Someone To Watch Over Me~

Chapter 3: Everything You Want

Disclaimer: Yeah, they're still not mine…

Okay, this chapter is really just a bridge between the last chapter and the next, so it probably won't be very good at all (not that the last two were either, but…). Anyway, the song is sung by Vertical Horizon (I don't own it, I just use it, so please don't sue me).

This one starts right where the last one left off:

And suddenly, Ross and Rachel's problems didn't seem as important to them anymore. Ross went into "big brother" mode and started pacing around, muttering "Who did this to my baby sister? I'll kick his ass! I will!"

Rachel, once she had recovered from the initial shock, went into "best friend" mode, trying to figure out how to calm Ross down enough that she could comfort Monica. To make matters worse, Rachel heard Phoebe coming up the stairs singing 'Smelly Cat' and trying to teach it to Joey. As much as she loved the two of them, 'Smelly Cat' was not what Monica need right now.

"Look Ross," she started. "You're gonna have to stop pacing and help me. Can you go out there and distract Joey and Phoebes? Start talking about evolution or something else that you can get Phoebe arguing about and then try to get Joey involved or something. I just really need to talk to Monica about this right now."

"I would only do this for you," he says, and he goes and catches the two of them right as they were about to come into the apartment. He talks to them for a few seconds, and you can see Phoebe really getting into their argument. Ross starts to move towards the stairs, and Phoebe follows, still arguing. Joey follows behind, not really knowing what was going on.

With that accomplished, Rachel could talk to Monica about the pregnancy test. She shut the apartment door, which had remained open when Ross, Joey, and Phoebe had left in a hurry. Then she knocked on Monica's bedroom door before poking her head in. "Mon," she asked, "You okay?" She sat down on Monica's bed next to where Monica had flung herself.

Monica lifted her head off of the bed. "What do you think? I mean I was really over Richard, and now…" she trailed off.

"Oh honey, you don't know for sure yet. It might have been a false positive. Those things happen all the time. Why don't you take another test?"

"Come on Rach, realistically speaking, what are the odds of this being a false positive? Plus I'm showing all of the symptoms. I'm late; I've had this flu-like thing that I thought I had just picked up at work; I've been nauseated." She thinks for a second. "You know, the ironic thing is that this is the reason that we broke up in the first place. I don't think I'm even gonna tell him."

"But you have to tell him."

"Why, it's not like I even really would want him to be a part of the baby's life so why bother. I'll be able to handle it financially, so why ask him for emotional support that he either isn't going to give or doesn't want to give."

"You have a point, but he's still the father. Maybe he'd change his mind?"

"I doubt it. He has grandchildren older than this baby is."

"You know whatever happens, we'll all be here for you. I'll make a doctor's appointment for you; I'll go with you; anything you need." Rachel hugs her. Monica was really grateful that she had friends like her. Then she thought of something else.

"What about Brian? And my parents? I'm gonna be disowned."

"No you're not, honey. Even if she is a bitch sometimes, she still loves you. And this would be you giving her a grandchild. I know she would support Ross and me if I got pregnant."

"That's because it would be Ross' baby too. I know she already likes you more than me. She probably likes Carol more than me."

"Mon, don't freak out yet. I think that you should take another test, k?"

"But I only bought one."

"You don't think that I don't have a spare lying around here somewhere, just in case of an emergency?"

*******

The next day, Monica, Rachel, and Chandler were sitting in the examining room at the doctor's office, the second pregnancy test having been positive as well. Monica had told Chandler about the pregnancy, and he and Rachel had taken the day off of work to come to the doctor's appointment with her. When Dr. Smith came into the room, Rachel was sitting in the chair against the wall, and Chandler was holding Monica's hand, trying more to calm himself down then to calm her down. He was so mad at Richard. Richard didn't know what he had, and look what he'd done. Chandler vowed silently that he would do anything to make this easier on Monica.

"Hello Mrs. Geller. I'm Dr. Smith. Is this the proud father-to-be?" He asked.

"Actually, it's Miss Geller, and he's just a friend," she said. "This is Chandler Bing and Rachel Green."

Just a friend. She would never know how much those words stung.

"Alright, you've taken a home pregnancy test, right?"

"Two."

"So this test isn't gonna be anything new because I always said that the day a woman got more than one home test to be false positive would be the day that hell froze over and pigs flew there."

Monica had resigned herself to her fate; there was only one person that she dreaded telling more than her parents.

*******

"What's she doing?" Phoebe asked Rachel. Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, and Joey were in Monica and Rachel's apartment. Brian had just gotten back from his conference, and he and Monica were in her room. She was just about break up with him because she didn't want to have to tell him about the baby and have him break up with her. Everyone else, except for Ross who was with Ben, had just gotten back from a movie. They were all very worried about Monica. Joey was so worried that he had proposed to her, an offer that Monica had politely refused. Just then, the phone rang, and Chandler picked it up.

"Hello?" he listened for a second. She's right here, hold on. He covered the receiver with his hand. "It's the doctor. What do I do?"

"Give me the phone, fool!" Rachel said. "This is Monica." She listens, "Oh well, okay then. Thank you."

"What did he say?"

Rachel ignores them and flings the door to Monica's bedroom open. "Monica! Monica!" She yells.

"Is this really important?" Monica wasn't looking forward to doing this in the first place; she really didn't want to prolong her misery.

"Well I just wanted to ask you if you had seen any pigs flying towards hell?" Rachel prayed silently that Monica would get her hint. She heard Chandler trying to stop Phoebe from continuing to shout 'Oh! I saw two yesterday!' and Joey from asking 'Where Phoebes? I wanna see.'

It took Monica a second, but she caught on, after getting a puzzled look from Brian. "It's some weird contest thing that my friends are having. A bet or something I think." Then she mouthed 'I'll explain later.'

"Okay, well I'm gonna leave you two alone, but…" she was cut off by Monica.

"Wait, Rach. I need to talk to you for a second." She grabbed Rachel by the wrist and dragged her into her room. "What was that about?!?!"

"Dr. Smith called and said that he was going to have to go on a search for pigs flying to a frozen-over hell now because you aren't pregnant."

"I'm not?"

"No, apparently you had some really weird infection that's been going around. He wrote you a prescription, and you can pick it up tomorrow. He's not quite sure where the two false positives fit in, but in the scheme of things, doesn't this work out for the best?"

"Well yeah," she says, wiping tears from her eyes, "But I think a part of me really wanted this baby, even though it was Richard's." Rachel hugs her before she continues. "I had better go back to Brian before he really suspects something. I'll explain everything to him in a little while. But can you do me a huge favor?"

"Sure."

"Will you tell the others for me? I just really don't want to talk about it or even think about it, you know?"

"No problem. Chandler will help me; I think he figured it out when I told you."

"You guys are the greatest."

"Well, I wouldn't say that," Chandler grinned as he walked into the room. "But I'm not gonna argue with you."

*******

When Monica told Brian about everything that happened while he was away, she was expecting him to break up with her then and there. Instead, he took her in his arms and told her that everything was going to be okay and that he wasn't going to let it bother him. And five months later, they were still together and very much in love, or so it seemed. Monica knew that Brian was a great guy, and she thought that she was in love with him. But she kept having these dreams at night that she would be cooking dinner and her husband would come home and wrap his arms around her and she would turn around to kiss him, but then everything would disappear. She couldn't figure out what the dreams meant, but she also couldn't figure out why she couldn't see Brian in the dreams, if things were really going so well between them.

Somewhere there's speaking

It's already coming in

Oh, and it's rising at the back of your mind

You never could get it

Unless you were fed it

Now you're here and you don't know why

But under skinned knees

And the skid marks

Past the places where you used to learn

You howl and listen

Listen and wait for the

Echoes of angels who won't return

He's everything you want

He's everything you need

He's everything inside of you

That you wish you could be

He says all the right things

At exactly the right time

But he means nothing to you

And you don't know why

Joey had a new girlfriend. Her name was Kathy, and Monica could tell that Chandler really liked her. She didn't know why it made her feel so uncomfortable. 'You're in love with Brian,' she kept telling herself. Finally she convinced herself that she was just worried about Chandler getting himself hurt. It was never a good thing to fall for one of Joey's girlfriends. 'That's it,' she told herself. 'You're just worried that he'll get hurt.'

You're waiting for someone

To put you together

You're waiting for someone to push you away

There's always another

Wound to discover

There's always something more you wish he'd say

He's everything you want

He's everything you need

He's everything inside of you

That you wish you could be

He says all the right things

At exactly the right time

But he means nothing to you

And you don't know why

As much as Chandler wanted to, he just couldn't bring himself to hate Brian. And he really wanted to. But he made her happy, so Chandler would just suck it up and deal with it. 'It's never gonna happen with Monica,' he told himself, 'So you had better get over it.'

But you'll just sit tight

And watch it unwind

It's only what you're asking for

And you'll be just fine

With all of your time

It's only what you're waiting for

Out of the island

Into the highway

Past the places where you might have turned

You never did notice

But you still hide away

The anger of angels who won't return

He's everything you want

He's everything you need

He's everything inside of you

That you wish you could be

He says all the right things

At exactly the right time

But he means nothing to you

And you don't know why

He's everything you want

He's everything you need

He's everything inside of you

That you wish you could be

He says all the right things

At exactly the right time

But he means nothing to you

And you don't know why

And I don't know

Why

Why

And I don't know

And then, he made one of the worst mistakes he ever made in his life.



Part three is done! Yea! Please, please, please review! It would make me very happy…

I know this was, again, predictable, but I've got some interesting ideas for future chapters *if you review* , hint hint…