Mickey woke up to a loud pounding on the apartment door. He got out of bed and pulled his pants on and rushed to the door angrily. Ready to tell the damn mailman that it was 'fuckin' eight o'clock in the mornin'' and that there's 'a goddamn baby sleepin' in the other room' and that if he had any respect he would kindly fuck off and never knock on the door again as it was starting to get annoying.
He checked in the nursery briefly and was slightly shocked that the loud repeating pounding on the door was not waking up the sick baby.
He flung open the door and a woman with brown hair came charging into the apartment saying, "Get me baby. We go to back to Russia." Mickey grabbed the bat from the hook near the door (a handy tool that the Gallagher's had purchased for Ian and him for their wedding), "Why the fuck are you here Svet?!" He brandished the bat in front of her, making it look like was was willing to use it.
"Go back to Russia. Where's Yevgeny?" She looked worriedly through the apartment and Mickey knew that she would be of no harm to him so he dropped the bat on the floor.
The clatter caused a fear shaken Ian to get out of bed, "What the fuck was that?! Mickey?! Are you o-... Lana?" He tried to rub the sleep from his eyes thinking that potentially his mind was playing tricks on him. Nope. It was real. Too real.
"Orange boy you must give back baby now."
Ian stepped between her and the door to the nursery, "Lana. We can't let you do that."
The Russian woman got up in his face, "He is baby. He will not care."
Mickey stood behind the brown haired Russian woman, "Svet. You can't just fuckin' come in here and try to take him now! You fuckin' left him with us! You fuckin' abandoned him, you heartless bitch!" Mickey's face was bright red with anger. Ian grabbed the phone from the table near the nursery. "No, Ian. We're gonna fuckin' deal with this here. No fuckin' cops."
Ian put the phone down and listened as Yev started screaming in the other room.
The Russian woman's eyes stayed on the door behind Ian, "Give me baby."
Mickey got up in her face, "No. He fuckin' stays here with the parents that fuckin' love him. With the parents who fuckin' took care of him since the day that he was fuckin' born. With the parents who didn't abandon him when he was fuckin' three days old. He'll stay with the parents who love him even though he was the product of a rape that was concocted by my own fuckin' father. He'll stay with me and my fuckin' husband because we fuckin' love him and because we are the parents who take him to bed when he feels like shit and make him feel better. So, fuck off Svetlana! He's not your fuckin' kid anymore!"
Svetlana's face turned red, "So baby will stay with piece of shit ex-husband and shit ex-husband's piece of shit husband. Он превратится в гребаный педик , так же, как его кусок дерьма отца !"
"Speak fuckin' English!" Mickey shouted over the screaming baby.
"I leave baby with you then? Huh? You and orange boy?"
Mickey nodded firmly and went to a drawer near the front door, "Let's go. There's a family lawyer on South Clark that I scheduled an appointment with a few days ago when we talked about adopting Yev." He tossed a packet from the drawer at Ian. "Don't lose that."
Ian nodded and then went into the nursery and changed Yev and then they all got into the beat up car that was finally on it's last legs.
Svetlana looked like she had no clue what was going on.
"We're going to terminate your parental rights. Ian's adopting Yev."
Svetlana shrugged as she got into the passenger's seat.
Ian sat in the back with Yevgeny as they drove to the lawyer.
Matthew Hitchens was a fairly elderly man who sat in his desk chair looking at the strange sight that had come into his office and stroking the side of his mustache.
"So. You want to give up your rights to the child."
Svetlana nodded, "I will not deal with piece of shit ex-husband anymore. He take baby. I go to Russia."
Ian bounced Yevgeny on his knee as Mickey started in, "She abandoned the kid at birth. The last day in the hospital she was gone. I'm the only parent on his birth certificate." Mickey slid the certificate to Hitchens. "I want my husband to be able to adopt Yevgeny."
Hitchens nodded, "Yes. Well, due to the fact that she wasn't there to sign his birth certificate she has no legal claim over the child as she fled the hospital. The hospital is a safe drop spot, so if you leave a baby there then you give up your parental rights."
Ian's looked up at the lawyer, "So you mean to tell us, that Yevgeny is only legally Mickey's."
"Correct. Svetlana gave up those rights when she left the hospital and didn't sign paperwork. However, the process of adopting the child is going to be a different set of issues. So long as Michael agrees to letting you adopt Yevgeny as your own child as well as his, you will have a fairly clean adoption process. There'll be a home inspection and you'll have to go to court, but everything would be pretty straight forward." Ian squeezed Mickey's hand and Svetlana just looked pissed off. "I'll call you when I get your family a date for an adoption hearing. Someone from DCFS will come by at some point and do a search of the house and if you pass then Ian you will be awarded parental custody if the judge deems that it is a good environment for the child. And from the looks of it I think that the judge will deem you a suitable parent, even though there have been some run ins with the law, they have all been fairly minor except for one. Which was more severe, but terminated due to the fact you were diagnosed bipolar. And these reports from the clinic show that you have been doing well on medication, so I don't think there will be an issue."
Svetlana sighed and got up and left the room saying, "Find me at the Balls."
Ian smiled at Mickey and they shook hands with the lawyer and left the office.
Ian had the biggest grin on his face once they reached the apartment, he took Yev out of the stroller and cradled him against his chest, "Yev. I'm gonna be your daddy officially."
Mickey nodded, "He's going to have the best fuckin' father in the world. He's a lucky kid."
Thank you so much to maryellen590 for suggesting that I have Svetlana come back and try to get Yev. I hope that I didn't botch the law stuff too much, I did some research but I don't understand much legal jargon, so I was kidding guessing as to what it all meant. Hopefully it's not super inaccurate. Also thank you to Sherry who also wanted to see Svetlana come back. This will not be the end of the Svetlana mess. Don't worry. More angst to come!
The Russian in here loosely translates to 'He's going to turn into a fucking faggot, just like his piece of shit father.' I used google translate so if it's wrong please do not kill me.
