Admitting Love and Saying Goodbye

Chandler slumped back to the floor of the van, as he felt it drive off. He looked across at Ryan, who was staring at the locked doors, with fear filled eyes.

"Don't worry..." Chandler told him, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"What's going to happen?" Ryan asked quietly, turning to look at him.

"You're going to be fine...They won't touch you, it's me their after."

"If they don't want me, then they did they take me?"

"Because you were there with me..." Chandler explained, "you're just a kid, they know that you're not worth anything to them."

"And you are?"

"Not really, they just want to make me pay for what I did..." Chandler shrugged, "they know that if they did anything to do then it was cause a whole lot of problem..."

"How do you mean?" Ryan frowned.

"Well, if they kill you or hurt you then all everyone else is going to see that you were an innocent kid of got caught up in this by mistake...." Chandler stated calmly.

"So...you're innocent..." Ryan said and then added as an afterthought, "Right??"

Chandler smiled slightly, "yeah I am, but people will know that if anything happened to me, it would be because of revenge but there would be no reason for you to be hurt in anyway other then pure evil..."

Ryan thought about what he was saying, "Oh..."

They both looked at each other when they felt the van come to a halt.

"You don't know me." Chandler told him, quickly.

"What?" Ryan asked confused.

"If they ask, tell them you don't know me..." Chandler explained. "tell them you were only with me because I asked if you seen my kids and you said you'd show where you seen them last..."

"Why?"

"Because!"

Before Ryan could say anymore, the van door opened, letting in streams of light.

Chandler watched as two men jumped in, one he recognised from before by his car and the other guy was someone he was never going forget.

"Chandler, nice of you to join us!" Hilton drawled with fake cheerfulness.

"You can't do this!" Chandler glared hatred at him.

"Oh I believe I can!" Hilton smirked, then turned to look at Ryan, "This must be Daniel."

"I'm Ryan..." He mumbled, nervously.

"Ryan?" Hilton frowned, looking at Chandler again, "don't remember you having a son called Ryan."

"You don't know nothing about my family..." Chandler predicted.

"Oh, no I don't..." He agreed, his comment dripping with sarcasm, "I don't know that you have three sons called Daniel, Matthew and Thomas, ages 17, 13 and 9... I don't know you have twin girls called Rebecca and Hayley who are 15 and I don't know you have a 2 year old called Amy...."

"You go near them..." Chandler warned, anger starting to boil inside him.

"Oh can't forget Monica, now can I?" Hilton grinned, "nor your close friends and their kids..."

Before he could say anymore Chandler lunged towards him but before he could lay a finger on him, the other guy jumped on him. Sending him flying into the side of van, everything spun when the side of his head smacked against the van.
He shook his head, trying to clear the black fog that was settling over his eyes.

"Now, now...violence is not the answer!" Hilton remarked, looking down at Chandler.

As Chandler sat up, he saw Hilton reach across and rip the bag off Ryan's bag.

"Let's find out who, you really are!" He started rummaging through the backpack until he pulled out a notepad.

"Ryan Jackson...." Hilton read off the front, he looked at Chandler, "who is he?"

"I only meet him today..."

"Oh, yeah so that's why he was with you!"

"No, he's in Dan's English Class..." Chandler lied, "I went to pick my kids up from school but couldn't see them so I asked around the kids and Ryan told me he saw them walking away, I asked where and he said he'd show me."

"Aren't your kids big enough to walk home on their own?" Hilton raised an eyebrow.

"Not when there's a psychopath like you looking for revenge," He muttered.

"I'm not after your children! I'm after you!"

"Yeah, well you got me!" Chandler yelled, "let Ryan go!"

"What's it to you?" Hilton asked, "I thought you didn't know him!"

"Oh come on... he's only a kid, he knows nothing about this!"

"Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything to him..." Hilton said, moving back towards the doors of the van and then looked back at the other bloke, "Search them!"

Ryan panicked as the man moved towards him and began to do as ordered, taking away his mobile phone and wallet. He then moved onto Chandler, doing the same, taking anything that they could use in their defence or to connect anyone.

Ryan let out a sigh of relief when he heard the van's door slam shut again as he left. He looked over at Chandler.

"Are you okay?" He asked, noticing bloody slowly trickling down the side of his face.

"I'm fine.. Slight headache..." Chandler smiled slightly, trying to ease the tension. "You??"

"Yeah, I guess..." Ryan said and then started to laugh slightly.

"What's so funny?"

"I just can't believe how lucky I am!" Ryan grinned at him.

Chandler thought for a minute before frowning in confusion, "Huh?"

"That I'm going out with one of vainest girls in school..."

"Oh..." Chandler nodded, not really interested until he actually realised what he was saying, "OI! That's my daughter you're talking about!!!"

"No, no I didn't mean it in a bad way!!" Ryan said quickly, he then reached into the bottom of his bag and pulled a photo out of him, Hayley and Becky and handed it to him.

"So, it's a picture of my daughters and you..." Chandler looked over at him, unimpressed about what he was implying about Hayley and Becky.

"I had it in my wallet..." He explained "but Hayley made me take it out today because she said her hair was a mess..."

"And they took your wallet!" Chandler said, finally catching on, knowing what sort of problems it could have caused if Hilton found out that Ryan was Hayley's boyfriend.

Chandler slowly looked back down at the picture, looking at the identical smiles on his daughters' faces. He felt a tear pricks in the corner of his eyes, wondering if he would ever see them again.

He sighed, he couldn't think like that. He will see them again, he couldn't give up. He promised them all that he was going no where and he couldn't break that.
He handed the photo back to Ryan. He gently touched his head where he had hit it, he wince in pain as his fingers made contact with the wound.

Ryan watched him for a minute, wondering what he was thinking. Hoping that he had something planned. He was so scared, that he something really bad would happened. He didn't want to die, he was only 16. Also he didn't want anything to happen to Chandler. He was his girlfriend's father, if something did happen, he wouldn't know how to look at Hayley again, knowing he could've done something.

He placed the photo back into a small pocket at the front of his bag, hoping there was no chance anyone would look in there. He frowned as he touched something, wondering what it was, when he suddenly remembered.

"Oh my god!" He gasped, causing Chandler to look over at him, "I love her so much!!"

"You better be talking about Hayley!" Chandler warned, "cos if I find out that you...."

He stopped talking when he saw Ryan pull out a pink mobile phone, he straight away recognised it as Hayley's.

"She put it in my bag earlier!" Ryan smiled widely, "I totally forgot about it!"

"Whoa, that girl's really helping us out here!" Chandler stated, referring to the photo.

Chandler took the phone and pressed a few buttons, it beeped into life, Chandler's smile faded slightly.

"What's wrong?" Ryan asked.

"The battery's low..." Chandler explained, "Why does she never charge her phone!!"

"So what, we can't call anyone?"

"I think there might be another for one phone call..." Chandler predicted.

"Great! Call the police!" Ryan smiled again.

"No..."

"What?!" Ryan demanded, "We've gotta get out of here!!"

"I know," Chandler said quietly, "but I've only got one phone call and this could be my last ever phone call... I have to call Monica..."

"If we call the police, you'll be able to see her!"

"Come on, we don't even know where we are!" Chandler pointed out, "we don't know if we're alone or if there's 50 guys stood just outside here... all we know is that we've been locked in the back of a van by a man who wants to kill me!"

Ryan opened his mouth to reply but Chandler cut him off.

"Monica will call the police..." He told him, "but this could be my last chance...."

"Yeah, yeah..." Ryan agreed after a second of silence, "You're right."

Chandler gave him a small smile, he wasn't sure if it was to thank him for understanding or to reassure him that everything would work out.

Monica was pacing around the kitchen and Ross and Rachel watched her.

"Mon?" Rachel said, "Mon? Will you stop, you're making me sea-sick!"

Monica slowly sat in a chair opposite Ross and brushed some tears out of her eyes. It was nearly 7 o'clock, Chandler was meant to meet her at 5 for the doctor's appointment but he never showed up.

"He'll be fine!" Ross said gently, reaching over and taking her hand, "he promised he would."

"Yeah, I know..." She sniffed, smiling sadly at them. "Look, I wanted to thank both of you..."

"What for?"

"For everything...I don't know what we would have done if we weren't here for us."

"Aww, Mon..." Rachel stood up and hugged her, "just think that its pay back for all the times we've eaten your food and been around your place!"

Monica let a out a quiet laugh, Rachel and Chandler always joked around about the amount of time the 'Geller-Green' family spent around their house.

Chandler and Rachel had spent lots of times just joking around and doing stupid things. Monica was glad that Chandler still had someone to do immature stuff with now that Joey had gone and even more glad that it wasn't her who had to clean up the mess. They both realised it was a bad idea to play practically jokes on each other in Monica's and Chandler's house when they once ended up having a food fight and Monica came home to find Cheese Cake all over the wall, she still didn't know where they got the cake from.

Becky and Daniel both sat spread out on the couch flicking through the channels, a habit they picked up from Chandler. It annoyed the hell out of Hayley, who had given up and gone to do her homework with Matt and Emma.

"Hullo, Mad House..." Adam said picking up the phone,

"Hey, Ad...." Chandler said, "is Monica there?"

"Yeah, sure..." Adam replied, "I'll just get her."

"Hey, Guys...your Dad's on the phone..."He told them as he placed the phone on the side and headed towards the kitchen. He didn't know what was going on but he knew it was serious and that they were all worried about Chandler.

"DAD!!" Becky shouted into the phone. They had all asked their Mom, Uncle and Aunt where he was but all they told them was that he was sorting something out. Not wanting to worry them by saying they had no idea.

"Hey, Honey..." Chandler couldn't help smiling, "Look, is your Mom there? I really need to talk to her..."

"Adam's just getting her..." Becky told him, "Is everything Okay? Where are?"

"Everything is fine.. I'll be home soon.."

"Okay..." She nodded and then saw Monica walk in, "Mom's here, now...I love you, Daddy.."

"I love you too.." Chandler replied, trying to blink away the tears.

"Chandler?" Monica spoke in to the phone, "Where are you?"

A few tears managed to slip down his face when he hard her voice. Ryan looked away, pretending he didn't notice.

"Mon?" He said softly, "I think its time to call the police..."

"What's going on, Chandler?" She asked, fear creeping over her, "where are you?"

"I dunno where I am, Mon..." He admitted.

"No.." She whispered, this couldn't be happening. Tears flowed down her face as the whole family started to crowded around, now including Mike and Phoebe who arrived a few minutes before.

"Mon? I'm sorry...I'm really am sorry..." His choked out.

"No, Chandler..." She turned away from everyone so she couldn't see their faces, "No please...please, don't do this..."

"Mon, you gotta call the police, okay?" He told her, "tell them everything... make sure you and the kids of safe."

"Chandler, I can't lose you!" She cried.

"I know...but we're going to try and get out of here..."

"We?" She frowned.

"Ryan's here." He told her quietly, "I was going to give him a lift home when they jumped us then throw us in a van..."

"Oh my god!" She gasped, "are you okay?"

"Yeah, we're fine..." He assured her, "they thought he was Daniel... that's why you gotta call the police, you're not safe."

"But you'll be okay, won't you?" She asked, she looked around when she felt someone put a hand on her shoulder. She looked at her brother, his eyes filled with tears, silently asking her what was going on.

"Ryan will be."

"What about you?"

"Mon..." He started but she interrupted him.

"No, Chandler! We need you, you got that!?" She heard, him crying quietly, noting wanting her to hear, "please don't cry....please..."

"I don't think I have much battery left on the phone," he explained, noting wanting the phone to cut off and for her to panic.

"Don't go.." She begged.

"I'm sorry...I've got Hayley's phone...you know what she's like when it comes to charging it..." He attempted to joke.

Monica ever responded, not bothered about the tears rolling down her face. She could hear the others crying behind her, none of them really knowing what was happening but guessed it was bad.

"You still there, Mon?"

"I'm always going to here, Chandler..." She promised.

"I know...and I'll always be with you, in someway..." He said, carefully not making any promises he couldn't keep. He then suddenly remembered about her doctor's appointment. "What happened at the doctor's?"

She smiled, she hadn't told any of the others yet, not even Rachel. She wanted Chandler to be the first to know.

"Let's just say that our suppositions were right..." She grinned.

"Oh my God..." Chandler practically yelled, "God I love you so much!!"

"I love you to!"

"I can't believe this," Chandler smiled, nearly forgetting where he was and why he was there.

"See, now you have an extra reason get back here," She informed him.

"I'm going to try my hardest..." Chandler guaranteed. "But Mon if something does happen to me..."

"Don't say it!" Monica insisted, "Please don't say goodbye to me!"

"If something does happen to me.... I'll always love you... I'll look out for you and kids and everyone else..." He promised, knowing that she didn't want to hear it but he had to say it. "Tell them all I love them... tell them, I'm sorry..."

"We already know that, Chandler," She said quietly.

Chandler glanced over at Ryan, who had been sat quietly, a few tears rolling down his face.

"Tell Hayley that Ryan loves her..." He added to the end.

"He does..." He heard Monica start to ask before there was a beep telling him the phone was cutting out.

"Mon?? Monica!!" When he got no reply, he took the phone away from his ear and saw a blank screen.

"Thank you..." Ryan mumbled before breaking down totally, "I really do love her...thanks for telling her!!"

Chandler moved towards him, putting his arms around him. Trying to comfort him like a father would to his son. Like he would if it was Daniel, Matt or Tom.

"Shhh...its going to be okay..." He said as Ryan sobbed into his shoulder, "you'll get to tell yourself..."

They sat like that for over half hour, Ryan soaking Chandler's shirt with tears and Chandler, himself crying silently, thinking about his family, thinking about his friends, thinking about his nieces and nephew, thinking about Ryan, thinking about Joey but mostly his un-born child. Wondering if it was a boy or girl, wondering if he will be there to meet them, wondering if he'll be there to see them grow up. Wondering if he'd see any of his children grow up.

Please let me know what you think!!