1981 (#13) - Greg's steps back, Paul's choice and his marriage to April

Things for little Heather, meanwhile, are not going well and, soon, they get dramatically complicated. April is increasingly worried about her daughter's fate and Greg feels helpless as he is unable to help the young girl. As the doctors mistake him for the girl's father, Greg becomes increasingly uncomfortable making it clear that he is not the girl's biological father. Some time later, realizing that Heather would need more frequent transfusions than April alone can provide, Greg becomes convinced that the only solution for April and Heather's sake is to convince Paul to stay close to them. So he tries to track Paul down through his ex-wife Nikki, who informs him that she has ended her relationship with the man; Greg is doubly happy about this, both for the feeling that still binds him to Nikki, to whom he has never stopped loving, and for the fact that there is hope that Paul can get back with April. Greg, by leveraging Paul's pride, convinces him to behave like a man and visit his daughter in the hospital; in fact, Greg puts aside all his disagreements with the man, whom he hates since he considers him the man who ruined the life of his ex-wife Nikki, for the sake of April and especially Heather. At the hospital Paul meets April, who desperately cries on his shoulder, asking him for help. Eventually Paul becomes emotional and agrees to recognize his daughter and donate blood to her. Paul's gesture does not of course leave Paul and April's family indifferent, as they finally get to know each other. Dorothy and Wayne are happy to meet Paul, Mary and Steven, who exchange greetings and push for Paul to act like a man and marry April. Even Greg, who is in love with April, understands that the right thing, at this difficult time, is to give priority to Heather's biological family, and in the end he manages to convince Paul to assume his responsibilities as a man by marrying the mother of his daughter. Soon, as Heather's condition improved, April and Paul declared their eternal love before the moved eyes of their respective families, proud of Paul's beautiful gesture.