This fic takes place in the near future. Chandler and Monica are married and Monica is pregnant. Rachel isn't with anyone, she's living with Joey and Emma is a little over a year old. Ross is also single. Joey and Phoebe are dating.

Disclaimer: All Friends characters belong to Warner Bros. and NBC. I wish I owned Chandler though! I wouldn't mind owning Joey and Ross either! Dr. Davis is mine.

Title: Another Chance

Rated PG-13

Summery: Rachel still loves Ross, she wants another chance with him but she's afraid to tell him how she feels. When something happens she fears she may never get the chance to tell him.

Chapter 2: Is It Too Late

The ER at Beth Israel Hospital was abuzz with activity when the three friends arrived. Rachel spotted Joey and Phoebe sitting alone. Phoebe was crying and Joey who had her in his arms looked close to tears himself. "There's Joey and Pheebs" she whispered. Chandler nodded and he walked over to them with Rachel and Monica beside him. "Joe" Chandler whispered. Joey looked up and saw his other three bestfriends. "Hey" he whispered. "Where...where's Ross" Rachel whimpered. "In there" he said pointing at a near by trauma room with nurses and doctors running in and out.

A young woman in a lab coat walked over to the group. "Are any of you Ross Geller's family" she asked. "We all are" Phoebe whispered. "Okay any immediate family" she asked. "I...I'm his sister "Monica said weakly. "I'm Dr. Davis" she said extending her hand. "Monica Geller Bing" Monica whispered shaking her hand. "How...how's my brother" she asked. "Mrs. Bing your brother is in very critical condition" she said. "The bullet is lodged in his skull" When Monica heard that she burst in to tears and she felt her knees buckle. She reached for Chandler. He wrapped his arms around her. "Ross, he...he was shot in the head" Monica cried.

The doctor nodded. "Yes he's going to need immediate surgery to remove the bullet and we're going to need your consent to do it" she said softly. Monica looked at the clipboard in the woman's hand. "I...I can't my mom should" she cried. "Ma'am it can't wait your brother needs this now if there's any chance for survival" Dr. Davis told her. Monica took the clipboard and pen. Her hand trembled as she scribbled Monica Geller Bing at the bottom of the page. "There" she said handing it back to him. "Thank you Mrs. Bing" the doctor said as she walked back to the trauma room. "You wanna thank me save my brother" Monica yelled as she broke down in tears again.

Jack and Judy Geller came running into the ER. They saw their daughter and son in law with their friends. They raced over to them. "Monica what...what happened where's Ross" Judy cried. "He...he's having surgery on his head" Monica cried. 'He...he was shot because of me mom" she cried. "He...he was trying to protect me and the baby" she said placing her hand on her stomach. "It...its my fault' she cried. Jack hugged his daughter. "Nonsense Harmonica your brother loves you he was just protecting his baby sister and her baby" he whispered.

Rachel watched her friends. Phoebe had Joey, Monica had Chandler and Judy had Jack but she was all alone. The man she loved more than anything couldn't hold her or comfort her. He was in some operating room fighting for his life. She sat down in an empty chair and cried. All she could think about was Ross. He'd been in her life since she was six. He followed her around in high school. Back then he just Monica's dorky older brother. She fell in love with him the day she ran into Central Perk in a wedding gown dripping wet from the rain. She remembered the day she found out that Ross loved her too.

It was her birthday but he couldn't be there he had to go to China for some dinosaur thing. When she opened his present it had been the broach she'd told him about a few months earlier. Monica made a comment on how expensive it must of been. Chandler casually said something about a crystal duck he bought Carol when he was in love with her. Rachel was thrilled to hear Ross felt the same as she did but she was later disappointed when he returned from China with Julie by his side. Rachel's tears turned to sobs

Have you ever been in love

You could touch the moonlight

When your heart is shooting stars

You're holding Heaven in your arms

Have you ever been in love

Have you ever walked on air

Ever felt like you were dreamin'

When you never thought it could

But it really feels that good

Have you ever been in love

Rachel thought about the kiss the shared outside Central Perk in the rain. It had been an incredible kiss. She remembered the list Ross made and how furious she'd been with him. She been watching her and Monica's prom video with the gang and found out what Ross was going to do for her. She was speechless. She had gotten up crossed the room to him and kissed him. That had been the start of their relationship. She thought about the first time they made love under the stars in the planetarium waking up later in one of the displays with a group of school children giggling at them.

Rachel glance over at her friends. She sighed softly as her thoughts went back to Ross. She thought about her old job at Bloomingdales. She worked with Mark. Ross had been jealous of him. He got upset with her because she spent most of her time working. She blew him off on their anniversary which she knew she'd been wrong for. She yelled at him and said "Maybe we should take a break" Ross then slept with that slutty copy girl Chloe. "We were on a break!" he yelled. They then broke up and got back together briefly four months later while on the beach.

Have you ever been in love

You could touch the moonlight

When your heart is shooting stars

You're holding Heaven in your arms

Have you ever been in love

The time I spend waiting for something

That was Heaven sent

When you find it don't let go

I know...

Rachel sighed softly as she thought of London. She flew there to tell Ross she still loved him but then she saw him with Emily and didn't have the heart to tell him. He ended up saying her name instead of Emily's during his vows. That marriage didn't last. Vegas. Now that had been an interesting trip. Ross drew on her face and she spilled water on his pants and that was just the flight. The event of the rip was when she and Ross got married while they were drunk. "Hello Mrs. Ross, hello Mr. Rachel" Rachel whispered. Then there was the kiss on Monica and Chandler's engagement night. Of course Monica accused her of trying to steal her thunder.

Have you ever said a prayer

And found that it was answered

All my hope has been restored

I ain't looking no more

Have you ever been...

Some place you ain't leaivn'

Somewhere you're gonna stay

When you finally found the meanin'

Have you ever felt this way

Rachel tried to wipe away the tears but it didn't help they still came. She thought about her baby. She smiled a little As she remembered the night she was conceived. Her and Ross had argued over who came on to who. Apparently it had been her. She used the Europe story or as Chandler would say the magic story you use when you want to have sex. When she told Ross she was pregnant he sat there with a blank stare for awhile then he rambled on about condoms. He had been the one to show her the baby on the sonogram. She later moved in with him causing his and Mona's breakup which she really didn't mean to do.

Emma's birth was a day she'll never forget. She went into labor while Ross was kissing her, and boy what a kiss it had been. Five women, one of them being Janice came and went to have their babies before her. After all those hours of agony Dr. Long finally said it. It was her turn to become a mom. Emma had been breech so she had to push extra hard. She ended up bumping heads hard with Ross sending him to the floor. A few minutes later their little Emma was born. A perfect little baby girl that looked more like her daddy every day.

The time I spent waiting for something

That was Heaven sent

When you find it don't let go

I know...

Then there was the whole proposal mix up with Joey. Followed by the phone message she got from a guy she met while out with Phoebe that Ross never gave her and the kiss he saw her share with Gavin on Chandler and Monica's balcony after her birthday party. The next day they fought and she moved out of his apartment and back in with Joey.

Have you ever been in love

You could touch the moonlight

You can even reach the stars

Doesn't matter near or far

Have you ever been in love

Have you ever been in love

So in love

Rachel buried her face in her hands and sobbed. "Please God" she cried "Don't let Ross die" she sobbed. "I...I can't live with out him" She felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Chandler standing in front of her. "Chandler" she whispered. "Ross is out of surgery Mon is with him, you can go in next" he whispered. "Me, but what about you" she whispered. "I'll see him after you" he said. "But Chandler he's been your bestfriend since college" she whimpered. "True but you Rach you're the love of his life and the mother of his child." He said softly. She stood up and hugged him. "Thank you Chandler " she whispered.

Monica walked over to them her eyes red and puffy from crying. Chandler wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. Rachel looked at Monica and gave her arm a soft squeeze as she walked toward Ross's room. She took a deep breath and said a silent prayer before walking in. Hoping she could face whatever awaited her.

Chapter 3: I Need You....What happens when Rachel sees Ross? Will Ross be okay? Coming Soon!!

Author's Note: Hello children. Here's chapter 2. The lyrics are Have You Ever Been In Love. By: Celine Dion. I think its a pretty song. Just picture it playing as clips of Ross and Rachel are shown (As Rach thinks of them) I might get to meet David Shcwimmer!! He's here in Chicago doing a play and my boss is buying tickets to it!! So I might go with my friend Tiffany she also loves Friends, and we might get to meet him because my boss's daughter knows him!!!! When he told me his daughter knew David I screamed and said I was jealous! He laughed. Man I think I'll be so nervous I won't even know what to say!! I wanna tell him Ross and Rachel should be together! ( I heard a spoiler for season 10 but I don't know if its true...Mon will defiantly be pregnant.....with TWINS!!!!! And we'll get to see the delivery either the second to last or the very last Friends eppy ever. ( I don't want them to go!! I'm soo gonna cry!! I'll miss them so much! I guess I'll always have my DVDs but as Joey said about the *crappy* Hugsy "Its not the same" Heehee. Anyway now that I've whined alot! Please read and review. Thanx!