Four Attendings and a PA Chapter 6: Epilogue, an er fanfic

Four Attendings and a PA

Disclaimer: if you've got this far and still think they're mine, I can, once again, assure you that they are not and that they never will be. Hmph.

A/N: I'm setting this in season 5, when Carter's renting Kerry's basement. Just to reiterate that fact.

Final chapter! Sory it's taken so long to post, but things have been insane at my end just recently

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Epilogue

(Three months later)

"…So we felt it only fair to let you all know that yes, we are seeing each other," Coburn announced to the ER staff. She and Romano had chosen a quiet time in the day to announce to the ER their relationship.

The staff cheered. "We wondered when you'd finally admit it!" Randi yelled, pulling a little book out of her pocket. In it was listed the staff's bets regarding when Romano and Coburn would come clean about their relationship.

But Romano hadn't finished. He cleared his throat. "Um, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask a very important question."

"Don't tell me – who's willing to do overtime this weekend," Doug wisecracked, raising a laugh, and earning a dirty look from Romano. Carol and Kerry exchanged resigned expressions, Carol rolling her eyes and Kerry shaking her head.

"Ahem. If I may continue…" He dug his hand into his lab coat pocket and pulled out something small and box-like. "Janet." He dropped to one knee. "Marry me."

Silence, apart from a few gasps from the female members of staff.

Coburn nodded slightly. "Of course I will."

Then Jeanie and Carol let out a loud noise that sounded somewhere in between a cheer and a scream. A moment later the rest of the staff joined in. Coburn was hugged by a lot of the staff. When it was Kerry's turn, the shorter attending took Coburn by the shoulders and looked her straight in the eye. "You mustn't forget to mention Doug Ross, Jeanie and me in the speeches."

"Why?" Coburn looked perplexed.

"Because it was thanks to us that you two got together in the first place!"

"How'd you figure that?"

"Doug and I wrote the notes, telling you to meet at Magoo's that day," Kerry explained. By now everyone had quietened and was listening intently. "Don't you get it? There aren't any secret admirers; they never existed!"

Coburn and Romano looked at each other, then at Doug and Kerry, astounded. Coburn recovered first. She looked into Kerry's eyes. "Thank you for bringing us together." She hesitated, and then caught Jeanie's eye. "Would you and Jeanie like to be the bridesmaids?"

"Thought you'd never ask," Jeanie replied cheekily, and then nodded, serious. "Thank you for asking."

"I'm honoured," Kerry said, as she and Coburn were joined by Jeanie in a three-way hug.

Romano cleared his throat again. "Well, I guess if the other two conspirators are going to be bridesmaids, how would you feel about being my best man, Doctor Ross?"

Doug was momentarily speechless – something of a first for him. "Like Kerry. Honoured. Thank you for considering me," he told Romano when he'd found his voice.

"This calls for a mass celebration. Doc Magoo's after work!" Carol declared.

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The wedding was one of the largest ever seen between two members of the County General staff. Both Romano and Coburn, it transpired, were from large families, and both were well-off financially. Doug, naturally, pretended to lose the ring – he told Carol later that he wanted some revenge on Romano for everything he'd done in the past, but Carol wasn't impressed because he'd pretended for slightly longer than was tolerable. Overall it was a very successful wedding, and Doug's best man speech was full of his trademark wisecracks.

Later that evening, following the reception, the newlyweds left for their honeymoon. Many of the ER staff stayed until the end. Doug, Mark, and even Benton (surprisingly) got completely plastered. Elizabeth hauled Benton, mumbling about Shaft, off home with her, Carol hauled Doug off, and Carter and Kerry – somehow – managed to get Mark, who was singing a painfully off-key version of Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer, back to theirs, where he passed out on the couch.

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And, as in all good fairy tales, they all lived happily ever after, although Doug and Kerry returned to their bickering, and Romano went back to being, well, Romano. Enough said.

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THE END