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Chapter 4

"Dana!"

Jude wrapped her dressing around her and crossed the road to her daughter's limp body lying still in the road, letting fat tears roll down her cheeks. It was all her fault, all her fault...

"Ms Harrison, congratulations. I present with your new baby girl."

Jude took her baby in her arms and nuzzled into the cloth, inhaling the soft cotton smell and gazing into Dana's big blue eyes. This was her life, she decided. Forever, until the end.

"Dana, honey, wake up. Hon, wake up. I'm so sorry!" She took her hand, and squeezed it gently. "Dont do this to me, Dana!"

"Mom..." mumbled Dana, her eyelids fluttering. "Whats...whats going on?"

"Oh Danny! You were hit, hon. By a car-" she pulled her daughter closer. "- the ambulance is on its way."

"Oh... oh. I'm sorry, for whatever made me run away. I... I... dont remember."

"Oh baby, its me who normally forgets things! It was all my fault... all of it. I'm so so sorry."

Red lights appeared in the horizon, and Jude lowered her daughter to the floor, kissing her forehead. "Its gonna be ok," she whispered.

"Miss Harrison? Oh, its such a pleasure to meet you. Can my nephew in Tenesse have your autograph? He absolutely-"

"Excuse me! My daughter is injured, on the floor! Here, if you cant already see her!" - she gestured to Dana, lying in an increasing pool of blood- "She could be dying!"

"MOM!" screeched Dana. "I'm... I'm dying?"

"Come on now, little Miss," said the paramedic, who Jude had dismissed, lifting Dana up. Jude leaned in to tuck a bloody curl behind her daughter's ear.

"Uh- oh," said the younger Paramedic, when he saw Dana. He helped her onto a stretcher, then closed the doors. Jude banged on the white surface. "Let me in!" she screamed. "My daughter's in there! Let me in!"

Tommy came jogging up behind Jude, dressed quickly in joggers. "Let her in!" he growled. "Thats our kid!"

"I'm sorry!" called the driver scornfully out of the window as he drove off. "But like you said, your daughter's dying."

Jude watched helplessly in dismay as the ambulance drove off, then she collapsed into a heap of misery. She threw her face into Tommy's lap.

"She's gone! That may be the last ever time I see her, and she's gone!"

"Dont worry," said Tommy. "We'll get her back."