Summery: Set two months after Ray left to go to L.A with his Band, what made him come back to the E.R?
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything related to E.R and don’t I know it, cos if I did things would have went very differently by now.
CHAPTER ONE: STARTING BACK
Ray Barnett stands in the Ambulance bay of Cook County General and wonders to himself what exactly is he doing there, he could have been in L.A with his band, but no, he remember all too clearly why he came back and he knows that he is just trying to make excuses to not have to go in and face all of the questions on why he came back, because he didn’t think that he would have the courage to tell them.
Ray began to slowly make his way forward when and when he got to the admit desk before he could even say a word the next thing he knew he was being grabbed into the biggest bear hug he had ever been by none other than Jerry
‘It’s great to see you back man, what are you doing here!’ said a very enthusiastic Jerry, hadn’t gotten to say goodbye and was now making up for it by squeezing all of the air out of Ray’s lungs.
Jerry let go and was now looking at Ray, obviously waiting for an answer, but Ray had been off in a daze, remember exactly why he had came back,
‘Oh, right…well I…well the band didn’t think that it was going anywhere so we decided to pack it up’ Ray ran a hand through his hair and hoped that his lie hadn’t been too badly done.
‘Oh, well I’m glad your back man, hey Frank look who it is’
Ray could feel the back of his neck reddening by the second when Frank came over,
‘Well kid its nice to see you back, so staying long this time or will we want to run off and join a circus next?
‘Gee Frank I think they said that they only had one spot open and that was for you’, Ray grinned and watched as Frank walked off mumbling something about a yank under his breath.
Ray turned to walk off when all of a sudden he felt someone or something throw their arms around him, and when he pulled back he saw that it was a very pregnant Abby
‘Hey Ray, what are you doing here?’
‘Well I’
‘He doesn’t want to be a rock star anymore’
‘Thanks Jerry, well yeah what he said’
‘Well hey its good to have you back, you are staying aren’t you, wait don’t answer that I’ll go find Neela and we’ll take a break and you can tell us all about it’
‘Sure’ Ray said to the air because Abby was already waddling off in search to find Neela, and speaking of Neela, he hoped that she hadn’t sold his room yet, cos he wasn’t in the mood to stay with Bret after what had happened in L.A.
Ray was waiting in the ambulance bay when he saw Neela walking towards him and he gave her a small smile, which she returned, before hugging him.
‘It’s nice to have you back’
‘I know it’s actually nice to be back’ Neela gave a confused look at his comment so he quickly changed the subject
‘So where is Abby?’
‘Oh shes getting her coat, and Luka’
Abby and Luka came out the doors of the E.R
‘Hey, nice to have you back, so we going to Ikes’
‘Yeah come on’
When they arrived at Ikes all of the Doctors took their seats and ordered drinks of coke because three of them where still on duty
Twenty minutes later
‘O.K, so Pratt and Morris are gone, Dubanko left already and that new guy is already here and you two are engaged, wow, a lot happened in only tow months’ Ray took another sip of his drink.
‘Yeah well you’ve been pretty quiet on what you were up to; I mean you want to be a doctor, for real this time?’
‘Yes, actually two months away and I realise then, a bit late when you don’t have a job’ Ray let out a humourless laugh
‘Well you do know you can have your job back’
‘Really! Man thanks when do I start back’
Luka looked at his watch
‘Oh I say about 15 minutes, we have to get going’
‘Well you don’t beat around the bush do you’ Abby gave Luka a slap on the arm
‘And before you ask Ray, you still have your room’ Neela gave Ray a small Smile.
Ray couldn’t help but think in his head how things where looking up, and he didn’t know exactly how wrong he was.
So there you go chapter one. Hope you liked it and please R+R.