Brooke read the latest, scandal-filled issue of Eye on Fashion as Ridge joined her in bed. They sighed over Bridget's predicament, before Brooke's thoughts turned to the secret she's keeping for Stephanie. "My mother is confiding in you?" boggled Ridge. "She's actually considering you a friend?" "Hardly," sighed Brooke, who hated keeping things from Ridge. Ridge hoped his mom would eventually fill him in, liking that Stephanie was trusting his wife. At the Forrester mansion, Stephanie mulled over her cancer on the terrace and Eric joined her. Stephanie wrote off her pensiveness as worry about Bridget and Jackie. Eric liked this "new change" in her behavior. "It's never too late to change," she said. Later, Brooke came over to keep Stephanie company and drive her to the doctor. They bantered as usual, and Stephanie warned Brooke away from touching her mother's red scarf and told her she'd canceled her doctor's appointment. Eric found Ridge and Thomas looking at designs at the office. Ridge told his father and his son that he thinks Stephanie is "starting to appreciate Brooke." When Stephanie took a quick call from Felicia and Brooke found her bucket list! "This is a bad idea!" Brooke declared. "Why don't you just focus on getting better?" Stephanie said she was "tired of fighting." She didn't want surgery, chemo or radiation. Brooke was stunned. "Don't do this your family!" she begged. "Don't do this to me!" Frustrated Stephanie reminded "dingbat" Brooke that she's supposed to hate her and the day Stephanie dies should be the happiest die of her life. She then stressed that she doesn't want to fight and "if I die, I die." Brooke made her take her hand, insisting, "We are in this together" and "I am not letting you leave us."

At Bridget's, she opened the door to a tea-bearing Rick. Rick wanted to update her on his progress with Jackie. As she huffed, Rick raved about the "spark" he feels with Jackie and how long he's been alone. Bridget accused Rick of having a rescue complex, citing Taylor and her drinking and Steffy and her grief over Phoebe. Rick denied that's what was going on and then showed up at Jackie M to flirt shamelessly with his object of pursuit. Rick continued to make his case to Jackie, talking about how Logan was Owen's first priority now. At Bridget's, Owen told her to stay off the Jackie M message board, but they ended up reading posts from people saying they should be together because they have a child now. Bridget thought the posters kind of had a point. Owen promised her they'd figure things out and their family would work. Back at the office, Rick was suggesting he and Jackie jaunt off to Paris, and he was overwhelming her with his whirlwind plans. She admired his spontaneity, but refused to go away with him. Rick changed tactics, whipping out a ring and saying, "Marry me!"