Chapter 11
Revenge is sweet
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with friends.
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"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE RACHEL!" Ross stood dumbfounded at the apartments front door with his keys still in his hand watching the two frozen figures before him. One he recognised and the other he had no clue who he was, but he was about to find out, and he wouldn't like the revelation.
He could feel his temples throbbing as he tried to calm himself, but his blood was boiling. Here he was, back home, ready to apologise and make up with the woman he was about to take as his wife, but this was far from what he expected to see.
His eyes flitted from the strange drunk man who had now shut up to Rachel, who was seated in the room's corner, clutching her smacked cheek.
"IS SOMEONE GOING TO TELL ME WHAT THIS IS ABOUT?" Ross screamed at the top of his lungs, a thing a never did. But the way he was feeling right now matched the anger in his voice.
Rachel tried to slide herself up the wall back to her feet as she trembled in terror. Her nerves were shattered from Jeff's forcefulness, but she knew what was about to happen was going to be much worse.
"Ross, please don't get angry." She walked towards him to test his reactions; maybe it was Jeff he was mad at and not she? It certainly wasn't the case as Ross backed away from her gentle touch on the arm.
"Don't touch me!" Ross' eyes were like a possessed demon as he glared at her. This one look alone was enough to make her step away from him. She knew how serious this matter was becoming and her stomach churned to think of the outcome.
The Ross she knew would have taken this in his stride. He would have talked through it calmly and rationally. But right now she saw a very different man before her. He was red-Ross.
He hadn't even made one comment on the slap Jeff had inflicted upon her, instead he ignored it, putting his own feelings first for a change, something he rarely done where she was concerned. The Ross of old would have punched Jeff back in her defence and thrown him out on his ear. What had changed? Had he come back to break up with her? That must be it she reasoned. Ross would have cared otherwise.
"I'm out of here," The look of shock at seeing Ross was now gone from his face, and his drunken scowl was now back.
"You're going nowhere! Not until you have both explained to me what this is all about it!" Ross put his hand on Jeff's chest and halted him from moving any further nearer the door. He pushed him back and removed his hand.
He returned his gaze over to a tear stained Rachel, and looked her up and down before continuing.
"Are you cheating on me?" Tears lined his eyes as he said the words that he dreaded most. He never once imagined he would have to say them to her, not after all they had been through in the past. She was the one person in the world he thought would have understood what it felt like to be betrayed by a partner, especially after what had gone on between them with Chloe. Was this some kind of sick revenge? Because if it was it was certainly working. He felt like his heart had been ripped out from his chest with great force.
"GOD NO! Ross you have to believe me, there's nothing going on between Jeff, and me I swear. We ended a long time ago, before I came back to New York! I don't want anyone else but you please believe me, please Ross. I should have told you about him before we booked this trip, but he's part of my past now, I want to forget it all and move on. We're getting married in less that 6 weeks, don't let this ruin what we have. I've made some stupid mistakes, but it doesn't affect us. They are my problems to deal with. I'm so sorry honey, I really am" Rachel cried a river as she pleaded and begged with Ross, while his face retained the same look of hurt and sorrow.
He wanted so much to believe her, but before he could he wanted answers to all the unanswered questions that were running through his head, dominating his feelings. Right now the only emotion he could muster for her was pity. For all the times she had taken it upon herself to screw up her life.
"Rachel sorry won't cut it this time. I've heard you say that word so many times that I really don't know when to believe that you genuinely mean it." Ross' eyes fell to the floor. He just couldn't bear to look at her anymore.
"So you're trying to tell me I was nothing but a huge mistake to you? Was I just your sex toy, which you thought you could pick up whenever you liked and throw away when you got fed up with me? Was that it? I wasn't good enough for you? Precious little spoilt Rachel. You know, the more I come to think about it the more I realise what a slut you really were. I mean all the guys in the office warned me about it, you and your flirting with everything in a pair of pants. But I never believed it until now. I didn't even believe it when you told me that kid wasn't mine. Well you could hardly have hidden it; after all I did have a vasectomy after my last boy was born." Jeff finally got in what he wanted to say, and like Ross he no longer wanted to waste his breath on her. He wanted her out of his life now that he had the closure he had been looking for all those months since she had been gone from his life.
"It wasn't like that and you know it!" Rachel screamed through her unstoppable crying.
"You were pregnant?" Ross whimpered, unable to take in what he had just heard. If his heart wasn't broken before it sure as hell was now.
"Oh my God I can't take this," She buried her head in her hands as she sat down on the sofa, rocking herself back and forth in desperation.
"Yeah, and you have no idea how glad I am it wasn't mine. I often wonder if you would have kept it if you had known it was that poor bastards back in Manhattan. Well it was because you thought it was my baby that you had an abortion, wasn't it?" Jeff walked closer to Ross and the door, this time without any interruptions. Ross was in far too much shock to even notice his approach, let alone hinder him.
"If I was you I'd dump her before she dumps you. She's like a human bulldozer, she wrecks everything that's in her way." Jeff let himself out, a huge smirk of glee on his face as he left. His job was done. He had gotten the revenge he came for.
The room was eerily silent, apart from the occasion muffled sob that came from Rachel, who could break her hands away from her soaked face.
Both of them knew truth and neither wanted to confirm what the other was thinking, but Ross needed to know. He couldn't stand there any longer, waiting and wondering if what he was thinking was true.
"Was, was it.was the baby.mi.mine?" He stuttered trying to keep calm, and refrain from joining Rachel in her pursuit to start a flood in the apartment.
She stopped rocking for a moment and removed her hands from her face, so her eyes met Ross'
"It was an accident Ross. If I had known it was our baby I would never have done what I did. I had to get an abortion, I thought it was Jeff's baby, and I couldn't raise a child with a man I had no feelings for. I."
"Where are the keys to Phoebe's apartment?" Ross cut Rachel off from her speech of apology. He didn't want to hear another word come from her mouth.
"Why?" She looked at him with puppy dog eyes, unsure of what he was about to do.
"Because im going there to get her stuff, and im taking it back to New York with me when I leave tomorrow." His voice didn't sound angry, but then again it didn't sound of anything, which shook her somewhat. He sounded like a robot talking, with no emotion to his voice.
"No Ross, don't leave me, please im begging you. Stay and talk to me, we can work this out. This can't be it, please don't say we're over." Rachel slid onto her knees on the floor and made a grab for his legs, in a desperate attempt to get him to stay, but it was no use. He spotted the keys he was looking for on the coffee table and picked them up. He yanked his legs out of her grasp and left her sobbing painfully in the middle of the floor.
She had done it this time. She had finally pushed him away, and this time he vowed it was forever.
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Ok I dedicated this whole chapter to Ross and Rachel, but I will have all the other characters back in the next one.
Please read and review.and I promise everything will work out for those two.no reviews, no R/R wedding!! Lol :o)
Revenge is sweet
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with friends.
~*~
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE RACHEL!" Ross stood dumbfounded at the apartments front door with his keys still in his hand watching the two frozen figures before him. One he recognised and the other he had no clue who he was, but he was about to find out, and he wouldn't like the revelation.
He could feel his temples throbbing as he tried to calm himself, but his blood was boiling. Here he was, back home, ready to apologise and make up with the woman he was about to take as his wife, but this was far from what he expected to see.
His eyes flitted from the strange drunk man who had now shut up to Rachel, who was seated in the room's corner, clutching her smacked cheek.
"IS SOMEONE GOING TO TELL ME WHAT THIS IS ABOUT?" Ross screamed at the top of his lungs, a thing a never did. But the way he was feeling right now matched the anger in his voice.
Rachel tried to slide herself up the wall back to her feet as she trembled in terror. Her nerves were shattered from Jeff's forcefulness, but she knew what was about to happen was going to be much worse.
"Ross, please don't get angry." She walked towards him to test his reactions; maybe it was Jeff he was mad at and not she? It certainly wasn't the case as Ross backed away from her gentle touch on the arm.
"Don't touch me!" Ross' eyes were like a possessed demon as he glared at her. This one look alone was enough to make her step away from him. She knew how serious this matter was becoming and her stomach churned to think of the outcome.
The Ross she knew would have taken this in his stride. He would have talked through it calmly and rationally. But right now she saw a very different man before her. He was red-Ross.
He hadn't even made one comment on the slap Jeff had inflicted upon her, instead he ignored it, putting his own feelings first for a change, something he rarely done where she was concerned. The Ross of old would have punched Jeff back in her defence and thrown him out on his ear. What had changed? Had he come back to break up with her? That must be it she reasoned. Ross would have cared otherwise.
"I'm out of here," The look of shock at seeing Ross was now gone from his face, and his drunken scowl was now back.
"You're going nowhere! Not until you have both explained to me what this is all about it!" Ross put his hand on Jeff's chest and halted him from moving any further nearer the door. He pushed him back and removed his hand.
He returned his gaze over to a tear stained Rachel, and looked her up and down before continuing.
"Are you cheating on me?" Tears lined his eyes as he said the words that he dreaded most. He never once imagined he would have to say them to her, not after all they had been through in the past. She was the one person in the world he thought would have understood what it felt like to be betrayed by a partner, especially after what had gone on between them with Chloe. Was this some kind of sick revenge? Because if it was it was certainly working. He felt like his heart had been ripped out from his chest with great force.
"GOD NO! Ross you have to believe me, there's nothing going on between Jeff, and me I swear. We ended a long time ago, before I came back to New York! I don't want anyone else but you please believe me, please Ross. I should have told you about him before we booked this trip, but he's part of my past now, I want to forget it all and move on. We're getting married in less that 6 weeks, don't let this ruin what we have. I've made some stupid mistakes, but it doesn't affect us. They are my problems to deal with. I'm so sorry honey, I really am" Rachel cried a river as she pleaded and begged with Ross, while his face retained the same look of hurt and sorrow.
He wanted so much to believe her, but before he could he wanted answers to all the unanswered questions that were running through his head, dominating his feelings. Right now the only emotion he could muster for her was pity. For all the times she had taken it upon herself to screw up her life.
"Rachel sorry won't cut it this time. I've heard you say that word so many times that I really don't know when to believe that you genuinely mean it." Ross' eyes fell to the floor. He just couldn't bear to look at her anymore.
"So you're trying to tell me I was nothing but a huge mistake to you? Was I just your sex toy, which you thought you could pick up whenever you liked and throw away when you got fed up with me? Was that it? I wasn't good enough for you? Precious little spoilt Rachel. You know, the more I come to think about it the more I realise what a slut you really were. I mean all the guys in the office warned me about it, you and your flirting with everything in a pair of pants. But I never believed it until now. I didn't even believe it when you told me that kid wasn't mine. Well you could hardly have hidden it; after all I did have a vasectomy after my last boy was born." Jeff finally got in what he wanted to say, and like Ross he no longer wanted to waste his breath on her. He wanted her out of his life now that he had the closure he had been looking for all those months since she had been gone from his life.
"It wasn't like that and you know it!" Rachel screamed through her unstoppable crying.
"You were pregnant?" Ross whimpered, unable to take in what he had just heard. If his heart wasn't broken before it sure as hell was now.
"Oh my God I can't take this," She buried her head in her hands as she sat down on the sofa, rocking herself back and forth in desperation.
"Yeah, and you have no idea how glad I am it wasn't mine. I often wonder if you would have kept it if you had known it was that poor bastards back in Manhattan. Well it was because you thought it was my baby that you had an abortion, wasn't it?" Jeff walked closer to Ross and the door, this time without any interruptions. Ross was in far too much shock to even notice his approach, let alone hinder him.
"If I was you I'd dump her before she dumps you. She's like a human bulldozer, she wrecks everything that's in her way." Jeff let himself out, a huge smirk of glee on his face as he left. His job was done. He had gotten the revenge he came for.
The room was eerily silent, apart from the occasion muffled sob that came from Rachel, who could break her hands away from her soaked face.
Both of them knew truth and neither wanted to confirm what the other was thinking, but Ross needed to know. He couldn't stand there any longer, waiting and wondering if what he was thinking was true.
"Was, was it.was the baby.mi.mine?" He stuttered trying to keep calm, and refrain from joining Rachel in her pursuit to start a flood in the apartment.
She stopped rocking for a moment and removed her hands from her face, so her eyes met Ross'
"It was an accident Ross. If I had known it was our baby I would never have done what I did. I had to get an abortion, I thought it was Jeff's baby, and I couldn't raise a child with a man I had no feelings for. I."
"Where are the keys to Phoebe's apartment?" Ross cut Rachel off from her speech of apology. He didn't want to hear another word come from her mouth.
"Why?" She looked at him with puppy dog eyes, unsure of what he was about to do.
"Because im going there to get her stuff, and im taking it back to New York with me when I leave tomorrow." His voice didn't sound angry, but then again it didn't sound of anything, which shook her somewhat. He sounded like a robot talking, with no emotion to his voice.
"No Ross, don't leave me, please im begging you. Stay and talk to me, we can work this out. This can't be it, please don't say we're over." Rachel slid onto her knees on the floor and made a grab for his legs, in a desperate attempt to get him to stay, but it was no use. He spotted the keys he was looking for on the coffee table and picked them up. He yanked his legs out of her grasp and left her sobbing painfully in the middle of the floor.
She had done it this time. She had finally pushed him away, and this time he vowed it was forever.
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Ok I dedicated this whole chapter to Ross and Rachel, but I will have all the other characters back in the next one.
Please read and review.and I promise everything will work out for those two.no reviews, no R/R wedding!! Lol :o)