "How would you describe what happened that night? Would you say it was consensual?" Callie took a small breath and took a quick look for encouragement from Stef and Lena. "I know what you want me to say. You want me to say yes, it was consensual, yes I agreed to it because then you can get Liam on a technicality and he'll get a little bit of punishment for the wrong crime. And you'll feel good about that because it's more than I should expect. I want him to go to jail, believe me, I do but in order to make that happen I would have to give away the only thing I have left, the truth. You know what you did to me, I know what you did to me so I'm not going to lie about it. No it was not consensual. No, he raped me." Callie was holding back tears as were Stef and Lena sitting in the courtroom. They felt an overwhelming amount of sadness for the girl but also overwhelming amount of pride that Callie was not going to let what happen to her be forgotten or forgiven. Again the two women were amazed at this girls strength.

"Due to the fact of no physical evidence the court finds that Liam Olmstead is not guilty." The judge ruled. Callie's heart dropped but a part of her was proud of what she had said up there, she had partially made her piece with what happened, though she still wanted to cry out that Liam would get away with it. She controlled herself and allowed Lena to pull her into a hug and keep her there as Stef pulled the car up to the courthouse. As Callie slowly crawled into the backseat of the SUV and Lena into the front Callie whispered, "I'm sorry." Stef turned around to face Callie, "Callie what are you sorry for?" Callie had tears streaming down her face, "You tried so hard to help me and I screwed it up. I shouldn't have said that." Stef held back tears, "Callie, you have nothing to be sorry for what you said was the truth and there is nothing wrong with you telling the truth." Lena hadn't dared to turn around and show Callie that she was crying, "You were strong Callie, we could never be mad at you for being that strong." Callie sniffled, "Okay." The rest of the ride home was in silence.

"Callie really said that and they still said he wasn't guilty?" Jesus asked amazed when his moms told him and Mariana what had happened. Callie was out on the porch playing her guitar lightly strumming it to try and take her mind off of things. Jude and Taylor came in through the back door and saw everyone sitting around the table. "Hey guys!" Jesus jumped up, "My turn with Jude, jeez Taylor stop taking him everywhere we need to finish level 12." Jude beamed, "Oh yeah! Thanks Taylor tell Abby I say thanks too!" He smiled as running up the stairs with Jesus. Taylor sat down next to Mariana across from Stef and Lena, "Was it that bad?" Taylor whispered. Stef nodded repeating Callie's words. "Anyone else realize that the system is a screwed up piece of..." Lena cleared her throat, "Language Taylor we can still hear you under your breath." Taylor nodded, "Sorry." She grabbed Mariana's hand, "Come on we have sisterly duties to perform." Mariana laughed and followed Taylor into the bathroom to grab their makeup and then the two went out onto the front porch to talk to Callie.

"Hey Callie." Taylor tried to make her voice as singsongy as she could. "Not that voice." Callie grumbled, "It proves that it really did suck today if you try to be even more cheery than you normally are... Mariana you can do it though." The three girls laughed. Mariana was the first to recover, "Callie, Taylor and I were thinking of trying different hairstyles and makeup for the wedding, we wanted to do yours first!" Callie faked groaned but put down her guitar and faced the two girls. Within minutes Mariana and Taylor had Callie laughing, Stef and Lena were watching through the window and smiling at their three girls, two of which had no idea how to use eyeshadow so Mariana's eyes were an interesting sight. "We did amazing!" Taylor laughed as high fiving Callie. Callie sighed rolling her two eyes at the other two girls on the front porch, it hadn't been the best day and she didn't get the justice she had hoped for, or deserved but she had this family and within days she would see her soon to be adoptive moms be married. Taylor began to wipe the makeup off from her face and put her head into Callie's lap, "Callie, at least you won't have to live through telling it again." Taylor whispered, "I know it's not the same but that was the worse thing from my case was reliving it. Callie we love you and you'll never have to think about it again." Taylor whispered and closed her eyes. Callie slowly wiped the makeup off her face and began to laugh out of relief, that was true, she wouldn't have to live through it again.

Authors note:

Thanks for reading! Sorry it took a few days to get this chapter up, I try and get a few up on the weekends and at least two during the school week but I can only do my best. What did you think of this chapter? Personally I add a little more vulnerability to Callie because I feel like her trail and how it affected her wasn't enough in the show. But what did you all think? Reviews please they really do inspire me to write and I may get three chapters up before Friday! Okay I'm done with my authors note but thanks for reading!