"What are you doing here!" April screamed out to the lady who just smirked as she tried to get close to the four year old, but April wasn't letting her. "Oh can't a mother just come and visit her child in the hospital," Maleficent told April in her condescending voice making April even more angry when she looked at the woman who did this to her own child.

"No you can't! You have no right to be here! You did this to her!" April screamed out making Maleficent roll her eyes. "Oh and who is going to stop me from seeing my child? I think you seem to be forgetting that my name is on her legal papers! I have full custody of her and you can't stop me from seeing my child! In fact I want you out!" Maleficent screamed out causing the small girl to start stirring and her eyes immediately widened in panic when she saw her mom in the room.

"Miss April save me! I don't want my mommy to hurt me! Please don't let her get to me again!" The small girl started screaming, crying, and thrashing causing her heart monitor to start beating extra fast and getting the attention of the nurses who came running in.

"What's going on!" The nurse asked in panic causing Mal to start screaming as she pointed to her mom. "No! I don't want her here! I don't want her here! She's gonna hurt me! She's gonna hurt me!" The small girl screamed out and the nurse looked at the two girls.

"I'm going to need you both to leave," the nurse told the two adults as she tried to calm Mal down causing Maleficent to get angry. "You can't kick me out! I am her mother and I have a right to stay!" Maleficent screamed out making Mal start thrashing and screaming again.

"Ma'am I don't care. Your child is in distress right now and we are telling you that you need to leave before you cause that child to go into cardiac arrest!" The nurse screamed out and April just looked at the nurse in shock and concern as Mal kept thrashing and screaming causing her heart monitor to keep beating faster and faster.

"That can happen!" April asked in shock making the nurse sigh. "Not very often, but it does still happen, yes. And right now her body is still very weak," the nurse told April who nodded as she quickly got up to leave not wanting to be the cause of Mal going into cardiac arrest, but Mal just reached up for her again.

"No! Miss April stay! I want you to stay!" The small girl screamed out causing Maleficent to lose it. "Shut up you ungrateful brat! I am your mother not this disgraceful wanna be Broadway dancer!" Maleficent screamed out as she tried to lunge at the four year old, but the nurses held her back as they called for backup and she was dragged out of the room leaving the small girl sobbing.

Right before Maleficent was dragged out April just slapped her. "That's for what you did to Mal! And you are not a mother! Anyone that treats a child like that doesn't deserve to be called a mother!" April screamed out as she was angry. Once Maleficent was dragged out Mal just looked at April as she laughed.

"Miss April you just slapped my mommy!" The young girl told April as she started to laugh and April just laughed a little too. "Yeah I did. She deserves way worse than that, but I'm sure the police will handle that," April told the young girl who smiled and nodded.

"Miss. April does that mean that I don't have to live with my mommy anymore?" The young girl asked April who was about to respond when a strange lady came in and April immediately knew who it was while the small girl was just confused.

"Hi there Mal right?" The CPS worker asked the girl who smiled and nodded. "Yeah I'm Mal! Who are you," the young four year old asked the lady who smiled. "I am Belle and my job is to make sure that you get to live in a nice and safe home away from your mommy," the CPS woman told the small girl who smiled.

"Really! I don't have to live with my mommy anymore?" Mal screamed out happily making the lady laugh a little, but she stopped when she noticed April. "Oh hello and who might you be," the lady asked April who just smiled. "I'm her dance teacher and I was the one that brought her here after I caught her trying to sleep in my dad's barn," April told the worker who nodded.

"I see well would it be okay if you went out there for a little so I can speak to Mal alone," the worker asked April who nodded, but Mal got upset as she didn't know if she could trust this lady and she wanted April because April made her feel safe.

"No Miss April don't leave!" Mal screamed out and April just sighed as she looked at the small four year old. "Mal I have to, but I will be right back okay," April told the young girl as she left the room. Once April left the CPS worker just smiled at Mal as she sat down by her bed.

"Okay now sweetie can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your family," the worker asked Mal as she was trying to keep Mal distracted while she figured out where Mal would be placed as according to Mal's records her mom was abusive and her dad wasn't mentioned on her birth certificate. And there was no information about other family members.

"I'm Mal and I'm 4 years old! I love dragons and my favorite color is purple! I also really love strawberries too! And dancing. I do dancing at Newhope Dance Studio!" The small girl told the worker and she nodded.

"I see. Well can you tell me about your family?" The CPS worker asked Mal who nodded. "Yeah! I have a mommy but she's really mean and I don't wanna live with her anymore. I don't know who my daddy is though! And mommy says she didn't have any brothers or sisters and that her mommy and daddy are not alive anymore. I don't have any brothers and sisters either," the young girl told the social worker who nodded as she started writing stuff down.

"Got it, so you have no other family?" The social worker asked the little girl who nodded. "Yeah! Are you gonna make me live with strangers? I don't wanna live with strangers! I wanna live with Miss April!" The small girl screamed out making the lady sigh as she didn't know how to deal with this.

Mal had no relatives and the lady she wanted to live with had no blood relation to her and it didn't seem like she was signed up to be a foster or an adoption parent. "I'll tell you what. How about I go talk to Miss April and then I will come back and we can talk about what will happen next okay," the social worker told the little girl who just nodded.

"Okay, but I hope I can live with Miss. April because she makes me feel safe," Mal told the lady making her feel even worse as she knew Mal wanted to live with April, but they had so many rules in place that it wouldn't be that easy.

"Okay I'll see what I can do bye Mal. I'll see you soon," the CPS worker told the four year old who smiled and waved goodbye. Once the worker left she found April who was just sitting with Nick.

She just smiled a little as she looked at the two. "Hi can I please speak to you for a minute," the social worker asked the two who just nodded. "Okay well I'll take that as a yes. Now I understand that it was you who called in the report against Mal Faere's mom, Maleficent Faere, correct?" The CPS worker asked the two who just nodded as they didn't know what she was trying to say.

"Okay well I would like you to know that we are definitely removing her from her mother's custody and she will be placed in a new temporary home," the social worker told the two. "Wait you mean like foster care? Doesn't she have any family she can live with?" April asked as she didn't like the idea of the small girl living with strangers.

"Unfortunately the only family she has is her mom. And we have no information on her dad, so we have no way of knowing if she does have any other family," the social worker told the two who just nodded. "What if April and I wanted to adopt her?" Nick asked the social worker leaving both April and the social worker in shock as they both weren't expecting him to say that.

April quickly snapped out of her shock as she looked at the lady. "Yeah what if we wanted to take her in. Could we do that?" April asked the social worker who sighed as she looked at the very young couple.

"Well of course adoption is always an option, but unfortunately none of you have signed up to be adoptive parents and seeing as you both are still very young it isn't going to be an easy process," the social worker told the younger two adults who just nodded taking in the information.

"So if we are willing to put in the work and go through the process we can adopt her and save her from foster care?" April asked the worker who smiled as she could see the young couple were caring people and the young girl deserved parents like them. "Yes that is correct, so are you two willing to make this new change," the social worker asked the two young adults who just looked at each other as they were deciding whether they were ready for this big step or not.