Rachel put the bonnet over her head. She secured the black ribbon around her chin. As she looked in the mirror, she looked like she had aged a hundred years.

She was getting on a train with her two children. They were headed back to Charleston to bury her husband. Rachel couldn't even say it, because it was still so hard to believe. She was a widow.

"Are you ready yet?" Chandler asked as he popped in the door.

"I am coming." she sighed. She walked over to the wardrobe and started touching his suits. The tears came to her eyes as she felt each thread and realized that they still had his aroma. She pulled herself away from the door . Chandler put his arm around her as Monica held the babies in her arms.

"Now Mrs. Hayes, we should be back in about a week. Please watch everything for me." Rachel said in a voice barely above a whisper.

"Mommy loves Emma and Ben. She will be back ." she started to cry as she kissed their little heads.

"Mommy are you going away like Daddy?" Ben asked.

"No sweetheart, Mommy is going on a trip and Daddy is one of the angels now." Rachel said as she patted her young sons' head. She looked into his eyes and could see the dark brown , same as his father.

Rachel got in the carriage with Monica and Chandler as the rode down to the train station. Ross' body was being shipped back to the family plantation where it would be buried. Rachel now would be severing all ties with that house. She just thought it would be better to start anew with the money her husband had left her following the sale of the house.

"Here we are ladies," Chandler said as he helped his wife and sister in law on to the train.

"All aboard." cried the conductor. The train whistle blew as the wheels slowly chugged out of Penn Station.

It seemed like days, when the train finally stopped . Chandler held Rachel as the baggage man handed over the casket to the man who take care of the arrangements. She ran her fingers over the coffin as if it to know it was still there. Monica held her hand as they both grieved the man they loved.

The new residents, the Greens were very glad to see Rachel. They wondered if she would now stay in Charleston since she was a widow.

"No Jill, my place in back in New York, we started a new life there and now I am the one who will have to finish it." Rachel sighed.

Friends and acquaintances filed past the flowers and the casket. One surprised Rachel and the Bings very much.

"He was a good man and when I heard of his passing. I knew I had to make the trip to pay my respects." Phoebe said as she took Rachel's hand.

Monica was very happy to see Phoebe again. She hadn't seen her since the birth of Jack. Chandler immediately ran and hugged her.

"Phoebe it is so good to see you. I wish it could have been under better circumstances though." Chandler said.

"Funny we now live in the same city and I run into at a funeral thousands of miles away." Phoebe tried to smile. This only reminded her of the funeral of her beloved Michael.

"If there is anything at all you need, Mrs. Geller, please let me know. I took care of him during the war and he loved you so." Phoebe said.

"Yes I know, he told me of the kind lady who took him in and what you did for my dear friends. Please call me Rachel and I have a feeling that I will be needing your help." Rachel said as she took Phoebe's hand.

The gathering went outside as the coffin was being lifted from the risers in the parlor. Six former slaves walked trudgingly as they brought the casket to it 's final resting place. Four generations of Gellers had made this their permanent home. Now was the start of the fifth.

Monica ran her fingers over the casket. "Well brother dear, I guess it is now up to me. I will take care of Rachel and your children. I will tell them how much their father loved them. You will be missed." she said as Chandler held her to wipe away her tears.

Trying to gain his composure, Chandler spoke, "You were a friend and a brother to me. You were the voice of reason when I needed it the most. You were also the one to bring me and Monica together, and for that I will forever be grateful." he quickly wiped a tear away.

"Even though I knew you for a short while. You touched me with your love for your family. Good bye and tell Michael I am waiting to see him again." Phoebe said as she laid a rose on the casket.

"You gave us a home when war destroyed ours and for that we thank you." Sandra said as she hugged her daughter. "Now you must go on." she whispered.

Rachel took a deep breath and walked up to the casket. "This is where it ends, till death do us part. But no it won't end. I will love you forever , Ross Geller. I will raise your children and they will never tire of the stories I will tell them of their father. I will finish this new life we started and make you proud of me." she said with tears in her eyes.

She turned to Chandler and Monica and said determinedly, "Let's go home." They walked away as the casket was being lowered into the ground.