Sorry I missed a few weeks and didn't update. I just didn't really know how to write this chapter and I didn't want to write it badly by writing it too fast. I'm still not entirely happy with how it turned out but I hope you like it anyway. There is one chapter left and again, I want to get it right and I'm also pretty busy so it might be a few weeks. It will but up before the end of April. But anyway I hope you like this chapter!

After they all got to see the baby, everyone went home. They told Phoebe they'd come back in the morning to see the baby again. Because he was born so early, he'll be staying in the hospital for a few weeks to make sure he's okay.

So now it's 8:00 in the morning and Ross is on his way to the hospital to meet everyone. He didn't sleep well and he's exhausted. It was hard to sleep after everything that happened yesterday. After the baby was born, he never did have that talk with Rachel. She left without saying goodbye to him. Monica said she was just tired and jet lagged but Ross knows she's avoiding him.

At the hospital, everyone gathers around Phoebe's (still unnamed) baby. A few minutes later Rachel walks into the room. She smiles as she walks into the room, not saying anything because of the sleeping baby. She and Ross briefly make eye contact. There's a tension between them that makes Ross want to leave the room.

He goes to a vending machine to get some chips. And sits down on a bench outside of a doctor's office. He thinks he's starting to get what Rachel was talking about yesterday. They can't even be in the same room right now without it being awkward. What would that be like if they broke up? Maybe she's right. It's probably just not meant to be.

"Hey."

Ross looks up. It's Rachel. He smiles half heartedly. "Hey."

She goes over to the vending machine and gets a bag of pretzels, then walks back over to Ross. "Can I sit with you?" She asks.

Ross nods. "Sure."

They sit in an uncomfortable silence, eating their snacks.

"Ross." Rachel says suddenly.

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry I've been avoiding you since the baby was born." She says.

Ross opens his mouth to answer but she cuts him off.

"It's just that I don't want either of us to get hurt. And so I've been trying to avoid the fact that I do love you and I do want to be with you. I just don't know what to do." Rachel continues. "But last night I couldn't sleep. And I just kept thinking 'What am I doing?' And I realized that I've been being crazy. I love you and I want to be with you, Ross. And I'm just running away from it because I'm afraid of what would happen. And I don't want to do that anymore. It's not fair to either of us."

Ross suddenly feels more awake than he has all week. "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying I want to try this. I know it'll be hard but I want to try because I love you." She moves closer to him on the bench and he puts his arms around her.

Ross can feel himself smiling as he looks into Rachel's eyes. "Really?" He asks.

She nods. "Yes. I'm so sorry it took me so long to realize it. But when I was talking to Monica and Phoebe the other day, they really got me thinking. You know? Of course it might not work. But I love you and we'll never know until we try."

"I love you too." Is all Ross can manage to say before he kisses her.

He hasn't felt this happy since the day Emma was born. He knows it'll be hard to make it work with Rachel and Emma in Paris but he's willing to try and so is Rachel and that makes it seem so much more possible.