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The pogues pulled in front of jj's cousin's house and the blonde boy started honking the horn. jo, jj and sarah immediately jumped out the truck and ran to the front door. ricky appeared just in his boxers and jj tried to open the glass door "ricky, hey, i got a problem, bro! i know you're mad at me!"
"remember the time you stole my ambulance?"
"yeah. i know. i know you're mad. no!" jj yelled as ricky closed the other door. sarah, jj and jo started yelling and begging ricky to open the door. sarah and jo began banging on the door as jj ran to the window.
"who can't breathe?" ricky asked as he opened the door when kie and john b appears holding pope
"help my friend!" john b yelled and ricky, annoyed, opened the door
"hey, ho ricky!" jo said running to the table to shove off all the thing to let pope lay down
"hey! nice to meet you. sorry" sarah said helping jo
"you know, i wouldn't come to you if it wasn't and emergency" jj said as they made pope lay on the table
"hang in there, buddy. hang in there" jj told pope
"what's wrong with him?" ricky asked
"wasps!" sarah answered
"wasps? is he allergic to wasps?" ricky asked
"clearly, ricky! come on, do something!" jo yelled
"raise his legs. raise his legs" jj said so him and john b raised pope's legs
"what's his name?" ricky asked
"pope" kie answered
"hey, pope? hang tight. i gotta get my kit" ricky said and ran out of the room
"hang tight? hang tight, ricky?!" jj yelled
"he's looking for a kit. go help" john b told jj and he immediately ran after his cousin
"breath a little, okay? like a little bit. i need you to focus. focus on your breathing, okay?" kie told pope holding his face
"what does it look like?" jj yelled from the other room as ricky ran in the living room to the garage "like a duffel bag!"
"where's the damn kit, ricky?!" jo yelled
ricky disappears for a couple of seconds then he came back "okay, okay, i got it!"
"okay, what do we do now?" jj asked as ricky placed the kit next to pope
"you don't do anything 'cause you're not a paramedic" ricky said as he opened the kit, everyone around him was so close to break down, their breaths were short and heavy "okay, hey, pope. how you doing, man? you look like shit" ricky said while filling a syringe with liquid "here's the thing. this is a pediatric dose of epinephrine"
"a pediatric dose?!" jo yelled
"is that gonna be enough?" sarah yelled
"he's not a kid!" kie yelled
"it is ten times a normal dose. so if-if it doesn't stop his heart, it'll help him. but i gotta use the whole thing or it won't work. and i'm not going down if he dies" ricky said then turned to look at jj
"okay! fine! do it! hit it!" jj yelled
"okay, pope. hang in there, buddy" ricky said as he pushed the epinephrine in his vein. sarah, john b and kie were close to the table while jo and jj took one step back, too scared to actually stay close. jj held out his hand and jo immediately noticed it took his hand in hers
"okay, um, that's it" ricky said placing the syringe in the kit
"now what?" sarah asked
"now we wait"
the six pogues wait for pope to start breathe again but he didn't "you killed him" kie said with anger in her voice
"no, i didn't" ricky said
"yes, you did!" kie yelled
"i didn't do shit" ricky stated
"what did you do?" kie yelled again
"i did exactly what you asked me to do" ricky said
"please! please! pope, please, come on!" kie yelled, crying
jj stared shaking pope's body "pope, come on, bro!"
jo took another step back, she felt like the room was getting little and little every second that passed and her breath got shorter.
pope began breathing again and everyone gasped, he began coughing and ricky laughed loudly. pope sat up on the table, panting
"there he is. that's my boy right there!" jj yelled
"it's hot! i'm real hot, guys" pope said as he took off his jacket and got down the table
"it's okay. take it easy" jj told him
"i gotta get outside" pope began to walk outside as everyone tried to stop him
"thank you so much. are there any side effects we should be concerned about?" sarah asked as her and jj were about to walk out the house
"he'll have a rocket up his ass for about half an hour, then he'll be fine" ricky answered
"hey, ricky. i really need to use the bathroom, can i?" jo asked
ricky rolled his eyes but he couldn't say no "yeah, go on"
"thank you" jo said as she ran into the bathroom.
jo locked the door and stood in front of the sink. she looked at her hands where her knuckles where becoming white for how hardly she was gripping the sink. she raised her head to look at herself in the mirror. her breathing was heavy and suddenly she felt insicure, her thought ran to fast. almost loosing pope...the gold...the cross...sarah...john b...jj...kie...ward...rafe...her mother...lip...the overdose. she suddenly opened the locked next to the mirror. oxycodone
"babe, we gotta go. pope's frenetic" jj yelled from the other side of the door
"coming" she yelled back. jo took one pill and placed it on the tongue, she opened the faucet, drunk some water and swallowed. jo drained the toilet water to do not make jj thing too much about the thing and, before opening the door, she hid the bottle of pills in her bra.
"everything okay?" he asked
"yeah" she answered and jj packed her lips
"come on, lovebirds, we need to go!" pope yelled as the two walked outside
