AN: Cheesy Title but oh well. SPOILERS for the episode Nobody's Baby. The truck accident still happened but it will have an AU twist.


He stood in front of the glass double doors of County General Hospital, psyching himself up to go inside. No one knew he was back and luckily he hadn't been spotted in the ambulance bay. Heck, he didn't even know if any of the older doctors still worked here; all had been residents or chiefs when he left that fateful night five years ago.

The weight on his hip squirmed and his reason for leaving brought him from his thoughts. Shifting it and then looking to his left, he took a deep breath.

"You ready for this?" a woman asked the man.

"We should tell them," he nodded. Because no matter what happened all those years ago, the people in this hospital meant something to him, made him realize he wasn't just skating by in life - quite literally. "Ok, let's do this."

And with that, Ray Barnett walked into the place he had been a med student and started his residency in Chicago.


AN: Sorry it's so short but I thought I'd give you all a good intro, see if you're hooked before I continue.