Actually I didn't hate the Y/Stetler realationship that much. I felt angry about it but I didn't hate it like I hate the H/her-who-should-not-be-named relationship. At least Y/Stetler was more credible.
I always felt Y started dating Rick to make H jealous and hopefully push him into action... but we all know how H reacted to it or rather didn't react to it. The initial reaction was to confront Y in was it 'Blood Brothers'? And Y assured him she wasn't seeing Rick, and he told her of his boundaries... and maybe she thought the only way to make H cross the boundaries was to date another man.
I can't rememeber the epy but the one where H tells Stetler that Y doesn't like champagne. I thought it was so magnanimous of H, he knew he couldn't be with Y so he wanted to make sure Y was happy, even if it was with Stetler. That's the old H I liked more, though I would have wished he would have jumped into action, especially after seeing Y with the black eye in 'Crime Wave'. Why he continued to let her stay with Stetler after that is beyond me. Well she did ask H to mind his own business, and if I'm not wrong she still misunderstood him about Madison at the time, but I felt as if the warning he gave Stetler wasn't enough. He should have forced her to leave him or something, especially if he thought Stetler was hurting her physically.
Sigh the good ol' days of H/Y drama, makes me miss the old Miami even more, when Y was still a regular on the show.
Anyway.... to caption the pic:
Y: Hi Horatio. I just wanted to make sure I didn't forget anything on the list you gave me to get from Artie's....