Once Aaron’s trial is over and Aaron has the freedom to date Katelyn openly, things start improving. He and Andrew aren’t okay, but they’re getting better (so slowly that only Neil and Renee remain optimistic), and eventually they learn to acknowledge each other outside of Betsy’s office. Progress there means progress with the Foxes in general, and over the next couple years Aaron has a stronger presence in the team. Aaron proposes to Katelyn before starting his fifth year, and they marry shortly after graduation.

((Neil makes Andrew go to the ceremony. It takes two favors to pull off: one to show up, and one to not threaten Katelyn in front of the entire assembly about how if she hurts Aaron he will kill her no questions asked no regrets whatsoever))

A summer wedding in the south isn’t ideal, but they see the timing as necessary – after graduation Aaron and Katelyn move to Charleston and enroll at MUSC (Medical University of South Carolina). They live together off-campus in a tiny apartment they call home and study surgery (Aaron neuro, Katelyn pediatric). They move to Chicago after graduation.

They choose not to have children – mostly because they’re just not interested and partly because their careers mean they’d never have sufficient time to spend with a child. They do get an obscenely large aquarium and a pug named Popo, though. Katelyn fills her Facebook / instagram with pictures of Popo and the people they’ve met at the dog park, and the Foxes are smart enough (for once) not to comment on the fact that Aaron is learning how to make friends.

Aaron and Katelyn are stupidly happy together, like all the Foxes knew they would be.