"So, what did Neela hit you with?" Abby teased Ray as she stitched the cut on his nose.

"A light pole."

Abby stopped mid-stitch. "A light pole?"

"Yeah. You couldn't tell by looking at her, but she is one tough chick. I bought her dinner and next thing I know, she's going all King Kong on me, pulling this light pole out of the street and WHAM! Right in the nose."

"Serious, Ray." Abby started stitching again.

"I am being serious, Abby."

"Your eyes are dancing. Sure sign you're joking." Abby looked deeply in his eyes. "What really happened?"

"A light pole."

"Ray!"

"I ran into a light pole. I was showing off and…"

"What's new?" Abby finished. "There. Done. First your hand and now your nose. Anything else I should start getting a suture kit ready for?" Abby laughed.

"Nah. I think I've reached my injury quota." Ray stood up and put his lab coat back on. "Right now, I've got patients that need me." He walked out of the room.

"You Barnett?" A strange voice asked.

Ray looked at the guy. "Yeah. Can I help you?" The guy simply responded with a punch to Ray's jaw. Ray looked at the guy. "What the fuck is that for?"

"You ever take advantage of elder women again, I'll kill you!" The guy yelled.

"Whoa. Wait a minute." Ray rubbed his jaw. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"My mother."

"Your mother? I'm sorry…" Ray started.

"Mrs. Johnston. My mother."

Ray felt his anger rise and he was sure if Neela hadn't been standing there looking at him, he would have decked the guy. "I still don't know what you mean."

"I think you do." The guy tossed something at Ray. "That belongs to you, I guess." He left.

Ray stood shocked and in pain. He had been hit in the same spot in the jaw that Clemente had hit him earlier in the week. He threw his chart down the hall and stormed out. "Fuck off!" He yelled and pulled his arm away as Pratt tried to stop him.

Neela looked at Pratt. "I'll get him." Neela ran after him. "Ray!" She caught up with him. "Talk to me."

Ray turned around and looked at Neela. How could he possibly put the anger, confusion, and ineptitude feelings into words? "I can't, Neela."

"Yes, you can. It's merely opening your mouth and letting words come out." She smiled.

"I get hit from the son of a lady who said she had no family and, who by the way, was more anxious to get into my pants than a drunkard is to get into a bar. I have no idea what the fuck I'm even doing, Neela." He looked at her and she swore she saw tears. "No matter how many times you threaten to kick my ass, every day I wake up and wonder why the fuck I ever became a doctor." He picked a rock up and threw it at a light.

Neela didn't know what to say. She had seen Ray question being a doctor before and did threaten to kick his ass if he quit, but she had never seen him cry. Ray held the contention that tears were a sure sign of weakness and Ray was anything but weak. She had never seen him this vulnerable. He turned his back to her and started to walk to the Jumbomart. "Ray!"

"What?" He stopped.

"When you're ready to really talk about losing Mrs. Johnston, I'll…"

"How could we have seen it, Neela? She came in everyday, complaining of something, and no matter what we did, we couldn't find anything but loneliness wrong with her." He never faced Neela.

So, Ray was affected by it. "Ray…" She moved towards him, but he just started walking.

Abby looked up as Ray returned twenty minutes later. "You okay?"

"I'm fine." Ray lied. He grabbed a chart and he saw Neela. Her hair fell over her shoulders and he began to wonder if she was mad at how he acted.

"Ray. Good. You're back." Neela smiled. "Listen, there's a young man in Exam 3, says he knows you."

Ray sighed heavily with frustration as he took the chart. Everytime someone comes in that says they know me, they practically beat the shit out of me. He walked into Exam 3. "Holy shit!"

John Carter smiled. "I heard you had a rough couple weeks."

"And I thought you were in Darfur." Ray hugged Carter.

"Yeah, but I felt that I was needed back here for a while." Carter looked intently at Ray. "Who beat you up?"

"Neela. I was putting the moves on her and she went all Wonder Woman on me." Ray laughed.

"Yeah, well, I guess that's what happens when you fall in love with your roommate."

"Just be glad you didn't become my roomie." Ray winked at Carter.

Carter laughed. "Yeah. What do you say I buy you coffee after your shift?"

"Sure. I'd like that. But, first, I need to apologise to Neela." Ray opened the door. He turned around. "Dr. Carter, how do you deal with losing patients?"