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Carter's pov

Oh God I can believe that I'm coming back after almost 8 years. I haven't been in touch with anyone there since Pratt left 6 years ago. I miss Chicago, I miss my friends, I miss the hospital and I even miss the annoying patients.

The plane is landing, it is almost midnight and the little princess next to me is in a deep sleep, I even fell badly about have to wake her up, but we have to get out of the plane.

"Hey princess wake up we arrived"

"Daddy let me sleep I'm tired"

"Open your eyes sweetheart or you are not going to see our new home"

"I don't want to see it right now I'm tired let me sleep please"

"Come on sleepyhead I'll carry you out but then you'll have to wake ok?"

"Ok"

Every time is like this, she always gives me trouble when I have to wake her up, but all the trouble is worth because once she is awake and with that big shinning smile on her face the world becomes light up.

Lucy is 4 years old now her birthday was last month and as usual Kem wasn't there. Kem and I got divorced a year ago I couldn't take it anymore. We weren't a couple a long time before that, when I gave up of my entire life to go after her I really thought I love loved and that she loved me, but I was really wrong everything was a huge misunderstood and I guess I got confused about what I really wanted. As soon as I came to the Congo we started all over again at first it was great and of course I proposed and she said yes but all this romantic time didn't last a year I went to Dafur and she went to Paris to see her mother and I started to realized that I didn't really cared anymore and that everything I'd once felt it was just admiration and that what I really missed it wasn't her but the idea of have a family, someone waiting for me at home after a tough shift, someone that I could lean on, someone to love me the way I've always needed and I really thought that this person was Kem so I went after her. After realized that I decide that I should come back to Chicago, because one more time I was lost and didn't know what to do, but at the same time my work in Dafur was so important that I didn't have the courage to abandon it, so I call Luka to ask him to come help me here, but he said he couldn't and send me Pratt that's when I heard about Abby being pregnant with Luka's baby and I saw that I shouldn't come back because I didn't wanted to envy my best friend, so I decided to try again with Kem I couldn't give up not after all I have done. After Pratt leaved I went to Paris and became the best husband that a woman could have we traveled around Africa divulging her program against HIV that's she got pregnant at first she was really excited but when Lucy was born she acted like she didn't have a baby she didn't change diapers she almost didn't breast feed her and when Lucy was around a year she left us and went back to the Congo I didn't went after her first because a danger country like the Congo is not a place to raise a child and then because I was tired of try it' wasn't fair with me or with my baby girl have to exposed us to a huge danger just because she had left. I raised Lucy by myself her entire life, Kem just showed up in special dates like Christmas or birthdays if she didn't forget so when I decided to get divorce and come back to America of course that Lucy chose come with me. So now here we are in front of our newest home in Chicago, the city I never should have left.

"Daddy come on open the door I want to see our house and I'm also freezing"

"Ok sweetheart just a minute"

As soon as I open the door she runs through the living room, goes to the kitchen, runs upstairs and start yell and jump with a huge smiled on her face. I'm so happy that she is happy but it's pretty late and if I don't stop her she's probably going to wake up our neighbors.

"Not so loud Lucy it's late"

"Sorry daddy it's just that I'm so so happy for being here!"

"Ok but now I think we should get a shower and go to get some rest because tomorrow we're going to find daddy a job ok!" I going to a interview at County tomorrow I hope I could work there again and I heard that Luka is now the Chief of Staff so I guess he's going to give me a position there.

After the shower I 'm putting Lucy in bed and wishing her sweet dreams

"Love you daddy!"

"Love you too princess" waiting