A year ago.

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Mandy had been home now for over a week. She had gotten limited sleep. Between cadence, and what ever the fuck Mickey had been doing. Most of the time she was feeding, changing, or smoking. Which was a habit she was desperately trying to stop.

Board and home alone Mandy had no one to talk to but the baby, of mickeys wife if she had not working, or off taking her son to the park. Mandy wished she could have took Candace there. She wanted to go outside somewhere knew. But the town was small, and had a loud mouth. She she began her own personal house arrest.

Mickey and Ian where always coming home filling her in. Although Ian had been estranged from his family he was still able to share with her Some of the most iconic stories she had missed. She had to play those in her mind for entertainment though the day.

Mandy put cadence on the bed. She goes to change her but when her hands reach into the bag it's empty. "Shit" she mumbles to herself knowing she can't leave her baby in a filthy diaper. She had to make a decision. So she through on her trench coat, rolled Candace up in a fleece blanket, and began to make her way to the corner store. On her way she noticed kids smoking anything they could get their hands on, a man passed out on the side walk. And a few blondes in fishnets selling their goods. Nothing has changed since she left almost a year ago.

Upon reaching the front door she pushed the glass. The warmth of the shitty heat hit her with such enthusiasm.
She tries to sneak around as the picks up a few things she knew they needed around the house. And she was successful.

On the walk home she noticed a feeling of warmth on her chest. She took a rest on a bench and removed the blanket from her child's head. At touch the baby felt Burning hot. Mandy began to panic, she didn't know what to do. Cadence had swelling around her eyes. The baby looked like she was having an allergic reaction, mixed with a poisons gas. Freaking out she rewrapped cadence, and rushed her to the clinic.

When she got there she was shouting. People immediately came over to help. She was their first priority, considering her young age. After leaving Mandy in the dark for many minuets they told her that they had called an ambulance because it looked as if the baby was experiencing kidney failure. That she would need a blood transfusion immediately, and with Mandy's Luck, she had a rare blood Type.

Mandy called Ian and Mickey from the ambulance. They dropped everything that had been doing and said they would be right behind her. "It's okay baby, it's gonna be okay." Mandy talked to cadence as they drove 50 miles per hour up the busy road. Cars moved aside for the ambulance. No one knew what it felt like to be inside.

When arriving the nurse checked Mandy's blood type. It had not been a match. She prayed that either Mickey or Ian had been. When they got to her Ian quickly wrapped his arms around her .
"Do either of you have 0- blood ?!" She asked in a panic.
Mickey shook his head.
"That's lips blood type..." Ian said hesitantly.
That's what Mandy was afraid of. She was hoping Ian and lip shared the same type. her brother and her best friend knew that wasn't what she wanted to hear So they gave her a moment of silence, And she gladly took it.

"Get him down here." She says quickly.
Both boys stare at her unable to move
"NOW!" She shouts. "We don't have all day."
With that she left them. Making her way to the room where her sweet beautiful baby girl slept in an incubator.
Sitting in the chair next to her Mandy closed her eyes. All she wanted to do
Was be able to lay with her baby . But laying next to her would have to do.

Meanwhile Ian had dialed lip. "Pick up the goddamn phone" he said to himself. Mickey paced nervously behind him, getting more agitated by the second.
"Fucking useless" Mickey mumbled, lip ignores the insult towards his brother.
At the last ring Ian was ready to give up. He placed his hand on his forehead, releasing a humongous sigh. When he hears a rushed voice
"Ian?" Lip asks confused of why his brother had been calling him in the middle of the day.
"I need you to get to the hospital now!" Ian tells him with no such explanation.
"What?, what the hell?, why?" Lip asks flustered "are you okay?" He shows genuine concern for his brother who was having a tough time recently.
"It's not me." He says lip interrupts him
"'Mickey?" He asks
"No, it's Mandy." He tell his brother. Admitting Mandy is back in town.
"What? I though she got the fuck out of here ." He questions Ian. Ian sees Mickey vanish from his side and make his way towards were his sister had went.
"You coming?" He says to Ian.
"In a second" Ian replies and Mickey disappears from his sight.
"Look lip, I gotta go just hurry okay? It's important." And before lip can answer the phone clicks.