Ross's POV

I pause. I miss Rachel already.

I look at her closely, she is still gorgeous, she still has those fine collar bones and facial features even though I would never see her eyes; she had lost all her eye lashes, and only had a few eyebrows left. Her hair was growing back in thin, soft, pale brown tufts.

I knew everyone else knew;

I heard Monica say;

"Guys, I think I'm going to go home now and clean her room."

"Mon, you don't have to do that now." Chandler said.

And Phoebe said;

"We have to look for her face in the stars tonight."

Even now, almost twenty minutes after she died, I still talked to her.

"I wish you could see Emma grow up."

Her grip still hadn't gone limp.

I watch Joey through the window in the waiting room. He looks so hurt, so lost. He walks in here with a sandwich.

"Ross, how did we let this happen? How did we let Rachel die?" He spills some McDonalds salt onto his meat ball sub; and the salt spilled in the shape of a perfect "R".

I looked at the morning glories outside the hospital, it was afternoon and they were still in bloom. Signs? Or just what we think are signs that Rachel isn't really gone?

Emma comes waltzing in and just stares at Rachel. She touches her face, and a tear rolls out of her eyes; eyes that look exactly like Rachel's.

She says;

"I think come in here and tell Mommy we love her for the last time."

"Okay, baby." I say, "Go get the others."

She does so, and they all file in all crying, and their eyes fixed on Rachel in adoration and shock;

We say it in unison.

"We love Rach," and Emma says; "I love you Mommy." While we say it;

And then as if a miracle had occurred, her grip got stronger, and I thought I was dreaming; her starry-tired eyes fluttered open. This moment was real.

"I love you guys too," she whispered.

And I think to myself, I don't know if two people can love each other when they're a world apart, but this was living proof that sometimes love and friendship and the voices whom you've loved and left, can bring one person back from the dead, and into the same world again.