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The One Where Monica and Chandler are confused

Previously on Friends:

Phoebe walks into her apartment…

"Honey, it's time to start trying again! I am ovulating today! So take off those pants and let's get to it!" Phoebe said enthusiastically.

"Okay… okay. Umm, well…Phoebe this is my great friend Sean. Sean-Phoebe, Phoebe-Sean." Mike and Phoebe have embarrassed expressions on their faces. Sean smiles lightly and shakes Phoebe's hand.

"Nice to meet you, Phoebe, Mike has said so much about you!"

"Yea, well the day has gone to waste."

"Maybe not... How long can we wait until we can't have sex and be sure we won't get pregnant?"

"I'm not sure. But do you wanna try?" She gestured her left shoulder and pointed to the couch.

"Maybe…" Mike began to say, "Maybe not." He grabbed her gently and pulled her closer to the couch.

Right there and then, Mike and Phoebe had conceived a baby…they would soon find out!

Joey, Monica, and Chandler are talking in Joey's apartment. They hear a banging from across the hall.

"Monica, Chandler, open the door! It's me: Erika!" Chandler opens Joey's apartment door…

"Erika?" He says, to the women who let them adopt their children. "What are you doing here?"

"Hey…" she says as she walks in, "I didn't become a nun. In fact, I realized what a huge and stupid mistake I had made!"

"What are you saying?" asks Monica.

"I want my children back…"

BACK TO THE SHOW:

"You-you-you-you WHAT?" asks Monica furiously.

"I want my children back!"

"You can't do that, she can't do that!"

"Yes I can!"

"I don't know who the hell you think you are…I mean…they're ours!"

"Yeah, well they came outta my vagina!"

"I don't care…I don't care…" Joey and Chandler look in awe as the argument grows. "They're MY children!"

"Look Erika: you can't just barge in here, and expect to get your children back," Chandler is cut off by Monica.

"You mean our children back…"

"Yea, you can't just expect to get our children back. They're our children…"

"Can't you guys understand…? I made a huge mistake. When, I gave you guys those children, I was dying inside. I looked at them and, I loved them…"

"You told us that we were going to be great parents, you smiled!" Chandler said immediately.

"I'm sorry," she began to say as she sat down, "but they came outta me, and I want them back! Even if I have to take you to court! I don't care, I know that you love them. But, I gave birth to them, and I love them a million times more than you will ever know!"

"Look Erika, we are not afraid of you! We love those children, they're our everything! And we are prepared to do anything, because they are our children, and because we love them. And because they make the cutest little noises, and smiles, and expressions" Monica began to burst into tears. Her voice was high-pitched and 'crying-like'. "And because Jack knows that I am his mom, and Chandler is his dad. And because Erika knows the same thing!" Monica slowed down, "We will do anything." She repeated.

"Me too, Monica, me too!" This was a side of Erika none of them had seen before. She looked mean, and tough, and determined. She didn't seem stupid to them, at least not anymore. "I will also do anything."

They all stared at each other. Monica grew tear-y, and started to sniff. Chandler looked concerned, Joey looked confused. And finally, Erika looked determined.

NEXT SCENE

The gang is at Joey's house the next day…

"We called you all over here to tell you that…" Monica started to cry again.

"Sweetie, what's wrong?" asks Rachel.

"Yea, Mon, what's wrong?" Phoebe asks.

Since Chandler noticed that Monica wasn't in the mood to talk at the moment, he finished up for her. "Erika asked for her children back again."

"What? When?" asks Joey. "When did she do this?"

"Joey, you were there!"

"I think I would distinctly remember if some lady asked for Jack and Erika back."

"Remember, you were eating pizza…" Chandler assured him.

"Oh, yea…that lady!" he says.

"Right…" Chandler says. The group looks sad, and puzzled.

"Can she actually do that? I mean, why would she wanna do that?" Ross asks.

"I don't know, Ross." Monica says. Ross walks up to her and hugs her; comforting her. The rest of the group walks up to them, and hugs them; a group hug.

"Look: you guys are gonna get through this…" Ross tells them. Sure, it was bad for Monica and Chandler, but the news felt worse for Phoebe. She was all ready to tell them that she was pregnant, but since this ordeal created itself…she would have to wait for another time. Deep down, she was sad for Monica and Chandler, but deep, deep, deep down: she was sad for herself.

AN: Short chapter, huh? I'm actually going to start writing the next one now. Titled: TOW Joey and Gladys get Serious. Yay!