Bert about Charlotte being an awful stepmother to Hope were revealed to Mike to be true. During Leslie's trial, Charlotte also could tell that Mike was still very much in love with Leslie and Mike made no attempt to hide his true feelings for Leslie and that he wanted to divorce Charlotte and marry Leslie. But Charlotte was going to have none of that, she was growing accustomed to the life style of being a lawyer's wife. Charlotte became so jealous of Leslie and resentful of Mike's time with her, that she threw Mike's law books out in the pouring rain. And then she attempted to become pregnant by Mike. Unfortunately another party soon came into the picture, in the summer of 1972, Flip Malone escaped prison and then kidnapped Charlotte who had just told Bert that she was pregnant. Bert and Papa were angered by Mike when they found out that he and Leslie had started back up their affair, and Bert forced Mike's hand that he needed to go and rescue Charlotte, which he did. Unfortunately while Flip Malone was holding her hostage, Charlotte had a miscarriage and lost the child (Flip ended up dead in a shoot out with Mike.) Mike and Leslie looked like they were going to be able to get married anyway, until unfortunately, for them, Charlotte picked up a very interesting new ally in her quest to stay married to Mike, Dr. Steve Jackson, who told Mike he better not cause a scandal for his daughter by divorcing Charlotte who had just suffered a miscarriage. Mike and Leslie were forced to wait when Steve exhibited signs of having another heart attack. Charlotte then claimed she was pregnant, again, but was really not and the court, in winter of 1973, granted Mike a divorce from Charlotte. But for a while, Steve still thought that Charlotte might be pregnant and kept up that he was not going to let Mike and Leslie marry. Eventually though Steve gave-in and in the late spring of 1973, Mike and Leslie were finally wed. Although Johnny Fletcher was a good husband to Peggy and a good stepfather to Billy, Peggy and Johnny Fletcher's marriage hit the skids when he started to become overworked at Cedars with everyone telling Peggy that Johnny's work, as a doctor, was becoming erratic. (Peggy was surprised when she was confronted on that issue by