Thoughts on the finale and some questions too (hoping for a season 5!):

How is Amira able to get medical clearance to serve if she has MS, even if it is in it's early stages and she is being treated (and as she said, the treatment is not working.) This I don't understand.

Well, Rick and Drew worked it out! What a relief! I just hope Brianna copes okay in Drew's absence. By the looks of the last scene, poor Drew doesn't get his tab but props to him for trying especially the others are half his age and big kudos to Rick for encouraging him to go! I hope they do add that baby to their beautiful family when Drew returns. I LOVED their kiss and "I love you" at the end!

Good for Paul for stepping outside his comfort zone. It will only make him a better doctor. I can see why he told his father the way he did. His father would not approve and probably Paul is too good for that type of work.

Shannon? Sorry but the girl has to grow thicker skin and suck it up! Running away to the reservation clinic where she was essentially her own boss was childish. I hope she is more mature if she comes back to San Antonio Memorial as she agreed to after six months.

Cain Diaz was no great loss to the hospital. He didn't fit there.

The only thing that bothered me? Kenny. Oh Kenny! I know you are desperate for somewhere to belong but please don't be sucked in by that douchebag future father-in-law! Don't become his little puppet! You can do so much better and meaningful work in your scrubs! How dare that man degrade the work nurses do! Your friendship with Paul? That's down the drain if you go Julian's way. I hope when your buddy Drew gets back he knocks you down a few pegs! If we get a new season, looks like it will pick up six months later.

Happy thoughts, everyone!

Chapter Thirteen

There had finally been an arrest, or three in the shooting that had taken place near San Antonio Memorial. Rick could imagine he wasn't the only one relieved. He was watching the late night news with Avery in one arm. The three men arrested were a part of a biker gang as it had been suspected from the start. It was a different group than the ones Kenny had become entangled with, but an off-shoot of the same gang. Just maybe if Kenny proved he had got help for his gambling problem and ceased contact with such people then they would allow him back in their lives. He and Drew would have to talk about this. Rick knew his husband missed his buddy. Kenny had been great, no, more than great to their daughter during the months she had in the hospital waiting for her lung transplant. Brianna missed having him visit. But she understood why he wasn't allowed to; and she was mad with him too for being so stupid. She would forgive him whenever her dads let him back in her life but would make her hurt known. Kenny had missed a lot of time with Avery too, events and laughter Brianna wished he had been there for. When the teen got this off her chest, she would give him a clean slate but only one more chance.

"I guess I don't have to worry much about your daddy anymore," Rick said to the baby. "I will sleep better, when you let me." Avery wasn't fussing or crying tonight but she wasn't sleeping either. And when she were awake, she wanted company.

Too tired to walk around with her, Rick finally laid down on the couch with Avery on his chest. Her favorite spot to sleep. Even then it was almost half an hour before she went to sleep. Thank goodness that Brianna was over at her aunt Claudia's for the night and he didn't have to take to her to school. There was a mother-daughter field trip to chocolate factory for her class tomorrow and both were excited about it. So what if they were aunt and niece?

Seeing both his husband and baby daughter solid asleep when he arrived home Drew was puzzled temporarily. He wondered if it was the news (which all the staff had watched on the television near the nurse's station) that kept Rick up or Avery.

"Hey," he said touching Rick's shoulder gently so he wouldn't startle him. "Are you all right?"

"I'm fine," Rick said groggily. "Only the trials of living with a three-month-old night owl."

Drew smiled. "Go back to sleep. I will check on the runt."

Having had a late night herself Avery didn't wake till eight thirty.

"You're lucky you're so damn cute," Drew said, smiling at Avery after he changed her diaper. "You had this daddy from the moment you were born."