Upon coming into the room, Lilly heard the sound of a heart monitor that was currently now displaying her husband's heart rhythm. Though John was lying there asleep, she could a pair of nose prongs that were feeding him some air, but other than that he appeared to look fine. Instead Lilly took his hand into hers, knowing that she could have lost him forever.

Though his heart was still beating, she felt remorse of not trying to prevent this sooner. Being strong she then gently moved closer kissing his cheek, "I love you John, always have", she whispered. Her voice was now beyond that any tears could in fact; possibly fall.

Lilly knew that all this stress that John had been under lately took a heavy toll on him, but now regretted leaving him for the weekend. For now she sat there, for hours until John opened his eyes. The pain was still there but he was glad to see the face of his wife again. Without any use of words, he gently squeezed her hand while gasping for breath; this where the machines started to buzz with louder noises.

At this point Lilly was ushered out of the room, while the doctors worked on her husband. Standing in the hallway, she felt her whole world colliding. Deep down terrible thoughts raced through her mind; about possibly becoming a widow. The thought of that made her cry, but Lilly tried to keep it together knowing that she had to remain strong for John.

Just an hour later, Lilly's worst fears weren't about to come true any time soon. Besides John was clearly awake and alert while the two took each other's hand.

"I'm sorry", he managed to say between breathing in through a tube in his nose.

Lilly nodded, "You can let this stress build inside of you, it's not good", her voice now in a whisper, "I don't want to lose you".

He could see the watery tears falling out of her eyes, "I love you", managing to say before feeling more pain in his chest. Deep down John wanted also to tell Amelia those same three words, knowing that her life was very important to him. Had he died, he would have left his youngest daughter to grow up without him.

For now John felt Lilly's lips pressing down on his cheek, soothing his pain for a moment. She was the one person whom had stood by him through bad and good; but now remained supportive and loving. Perhaps he wasn't rushing into anything but in the end got both a new wife and daughter that meant everything to him.

Though no longer alone, he came to realize just moments after visiting hours were over, about the real reason as to why he fell in love with Lilly in the first place. The answer was simple; Love. It didn't matter about their age differences but what was inside. Amelia was conceived out of their eternal love for each other, but if Lilly wanted another baby; John wasn't going to say no.

Despite his recently heart attack; he was still thinking of adding on one more baby. For the time being, Amelia was their baby; their love, and joy. Without her in his life, John wouldn't feel this complete as he did now.

While lying there in his hospital bed, he regretted treating Lilly like that. After all she never deserved to be ignored or even chewed out. As the days passed, John started feeling better but was happy when Lilly was able to bring Amelia into the room.

Right away a smile crept onto his face, as he then kissed her cheek. Just as Amelia smiled at him, he also felt better now having her there.

"She still looks like you".

Lilly continued sitting with holding their daughter in her arms, "That's a bad thing", teasing him softly. John also laughed softly, "So what's your sister having"?

"A boy, somehow I can't see Chris raising one", as she then picked up Amelia, "At least I have my little girl".

He also couldn't believe that her sister was having a son, "I'm glad we didn't have one", his eyes meeting up with hers, "We're not having another one right now Lil".

"Wasn't even thinking about that, we already have a baby", seeing his hand gently stroking her cheek, "Soon the department will be having two more babies".

At this point, Amelia let out a large drool out of her mouth. It got onto the small towel that Lilly had draped over her shoulder. Though it was expected at her age, John didn't make a fuss since he knew all about that stage. Being already a father, he found that having another child seemed to be a lot easier than his first.

"Could just see the look on Scotty's face, when one of the twins does that", making the two laughs softly together. John let out a breath, "I got that all to look forward to, sounds like Will isn't happy with filling in for me again".

"Don't think about it, your health is more important that worrying so much about work".

He then slowly sat up; while his heart monitor displayed an increase in his rhythm, " I'm not going to retire Lil because of this", knowing just how much she missed him last time and also John couldn't live without working, " You did warm me about this".

Upon placing Amelia down in her stroller for a nap, Lilly then gently placed her hand on his chest; feeling his heartbeat. He knew that this was her worse fear; losing him for good.

"You sat with me all night, after I was shot. I knew I wasn't alone", looking over at Amelia, "I also got my wish to have her".

John then gently pulled her closer as the two shared a moment together before the door had opened, there Vera grinned. From behind him came Jefferies which then prompted Lilly to pull back, knowing that one of them would make a wisecrack about it.

"Playing Nurse Lil", grinned Vera?

Lilly glared at him, while Jefferies came over to shake John's hand, "You feeling better"?

"I'm fine", he responded, "So I hear that Scotty's been driving everyone crazy"?

Both Jefferies and Vera groaned; each wanting to kill then very nervous father. Between this, everyone knew that Scotty and Kat each loved each other; but pretended to hate one another at work. However the fact remained he even was starting to piss Lilly off as well.

From in the door way, Scotty stood there. He then came in wearing a grey hoodie complete with a pair of jeans. All in all he looked handsome; but at the same time said his hello before bending down to kiss Amelia. Though he was her uncle, Scotty felt a special connection to his little niece which was one made up of pure love.

At this point he looked up, "Kat would have been here, but she says she's too fat to move", releasing a breath.

"Probably because she has two fighting Valens kids inside of her", answered Vera whom cracked everyone up in the room. Even John chuckled while still watching Amelia asleep in her stroller, as Scotty then took notice, "You coming back to work boss"?

"Yeah Scotty I am, retiring isn't something I'm about to do".

Jefferies could see that Amelia was the apple of her father's eyes, judging by the way he was looking at her. Though John was lucky not to be in ICU, since his health seemed to improve, but this stress from work aided into him having this. It was good thing that he married Lilly, seeing how their love for each other helped.

Somehow Lilly shot Vera a look, not wanting anyone to mention work. John needed a break from this, so that it wouldn't put extra strain on his heart. However he seemed more interested in the recent games; which by all means was a good thing.

"Got any cute Nurses coming around, Boss"?

John shook his head, "No but I think you might have good chance of a date with one of them Nick", seeing the amusement on his detectives faces. When Amelia awoke crying, Scotty picked up her into his arms, "Be careful with her", warned John feeling a tad overprotective of her.

"Look who's the overprotective one", Scotty spoke back.

At this point, Lilly stopped any bickering that was to come, instead the guys then decided to leave, " Miss you at Jones Boss and you also Lil".

When they all left, Lilly also then decided to head out. She wanted John to rest as much as he could, but just moments after he lay back thinking about possibly getting tickets to baseball game. It wasn't for a guy's night out, but just with her and Amelia instead. He wanted to teach Amelia about it, but also make a memory with her as well.

Meanwhile, Lilly the caught Scotty shooting some hoops with Veronica at a park; from what she saw was him being a good father figure to her. Maybe love wasn't blind as one could put it; but something even deeper than that. Perhaps love changes people, especially when John was concerned. In her heart she knew there was always something about him that she loved.

However she had no clue about the three of them attending a baseball game together, would eventually lead up into something even bigger.