Ok, ok lady, calm down.  We are going to do our best.  Do you know if she has a next of ken?  We might need to contact them.

Well the only next of ken I know is the bastard who did this to her and left her dying, Candace said with tearful eyes.

Ok would you like to come with her to the hospital then?  Shes going to need someone to be there with her when she wakes up.  The paramedic asked.

Candace looked at her young friend on the stretcher and her heart wrenched and felt her stomach twisting with pain.

Candy:  Yes I will come with you, if thats ok.  I want to be with her.  Please yes.

Candace agreed and started to get up and following them to the ambulance.

Ok Candace hurry, follow us please.

Candace looked around grabbed her friends bag and house keys from where she could see them and rushed out following the paramedic and her young friend to the ambulance.  She was so concerned for her and she wanted so much to protect her and make her pain go away.

This wasnt the first time shed come to her rescue.  This had happened many times before but this time it was the worst ever by the look of it.  Besides, the risk was higher now that her friend was pregnant.  Candace was thinking if her friend died it would be a double murder, and she was going to make sure that the bastard pay for it and pay dearly.  She felt so awful and sick to her stomach again.  She is going to make his life a living hell if something happen to her friend.  She was not going to let him off the hook this time.  She swore to herself to bust his sorry ass and put him in jail for good.  She was raging inside and wanted to kill Dodger herself.

Candace sat in the back of the ambulance holding her friends hand and praying to God to save her and get her friend out of this one unharmed…

She looked at the young paramedic, in attendance.  She was looking very young and very beautiful too.  Candace wanted to ask her so many questions.  She wanted to know everything about her friends condition, and her chances of survival.  The young paramedic looked back at her and touched her hand lightly and calmly and said: