Author's note

So this is the last chapter, I hope you enjoy it! School in a week (well for me anyway), well, so long as this year is better than last year I should be ok but I highly doubt it at this point but never mind, it'll all be over soon… The summer seems to have gone quite fast really, (seems like only last week I was sitting in language on the last day waiting for the bell to go). So glad I don't have to do language next year although the lessons could be quite funny (one time my friend Jo was being shouted at by the teacher who is rather small so Jo asked her to stand on a chair so she could take her seriously. Needless to say she got sent out) :)

Once again I don't own friends; if I did I wouldn't be having this major freak out over university and life in general.

It's hell time babe.

Chandler sat down on his seat on the plane. 22A, at least it's by the window he thought. The truth was, he hated flying. He didn't mind the majority of the journey, it was taking off and landing that bothered him. There were just so many things that could go wrong, sudden engine failure, wheels might not come out, could even miss the runway. He tried not to think about it and relax, it was pretty hard though.

The plane was filled with crying children and excited football fans. Chandler looked through the safety instructions; he always did at least 3 times before take-off better to be safe than sorry. He looked around for the exits and then decided on what to order from the trolley when it came round. By this time, a few people, mainly children, had noticed he was on the flight. He could hear them excitedly telling their parents

"Look, it's him! Chandler Bing. You know, he does marriage maze." He smiled, he hadn't realised kids watched the show.

Thankfully, the noise died down by the time they took off.

As take offs go, it wasn't bad. No matter how many times he flew, he could never get used to the plane turning. It felt so strange, almost like they were falling. Soon, they were cruising at 6000 feet and Chandler had relaxed a bit more. Could be worse he thought could be going further. He had just woken up from a short nap when there was an announcement from the pilot.

"Hey folks, this is your pilot Dylan speaking. Just to let you know, we've got about another 2 hours to go and the wea… wait a minute. Oh, ok. No need to worry folks, just a problem with one of the engines. So long as the other one doesn't go we'll be fine."

Panic filled the plane. The air hostesses were going around trying to reassure people they would be fine. So long as we don't lose the other engine we'll be fine Chandler thought. Soon, the lights went out and the seatbelt signs came on. The plane seemed to be dropping and it was shaking. A voice over the speaker kept repeating 'Brace.' Over and over. It wasn't until about the fourth time that Chandler realised he needed to adopt the brace position. Then it hit him what was happening. They were crashing. No, it couldn't be happening! He reached into his pocket to find his phone, he had to call Mon. He pressed the power button several times, it wouldn't turn on. Damn, he hadn't charged it for a while. Damn. Then it all went dark.

Monica's POV

He never came. Turned out I had to work so we'd arranged that he'd go to my apartment and I'd see him later. He wasn't there. No one knew where he was.

"Maybe his plane was delayed." Rachel suggested.

"Don't you think he would have called?" Joey asked.

"Maybe. Hey look, his show should be starting now. The new one, Faith Factory or something."

"Sure you want to watch it?" Phoebe asked.

"Yeah. Might explain a few things anyway." I turned the TV on and flipped to the right channel.

"And coming up next is the brand new Faith Factory, with host Farley Majors."

I looked at the gang.

"Maybe it's an alias?" Ross suggested.

"Maybe." It wasn't. He wasn't there.

"Howdy folks, I'm Farley Majors. Before we start the show, we have an important announcement. As you know, Chandler Bing was supposed to present this show, what you may not know is that his plane crashed earlier on today and there were no survivors. I sorry to all of his fans out there. So, could we all have a moments silence for all of those on that plane?"

"What?" I asked "He came… but he… his plane crashed."

"I guess so." Joey said

"I'm sorry Mon." Rachel said. I just sat there in shock.

"What am I supposed to do now?" I asked

"I guess you try to move on." Ross said as they all came and hugged me. Move on, yeah, I'd only known him for a day. Somehow, that made it all worse.

'All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection'

-William Faulkner

Footnote

Thanks for reading, don't know about you guys but I'm off to teach my cat how to do the time warp x