Title: The Best of Friends

Author: Spooky Spice

Rating: PG

Category: Humor/Romance

Summery: Monica's very best friend tells his tale.

Spoilers: Do we really have to keep doing this?? "This Is Not Happening", all s9 eps up to "Audrey Pauley"-oh, and I rewrote "AP." Just a little bit.

Disclaimer: The X-Files gang belongs to CC, I'm just playin' around. However, all other characters belong to me. The song "The Best of Friends" is from the Disney movie The Fox and The Hound. All credits to.whoever wrote it. LOL!

Feedback: You can make it my X-Mas present! spookyspice24@yahoo.com

Author's Notes: This came to me while I was sitting in the van on my weekly trip to Wal-Mart. Two freshmen in the back were discussing a book series (I forget the name) and one of them said "I'm so happy I have someone to talk about this with!" And that got me thinking...

Dedication: To my very best friend, Hibbies. We met in a toy store in Williamsburg, VA and he has been my best friend ever since.

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When you're the best of friends/ Having so much fun together/ You're not even aware, / you're such a funny pair/ You're the best of friends

Life's a happy game/ You could clown around forever/ Neither one of you sees, your natural boundaries/ Life's one happy game

If only the world wouldn't get in the way/ If only people would just let you play/ They say you're both being fools/ You're breaking all the rules/ They can't understand your magic wonderland

When you're the best of friends/ Sharing all that you discover/ When that moment has passed, will that friendship last?/ Who can say if there's a way?/ Oh I hope . . . I hope it never ends/ 'Cause you're the best of friends

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I've come a long way from being clutched at by tiny fingers, sucked on by a toothless mouth. I've survived food spills, sickness, broken hearts, nightmares, abductions by larger animals, birthdays, holidays, trips to Grandma's house, tea parties, amputation and surgery without anesthesia. I was at one time soft and fluffy, but now I'm worn. Luckily, the eye I'd been missing for a couple of months has been sewn back on.

I am a stuffed animal and my name is Mr. Bear. How do you do?

I've been with Monnie since her mama and papa adopted her from Texas. Her papa bought me for her. "All girls need a bear," he told me. I was more than up for the job. I've watched her grow from a tiny baby to the awkward teenager, to the strong, confident woman she is today. No one knows Monnie like I do.

Monnie's taken me everywhere with her. To school, the zoo, more sleepovers than I care to remember, college and all of her living arrangements afterward. I've never been shoved into a box or a trunk because Monnie likes me to stay with her at all times. I'm her very best friend. She told me that.

Oh, she's had other human friends: girls and boys from school and work. But no one knows her like I do. I was the first to know she had a crush on Brian in the 6th grade. I was the first to know of her plan of revenge on Mary Merona when Mary had dumped ice cream on Monnie's lap in front of the whole class, and I was the one to talk her out of it. I know the details of her first kiss, the excitement of her acceptance into college and then the FBI Academy. I know of her heartbreak when Greg turned out to be not "the one." She told me of her attraction to her boss, Brad, and I know the details of THAT relationship. I honestly thought that they were going to become something.

Then she met John. And things changed.

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More chapters to come! After feedback, of course. Heehee.