These Two Hearts
"A New Way of Life"
Rachel was seated in a chair, waiting for the moment that Ross would wake. She had been there all night and the time was about noon now. Chandler and Monica went home late last night, mainly to check on Ben for her. She was scared, she tried to think of something else, anything else. The T.V. was helping a bit. Well until this came one.
A CNN special report came across the screen. The Reporter started: Last night, Ross Geller was shot by his girlfriend of eighteen months, Rachel Green's previous boyfriend.Barry Farber. Details are sketchy, buy Barry Farber was pronounced dead, and Ross Geller lies in critical condition. All our prayers here at CNN go to his family, his son Ben Willick-Geller, as well as his girlfriend Rachel Green who has been said to still be in his hospital room.
She once again felt tears begin to well up in her eyes. She needed to leave, she needed to be away from him when he was like this. But she couldn't force herself to go. More then anything, she wanted to be there when Ross woke up.
"Hey Rach." Monica's voice interrupted Rachel's thoughts as she entered the hospital room.
"Oh hey Mon.no change yet." Rachel said quietly.
Monica approached Rachel and hugged her from behind. "He lost a lot of blood last night, we have to wait for his system to get itself in check."
"I know Mon.it's just so hard." Rachel replied.
"Maybe you should go home, shower and see Ben, Chandler took him there today. He misses you ya know, and he doesn't quite understand what happened to Ross. Chandler and I tried to explain it, but I don't think we did a very good job." Monica spoke softly.
"Ok, I think I'll go." Rachel got up and approached Ross slowly. Rachel looked down at Ross, "I want you to know Ross, that you need to wake up. Because I need you, little Ben needs you, and our baby needs you.but if you don't, I promise that I will always take care of Ben. I will treat him like my own son, and I will make sure our little boy or girl knows what a great man you were." As she finished her sentence she leaned down to a sleeping Ross, and kissed his lips gently.
Rachel turned around and hugged Monica tightly. "Call me if there are any changes O.K. I'll be back in about two hours." With that Rachel left the room and Monica went up to Ross.
"Hey bro.how you doing? Dumb question huh, your not doing fine, your lying here sleeping, and got us all worried about you. Mom and Dad well be by to visit later this afternoon. You need to wake up O.K. I have not been half this happy before you returned from Hollywood. I love having you in my life again. I don't want to go back to the way it was for those five years. Not talking to you, not sharing old memories with you, and making new ones. But most of all I love you and hope to all hell that you wake up soon." Monica began to trail off as tears started flowing from her eyes. She wiped and wiped but could not stop the flood gates that had opened. She kissed him on the forehead and took a seat where Rachel was when she arrived.
Chandler had just laid Ben down for a nap and started working on his Laptop. Rachel entered her apartment looking exhausted. It was very difficult for her to get out of the hospital. The media was every where. Damn paparazzi. "Hey Chandler.what ya working on.imputing numbers from my living room now?" Rachel asked trying to cheer herself up a bit.
"Nope, just writing some stuff. I know this may come as a surprise but being a Data Processor wasn't always my life long dream. Ross told me awhile ago that I need to figure out what exactly I want to do in life, and then just do it." Chandler now began to tear up as he flipped his laptop closed. "Any change?"
Rachel looked down as she shuffled through some stuff on the counter. "Not a one. He's still sleeping.I'm gonna hop in the shower then check on Ben. I wonder.do you think he'd wanna visit his dad?" Rachel asked as she left the counter.
"I'm sure he would and I think that'd be a great idea." Chandler said as he got up. "So if you don't need me, I'm just going to swing by the hospital?" Rachel turned around and nodded at him. "Ok, then I'll see you there."
"Oh Chandler be careful, it's a media zoo out there." Rachel called out to him. Chandler just kind of smiled and gave her a look like who would care about me. After he left Rachel entered the bathroom and undressed. She stared in the mirror as she absentmindedly played with the ring she hung around her neck. A single tear flowed down her cheek as she entered the shower.
A short time passed and Rachel was now fully dressed and waking up Ben. "Hey buddy.wake up." Rachel whispered into Ben's ear. Ben began to stir and after Rachel shook his arm a little bit Ben sat up and wiped his eyes. "You want to go visit daddy?" Rachel asked trying to sound upbeat.
Ben looked really sad all of a sudden. "Rachel.is my daddy gonna die?"
"WHAT?" Rachel was startled, she hadn't expected Ben to say that. "Why would you think that?"
"Because Aunty Monica said Daddy was ina accident.and when my mommies were ina accident.they died and went to heaven." Ben began sobbing as Rachel pulled him into a hug. She started to gently rock him wishing she knew how to console him. She thought to herself, if she could find a way to give him hope, than maybe she could have hope herself.
"Ben sweetie.hush it'll be okay. You're a big boy now, so I'm gonna be honest. Your daddy is sleeping, and no one knows when he's gonna wake up. But no matter how long that takes, I am gonna be here, so you will not be alone. I know I could never be your daddy or either of your mommies. But I'll try my best to be everything they were." Rachel now began crying as she remembered her promise she made to Ross just hours earlier. "I love you my little Benny Boy."
"I love you too.Rachel." Little Ben said smiling slightly as he looked up at Rachel.
A week had passed since Ross's shooting. Still no sign of him waking up had been shown. His condition had stabilized and all that was needed was Ross to open his eyes. The doctor's were unsure as to why he fell into such a deep coma, maybe it was because of all the blood loss, but no one could be sure. Rachel was getting ready to pick up Ben from pre-school when the phone rang. She rushed over to it hoping for word from the hospital.
"Hello?" she answered out of breath.
"Hey.Miss Green, its John Adams again." The voice on the other end of the phone stated.
"Yeah, Ross's agent, sorry no changes yet." Rachel said somberly.
"Jeez, will how are you holding up?" John asked with a voice filled with sympathy.
"I'm good, just about to go pick up Ben." She tired of everyone calling and asking for news. Didn't they realize that the minute he woke up all the papers and news stations would be all over it.
"Okay, then let me make this quick.you remember the Emmy Ross was nominated for?" John asked now trying to sound a little more professional.
"Oh my God I completely forgot." Rachel replied astonished. Of course how could she not forget with all that had been going on.
"Well Ross and two reserved. One for you and him. I need to know if you'll be going to accept the reward or if you want me to arrange something. I know this is a horrible time for that, but it may help you take your mind off of the whole situation." John said trying to ease Rachel's mind.
"Ummm, yeah I'll go and I'll see if Ross's sister will come, thanks for reminding me John.but I really got to go." Rachel said and waited for John to say his good-byes, before hanging up and leaving to pick up Ben and make their daily visit to see Ross. The plans were all set for the Emmys. Phoebe was going to baby sit Ben, while Monica accompanied Rachel to the show. Chandler had decided he was going to sit with Ross for awhile that night. The night of the Emmy's was roughly three weeks after Ross was shot and he still had not woken about. They all still had faith that he would, but seemed to become more and more depressed as time went by.
"Wow Rachel, I don't know how you and Ross can stay so calm when you do these things. I'm so nervous I could pee my pans, and I'm just sitting here. I mean as we were walking in and everyone was staring.well they were probably staring at you not me." Monica rambled on and on as she nervously shifted around in her chair. Rachel found this rather amusing. She thought to herself, was I this weird the first time I came to one of these big events?
"Mon.calm down, trust me everyone nominated tonight are ten times as nervous as you are, hell if you want a reason to be nervous, you can go accept the award if Ross wins." Rachel now started laughing as Monica's eyes grew extremely wide.
"No no nononononono.I couldn't, I wouldn't have no idea what to say." Monica began to hysterically cry.
"Shhh Monica calm down.I was only kidding. No hush its starting." Rachel said soothingly as she grasped Monica's hand.
Chandler sat in Ross's hospital room as he worked on his laptop. He sometimes glanced up at the T.V. wondering if he would catch a glimpse of his Monica, but would most likely only see her if they did a shot of Rachel, or if Ross won Best Leading Actor in an Action Movie (I'll be honest, I have no idea if that's an actual category, I could care less about the Emmys.) He looked down at Ross and sighed sadly. He then glanced back at his laptop and stared hopelessly.
"Ya know man, I've been trying to follow your advice, and it worked." Chandler began talking to Ross much like the others did, they just pretended that Ross could hear them, or perhaps that the sound of their voices would snap Ross back to the land of the living. "I've been working on a movie script you see, at first I was gonna write a novel, but well that seemed a little to close what my Mom does, and you know how anything about my mom grosses me out, so I thought lets write a movie. And what makes the most classic stories for movies." Chandler began to ramble on. He let out a loud sigh and continued. "A love story of course. A modern day love story. You see you have a lot of reason to wake up, I miss you is one of them, but one of the smaller reasons for you to wake up is that my movie its about you. Well you and Rachel, its not detail for detail your guys' story, but based upon it. And well the guy dying wouldn't really make a happy ending. That why you need to wake up. You need to wake up and marry Rachel, then my movie will have a happy ending, just like your life.: Chandler now started to trail off as the thought of Ross never waking up made him even more depressed then he already was.
"And I suppose you'd want me to play me in this movie huh?" a raspy voice called out to Chandler. Chandler's head bolted up right in a second. He stood and rushed towards Ross's bed. When he got there he looked down and tears welled up in his eyes. Chandler embraced Ross tightly. "Woah man, your going to choke the life out of me." Ross said sarcastically.
"Will its about time, you had us all so worried!" Chandler cried in shock. "Oh my god I have to get message to Rachel, she told me to Text Message her phone if their was any change.she is gonna be so thrilled!"
"Well, we'll get to see her expression cause look." Ross pointed at the T.V. that Chandler had muted where we could see the words "Ross Geller wins Best Actor in an Action Movie"
Rachel had just accepted the award for Ross and was beginning an acceptance speech. "Well, this isn't my award, and I wish I could say I was happy for accepting it, but Ross is still in a coma, and although I know he will wake up, I still feel sad that he was unable to enjoy this great honor. I know he would say that there was a lot of better actors out there who were better suited for this honor.but." Rachel was interrupted by her cell phone vibrating. She glanced down at it and read the words Ross is awake. She began crying uncontrollably. She continued her speech quickly."and I know he would like to send his thanks to all the fans, his family, and everyone who helped him. Thanks." And with that Rachel rushed off the stage, gathered Monica and they were off to the hospital.
Rachel burst into the Ross's hospital room clutching the Emmy in one hand and rushed towards Ross who was sitting up and just finished and exam by the doctor. She enveloped him in a hug and pressed her lips to his passionately. This kiss went on for minutes as Monica and Chandler stood back and watch on in pure happiness. Chandler motioned to Monica that maybe they should give them a moment, Monica reluctantly agreed and they exited.
"Thank God your awake.these pass three weeks have been hell Ross!" Rachel cried out in pure bliss.
"I am so sorry Rach, but the doctors say I'm fine and I can go home in the morning. I've already arranged for the media to think that my release well be three days from now." Ross said as his stroked her back soothingly.
"By the way.this is yours." Rachel smiled sheepishly as she handed him the Emmy.
"I know.great speech by the way.and way to hold the water works back " Ross said laughingly.
"You saw." she smiled shyly.
"You looked wonderful up there, and you look lovely right now." Ross stated softly as he kissed her once again.
The next morning Rachel and Ben showed up to bring Ross home. Ross's plan for when he was to be released didn't go as well as he had hoped, but that didn't matter, he had the woman he loved with him, and his son, who was very happy that his father woke up from his "sleep". Ross enjoyed a great morning and afternoon with Ben and Rachel. He listened to Ben's every detail about how Rachel took care of him.
Ross was laying Ben down for an afternoon nap while Rachel was in there bedroom tidying up a bit.
"Daddy? Can I ask you a question?" Ben yawned as Ross finished tucking him in.
"Yeah Ben, you can ask me anything." Ross replied quietly.
"When you were sleeping.Rachel took care of me, just like my mommies. Is she my new mommy?" Ben asked curiously.
Ross was taken back. He thought over his words carefully. "I don't know Ben, would you like her to be your new mommy?"
"Yeah, I think she'd be a great mommy." Ben said as he began to fall asleep.
"Well, maybe she could be your new mommy." Ross spoke softly as Ben fell asleep. ".someday." He gave Ben a small kiss on the top of his head and preceded out of the room.
Rachel hadn't realized all the little things that she had let go in the past couple weeks. Sure she took good care of Ben, did the shopping and paid the bills. But their room was horrible. Dirty clothes and magazines were everywhere. She was doing her best to get it as cleaned as possible, that was until Ross's arms wrapped around her from behind and he nuzzled into her neck.
"Hmmmm, I've missed that." Rachel sighed out in comfort. Ross then preceded to lift her shirt up over her head and spun her around and kissed her deeply. "I've missed this too." Rachel said with a giggle. Ross stepped back and looked her up and down, at first enjoying the view, but the suddenly seeing something. He noticed the ring he bought for her, the ring he was going to propose with. His mind started to drift for a second.
"I will where this ring around my neck until you wake up and place it on my finger. I want you to know, my heart also belongs to you."
Those words echoed in his mind. Did she really say those words to him while he was in his coma? It didn't matter, she had it around her neck, and obviously Chandler would have told her what it was for. He approached her once again and unclasped the necklace. Realization dawned on Rachel that she still wore the wedding ring around her neck, tears began to flow from her eyes. Ross got down onto his knees and took Rachel's hand. "May I?" Ross asked as he motioned to slide the ring upon her finger. Rachel nodded her head enthusiastically. Ross did so as Rachel fell to her knees. She kissed him passionately, and both enjoyed something that they had long missed these past three weeks. The closeness and passion that came when they made love.
A couple hours later Rachel lied with her head on Ross's chest. Moments like this she treasured the most.
"Rach.I love you, more than anything in the world. Well I love you as much as I love Ben. And I am so glad that you want to marry me, but I have another question." Ross said as he broke their silence.
"Yeah, honey." Rachel rolled over to face him in the eyes.
"Well you adopt Ben, he wants you to be his new mommy, and so do I.you've been so wonderful with him since he's moved here, and I think you'll make a great mother." Ross asked hoping that she would say yes.
Rachel now had tears forming in her eyes once again. "Of course I well.and it means so much to me knowing you think I'll be a great mother, because.I'm a.we're going to, well I'm carrying your baby!" Rachel finished smiling widely. She knew he'd be happy, he wanted to be a family with her. This was the greatest day of her life.
Ross's face lighted right up. "Rach.you make me so happy." He just pulled her close and hugged her tightly.
Ross and Rachel's wedding was beautiful. With the amount of money they had, it was no problem planning it out in a month. They wanted to be married as soon as possible, for three reasons. Reason one was they didn't want to wait. Reason two was they wanted their baby born after they were married, and the final reason was Rachel didn't want to be showing when she had to wear a wedding dress. It was a small and simple wedding. They had it on a small cliff in Barbados. Rachel took steps towards reconciliation with her family by asking them to be there. Stevie Wonder was kind enough to sing "Isn't She Lovely" as Dr. Green escorted her down the aisle and handed her off to Ross. Chandler and Monica watched on as best man and maid of honor. Joey and Pheobe stood a couple steps back as a groomsmen and a bridesmaid. Rolling Stone was on hand to do photographs. They were the only media notified and in exchange for them remaining quiet, they were given exclusivity.
"Ross, through out my popularity in high school, my success as a singer. Not a moment made me as happy as I am right now. Being your wife is a dream come true. A dream that I never knew I had until the day you walked back into my life. I will love you always. And I thank you, for this new way of life you have shown me. A life of love." Rachel recited those words, her vows in tears. Ross smiled at her and began his vows. "Rachel, you have brought me so much happiness these past couple years. You have opened parts of my heart that I never knew I had. I will spend every moment of the rest of my life making you just as happy as you make me. You I will love you until the day I die." Ross said more collected than Rachel, but still with a tear or two streaming from the corners of his eyes. The words from the minister were spoken, but Ross and Rachel couldn't hear them. They just closed in and shared their first kiss as a married couple.
Ross and Rachel Geller were announced to those closest to them in the fabulous sunset. Never was there a more perfect ending than this. Never was there a more perfect couple than these two. Chandler smiled to himself, a perfect ending, for a perfect love story.
Rachel looked out at the shining sky. She was going to be O.K. Her morning sickness was still not over, she wondered would it ever end as she rubbed the bump that was growing bigger by the day. Her thoughts were interrupted as Ben came running into the living room. "Momma, come look, they got something about Daddy on T.V. again!" Rachel smiled at little Ben and followed him across the living room and sat on the couch.
"Well, the movie well begin filming as soon as Rachel is feeling up to it after our baby is born." Ross spoke to the reporter on T.V. "But hey, why let me tell you about when the writer is here as well, this is the man behind the movie, my brother in law Chandler Bing."
Chandler came out from the back of the stage and joined Ross on the couch and began to talk about the movie.
Ross returned home later that night and met his wife Rachel in their bedroom. Rachel smiled up at him. "I saw you and Chandler on T.V. today. The producers are really promoting the hell out of this movie, and we won't be filming it for like what eight months?"
"Yeah, about that.you sure you're going to be able to handle singing most of the soundtrack?" Ross asked, he worried about her, he never wanted anything to hurt her. Sometimes he felt she could take on too much.
"Oh, I'm more worried about acting than anything else, but I am excited to be able to re-live our relationship." Rachel kissed him softly as he joined her in bed. "You know Joey has been asking if he can have a part in the movie, I was thinking we should let him."
"It's not up to me, but I bet the two of us could get him a decent sized role." Ross cuddled up to her and held her tight. "After all we are the stars of 'These Two Hearts' probably one of the most anticipated movies of our time." He kissed her temple as she laughed. "So, after our baby is born, and this movie is done.where do we go from there?"
Rachel looked at him and spoke softly. "Where ever our love takes us." And that is how the rest of their nights together went. They would talk, they would laugh, and they would love one another. A New Way of Life for Ross and Rachel was formed.
The End.
That's it, what do you all think. I hope everyone enjoyed, so if your reading this, could you take a minute and let me know what you thought.
Thanks
Rachel was seated in a chair, waiting for the moment that Ross would wake. She had been there all night and the time was about noon now. Chandler and Monica went home late last night, mainly to check on Ben for her. She was scared, she tried to think of something else, anything else. The T.V. was helping a bit. Well until this came one.
A CNN special report came across the screen. The Reporter started: Last night, Ross Geller was shot by his girlfriend of eighteen months, Rachel Green's previous boyfriend.Barry Farber. Details are sketchy, buy Barry Farber was pronounced dead, and Ross Geller lies in critical condition. All our prayers here at CNN go to his family, his son Ben Willick-Geller, as well as his girlfriend Rachel Green who has been said to still be in his hospital room.
She once again felt tears begin to well up in her eyes. She needed to leave, she needed to be away from him when he was like this. But she couldn't force herself to go. More then anything, she wanted to be there when Ross woke up.
"Hey Rach." Monica's voice interrupted Rachel's thoughts as she entered the hospital room.
"Oh hey Mon.no change yet." Rachel said quietly.
Monica approached Rachel and hugged her from behind. "He lost a lot of blood last night, we have to wait for his system to get itself in check."
"I know Mon.it's just so hard." Rachel replied.
"Maybe you should go home, shower and see Ben, Chandler took him there today. He misses you ya know, and he doesn't quite understand what happened to Ross. Chandler and I tried to explain it, but I don't think we did a very good job." Monica spoke softly.
"Ok, I think I'll go." Rachel got up and approached Ross slowly. Rachel looked down at Ross, "I want you to know Ross, that you need to wake up. Because I need you, little Ben needs you, and our baby needs you.but if you don't, I promise that I will always take care of Ben. I will treat him like my own son, and I will make sure our little boy or girl knows what a great man you were." As she finished her sentence she leaned down to a sleeping Ross, and kissed his lips gently.
Rachel turned around and hugged Monica tightly. "Call me if there are any changes O.K. I'll be back in about two hours." With that Rachel left the room and Monica went up to Ross.
"Hey bro.how you doing? Dumb question huh, your not doing fine, your lying here sleeping, and got us all worried about you. Mom and Dad well be by to visit later this afternoon. You need to wake up O.K. I have not been half this happy before you returned from Hollywood. I love having you in my life again. I don't want to go back to the way it was for those five years. Not talking to you, not sharing old memories with you, and making new ones. But most of all I love you and hope to all hell that you wake up soon." Monica began to trail off as tears started flowing from her eyes. She wiped and wiped but could not stop the flood gates that had opened. She kissed him on the forehead and took a seat where Rachel was when she arrived.
Chandler had just laid Ben down for a nap and started working on his Laptop. Rachel entered her apartment looking exhausted. It was very difficult for her to get out of the hospital. The media was every where. Damn paparazzi. "Hey Chandler.what ya working on.imputing numbers from my living room now?" Rachel asked trying to cheer herself up a bit.
"Nope, just writing some stuff. I know this may come as a surprise but being a Data Processor wasn't always my life long dream. Ross told me awhile ago that I need to figure out what exactly I want to do in life, and then just do it." Chandler now began to tear up as he flipped his laptop closed. "Any change?"
Rachel looked down as she shuffled through some stuff on the counter. "Not a one. He's still sleeping.I'm gonna hop in the shower then check on Ben. I wonder.do you think he'd wanna visit his dad?" Rachel asked as she left the counter.
"I'm sure he would and I think that'd be a great idea." Chandler said as he got up. "So if you don't need me, I'm just going to swing by the hospital?" Rachel turned around and nodded at him. "Ok, then I'll see you there."
"Oh Chandler be careful, it's a media zoo out there." Rachel called out to him. Chandler just kind of smiled and gave her a look like who would care about me. After he left Rachel entered the bathroom and undressed. She stared in the mirror as she absentmindedly played with the ring she hung around her neck. A single tear flowed down her cheek as she entered the shower.
A short time passed and Rachel was now fully dressed and waking up Ben. "Hey buddy.wake up." Rachel whispered into Ben's ear. Ben began to stir and after Rachel shook his arm a little bit Ben sat up and wiped his eyes. "You want to go visit daddy?" Rachel asked trying to sound upbeat.
Ben looked really sad all of a sudden. "Rachel.is my daddy gonna die?"
"WHAT?" Rachel was startled, she hadn't expected Ben to say that. "Why would you think that?"
"Because Aunty Monica said Daddy was ina accident.and when my mommies were ina accident.they died and went to heaven." Ben began sobbing as Rachel pulled him into a hug. She started to gently rock him wishing she knew how to console him. She thought to herself, if she could find a way to give him hope, than maybe she could have hope herself.
"Ben sweetie.hush it'll be okay. You're a big boy now, so I'm gonna be honest. Your daddy is sleeping, and no one knows when he's gonna wake up. But no matter how long that takes, I am gonna be here, so you will not be alone. I know I could never be your daddy or either of your mommies. But I'll try my best to be everything they were." Rachel now began crying as she remembered her promise she made to Ross just hours earlier. "I love you my little Benny Boy."
"I love you too.Rachel." Little Ben said smiling slightly as he looked up at Rachel.
A week had passed since Ross's shooting. Still no sign of him waking up had been shown. His condition had stabilized and all that was needed was Ross to open his eyes. The doctor's were unsure as to why he fell into such a deep coma, maybe it was because of all the blood loss, but no one could be sure. Rachel was getting ready to pick up Ben from pre-school when the phone rang. She rushed over to it hoping for word from the hospital.
"Hello?" she answered out of breath.
"Hey.Miss Green, its John Adams again." The voice on the other end of the phone stated.
"Yeah, Ross's agent, sorry no changes yet." Rachel said somberly.
"Jeez, will how are you holding up?" John asked with a voice filled with sympathy.
"I'm good, just about to go pick up Ben." She tired of everyone calling and asking for news. Didn't they realize that the minute he woke up all the papers and news stations would be all over it.
"Okay, then let me make this quick.you remember the Emmy Ross was nominated for?" John asked now trying to sound a little more professional.
"Oh my God I completely forgot." Rachel replied astonished. Of course how could she not forget with all that had been going on.
"Well Ross and two reserved. One for you and him. I need to know if you'll be going to accept the reward or if you want me to arrange something. I know this is a horrible time for that, but it may help you take your mind off of the whole situation." John said trying to ease Rachel's mind.
"Ummm, yeah I'll go and I'll see if Ross's sister will come, thanks for reminding me John.but I really got to go." Rachel said and waited for John to say his good-byes, before hanging up and leaving to pick up Ben and make their daily visit to see Ross. The plans were all set for the Emmys. Phoebe was going to baby sit Ben, while Monica accompanied Rachel to the show. Chandler had decided he was going to sit with Ross for awhile that night. The night of the Emmy's was roughly three weeks after Ross was shot and he still had not woken about. They all still had faith that he would, but seemed to become more and more depressed as time went by.
"Wow Rachel, I don't know how you and Ross can stay so calm when you do these things. I'm so nervous I could pee my pans, and I'm just sitting here. I mean as we were walking in and everyone was staring.well they were probably staring at you not me." Monica rambled on and on as she nervously shifted around in her chair. Rachel found this rather amusing. She thought to herself, was I this weird the first time I came to one of these big events?
"Mon.calm down, trust me everyone nominated tonight are ten times as nervous as you are, hell if you want a reason to be nervous, you can go accept the award if Ross wins." Rachel now started laughing as Monica's eyes grew extremely wide.
"No no nononononono.I couldn't, I wouldn't have no idea what to say." Monica began to hysterically cry.
"Shhh Monica calm down.I was only kidding. No hush its starting." Rachel said soothingly as she grasped Monica's hand.
Chandler sat in Ross's hospital room as he worked on his laptop. He sometimes glanced up at the T.V. wondering if he would catch a glimpse of his Monica, but would most likely only see her if they did a shot of Rachel, or if Ross won Best Leading Actor in an Action Movie (I'll be honest, I have no idea if that's an actual category, I could care less about the Emmys.) He looked down at Ross and sighed sadly. He then glanced back at his laptop and stared hopelessly.
"Ya know man, I've been trying to follow your advice, and it worked." Chandler began talking to Ross much like the others did, they just pretended that Ross could hear them, or perhaps that the sound of their voices would snap Ross back to the land of the living. "I've been working on a movie script you see, at first I was gonna write a novel, but well that seemed a little to close what my Mom does, and you know how anything about my mom grosses me out, so I thought lets write a movie. And what makes the most classic stories for movies." Chandler began to ramble on. He let out a loud sigh and continued. "A love story of course. A modern day love story. You see you have a lot of reason to wake up, I miss you is one of them, but one of the smaller reasons for you to wake up is that my movie its about you. Well you and Rachel, its not detail for detail your guys' story, but based upon it. And well the guy dying wouldn't really make a happy ending. That why you need to wake up. You need to wake up and marry Rachel, then my movie will have a happy ending, just like your life.: Chandler now started to trail off as the thought of Ross never waking up made him even more depressed then he already was.
"And I suppose you'd want me to play me in this movie huh?" a raspy voice called out to Chandler. Chandler's head bolted up right in a second. He stood and rushed towards Ross's bed. When he got there he looked down and tears welled up in his eyes. Chandler embraced Ross tightly. "Woah man, your going to choke the life out of me." Ross said sarcastically.
"Will its about time, you had us all so worried!" Chandler cried in shock. "Oh my god I have to get message to Rachel, she told me to Text Message her phone if their was any change.she is gonna be so thrilled!"
"Well, we'll get to see her expression cause look." Ross pointed at the T.V. that Chandler had muted where we could see the words "Ross Geller wins Best Actor in an Action Movie"
Rachel had just accepted the award for Ross and was beginning an acceptance speech. "Well, this isn't my award, and I wish I could say I was happy for accepting it, but Ross is still in a coma, and although I know he will wake up, I still feel sad that he was unable to enjoy this great honor. I know he would say that there was a lot of better actors out there who were better suited for this honor.but." Rachel was interrupted by her cell phone vibrating. She glanced down at it and read the words Ross is awake. She began crying uncontrollably. She continued her speech quickly."and I know he would like to send his thanks to all the fans, his family, and everyone who helped him. Thanks." And with that Rachel rushed off the stage, gathered Monica and they were off to the hospital.
Rachel burst into the Ross's hospital room clutching the Emmy in one hand and rushed towards Ross who was sitting up and just finished and exam by the doctor. She enveloped him in a hug and pressed her lips to his passionately. This kiss went on for minutes as Monica and Chandler stood back and watch on in pure happiness. Chandler motioned to Monica that maybe they should give them a moment, Monica reluctantly agreed and they exited.
"Thank God your awake.these pass three weeks have been hell Ross!" Rachel cried out in pure bliss.
"I am so sorry Rach, but the doctors say I'm fine and I can go home in the morning. I've already arranged for the media to think that my release well be three days from now." Ross said as his stroked her back soothingly.
"By the way.this is yours." Rachel smiled sheepishly as she handed him the Emmy.
"I know.great speech by the way.and way to hold the water works back " Ross said laughingly.
"You saw." she smiled shyly.
"You looked wonderful up there, and you look lovely right now." Ross stated softly as he kissed her once again.
The next morning Rachel and Ben showed up to bring Ross home. Ross's plan for when he was to be released didn't go as well as he had hoped, but that didn't matter, he had the woman he loved with him, and his son, who was very happy that his father woke up from his "sleep". Ross enjoyed a great morning and afternoon with Ben and Rachel. He listened to Ben's every detail about how Rachel took care of him.
Ross was laying Ben down for an afternoon nap while Rachel was in there bedroom tidying up a bit.
"Daddy? Can I ask you a question?" Ben yawned as Ross finished tucking him in.
"Yeah Ben, you can ask me anything." Ross replied quietly.
"When you were sleeping.Rachel took care of me, just like my mommies. Is she my new mommy?" Ben asked curiously.
Ross was taken back. He thought over his words carefully. "I don't know Ben, would you like her to be your new mommy?"
"Yeah, I think she'd be a great mommy." Ben said as he began to fall asleep.
"Well, maybe she could be your new mommy." Ross spoke softly as Ben fell asleep. ".someday." He gave Ben a small kiss on the top of his head and preceded out of the room.
Rachel hadn't realized all the little things that she had let go in the past couple weeks. Sure she took good care of Ben, did the shopping and paid the bills. But their room was horrible. Dirty clothes and magazines were everywhere. She was doing her best to get it as cleaned as possible, that was until Ross's arms wrapped around her from behind and he nuzzled into her neck.
"Hmmmm, I've missed that." Rachel sighed out in comfort. Ross then preceded to lift her shirt up over her head and spun her around and kissed her deeply. "I've missed this too." Rachel said with a giggle. Ross stepped back and looked her up and down, at first enjoying the view, but the suddenly seeing something. He noticed the ring he bought for her, the ring he was going to propose with. His mind started to drift for a second.
"I will where this ring around my neck until you wake up and place it on my finger. I want you to know, my heart also belongs to you."
Those words echoed in his mind. Did she really say those words to him while he was in his coma? It didn't matter, she had it around her neck, and obviously Chandler would have told her what it was for. He approached her once again and unclasped the necklace. Realization dawned on Rachel that she still wore the wedding ring around her neck, tears began to flow from her eyes. Ross got down onto his knees and took Rachel's hand. "May I?" Ross asked as he motioned to slide the ring upon her finger. Rachel nodded her head enthusiastically. Ross did so as Rachel fell to her knees. She kissed him passionately, and both enjoyed something that they had long missed these past three weeks. The closeness and passion that came when they made love.
A couple hours later Rachel lied with her head on Ross's chest. Moments like this she treasured the most.
"Rach.I love you, more than anything in the world. Well I love you as much as I love Ben. And I am so glad that you want to marry me, but I have another question." Ross said as he broke their silence.
"Yeah, honey." Rachel rolled over to face him in the eyes.
"Well you adopt Ben, he wants you to be his new mommy, and so do I.you've been so wonderful with him since he's moved here, and I think you'll make a great mother." Ross asked hoping that she would say yes.
Rachel now had tears forming in her eyes once again. "Of course I well.and it means so much to me knowing you think I'll be a great mother, because.I'm a.we're going to, well I'm carrying your baby!" Rachel finished smiling widely. She knew he'd be happy, he wanted to be a family with her. This was the greatest day of her life.
Ross's face lighted right up. "Rach.you make me so happy." He just pulled her close and hugged her tightly.
Ross and Rachel's wedding was beautiful. With the amount of money they had, it was no problem planning it out in a month. They wanted to be married as soon as possible, for three reasons. Reason one was they didn't want to wait. Reason two was they wanted their baby born after they were married, and the final reason was Rachel didn't want to be showing when she had to wear a wedding dress. It was a small and simple wedding. They had it on a small cliff in Barbados. Rachel took steps towards reconciliation with her family by asking them to be there. Stevie Wonder was kind enough to sing "Isn't She Lovely" as Dr. Green escorted her down the aisle and handed her off to Ross. Chandler and Monica watched on as best man and maid of honor. Joey and Pheobe stood a couple steps back as a groomsmen and a bridesmaid. Rolling Stone was on hand to do photographs. They were the only media notified and in exchange for them remaining quiet, they were given exclusivity.
"Ross, through out my popularity in high school, my success as a singer. Not a moment made me as happy as I am right now. Being your wife is a dream come true. A dream that I never knew I had until the day you walked back into my life. I will love you always. And I thank you, for this new way of life you have shown me. A life of love." Rachel recited those words, her vows in tears. Ross smiled at her and began his vows. "Rachel, you have brought me so much happiness these past couple years. You have opened parts of my heart that I never knew I had. I will spend every moment of the rest of my life making you just as happy as you make me. You I will love you until the day I die." Ross said more collected than Rachel, but still with a tear or two streaming from the corners of his eyes. The words from the minister were spoken, but Ross and Rachel couldn't hear them. They just closed in and shared their first kiss as a married couple.
Ross and Rachel Geller were announced to those closest to them in the fabulous sunset. Never was there a more perfect ending than this. Never was there a more perfect couple than these two. Chandler smiled to himself, a perfect ending, for a perfect love story.
Rachel looked out at the shining sky. She was going to be O.K. Her morning sickness was still not over, she wondered would it ever end as she rubbed the bump that was growing bigger by the day. Her thoughts were interrupted as Ben came running into the living room. "Momma, come look, they got something about Daddy on T.V. again!" Rachel smiled at little Ben and followed him across the living room and sat on the couch.
"Well, the movie well begin filming as soon as Rachel is feeling up to it after our baby is born." Ross spoke to the reporter on T.V. "But hey, why let me tell you about when the writer is here as well, this is the man behind the movie, my brother in law Chandler Bing."
Chandler came out from the back of the stage and joined Ross on the couch and began to talk about the movie.
Ross returned home later that night and met his wife Rachel in their bedroom. Rachel smiled up at him. "I saw you and Chandler on T.V. today. The producers are really promoting the hell out of this movie, and we won't be filming it for like what eight months?"
"Yeah, about that.you sure you're going to be able to handle singing most of the soundtrack?" Ross asked, he worried about her, he never wanted anything to hurt her. Sometimes he felt she could take on too much.
"Oh, I'm more worried about acting than anything else, but I am excited to be able to re-live our relationship." Rachel kissed him softly as he joined her in bed. "You know Joey has been asking if he can have a part in the movie, I was thinking we should let him."
"It's not up to me, but I bet the two of us could get him a decent sized role." Ross cuddled up to her and held her tight. "After all we are the stars of 'These Two Hearts' probably one of the most anticipated movies of our time." He kissed her temple as she laughed. "So, after our baby is born, and this movie is done.where do we go from there?"
Rachel looked at him and spoke softly. "Where ever our love takes us." And that is how the rest of their nights together went. They would talk, they would laugh, and they would love one another. A New Way of Life for Ross and Rachel was formed.
The End.
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