New story, this time a real multi-chapter story. My first one so be nice.
This is a version of early season 6. It differs from canon on one simple fact: Monica and Chandler came to the wedding chapel 15 minutes later.
Disclaimer: don't own anything, anything familiar is from early season 6.
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Rachel wakes up in bed, she has no memory of how she got there. Her eyes fall on the mirror on the wall and she sees her face.
In flash the day before comes back to her, or at least a part of the day.
She remembers being in a feud, of who could make the other the most embarressed, with Ross on the plane. She remembers that he drew on her face while she slept and then didn't tell her untill a little boy laughed at her.
She remembers going back down later that, only to have more peolpe laughing at her. She remembers how Ross started his own casino in the hotelroom, which was basically just a way to give her money. She remembers drinking out the mini-bar, and opening an insane amount of nuts, just to make Ross pay.
She remembers Ross at some point, both very drunk, convincing her to go back down. She remembers agreeing if he would let her draw on his face. Which she did.
She remembers going back down, and laughing, so much laughing.
And then... nothing. Total black out. No memory of getting back to bed at all.
She moves a litte in the bed she's still lying in. It makes somebody else move, 'what' she thought she was alone.
She screams a little, then she finds out that it's Ross, he does the same and they both express that they clearly have a hang-over.
Once it calms down, they have an awkward chat about how they have ended op in bed together. Unfortunally, Ross doesn't remember more than she does. So they agree that nothing happened and to not speak about this incident ever again.
They get up and put on some clothes. Rachel finally discovers the cure for the magic-marker on her face: Time + Soap/water. They get of the magic-marker drawings on their faces and go downstairs to have breakfast.
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Down at the breakfast buffet, Phoebe and Joey are disgussing how Phoebe's grandmother's cab is going to get home to New York. They agree that they'll drive it home together since Joey's movie has been officially cancelled. He is now sitting and mourning his movie as Chandler and Monica arrive.
They all greet each other, as Monica sits down next to Joey.
"Where are the waitress? I'm starving." Joey complains.
"It's a buffet, man." Chandler deadpans.
"Oh, here's where I win all my money back." Joey says as he hurry to the buffet with Chandler just behind him.
Monica moves to where Joey sat to speak with Phoebe. "So, once Ross and Rachel get here, Chandler and I have some pretty big news." She tells her.
"I guess Ross and Rachel also have big news." Phoebe smirks.
"What would that be?" Monica asks having no idea.
"Didn't you get the message?" Monica shakes her head. "They got married."
"WHAT?! WHEN?!" Monica yells loudly.
"Ross and Rachel got MARRIED. Last night." Phoebe repeats. "Joey and I went back upstairs after being kicked out of the casino. On Joey's answering machine is a drunken message from Ross, saying that he and Rachel are going to get married and we should go meet then at the nearst wedding chapel." Phoebe explains.
"The Little White Chapel." Monica says under her breath.
"Exactly." Phoebe says. "So, we go down there but they are already gone. But this rude lady told us that they had gotten married."
"WOW." Monica don't know what else to say.
"Kind of weird they didn't invite you guys." Phoebe states. "I mean, Chandler is Ross' old college roommate, you'd think he would want him there."
Monica looks at Phoebe. "... And I'm his sister..." She says slowly.
"Oh right." Phoebe says having clearly forgotten.
Just then Chandler and Joey, with a full plate of eggs, come back to the table. Joey having filled Chandler in on last night's events.
"I just can't believe they would do that." Joey says. "Getting married in vegas." Monica and Chandler shares a look.
"What ever." Phoebe says. "It's not like it's a real mariage."
They all look at her. "What?!" Chandler asks the question they all think.
"If you get married in Vegas, you're only married in Vegas." She explains.
"What are you talking about?" Monica asks confused. "If you're married Vegas, you're married everywhere."
"OH MY GOD." Phoebe eyes get wide. "Er... well." She brushes it off and take a sip of her mimosa.
Just then Ross and Rachel arrive. They all give greetings as they sit down next to Phoebe.
Ross and Rachel act normal before discovering that four pairs of eyes are looking at them.
"What?" Ross asks confused.
"Are we going to talk about what you guys did last night, or...?" Chandler asks.
"What... What do you mean last night? Nothing- nothing... happened last night." Rachel stutters.
"Uh-huh." Phoebe says. "Ross invited me and Joey to watch." Rachel turns to look reproachly at Ross
"Rach, we weren't going to miss our friends getting married." Joey says.
Rachel gasps surprised. "Who got married?"
"Apperently, you guys did?" Chandler half-asks.
Both Ross and Rachel deny that for a few moments before remembering a later part of last nights events.
"They would not let us get married when we were that drunk." Ross says hopefully.
"Most peolpe who get married in Vegas are drunk." Joey explains.
"I certainally was." Phoebe says once again earning confused looks. Monica and Chandler share once again a look.
"What are you guys going to do?" Monica asks concerned about her friends.
Rachel turns to Ross. "I guess we just find a divorce lawyer?"
"Well, I think... I think Ross already has one." Chandler says always looking for a joke at others expense. "This one's free, right? Because you paid for the first two, so you get the third one for free."
"Laugh it up." Ross says being used to the jokes. "The joke's on you beacause we don't need to get divorced, okay?" He says and Rachel turns to look at him surprised. "We'll just going to get an anunlement." He explains and Rachel agrees.
Ross are about to go up to get some food but Phoebe stops him. "Wait a minute. Monica and Chandler also have some big news to share." She's reminding Monica.
"Oh, yeah..." Monica looks at Chandler who gives her a look that clearly says 'How can we tell them, after how they treated Ross and Rachel?' so Monica decides to only tell half the truth. "It's nothing as exciting as Ross and Rachel's news... Just... Chandler and I made up." She says at last.
"Well, clearly." Phoebe says. "Nothing more?"
"Nope." Chandler replies.
"I didn't even know you guys were in a fight." Ross frowns.
"Yeah, but you didn't even know you got married." Chandler deadpans.
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Later when Phoebe and Joey have left in the cab and Rachel and Ross are packing, Ross getting every secund and extra thing out of the hotelroom. Monica and Chandler are walking around the casino room, having a serious conversation.
"So, what do you think we should do?" Monica asks nervously.
"I don't, but I know I love you." Chandler replies.
"I know I love you." Monica echoes and they hug.
"So where are we on the whole telling-them-what-we-did-last-night thing? I love you." Chandler asks.
"That's a good question." Monica says. "I mean how could we tell them after how we treated Ross and Rachel?... but on the other hand, how could we not tell them?"
Chandler nodds. "Yeah, you're right. Let's not tell them now... but we definitely need to tell them later..."
"Yeah, let's keep it our secret for now, it'll be like in the beginning of our relationship."
"It'll be fun to have a secret again." Chandler agrees. "This time it'll be easier though, we just don't say anything about mariage." Monica lets out a little chuckle. "What?!" Chandler asks confused.
"Oh... no, nothing." She takes back what she was going to say.
"Come on, say it." Chandler smiles.
"I just- I just can't believe you did it... got married just like that." She explains.
"Hey, to be fair, that was the second time in a year I asked you." Chandler reminds her. "And this time, we actually had the second best reason to get married... we wanted to."
Monica laughs. "You're right about that." She then gets serious. "I really wanted to marry you, Chandler Bing."
"I really wanted to marry you, too, Monica... Bing?" Chandler asks.
"That's too weird." Monica states. "I think I'm going to hyphen my name."
"I love you, Monica Geller-Bing." Chandler leans in for a kiss.
"Much better." Monica whispers as she accepts the kiss.
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