Ray sat across from Kate at her table. "I don't think I've ever had spaghetti this good before." He smiled.

"My mom taught me how to cook. She didn't like us girls becoming 'career women'. She wanted us to learn how to do the whole stay at home wife shit. But, I do enjoy cooking. Living alone, I don't get to do very much of it. No need to cook for one, you know." Kate took a sip of wine. "So, tell me. Who's the lovely dark headed girl you were talking to? I haven't met her yet."

"Probably won't unless you need a surgical consult. That's Neela Rasgotra, my roommate. Well, at least until her husband comes home from Iraq."

Kate sensed a sneer in Ray's tone. "Take it you didn't get the girl then."

Ray looked sharply at her. "She's beautiful, but I wouldn't say that I ever really thought of her in that light. We're as opposite as day and night."

"Ah. I see, saith the blind man." Kate smiled. "I think we've got a contest to get under way." She smiled as she made her way to the kitchen. "What do you want to wager?" She turned around, two bottles of Jack Daniels in hand.

Ray subtly laughed. "That's it? That's all the alcohol you have?" He watched as she put the two bottles on the counter and opened her cabinet door. "Oh." He pursed his lips. "Well, I suppose I did say that I'd challenge you to a game of who can out drink who, didn't I?" He laughed.

"Oh, yeah." She handed Ray a glass of Jack. "But, we'll make it interesting. Rather than just drinking for drinking's sake, we'll make a game of it."

"Like?" Ray was captivated.

"Well, like have you ever played a drinking game before?" Kate sat cross-legged on the floor in the living room.

Ray sat across from her. "Not since Med School."

"Alrighty, then." She put her drink on the floor. "Let's start a fire here and think of one to play." She threw a log on the fire and, with a lot of trouble and Ray laughing at her, finally got one started. She sat back down in her place and picked up her drink. "How about 'I Never'?"

"You got it." Ray smiled.

"I'll start." Kate thought a moment. "I never…I never…I never had a crush on my roommate." She smiled as she saw Ray glare at her as he took a drink.

"Okay. I never…I never…I never…"

"Come on, Barnett. We haven't got all night."

"I've never had a one-night stand."

"I say bullshit!" Kate laughed as both she and Ray took a sip of their Jack.

"Okay…I never skinny dipped." She took a sip.

Ray looked at her and smiled before he took his sip. "Jesus, this is bad." He laughed. "Okay…I never skipped out on work for an 'afternoon delight'."

"CRUEL!" She laughed as she and Ray both took a sip. "You are one bad boy, Ray Barnett. Okay…I never played strip poker and had it lead to sex."

Ray smiled as she took a sip and he didn't. "I never played strip poker."

Kate looked at him as they both took a sip. "It never led to sex?"

Ray shook his head. "Not for me, at least."

"My turn, I suppose, eh?"

"Yeah." Ray was feeling a little affected by the straight shots of Jack. Or is it her? He thought as she pondered what to say next.

"I never had sex in the supply closet in the ER." She took a long sip.

Ray looked at her, shock on his face. "Seriously?"

"Yep. You never have?"

"Not yet." He grinned at her.

She heard her words slur as she said "Well, we'll have to change that."