So far: A very lethal virus started killing people in Africa. Then, it spread to Europe and South America. Doctors are desperately trying to find a cure but are not being successful. In spite of all the efforts for preventing the outbreak, the virus finally takes over Manhattan.
The guys had to go to the hospital to get they blood tested and see if they got the virus. Chandler was the only one in the group infected and they take him away to an isolation room. Monica desperately wants to be with him, so she finds him and kiss him. Whit that kiss Monica got infected too, now if doctors don't find the cure soon she and Chandler had only 10 days left to live. They are waiting for the cure or the end in a isolation room. But at least they are together.
Joey is really depressed because he thinks that if he died nobody would care…. Phoebe tries to comfort him… but they end up sharing a romantic kiss.
Rachel thinks she might have the virus… that scares the hell out of Ross, who promise that if Rachel survives he will do things right whit her. It turns out that Rachel only had a flue… so she and Ross finally get back together because they realize that life is to short.
In the hospital Chandler is feeling very sick so he starts saying goodbye to Monica and she gets mad and scared because she feels Chandler is giving up his fight against the virus.
Chapter 5:
Monica's little miracleThe days were passing slowly at the hospital. Chandler and Monica have been there for 10 days now, and the magic cure that the world needed so much hadn't showed up yet.
Monica was laying on her bed. Her body was shaking because she was so dam cold…. She had a terrible headache and a terrible fever. She could barely move, her whole body ached terrible, but her biggest pain came when she looked at her husband… Chandler was deeply sleep because of all the drugs that the doctor had given him. Chandler was at the final stage of the decease, so doctors kept him under a lot of medication so he wouldn't suffer in his finals moments.
The TV they had in the room was on… Monica didn't want the room to be so quiet because it make her want to kill her self…. She missed talking to Chandler so much… and he had only been unconscious for a day…
Suddenly, completely out of the blue… there was a news flash that called Monica's attention.
They had interrupted the regular TV program to announce what the world had been waiting for: the cured had been founded.
Monica couldn't believe it… she started to watch the TV more carefully and she saw a reporter that was overjoyed saying that doctors had founded a cure for the virus. Some doctor from Europe had made the correct modifications to the same medicine that had saved the world from the black plague in the 14 century. The result of the modification was a medicine capable to kill the new virus.
Of course, the official statement was "no comments" because nobody dare to promise the world's salvation until it was sure…. But, off the record, the reporter said that in Europe the infected people were already receiving the medicine and it seemed to be working… so doctors will start to give the new medicine to the infected people in USA as soon as possible. "In just a few hours all the infected people in the United States will have received the medicine" were the reporter's exact words.
That made Monica very happy…. This was the miracle she had been waiting for… She and Chandler would be ok. She had to wake him up and tell him.
Monica- Chandler! They found the cure! We are going to be fine!
Chandler was so sleep that he couldn't hear her from the bed. So Monica used all her energy to get up and walk towards him. Then she started to shake him a little bit.
Monica- (shaking him) Chandler wake up! You must hear this! They founded the cure!
Chandler moved and groaned a little, but he was still very sleep so Monica shacked him harder.
Monica- Chandler wake up! Wake up! They founded the cure…
Chandler opened his eyes a little.
Chandler- What?
Monica- They find the cure… honey… we are going to live…
Chandler- (very weakly) really?
Monica- (hugging him very relieved) yes! We are going to live! We are going to live!
Chandler shacked his head.
Chandler- YOU are…
Saying that he closed his eyes and Monica shacked his body harder than ever and started to cry.
Monica- Chandler! wake up.. You can't do this! Not now! Please…
Since she had no response, she hugged Chandler's motionless body as she burst into tears.
Monica- don't leave me…Six months later….
Monica walked nervously around the church, checking that everything was perfect for the double wedding that was about to take place there… but she didn't like what she was seen… it was obvious that she hadn't been involved in this wedding at all… so nothing was the way she liked… but it didn't matter because she knew that this wedding would bring joy to the people she loved.
She was checking the flowers that decorated the place, while she was wearing a maid of honor's dress that didn't covered her big pregnant belly, she saw the reverend and the priest arguing whit the rabbi…
Rabbi- he was only a man!
Reverend- he was a God!
Rabbi- no… he was a man…
Priest- he was a God! The king of kings
Monica- (getting up set) hey! This isn't the right moment for a religious debate… please… behave
Discuss religion some other time…
Rabbi- (confused) who is discussing religion?
Reverend- we are just talking about Elvis…
Very surprise for that response, Monica leaved them alone. She decided to check on the brides, who were finishing getting ready in a room that the church people had lent them.
She entered in the room, and there they were…. Phoebe and Rachel… on their white wedding dresses… they were, nervously… putting some make up on their faces and talking…
Rachel- I can't believe you are marring Joey! I though you two had a lot of fear to commitment…
Phoebe- honey... we could survive the end of the world… after that it would be stupid to be afraid of commitment…
Rachel- I guess so…
Phoebe- I can't believe that you and Ross finally decided to get marry… and it only took the apocalypse
Rachel- I know! Who would have guess? We are so in love with each other… but we only said it when we thought it was our last chance…
Phoebe- Is funny how things turned out all right for the four of us…
Monica finally spoke.
Monica- and is funny how this wedding is turning out bad!
Phoebe- What?
Monica- girls… you forgot to designate the seats for the guest… How is everybody going to know where to sit? And the flowers that decorate the church are yellow instead of white… and where the hell is Emma? And did you know that there will be chicken for dinner instead of the Italian feast that you wanted? Because I have just found out about that…
Monica was starting to hyperventilate… which was surely bad for a pregnant lady… so Phoebe tried to calm her down….
Phoebe- Monica... calm down… relax... first of all... we want our gests to sit whatever they want.. that is why we didn't designated the sits… and we had a problem whit the Italian feast.. we couldn't afford it… but is ok to have chicken for dinner… the food is not important…
Rachel- and the flowers are horrible… that was a mistake… but nothing of this matter to us if Ross says my name
Phoebe- and if Joey doesn't run away…
Monica- What about Emma?
Rachel- she is whit you mother... she will bring her in a few minutes…
Monica- (calming down) you know what? you are so right… when I look back at my wedding day I remembered that I wanted everything to be perfect… I was obsess about it… however Chandler panicked and almost ran away, Joey showed up horrible dressed and he gave that stupid speech to impress that director… plus Chandler couldn't dance because of his shoes…
Rachel- plus the issue of my pregnancy…
Monica- that's right! You are the only one capable to turn my special day into yours…
Rachel- sorry about that…
Monica- it doesn't matter… none of those thing mattered… the point is that my wedding day sucked… but by the end of the day I was married to the love of my life… (her eyes filled with tears) I married my soul mate… and that made my wedding the happiest day of my life… because if you marry the right guy the wedding is already perfect…
Rachel- (whit tears in her eyes) oh Mon…
Monica- (trying hard not to cry) I promised my self that I wouldn't do this! I don't want to cry now..
Phoebe- (hugging her) is ok, honey, we understand… we wish he were here too…
Monica- I miss him so much….
Rachel- we know… is ok to cry…
Monica- (drying her tears) no! Not today! You are getting married! This is a happy occasion! I can't cry… and I wont… this wedding is going to be great…but… there is something I don't understand..
Phoebe- What is it?
Monica- why the hell do you have in the church a rabbi, a priest and a Methodist reverend! The only thing missing is the joke…
Rachel- because Ross wanted a Rabbi to marry us because Christians weddings brought him bad luck in the past…
Phoebe- the priest is here because Joey is a catholic
Monica- What about the reverend?
Rachel- he is here because I became a Methodist
Monica- when?
Rachel- after I survived the apocalypse I felt that I should thank God by joining a Church… so I became a Methodist…
Monica- WOW! I had not idea… I missed a lot in the last six months… is like I was in an island… I didn't even try to organize this wedding…
Phoebe- you had your reasons to be distant…
Actually, after Chandler died, Monica didn't get up of bed for weeks… and she almost kills her self but luckily, she found out that she was pregnant and a part of Chandler lived inside of her… that news was enough to make her want to live. However, Monica was still very depress and she barely saw her friends. She only saw them when they visited her and force her to talk to them.
Monica- well... but I'm here now… and you are five minutes late for your own wedding… so…. Came on! Hurry up! We got a Jews-Catholic-Methodist wedding to attend…
Rachel- (hugging her) is good to have you back mum…
Monica- how did you call me?
Rachel- Mon… I called you Mon.
Monica smiled… Chandler's jokes will always live.
Then Monica made his entrance as the maid of honor of the wedding.
It was a beautiful ceremony and they all had a great time at the reception. Two of Joey's sisters cached the bucket: Tina and Gina… but Tina said that she wasn't going to get marry because she was pregnant and she was going to be a single mother. That news made Joey the only groom that almost dies of a heart attack on his own wedding. But Phoebe calmed him down and, by the end of the day everybody was happy. Which proved Monica right: If you marry the right guy the wedding is already perfect.
When the reception was over, Monica came back to her apartment. She got into his bedroom and laid exhausted on her bed. A few minutes later she saw someone laying next to her, and looking at her whit a huge smile on his face… is was Chandler. She startled.
Monica- Oh my God! Chandler!
Chandler- hey… you look like you are seeing a ghost… (Monica gave him a killer look) hey! Don't blame me for the horrible joke… this is your hallucination…
Monica- oh my God!
She immediately hugged him and kissed him…. It felt so real.
Monica- Am I loosing my mind? How came you are here? (touching his arm to confirm that he was really there)
Chandler- You tell me! I have not idea what you brought me back… but I can definitely tell you that you are not crazy
Monica- I guess I wanted you to see that you did gave a child after all… is a boy… he will be born next month...
Chandler- I know honey… I can see everything…
Monica- (whit tears on her eyes) I wanted to tank you for this miracle… (touching her belly) not only because you are the father and gave this baby to me… but because I'm sure that you did something from heaven to make this possible.
Chandler- how do you know that?
Monica- because doctors can't explain how the baby survived the virus… they said that any normal woman would had have a miscarriage… but this baby survived… and I am sure you had something to do with it…
Chandler- This baby is a real miracle… a little angel…
Monica- yes, he is. He hasn't even been born yet and he has already save my life… Chandler.. after you were gone a lot of people said a lot to stupid things to cheer me up… but NOBODY gave me a reason to keep on living. Then I found out I was pregnant… and I know that whatever happens to me, for the rest of my life I'm going to be somebody's mother… (smiling) that makes things a lot better.
Chandler- I'm so glad to hear that… now I know that you will be ok…
Saying that Chandler left.
Monica murmured on her sleep: " please… come back"… as she watched on her sleep how Chandler left once again. Then she waked up, she had fallen sleep without even taking of her dress. Thinking about her dream and her beloved Chandler, she changed her clothes and putted on a pajama. Then she went back to bed… she touched her belly… the baby was moving a lot more than usual… she looked at her wedding ring and wondered if it had really been just a dream.
Did she just dream it or did Chandler really come back one more time just to make sure that she was ok?… people might call her crazy, but she really believed in the second option.
She believed that Chandler came back one more time just to make sure that she was going to be ok, just to say goodbye and to tell her that he knew about the baby. In other words… Chandler came back one more time just to Monica could find some peace of mind.
That night, Monica feel sleep thinking on that last chat she shared whit Chandler. It seemed a dream… but it had to be real…. Monica knew in her heart that it was real, because she sleep very well for the first time since Chandler's death.
THE END
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