Chandler looked over at Alexis who was asleep on the Couch. She'd fallen asleep watching some cartoon, but Chandler hadn't bothered to turn it off. He was thinking about Monica. He wasn't sure how long she'd need to cool off, but she'd been gone for a couple of hours, so he hoped that she'd be home soon. "C'mon Mon," he whispered outloud, glancing up at the door.

Chandler decided that he should probably put Alex to bed. He picked her up, careful not to wake her up, and just as her turned around the door opened and Monica came in.

"Hey," she said quietly.

"I'll be right back," Chandler said walking into the guest room. He looked through Alex's bag and found what he was pretty sure were pajamas and put them on her, trying not to wake her up.

"Is it morning yet?" she asked half awake.

"No, it's still night, go back to sleep, k?" Chandler whispered covering her up.

"K. night-night."

"Night," he said before walking out.

"I need to explain something," Chandler said to Monica, sitting down on the couch next to her.

"I-"Monica started to say something but Chandler put a finger up to her mouth.

"No, I need to talk. Mon, I didn't tell you I had a daughter cause I didn't know Did you actually think that I keep something like that a secret from you? Do you even think that I actually could?"

"No, I'm sorry Chandler. I was just kind of shocked. Well, really, sorry I blew up at you," Monica said.

"It's okay," Chandler said and softly kissed her on the lips. They sat in silence for a couple of minutes before anyone said anything again.

"How old is she?" Monica asked.

"Three," Chandler said and could tell what Monica was thinking, "and no, I didn't cheat on you. Her birthday's in November. Go back nine months from then, we weren't together yet."

"So why'd Kathy tell you now?"

"Well, I guess she moved to L.A. before she knew, and then she thought it'd be too ackward to call. She just moved back to New York, and she's filming a movie or something and I guess she's going out of town for a wek. So…..I'm a babysitter she doesn't have to pay?" Chandler tried to joke, "that wasn't really funny."

"So she's staying here?"

"Yeah, til next Monday."

"How'd you get her to go to sleep?"

"Benadryl," he said dryly and paused before adding, "Seriously, she was watching T.V. and just fell asleep, so it was no problem. Although I'm glad that you came back when you did, I have to clue what to do. I've watched Ben a million times before, but he's 8 and a boy, and Alex is 3, and , well, not."

"Really? Thanks for clearing that up," Monica said sarcastically.

"So….are we okay? I mean, you're not mad, right?" Chandler asked.

"Yeah, we're okay," Monica said kissing him. "You didn't freak out about this?"

"Nope. It's probably good that Kathy didn't tell me then, I would've really freaked out."

"Yeah, but you would've been fine after that."

"You really think?"

"Yeah, you don't give yourself enough credit. You might have freaked out when it came to anything having to do with the 'c' word, but you were never not a decent guy," Monica said cuddling up to Chandler.

"Really?" Chandler asked as he played with her hair and she nodded into his chest.

"Is that subconcious?" Monica asked after a couple of minutes.

"What?" Chandler asked confused.

"Playing with my hair."

"I guess so, sorry," Chandler said embarrassed.

"I didn't say I minded, I just asked if it was subconcious," she said and leaned in to kiss him. "Wanna do the other thing we do after we fight?"

"well, *kiss* yeah *kiss* but what if *kiss* she wakes up *kiss* and walks in *kiss* I don't want *kiss* to scar her *kiss* for life *kiss* in the first *kiss* 24 hours" Chandler said and kissed her deeper after he finished talking. "I'll make it up to you though, I promise."

~*~*~*~*~

Chandler woke up the next morning to the sound of the TV coming from the living room. 'Joey,' he thought, but after a second realized that it wasn't Joey. He opened his eyes to find Monica's eyes staring back at him. She smiled and whispered, "morning gorgeous," kissing him softly on the lips.

"I better get up," Chandler said kissing her again.

"Yeah, I think I'm gonna get up and take a shower." Chandler wanted nothing more than to say, 'I'll join you,' like he had the day before, but he fought the urge and got out of bed, pulling a t-shirt on.

"Mornin," Alex said smiling when Chandler stepped out of his room.

"Morning, are you hungry?" Chandler asked, sitting next to her on the couch. She nodded and he asked, "What would you like?"

"I dunno."

"Cereal?"

"No."

"Waffles?"

"No."

"Umm, toast?"

"No."

'God, this could be a long game,' Chandler thought, remembering when Ben had answered 'no' to everything. 'peanut butter and jelly!' he thougth, 'that's what kathy said she liked!'

"How 'bout toast with peanut butter and jelly on it?"

"No."

"Okay, umm, what do you want?"

"Peanut butter and jelly sandwich."

"For breakfast?" Chandler asked and she nodded, "okay…" Chandler made her a sandwich trying not to laugh. He told her to eat it in the kitchen so that she wouldn't make a mess. 'my god, I've been around Monica for too long,' he thought.

Monica walked out of the bathroom as Chandler was pouring himself a cup of coffee. He handed it to Monica, before grabbing another mug for himself.

"I would've made breakfast," Monica said.

"Yeah, I offered. She wanted peanut butter and jelly," Chandler said before remembering something. "Huh, I just remembered something really weird. On some rare occasion when my mom was home when I was little, I remember her yelling at our chef because I was eating a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast and she thought that it was because the chef hadn't made anyhting for me, but that was what I wanted. Wow, I was a spoiled little rich kid, and that was a weird thing to remember, and why am I thnking out loud?"

"You were a weird child," Monica said.

"Just then? Not now?" Chandler asked grinning.

"Eh," Monica laughed, "Go take a shower Bing."

"Yes, Bing," he teased back.

"It sounds like you're talking, and then a timer goes off."

"What?"
"Never mind," Monica said, kissing his cheek and piching his butt, causing him to jump. "Now go take a shower," she kissed him again, "and shave too."

"Yes, ma'am," he said sarcastically and then turned to go into the bathroom..

Monica smiled at the little girl at the table. She realized that she hadn't actually seen her before, she'd been too mad when she walked out. 'God, she looks like Chandler,' monica thought."HI," Monica said and sat down across the table from her.

"HI. I'm Alex. Who're you?" Alex asked.

"Monica."

"I need a naptin," Alex said holding out her hands that were covered in peanut butter, as well as her face Monica held in a laugh and went over to the sink to get a washcloth.

"Here ya go, do you want some help?" Monica said handing it to her.

"No, I can do it," she said before hopping down from the chair and going back to the cartoon that she had been watching.

Chandler walked out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist and looked at Monica and Alex who were talking on the couch. Actually, Alex was talking about something and Monica wasn't really saying anything. Chandler smiled at Monica, who returned it, and then walked into their room to get dressed.

~*~*~*~*~

"Hey sorry to have to leave, but I just got paged," Monica said to Chandler, "A bunch of people din't show up today, so they need me to come in for a couple of hours."

"How long do you have to go in for?" Chandler asked, glancing at Alex, who was coloring, nervous about being left alone with her.

"Not long, only for the lunch shift," Monica said kissing Chandler, "don't worry, you'll be fine," she added in a whisper.

"Okay, bye babe, love you.'
"Love you too, bye."

Chandler found himself, once again, just watching his daughter wondering what to do.

"I wanna go to the park," Alex's voice broke into Chandler's thoguths.

"What?"

"Yesterday Mommy said we were gonna go to the park but we didn't cuz she had to leave."

"Okay, do you want to go now?"

"Yeah!" she said, her eyes lighting up and Chandler smiled.

"Want help putting your shoes on?"

"No, I can do it," she said in a three-year-old way.

~*~*~*~*~

Outside, it was a beautiful spring day, and Chandler wished that Monica hadn't had to work. He held on to Alex's hand tight, not wanting to lose her, but when she saw the swings, she took off running. When she was half way between where Chandler was and the swings, she tripped and fell, crying.

Chandler picked her up, trying to comfort her, but not knowing exactly what to say. "What'd you hurt?" he asked softly. She held out her hand, which has a scrape across it and was bleeding a little, and he kissed it. "Any better, Lexie?" he asked.

"Little," she said sniffling. She buried her head in his chest, but when he asked if she wanted to go home, she said no. So he decided to just walk around.

Chandler looked down at Alex and accidently ran inot someone. "Sorry," he mumbled, not knowing why he even bothered to say it(OK, I got called a bitch twice last week when people ran into me. I don't know why, it's not like I was in there way or really take up that much space in the hallway, I'm a pretty small person, which my friends constantly like to remind me, but that's so off the subject, and anyways, Chandler seems like more of the kind of person that would say 'sorry' not 'bitch' if he ran into someone, LOL)

"Oh my god, Chandler? Chandler Bing, right?" the man he ran into said and turned around.

Pete Becker. Monica's ex. 'God, who am I gonna see next, Janice? Rchard?' Chandler thought.

"Hi," Chandler said forcing a smile and shifting the child in his arms.

"Hi, so, um, how's Monica?" Pete asked after and ackward silence. Or atleast it was ackward for Chandler, Pete woul've had no reason for it to really be ackward.

"Good," Chandler said, smiling 'how many years and he still wants her?' Chandler thougth before adding, "She'd married, 10 months."

"Oh," Pete's face fell, "is this your daughter?"

"Yeah, this is Alexis," he said, but she just burried her head in his chest again. "Are you married?"

"No, and I finally had to give up the Ultimate Fighting thing, I got too many concussions, so my doctor said it was for the best…..so are you married?"

"yea, 10 months," he said and Pete looked at him, wondering if he was implying that he and Monica were married.

"No way, " he said and Chandler nodded, "I don't believe you, you're lying,"

"Believe what you want. I better get going, it was nice seeing you," Chadnler said turing to go.

"Wait, are you serious about you and Monica?"

Chandler reached for his wallet with his free hand and opened it to their wedding picture, handing it to Pete.

"Wow," Pete said before handing it back to Chandler, "I gotta go, I have a meeting in 15 minutes. It was nice seeing you again. Bye."

"Bye," Chandler said and watched him walk away. He could've sworn that Pete looked jealous. Pete Becker, multi-millionaire, jealous of him, a data-processor who's temp job after college had turned into his career. Chandler might not be successful in many things, but he did have the one thing that Pete had always wanted.

Monica.

Chandler couldn't help but smile.

~*~*~*~*~

"Wow, that was exhausting," Chandler said later that night as he sat down on the couch. He had just explained the situation with Kathy and Alex to their friends, four separate times, once to each of them. Alex hadn't wanted to go to bed with all the people there, she wanted to play, but Chandler had finally got her to go to sleep. Now he and Monica were alone.

"Daddy?" Alex said and Chandler realized that she hadn't actually called him that before. He couldn't explain the feeling that he got when she said it, but he tried to hide his grin.

"yeah?"

"I had a bad dream," she said, almost crying, before climbing onto his lap. Chandler looked at Monica, not sure what to say, but before he could say anything the phone rang. Monica answered it and handed it to Chandler, mouthing, "it's kathy."

"Hey."

"Hey, sorry to call so late, but I was really busy today," Kathy apologized.

"That's okay, are you checking up on me?"

"Kind of. I was going to call earlier to talk to Alex, but,"

"She just woke up, she had a bad dream, do you want to talk to her?" Chandler handed the phone to Alex.

"Hi!" Alex said, excited to talk to her mom. "Yeah. Uh-huh. Went to the park. Yeah. No. why? No." she answered her mom's questions. "Love you, bye-bye." She handed the phone back to Chandler.

Monica watched as Alex cuddled up to her dad. She wouldn't admit it to anyone, but she was a little jealous that Chandler had a kid with someone else. But there was also a part of her that love seeing Chandler with Alex. There were somethings that he didn't know, but mostly things learned forom experience. Being a good dad can't really be learned.

That he was. Monica looked back over at Alex, who had fallen asleep in his arms. She looked up and noticed that Chandler was watching her, and they smiled at each other. He finally got off the phone with Kathy, and stood up, being careful not to wake Alex up. He put her in bed and covered her up, and just stood there watching her sleep. He kissed her on the forehead, wondering how he'd be able to let her go when Kathy came back.

Chandler walked out and smiled at Monica. She stood and walked over to him, wrapping her arms around him, and they kissed. The only words exchanged were "I love you," as they moved to their bedroom, taking advantage of the fact that Alex would probably be asleep for the rest of the night.

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NO cliffhanger this time!!!! Bet you're disappointed. LOL. Please review, I like knowing that I atleast don't horribly suck and that someone's actually reading this!!! Thanks!!!!