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Chapter 18

Chapter 18

"Stef I hope that this all goes over well and there's no more crazy turns. As an educator I had to report this immediately. With Callie wanting to keep this a secret and all..."

Lena was still home on bed rest. She was on the phone with Stef, anxious to provide a safe place for Callie and Jude but still nervous as to how they would react and accept them. After that day when Lena met them with Mariana her and Stef went into full action. They met with the judge that helped them before and she was able to give them a permanent fostering license. Today Stef got the ok to be the officer to get them out of their home. The process wasn't as quick as they hoped but nothing was going to get in their way.

"Honey, everything is going to be fine. By time it's dinner time they will be settled into their rooms".

Stef and Mike decided to go to Jude's school first. It was about noon and though they didn't want to take them out of school, it was important to get them to a safer place and know that they were safe.

They walked into the busy main office of the public school, with people paying little to no attention to them. "Excuse me?" Mike tried. "Excuse me, can we speak to a principal or secretary, or someone".

"I'm the secretary," I woman came over with her glasses on the tip of her nose. "We are here for Jude Jacobs", Stef said stepping forward, "We need to take him out of school".

"Well, seems like someone beat you to that. He hasn't been here for little over a week. Called his house and left messages, but got nothing. Sorry."

"Sorry? Really?" Stef said turning around.

They tried Callie's school next. Though they knew that there was no way Callie would be in school if Jude wasn't but they had to check before radioing back up to meet them at Allen's house.

But that experience was proving to be part of their worse fears. When they arrived, Mike and Stef began knocking on the door but there was no sign of anyone being home. There was complete silence. "Where could they be?" Stef said to Mike. But her eyes glanced passed Mike into the window and she could see what she thought to be blood on the ground. "Mike!"

They both drew out their guns and kicked down the door, with the rest of the cops running in right behind them. Allen was there laid out on the ground, dried blood stuck to the back on his head. With Mike over him Stef walked towards the kitchen where most of the blood seemed to be.

There was blood smeared on the fridge with a partial hand print, too big to be Allen's and not small enough to be Jude's. The blood seemed to have trailed away from were Allen was. The other officers searched the house but there were no sign of the kids.

They yanked Allen off of the ground and cuffed him before asking him where Callie and Jude were.

"Little bitch hit me in back of my head and they ran out. They got what they deserved. I want to press charges!"

"Sure we will start the paperwork when you are out of prison" Mike said bringing him to the cruiser.

Stef looked around the small hell that Callie and Jude have been forced to live in and couldn't believe how a system could put children in a place like this. "Where are you guys?"

It has been a few days since Stef went to pick up Callie and Jude and missing children reports have been reported and proceeded with. Every night Stef and a group of cops have been out in search of them. Little did they know they have remained in their small shed the whole time.

But things haven't exactly gotten better for them either. Jude had been running a fever and progressively getting worse by the day. They haven't been to school or out because Callie knew if people saw an abused teen with a sick kid CPS would take them away for sure.