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Callie POV

When I was in my last class of today, I had received a text from mom, saying that she wants me to come over to the precinct after school. I had no idea, why she wanted me to go over to her precinct. From the message, I got the feeling that it was something important. It was just plane text, that didn't contain one unnecessary word and didn't have any smiley faces. Usually mom adds at least one smiley face somewhere.

It's silly to assume something is wrong, just because the text message didn't have a smiley face in, but I have always noticed these small things about mom. I started to convert my attention to detail ever since Aaron and Markus died. It was the small things that told me if Amy was having a good day or bad day, if she wanted to be completely alone or if she wanted me to just be around, sitting on the other end of couch. It was all in detail.

On the way to her precinct, I stopped at a little bakery and bought few donuts. I ate one on the road, but I left the other 4 in the bag. When I walked in the precinct, Kate, who worked the front desk, greeted me.

"Hey, Callie! Your mom said you would be stopping by" Kate said leaning on the counted with her elbows

"She did?" Now I started to feel even more worried about the text and why she wanted me here

"Yeah, she mentioned it. You can go right in and wait by her desk or in the break room till she get's back" Kate said and nodded to the room behind her

"She's out? Mom said she will be working the desk this weak" I say worried and shift in my stance nervously

"No, no, not out. She went upstairs to talk to detective Harrison and Allen" Kate explained to me, but I had a feeling she held something back.

I knew the two detectives Kate mentioned, at least I knew of them. Those were the same detectives that investigated the vandalism in the cemetery, when our moms grave was damaged, along with few others.

"Oh," I breathed out in relief "You want a donuts? They are fresh, I just bought them on the way here" I lifted the brown paper bag up towards her, offering her to take one

"No, thanks Callie," Kate smiled at me as she declined "Keep them for your mom and yourself!"

I made my way to where mom's desk stood. Stef was not by her desk as well, she was probably out on patrol. I took off my backpack and placed it down at the table, before I slumped down in mom's chair and placed the little paper bag on the desk. Few times I spun around in the chair.

I stopped spinning around in the chair few seconds later, when I heard moms voice. Looking around the room, I saw her and two men, who weren't dressed in uniform, stand next to the stairs. Mom was holding a folder in her hand. By the looks she was explaining something to the two guys. I didn't hear what she had said to them, but I did hear what one of the guy's replied to her.

"Great, we will check this out. We should probably get back up as well. Can't be too careful, if this is the guy we are looking for" one of the guy said as he took the file from moms hand. The other guy nodded back in acknowledgment.

"Great work, Amy!" the other guy praised mom, before they both left towards the exit

Mom then made her way over to her desk. She saw me from distance and smiled at me.

"Hey, honey. How was school?" mom asked when she was up to me

"It was okay," I replied with a little shoulder shrug "I bought donuts!" I nodded to the paper bag on her desk "You want some?"

"Not right now," Mom said when she pulled the chair by her desk closer to where I sat. She sat down, facing me, and placed her hand on my knee. For a moment, she wasn't looking to me. Her eyes were averted to the ground between us. It felt like she was building up courage to say something.

"What is it?" I ask, sensing the seriousness of the conversation that is about to happen

"I didn't want to tell you this over the phone..." Mom said in a very slow manner. When she looked up to me she said carefully "But there has been...an attack"

"Attack? What are you talking about? Attack on who?" I screwed up my face in confusion

"Lena"

"What?" I blur out shocked, as I keep my eyes on mom. I couldn't believe what she just told me. This seemed like a really bad dream or something. I was hoping, praying that mom would suddenly laugh out and say it was some horrible prank or something. But the seriousness never left mom's eyes.

Not Lena! She is the sweetest, kindest and the most nicest person I know. She didn't deserve this. One one does. But especially, not Lena. Not Lena. Tears whelmed up in my eyes as I thought about something hurting her.

"This morning, Lena was attacked in her home. She is at hospital right now." Mom explained in a little bit more detail

"Wh—uh..h—who?" I stuttered out. Mom reached for my hand and gave it a squeeze, when I tried to blink away the tears in my eyes.

"We don't know yet," Mom said moving her thumb over my palm "We are tracking down leads. It's an ongoing investigation, I can't really tell you anything. But, um...I thought, I though you should know. I know you care about her, she's your friend...and I didn't want you to hear it from someone in school tomorrow or for you to be completely unaware of it..." Mom explained to me. I could tell she was concerned about Lena as well. I was not the only one who has grown closer to them.

I walked in the hospital with 3 big balloons and a box of dark chocolate in my hand. When I had passed the gift shop, I realized I couldn't come empty handed, so I had turned around and gone in the gift shop. Teddy bear was out of the picture, Lena wasn't a little kid. I wasn't going to bring her flowers as well – nothing is more depressing than watching something die in front of your eyes.

But when I saw balloons, I figured that everyone loves them. Besides they are filled with Helium, so that could be fun as well. The chocolate I bought because, everyone likes chocolate. Chocolate makes you feel better. It's comfort food.

When I walked up to the front desk, the older looking nurse behind it smiled at me, her eyes were up to the three big balloons "I am guessing you are here to visit someone?"

"Did the balloons gave it away?" I smirked back at the nurse, trying to keep the mood light. I knew it would change the moment I would step inside her room and see a hurt Lena.

"Who do you wish to visit, darling?" she asked kindly back

"Lena Adams Foster. She was brought here today..." I said when I leaned at the counter

"Are you family?" nurse asked when she typed in Lena's name in the computer

"Sort of. Family friend...She adopted my brother, so in a way, she's family…but I feel as if she is not just my brothers mom, she is a friend as well" Nurse gave me slightly confused look "I was adopted by different family…it's a really long story-"

Nurse cut off my rambling to inform me "Visitation ends at 7PM!" she pointed down the hall "It's room 047. Down the hall and then turn right. 5th doors on the right side."

"Thank you!" I replied kindly before I took off the direction of her room

I had just turned right in the hallway, when I saw Stef leaned back to the hospital wall, phone up to her ear. She was still wearing her uniform, well, part of it. Her uniform shirt was off and she was only wearing a black t-shirt on top. But she still had her uniform boots and pants on. Her hair was down as well. I stopped in my tracks, not sure if I should go up to her and disturb her while she was on her phone. Most likely she was on the phone with one of her colleges.

"--let me guess" Stef said in frustrated tone of voice, she placed her right hand on her forehead before she run her fingers through her hair "-the car was stolen?"

"Of course it was!" Stef now rubbed her eyes with her free hand as she leaned back her head to the wall "Do you have anymore leads? Anything at all?"

There was a long pause from Stef after she asked that question. Too bad I didn't hear the other end of the conversation. I really hope there are lot of leads and evidence, so they can catch whoever did this and put him in jail for a long, long time.

"Do you think you will get any prints off of it?" Stef asked back, still with her hand over her eyes

"Yeah, I know it takes time, Allen." Stef sighed "You don't have to tell me that." Stef replied as she took her hand off her eyes and leaned off the wall. She then suddenly turned her head my way, like she sensed me standing her.

"I'm gonna call you back, Allen. Thanks for calling" Stef said in the phone, while she was watching me from a far. She lowered her phone down the next moment and came my way "Callie?"

"Sorry...I didn't mean to listen in...I just, I didn't know if—I wasn't sure if...I didn't mean to-" I stuttered badly, when she was up to me. The last thing I wanted was to anger her even more. I could tell she was having a hard day as it was.

"It's okay," Stef replied calmly as she was looking at me. She looked tired, I could tell just by her eyes. Her eyes were missing the spark, that has always been there. Can I blame her? Her wife was attacked and by her conversation I assume they are not really closer to catching this guy, who did it.

"Is your mom here as well?" Stef asks looking at the hallway behind me

"No, she's still at work. Mom said she will stop by after her shift shorty. She wanted to follow through some lead about…Lena's case" My mouth parts few times before I got out "Mom told me what happened. I -uh ...I wanted to stop by and just...say, I'm sorry and wish for her to get better soon-" Then I suddenly remember that I hadn't even asked her how Lena was "How is she? Is she going to be okay?"

"Tired, sore, confused, scared-" Stef counted off only few of the adjectives that described Lena "The kids are with her, so she's…relativity okay for now" she added when she looked over her shoulder to the room

"How long will she have to stay in hospital?" I ask warily, while Stef was still glancing over her shoulder to the room

"Um," Stef looks back to me, rubbing her forehead "Doctors wanted her to stay the night, to be safe. It's a precaution She has a head trauma, so..."

"Oh!" I breathed out "Better be safe than sorry" Stef nodded back, agreeing with what I said "So, she could go home tomorrow?"

"It's possible. We will see that in the morning" Stef answered me. She was looking at this very realistically.

I looked to the balloons in my left hand and the chocolate that I was holding in my left. The thought, that Lena may not be ready for visitors crossed my mind "I got these for Lena. I wanted to get her something," I handed both, the balloons and chocolate, to Stef

Stef looked down to my extended hands, unsure why I was giving them to her "You can give it to her yourself, Callie"

"I don't want to disturb her. You said she was already tiered. You could give it to her-"

"Nonsense! Come on, honey. She wouldn't mind a short visit from you," Stef took one step to be next to me. She placed her hand gently on my back and guided me to Lena's room.

"Are you okay?" I ask while we are walking to Lena's room

"I'm good." Stef said in a flat voice, keeping her eyes up front. I saw right through that lie.

"You look tiered as well. Have you eaten anything today?" I ask getting slightly concerned about her as well. Lena took care of me, made sure I had eaten, while Amy was in hospital. I had to make sure Stef was okay, now when Lena was hurt. That's the least I could do. I wasn't doing this out of obligation, but because I simply cared about them.

Stef gave me a look "Don't worry about me, Callie. I'm not the one in hospital" We turned to the room and Stef reached for the door nub. With that our conversation ended.

"Look, who came to visit you," Stef announced, putting on a smile on her face, when we walked in

The 6 heads towards the doors the moment we stepped in. Jude and Frankie were sitting on the side of the bed. Jude was by Lena's legs, but Frankie was more to her torso. Jesus and Mariana were sitting on the windowsill, but Brandon was sitting in one of the chairs by Lena's bed.

Lena was sitting on her bed, legs stretched out. The blanket was up to her waist. The moment I saw Lena's face, I had a feeling like my heart tightened in my chest. It was so hard seeing Lena like this. Her right eye, was completely swollen shut, it was in the color or black and blue. There was a plaster over her nose. Her other eye was black as well, it wasn't swollen though. It looked like it was that way, because her nose had been broken.

Lena looks down to her lap and says quietly and quite slowly "It's not as bad as it looks"

Clearly she saw how I was looking at her. Frankie moved on the bed and snuggled up to Lena's left side. She carefully lowered her head to Lena's shoulder.

"I'm so sorry this happened to you, Lena" I got out quietly, yet very sincerity. I didn't mean to make Lena feel bad. Clearly, she didn't need me looking at her with pity. That never makes people feel better. It only makes them feel worse.

"I got you chocolate," I said changing the subject "And balloons!" I let go of the balloons and they flew up to the ceiling, the little rope hanging down

"Cool, helium!" Jesus jumped off the window sill and grabbed one of the balloons by the little rope

Stef took the other one and handed it to Frankie, who was now reaching for one as well, showing that she wanted a balloon as well. The third one I grabbed back and handed it Brandon, to hold.

"It's dark chocolate. I know you like the dark one" I handed the box to Lena, when I was up to the bed. Lena reached for it. Her hand movement was much slower, than usual.

"Thanks, Callie" Lena said in a slow manner, when she took the box "You didn't have to"

When her fingers touched the box, my heart stopped for a second. My look was stuck on her arm, which was covered in welts. Her forearm had two red, painful looking, long welts.

I used to have welts like that! My whole body used to be covered in welts like that. I knew how she sustained the one on her arm. Lena had raised her hand up to protect her head from his belt.

No, this can't be happening. This can't be him! Please, don't let it be him. I thought he was finally out of my life for good. Why did he hurt Lena? Why is he back now?

"Callie?" I heard Stef say my name. I shake my head, to get rid of the thought, and look to her. Lena weirdly enough, hadn't noticed me zoning out. It was so unlike Lena. That was another sign that Lena was not okay.

"...Sorry" I quickly blur out to and warily look up to her. Stef was watching me carefully, eying my every move.

"Open it for us, baby?" Lena had handed the box to Frankie. Her little finger worked a magic and soon the box was open.

"Take one," Lena nudged Frankie,when she had held the box out to Lena. Frankie reached for the one of the dark chocolate with a a filling, her eyes were big, full of excitement. She took a bite out of the dark chocolate candy and handed the other half to Lena.

"Here mama" she fed it to Lena. My eyes once again travel to the welts on Lena's arms, I slip deep in my thoughts yet again.

Why would he do this now? It has been almost 10 months. Plenty of time to forget that anything like that even happened. Hell, I hadn't thought about him since mom got the restraining order against him. And that was just few days after he broke my arm. So much time has passed, Why did he attack Lena now?

Does Lena knows who attacked her? No, wait...mom said they were tracking down leads. No one knows. If Lena knew, I doubt, Stef had made that call. If Lena knew who attacked her, he would already be arrested by now. I knew Stef would have made sure of that.

"Go, give it everyone else," Lena tells her Frankie, after Frankie had gave Lena another dark chocolate candy. Brandon lifts her off the bed and hands her the box. Frankie walked around the room, giving everyone a piece. Once everyone had gotten one, Frankie crawled back up to the bed and returned to her previous position.

"Can I take another one, mama?" Frankie asked looking at the chocolate with big eyes

"Of course" Lena said, stroking Frankie's hair. Lena watched as Frankie looked over every piece, trying to decide which one to take. But I just couldn't keep my look away from Lena's arms, from the welts.

Maybe he was still pissed that Lena got him fired. It wasn't exactly Lena, who fired him. It was Sanchez. But okay, I could see how he could think that Lena is the one at fault. She was the one that caught him red handed, she was the one that saw it happen, she was the one that testified against him.

I don't even know if he works at the school he worked before? Maybe they took away his credentials to teach? If there is one thing he liked, it was to teach. I'm pretty sure, he loved his job. What if he got fired from his main job as well and he has been unemployed ever since. That would be another reason to hate Lena.

Now that I think back to the event, I do remember him threatening Lena, saying he knows where she lives. Maybe he has been stalking her for the last 10 months or something. Waiting for the opportunity when she was alone, unprotected. Maybe he waited so long, because he didn't want people to think of him. If he had attacked her the next week - everyone would instantly think of him as a suspect. But now, I'm not even sure if Stef or Lena herself, is even suspecting him.

Out of sight out of mind.

I had never thought, Mr. Malloc would be the one that goes around just beating people. He always got angry for a reason. It always came back to grades. I was a bad student, I wasn't smart enough, I was humiliating him in school because his colleges knew I was his foster kid, I wasn't good enough, he excepted a lot more from me in school -in his eyes I was a let down. And that the reason, his excuse he used to say, when he used to punish me.

Maybe after his arrest, he turned his anger, all his focus towards Lena.

"Hey, moms. My voice is all funny!" Jesus voice pulled me out of my thoughts. He was talking in a helium voice. Jesus handed the opened balloon to Mariana, who kept it close with her fingers "I sound like a barbie princess" Jesus continued to fool around, making everyone laugh, including Lena.

Mariana took in a breath as well "I sound better than Jesus right?" She said in a high pitched voice, showed Jesus her young and then started to laugh, which made the rest of us to completely lose it. Her laughter was so hilarious.

Stef walked up to Mariana and took the ball loon out of her hands. Once she had taken in a breath, she turned to Mariana "Mr Thang, what did ocean say to the sand?"

Mariana snickered back "No idea. What?"

"Nothing, he just waved!" Stef said and laughed out in Helium voice as well.

Lena had her hands over her stomach, she was laughing as hard as she could "Hurt...so...much! Don't make me laugh…" Lena got out between laughter. At least for a minute or two her mind was occupied with something else than her attack.

"Sorry, my love" Stef said still with helium voice as she walked over to Lena's bed side to give her a tender kiss to forehead

"I love you silly" Lena whispered out to Stef. Pretty sure, everyone in the room heard it.

"I love you too" Stef replied without missing a beat as she pressed her forehead to Lena's

But I had no way of knowing, if this was him. I could just be making things up, imagining things. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe it was suppose to be a robbery, but Lena came home and just happened to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

There was no proof, that it was him. Maybe it was all in my head.

There was a soft knock on the doors few minute later. The doors were pushed open a little, mom peaked her head in warily "Hi, can I come in?"

"Yes" Lena said, looking at her. Mom walked in, but stopped at the end of her bed "How are you feeling, Lena?"

"Could be better..." Lena replied looking at her palms

"..If there is anything you need, anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask" mom said very sincerely, gazing at Lena with a sympathetic look in her eyes

"Thank you, Amy"

"I know Stef will probably lovingly smother you, so if you need me to pull her out of the house to give you a minute alone to breathe-" Mom lifts her hand up, imitating with her hand a phone "Call me or you know, text me...that's what the cool people do nowadays."

"Will do" Lena replies weakly and managed to get out a little, one sided smile. She sounded and looked really exhausted.

"Callie, we should probably go. Lena needs to rest" Mom said looking at me

I nod in acknowledgment, while looking at mom. I reach for Lena's left hand and give it a very gentle squeeze, careful not to hurt her "Hope you get better soon, Lena"

"Thank you for visiting!" Stef said in Lena's place, when she saw how tiered Lena looked. She placed her hand on Lena's shoulder and looked down to her briefly before she added "Means a lo that you came"

"Mom?" I said when I closed the doors after I got in the car

"Hmm?" Mom hummed back as she put the key in the ignition

"Did the lead you were following through, did it...did you got anything out of it?" I asked quite innocently

"No" Mom answered with just one word and turned to me and explained softly, to not hurt my feelings "Callie, I already told you in the precinct. I can't discuss this with you. It's an on going investigation and-"

"What if I know who did it?" when I asked that, my mouth suddenly got dry. Mom's face screwed up, she started to watch me more closely. She was waiting for an explanation.

"I mean...I'm not 100% sure of course, but...I think, I know who might have done it," I run my tongue over my dry lips and nervously rub my bridge of the nose. Moms look to me, just got more intense.

"I..I saw the bruises on Lena's hands and...and-" Scared I looked down to my lap, as I tried to find the courage to tell her "Mom, I used to have those exact bruises. My body used to be covered in them- hands, back, legs"

Of course, the next moment I was starting to have my doubts "I would understand completely, if you wouldn't believe me. I know how crazy I sound -thinking I know who attacked Lean, just because she had welts on her body. We haven't heard from Mr. Malloc in like 9 months, why would he be back now? There is probably more than one person in this world, who likes to use belt as punishment-" I rambled out

Mom suddenly turned back to the steering wheel and started the car without saying anything. Next second we are out of the hospital parking lot. To my surprise, we weren't heading the direction to our home. Mom made a turn, that made me think - we are going to her precinct.