Morris watched as Ray smiled and left. He turned to Kate. "What does Barnett have that I don't? I mean, if it's tattoos, I can get a couple. I can paint my nails black. I can wear band tees and jeans to work."
"Can you gel your hair so it spikes like his?" Kate smiled.
"Whatever you want." Morris replied eagerly. "I can be cool like Ray."
Kate laughed. "I'm sure you can, Morris. I'm sure you can."
Morris ran out and found Ray. "Dude, I gotta talk to you."
"Alright." Ray looked back at his patient. "We'll run these tests for you and get you out as soon as we can, okay?" He stood up and followed Morris out. "What?"
"Teach me to be cool like you."
Ray resisted laughing heartily, but he did laugh a little. "What? Why?"
"Come on, man. I'm asking you because you're cool."
Ray didn't know what to think. "This have something to do with Kate?" Ray leaned against the wall.
Morris shrugged. "And if it does?"
"You don't stand a chance."
"Of course I do. She said that if I could be cool like you, there could be something, you know?"
"Really?" Ray was shocked. "Alright. I'll teach you how to be cool."
"Thanks man!" Morris hugged Ray.
"Okay. Just no touching. That's not cool." Ray silently cursed himself for willingly helping Morris with Kate.
"Right. Sorry." Morris playfully punched Ray's shoulder.
"Shit." Ray mumbled. He made his way to the Admit Desk, where Kate was looking at a chart and talking to Kerry. "Kate, can we talk a second?"
"Sure." She looked at Kerry. "It won't take long." She followed Ray to Trauma 3. "What?"
"Did you tell Morris he stands a chance with you?"
"What?" Kate was taken aback. "No, I never did. Why?"
"He seems to think that he stands a chance with you. I guess you told him if he were cool like me that…"
Kate laughed. "Oh my God!"
"What?" Ray looked at her.
"He asked what you had that he didn't have and then he said he could be cool like you and I'm like 'Okay'. But I never said he stood any sort of chance with me."
"He thinks you did." Ray rubbed the back of his neck.
"I asked him if he could gel his hair like yours." Kate smiled.
"I don't gel my hair." Ray got defensive.
Kate reached up and ran her fingers through it. "Mmmhmm. You don't gel your hair. What's this then? Mousse?"
"If you must know, it…" He looked out the doors and saw Morris looking in. "Shit." Ray mumbled.
"What?"
"Morris just…he's at the door." Ray carefully nodded towards the door.
"Oh. I'll tell him that I was trying to figure out a good style for him and needed to see if I could still run my fingers through gelled up hair." She smiled.
"Don't lead him on, Kate." Ray's voice was soft, but demanding.
"No worries, Ray. He'll learn soon enough it takes more than tattoos and gelled up hair to get me." She seductively smiled at Ray. "You'll learn that too, I reckon."
Sorry this is so short, but lunch at work doesn't give me enough time to do long chapters. After not being able to watch ER for a couple years (thanks to work) I'm just getting back into it. I hope I'm portraying Morris okay. If I'm not…PM me and let me know! Thanks!