Simply Complicated~part 12

Funny How Life Happens

Hey all : ) thanks so much for all the great reviews and for agreeing with me that hugs are great presents. And catnamedzane thanks for the poem, I'll use that : ) I hope all of your thanksgivings/just-another-thursdays-cuz-you-don't-live-in-the-U.S. were great. Mine was as okay as a nine hour drive with a younger brother and then a four-day weekend with relatives followed by another nine hour drive can be…Though I did find out that I got my grandma hooked on friends the last time she was here and now she's like "I finally start watching it and now it's all gonna end!" lol, it's pretty funny. But enough of my rambling, here we go…

"Daddy's here, don't cry," Chandler said, lifting Melia out of her crib. "It's okay." He tried to keep gently bouncing her to keep her from crying as he walked into the kitchen to warm up a bottle. "Shh, I'm hurrying," he whispered, but sighed when he looked in the refrigerator and realized that there weren't any bottles left. "Looks like your mom's gonna have to get up," he looked down at her, letting her suck on his finger as she continued to whimper.

Chandler opened Monica's door slowly. "Mon?" He walked over to her bed. "Monica."

"Hmm," she answered, not fully awake.

"Um, there's no more bottles and she'd like to make a complaint about that," he sat down beside her on the bed as Monica sat up, handing her the baby.

"Daddy's finger doesn't cut it?" Monica asked as she took Melia from him.

"Not for long," he yawned, leaning back against the pillows. He turned his head, watching as Monica fed their daughter. It had taken him about two minutes into the first time that she had breastfed her to realize that everything Ross had said after Ben was born was true. He'd immediately realized why Ross has said that it wasn't gross, but beautiful. Chandler smiled, almost laughing out loud wondering when he'd become such a grown-up.

Monica was very aware of the fact that Chandler was watching her. At first it had seemed a little weird, but she'd quickly gotten over that. Not that she wanted to whole world watching, but Chandler was okay.

When Melia was done, Monica looked over at Chandler, smiling when she saw that he had fallen asleep. She stood up slowly, not wanting to disturb Melia, who was starting to go back to sleep after being burped, or wake up Chandler.

Monica came back in the room after putting Melia back to bed, crawling into bed next to Chandler and pulling the covers up, hoping that there'd be the small chance that she'd get a few more hours of sleep before morning.

~*~

"No one here up yet?" Joey asked, walking into Monica's apartment to find Phoebe, Ross, and Rachel at the table eating breakfast.

"You mean Chandler's not over there taking a shower or something?" Rachel asked.

"No, why?"

"Because I don't think he's here either," she motioned to the blankets waded up on the couch.

"Where'd he go?"

"Would we be asking if we knew?" Rachel just looked at him.

"Well Monica's probably not here either then. Melia probably just got them up early and they went somewhere," he sat down at the table, taking a handful of cereal out of the box on the table.

"Where would they go on a Saturday morning?"

"Breakfast," Joey grinned, taking a second handful of cereal.

"Well I'm gonna go see if Monica's here," Rachel stood up, going over to Monica's room and slowly opening the door, trying to be quiet in case she was still asleep. Rachel grinned, seeing the answer to her question. That was the way it was supposed to be.

"What?" Ross asked when she came back to the kitchen.

"They're here."

"They as in Monica and Melia, or…"

"They as in Monica and Chandler, so I'd assume that would mean Melia, too," Rachel sat down.

"Well what's he doing in there?" Ross asked, trying to sound casual about it.

"Ross, let it go."

"But why's he sleeping with her?"

"You do realize that they have had sex before, Ross. I'd say the baby in the next room is proof of that if you don't."

"But-"

"Ross, they have a kid together. If they can make this work any way they can, just let them. Let it happen," Rachel said, and Ross finally sighed, realizing her point.

"Fine."

~*~

"You awake?" Monica asked, not moving from her position in Chandler's arms, not caring to ever move.

"Mmm-hmm," he mumbled, "What time is it?"

"7:48."

"Wow, over four hours of sleep…that's gotta be a record," he continued to mumble into her hair.

Monica moved to get up causing Chandler to moan in protest. Monica just laughed, rolling over so that she was facing him. "Morning," she smiled, realizing that it'd been a long time since she'd woken up in his arms, always forgetting just how right it felt when she did. And that might have been what scared her the most. Just how right it felt.

"Morning," Chandler smiled back. "I guess we probably should get up," he said, not meaning a word of it, but as if on cue, Melia started to cry, and they both just laughed.

Monica stood up, "You can go back to sleep if you want."

"Nah, I'll get up, just give me a minute," he yawned, watching her walk out the door.

"Good morning," Chandler was greeted by the other four as soon as he walked out of Monica's room, all of them looking at him, hoping that he'd explain whatever had happened the night before.

"Morning," he replied, pouring himself a cup of coffee.

"So…did ya get lucky last night?" Joey grinned at him.

"Joey!"

"Joe!" Both girls hit him on the back of the head.

"Yep, real lucky," he smiled back, "Over four hours of sleep."

"Dude, that's not what I meant," Joey looked at him, explaining himself. "I meant-"

"I know what you meant, Joe," Chandler interrupted him.

"So…Did you?" Phoebe finally asked.

"Phoebs!" Rachel looked at her.

"Sorry, I wanna know!"

Chandler just looked around at the four sets of eyes wanting to know what happened. "No," he finally answered. "I fell asleep in there…nothing happened," he paused. "But so what if it did? How is that any of you guys' business?" he paused again, waiting for someone to answer.

Monica walked out of Melia's room, looking around. "Wow, don't stop talking on my account," she walked over to Chandler. "I'm gonna go take a shower," she handed Melia to him.

Chandler took her, leaning back against the counter. He looked down at her, letting her grab onto his finger, trying to fit the whole thing into her mouth. Chandler just smiled.

"Wow, I so never saw you in this role," Phoebe said, immediately embarrassed as she realized that she had actually said that outloud, not just thought it. "Um, sorry, I just…"

"It's okay, neither did I," he smiled at her uncertainty before looking back down at Melia, who seemed to be studying his face. "Funny how life happens."

~*~

"I don't know, I just still miss her so much when I'm away from her," Monica said as she and Rachel walked through the door to her apartment.

"So when are you going back to work?"

"Nest week I'm going to go back part time," Monica walked over to turn off the TV, pausing in front of the couch, not able to help but grin.

"What?" Rachel went over to where she was standing, smiling when she saw what Monica had seen. Chandler was asleep on the couch, Melia lying on his chest, his arm protectively around her. Rachel looked back up at Monica, noticing the look on her face. "Why aren't you together?" she finally asked.

"What?" Monica snapped out of it, looking back up at Rachel.

"You and Chandler. Why aren't you together?"

"Why would we be?"

"Come on, Monica, you can't be that blind. I've seen the way you two look at each other. And you have a kid together…How can it get any more perfect than that?"

Monica looked back over at the couch, to the two people who she could safely say meant the most to her in the world, before looking back up at Rachel. "How can it get any more complicated than that?"

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And that's it for this part! Please review, only one more part to go after this and I'm not gonna post it till I get a bunch of reviews ; )