Well I decided to try writing a Ray/Abby story. I think their characters would be so cute together on the show. Hope everyone enjoys it.
Abby made her way down the hall towards the admitting area. As she stopped, Sam said
"Abby the labs are back on that girl in exam 1."
She handed her some papers and took off down the hall towards. Abby looked at the paper, then towards the exam room.
'How am I gonna tell them this.'
Ray made his way towards the admitting area. He was about to pick up another chart when he noticed Abby staring at a door.
"Daydreaming again Lockhart?"
When she didn't answer, he walked over to where she was standing.
"Lockhart…you in there."
She still didn't answer. He snapped his finger in her face and she jumped.
"What?"
"You all right?"
"Fine." She said, looking towards exam room one.
He followed her gaze towards the room.
"Something wrong with exam one?"
"Remember that girl that came in a while ago?"
"Which one?" he asked, "There's been a lot of them today."
"17 year old…soccer player…collapsed on the field."
He nodded.
"So what was it? Sun poisoning or heat stroke?"
She shook her head. Slowly she passed the paper over to Ray. He looked at it, then at her.
"Cancer?"
She took the paper back from him and looked at it again.
"How do I tell her and her parents." She said, "The whole time I was examining her, she kept talking about getting a scholarship to play soccer in college next year."
He moved his hand so that it was on top her hers. Giving it a gentle squeeze, he said
"If we caught it early there's a good chance she will."
Abby looked up, meeting his eyes Taking a deep breath, she said
"This is the one part of the job I hate."
"Me too but its something we have to do."
Abby was about to say something when Susan walked up to the desk. Abby pulled her hand away from Ray's as Susan looked up at the chart on the wall. She turned to them.
"We've got patients piling up." She said, "What are you two doing?"
Ray grabbed his chat and without saying a word, he took off down the hall. Susan looked at Abby. Slowly she picked up her papers and started towards exam one. Susan looked in both directions.
"Nah." She whispered, then turned back towards the desk and grabbed a chart.
Later that day
Abby walked over to the admitting desk. Setting her chart down, she said
"My last patient is done. I'm out of here."
Jerry looked up from the admitting desk.
"Night Abby."
"See ya Jerry."
She made her way towards the doctors' lounge. As she pushed open the door, she found Ray at his locker.
"You off?" she asked, walking over to her locker.
"Yep." He said, pulling on his coat, "You?"
Nodding, she opened her locker. Taking off her lab coat, she hung it up. She set her stethoscope on the shelf and grabbed her jacket and bag. .
"You on tomorrow?" she asked, closing her locker
"Yeah." He said, "Night shift."
"Me too." She said, "See ya then."
She started towards the door when he said
"Wait, I'll walk out with you."
She stopped at the door. He grabbed a bag from his locker and made his way over to where she was standing. Opening the door, he said
"After you Dr. Lockhart."
"Thank you."
She walked out the door and he followed behind. They made their way towards the front doors. Susan was standing at the admitting desk going over some charts. She looked up to see them walking out together.
'Could there be…nah…"
She went back to looking at the charts.
As Abby and Ray stepped outside, he said
"So what happened with that girl?"
Right away Abby knew who he was talking about.
"Well she took the news really hard. I got her moved to oncology. They are going to do some more tests and get her treatments started." Abby said, then slowed to a stop "The only thing she kept asking was…was…"
He stopped next to her.
"What?" He asked, even thought he suspected her knew the question.
"She kept asking if she was going to die." Abby said, tears welling up in her eyes, "And I couldn't answer her because I didn't know."
Tears spilled down her cheeks. Slowly Ray wiped the tears off her cheeks. Abby looked up at him as he pulled his hand back.
"Sorry about that." She said, then turned away, "I'll see you tomorrow."
She started to walk away when he said
"You want to get some coffee."
Abby stopped, turning back to him.
"What."
He walked over to where she was standing.
"Well I'm not ready to go home just yet." He said, "I know this place down the street that's open late. You wanna get some coffee or something to eat?"
Abby thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Sure…why not."
"All right." He said, "After you doctor Lockhart."
"Thank you again."
They started down the street, talking about other parts of their days.