AUTHOR: higherbeingfriendsfan - Debz

EMAIL: debz11888hotmail.com

CATEGORY: MG/CB angst

RATING: PG-13 just in case

SPOILERS: Could be anything from Series 1-6

DISCLAIMER: F.R.I.E.N.D.S don't belong to me, but I really wish they did, especially Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry ;). They belong to NBC, and Warner Brothers, and all of the writers and people who make the show.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is set in at the time of series 6, and goes up until TO Where Paul's the Man. I know some people said that they wanted this fic to be a Rachel and Chandler fic, but I prefer Ross and Rachel, so I probably won't have this story as R/C Sorry! :)

Chandler looked back at Phoebe's door through his tears, he didn't know how he could go on, after what he had just done, but he knew that it was the right thing to do. He knew that if he had given Monica another chance he would never have trusted her, and probably would have grown bitter and they would have broken up anyway. At least this way they may be able to get over it, without totally hating each other. He walked to the apartment he had shared with Monica not surprised to find Joey and Phoebe sitting watching TV. They turned at the sound of the door opening. At once they knew that Chandler had been crying even though he had stopped, and so guessed that the couple had broken up. Chandler walked over to the couch and fell into it, exhausted.

"Do you want us to go?" Phoebe asked.

"No that's OK, you can help me pack! I hate it" he tried to joke about the situation. They nodded slowly, "you can get my stuff from the bedroom, I'll get the stuff in here. Joe, will you get some boxes." Joey nodded and left, returning a little while later.

"Chandler, where are you going to stay?" Phoebe asked, "do you want to stay with me?"

Chandler nodded, "if you don't mind, I'll look for an apartment I suppose."

"No you're not I'll get Rachel to move back here, you're going to live with me again, you promised."

Chandler looked confused, "when?" looking at Joey, then turning to Phoebe who shrugged.

"When you told me you were moving in with Monica, you said that as soon as Monica and you broke up, you were going to move back in with me." Joey told him. Chandler looked at him, "I know you were only saying that to make me feel better, but you still promised." Joey added.

"We'll have to see how Rachel feels about that, I mean its not fair to her to have to move because of...what happened."

"She won't mind, I mean she's only going to be moving across the hall, isn't she?" Joey started to whine, as much as the situation killed him, because of how upset Chandler was, he was pleased they would be living together again, since he missed how close they used to be.

Just then Rachel and Ross came through the door, they looked shocked when they saw Chandler there. Rachel gave him a hug, "are you OK?" she asked quietly, he nodded.

"What are you doing here?" Ross asked him.

"Packing" Chandler answered simply.

"I'll go across the hall and pack my things, Ross will you help me?" Rachel said.

"Rach, that's OK you don't have to, I can stay with Pheebs," Chandler said to Rachel.

"No, man, you promised," Joey started to whine again, Chandler laughed a little.

"Joe...look maybe its better if I don't stay with you,"

"No, No its not, please" Joey asked again, Chandler just looked around the apartment they were all standing in.

"OK, fine," Chandler gave in Joey grinned a jumped a little, "As long as its alright with Rachel," Rachel just nodded and was about to pull Ross out the door, when Joey asked, "What can I do?"

"Go into Monica's bedroom and get my clothes," Chandler answered, "Pheebs you help him, they're in the left hand side of the closet."

"Don't you want to...?" Phoebe started before Chandler cut her off.

"No, I don't want to go in there," and with that he walked into the guestroom, got some boxes out of the closet and then walked into the bathroom, after leaving some of the boxes in the living room. The other four realised that the bedroom probably held too many memories of that night so they didn't pressure him into packing up things in the room.

Ross and Rachel went across the hall to pack, whilst Chandler, Joey and Phoebe cleared Chandler's belongings out of Apartment 20.

After a few hours of packing everybody was done, Rachel's things were in the guestroom in boxes, with other bits and pieces in the bathroom and living room, and Chandler's things were in the apartment across the hall. Monica hadn't been seen all day, and everybody, especially Chandler, was thankful for that, because they didn't want to have to deal with any scenes.

At 11o'clock everybody except Monica and Chandler was in the living room of Apartment 20, looking around and talking about how much had changed.

"It feels weird doesn't it?" Ross asked, "I mean who thought a week ago that this would be happening? That Chandler and Rachel would be back in the apartment's they moved out of a year ago." Phoebe shook her head.

"Well it wouldn't be happening if Monica was even half as nice as we thought she was," Joey said bitterly. Ross looked at him harshly, but said nothing as Joey continued, "I mean how could she do that? Or mores the question, why? Why the hell would she ruin her relationship with Chandler?"

"We don't know Joe, but you have to calm down OK, Chandler will need the four of us to help him to move on and to make him feel happy again, and you won't very well be able to do that if you're this angry with Monica," Rachel told Joey.

"What! You're not angry with what she did?" Joey asked Rachel, genuinely shocked.

"No I didn't mean it like that, of course I'm angry with what she did. What I meant was that you cant be visibly upset if you want to help Chandler," Rachel answered trying to calm down Joey, but inside screaming to herself that Joey was right in how angry he was at Monica. Just as Ross was about to defend Monica, not that he wasn't as angry but he felt it was his job as her brother, the door opened, everyone expected it to be Chandler because they realised that he had left one box, so they were all shocked when Monica stood in the doorway.

"What are you guys all doing here?" she asked them.

"Helping Chandler move," Joey said a little spitefully.

"Look Joey why are you being so horrible, I've said I'm sorry."

"And you think that you saying 'I'm sorry' makes up for what you did?" Joey asked angrily.

"No, but it should to you since I did nothing to you personally."

Just as Joey was going to reply to this the door opened again and Chandler walked in, "I was just getting the last box out of..." he paused as he saw Monica in the room, "actually could you get it Joey I'm leaving." He turned to go but Monica grabbed his arm and Chandler flinched, he froze, "Monica get off me."

"Chandler..." she started but Chandler interrupted her.

"Don't touch me Monica," he got his arm out of her grasp. He turned around and looked directly into her eyes as he said, "Joey can you get the last box I'm going home," and with that he turned at walked away slamming the door behind him.

Ross, Monica, Joey, Rachel and Phoebe flinched with the sound of the door being slammed, the others turned to Monica as she reacted to what Chandler had said. One word was swimming inside her mind "Home." Chandler had already found a new home, tears started to stream down her face as she realised just how much damage she had caused. Instead of the apartment they had shared for a year being his home Joey's apartment was. She read more into the word and realised what Chandler had been saying, she wasn't his home anymore, and where once his heart lay and lived it had gone. She had made his heart leave and now all she had was an empty space.

Right this has taken me a while, and personally I don't think its very good. I hope you enjoy at least some of it, please send me a review, and if you don't think this chapter was very good please let me know what I need to do to improve and to make the next chapter (if you want one) better :). Thanks Debzxxx