Everyone screamed as they saw the masked man lying there in a pool of blood. Luka looked stunned as he dropped the gun and backed away in pure terror at what he had just done. Abby brought her shaking hands to her mouth as Carter went over and placed his hand on her shoulder. Everyone was starring at the figure in front of them. They knew what was coming. Abby bent down to unmask this person. She slipped her slender fingers under the mask to pull it up. What she saw terrified her. It was Richard. Abby jumped up and screamed jumping in Carters arms.

"Richard"! Abby screamed. He was still enough alive to talk.

"Abby". He said weakly. Abby bent down to hear him better.

"Richard why did you do this?" She asked softly as if not wanting to yell at him at the fact that he was dying.

"Revenge Abby. Revenge. I found out about the.[coughs up blood] abortion" he gave her one last cold look and died.

Abby's hands were shaking terribly as she slowly stood up. Carter carefully wrapped his arms around her to give her comfort. She slowly wrapped her arms around him but she was till in shock as her eyes were watery starring in disbelief at Richard's dead body and her mouth was still slightly open. Carter was trying to give Abby as much support as possible as he softly stroked her back. Then he saw Luka and Rena try and sneak out. No way was he going to let them go after what they did to Abby. This wasn't going to be pretty. He slowly released Abby kissing her softly on the head.

Rena and Luka were heading towards the exit but then Carter grabbed Rena by her hair pulling her back where Mark and Dave held her back. Abby stood in shock watching the scene in front of her as Chen, Susan, and Elizabeth were comforting her.

Carter slammed Luka up against the wall punching him 3 times for every punch or slap he did to Abby. Only with a lot more force. Carter had the same look of fury in his eyes that he had when he found out Abby was missing. He shoved Luka to the ground and kicked him hard in the ribs. The whole time he was thinking, "This is for Abby and my friends" It went on like that for a while until Luka fell unconscious. Abby looked a little scared. She had never seen Carter act so violent. Then he turned around and saw her as his eyes softened and she could see nothing but pure love for her. Then all her fear went away as she knew that Carter would hurt himself before he ever hurt her. She went over to him and strongly wrapped her arms around them and they stood in a long passionate embrace for what seemed like an eternity. The worst was over and now they could finally move on with their lives.

"Carter, I love you," she muttered into his shoulder. Carter smiled. He had been waiting an eternity to hear her say those words.

"I love you too".



Authors Note: It's not the end you guys. I'm going to write an epilogue but let me know how you liked the ER gang's last day in the wilderness!