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Sleep Well Angel

The doctor from before appeared, 30 minutes later, slowly making his towards them...none of them able to read the expression on his face.

"I'm sorry…" He started off gravely.

"No!" Joey shouted, not wanting to hear anymore. "No, please…"

"There was nothing more we could have done…"

"No! No! No!" Monica cried collapsing into her brother's arms.

"There must have been something you could have done!" Joey insisted.

"I'm sorry but with his injuries there was very little chance of survival…" The doctor told them sadly. "I'm sorry…"

Ross could do nothing to quieten his sister's sobs or to fight his own tears. He couldn't believe this was happening…not Chandler…. There must be some mistake.

"So, that's it?" Ross whispered, tightening his arms around Monica. "My best friend…the guy who's like a brother to me…. he's…. he's just…gone?"

The doctor nodded slowly again, unable to think of anything to say to the young group of friends.

"Ross?" A voice from behind called out, causing him to turn and see Nora running towards them. "What's going on? What's happened? Chandler is okay, isn't he?"

Monica felt Ross' arms loosen as he turned around to face Nora but she couldn't look at her. How were you meant to tell someone that their only child was gone. As soon as she stepped away from her brother, see felt Joey slip an arm around her waist, pulling her to him, allowing her to bury her face in his shoulder. While his other arm was around Phoebe, who was also hugging Rachel…None of them bothered to try and stop the tears that fell from their eyes.

"Nor…Nora…" Ross managed to get out; his body began to shake slightly. "Oh god…"

Nora looked at her son's five friends, the ones that meant so much to him. They all looked so sad and upset…she suddenly got a sick feeling in the bottom of her stomach.

"Ross, what is it?" She pleaded but almost to scared to hear the truth. "What…What happened? Where's Chandler?"

"A car…it….it uh…ran a red light…" He explained slowly. "Chandler…he was….he was pretty badly hurt…"

She opened her mouth to ask if he was all right but then noticed he had used past tense 'was.'

"No…" She shook her head in disbelief but was more insistent when no one spoke. "No!"

Monica could take it no more; she pulled away from her friends and ran out of the hospital, ignoring the cries of protest from her friends. This couldn't be happening….Chandler couldn't be gone…. Not Chandler…the guy who had been her best friend for years…the guy who had made a promise to give her a baby when she was forty…the guy she fell in love with that night in London….

Ross looked helplessly at his friends before moving to follow her but Joey stopped him. He shook his head, silently telling Ross to give her some space.

"I want to see him…" Nora whispered. "I want to see my son…"

"Of course…" The doctor said softly. "Follow me…"

Nora entered the room where her son lay…. All the machines were now gone and was left with a white sheet covering part of his body. She choked on a sob as she reached out a shaky hand to brush back his hair.

"I'm so sorry... I'm sorry I was never there... I'm sorry I wasn't the mother you deserved..." Tears rolled freely down her face, as she pulled a chair to the side of the bed. She sat down, taking one of his hands in both of his and bringing it to her face, kissing it gently.

"You've got to know that I love you so much, you mean more to me then anything in the world...and now...now you're gone and I can never show you how much you meant to me..." She cried harder.

"My beautiful baby boy is gone...I don't know if I can do this anymore... I can't let you go... you're my son...I need you! You're to young to die... please please don't go!" She put her head onto his chest and cried for what seemed like hours.

She slowly lifted her head, just watching him. She thought back to when he was a baby and she would spend hours watching him sleep. He just seemed like he was sleeping now, that he was going to wake up any minute. She bit her lip when reality hit her, he was never going to wake up…. She was never going to see his beautiful blue eyes again.

"I'm so proud of you…" She whispered, breaking the silence. "I'm so proud of what you've managed to accomplished. There's going to so many people who will miss you…. You don't deserve this…. You deserved to be happy…to have a proper family…."

More tears welled in her eyes when she realised the future she had always dreamed for him would never come true. She understood his reason behind the commitment issues he had but she always believed that when he meets the right woman, when he fell head over heels in love…he would be able to settle down. Get married, buy a house with a huge garden and have lots of kids. She just knew he'd be a great father… even though she had rarely seen him around children, there was something inside of telling her he could have made the worlds greatest Dad…Could have…

She continued to stare at his peaceful face before she slowly stood up, carefully drying her eyes and leaned over and kissed his forehead.

"Sleep well Angel..." She whispered, stroking his cheek, more tears filled her eyes as she turned and slowly walked towards the door. After she opened it, she glanced back at him one more time, tears falling from her eyes again before she left.

TBC

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