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Should Have Been Me
Monica, Phoebe and Ross were sat talking in Central Perk when Rachel came running in, looking panicked.
"Oh thank god you're all here!" She exclaimed.
"Is everything alright?" Ross looked concerned at her.
"No! Joey's in hospital!"
"What?!"
"Why?!" Phoebe asked. "Is he alright?!"
The journey to the hosptial seem to take forever but none of them spoke, all of them expecting one of the others to reasurre them that everything was fine.
They walked into AE and sighed in releif when they saw Joey sat in the waiting room, a white banaged taped to his head.
"Oh, Joey you stared us!" Rachel told once they reached him.
"So, what happened?" Phoebe questioned, while they all relaxed.
"He came out from nowhere…" Joey whispered, for the first time looking up. His eyes were filled with a mixture of fear, confusing and anger.
"Was you mugged or something?" Ross looked at him curiously. He remember when he was mugged as a kid, sure it shook him up and all but this was Joey, he hardly get anything bother or scare him.
Monica watched Joey carefully, wondering what was going on. She looked around at the others, as they formed a small circal around their friend but something felt different… it looked smaller somehow…someone was missing…Chandler.
She opened her mouth to tell the others she was going to call Chandler and let him know what happened when it suddenly hit her. Her mind went back to earlier that day when Chandler had informed her on his plans tonight….he was going to the Knick's game, with Joey.
Her mouth closed again while she tried to stop herself from jumping to conclusions. She began to shake slightly as Joey continued with his account of what happened.
"He had a gun…we didn't see it at first…" Joey rambled on. Monica heart beat increased when she heard the words 'gun' and 'we.'
"Gun?!" Rachel replied wide-eyed.
"What happened after that?" Phoebe asked.
"I don't really know…" Joey stuttered as he only just managed to hold onto his emotions. "My phone rung…I've been waiting for this call about a call back all week…I don't know why, but I tried answering…next thing, I hear shouting and the gun going off…"
"Oh my god!" Ross gasped but he still hadn't made any connection. "Was anyone hurt?!"
"It was meant to be for me!" Tears spilled down Joey's face. "He pushed me out the way…it should have been me…"
"Joey, you're not making much sense?" Ross said, glancing around at the others, frowning slightly when he saw Monica's pale face.
"Where is he, Joe?" Monica pushed Ross back and stepped in front of Joey.Joey slowly looked up at her; he nearly broke down there and then just by seeing the look in her eyes.
"They umm, they had to take him to surgery, straight away…. They haven't old me much…" He said wiping his eyes, if Monica can remain in control then so can he.
"Who?" Rachel looked from one of them to the other.
"Yeah, what's going on?!" Ross added.Monica closed her eyes, hoping to prevent the tears from falling down her face. She knew the others where clueless to what was happening but she couldn't think about that right now.
"I'm so sorry…." Joey broke the silence, directing his comment at her. "I should have done something…"
Monica shook her head and placed a reassuring hand on his arm but she never spoke; not trusting her voice.
"Where you going?" Phoebe asked, as Monica began to walk off
"I've got some things to sort out…" She said as calmly as she could. "I need to cancel the meeting he had with his bosses tomorrow… I gotta call his Mom…"
"Mon! That can wait till later!" Joey stood up.
"No, Joe…it can't…" She shook her head before disappearing around the corner, tears silently falling from her face. The true was she just needed to be alone, to get her head around everything.
Joey watched her go before dropping back into the chair. The others starting firing questions at him, none of them had worked out what was going on. He held up his head to shut them up, they all fell silent, looking at him expectantly.
"We were on our way to The Knicks game…" He took a deep breath, continuing before Ross had chance to interrupt. "Me and…me and Chandler were going…"
"What?" Rachel's eyes filled with tears.
"No…" Phoebe whispered.
"You mean… Chandler…he was…. Umm Chandler was shot?" Ross stuttered over his words.
Joey nodded, leaning his head back against the wall. "It should have been me…."
TBC
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