Okay so I know that alot of you didn't like how I kept Monica so
angry, well I mean you think about it, she was only angry, for a few
hours, its not like it went over days...and how I intended it to be
was, that Monica was upset with her from earlier about just hanging
up on her, because she knew something was 'up' and also, then Rachel
showing up late (And I think we all know how Monica is with being on
time) only made matters worse.
I didn't think Phoebe was
'bashing' Rachel, I kind of thought that seemed like the 'Phoebe-ish'
thing to do...I guess something like that it heard differently in
everyone's head, I intended it to come out kind of like her in TOW
Ross' Wedding, when she was talking about Monica's cleaning
problem, and Joey being 'gay'.
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"Ross
I...well what do you think I was doing here in the- the bathroom"
Rachel tried to save herself.
Ross gave her a look and walked
up towards her. "No Rach, what. Seriously."
"Ugh
Fine. I was..."She then mumbles, "I was taking a
test."
"What?!" Ross laughs to himself. "What
kind of test"
"Okay...Um, Ross...lately" While
talking Rachel began nervously playing with a strand of hair. "Ive,
been think- kind of had a feeling that I- that I could be..."
"Yeah"
Ross looked concerned, and placed his hands on either side of her
arms.
"That I could be...Pregnant"
Ross was
shocked. All of the pushing for a baby...it all made since. Rachel
wanted to know where he stood on all of this. God he felt like such a
jerk. The more he thought about it, the guiltier he felt. Rachel had
thought she was pregnant, and probably scared, and Ross hadn't done
anything to help her out.
"Are- Are you sure?"
"Pretty
sure, but I don't know. I mean- I dropped the test in the trash
when you walked in."
Ross looked at Rachel, who had tears
in her eyes, and walked past her to the trashcan, he took a deep
breath, bent down and looked at the EPT test that was sitting on top
of the trash.
"Well" Rachel asked...afraid to her
the answer.
Ross got up and made his way towards her, and then
leaned in to kiss her passionately, and he broke the kiss Rachel
stood there looking shocked.
"Emma is going to be a
sister"
Rachel hugged him, and kissed him back, she then
stopped abruptly. "And you're okay with this?"
"Do
you remember when I said that only one of us was 'there' "
Rachel nodded. "Now Im there too. Rach, honey its not that I
never wanted the baby...I had just been set on waiting..But, I mean I
didn't think I would be this happy...but I really am. I Love Your
Rachel."
"Oh Ross...I love you too..."
They
stood there in each other's arms for a little while longer. Rachel
couldn't stop smiling. This certainly had turned out a lot better
than last time. Well I guess they were better off in many ways than
they were two years ago. Now they had security, and love...love that
Rachel believed was there all along, but just needed something to
bring it out again...and Ross had done that, when he pleaded with her
not to go to Paris. He loved her...and she loved him too, more than
anything in this world. They had created life together, in their
beautiful daughter Emma, and now...now it was happening again. Rachel
couldn't be happier.
As they made their way back to the
dining room, everyone had already started eating, their dessert. They
just stood there for a while smiling when Phoebe looked up...
"Hey!
What happened to you guys back there...was there some...Lobster
Love?"
Phoebe said in only the way that...well Phoebe
could. Rachel chuckled to herself thinking about Phoebe's Lobster
Theory. She looked up at Ross, and smiled at him, he returned and
grabbed her hand, and locking his finger with hers.
Monica
then stood up and smiled, nodding to Rach.
Chandler looked
confused "Okay Am I missing something here..." He turned to
Rachel "You calmed the beast!" He then noticed the look
Monica was sending him. " Okay, well then...whose done with
jokes...Id say me" he said raising his hand.
Rachel
cleared her throat. " Ross and I are having a baby!"
Monica
ran over and hugged her best friend. "It come out
positive?!"
"Yeah" beamed Rachel.
"And
Ross is-"
"Everything's great Monica! Everything is
just Ugh, Its great."
Ross then leaned over and kissed
the top of Rachel head.
Mike stood up, and clanked his glass.
"Well I think this deserves a toast." Everyone who was left
seated then stood up and raise their glasses "To Ross and
Rachel, and the beautiful life they had created"
"To
Ross and Rachel" Everyone else repeated, followed by a series of
'clanks'.
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Ross and Rachel arrived at their
apartment hours later; everyone was so excited to hear about the new
baby that would be in their lives in about 9 months.
As Ross
shut the door he put his arm around Rachel and led her to the couch.
"Im really sorry for how Ive been acting lately Rach, I feel
like such a jerk."
"Hey, No" Rachel began
rubbing his knee "Its okay, because your happy now, and that's
all that matters. Ross, I don't know what I would do if you
weren't...well fine with all of this."
"Rachel
this is amazing, we're going to have another baby! Im
thrilled"
Rachel smiled, as a matter of fact she didn't
think that she had stopped all night, she was just so happy.
"You
know I was just thinking, about everything that has happened in these
past ten years."
Ross looked at her, and grabbed her
hand. "Yeah, things sure have changed, I mean this is always
where I have wanted to end up, and it just took us a while to get
here. Too bad we lost all of those years"
"You know
what Ross, I wouldn't change a thing about our
past."
"Really...not even when we bro-"
"I
said I wouldn't change a thing, not you, your another story. What I
mean was, Ross...I think in a way those years apart were teaching us
a lesson."
"Yeah?"
"Absolutely. I
mean after 7 years apart, I knew that you were defiantly the one for
me Ross. I mean, Ive never loved anyone, the way that I love you.
And being with other people made me realize how special what we had
was."
"Im just sorry that it ended the way it did" added Ross
Rachel looked down. "Yeah, me too..."
Ross took a deep breath and decided to do, exactly what he should have done all those years ago. "Rach, I know I never told you how sorry I was, you know for all of that...hurting you was the last thing I wanted to do"
"Ross...its okay" Rachel pauses "Its okay now..."
"No Rach, its not. I mean if I thought we were on a break and all, but I shouldn't have slept with Chloe- god I was stupid."
"We both were Ross...what you have to understand about all of that, was that, I never thought of us being broken up. And- and even if I did, it still hurt me to see you- that you- that you could just move on from me just like that, at the time I thought what we had together, meant more than that. Do you know what Im saying"
"I was drunk and confused, and then, then I thought that Mark was there...and now the more that I think about it, I don't know I was just so stupid-"
Rachel cut him off. "Hey, stop. Do you know what we're doing?" Ross looked at her "We're actually talking this out...no fighting... after 7 years, we finally were able to do that. Ross we were both really stupid. But you know what, it's okay now...because I think we're past that...and ready to move on."
"You're right..."
They both just sat there for a while in the comfortable silence of the empty room. Rachel was defiantly shocked at the way that they dealt with this. She smiled a confident smile. Maybe things really would finally work out for them this time, at least that was the plan. They were both too scared to loose one another again.
Things were going to be okay.
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Sorry if anyone found this chapter boring, but I enjoyed writing it...Fluff is good my friends .
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