Snippet #1191423

Rachel only watched him as he took the seat side her, he looked tense and worn out and heart broken. He was caught up in something that he shouldn't be and Ray was helping that problem. When he said her name he was distant, cold. Pressuring her lips for only a moment Rachel nodded to him in greeting. She didn't trust herself at the moment. Stay calm Ray. Slow deep breaths. Worry about Lexy. Not your relationship. Lexy. Not Lucas.

Rachel closed her eyes for a moment and took in a slow deep breath and let out a long sigh the same time Lucas did. Normal something like that would make her smile and she make some kind of comment towards him but no today. This time it only make her skin crawl with guilt and anger. "Yeah. I'm parked outside of the ICU." When Rachel spoke, her words were bitter, cut off and full of venom. Snapping her eyes open Ray put a hand over her mouth, shocked at her own reaction. Swallowing, Ray forced her hand back to her knee and balled her hand into a fist, her nails biting in the the flesh of her palm. Stiffly, Rachel stood up and looked at Lucas. He wasn't play with his keys, nor did she hear the normal jingle of them when he moved so he must have ran. "I'll give you a lift home," she said, very slowly, and very carefully. Not waiting on a reply, Rachel began to make her way outside to walk around the Hospital to her car instead of trying to fight her way through again.