Chapter Twenty-Five

Monica sat next to Daniel's new crib in her and Chandler's bed room, how pleased she was, there were points during the last couple of months when she never thought this day would come. Chandler was still fast asleep, catching up on the sleep that he had missed while he was working all day and keeping a vigil at Daniel's bedside all night. It was the first night that Monica and Chandler and all three of their children in the same building, Monica hadn't had much sleep but she knew that the now two month old baby Daniel was fine and breathing on his own. Today was an important day for Rachel and Daniel. This morning Rachel and Ross would see their new baby for the first time and then in the afternoon it was Daniel's welcome home party. Everyone was really pleased about Daniel coming home.

Joey and Alex had set a date for their wedding and it was getting closer and closer too quickly. They had just under six weeks until the wedding and apart from booking the church and the hall for the reception they had done nothing, at all. Alex wanted a huge white wedding, something that she never had the first time around, she was just so relieved that Joey had got the lead in a new movie because if he hadn't there would be no wedding at all. They still weren't completely unpacked from the move into the new house that was just down the street from Monica and Chandler's, Rachel and Ross's and Phoebe and Mike's. So Alex had a lot to do if they were going to all get ready at their new house. First on her list was bridesmaids dresses. With Rachel as maid of honor, Phoebe and Monica as bridesmaids, Emma, Charlotte, Erica, Libby, Summer, Daisy and Lola as bridesmaids and Jack, and Daniel as page boys there were lots to do. Alex was slightly worried about Joey though, he had been working doubly hard to pay for this wedding and therefore they weren't seeing much of each other. Alex just hoped that once the money from the movie came in he would relax a bit and they could go back to having sex, spending time together and doing whatever else people who are about to get married do.

Ross and Rachel sat nervously in the waiting room ready for the sonogram. There were three other couples in the room waiting too and then a single girl on her own, the poor girl can only have been 17 years old and was crying. Rachel couldn't stand it any more, she decided that she simply had to go and speak to her, she walked across the room, stroking her bump that was starting to show.

"Rachel Geller" the nurse called out Rachel's name and Rachel turned on her heel and went into the room, Ross followed behind "take a seat, right Mrs. Geller, number three congratulations, how are the girls doing"

"thanks" Rachel felt so warm and happy, she was here with her husband and she was about to see her third child for the first time "Emma's doing well at school and Charlotte is crawling now"

"Great" the nurse set up the equipment while Rachel sat herself on the special chair and lifted her top to show her tummy. "so here we go then, baby number three"

Ross and Rachel both had their eyes fixated on the screen waiting for their baby to appear and then get a photo taken so they could show their friends. As the image came up on the screen Ross noticed something different about it "that doesn't look like Emma or Charlotte did" Ross was silently panicking but doing his best to hide it from Rachel

"is there something wrong?" Rachel noticed that something was different as well

"there's nothing wrong" the nurse took a deep breath "you have nonidentical twins"

Ross and Rachel had no idea of what to think say or do. They didn't have enough stuff for twins. Rachel's first thought was that she would have to go shopping for more stuff and Ross's first though was OH MY GOD

"Twins?" Ross almost freaked out "twins? How can it be twins"

"Well," the nurse interrupted Ross's thoughts "Rachel released two eggs and your sperm has fertilized both of them. They've both attached to Rachel's womb so this is number three and four!" the nurse's joy was a lot more than Ross and Rachel's "would you like a photo"

"Yes please" Rachel managed to say something, finally "because otherwise I don't think I'll believe it"

Almost two hours after coming out of the sonogram Ross and Rachel were still sitting in the Mercedes contemplating what they were going to do.

"We're going to need a bigger car" Ross nodded his head so much that it almost scared Rachel "and two more cots"

"I'm really excited though" Rachel smiled and rubbed her ever growing bump "I'm so pleased that we are having twins."

"Me too" Ross confessed the news had finally sunk in and Ross was so pleased about it, his initial reaction had been through shock, now though he was looking forward to having two more babies "Rachel, we're going to have twins"

"I know" Rachel lent forward and gave him a big hug "we're going to have to come up with some other names now"

"Can we discuss it later?" Rachel was very excited, but thinking about what names she would want for her twins "I want to get home and show the guys my babies"

Ross and Rachel got home just in time for the beginning of the party. They decided that stealing Monica's thunder with a big announcement wasn't the way to do it. Instead they decided to tell each of their friends and their parents one at a time. They were really pleased that big news like this had come to light the same day as there was going to be a big party as it meant they didn't have to drive to Ross's parents house as well as they would have to drive to Rachel's parents.

"Hey" Monica caught them as they came in "so did you get a picture of the baby?"

"Yes" Rachel looked at Ross and just handed Monica the picture, Rachel knew that she would figure it out herself "there's the picture"

"Rachel, there's two on this" it took Monica a second, but she soon realized exactly what two babies in the picture meant and a grin gradually appeared on her face "are you having twins?"

"Yes" Ross smiled, so pleased that Monica wasn't jealous or thinking that they were stealing her thunder "we're going to have twins"

"are you going to announce it at the party?" Monica quietly hoped that that wasn't what they planned to do because Monica didn't want the whole evening to focus on Ross and Rachel's twins, she wanted some of the evening to focus on the fact that her son had been released from hospital after nearly dying

"No" Rachel assured her, expecting this "we're going to tell the rest of the guys and your mom and dad but that's it"

"Hey Ross, Rachel" Judy and Jack Geller came over to them and gave each of the a hug each "how are you doing?"

"We're fine" Rachel glanced at Ross, who nodded knowing exactly what Rachel wanted to say "I'm pregnant"

"Pregnant?" Judy smiled, extremely pleased that grandchild number seven was on it's way "congratulations"

"there's more" Ross added, even more excited than before "we're having nonidentical twins"

"Twins?" Jack Senior asked excitedly "wow, I can't believe, two sets of twins in the family"

"Congratulations you two" Judy was very happy, almost too happy "how pregnant are you?"

"twelve weeks" Rachel handed them the picture of their twins "isn't it exciting?"

"oh yes" Judy started crying "I'm going to have eight grandchildren"

"and you never thought we would have any" Jack Senior added "how wrong you were"