Chicago Med Season 12, unless something changes over hiatus, is going to be about “new beginnings,” showrunner Allen MacDonald told TV Insider in May. Is that what’s in store for Drs. Hannah Asher (Jessy Schram) and Dean Archer (Steven Weber), who will now be raising a baby together? They originally planned to just coparent, but, well, based on the Season 11 finale, there’s the strong possibility of a romantic relationship there.

After Hannah gave birth to their daughter, he told her he loved her and had for a long time. She didn’t respond in kind, admitting her brain was at “maximum overload” but did kiss him.

When we spoke with MacDonald and Schram about the finale, she made it clear that the door seems very much open for the two to get together.

“I think it’s very clear they definitely love each other. I think Hannah needs a moment to sort what that means, but the feelings are genuine and real when she does kiss him,” Schram said. “She literally says the moment before that she didn’t have any space to think about this. This was not something that she could deal with. And so it was very important that this wasn’t a rash decision that she makes to kiss him or to shut him up or try and move on, or now all of a sudden her heart’s just exploding. I think it was a very, very conscious, very beautiful, very loving choice to kiss him, but she also is living in the moment of all of the emotions of the baby being born in the family that they have, but is also confused as to what that means and what that looks like. I think that it’s by no means the declaration of, ‘Everything is great,’ and it’s by no means the declaration of, ‘OK, I’m going to kiss you and then ghost you tomorrow.’”

The showrunner then pointed out that Hannah and Dean are, “for the rest of their lives… connected by this child.”

He continued, “I think the love between them is real, but the idea of that moment was for it to be ambiguous that he looks at her adoringly, and she’s looking at the baby. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t love him, she doesn’t care about him, but sometimes their signals don’t land on each other, they’re not feeling the same thing at the same time.”

As for what that means for them going forward, that’s the question for Chicago Med Season 12. “Is it going to be a relationship? Are they going to get married and live together? I don’t know, but they’re going to definitely figure it out,” MacDonald said.

Chances are that they’ll have figured at least some of it out by the time Chicago Med Season 12 begins, though it will depend on how much of a time jump there is. But even if they are together or not, that doesn’t mean their relationship status couldn’t change over the season. Raising their daughter could bring them closer together if they’re not romantically involved already, or that, along with the stresses of their jobs, could lead to them taking a step back for the time being. Either way, we don’t see it being easy for these two considering how they’ve clashed in the past. But that just means it should make for quite the dramatic ride.

What do you want to see between Hannah and Dean in Season 12? Let us know in the comments section below.

Chicago Med, Season 12 Premiere, Wednesday, October 7, 8/7c, NBC