Sorry it taken so long to update

A Face From The Past

Chandler's eyes opened slowly and he looked at the alarm clock that stood on the bedside table. He smiled when he realised there was another 30 minutes before the alarm would go off. He closed his eyes again, pulling his wife closer and drifted off back to the land of sleep.

He opened one eye when he heard the bedroom door open quietly and then felt something bouncing on the bottom of his bed.

"Daddy!!" His 2 year old daughter, Amy shouted, once she saw her father awake.

"Good morning…" He smiled, slowly moving away from Monica, hoping she wouldn't wake up. Just as he was about to stand up, Amy jumped onto his back, giggling as he lifted her up with him. He made his way out the room with Amy still on his back. He was amazed at how much energy she had so early on in the morning after she had kept both her parents up half the night, not wanting to sleep.

"You wanna check on your bothers and sisters?" He asked her. She nodded excitedly and he made his way to the first bedroom.

"Hey, Dad…" Hayley looked up at him grinning from her position on the floor, painting her toe nails.

He frowned at her, "it's 6:30, why you painting your nails?"

"I'm wearing sandals today…I gotta paint my toes the same colour as my out fit!" She rolled her eyes.

"Your only going to school…."

"So…" She looked up at him with a confused look.

"Do you mind!" Rebecca or Becky sat up in bed and glared at her sisters and father, "some people are trying to sleep!"

"Sorry, Becks…" Chandler said, "but you gotta get up soon anyway."

She moaned and flopped back down, covering her head with her blanket. He grinned, even though his twin daughters looked identical, they were so different. Becky was good at sports, while Hayley consecrated more on her appearance but he couldn't be prouder that they both were brilliant at school.

"Come on, kid," Chandler said, grinning at Amy who was still gripping onto him, "lets go get your brothers."

He walked into the next room, flick on the light to see his sons still asleep. He signed and looked at them. First there was 12 year old, Matthew, then 8 year old Thomas and down the hall was his eldest child, Daniel at the age of 16. He couldn't believe that he had six wonderful children…him..Chandler Bing, the guy who was scared of commitment.

"Mattie's a awake!!" Amy said, pointing towards her older brother's bed.

"Oh yeah, he is…" Chandler said, "Morning…"

"Dad?" Matthew said sleepily, "I don't feel well…."

Chandler frowned, placing Amy on the floor and moved towards his son as his daughter went over to Thomas' bed to wake him up.

"What's wrong?" He asked, placing a hand on his forehead.

"I feel sick…."

"No he's not!" Thomas called over, annoyed at his little sister poking him, "he's got a test today and don't wanna do it!"

"Shut up, Tom!" Matthew sat up.

Chandler laughed to himself, "come on, get up and get ready for school, both of you…."

"To early!" Matt moaned.

"No it isn't…" Chandler told him, "besides, you gotta get up cos your aunts, uncles and cousins will be here soon…"

"So?" Tom asked, looking at him confused.

"So, I want my children to be up when we have guests around…"

"But Dad, they're here everyday, breakfast, lunch and dinner or they just come around to hang out," Matt pointed out.

"Good point…" Chandler said, "but you still gotta get up and get ready for school…"

"Awwww…" Both he's sons moaned.

He looked around the room to find Amy gone, he shook his head as he left the room, knowing where she would be.

"Hey, Dan…" Chandler walked into his eldest son's room, seeing him sat on the edge of the bed, rubbing the sleep out his eyes.

"Hey…"

"I've seem to have lost a child…" Chandler grinned and noticed a bump under Daniel's covers and heard giggle come from underneath it.

Danny smiled at him, a smile that was the exact same as his fathers. Everyone always said how much Daniel was like him and he couldn't be prouder. He sat down on the bed next to him.

"Umm, I wonder where Amy could be?" He said, causing his daughter to giggle again.

"BOO!" She screamed as he jumped up from her hiding place. Chandler grabbed hold of her and began to tickle and Daniel joined into.

"Having fun?" All three of them looked up to see Monica stood in the doorway.

"Oh sorry, Mon…" Chandler said quickly, "I didn't mean to wake you…"

"You never…" She smiled at him, "anyway someone has to make the breakfast around here."

"I was going to," He told her.

"Really?" She raised an eyebrow, "since when can you cook?"

Before he say anything his younger daughter jumped into his defence, while climbing on to her lap.

"I love Daddy's cooking!" She grinned.

"Course you do, you love everything Daddy's does…" Monica laughed, "because you're a Daddy's girl."

"Yup!" Her grinned widen and then as run out of the bedroom, giggling.

Monica rolled her eyes with amusement and followed her.

Chandler made his way into the kitchen, he couldn't help but smile as he looked around at his family.

"Do I have to go to school?" Matt asked, aiming the question at Chandler, knowing he was the softer option compared to his mother.

"Yes!" Chandler told him.

"Why?"

"Cos…" Chandler sat down, opposite him.

"Because." Monica corrected him, placing a plate of toast on the table and kissing him on the cheek.

"You sound like Ross!" Chandler scowled at her, earning himself a slap around the head.

"Hey!" He exclaimed, rubbing the back of his head.

Monica poked her tongue out at him.

"Can you go and tell Daniel breakfast is almost done…" She asked him, as she turned back to the stove.

Chandler sighed, standing up and heading to the bottom of the stairs as he shouted up the message for his eldest son.

Before he could return the front door crashed opened and Ross and Rachel walked in with their 3 month old daughter Kaydan in her arms.

"Hey, guys…" Chandler greeted them cheerfully, "you two look rough."

Rachel glared at him and pushed Kaydan into his arms.

"Do not start with me!!" Rachel warned before storming off.

Chandler looked confusedly at Ross, asking for some kind of explanation.

"Kaydan didn't want to sleep last night…" Ross told him, yawning, "we've had about an hour sleep at the most…"

"Ah right…" Chandler nodded, now understanding Rachel's crankiness.

"Yeah and to top that off Emma and Adam decided to have a huge argument this morning and Rach hasn't had her morning cup of coffee yet…" Ross told him.

"Right…well we'll stay here then…out of the way…" Chandler told him, smiling down at the baby in his arms.

"Ross, what are you doing waiting here…breakfast is ready.." Rachel snapped, as he re-appeared.

"Coming, Honey." Ross called back, innocently.

He heard her mumbling something back but couldn't understand it. He turned and glared at Chandler, who was laughing at them.

"If I'm going in there, then you are too…" Ross told him, knowing his friend would rather stay out of the way then cross Rachel in the morning.

"Why?!" Chandler asked.

"Cos you're my best friend and I need your support!"

"Because…"

"What?"

"You said 'cos' it should be because." Chandler told him.

Ross thought about for a minute, "HEY, that's my job, correcting grammar!"

Chandler grinned at him and walked back into the kitchen, Ross followed a moment later.

Chandler sat down and picked up his coffee with his left hand while still holding, a now sleeping, Kaydan, in his right arm.

After a couple of sips, he noticed Rachel and Ross glaring at him from across the table.

"What?" He frowned.

"How the hell did you do that?" Rachel demanded.

"Huh?"

"We tried everything to get her to go to sleep last night…you hold her for a minute and she's asleep in your arms!"

Chandler looked down at the baby, confused. He didn't do nothing special, just held her.

"Maybe she was tired," He suggested with a shrug.

"Ya think!" Becky chipped in sarcastically.

"Yep!" Chandler grinned at her.

"Really?" Becky replied.

"Yep!"

"Really, really?"

"Yep, yep…"

"Really, really, really…" Becky said before she was cut off.

"Alright, enough!" Rachel shouted. Becky got her sense of humour from Chandler and they normally spent ages teasing each other like that.

Chandler grinned again, stood up and handed Kaydan back to her mother. He then wrapped his arms around Monica.

"Do you two have to be all lovey-dovey this early in the morning?" Daniel moaned as he entered the room.

"Yeah, it's gross!" Hayley looked up from her breakfast and agreed with her older brother.

"You do the same with Ryan," Becky said.

"Who's Ryan?!" Chandler demanded, looking at his daughter.

"No one!" Hayley told him, glaring at her twin.

"Who's Ryan?!" Chandler repeated, this time looking at Becky.

"Ermm…I think I've left my homework upstairs!" She said quickly and left the room.

"Who Ryan!?!?!"

"He's her boyfriend." Matt informed him.

"HER WHAT!?!" Both Chandler and Dan shouted at the same time.

"What's the problem?" Hayley asked looking at them.

"You can't have a boyfriend!" Dan told her, he was protective over his little sisters and brothers. "You're only 14!!!!"

"So, this is what a heart attack feels like…" Chandler said, sitting down.

"MOM!" Hayley moaned, "Tell them, it's not a big deal."

"Not a big!!" Chandler said, "you're my baby! No boy is going near you!"

"I'm not a baby!" She sulked crossing her arms, "anyway, Daniel got girlfriend!"

"That's different!" Chandler told her, earning a smack around the head from both Monica and Rachel, "HEY!"

"That's so sexiest!" Monica told him.

"How is it!?" He asked, rubbing the back of his head.

"It's okay for him to have a girlfriend cos he a guy but its not alright for them to have boyfriends because they are girls!" Rachel said.

"Too right!" Daniel added, also earning himself a slap from his mother.

"Actually, I was going to say its different because he's 16 and she's only 14!" Chandler defended himself, although, him and everyone else knew he was lying.

"Yeah, right!" Ross laughed.

"Oh you just wait until Emma gets a boyfriend!" Chandler responded.

"What?!" Ross panicked.

"Aww, sweetie, don't worry about that…" Rachel reassured him, "She's already got one.."

"WHAT!?"

Everyone apart from Chandler and Daniel laughed. The three of them didn't find it funny that their daughters or little sister had boyfriends.

"Maybe we could get beds next to each other…" Chandler suggested to Ross, who looked back confused, "You know…when we get admitted into hospital, for these heart attacks!"

Dan pushed all his books into his locker and took out his sports kit. A few people greeted him as they walked past him. He was one of the most popular boy in the school and he liked it. It was easier to find out information about other people. He

closed his locker and looked up and down there corridor. He spotted the guy he was looking for, heading towards him. He stepped out him front of him and stopped him.

Ryan, looked at the Daniel Bing, nervously. He was his girlfriend's brother, he was very popular and a year older then him.

"Erm, hi…" Ryan stuttered.

"I don't like you…" Dan told him.

"Okay…" Ryan began to back off nervously.

"You hurt my sister in anyway way… if I found out you do anything wrong then I will hurt you!" Dan warned him, "do you understand?"

"Ermm…yeah…"

"What?"

"Yes!" Ryan said louder, "I understand!"

Ryan let out a sigh of relief as he watched Dan walk away.

"Hey!" Hayley came up behind him, with Becky in tow, "was that my brother you was talking to?"

"Yeah…" Ryan told her, "he was warning me."

"Warning you?"

"Yeah, you know…the whole 'you hurt her, I'll hurt you' speech!" He explained.

"Oh, I can't believe him!" Hayley said, annoyed.

"I thought he didn't know!"

"He didn't until, someone opened her big mouth this morning!" Hayley told him, glaring at her sister.

"Hey, they were going to find out sooner or later!" She shrugged.

"They?" Ryan asked, curiously.

"Yeah, you should have seen Dad's face." Becky laughed, "he took today off because he got so stressed over it!"

"It's not funny!!" Hayley told her, before storming off.

Chandler flipped through the channels, not really paying attention to what was on the TV. He couldn't believe that his daughter had a boyfriend. They were growing up to fast for his liking. Soon, they'll be moving to college, getting married, having kids of their own. He frowned, he would to be a grandfather, he was too young to be a grandfather.

His attention was caught by the TV, he's mouth dropped open when he saw what was on.

"Today is the 30th anniversary of daytime soap, 'days of our lives.' We're going to be showing back to back episodes all day. We're also dedicating this day in the memory of actor Joseph Tribbiani, who played Dr Drake Remorray."

Chandler blinked away the tears as the show started and an image of Joey flashed up. Chandler instantly recognised it as Joey's first appearance in the show.

"Hey, D.J!" Daniel spun around when he heard his friend Andy call him. Him and Andy been best friend for as long as he could remember and when he had found out Daniel's middle name was Joseph, he started he call him D.J for short and it suck with him.

"Hey, Dude," Dan grinned at him. He was glad it was the end of the day, he had spent of his free time, following Becky and Hayley around, (his father's orders) to make sure they weren't getting up to anything they shouldn't.

"You up for this party on Friday night?" Andy asked him.

"Oh course!"

"Cool…Oh, I've got you this.." Andy whispered and handed him a small tin.

Dan looked around to make sure no teachers were there before opening it and found it filled with cannabis.

"Thanks, man…" Dan slipped it into his pocket, "I owe you!"

He gave his sisters a lift home in the car his parents had got him for his 16th birthday 6 months ago. Apparently they did notice him and his friends sneaking around behind them everywhere they went and was not happy about.

He sat listening to them complain about lack of privacy for 10 minute before he interrupted and gave his 'big brother' speech again.

"Hello!" Dan called out, as he walked through the front door, ignoring his sisters.

As all three of them walked into the sitting room, they saw their Dad quickly turn the TV off and shielding his face so they didn't see the tears.

"Dad?" Becky frowned, "you okay?"

"Yeah…I'm….fine…" He stuttered, wiping away the tears before turning to face them, "I've…umm…I've gotta go out for a while…"

They all watched him leaving in concerned, none of them have ever seen him like that before. Their Dad was strong, he never let anyone see his emotion only when something really bad had happened. They looked at each other, worried.

Chandler walked down the familiar path, he stood in front of Joey's grave.

"Having a day of soaps dedicated to your memory, huh…" Chandler said, sitting down, "Yeah, Baby…"

He couldn't help smiling when he thought about how Joey should to get excited over the little things and how many lines he use to come out with.

The smile faded and he looked to the headstone, tears blurring his vision, stopping him from reading what was wrote on there.

"I still miss you, Man…" He said, nearly choking on the words, "I always will…"

"You think he's okay?" Monica asked Ross, Rachel and Phoebe. They had came home with her to have dinner with them but when they got there they found out what had happened when the kids had come home and Chandler still wasn't back.

"I'm sure he's fine…" Ross told her.

"But Hayley said he was crying…" Monica said, "He never cries!"

Before anyone could say anything they heard the front door open and then close, a second later, Chandler entered the room.

"Hey.." He said sadly.

"Chandler!" Monica ran to him and hugged him, "where were you?!"

"Where's the kids?" He asked, running his fingers through his hair.

"The twins are upstairs doing homework, Dan has gone out and the others are out the back…" Monica told him, "why, what's going on?"

"Has something happened?" Ross asked.

He nodded slightly, "It's stupid really… I don't know why I reacted like I did…"

"What is it?" Rachel asked, "what's happened?"

Chandler silently picked up the remote and turned the TV back on. They all stared at him confused until they heard a familiar voice on the TV.

"Oh my God…" Rachel whispered, covering her mouth with her hand, letting out a small cry.

Chandler reached and pulled Monica into his arms but not one of the 5 friends took their eyes off the TV screen.

"I was watching all afternoon…" Chandler admitted, breaking the silence.

"Are you okay?" Phoebe asked. They all missed Joey so much but they knew it was harder on Chandler. They were best friends and he had tried so hard to get through his problem.

"Yeah, I am…I think.." He frowned slightly.

They all watched in silence, wishing to have their friend back.

Chandler walked down the stairs, after saying goodnight to his children and reassuring Daniel, Becky and Hayley that he was fine. They didn't know about Joey, Chandler found it too hard to talk about it sometimes and didn't like the idea of explaining it all to his children. Everyone else decided not to say anything too because they found it hard as well but mainly for Chandler's sake.

He was so deep in thoughts that he wasn't looking where he was walking and tripped and fell.

He moaned and saw he fell over Dan's school bag and his jacket. He sighed, Monica would go mad if she saw it laying there, not put away.

He hung them up on a peg, when something dropped out of one of the pockets. He bent down and picked up the tin. Curiosity got the better of him and he opened it.

He went ghostly white when he saw the condense. Not Daniel, he was a good boy. Did well at school, got on well with everyone in the family, did what he was told.

This couldn't be his…could it?

Chandler suddenly felt sick….history was repeating itself.