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Mam: Your question about me liking Ross….yes I do…I love Ross…I love David Schwimmer its just I thought he fitted this role better then Joey or Chandler would. Also you mentioned my other fic, it's actually in 'Remembrance' like this story, he fit the role better then the other characters.

Everyone who said that its an unbelievable portrayal of the show and characters. You're right but isn't that what fanfics are about??

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TOW Friendships Are Fixed

Chandler stood out on the balcony, looking over New York City. He thought back to his conversation with Carol. Now she knew, he had to do something about; he had to tell his friends…. He had to tell Monica. How was he meant to tell her? Ross was her brother, they weren't close when they were children but now they were more like best friends. What if he denied and she believe him?

Just then he felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned around to be faced with his wife. Straight away a small smile appeared on his face, which made her smile. That was the moment all doubts about her loyalty to him vanished. They were together forever, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.

"You okay?" She asked softly.

"Yeah, just been thinking…" He replied.

"Oh yeah, about what?" She asked curiously as he loosely put his arms around her waist.

"You." He grinned, causing her to smile again.

"Aw that's sweet…"

"And about everything that has happened…" He added after.

"Oh right…" She nodded, stepping closer to him, resting her head on his chest as he tightened his hold on her.

They stayed like that for a few minutes, not talking just holding onto each other, relishing the feeling being in the others arms.

"I spoke to my Mom, this morning." He broke the silence. "Told her what happened."

"What did she say?" Monica lifted her head slightly to look up at him.

"Well, she's in her villa in Spain at the moment…" He explained. "She's invited us to go stay for a while…I thought we could have a break before we sort things out for the house and the baby."

"I think that's a great idea…" She grinned up at him.

"Really?"

"Yeah, when do you think we should go?"

"How about in a couple of days?" He asked. "That'll give us time to sort a few things out."

"Like what?" She frowned.

"Like talking to the guys…" He told quietly, looking away unsure of her reaction.

"What you going to say to them?"

"I don't know…" He let out a small laugh. "I'll think of that when the time comes."

"Are you going to forgive them?"

"I want to…"

"But can you?"

"I don't know." He sighed, he thought for a minute before answering. "I think I can…but not straight away, I need to talk to them, I need them to understand that its not the fact that I got hurt but the fact they didn't trust…that they didn't let me explain."

"I think that's reasonable…" She nodded.

"What about you?" He asked. "Do you want to forgive them?"

"They're our best friends…." She said slowly. "I don't think we can throw all those years of friendships just like that."

He smiled slightly and kissed her forehead and they went back to just holding each other.

"What about Ross?" She asked.

He was silent, tensing at the mention of his name. He thought about his options. "I think whatever happens, I need to talk to him."

"Well, whatever you decided, I'll support you, no matter what…"

"Thank you…" That was the only reassuring he needed.

XxXxX

Monica and Chandler walked hand in hand into Central Perk; they stood still when they saw three of their friends sat in the usual places, their conversation stopping when they noticed the couple.

"Hey…" Joey said after a few seconds of silence.

"Hi…" Chandler replied, awkwardly.

"I'll grab those coffees…" Monica told him softly, moving to the counter.

"Chandler…"

"Guys…"

Chandler and Joey looked at each other and smiled. Chandler held his hand out to him, signalling for him to talk first.

"Well, I just to say that we're all really sorry…" Joey told him, Phoebe and Rachel nodding their agreement. "We were stupid to believe you would cheat on Monica…"

"Yeah and we should have at least listened to you…" Rachel added.

Chandler nodded and looked to the ground.

"We are so so sorry…" Phoebe said. "We should have never listened to Ross."

Chandler looked up when she said his name, he sighed and rubbed his eyes. He knew he had to tell them. They deserved to know the truth, especially Rachel; she had Emma to think about.

"Look, guys maybe you should come around tonight."

"Really?" Joey said excitedly.

"Yeah, there is something I have to tell you."

"What is it?" Rachel frowned.

"I think its best to do it later…"

"Oh okay…"

"You ready, Honey?" Monica asked, appearing at his side. They were going to have a look around the house they just brought…their house.

"Yeah…yeah lets go…" He said, glancing back at his friends. "We'll see you later…"

"Yeah…" Monica added, quietly, taking Chandler's hand.

"Okay then…" Joey replied.

They watched as they walked out the coffee house, Chandler looked back at them when he was at door but didn't say anymore.

"This is great!" Joey grinned at the girls.

"I know!" Phoebe agreed. "I thought they'd never talk to us again!"

"Yeah…" Rachel added absently.

"What's wrong?" Joey frowned.

"Well, don't get your hopes up…"

"What do you mean?" Phoebe asked. "We're going around there tonight."

"But that doesn't mean anything…" Rachel told them. "They could just want to tell us that they can't forgive us."

"But Chandler….he seemed like he wanted to forget…" Joey said, a hint of sadness in his voice as he thought of the possibility Rachel just voiced.

"I know…and maybe he does…" Rachel sighed. "But just don't think this is all over…I got a feeling it's going to take a while…"

XxXxX

"Mon?" Chandler said quietly once they returned to their apartment later that day. "There's something I need to talk to you about."

She set her magazine down and looked at him curiously.

"Okay, the thing is…its…well, y'know…" He shrugged to find the words. He had been trying all day to tell her truth about what had been happening but he couldn't say it, no matter how hard her tried. The worse thing was, he knew he had to tell her before the others turned up and that was going to be any time soon.

He was cut off by a knock at the door and he didn't know whether he was relieved or annoyed.

"Oh, that's probably Carol…" Monica told him, standing up.

"Carol?" Chandler frowned.

"Yeah, she said she was going to drop by…"

"Oh right…" He sighed and leant back against the couch. Maybe Carol being there would give him the strength to tell Monica what was going on and at least he wouldn't be able to chicken out now. Maybe he should just wait until Joey and girls turned up, and then he would only have to explain it once, although he knew that Monica deserved to know beforehand.

He was about to stand up and take her aside when Carol sat down next him while Monica started to fix some drinks.

"So, you told her yet?"

"I'm working on it…"

"Chandler!"

"It's hard okay!" He defended himself. "I haven't talked about in the whole 17 years…I can't come out with it!"

"Okay but you know you have to right?"

"Yes, I know!" He buried his head in his hands. "I've told everyone to come over tonight…"

"Everyone?" Carol questioned. "Even Ross?"

"Yeah…" He looked down. "I told him to come a bit later, I wanted to the talk to everyone else first."

"What was that?" Monica asked. "Ross is coming?"

"I'm sorry, I know I should have told you but…"

Once again he was interrupted by a knock on the door. He stood up and opened it to find Joey, Rachel and Phoebe stood there.

"Its weird you lot knocking…" Chandler tried to ease the uncomfortable tension as he stepped aside to let them in.

"Yeah, well…we didn't think we should walk in…" Joey explained, smiling slightly.

"Yeah…" Chandler nodded, not really knowing what else to say.

Silence took hold over the apartment, everyone waiting for someone else to speak first.

"So…" Phoebe finally managed to say.

"Right…" Chandler looked up. "Um, maybe we should all sit down."

"Yeah…okay…"

Chandler took a seat next to Monica, who instantly took his hand, supportively.

"Both you say anything…" Rachel started. "We want you to know that we're so sorry…"

"I know…" He said quietly, looking down. "But that doesn't change what happened."

Rachel glanced at Joey and Phoebe, all sharing a sad look, scared this might be end of the greatest friendship they ever had.

"But I don't want to live in the past…" Chandler continued. "I want to want on…"

"Okay…" Joey nodded understandingly. "So uh…how do we fit into this?"

"I don't know whether things can go back to how it was before…but I think we owe it to ourselves to try…"

"Really?" A smile spread across his face.

"Both of you?" Rachel questioned, looking at Monica.

"Yeah, both of us…" Monica spoke for the first time.

"That's great!" Phoebe exclaimed.

"It's not going to happen straight away though…" Chandler reminded them when he saw how excited and happy they seemed.

"Yeah, we understand that!" Rachel told them. "Anything you want us to do…."

"There are a few things…" They all looked at him, even Monica looked mildly curious.

"Okay, shoot…"

He hesitated, his mouth closed and then opened again before he let the words fall out. "Why didn't you trust me?"

The three exchanged looks again, all opening one of the others would have something to say about that.

"I don't… I don't know…" Rachel stuttered. "I don't it wasn't that we didn't trust you…. more like we trusted Ross…"

"Yeah, everything happened so fast…" Joey added. "I mean, one minute Rach and Pheebs was telling us that they thought you were cheating and then the next I was dragging Ross off you because he said you admitted it…."

"Wait…" Monica stopped him. "You said Rachel and Phoebe told you…. That wasn't Ross…"

"We feel so guilty!" Phoebe confessed. "Even though we followed you out to that house and we told the guys, I don't think we never actually believed it was true."

"Yeah…" Rachel agreed, tearfully. "But then Ross said you admitted it and with everything we saw…. Sorry…we really are sorry…"

Chandler gave a single nod, looking at his hand entwined with his wife's. He understood why they would think that but he thought you would at least trust him enough to talk to him about it.

Joey watched his best friend, his own eyes shone with tears. He wanted things to go back to normal. He wanted to know what he had to do to get his best friend back.

"Why didn't you help him?" Monica blurted out, breaking the silence.

"What?"

"He was hurt… no matter what you thought he did or didn't do you should have helped!" She stated. "He was still your friend…"

"I know…" Joey hung his head.

Chandler looked up again, waiting to see if one of his friends had an explanation.

"Chandler, you got to understand that if we knew how bad it was, we wouldn't have left you…" Rachel assured him. "Even if what Ross said was true…"

"But you did leave…" He whispered, his eyes resting on her. "Why did you?"

Rachel took a deep breath, trying to sort her thoughts so she could explain.

"Monica's my best friend…. she's done so much for me… I don't like it when she hurts…" She started. "But the thought of you doing that hurt me…us…too.."

"Yeah…" Phoebe continued. "If you ever cheated on each other… then it wouldn't just betraying each other but us too…."

"Remember when Ross did it?" Joey glanced at Rachel quickly before continuing. "We all got caught in the middle but it was much worse this time…because….well because you're Chandler…"

He frowned confused. "I don't understand…."

"Okay…Mon, remember when I first moved in, I kept saying sorry for telling you all my problems…" Rachel looked at her.

"Yeah…" She nodded. "I told you that everyone needs someone to talk to."

"Right and when I asked who you talked to you told me Chandler…" Rachel continued; the comment caused husband and wife to look at each other smile. "Later I found out that Joey did to…so did Ross…"

Chandler tensed slightly at the mention of his name; he looked up and saw Carol watching him closely.

"Anyway, as time went by I found myself telling you stuff…confiding you too…" Rachel said quickly, seeing his reaction to Ross' name. "You helped me out so much when my parents got divorced…with the whole Chloe thing and when Ross got together with Emily…you even came to the beauty parlour with me!"

Chandler smiled slightly, remembering the day. He was still upset about his break up with Kathy and they just spent the day doing nothing in particular, just enjoying being able to slag off the person they cared about…for Chandler it was Kathy or Rachel it was Ross.

"I think that Rachel is trying to say is that we all relied on you…." Phoebe added.

"What?" Chandler was taken back.

"You were always there…" Joey told him. "No matter what we needed you somehow knew how to make us feel better…whether it was by making us laugh or just being there to listen…"

"You're like the big brother none of us had…" Phoebe said quietly.

"We were gutted that you could do something like that…" Joey sighed. "Even if you didn't."

"I know it doesn't make much sense…" Rachel started.

"I think it does…" Chandler cut in, softly.

"You do?"

"Yeah…" He nodded, smiling slightly.

"So, what now?" Joey asked.

"I think…I think we should try and fix our friendships…" Chandler stated, looking at Monica to check what she thought.

"Yeah, I think we should all move on…." She smiled at them, taking hold of Chandler's hand again.

"That's great!" Joey exclaimed, jumping up and pulling them both into a hug. "Thank you…thank you so much!"

Chandler laughed slightly and stepped back, looking at Rachel and Phoebe who sat with tear stains cheeks.

"You two okay?" He asked gently.

"Yeah…" Phoebe nodded, standing up and hugging him to, Rachel followed. "Yeah we are now…"

The five of them stood hugging onto each other, the girls letting happy tears fall down their faces while both Joey and Chandler shrugged to hold onto their emotions.

"Um Chandler…" Carol's voice interrupted their group hug causing everyone to look at her. "Isn't there more…"

They turned their gaze to Chandler, curiously as he stepped back. At first he shot Carol an annoyed glared, he didn't want to tell them but then he remembered Ross was going to be there any minute.

"What's going on?" Monica asked him.

"Its uh…its nothing…" He stuttered, running a hand through his hair nervously.

"Chandler…" Carol glared at him.

"I can't…" He dropped onto the couch.

"You can't what?" Monica questioned. "What's going on?"

"Ross on his way over…" Carol told them, hoping Chandler would carry on.

"What?" Joey frowned. "Why?"

"Chandler, talk to us…" Rachel told him after he was quiet for a few minutes.

"I need your support…" He whispered.

"Of course, we're here for you…" Joey assured.

"Yeah, remember what I said…" Monica lifted his chin with her finger, making him look at her. "I'll support you no matter what you decide."

"That goes for us too…" Rachel told her, Joey and Phoebe nodding in agreement.

"Good because I called the police…" He admitted quietly.

"Really?" Joey was shocked.

"Yeah…" Chandler looked up, tears brimming his eyes. "They are also coming around later."

"Why have a got a feeling there is more to this…" Rachel said quietly.

No spoke; they just watched Chandler wondering what was actually going on when there was a knock at the door. Joey stood up and answered it, staring at Ross before stepping aside and letting him in.

"Mom, Dad?" Monica frowned seeing her parents behind her brother.

"We want to know what's happening…" Judy explained.

"Chandler, how you feeling, son?" Jack looked at him.

"I'm okay…" He shrugged, looking away.

Before Joey had chance to close the door behind the Gellers, the two policemen from the hospital appeared. Silence fell over the apartment, everyone looking at Chandler and Ross who stared at each other.

"Mr Bing…" Cole started.

"Yeah…" Chandler nodded, moving his glaze.

"What's going on?" Ross asked.

Chandler begun to shake, this was the hardest thing he ever had to do.

"It's over…" He told him.

TBC

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