Title: Bitter Enemies

Chapter: 6


Rating: PG-13 (I'm trying to be careful to keep the PG-13 rating - I think this chapter is

borderline)

Spoilers: None.

Disclaimer: Unfortunately Ray does not belong to me. (And neither does anything associated with ER).

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Authors Notes at the end.

Abby rolls over and cuddles up to the warm body lying next to her in bed. He drapes his arm over her shoulder and runs his fingers up and down her back.

"Mmm that feels so good." Abby mumbles into his chest.

Ray's hand dips down further until he is caressing her butt cheek.

"That tickles." Abby says giggling.

She rolls back over so she is facing away from Ray, cuddles up to her pillow, and closes her eyes.

Ray scoots closer to her and spoons her from behind. His lips find their way up her shoulder onto her neck, while his hand rests on her stomach. His thumb rubbing the lower swell of her breast.

"Ray."

When he doesn't answer she continues on. "I'm sleeping."

His hand dips lower and lower down her stomach. She catches his hand and turns on her back to look up at him.

"What?" He asks innocently.

"You are like the Energizer Bunny." She says laughing. "We have to work in a couple of hours and I am exhausted."

"Am I too much for you Dr. Lockhart?" Ray asks with a smirk.

"Shouldn't you be sneaking out the front door right now? Neela is asleep you know."

"Ok, I'll be good." Ray mumbles turning on his back and staring at the ceiling.

"You better be." Abby rolls onto her side again facing away from Ray and closes her eyes.

"Can't we at least cuddle?"

Abby sighs. "Come on."

Ray scoots over to her and resumes his previous position of spooning her. His fingers running up and down her leg.

Abby tries to block out the tingling sensation she is starting to feel and concentrates on going to sleep. It works for a minute until she starts to feel something getting hard against her back.

"Ray."

"Hmmm?"

"I'm not going to get any sleep am I?"

"Doesn't look like it." He whispers while kissing her shoulder.

Sighing she turns onto her back and he climbs on top of her, his elbows on either side of her head propping him up.

"See, its better if you just give in to me." He says now kissing her neck.

"You better be quiet this time." She warns. His head pops up to look at her.

"Me?" He asks. "I don't know how Neela slept through all of your moaning."

Before she has a chance to say anything else, Ray silences her with his lips. The kiss intensifies and he positions himself to slide into her. A warning sign goes off in Abby's head and she pushes on his chest.

"Stop." She whispers against his lips.

He looks at her questioningly.

"Condom." She whispers back.

He nods his head and slides off of her. She reaches into the night stand drawer and searches for a condom. She finds the box and pulls it out.

Empty.

Ray rolls onto his back and lets out a little whine.

"Don't be such a baby." Abby says laughing. "I think there's a box in the bathroom medicine cabinet."

Immediately, Ray jumps off the bed and pulls his boxers on.

"Be very quiet." Abby warns as he sneaks out the bedroom door.

He finds the blessed box of condoms in the bathroom. Opens it and grabs one. Smiling, he turns to leave the bathroom but turns back around and grabs the whole box instead.

"Better to be prepared." He whispers to himself and opens the bathroom door. Just as he steps out into the hall he bumps into someone and drops the box on the floor.

"Shit." He exclaims at being startled.

"What the hell?" Neela mumbles half asleep as she leans against the wall to steady herself.

Rays eyes get wide and the smile fades from his face.

Neela fumbles for the light switch and the hall is suddenly flooded with light.

"Ray?" The look of shock on Neela's face is priceless as she focuses on Ray standing there in front of her with nothing on but his boxers. "What are you doing here?"

Abby hears the commotion and rushes to open the bedroom door and peeks out.

Neela bends down to pick up the dropped box and as she straightens up she realizes just what is in the box she is holding.

"Oh." She exclaims and tosses the box to Ray.

Ray catches the box and continues to stand there dumbfounded with his mouth wide open.

Neela looks over her shoulder as Abby emerges from the bedroom with her robe wrapped tightly around her.

Neela points at Abby. "You?" Abby sighs and nods. She turns and points at Ray as the whole scenario finally dawns on her. "And you?" Ray nods his head as well.

"Ugh! I'm going to have nightmares!" Neela puts her hands over her eyes.

"Don't be so dramatic." Abby says walking over to them. "We're all adults here."

"How long has this been going on?" Neela asks.

"Just this one time, okay." Abby says while grabbing Ray's arm and pulling him past Neela to the bedroom.

Just as Ray passes Neela he whispers to her, "It's about to be two times." He winks at her and holds up the box of condoms.

"Oh! I don't want to hear that!" Neela exclaims disgusted. She turns around and heads back to the bathroom where she intended to go in the first place.

Abby sticks her head back out in the hall. "Neela?"

"What?" She turns back around to face Abby.

"If you tell anyone about this, you're going to have to look for a new place to live."

"Yeah, yeah, you're secret is safe with me." Neela mumbles and shuts the bathroom door.

Abby shuts the bedroom door and turns around to face Ray. He is sitting on the bed with the box of condoms next to him.

Abby bursts out laughing and walks over to him. "That was awkward."

"When you came out of the bedroom I thought you were gonna kill me." Ray says as he pulls her down onto his lap.

"Yeah, well you should have seen your face." Abby says still laughing.

"Do you think she'll keep quiet about this?" He asks.

"She better or I'm gonna kill her."

Abby climbs off of Ray's lap and lays back on the bed. Ray lays down next to her.

"So where were we?" He mumbles reaching for the box of condoms next to him and pulling one out.

Abby shakes her head at him. "I can't do it now with Neela out there knowing that we're doing it."

"After all I went through to get that box of condoms, I'm not getting turned down now." He positions himself on top of her pinning her to the bed.

"Ray. Not with Neela out there knowing what we're doing. That's just weird." Abby pleads.

"Well if Neela knows what we're doing, we might as well do it. We wouldn't want to disappoint her." Ray states as he begins to undo the robe Abby is wearing.

"You mean we wouldn't want to disappoint you?" Abby asks smiling.

"Yeah, something like that."

He leans down and kisses her lips softly. "Please." He gives her his best puppy dog face.

Instead of responding, she pulls his boxers down as far as she can reach. Taking that as a yes he quickly gets rid of them the rest of the way and helps Abby out of her robe.

"Have I ever told you how sexy you are?" He asks lowering himself back down on her.

"Yes. In my little white lab coat." She tries to hide her smile.

"You're even sexier without your little white lab coat."

Sorry about cutting it off right there. I really wanted to keep my PG-13 rating. Anyway, more to come if you want it. Push the button and let me know. Thanks.