(A/N: I do not own Friends. And just so we're clear, this is not labeled as a Roschel story so please don't think that just because they're in the same main character slots they will end up together. That being said, please enjoy).
Ross Geller was feeling like he was hit in the face multiple times. What was supposed to be the happiest night of his life may just end up being the worst.
He had said Rachel Green's name while saying his vows to Emily, his newlywed wife. He didn't mean to do it and apologized multiple times to his new wife but it didn't matter. The damage was done and now she hated him. Now he was at his reception where everyone was drunk from the Waltham's wine cellar that his parents and them had been fighting over the entire night.
He was waiting outside the bathroom door where Emily was inside. His friend Joey Tribbiani came to tell him that the bride and groom were supposed to have their first dance as husband and wife. He turned to the door, surrounded by his friends that were able to attend the wedding: Joey, Chandler Bing (His college roommate and his best friend), Monica Geller (His sister) and Rachel Green (His ex-girlfriend).
The 30 year old man hesitantly knocked on the door.
"E...Emily….they….they need us to have our first dance" He said. There was no answer. He knocked again.
"Listen, honey. How many times do I have to say it? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do what I did at our wedding. I swear it. What can I do to make it up to you?" Ross said.
There was still no answer. Ross laid his head on the door.
Rachel, despite being emotionally torn about this moment, decided to say something.
"You know, when I ran from my wedding from Barry, I ran from the….bathroom window" Rachel said, widening her eyes at the realization.
Ross stood gobsmacked. He quickly opened the door to find the window opened, a wind breezing through the room.
"...Maybe she just went out for a walk?" Chandler asked, trying to ease the tension.
Ross ran to the window and looked outside. He could see Emily running down alley.
"Emily! Wait!" Ross said.
Emily didn't reply, she just kept running. Ross tussled his way out of the window, falling on concrete pavement.
After straightening himself out, he started running towards his wife.
"Emily, please come back! I'm so sorry!" Ross said.
"Get away from me, you arse. You humiliated me in front of my friends and family!" Emily screamed at him, running across the road by her parent's home.
"I didn't mean to! Please talk to me!" Ross pleaded.
"I don't care! Go away! Leave me alone!" Emily yelled back.
Every word she said tore at his heart but he wasn't letting her go without a fight. He chased after her. He reached the street she just ran across. Normally, he would be cautious and look both ways before crossing but this situation didn't call for precaution…..or so he thought.
As he was crossing the street, a car came by. The driver saw him running across so he slowed down but unfortunately it wasn't enough as it rammed into him at a rate of 25 mph.
His body flew down the street, his body and suit getting ripped and scratched from the concrete road. The worst part about it was he still conscious throughout the whole thing.
Ross groaned heavily, he looked down to see blood trails from the scratches made by the concrete. He also felt great pain in his right arm and leg.
Ross' friends were looking from the bathroom window and they were horrified by the sight.
"OH MY GOD!" Monica said.
Chandler ran out of the bathroom and yelled to the crowd of wandering drunks "Call an ambulance!"
Emily ,who stopped running once Ross was hit, ran to her newlywed husband. She knelt down at his broken looking body.
"Ross! Are you alright?!" She asked. It was a dumb question. Of course he wasn't alright, she thought. He was just hit by a bloody car!
Ross groaned as he answered. "I'll live….mostly"
"I am so sorry I didn't stop. If I had, this probably wouldn't have happened" Emily said.
"Don't blame yourself, Emily. I did this to myself. Besides, I've had worse hits than this" Ross said.
"Really? You have? When?" Emily asked repeatedly.
"Well, try 30 minutes ago when you packed quite a wallop on my stomach" Ross said, chuckling.
Emily cringed at the reminder. "Right…..sorry"
"It's alright…..I deserved it for being such an idiot" Ross said.
The driver of the car came outside his car and ran straight to Ross and Emily.
"Are you alright?" The driver asked, frantically, still shocked by the fact that he hit someone with his car. Something he never thought would happen to him.
"I'll be fine" Ross said.
"No you won't, Ross. You need medical attention" Emily said.
"Well…..that's not a bad idea" Ross said. He groaned more as more pain came to him. He believed his arm and leg were broken.
"What the bloody hell were you doing going off in the middle of the road like that?" The man asked, his voice going from worried to frustrated.
"It's sort of a long story" Ross said.
"Well now my schedule has seemed to open up quite a bit" The man said.
"Yeah...I'm sorry about that. If you'll exchange your information with me, I'll be glad to pay for damages to your car" Ross said.
"Let's not worry about that right now. You need help, son" The man said.
Two people came storming out towards them. Ross looked and saw his mother and father coming towards him.
"Ross! Oh my darling boy!" Judy said. She cried her head into his chest. Ross groaned as the pain from the pressure came to him. He decided not to tell her so she wouldn't feel bad.
"Ross! Are you okay?" Jack asked.
Ross rolled his eyes. He felt that he was going to asked that a lot. "I've been better"
"Well no worries, son. We have an ambulance coming soon. You'll be alright" Jack said.
Ross sighed. "Thanks, dad"
Soon, his 4 friends came running out. Monica knelt down beside Ross. He was starting to lose his vision of the night sky.
"Ross, you are such an idiot!" Monica said, scolding him.
"I would usually come back with some snappy comment but….yeah. I got nothing to say that. You're right" Ross said.
"Don't blame him, Monica. I should have stopped to talk to him about this" Emily said.
"Yeah...you should have" Rachel said, glaring down at her. Emily didn't respond to this and Monica glared at Rachel, facially telling her to knock it off.
Moments later, an ambulance came down to the streets towards the crowded people. Paramedics came out and walked quickly towards the body.
"Step away, please" One of them said. They lifted Ross up by both sides of his shoulder pads and thigh. As they lifted him up, Ross seethed in pain and let out a groan.
"Does it hurt?" Joey asked.
"No, Joey. That groan was a groan of joy and laughter" Chandler said sarcastically.
"Chandler, knock it off. This is not the time for that right now" Monica said.
"Excuse me, may I sit in the back of the ambulance with him? I'm his wife" Emily said.
"Well from the looks of it, it's not too serious. That would be a problem if it was. He actually looks like he got off pretty lucky. If he's fine with it, so are we" One paramedic said.
Emily looked to Ross, who nodded.
"Yes, it's alright with me" Ross said.
Rachel looked at Ross with a look of shock on her face. He was ok with her riding with him to hospital?
Ross didn't notice this look on Rachel's face. She just watched the paramedics place him on a stretcher and load him onto the ambulance. Emily got in afterwards.
The doors were shut and the ambulance drove away to the nearest hospital where the Paleontologist would be looked after.
Jack and Judy went back inside the Waltham residence, quickly planning on going to the hospital to see if their son would be alright. The man parked his card by the sidewalk and went inside with them.
"...Well this could have gone differently" Chandler said, shaking his head.
"Damn, dude. This was supposed to be the happiest day of his life and instead he's being drove off to a hospital" Joey said, exasperated.
"What a bitch…." Rachel said, glaring off in the distance.
Monica looked to Rachel with a look of curiousness on her face.
"Rachel…..what are you doing here?" Monica asked in a sort of hostile manner.
Rachel turned to her best friend with a surprised and confused look on her face.
"What?" She asked likewise.
"I said 'What are you doing here?'. You said you weren't going to come" Monica said.
Rachel suddenly phased out and realized that everyone was looking at her with the same sort of confusion.
"She's got a point, Rach. Why are you here when you said over and over that you weren't going to come?" Joey asked. He didn't want to tell the group why Rachel was here even though he clearly knew. Phoebe did tell him after all.
"Well…..to come to Ross's wedding. I….felt bad about missing it and I realized that I was going to miss his big day" Rachel said, coming up with a swift lie.
Chandler seemed to buy it (Partially), Joey said nothing. Monica clearly didn't believe it as shown by the expression on her face. She thought she had an idea as to why Rachel was here and she was going to get it out of her one way or another.
