Author's note: I know this is the second update in one night, but I decided to write more while I had the time because during the week free time is hard to come by! I hope you are still enjoying this.

It was now 10 o'clock and Rachel still had not had a chance to tell Ross about her doctor's appointment the next day. She and Ross had gotten all of the kids in bed and were now getting ready to go to bed themselves. Rachel had to get up early the next morning and go into work. "Honey," started Rachel. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure, sweetheart," answered Ross. "What do you want to talk about?"

"Well, um, you see the thing is that," started Rachel.

"What is it?" asked Ross.

"Well, I kinda have a doctor's appointment tomorrow," said Rachel.

"What's wrong? Are you sick?" Ross said as panic began to set in.

"No, I'm not sick. It's nothing like that," said Rachel. "I'm just thinking about maybe having my tubes tied."

"Thinking about it!" exclaimed Ross. "It sounds to me like you've already made up your mind!"

"No Ross," said Rachel. "I haven't scheduled anything yet. I'm just going tomorrow to talk to Dr. Long about it, but if you don't want me to have it done then I won't."

"Rach, honey, it's not that I don't want you to have it done, I just wish that we had sat down and talked about it before you made a doctor's appointment," said Ross.

"Well, I mean, what is there to talk about?" asked Rachel. "We said after Bella was born that we didn't want any more kids, and since I can't take birth control, I just thought this was a good option."

"Sure, I agree," said Ross. "I just really want you to think about this. This is surgery, and it's permanent. If you have this done, we can never have another child."

"Ross, I know all of that! I mean counting Ben and Mandy, we have five kids," said Rachel. "I don't want anymore kids. There is absolutely no way that I could handle another baby! I mean, some days I think I'm going to have a nervous break-down from the ones we have."

"Okay, honey, as long as you're sure," replied Ross.

"You don't want another one, do you?" asked Rachel.

"No, I mean four kids living at home is enough. I mean, we don't even have room for another child," said Ross. "I just wanted to make sure that you really want to have surgery. Are you sure you want to go through all of that?"

"That's why I'm going tomorrow," answered Rachel. "I'm going to talk to Dr. Long about how complicated of a surgery it is. Then I may schedule one if she thinks it's a good idea."

"Okay, well do you want me to go with you?" asked Ross. "I mean, I might could get my mom or Monica to watch the kids."

"No honey, I'll just go," said Rachel. "You stay here with the kids. I'll let you know what she says, and we'll decide."

"Okay, I love you," said Ross as he leaned in and gave Rachel a sweet kiss.

"Love you too," replied Rachel as she snuggled into her husband's arms and drifted off to sleep.

The next morning Rachel and Mandy got up early and got ready for work. Rachel knew it was going to be a long day because not only did she have to catch up from a week's vacation, it was also the new summer interns' first day of work. Mandy had interned at Louis Vuitton last year and had loved it. She knew she had only gotten the internship because of her mother (being the new vice president's daughter helped a little), but she had earned her position this year. Usually the interns were not paid; they were just given experience. If an intern did an exceptional job they could be asked back the next summer in a paid position. This usually led to a job after college graduation. Mandy had impressed the designer she worked under last summer so much that she had been recommended for a paid position.

When they got to the office, Rachel headed down to her office while Mandy went to the intern orientation in the conference room. Even though she already knew everything she needed to know for her job, she still had to go through the orientation. The orientation ended with a meeting with the Vice-President for the East Coast, or Mandy's mom. After they had toured the building and had been informed of what their duties would be, all twelve of them were led to the waiting room outside Rachel's office. Rachel's secretary said that she would be with them in a minute. Mandy looked around at all the other interns. She only recognized one other girl from last summer. All of the others were new faces. She listened to what one guy, whose name she thought was Mat, tell the other interns what he had heard about their boss. "I heard that when she calls us all in there in a minute that if she doesn't like what you're wearing, she will fire you right on the spot."

Mandy stifled back a laugh and looked at the girl, Sarah, who had worked there last year. They both knew this was far from the truth.

Another girl, whose name Mandy didn't know, then said, "I also heard that she won't even talk to you if you're an intern. I heard that she will just pretend like you're not even there."

"Yeah," said a voice from behind them, "I heard that she likes to lock the interns up in the janitor's closet for fun."

Mandy recognized the voice immediately and tried very hard not to laugh as she turned and faced her mom.

"I'm Rachel Geller, vice-president of Louis Vuitton East Coast division, and your new boss," started Rachel. "Also, you in the black shirt, I don't like what you're wearing so go home and don't come back." The intern looked at Rachel in shock and got up to leave.

"Wait," said Rachel, no longer able to contain her laughter, "I'm just kidding! Come back and sit down. It's nice to see you guys heard all those scary rumors that I tried to spread about myself. I assure you that none of them are true! My office is always open to any of you for whatever reason. I'm going to give you all your assignments, then when you come back from lunch report to whomever you are going to be working under. It's great to meet you all." Rachel then handed out their assignments and walked into her office.

Mandy followed Rachel into her office.

"Good job scaring them all," said Mandy.

"Hey just doing my job," answered Rachel.

"So are you on your way to the doctor?" asked Mandy.

"Yeah, I'm going right now," said Rachel. "Sorry that I can't eat lunch with you on your first day, but I really need to go see about this."

"No problem!" said Mandy. "I'll see you when I get off at five."

Rachel then left and walked the two blocks to the doctor's office. Dr, Long called her back into her office almost as soon as she got there.

"So Rachel," said Dr. Long, "You want to have your tubes tied."

"Yes," answered Rachel. "I just wanted to know how complicated the surgery is and exactly how painful it is!"

"Well," started Dr. Long, "It's a pretty simple procedure. We simple go in with a laser and burn the ends of your tubes which will leave you unable to get pregnant. You would have to be put to sleep, but the pain is minimal. If you had the procedure done on a Thursday you would be able to return to work on Monday."

"So would it be something you would recommend for me?" asked Rachel.

"Since you are unable to take conventional birth control, as long as you are positive you don't want another child, I believe it would be a very good thing for you," answered Dr. Long.

"Well, that's all I need to know," said Rachel. "I want to have it done, preferably pretty soon while my husband is out of school for the summer."
"How about three weeks from this Thursday?" asked Dr. Long.

"That sounds great!" answered Rachel.

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