Chapter 5: November

MG - Thanks for your review. I just thought that if my mum had a "boyfriend" like Ray Barnett, I would wish for that kiss too. LoL.

NaomiP - Of course I made Ray wait. I'm not making Anabel into a whore, or an "easy lay," because it just doesn't work for her. I didn't think that chapter 4 was that bad, just them kissing, so I'm not sure why it would need to go up to an "M" rating. I know about how it only takes a few hours to react to allergies, I just made an error in the story, that I have corrected. Even though her sons are allergic to strawberries, she's not, and she enjoys them, so that's why there was strawberries in the house. It's kinda like one of those incidents where you turn you're back for one minute and when you turn back around your kid is gone. They ate some while her back was turned, while she went to check her phone messages. (Though sometimes allergic reactions don't clear up right away, even with treatment.Because, I'm allergic to strawberries and sometimes it takes at most a week to clear up, even with the medicine.)Anyway, she told them not to eat them, but honestly, how many 6 year olds always listen to their mother? But thank you for the review, and citing me on the errors. They have been corrected.

Smilingdork - Thank you for the review.

ShastenRothe - Guess I must of missed the episode where Doc Magoo's burnt down. Oh, well. Let's pretend that it didn't. Ray's not one to show his emotions though. So he's kinda holding it all inside, for a while. Maybe, eventually, Anabel will talk Ray into telling her how he really feels. Kinda like that episode with Luka and the Bishop, where he confesses that he feels responsible for his family's death.

TO ALL READER'S: Trust me on this! This is how I reacted when I saw my mom in bed with her "guy friend" as she called him. Just questions, too young to know what really happened, at that time. Now that I look back on it, it was oh, so obvious. And this is the way my room is, so trust me, it looks good.

Summary:

"Slumber Party?", Hot Couple, and the Janitor's Closet

November 1, 2004

Ray knew that this was, without a doubt, the best Monday morning he'd had in a long time. He woke up as the sun made its way through the lime green curtains. At first, he didn't know where he was, or who was sleeping next to him, but then he looked down and saw extremely long, dark brown hair and then remembered what had happened the night before. As he remembered, he couldn't help but smile.

Not wanting to disturb Anabel's much needed rest, for they had indeed used the entire string of condoms, Ray just laid his head back down on the tye-died green pillow case. He took the opportunity to look around the room.

Everything in it was in varying shades of green. The walls were a light green, the shelves were dark green, the desk and the computer were lime green, the headboard and footboard were a forest green, the comforter and sheets were tye-died green, and down on her hardwood floor, he saw that she had 4 shag carpet green rugs. They all overlapped each other and one was light green, another was dark green, another was forest green and the final one was lime green. He supposed that she put the rugs down to "tie the room together." It was obvious that her favorite color was green.

He smiled as he took in the room. It was then that he felt very soft lips kiss his neck. Ray just smiled again and lifted his head a little so Anabel could have better access to his neck.

"Mmm…morning," Anabel moaned into his neck as he started to lightly stroke her hip (which was one of her biggest erogenous zones, he had learned, third only to her neck and back).

"A very good afternoon, you mean," Ray added.

"God, I could stay like this forever!" Anabel whispered as she wriggled down Ray's body so she could rest her head on his chest.

"Me too," he smiled.

"What time is it?" she asked lazily.

Ray looked at the clock. "1:20."

"NO! It can't be that late already!" Anabel whined.

"Why can't it be?" Ray asked.

"Because that means that the twins will be home soon," she explained.

"What time do they get home?" he questioned.

"3:30, usually."

"Well, I know how we can pass the time till then." Ray said as he gently pushed Anabel on her back and he went over top of her.

Hours passed, and they weren't entirely uneventful.

As Tobias and Logan made their way up the stairs, they wondered why their mother hadn't been in front of their building waiting for them. They knew that she wasn't working today, so they just wondered why.

When they got to the front door, they noticed it was locked, not unusual in itself, as the door was always locked, with or without people behind it.

Luckily, Anabel had given them both spare keys for just this kind of situation. Going inside, they dropped their bags on the floor and locked the front door, just like their mother had always done. They went to the living room, only to find their mother's shirt and shorts and a pair of jeans and a tee-shirt that they had never seen before.

They immediately went in search of their mother. They started in her music room, which, as of recently, was were she spent a lot of her time when they weren't home and she was off. When they found that she wasn't there, they looked in their room, and then in their playroom, because she might have been cleaning it. When they found that she wasn't there either, they finally went to her room down the fall. Only when they got there, the door was locked, which was highly unusual in itself.

"Mom?" Logan questioned as he knocked on the door.

"Mom?" Tobias called out through the door.

Inside the bedroom, Anabel and Ray were sleeping off their exhaustion from their sated desire. Ray heard two "mom's" and knew that Tobias and Logan were home. This wasn't exactly how he wanted to be found. Ray had planned to be out the door before the twins got home. But, obviously, things didn't go as planned.

Anabel was laying half on top of Ray. Her head was on his chest, her arm draped across his abdomen and one of her legs was in between his. He didn't really want to disturb her much needed rest, but he knew that Logan and Tobias would freak if they thought their mom wasn't here. So Ray gently moved out from underneath Anabel and made sure she was still sleeping before he pulled on his boxers. After making sure she was covered up above her shoulders, he made sure the hole in his boxers was buttoned and then went to unlock the door. He slowly opened it and saw two very shocked 6-year-old faces.

Logan and Tobias were shocked, to say the least, when Ray answered their mother's door in his underwear. They were even more taken aback when they saw their mother turn over in her bed and saw that she wasn't wearing a shirt, as the covers had revealed a little bit of her shoulders.

Logan was the first one to regain his composure.

"Slumber party?" he asked naively, for he truly thought that his mother and Ray were having one.

Ray just let out a little laugh and inwardly thanked God that Logan and Tobias apparently didn't realize what him and their mother had been doing.

"Yeah, we had a slumber party." he said coolly.

Tobias asked, "Did you two have fun?"

"Yes, we did. Not that it's any of your business," called Anabel from bed.

"Hi, mom," Logan and Tobias called in unison.

"Come here," Anabel said to the twins. They moved past Ray and climbed on bed, over the covers, and Ray, not wanting to be left out, went over to the bed and climbed under the covers with Anabel. Ray leaned in and gently kissed Anabel on the lips.

"So does this mean you two are going to get married?" Logan inquired.

"Why would we get married?" Anabel asked as she looked at her son like he had 9 heads.

"Because you and Ray had a slumber party! Johnny said that when a boy and a girl had a slumber party together, they would get married," Tobias assumed.

"No, your mom and I aren't getting married. We just are good friends." Ray clarified.

"Oh. So Johnny lied?" Logan asked with a touch of regret.

"Apparently," Ray said.

"Hey, why don't you guys get on out of here and go watch TV, ok?" Anabel said.

"Ok. Race you to the living room!" Tobias challenged as they ran out of the room.

"They're a handful. I don't know how you do it."

"A lot of patience." Anabel responded. "Get dressed. If you're going to spend the night here tonight, you need to go get some work clothes from your place."

"I ca-. Whoa! Wait a minute! I'm spending the night here? When did we even talk about this?"

"Your spending the night because I'm a demanding lover, and I want you to. Do you have a problem with that?" she asked sassily.

"No," he answered simply.

"Good, now I'm satisfied." Anabel said with a grin.

"Well, then good. But what I was going to say before you shocked me into saying that I was going to spend the night was that I couldn't get dressed just because of the fact that I don't have any clothes. They are all out in the living room." he pointed out.

"Good point. Well, fine. I'll get dressed and go out and get your clothes for you."

Ray watched as Anabel very slowly got dressed for him. It took a while because Ray kept pulling her down onto the bed with him and kissing her body until she came back to her senses and pushed him off of her.

After this had happened the fourth time, she was already dressed, but she was sure Logan and Tobias would be wanting their after-school snacks by now.

"Ok, stud. That's enough. I'm going to go get your clothes, and then you're going to get dressed. After you have accomplished that incredible feat, you are going to go back to your place grab your toothbrush and whatever else you need for tonight and tomorrow. Because we both have the 7:00 shift. So just bring your clothes and we'll walk to work."

"Yes ma'am." he answered with a fake salute. With that, she walked out of the room only to return a moment later, his clothes in hand.

"Get dressed, Ray."

November 2, 2004

1:34 AM

"Ray, you may not like sleep, but I do. I require more than an hour's worth of sleep to work at the ER. So please, stop." Anabel practically begged.

"Stop what?" he asked innocently.

"Stop kissing me and touching me. Just sleep," she answered.

"Can we at least cuddle?" Ray asked hopefully.

"Fine," Anabel said as Ray pulled her towards him, her back resting against his chest. He wrapped his arm around her and gently stroked her stomach.

The sensation was almost enough to put her to sleep, at least until she felt Ray's erection press up against her back.

"Let me ask you a question. Am I going to get any sleep tonight?" she asked exasperatedly.

"No." Ray answered simply.

"Fine, but at least try to keep it down this time. I do have children that are sleeping right down the hall, you know."
"ME? You were the one who was doing all the moaning." he accused.

"I do believe that you were the one begging me not to stop and calling out my name, Ray," she recalled.

"Touché," he said.

"Get the condom, Ray, and kiss me already." she ordered.

Her box of condoms had run out at about 11:00 last night. Luckily, when he went home to "get the things he needed for tonight and tomorrow" he grabbed a box of condoms from his bedside table, knowing that she had to be almost out by know.

"Yes, ma'am." he said always willing to follow her orders in the bedroom.

Later: 6:30 AM

"Oh shit, Ray! It's 6:30! We got to get up!"

"I don't wanna!" Ray complained.

"Oh, don't even give me that! You were the one that wanted to stay up all night, not me! So get up!" she commanded.

"No," he moaned as he pulled the covers over his head.

"Fine, be late for work. I'm going to take a shower. Don't let me be in there for more than 10 minutes." Anabel called to Ray as she walked out of her bedroom and into the adjoining bathroom that also had a door that lead into the hall.

"Shower? Hell, why didn't you say that to begin with?" Ray was up, rummaging through her bedside table drawer for another condom, and pulled one out.

Anabel was rinsing her hair out when Ray stepped in.

"Ray! NO! OUT! NOW!" she half yelled.

"Why?" he asked curiously as he pulled her close to him and began kissing her neck.

"Because we have to be at work in 25 minutes and we don't have time!"

"There's always time a quickie," Ray said as he pushed her back up against the tile wall of her shower.

"God, you are going to make us so late," Anabel half-complained as she kissed Ray.

7:15 A.M.

It turned out, Ray's "quickie" lasted 20 minutes. Which left them practically no time to get Logan and Tobias up, to get them dressed, drop them off with the neighbor that watched them until it was time for them to go to school, and to get to work to only be considered reasonably late, (that's even if they did run.)

Despite the fact that they were 15 minutes late (a 15 minutes that Anabel could not spare since she had bills to pay and didn't want to ask her parents for the money,) and the fact that she was kinda mad at Ray for making them late, she held his hand and walked into the ER with her head held high

Even though the ER was busy, everyone, and I mean everyone, Kerry, Susan, Luka, Sam, Carter, Abby, Pratt, Neela, Frank, Jerry and even the med-student Jane, suddenly stopped what they were doing and stared.

"What? Ain't ya'll ever see two people holdin' hands, before?" Anabel said defiantly, as she and Ray made their way to the lounge.

"You two are 15 minutes late!" Kerry said.

"Yeah, we know." Ray said.

"You wanna tell me why?"

"Do you want us to tell you the truth or a lie?"

"Never mind. Just put your stuff up and get out here on the floor, we're swamped."

The day passed fairly uneventfully, but Anabel knew that someone was bound to ask about her and Ray.

That person happened to be Sam while they were in the Lounge drinking coffee.

"So, I guess you and Ray are the new hot couple at County, huh?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, guess so." Anabel half-heartedly said.

"That the reason you were both late?" Sam asked.

Anabel just looked at her, smiled and blushed considerably.

"Hey, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with being late because of a little morning loving. Trust me, Luka and I have been late so many times because of that!" Sam smiled.

They both laughed.

November 23, 2004

Even though Ray and Anabel had been a couple for 24 days, and it had been a well known fact for the past 21 days, they were obviously still in their "can't keep their hands off each other" stage.

At least 3 times a day, Kerry had to pull them out of drug lock-up, usually around the time when nobody had seen them for 10 or 20 minutes. Kerry immediately sent either Carter or Luka to go pull the two apart out of drug lock-up, where they had been busy making out and not noticing anything else. More than once, somebody, usually Sam or Neela, would open a curtain area and find the couple kissing and feeling each other up.

Ray even carried two condoms in his wallet, just in case he could talk Anabel into having a quickie with him in drug lock-up. Anabel, though, told him that while they could screw each other silly in his apartment, her apartment, his van, her SUV, or anywhere else he could think of, they could never ever, under any circumstances, have sex at work. Ray, on the other hand, just saw this as a challenge. And it was common knowledge that he loved a challenge.

"Hey, you going on break?" Ray asked one day, as he walked up to Anabel, who was standing at the admit desk.

"Yeah, I need one. I've been on for 5 hours already. Same as you," she said as she gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Good, then come with me really quick. I got something I wanna show you." Ray half-asked, half-demanded.

"Ray, if you try to show me the drug lock-up one more time, I'll hit you. Cause I'm actually hungry and want to eat food." she said seriously, though her tone was light.

"Nah, I got a new place that I want to show you," with that he grabbed her hand and led her down a small hallway she had never noticed before.

He finally stopped in front of a door that had "Janitor's Closet" on it.

"Ray, what are we doing here?" Anabel asked.

He didn't answer, instead he just opened the door, grabbed Anabel's hand and led her inside the closet. He moved a large, and apparently heavy, bucket in front of the door to ensure nobody walked in on their little tryst and to make sure she couldn't leave. He then, gently, pushed her up against a blank space in the wall and then grabbed her thighs to lift her up, so she was now eye level with him and her legs were wrapped around his hips. He smiled at her confusion.

"You know, I really have been a good boy. I've obeyed all these rules you have set up, which includes, but is not limited to: no making out at the admit desk; no feeling you up at the admit desk; keeping our make-out sessions in the lounge, drug lock-up and an empty curtain area; no serious kissing or unbuttoning your shirt in front of Logan and/or Tobias…. The list goes on and on! I have obeyed all of those rules and I don't even get a reward," Ray pouted.

"Yes, you do, actually. There's the sex in your car before and after work and ….." Anabel stumbled.

"Yes, exactly, 'and……' I don't get rewarded other than that. So, I've decided that since I'm a good boy, maybe you could break the rule about us having sex at work. Trust me, nobody knows we're here. Everyone thinks we're either in drug lock-up or in my van. Plus, nobody can walk in on us." Ray said with a smirk as he started to nibble on Anabel's neck.

Anabel moaned and wrapped her legs tighter around Ray. But, no matter how good it felt, Anabel knew she had to be logical and reasonable.

"Yes, you're right, Ray. You do obey the rules and hardly get any reward. But having sex at work isn't the best way to get a reward."

"Yes it is," he moaned as he slid her lab coat off and started to unbutton her shirt.

She moaned again and bit her lip. Anabel knew she was caving and as Ray untied the scrubs she always wore to work and pulled them down just a little, she caved.

But just because she was lost, doesn't mean she wasn't careful.

"Ray, two things." she panted.

"What?" he said as he continued to attack her neck.

"One, are you sure nobody can find us in here?"

"Yes," he moaned as he slid Anabel down his body to take her scrubs off.

"Ok. Two, do you have protection?"

Ray slid back up her body, having successfully removed her scrubs, panties and shoes, she wasn't wearing socks that day, (mostly due to the fact that she and Ray woke up late AGAIN this morning and she forgot them.)

Before Anabel could untie Ray's scrubs, though, he pulled a small foil packet out of the back pocket, and she smiled.

"I promise. Just a quickie this time."

Ray lifted Anabel back up his body and………

Ray was as true as his word this time. It was a quickie, because Anabel still had time to get her lunch from Doc Magoo's. She thought she might feel dirty about what having sex at work, but she didn't. She just felt extremely relaxed.

Next Chapter Summary:

Christmas in Baton Rogue with the new boyfriend. Oh, goodie. ;)