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With Everyone
JOEY!!!!" Rachel jumped up, breaking the silence when the soda can fell onto her new shoes.
"AW Rach, I'm so sorry!" Joey grovelled quickly, picking up some paper napkins and tried to dry up the mess. He didn't know how managed to drop it, one minute it was in his hands, the next to flew to the floor as if some had knocked into him.
"I can't believe you!" She exclaimed, pushing Joey away and began to clean it up herself.
"It was an accident."
"Yeah, what's the big deal?" Ross shrugged, getting a death glare from his girlfriend.
"They are new!" Rachel snapped and pointed at Joey, accusingly. "You're a dead man!"
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting…" He said. "I'm Dr Benz."
"No problem… how's Chandler?" Ross asked.
"I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but we lost him…I'm sorry."
"Lost him?" Joey repeated.
The doctor nodded and opened his mouth to say something but was cut off.
"Wait! You mean, he's….gone?" Ross managed to ask, while the others were stunned to silence.
"Well, yes…"
Joey looked around at his friends, confused. Surely they couldn't mean, he was dead. Not Chandler, his best friend, his roommate. No way!
"He's dead?" Monica choked, tears welling on her eyes and dropped into her chair. "Oh my god!"
"He can't be!" Rachel exclaimed. "He was only meant to have his tonsils out!"
"I don't think you understand…" Dr Benz was finally allowed to interrupt. "He's not dead…"
"But you said he was!" Ross glared at him.
"No, I said he lost him…" The Doctor corrected him. "When we went to his room to collect him for the operation, he wasn't there…we believe he might have ran away."
"What?"
"So he's not dead?!" Monica jumped up, the doctor shook his head. "Oh thank god!"
"What a wimp!" Joey stated.
"Hey, this all your fault anyway!" Rachel told him. "If it wasn't for you then he wouldn't have freaked out!"
"But it's Chandler! Freaking out what he does best!" Ross added.
"Oh whatever!" Rachel said, still annoyed about her new shoes being ruined.
"So, I'm guessing you haven't seen him then?" The doctor asked.
"Erm, no…" Monica said. "Maybe we should go home and see if he's there."
"Yeah, that's a good idea." The doctor agreed. "Tell him he needs the operation sooner or later."
"Will do, thanks you doctor!" Ross smiled at him as they all headed for home.
XxXxX
The first place they searched was the boy apartment but he was nowhere in sight and it looked like no one had been there since they left.
"If you were Chandler, where would be the last place you would be?" Ross asked as they all sat around the kitchen table in the girl's apartment.
"We need to know where the first place he would hide! Not the last!" Joey said.
"No because then that would be the first place we would look…if he doesn't want to be found he'd go to the last place we'd look." Ross explained.
"Oh, yeah…" Joey nodded but it was obvious he didn't have a clue what Ross was talking about.
"OH! He's Dad's!?" Phoebe said.
"I don't think he would go that far."
"His Mom?"
"Nah…"
"Work!"
There was silence and everyone looked around at each other.
"Either that or the gym…" Rachel said, standing up. "Come on, let's go."
"Hang on, let me grab a sweater first…" Monica told them, walking into her bedroom.
She jumped when she saw him, lying fast asleep on her bed. She shook her head and walked back out to the others.
"Ready?" Ross asked, pulling on his jacket.
"No need…I found him." She told them, nodding to her room. The other glanced at each other before following her in.
They all surrounded the bed looking down at him as he slept, not sure if they should awake him or not.
"Why's he in here?" Phoebe whispered.
"I dunno…" Monica shrugged.
They all jumped back from the bed when he moved and started to wake up.
Chandler groaned as he opened his eyes, his throat felt like he had swallowed some razor blades and his head was throbbing; probably from the drugs he was given at the hospital.
"Chandler?" Joey frowned in concern.
Chandler looked at him, slightly confused but then everything from last night came rushing back.
"Bah!" He jumped up and moved away from him. "Tony?!"
"Tony?" Joey repeated and then pointed to himself. "Joey!"
"Joey?" Chandler grinned in relief.
"Chandler?" Monica placed a hand on his shoulder, in worry.
"MON!" He hugged her tightly, causing her to laugh slightly.
"What's going on?" She asked him.
"Bad dream…very bad dream…" Chandler told them, collapsing back down on the bed.
"Are you okay?" Rachel asked, put her hand to his forehead. "Wow, you're hot."
"Yeah, I know but your boyfriend is right there…" Chandler mumbled, closing his eyes to go back to sleep.
"What I think Rachel means, is that you have a temperature…" Ross said, unimpressed with Chandler's comment.
"Right, come on…." Monica grabbed his arm and tried to pull him up. "You're going back to the hospital."
"NO!" Chandler protested, not bothering to open his eyes.
"Chandler! Don't be a baby!" Joey told him, helping Monica to get him up.
"I don't wanna die!" He whined.
"You're not going to die!" Phoebe assured him.
Chandler allowed Monica and Joey lift him to his feet but he had to grip onto them to stop himself from falling.
"Dude, you okay?" Ross asked, stepping forward.
"Yeah…" Chandler nodded. "But never run away from the hospital after they've given you antistatic…"
"How long have to been here?" Monica asked, letting him sit back down on the bed.
He shrugged. "I left as soon as the nurse gave me the shot…I guess I fell asleep when I got here…"
"You're an idiot!" Rachel shook her head.
"Says the girl who got jealous of a pool game…" Chandler mumbled, referring to what Tony had shown him.
"What?" Rachel asked.
"Nothing."
Rachel stared at him curiously, there was no way he knew about the game she saw him and Monica play…could he?
"Look, we gotta get you back to the hospital…okay?" Monica told him softly.
Chandler looked at her, silently pleading with her not to make him go but she didn't back down.
"Alright…" He sighed in defeat.
"Sorry, guys I've gotta go…" Ross looked down at his watch, noticing the time for the first time.
"What? Why? I thought you booked the day off!" Rachel said.
"I did but I have a meeting for an hour or so…"
"Dinosaur Dudes?" Chandler asked.
Everyone looked at him and then at Ross, whose mouth dropped open. "How did you know about that?"
Chandler shrugged and held onto Joey as he stood up.
"Dinosaur Dudes?" Rachel repeated, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, umm…erm…"
"Okay, does this matter?" Monica interrupted. "We have an escaped patient that needs to get back to the hospital."
"Oh yeah…right…"
Chandler smiled innocently at Rachel and Ross who were looking at him strangely wondering about the comments he made.
XxXxX
An hour later the gang minus Ross were stood around Chandler's hospital bed, who was drowsy after having more drugs, ready to have the operation before he had chance to run away again.
"You promise you'll be here when I come back?" Chandler asked everyone but he only really cared whether Monica was there or not. He had decided he would talk to her about his feelings, he didn't want to risk have another dream like he did the night before.
"Only if you promise you will be." Joey joked, causing the girls to glare at him.
"Umm…" Was Chandler only reply.
"We'll be here, don't worry…" Monica told him but when she looked at him, she saw he was already asleep.
"It's marked on my calendar…" Chandler mumbled in his sleep.
Monica looked at him, remembering the last time he had said that. She shook her head slightly before she lent down and kissed his cheek.
The others grinned at each other as they walked out, preparing to wait until the operation was over just in case he wanted to escapes again.
Monica went to follow them but stopped at the door, looking at him one last time.
Wondering what he actually he had dreamed the night before.
TBC
What ya think? Please review! I think the next chapter is going to be the final…kinda sad!