I don't own Friends, never have, probably never will.
"JOEY!" Phoebe spread her arms out for her friend as she rushed at him, knocking down the suitcases he was carrying.
"Don't strangle him, Pheebes." A grinning Rachel followed behind her, Ross at her side. Chandler and Monica followed. All of them had stupid smiles on their faces, just glad that their friend was home.
"Hey, I missed you guys," Joey was practically throttling as he hugged them. "Sorry I couldn't get here sooner, but Alex got me delayed at the airport for flirting with some security guard."
"Alex?" Rachel's eyebrows raised so high that they almost disappeared above her hair. "Who's this Alex? Is he handsome? Sorry, honey." She apologized to Ross with a small grin, "but if Joey is going to make new friends, then they had at least better be hot ones."
"Un, Rach?" Chandler was barely suppressing his laughter. "Alex is a woman."
The horrified look didn't leave Rachel's face until they were at Ross and Rachel's apartment.
"Oh, it feels so good to be back." Joey flopped on the coach, looking around the familiar apartment. "So we've got the whole weekend to ourselves?"
"Yep, Mom and Dad decided "bond" with their grandchildren, and Mike is on a business trip in the Bahamas." Monica said.
But just as Joey was about to respond, a deafening roar filled his ears, and the room seemed to collapse around him.
FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS
He looked for his friends, but suddenly he felt a hard, sharp pain to his skull, and everything went black.
"So, who's Rachel again?" Alex asked, looking over the photo album that Gina was holding. She and Gina were in Joey's apartment, trying to find out more about the friends he was visiting. "The blonde that sung the song about the smelly penguin?"
"Cat, Alex it was the cat. And that's not Rachel, that's Monica. Geez, I can't believe you don't know that yet. At least I remember who his friends are."
"I thought the black haired one was Monica."
"No, and that's Rachel." Gina pointed out a beautiful woman who had her arms wrapped around Joey.
"Great. She's hot." Alex mumbled, looking depressed. Although she didn't have any feelings for Joey, she still felt a pang when she looked at the beautiful woman. 'How could I ever compare to that?' She thought to herself, and then shook the thought away. 'I don't want to compare. I don't like Joey. Heck, he can even marry her if he wants to and I'd be fine with it.'
Luckily, Bobbie came bursting though the door with Michel in tow, giving Alex something else to focus on besides the nauseous feeling sweeping through her stomach.
"Turn on the TV!" Bobbie roared, grabbing the remote.
"And tragedy struck one of our nation's finest cities today as an earthquake rocked it into destruction." Alex sat upright as she heard the newscaster's voice.
Suddenly, the TV lit up to show New York City. But it didn't look like New York City at all. There were fires everywhere and everything was destroyed. Alex barely recognized it. But there was only one thought on her mind right then, and on everyone else's in the room, too.
Joey.
Yes, I am a Joey and Alex fanatic. Phoebe had her chance, no offense to anyone who likes Phoebe and Joey.
