The Beginning of a New Era II: The Sequel

A Special Season Twelve Clip Episode: How Ross & Rachel became to be!

Monica and Chandler were at a restaurant at the hotel sitting in front of their worse nightmare: Janice. Monica's ear drums were about to pop with the sound of Janice's annoying and nasal voice.

"…so that's how I met my new husband! HAHHAAHHAAHHAA! But, anyway…tell me about everything. I haven't seen you two in such a long time, let alone all the others. And Ross, that one night. Haahaaaaa! Is he seeing anybody?" Janice asked.

"Well, Rachel." Chandler replied.

"I thought they broke up."

"Yeah, but they got back together, actually they're married!"

"Oh, my God! You've got to tell me everything. I haven't even heard how they got together!"

"Well," Monica began, "We don't want to bore you with all that now. I'm sure you're husband—"

"Nonsense! I've got time. Tell me it all!" Janice replied.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way
CLAP
Your job's a joke, you're broke, you're love-life's D. O. A.!
It's like you're always stuck in second gear…
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year,
But…
I'll be there for you
When the rain starts to pour.
I'll be there for you
Like I've been there before.
I'll be there for you
'Cause you're there for me too.

"Well, okay… it all started when people began to notice he loved her."

--

Rachel: I just never had a relationship with that kind of passion, you know, where you have to have somebody right there, in the middle of a theme park.

Ross: Well, it was the only thing to do there that didn't have a line.

Rachel: There, well, see? Barry wouldn't even kiss me on a miniature golf course.

Ross: Come on.

Rachel: No, he said we were holding up the people behind us.

Ross: (sarcastically) And you didn't marry him because...?

Rachel: I mean, do you think there are people who go through life never having that kind of...

Ross: Probably. But you know, I'll tell you something. Passion is way overrated.

Rachel: Yeah right.

Ross: It is. Eventually, it kind of... burns out. But hopefully, what you're left with is trust, and security, and... well, in the case of my ex-wife, lesbianism. So, you know, for all of those people who miss out on that passion... thing, there's all that other good stuff.

Rachel: (sigh) OK.

Ross: But, um... I don't think that's going to be you.

Rachel: You don't.

Ross: Uh-uh. See, I see... big passion in your future.

Rachel: Really?

Ross: Mmmm.

Rachel: You do?

Ross: I do.

Rachel: Oh Ross, you're so great. (she playfully rubs his head and gets up)

(Ross gets up, pleased with himself.)

Joey: It's never gonna happen.

Ross: (innocently) What?

Joey: You and Rachel.

Ross: (acts surprised) What? (pause) Why not?

--

"Oh God, so what happened?" Janice was getting a little interested.

"Well, eventually, it kind of slipped out…" Chandler told her.

"HOW?" Janice asked.

"Um…"

"Chandler said it!" Monica told her.

--

(Rachel picks up the next gift.)

Rachel: Who's this from?

Chandler: Oh, that's Ross's.

Rachel: Oh... (opens it)... (sees it is a pin) Oh my God. He remembered.

Phoebe: Remembered what?

Rachel: It was like months ago. We were walking by this antique store, and I saw this pin in the window, and I told him it was just like one my grandmother had when I was a little girl. Oh! I can't believe he remembered!

Chandler: Well, sure, but can you play it on a plane? (pats his Travel Scrabble game)

Phoebe: Oh, it's so pretty. This must have cost him a fortune.

Monica: I can't believe he did this.

Chandler: Come on, Ross? Remember back in college, when he fell in love with Carol and bought her that ridiculously expensive crystal duck?

(Everyone looks at him. He realizes he just spilled the beans about Ross's crush on Rachel.)

Rachel: What did you just say?

Chandler: (panicked) ahem... um... Crystal duck.

Rachel: No, no, no... the, um, the... 'love' part?

Chandler: (stuttering incoherently) F-hah... flennin...

Rachel: Oh... my God.

Chandler: (rubbing his temples) Oh, no-no-no-no-no...

Joey: (pats Chandler on the leg) That's good, just keep rubbing your head. That'll turn back time.

--

"Oh, Chandler…" Janice began.

"Hey, it did work out for the better…" Chandler told her.

"Well, not at 1st." Monica told Janice. "For one week Rachel was convinced it wouldn't work. And then, when she got to the airport she saw him with Julie.

"Who's Julie?" Janice asked.

"Well, my brother went to China for some 'bone thing' and remembered everything Chandler had said. To forget about her; blah, blah, blah. So, he met Julie and things were going really good. But then, Rachel met her…"

--

Scene, The Airport, continued from last season, Rachel is waiting for Ross to come of the plane, when she sees he's coming off with another woman.

Rachel: Oh my god. Oh my god. (She decides to make a break for it.) Excuse me. Move! Move! Emergency! Excuse me! (She tries climbing over a bench and falls down.)

Ross: (seeing her) Rach!

Rachel: Oh, there you are! Hi! Oh, so, so, how was China, you? (Hits him with the flowers.)

Ross: It was, it was great. Oh, what happened?

Rachel: What?

Ross: You're bleeding.

Rachel: I am? Oh, look at that, yes I am. Enough about me, enough about me, Mr. Back from the Orient. Come on. I wanna hear everything! Everything. (Looks at Julie)

Ross: Well, where do I start? This is Julie. Julie, this is Rachel.

Rachel: These are, these aren't for you. (to Julie) These are for you. (Loudly, thinking she can't speak English.) Welcome to our country.

Julie: (Loudly, proving she can speak English.) Thank you. I'm from New York.

Rachel: Ok, well, not a problem. We'll just use them to stop the bleeding. Ok. Baggage claim? Ok.

--

"Oh, my God, she must've been just devastated!" Janice commented.

"She was… for a long time. But, Ross did make a decision. And of course, it was Rachel." Monica said.

"Oh, so things kicked up form there, eh?"

"No." Chandler said.

--

(Ross leaves.)

RACH: Ok, he's goin' to get my coat. He's goin' to get my coat. Oh my god, you guys. I can't believe this. This is unbelievable. (notices Chandler's computer screen) that's that?

CHAN: (nervous) What? Nothing.

(Chandler closes up the laptop computer screen.)

RACH: What's that? What? I saw my name. What is it?

CHAN: No, no, see? See? (the printer starts to run) Hey, it's printing. to Joey, rattled Hey, it's printing!

(Chandler rips off the sheet of paper from the printer.)

RACH: Well what is it? Let me see.

Ross walks back in, Rachel's coat in hand.

ROSS: Hey, someone order a coat?

RACH: Ross, Chandler wrote something about me on his computer and he won't let me see.

ROSS: He won't? (remembers what it is) He won't! Because, isn't that, isn't that the, the short story you were writing?

CHAN: Yes, yes it is, short story, that I was writing.

RACH: And I'm in it? Then let me read it.

CHAN, JOEY, ROSS: No!

RACH: Come on.

JOEY: Hey, uh, why don't you read it to her?

(Ross and Chandler stare angrily at Joey, who thinks he has come up with a good idea.)

CHAN: (through gritted teeth) Alright. clears his throat "It was summer, and it was hot. Rachel was there. A lonely gray couch. 'Oh, look,' cried Ned, and then the kingdom was his forever. The end."

ROSS: That's it? That's all you wrote? You're the worst writer in the whole world.

RACH: All right, you know what? This isn't funny anymore. There's something about me on that piece of paper and I want to see it.

ROSS: No, you don't.

RACH: All right, you know what, that's fine. If you guys want to be children about this, that's fine. I do not need to see it. (Rachel grabs the paper and runs across the room, reading it to herself.)

RACH: What is this? Ross, what is this?

CHAN: Good luck.

(Chandler and Joey leave quickly.)

… --

ROSS: No, no, wait, ok, ok, look at the other side. Look at Julie's column.

RACH: She is not Rachem. What the hell's a Rachem? Is that some stupid paleontology word that I wouldn't know because I'm just a waitress.

(She goes into her apartment and slams the door.)

ROSS: No, Rach, come on. Rach! Rach, no, no! She's not Rachel, she is, she is not, Ra--Rachel?

--

"He made a list!?" Janice asked.

"Again…Chandler's idea!" Monica told her.

"Chandler!"

"What?!"

…to be continued.

a/n: btw, thanks for all the reviews…they make me happy.