A/N: Hey, I hope you guys liked the last chapter and here's chapter five, enjoy! Oh and I know that it's not a lot of the other guys, but Ross and Rachel were my favorite part of the show so I wanted to do a fan fic about them, with a splash of the others but I loved them all. So don't hate, appreciate ) Oh and read and review of course!

The Question

Ross and Rachel are in the Porche driving back from Sandra Greene's house after just dropping Emma off before Monica's big New Year's Eve bash.

Ross looked like he was lost in thought. Rachel noticed.

"Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. It's just…what your mother said really made me think ya know?"

Looking concerned Rachel replied.

"Ross you know she didn't mean anything by it, if anything it was more of a compliment. She was just saying how much you've changed and how great of a father you are to Emma. Please don't be upset because she brought that up."

"I know that she didn't mean anything by it and it's not even what she said really it's just the fact that I can't believe how incredibly immature I was back then. I was so stubborn and it made my life miserable." Rachel understandingly nodded.

"You know we all have grown up a lot. I was spoiled and career driven back then, so don't beat yourself up over it."

Ross still looked pensive and then he said words five words that made Rachel's heart sink.

"Rachel, do you forgive me?" Rachel's voice cracked.

"What?"

"I mean, for what I did (pause) to you?" There was no way to look into his eyes to tell why he was asking her this, and she couldn't say she felt pressured because his eyes were on the road, but she knew he was waiting for an answer.

"I…" before she could finish answering her eyes welled up as her memory drifted back to that awful night when he pleaded with her on his knees to take him back. "Ross, where is all this coming from?" Her voice came out soft, but sure as she needed to know why he was asking her about the one night that tore them apart.

"Because Rachel, I just need to know." And even from the side view of his face she saw how serious and desperate he was to know.

Unsure Rachel asked him, "Why?" Ross exhaled.

"Because if there was one thing I could ever take back it would be that night I hurt you the way that I did and…I just need to know."

Rachel took a deep breath and thought to herself. Here was the man that she had loved and hated more times then she could count. Well never really hated, but made her mad enough to want to kill him. But there he sat, next to her, looking so fragile she was afraid to speak.

"Ross, for a long time I thought I might never forgive you because you hurt me so badly. It wasn't about whether 'we were on a break' or not for me. It was the fact that I had never loved anyone the way that I loved you, and in one night I felt like we lost everything, over something stupid that would have gone away." Ross pondered then spoke.

"You said 'might never' does that mean that you did?" Rachel looked right at him this time.

"Yeah. I guess I did." Ross couldn't believe his ears. He turned to look at Rachel who was still staring intently at him and waiting for a sign that Ross was relieved. He exhaled and smiled at her.

"Well Ms. Green that's the best news I've heard since you told me you were pregnant with Emma." They both smiled now.

"Yeah and if I recall you took it very well." They laughed and talked the whole way home feeling like a big cloud had finally been lifted from their heads, and their hearts.

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