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What if Joey and Rachel stay together?

Chapter One

'Surprise'

She was lying, silent on Joey's black leather armchair staring up at the ceiling blankly, engrossed in a contemplative thought.

"I can't wait until he comes home." she murmured aloud to herself. No-one else was home. There were soft noises coming from the other side of the apartment door. A fumbling of keys and a crash on the floor

"Damn it..." a deep hushed curse came through the door. "Oh. It's open." the voice continued. Rachel perked up, getting ready to get of the chair, knowing that he was home at last. She leapt up and bolted across the apartment. Joey burst through the door with a script in one hand and a can of unopened soda in the other. She greeted him with a warm embrace and nuzzled her head in his neck with affection.

"You're home!" Rachel said, overjoyed.

"Yes. I am..." he replied, confused at why she would say this when it was blatantly obvious that he was home, as he was standing in their apartment. He returned home everyday from work at 5:30pm, always. He'd got a new job three months ago as the main character, Shaun, in Bachelor an upcoming movie, a role he was perfect for as he was known for his one-night-stand bachelor lifestyle. Rachel was always home at 5pm from her job in fashion at Ralph Lauren, always waiting for him, her one and only love to burst through the door.

"I've missed you." she said.

"I've missed you too." he responded. "What do you want to do tonight?" he continued.

"Let's go out!" Rachel said, enthusiastically pushing back from the hug. "Yeah, book a table at the sushi bar while I get ready. Come on!". She kissed him on the lips and rushed away to the bathroom to get ready. It was the perfect night, Emma was at Ross' house. They could finally talk.

Two hours later when Rachel had finally finished getting ready, they had arrived at the restaurant and were promptly being seated at their table.

"Thank you." Rachel said to the waiter courteously. Joey and Rachel took to their seats. They smiled at each other and linked hands at the bar, next to the conveyor belt that the sushi was flowing across.

"Remember when we got together?" a wide smile beamed across Rachel's face.

"Yeah, and Ross couldn't deal with it. He got drunk when me, you and Charlie, Ross' girlfriend at the time, were over his and he made up a poem about love." Rachel replied.

"L is for life. What is life without love? O is for oh wow. V is for this... very surprising turn of events, which I am still fine with by the way. E if for how extremely normal I find it that you two are together." they recited, synchronised. They chuckled.

"It was obvious he was completely fine with it. " Rachel said, smiling still.

"No he wasn't?" Joey replied, confused as normal.

"Sarcasm, cutie..."

"Oh. Well, I mean, we just belong together, you know. Me and you, don't you think?" Joey asked.

"Yeah. Of course."

"And it's been three years now. Ross and Phoebe are together. I just want to ask you something."

"Yes...". Rachel looked at him wondering what he was possibly going to say. She still couldn't believe Ross and Phoebe got together. Still bewildered that they've been married for about a year and had a tiny seven week old baby girl quite aptly named Consuela. She remembered when Phoebe changed her name to Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock and smiled to herself.

Joey got up from his chair. This brought her back to reality. 'What was he doing?' she thought.

"Will you, Rachel Green, do me the honour of marrying you?" Joey said, nervously waiting for the answer, knelt down on one knee. Rachel stared at him dumbfounded, shocked that he, Joey, the king of the bachelors, would actually want to get married.

"YES!" she screamed joyfully leaping out of her chair sending it flying backwards toward the table behind. She reached up and threw her arms around Joey's neck and clutched him in a loving embrace.

They continued their meal in ecstasy, enthralled that they were engaged. Who could ever have seen the day when Joey could have ever been engaged, let alone be in a long term relationship.

"I've got something for you." Rachel said after taking another bite of her unagi.

"Yeah?" Joey looked into her eyes, inquisitively. Rachel took a box, wrapped in a small burgundy bow, out of her handbag and slid it across the table to her new fiancé. Joey tentatively opened the lid of the box and took out the item inside.

"A pregnancy test?" he questioned.

"Yes."

"Positive?" he replied.

"Yes." Joey looked at Rachel and a wide smile of overwhelming joy spread across his face, and Rachel did the same.