Ok sorry it took so long, I was constantly looking back for research on what I had already written, and then I went and got myself a job lol. But anyway this chapter is quite long, and chock full with revelations (I think that's the right word :-S)

Anyway if anything doesn't make sense after you've read this chapter say so and I'll change it.

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Joey and Monica watched in amazement at the reunion of their friend and the person who was seemingly behind the whole terrifying ordeal. Phoebe sighed, soon it would be over, whether the result was good or bad she couldn't know yet, but it would happen soon.

'What the hell is going on here?' Monica exclaimed. Chandler and his father turned around to look at her. An unreadable expression was on her face, but they could tell she was angry.

'Monica sweetie-' Chandler began.

'Don't you 'Monica sweetie' me! Seriously! What is going on here!' Monica kept on shouting, Chandler tried to cut her off and explain, but Monica wouldn't give him a chance. 'We've been through all this shit, not knowing whether we're going to make it out alive or not and then we get here, to have our fates decided for something we're not even involved with and then you turn out to be in on it the whole time! How could you just put us through all of this and not tell us what's going on?' Monica stood up and walked over to Chandler and looked him in the eye.

'Monica calm down!' Phoebe said coming to Chandler's aid. She took hold of Monica's arm and made her face her. 'We couldn't tell you before, Gareth had your apartment bugged, it wasn't safe. Monica, we were never in danger-'

'I would never put you in danger.' Chandler added.

'We had it all planned. Not that we wanted to be a part of this in the first place, but we had no choice after the car crash.'

'You're not making any sense.' Joey exclaimed. Phoebe nodded, it wouldn't make sense, not yet.

'Joey sweetie, you're going to have to trust me, I promise you you'll be safe with us. Do you trust me?' Phoebe asked tenderly, taking Joey's hand in hers. Joey looked down at his hand, with her soft, perfect hand closed lovingly around it. He took a shaky breath and looked right back in to Phoebe's eyes. He had felt the overwhelming love for her that he felt now for so many years, but this was the first time he felt it and knew that she felt it too. Looking in to those beautiful eyes, how could he not trust her?

'Of course I trust you Phoebe.' He said tenderly. Phoebe smiled and held on to his hand as Chandler turned to face Monica. In the past Chandler had learned that the look on her face right now meant that he needed to either explain himself right then or run away while he still could until she had calmed down. But there was no running from this situation and he knew that she wouldn't ever calm down unless he explained.

'Monica, you're going to have to trust me on this too, I would never put you in danger, I never wanted you involved in this in the first place, hell I didn't even want me and Phoebe to be part of this in the first place. But it happened and now we're trying our best to get it sorted out without anyone getting hurt.' He looked straight in to her eyes and asked sincerely, 'Do you trust me?'

Monica looked right back at him. There was a time, before he left that she would have trusted him through everything, but now, after all that he had put her through. Disappearing during the most intimate part of this relationship, not even giving a valid reason and now all this deception, all this lying. But then what choice did she have?

'Ok, as long as you're totally honest with me from now on I think I may be able to trust you.'

Chandler tried not to smile, but it was hard. After all of this, there was a chance that Monica could still see a future with him. he couldn't mess it up anymore, she had asked for honesty and he was going to give her honesty.

'Well if you two are finished simpering over your lovers may we get to work?' Chandler's dad called from the corner. The four friends looked around, having momentarily forgotten he was there.

'Sorry dad.'

'What did I say?    

Chandler sighed. 'Sorry Charles.' Charles smiled, but not a genuine smile, and walked out of the room closing the door behind him. before the door shut Monica got a look at the people who had been guarding them standing in the hall.

'It's just while we're still doing this case.' Chandler tried to explain. 'I'm not supposed to be calling him dad, he thinks it will give Gareth more ammunition if her knew I was actually his son.' He smiled weakly trying to make up for the unease that had filled the room.

'Well do you want to explain all of this now?' Joey asked and sat back down. Monica's thoughts were still on the guards outside. A question came to her mind that needed answering.

'Chandler.' She said suddenly, interrupting Phoebe as she was about to speak. Chandler looked at her expectantly.

'Yes hunny?' He said sweetly. Monica ignored the informality of the pet name and carried on. He wasn't off the hook just yet.

'What about Ross and Rachel, they're still in New York, and if we're 'safe' then what about them?'

'They're safe too, they're in a hospital, there's too many doctors and other people around for them to get hurt. And the guy that went with them is on our side, they all were. But like I said Gareth had both apartments bugged, we could say anything or do anything suspicious otherwise he would get everyone from his side over to us. The call we receive from him where  they said that he had told them that the money was in place was for the sake of the bugs, his people were listening and would think everything was going to plan. He was really calling to say that the money wasn't there, and he could kill us there.'

'I still don't understand.' Joey said impatiently. Phoebe smiled at him and sat him down next to her.

'What we told you before, about getting trapped in the elevator. It was a lie, we weren't trapped, that's just where we met. We then had to go down to a Casino in New Jersey to hand over the money, we were a part of this from the beginning and there had to be our signatures on the paper. But then there was that crash on the turnpike, they were all killed and we had to run with the money.' Phoebe started to explain.

'We got to the casino and went to see Mr. Bordello, but it turned out to be all a set up. The Nadia, Matthew and Michael we met up with were not the ones that were sent to meet us, they had told us the wrong name of the casino we were going to. when we got there they held guns to our heads, told us to hand over the money, but the real Nadia had tipped off Charles that the plans had been interfered with and we were in danger. They managed to find us and rescue us, but now they knew who we were. And we still had the money with us. We had to run, and hide for a while whilst Charles brought the Bordello gang under control, managed to head them off the money with another deal. They took the bait and we were free, Phoebe came home, I stayed with the money a bit longer.' Chandler went on to explain.

'But one of them didn't agree to these terms. Gareth wanted the five million, he wanted to get the money for the gang and make his dad, Bordello, proud. He got together some people who would help him, he found out where I was, moved in with Joey and kept me under constant surveillance. I told Charles and he sorted out a way to get us all safe here whilst they sorted out Gareth. That's what happened tonight.'

Monica and Joey stared at Chandler and Phoebe. There was something missing from this whole explanation. Monica was the one to put it in words.

'What the hell started all of this? Why did you even have to get involved?'

Chandler sat down and put his head in his hands, that was a question he found himself wondering. How could he answer that?

Luckily Phoebe managed an answer.

'Charles met up with chandler in his office one day, I was there and he asked us if we could do him a favour, just simply meet up with some nice people, walk some money through the casino and hand it over, sign a paper and walk out. I didn't want to harm a relationship between Chandler and Charles so I went along as well, I think Chandler was only doing it to have a relationship with his father. But when things went wrong, I wasn't so sure he was just doing it for a relationship.' She turned to face Chandler who was now listening intently along with Monica and Joey. 'I now think you were doing it to prove yourself to your dad, to get some praise and attention from the man who abandoned you as a child.' She stared in to Chandlers eyes and knew she was right.

Chandler stood up quickly.

'Ok, so I wanted the attention, I wanted the praise and approval from the one person who would never give me any. I worked my ass off as a child, getting in to this club and that club, doing the best in class I could, and I got nothing from him. I just wanted to prove that I was worthy of his appreciation.' Chandler admitted. He looked down shamefully at what he had just confessed.

Monica saw the look in his eyes, she noticed the look of disgrace in his face. She stood up and wrapped her arms around him, pulling in to a hug and felt herself instantly forgiving him for leaving. He looked in to her eyes and felt he could see what she was feeling.

They leaned in to kiss each other when someone burst angrily in to the room.