Once the sexual relationship between Callie and Brandon is out in the open and the media broadcasts it all over, CPS is forced to take action and takes all four minors from the home. Stef and Lena now have to put aside their own issues and problems and find a way to bring their family back together.

(Takes place after Kingdom Come (320). I'm not sure where this story will go or what I plan to do with it. Also, I wish I hadn't used up the title All Hell Breaks Loose, because it would have fit better for this story but this title works too.)

Stef stood on her front lawn in shock as she watched four of her kids being driven away in the backs of three social services cars. She couldn't believe what was happening - how had her family gone from celebrating Callie's adoption and Brandon's eighteenth birthday to all of them them being ripped apart from each other?

"What do we do?" Lena asked shakily, breaking Stef of her train of thought.

Stef remained stunned to silence as she tried to figure out what exactly had gone wrong and what she could do about it.

"Stef?" Lena repeated, trying to pull Stef out out of her daze.

"I..." Stef began. "I..." She tried again as her mind reluctantly wrapped itself around what she was trying to say. "I don't know." She answered honestly, still staring into space in the direction the three cars had disappeared. "I don't know how to fix this." She admitted, her eyes filled with fear.

"But there has to be something we can do." Lena stated, refusing to believe anything else. She was too nervous to accept that Stef didn't already have an immediate plan. "Can't you call someone? You have to fix this." She practically ordered.

"I don't know how." Stef answered miserably, finally turning to focus on Lena. "I don't know what to do. I don't even know where to start." She said and Lena knew that for Stef to admit defeat so easily meant that things were really bad.

Lena stared back at Stef as the two of them still tried to grasp what was really happening. Slowly, one by one, tears began to fall down both their faces as they both collapsed on the front lawn sobbing uncontrollably over what had just transpired and thought back to when all this first began.

Stef was seething with anger as she waited for her oldest son to show up to Lena's office. She was still trying to wrap her mind around what Callie had just told them and it was taking all she had to keep from exploding. She couldn't believe that all this was happening right in front of them and they had absolutely no idea. Had they been so wrapped up in their own drama that they missed this or had they just been blissfully oblivious to the fact?

Stef was pulled out of her thoughts by a knock on the office door.

"Come in." Lena said from where she was sitting.

But Stef didn't wait for Brandon to enter and join them. Instead she marched straight to the door and yanked it open. "I have never hit you." Stef began angrily. "I have never hit any one of you but right now I really wish I was one of those parents." Stef fumed.

"What did I do now?" Brandon asked in slight amusement at his mother's choice of words. But then his eyes feel on Callie and the look on her face told him exactly what he needed to know - that his moms now knew what he hoped they would never know.

"Why?" Stef asked. "Why would you have sex with your sister?" She questioned, desperate to understand.

Lena quickly got up and closed the office door for there was no need for the entire school be privy to their issues.

Brandon just stood in the middle of Lena's office, unable to answer his mother. He hadn't been prepared for any of this. He had truly hoped and believed that one day, years from now, both he and Callie would take this secret to the grave.

"What were you thinking?" Stef asked, still trying to find a reason behind all this.

She wasn't my sister." Brandon finally said, giving the only explanation he had.

"Don't you DARE give me that." Stef yelled back at her son, her eyes flashing with rage. "You know damn well that that is not an excuse."

"When?" Lena interrupted before Stef burst a blood vessel.

"Idyllwild." Brandon responded softly. "After you two left for San Diego."

Stef's head immediately snapped up to Lena and Lena knew that they were both thinking the same thing - had it not been for her kiss with Monty and Jenna telling Stef then they would have still been in Idyllwild the night and Callie and Brandon wouldn't have been left alone, unsupervised.

Stef saw the flash of guilt that crossed Lena's face but right now she couldn't focus on that for right now they had a bigger problem to fix. Stef turned towards her son and she could see the dejected look on his face. A glance at her daughter was enough to see the sadness and fear. She had to find a way to fix this before it spiraled out of control and for that she definitely had to keep her anger in check.

"Have you told anyone?" Stef asked both kids though she mostly looked at Brandon for she could actually see Callie's fear of her right now.

"No." Brandon answered immediately. He hadn't told anyone - in fact he had hoped that no one besides the two of them would ever find out.

"Callie?" Stef asked as gently as she could when the girl hadn't given her a response yet.

"Daphne." Callie answered timidly.

"So that's how Justina found out?" Stef questioned in surprise. She didn't expect Daphne to rat out her friend like that.

"No." Callie said with a vehemence that surprised both her moms. "Daphne wouldn't say a word, especially to Justina." She said.

"Maybe not in so many words but maybe she implied something or maybe Justina overheard you?" Lena suggested, also trying to figure out how the conniving woman would have found out such a personal detail.

"Or maybe she just made a wild guess." Stef stated, realizing that maybe they were playing right into the woman's hands. "She probably doesn't know for sure."

All three of the others were now looking to Stef for an explanation.

"She got her hands on the restraining order and at the time of Callie's adoption she was questioned about her relationship with Brandon and so she just put it all together and sent out a rumor." Stef explained. "She didn't know she was right - she probably wasn't even expecting to be right. All she was really set out to do was destroy Callie's reputation."

"So what now?" Lena questioned, wondering where they stood in all of this. Obviously they would have to put a stop to all future relations between their two oldest kids and they would have to deal with the consequences but what about the rumors that were now flying all through the foster system?

"We ignore it." Stef answered. "We refuse to respond with anything besides stating that Justina is just trying to get back at Callie for outing her."

"Not a lie." Lena noticed Stef's avoidance of the actual topic.

"What if they ask her directly?" Brandon stated the question that Callie was bursting to ask but was too afraid to.

"She would never have sex with her brother." Stef replied, using the same technicality that Brandon had used just a few minutes earlier.

With this sorted, Stef once again turned to dealing with her children for they still had to be talked to and consequences still had to be dished out.

"Do you understand what could have happened?" Stef asked, more to Brandon than to Callie. "They could have denied Callie her addition. She could have lost her for good."

"But she's already adopted now." Brandon stated uncertainly.

"And she is going to stay that way." Stef responded, unknowingly giving Callie an assurance she had been yearning for since she told them the truth. "The two of you are never, ever to speak of this again." Stef stated clearly. "If anyone asks, you ignore it - there is no proof."

Both kids nodded in acceptance, willing this whole mess away.

"And you are never to be alone together." Stef continued just as firmly. "You two are not to be in the same room if someone else isn't around. I don't care what the excuse is - you are forbidden to be near each other and if I ever find out that you've broken this rule or god forbid you do something you're not supposed to I with drag you both to juvie myself. Have i made myself clear? She bellowed as loud as she could without being heard outside of the room.

Both Callie and Brandon quickly nodded their acceptance. They had expected such a rule and while they had grown to be good friends over the last fourteen months, they were just as willing to avoid temptation.

"I can't hear you." Stef roared, her eyes fiery.

"Yes." Callie answered.

"Yes ma'am." Brandon added with a nod.

Stef was finally satisfied for while she was still angry and disappointed she knew that there was nothing she could do to change the past. All she could do was make sure this didn't repeat in the future but for right now she was just glad that this mess hadn't gotten in the way of her daughter's adoption.

That thought made Callie suddenly focus back on Callie and once again she could see the girl's shoulders slumped, her eyes sad and practically begging for some comfort. Stef, finally feeling done, walked over to the girl and sat down beside her. "I am so angry with you right now." She began as she took the girl's hand in her own. "You very nearly ruined your chances at this family." She added and watched Callie nod in realization as tears slowly slipped down her face. "I love you and you aren't going anywhere." Stef finally said, giving Callie a kiss on the temple as she held her close, reminding her that nothing she could do would change that fact.

Little did they know that Stef wouldn't be able to keep that promise and that it would take all the family had to find their way back to each other.