'Why here of all places?' Chandler asked Phoebe as they took a seat be the window in Central Perk a few hours later.

Chandler had been able to avoid answering Monica's questions all morning, but promised to tell her everything that night, when he told everyone the truth. It was going to be hard but whatever happened their friends needed to know.

'Well it would be suspicious if we went somewhere new and secluded wouldn't it?' Phoebe told him. She watched as he visibly shuddered. 'What's wrong?'

'I keep getting this feeling I'm being followed or watched.' He admitted. Phoebe looked around the coffee house, searching for someone who might be on to them. Chandler felt himself longing for the days when, if he had said something like that, Phoebe would have just laughed and told him he was being ridiculous. But now it was seen as a life threatening incident.

'There's no-one here who could be him though.' Chandler thought aloud.

'Who?'

'There was this guy, like three months ago. He was a friend of the others involved and he wants the money for himself. I've never met him though, I don't know what he looks like, sounds like or even if it is a guy. But I know he's after the money.'

'How?'

'When I was staying in Spain three months ago I was in a small town, it was really secluded with only a few people living in it, and none of them spoke any English. I was staying in a villa that my Grandma left to me when she died. I didn't need to work but I got a job teaching English to some of the young children there, just so I didn't go out of my mind with boredom.' He told her.

'That's where you sent me the note from though, why didn't you tell me anything about all of this?'

'I'm getting to it. Anyway I got home one night and there was a note attached to my door, in perfect English, telling me to take the money and put it in to their account, and it had the number and everything. He wanted it within four months or he'd take action. That's why I came back so early, I had to tell you.'

'And it took three months?'

'Do you know how hard it is to smuggle 5 million dollars around?' He hissed. Phoebe sighed.

'We need to go as soon as possible.' She stated. Chandler nodded.

'But what about the others?'

'We'll tell them tonight, it's their decision whether they want to do it or not.'

'Ok.' Chandler agreed.

'What did you do with the money anyway?'

'I'll tell you tonight.'

'Why not now?' Phoebe exclaimed. A couple on the table next to them glanced briefly at them before returning to their own conversation. 'Come on Chandler I really need to know about all of this.'

'Fine. But it really would be easier to explain this to all of you at once.' Chandler tried, Phoebe looked persistent though, so he continued. 'I couldn't get the money back into America' He whispered to her, leaning close in. 'I had to leave it in Spain.'

'All alone!' Phoebe cried out. Chandler shushed her as more people started to turn around.

'Yes all alone, that's why we need to move quickly, we need to tell the others tonight, the planes are booked for two weeks time, I have two plane tickets for Spain leaving tomorrow night to go and get the money, I'll need someone to carry it in for me past customs though. And we need to be careful of this person who wants the money.' Chandler explained.

'That's all so soon! Can we really do this? Is it all worth it?' Phoebe asked, exasperated at the enormity of what they were about to do.  'Stupid car crash.' She mumbled under her breath.

'Hey, it was the car crash that saved our lives!' Chandler insisted. 'And anyway, we need to do all of this fast, we've had eighteen months to organize all of this… you have organized everything haven't you?' He looked at her sceptically.

'Of course I have! I got everything covered, you had the easy part just keeping an eye on the news reports and the money, I was the one who had to convince the others not to worry about us being gone so long!'

'What did you tell them?' Chandler asked, he had been really surprised that his friends hadn't expected more of an explanation. And the only reason Monica had demanded one was because they had been dating for eight months beforehand and she had seen him in Vegas with the money.  

'I told them that we were the hostages in that robbery and we were being sought after by the robbers and needed to get away for a long while. They grilled me for weeks about it, and when it didn't look like you were turning up I had to make up some excuse about you staying with your dad, actually it was the same story you spun.  They took a while to calm down about it all and you got off lucky, I guess they thought you needed more time to get over it.'

'We should better tell them, then they can decided.' Chandler said, changing the subject. He wanted this all to go the way he had dreamed, all those six months he was left im Spain on his own, preparing the plane tickets and other things. It would be dangerous and risky, but they had to try.

Chandler and Phoebe got up to leave the coffee house, still feeling like they were being watched.

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When Chandler and Phoebe reached Monica's apartment they were met with four very annoyed friends.

Ok, I'm leaving it there for suspension sake ;-) But I'll have the next part up as soon as possible. Now I'd better go and revise maths or I'm going to fail. The next part might be up by tonight.

And thanx to the people who gave me ideas for titles but I thought this one up like three minutes after I posted the first two chapters, because I was listening to t.A.T.u singing 'Not Gonna Get Us' and it sounded right for Chandler and Phoebe (without the whole love part). Please review!!!

And thanks to everyone who came back and read it, it wouldn't make sense otherwise.