A/N: Alright you guys I think this should make you at least a little bit happier
Rushing to the emergency room, Mort and Floyd instructed Jessica to stay put. Being Jessica, she couldn't follow those orders and followed behind them instead. Upon arrival in the ER, they found Lily with an injured hip from where Andy shot her and Andy with an injured leg where Lily shot him. Both were on the floor being tended to by ER nurses and technicians.
"Sheriff!" Andy called out.
"Andy!" came the gruff response. "What happened? Who shot first?" Mort rushed to his side.
"She shot first!" He groaned and winced in pain. "I saw her leaving Seth's room in the opposite direction right before the code blue started. She seemed almost in a panic. I wondered as to why the Doc's nurse would be leaving at a time like this. I followed her only to confront her about that when she pulled a gun on me."
Both Jessica and the Sheriff offered a sigh of relief that Andy was alright and that he had caught Lily. While Mort and Floyd were gathering witness statements, walking their fellow lawman to recovery and handcuffing Lily to her own hospital bed, Jessica had slipped back upstairs to be with Seth who was only alive through the bypass machine forcing his heart to beat. Floyd and Mort made their way back upstairs shortly to find Jessica sitting in a chair by Seth's bedside, her eyes dazed, and the only sound was the whirring of the life support. Jessica hardly blinked and Mort sat down beside her. He took a deep breath and in a solemn voice, he said,
"You were right. Lily really was after the doc, but she attempted to shoot you to make it look different. She even got her friend Amy to do it for her the second time. Knowing that Seth would probably step in front of the gun she shot at the exact timing. They faked the note knowing if something happened, we'd find it. And finally, the motive is that story she told you about her boyfriend when she lived in Portland. Seth was the doctor. She wanted revenge for not figuring out what was wrong and inadvertently letting it kill him."
Jessica only sighed in return and the two sat in silence around Seth.
"I can't believe this is really it. He's gone. It just doesn't seem real. It hasn't even been that long since Frank died."
Mort didn't really know what to say in return, so he just sat there figuring all his friend needed was someone to listen. So, he sat there, and he listened to her talk about him and her and all the wonderful things they did together and how she wished she could have told him she loved him more than she let on. They sat there for hours until a doctor came in and Jessica nodded her head for the bypass to be turned off.
One at a time he shut off the buzzing and the whirring. Jessica leaned in with tears flowing down her cheek trying to listen to the last of his heartbeat when she noticed something strange.
"His heartbeat is still there."
"That's an effect of the machines the heart gets its last pumps in as the bypass shuts down." The doctor informed her. But still his heartbeat continued. It didn't slow or anything. It kept its pace. Even the doctor started to look confused. Jessica's eyes grew wide as Mort leaned in as well. Floyd walked in the room after checking on Andy immediately noticed something was off. He walked over and cautiously stood there.
"He's breathing." Mort pointed out.
"He's breathing on his own." Jessica added. She grabbed his hand and looked at Seth with pleading eyes as she noticed the tears.
"He's crying." Jessica said.
Just then Seth twitched. His eyes fluttered and he turned his head slightly as his eyes opened all the way to see Jessica after so long. He took in a deep breath and squeezed her hand back before whispering to her with a tired smile spreading across his face,
"Hello Jessica."
The doctor in the room had his jaw slightly open in amazement and confusion. He looked almost terrified as he turned his head and looked up at the sky. Although not believing in a God himself, he found himself disbelieving that any earthly explanation could account for this.