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Rachel is telling her shrink the story after her and Ross got back from their honeymoon.
Flashes 4 years ago, just after being married for two months. They've been on and off fighting ever since they got back from the honeymoon. Mark became a subject of most of their fights, usually Ross would be the starter of most fights also, then they would escalate. Rachel could never get through his 'tiny head', as she would say, that Mark shouldn't even be in the picture.
Scene Ross and Rachel's bedroom. Its 8am and Ross is at work already.
Rachel wakes up, 4th day in a row now, sick. Its on and off. But 4 days-Rachel's never sick this long. Deep down, she's thinking that she might be pregnant, but doesn't want to admit it because her and Ross haven't even discussed having kids since her dream, and the way things have been going lately she doesn't think they're all that ready to be parents. Also Rachel's never said anything to Ross about being sick since she knew what he'd probably say.
She runs to the bathroom and throws up. Since this is the 4th day waking up throwing up left and right, not really wanting to, she decides to call Ross at work.
"Dr. Geller here" Ross answers, sounding stressed.
"Hey, it's Rachel."
Disappointed that its her-he's expecting a very important call-sighs deeply, "oh, it's just you." Now sounding half-way decent, he asks, "What's up?"
Rachel's kinda nervous about talking to Ross, "Um, I just, I woke up sick and was wondering if I should go to the doctors or not."
Rolls his eyes, "Well what's wrong? Can you kinda hurry? I'm expecting a call."
"Well, this is the 4th day now that I woke up feeling nauseous, I've been throwing up left and right and I thought maybe I …" Rachel was really close to telling him what she thought it could be, before he cut her off.
"It's just a stomach flu, it'll go away in a couple of days." Exactly what Rachel knew he was going to say.
"But its been 4 days and…"
Cuts her off again, in a hurry to get off the phone with her, raising his voice, not yelling but sounding annoyed, slowly says, like he's trying to get through to her, "it'll go away in a couple of days." Goes back to normal and says, just to make her satisfied, "look if you're still sick in a week, you can go to the doctors."
Asking him again, "You really think that it's just a stomach flu, because I was thinking maybe I wa…" About to tell him again.
Jumps in, yet again, "You know, I'm sorry you're sick and everything, but I'm on the verge of a major crisis. Can we talk when I get home?"
Rachel takes a deep breath, "Yeah, bye, I love…"
"Bye." Ross says, before she can say anything else.
Finishes what she was going to say, "…you." Runs to the bathroom again. "I don't care what he says, I'm going to the doctors."
Scene Doctors Office
Doctor Hayward comes in with her chart and files. He has the pregnancy results.
"Well good news Rachel"
She takes a deep breath, kinda shocked, "Really?" She's not sure if she should be happy, scared or what, especially 'what is Ross going to say?', she kept on thinking. I mean she already had a strong feeling that she was pregnant, It would've happened on Valentine's Day, it was just a couple of weeks ago, it turned out to be a great night. She can't say that it was a day free of fights, the day started off with one. Anyway, just knowing for a fact that she's pregnant, a million things are going through her mind.
Doctor goes on, "Yep, in about 8 and a half months, you're going to have a beautiful baby. We're looking at your due date to be November 14th."
'of course' she thought. Exactly 9 months.
okay, I'm not sure if they could tell her due date right away, but just work with me here. I also realize that doctors aren't that accurate either when it comes to being exactly 9 months. Also I think that it goes by how many weeks, not months.
"Great, thanks, doctor." Was all she could say.
"You're very welcome. Now I bet that husband of yours is dying to know whether you are or not."
She rolls her eyes, "Right. I'm sure he is." The doctor doesn't notice.
Later So Ross should be home any minute now. Rachel hasn't told anybody the news yet. Even thought she isn't sure how Ross is going to react she dressed up and made a romantic dinner. She was thinking, 'You know, there's nothing we can do, I'm having this baby and I'm not going to sulk about it the next 9 months' that's why she's planning this night. Because she's not going to be depressed the next 8 and a half, or whatever it is, months just because of Ross. She's happy and excited the more and more she thinks about it. even if Ross doesn't react the way she is hoping. Maybe tonight they can talk about things.
Rachel's in the kitchen. Ross walks in looking tired and stressed
"What a day." He says as he plumps himself on the couch without taking his jacket off.
Rachel walks out in a good mood. Excited and nervous to tell him, "Hey sweetie." Was all she said.
"Oh, hi, god I had the worst day ever." He doesn't even notice how nice she looks.
"Can I get you some wine?"
"That'd be great." As he takes a deep breath
She get wine for him, sparkling water, for her
Concerned she asks, "What happened?" She sits next to him, before he says anything, Rachel tries to be cute… "Did you have to persuade China to give you their bone again?" laughs a little.
…but fails, Ross doesn't find that funny at all and gives her a mean look, "don't try to be cute Rachel." Rachel looks down, "For your information our men are over in India right now being held in custody for something that makes no sense at all and we have no idea if they're ever going to come back, okay? God, their police system sucks. They're all assholes over there."
"I'm sorry Ross." He just rolls his eyes. "Can I get you something to eat? I made your favorite."
"No I'm not hungry." Looks at her and in a rude way, asks, "Why are you all dressed up anyways? Are you celebrating something?" Sarcastically becomes happy, "Oh is your flu gone? Is that why you're celebrating?" Goes back to normal.
Rachel can't believe the way he's acting, "Would you shut-up? If anyone's an asshole in this situation, it's you!"
"Well I'm sorry I had a bad day."
Rachel starts getting more upset, "You know what? I went to the doctors today," Sees Ross' reaction to that since he told her she'd be fine, continues, " yeah I did, and you know what?" yells, "I'm pregnant! Okay? I'm pregnant! So that little stomach flu or whatever the hell you called it turned out to be morning sickness which I know doesn't last no week!" She says this as she's headed towards the bedroom.
Ross is still on the couch, he wasn't ready at all for that news, turns around to look at her, no one says anything. Rachel crosses her arms. Ross looks down and starts to sink this all in, "Wow-a baby, that's-that's…" Thinks, smiles and looks up at Rachel, "That's great Rachel" He gets up and makes his way over to Rachel and goes to give her a hug, but she backs away with hurt and anger in her eyes.
She starts to choke up, emphasizing on the first word, "Don't touch me Ross." She walks past him and looks back at him, who had put his arms down and is upset that they're about to have another fight, she starts yelling a little, raising her voice, "You think you can just take me in your arms and just expect me to forget that there's anything wrong with us?" There's a slight pause, "You know what? I can not do this right now." Walks by him again to go back in the bedroom.
"Rachel you never want to talk about things. Why do you think…"
Rachel looks back at him with disgust and frustration and he sees that so he stops and before he can say anything else, Rachel stresses each word, questions what he said and raises an eyebrow, "I have never tried? I have tried so many times to talk to you about stuff and you…"
Cuts her off, "Like when?" He knew that was a stupid question considering she could have tons of times, but Ross needed specifics.
Rachel, of course has a time in her head of when she tried telling Ross, making a point, kinda being a little sarcastic, "Okay…alright there was that time that I called you at work not feeling well," Sarcastically thinks, "now when was that? Oh right…" becomes more angry toned, "…it was just this morning! You…"
"Rachel I…"
Rachel yells over him, "I'm not done yet Ross!" He looks down. Reminding him more of the situation, even though he knows what she's talking about, she continues, "I called you because I wasn't feeling well and instead of hearing what I thought it might've been, you 'knew' that it was just a stomach flu. Well guess what Ross?" She puts her hand on her stomach. She stops, he doesn't say anything, "What? You have nothing to say? You know, what good would it be to talk about things if you aren't going to change? We have made up so many times Ross, but here we are again-fighting." She's actually surprised that Mark hasn't came into the fight yet, but doesn't want to say anything.
Ross knows what he's about to say is going to upset her. I don't think any woman would want to hear this. He is trying to be gentle though, "Honey, I think that you might be experiencing mood swings." He was pretty scared to say that. Why did he say that? He regretted saying it the second it came out of his mouth.
Rachel is about to totally lose it, "I can not believe you just said that! That is it we are done here!" she is in the doorway of her bedroom, "oh and I'm sorry you had a bad day." she slams the door.
Flashes back to Rachel in the shrinks office
"I will never forget the look on his face when I told him that. He wasn't sure where to go from there. So anyway, there went, 'and in sickness and in health'"
"So what happened during the rest of your pregnancy? I mean did he go to all you sonograms and doctor appointments? How were you guys after that night?"
"Nothing changed. they went on just as I thought they would. Except Ross was even more of a jerk towards me."
"And what happened when 'it was time'?"
"Well first of all-it was like a month and a half into my pregnancy-I started to gain weight rather quickly, I had my first doctor's appointment and found out that I was going to have twins."
The therapist gets more into her story, "Wow that's exciting. Do twins run in his side or yours?"
"Mine-my mother had twins. She gave them up for adoption though. It was going to be her first time being a parent and her and my father wasn't ready for it financial wise."
"So did it ever occur to Ross that you could have twins?"
"No, I actually never told him."
"Wow so how did Ross react to all of this?"
"Well it was September 13th…" Start going into detail.
Flashes to September 13th, 2001.
Ross went into work early. Its 6am. Rachel wakes up in a panic. Her eyes wide open with a look of horror on her face. She holds her stomach. Pains like she never felt before. Even though she's never been pregnant before she's sure that these aren't contractions.
"Oh my god, what's happening?" She tries to get up, but its difficult, the pain hurts too much. She makes it to the phone and calls Ross.
"Dr. Geller." He sounds tired.
In very much pain, "Ross, it's time…"
Sounding annoyed that she'd be calling this time, "I don't know what you're talking about, but I do know that it's 6 o'clock in the morning."
"Ross the twi…" catches herself, "…the baby is coming."
Chuckles, just being a complete jerk, "Oh honey, it's only false labor. You have 2 months to go."
Doesn't have time for his crap, "Are you coming to the hospital or not?"
"Rachel, I can't just drop everything for false labor. I can guarantee that you'll be back in bed before noon."
"See what I'm talking about?" Meaning him 'knowing' what it is and not taking the time to listen to her. She screams in pain then hangs up and calls the hospital.
Scene Hospital. About 8 Rachel just got situated in the room they put her in before the delivery room. Everyone, but Ross is there.
"So is it false labor or is it the real thing?" Monica asks.
Rachel takes a deep breath, "It's the real thing" She screams in pain.
"Oh how are the contractions going?" Phoebe asks concerned.
Sighs, "I don't know. I know I never been pregnant before, but for some reason I don't think they're contractions. I feel like the babies…" not wanting to say it, "…I just hope they're ok."
"So have you told Ross yet?" Chandler asks curiously.
"Have I told him what? Have I told him that we're, no, that I'm having twins? That I'm having twin boys? That I'm going into labor? What?"
"I guess, Have you told him any of those things?"
"Just the going into labor part."
"And he's still not here?" Joey asks as and the rest of the gang shake their heads in disbelief at how Ross is.
"Nope. He said that it's just false labor and he can't just drop everything for me."
Phoebe feeling bad, asks, "How have you not been on 'Oprah' ?
Rachel smiles a bit, "Don't think I haven't thought about it."
"How are you planning on telling Ross that you had twins?"
Joking around, "Well when they go off to college, I'm gonna…" they laugh a little, "No, actually he'll just see for himself, that is if he's ever gonna get his ass here."
"So do you think that he'll be a better husband after all of this?"
"See that's the thing, I shouldn't even have to think that, y'know, he should just be here, y'know 'in sickness and in health' and he's not, and I hate him for that."
The nurse comes in to check on Rachel, "Well Rachel, it looks like you're 10cm dialatied. We're ready to bring you into delivery."
Rachel starts to cry, "But I'm not ready yet."
"Well why not?" She asks in the same tone as Rachel.
"Because the father isn't here yet."
"Would you like us to see if he's on his way?"
Rachel doesn't say anything, so Chandler asks, "Rachel would you like if I was in there with you?"
"Oh Chandler, I'd love that."
"Ok, let's go..."
"Good luck hun." The rest wishing her good luck.
Well what did ya think? I'm not done yet with this story. I know it takes a while to get new chapters up, but I can't type that fast. So I am sorry and I hope you guys are still into this story. Please, please let me know if you're enjoying this fic or not. I realize that Ross, well isn't the Ross we all know and love, but its only a fan fiction. So again I'm sorry it took awhile. Hopefully the next chapter will be up faster. If I get a review from you, a next chapter will be up fast.
Oh and sorry about any typos I might've had. This chapter would've been longer, but I didn't want you guys to think I quit writing this story. So, read, review and enjoy J
