Don’t worry: It pains us just as much to write this as it does for you to read it. But we know TV, and the question at least has to be posed: Following Bobby’s (Peter Krause) heartbreaking death, which took away one of our favorite couples on TV, should 9-1-1 give Athena (Angela Bassett) a new love interest?

Over the course of the show’s first eight seasons, leading up to their heartbreaking farewell as he died after becoming infected with a super-strain of a virus for which he gave the only anti-viral to Chimney (Kenneth Choi), we watched the beginning, middle, and end of their relationship. Their relationship had its ups and downs, and neither was perfect, but that’s what made it so good. They were each other’s second chance after her marriage ended and he lost his family in a fire that he accidentally caused, and that’s something they truly understood, especially after they nearly drowned together on their honeymoon.