The One With Jill's Bracelet

AN: Hi, sorry long time no see, huh? Well, in my defensive this is a very long (or longer than the rest) chapter. Oh, there's less RnR in this chap, I really needed to give them a break.

So, to sum up – RnR have broken up. Monica just told Chandler she's pregnant. Phoebe and Mike are pregnant. And Joey recently split up with Jill.

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Chandler's face was one of utter shock as he stared at his wife in amazement. He opened and closed his mouth several times before somehow managing to stutter, "P – pregnant? …Y – you?"

Monica bit her lip as her brow furred. She tried a smile and nodded, "That, uh, pregnancy test you found before the thanksgiving… it was mine."

"B – but that's impossible… we can't… have children."

Monica eyed Chandler nervously, "It was a long shot. No one said it was impossible though."

"But, the… the twins -"

"- will be loved just as much as this or any other child we may conceive," said Monica quickly.

Chandler ran his hand through his hair in amazement, "Oh my God."

"I know, it's amazing isn't it?" Monica looked on at Chandler nervously but smiled fully. "Another child…"

Chandler grinned at her, "It's incredible."

"I thought it was gone forever, but… wow." They stood up excitedly. "Oh my God, we have to tell everybody!"

"Now?"

"When else?" Monica said with frown. Chandler shrugged and followed.

Starting Credits

In Central Perk Joey, Rachel, Phoebe and Ross were drinking coffee. "So Rachel," began Ross uncertain. "How's life at Joey's?"

"Pretty good," replied Rachel as Joey smiled beside her.

"And Emma's okay? I mean, Joey you're not… having bringing women home while she's around are you?"

"Hey, would you really put that across me?" Joey said defensive. They all simply looked at him. He shrugged, "Well I haven't."

Ross shrugged as Chandler entered. "Hey!" they chorused.

"Hi -" began Chandler.

"Did you tell them?! Did you tell them?!" Monica interrupted, barging into Central Perk.

Rachel frowned, "Tell us what?"

"Did you?!" Monica demanded of Chandler.

Chandler raised his eyebrows and said in a sarcastic voice, "Why yes, they're all in the know. Why listen to their knowing questions and look at their ecstatic faces."

Monica gave him a filthy look as Phoebe said impatiently, "What? Tell us what?!"

Monica looked at them all and grinned, "I'm pregnant."

They all stood up in shock, with words of 'wow' and 'oh my God' flown at Monica and Chandler as they stood beaming. Monica took the words and felt them filling her up as she nodded, "Uh huh!"

"Oh Monica!" said Phoebe suddenly. "We can be like pregnancy buddies!"

Monica nodded, slightly scared, "Yeah…"

"But," Ross frowned as he hugged his little sister. "I thought… I thought you two couldn't…"

"Well," said Chandler smiling. "The doctor said there's a high chance we couldn't, but he didn't say there was no chance."

"This is going to be so great!" gushed Monica. "We gotta get organised though Chandler, we gotta get new crib, new toys… Oh! Do you think the new baby should share with the twins or not? We'll have to think about that… come on Chandler! I know this great little baby place just a few blocks away." She left Central Perk quickly, leaving Chandler staring after her.

He looked at the others, "Yeah if I don't come back, I'm gone forever."

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Later that day Joey was babysitting Emma while Rachel was out. He was feeding Emma some squirty cream, something Rachel would never approve of, but then Rachel wasn't there… It wasn't long though, before the can was empty. Joey frowned as he got the last few drops out and let Emma lick his fingers eagerly, laughing at how much she loved the stuff. "Well, that's it Emma. How about we watch a movie now, huh?"

Emma said nothing but simply grinned up at Joey, nodding ferociously. He smiled and looked around the living room for the DVD he'd seen Emma watching the other day. Failing to find it there though he sighed and headed for Rachel's room. "Stay there," he said quickly to Emma as he left.

Rachel's room had a couple of large suitcases Rachel had still failed to unpack. Joey was just about to look on Rachel cabinet when he noticed something silver in one of the suitcases. Frowning he went to pick it up. He gasped slightly when he realised what it was.

Rachel arrived back and frowned when she saw her daughter alone at the kitchen. "Joey?" she questioned. She went into her room with Emma on her hip. Hearing her, Joey quickly shoved the silver bracelet in his pocket. "What are doing in my room?" Rachel frowned.

"Oh, I was just looking for the movie Emma was watching the other day."

"Oh, okay," she went back into the living room and called, "Emma been okay?"

"Yeah," Joey replied making sure the jewellery was firmly in his pocket and following her.

He found her frowning as she stared at Emma. "Joey… did you feed Emma squirty cream?"

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Chandler sighed heavily as he and Monica got back home, loaded with baby things. Chandler headed up the stairs loaded with boxes and bags, "Well I'm gonna put all this stuff upstairs, which should only take about a million years."

Monica rolled her eyes and continued into the living room where her parents were babysitting the twins. "Hey," she chimed. "How were they?"

Jack smiled, "Like angels. So where have you been?"

"Um, well…" Monica smiled. "I actually have something to tell you both… I'm pregnant."

"What?" Jack looked amazed. "Oh harmonica, that's brilliant."

"I know!" Monica grinned.

"Oh, gosh," Judy looked shocked. "Three babies now? That really is incredible?"

Monica frowned slightly, "It is?"

"Of course! I mean I do hate to say it -"

"– I'll bet -" muttered Monica quietly.

"- but, I think you'll agree it's been tough enough raising the twins… I mean, how will you manage three children? It is a lot."

Monica struggled, "Um, no, no it's not. Coz', you know, of all the numbers in the world, three: it's not really that many. I mean, it's not like it's a million. No… it's not a lot."

"Well, if you say so," said Judy shrugging.

"I do!" insisted Monica. "Don't you think we're not ready because we are! We have everything we need."

"Of course you have now," said Judy. "But what about the mess."

"Mess?"

"Judy don't scare the girl," Jack said.

"…Mess?"

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Mike sighed as he heard a knock at the door and went to answer it, to find Ross and his son Ben there. "Hey."

"Hi," said Ross.

"Hi!" cried Ben.

Mike smiled slightly, "Phoebe's not here."

"She's not? Damn, she said to meet her here for lunch," said Ross.

"Oh, yeah, she told me say to you, um, sorry but she can't make it."

Ross sighed, "Okay, well I guess we'll see you later." He and Ben began to head back.

"Oh wait Ross!" Mike stopped Ross. "Uh, I've actually been intending to talk to you about something."

"Oh yeah…" Ross said, slightly suspicious as he remembered the time they had tried to talk for hours on end last time.

"Uh, you have kids right?"

"Yeah two; one right here," Ross smiled nodding at Ben.

"Yeah, well, I've kinda been freaking out a bit… about parenthood. It's just, in four months I'm gonna be a dad. A dad. With a kid."

"Yeah, that's pretty much what parenthood's all about."

"But I don't know kids," Mike panicked. "I once hit a kid in the face with a football."

"Mike – you hit a kid in the face?"

"I know," sighed Mike. "I felt awful okay? …Although the kid kicking me in the shin afterwards took a bit of the guilt away."

Ross sighed, "Look Mike, I don't think you need to worry, you'll make a great dad. And, hey, you know what? I have to go to the library right now, so how about you, uh, look after Ben for about half an hour? You know, practise some parenting skills."

Mike shook his head, "Oh I don't know…"

"Oh come on," he addresses Ben, who was leaning against the door clearly bored. "What're you say Ben? Wanna stay with uncle mike for a while?"

"Uncle Mike? You said he was called Mr boring," said Ben loudly.

Ross looked embarrassed, "Uh, Ben, that's not -"

"Don't worry," said Mike quickly. "I call you the same thing."

Ross nodded, "Um, okay, I gotta go now. Bye Ben!" He gave his son a hug and left Mike and Ben with an awkward silence.

Mike stared at him for a moment, "So… what're you do?"

Ben frowned, "Huh?"

Mike sighed, "Great."

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Joey was sat on the couch in his apartment, fingering the bracelet and glancing at the phone. "I don't want to, I don't want to," he muttered over and over again. Biting his lip, he could stand it no longer. He grabbed the phone and quickly typed in a number. He put the phone to his ear and gulped when he heard a ring.

Just then Rachel walked in and quickly he hung up. "Hey," she called.

"Hi," Joey said quietly. He put the bracelet in his pocket.

"What you doing?" asked Rachel.

"Nothing," said Joey quickly. He walked to his room.

Rachel frowned after him but said nothing. Just then the phone started ringing. She sighed and picked up, "Hello?"

"Rachel? It's jill."

"Oh. Hi," said Rachel coolly. There was a long pause. "Did you want something?" Rachel asked.

"Um, did you?" Jill said.

"Sorry?"

"What did you want?"

"Uh, nothing from you," said Rachel confused.

"What… you didn't call?"

"No!"

"Well someone from this number just called here, like, a minute ago," said Jill, annoyed.

"Well, I didn't -" she stopped suddenly. "Ohh."

"What?"

"Jill, I gotta go," said Rachel and before she could protest Rachel hung up the phone. Then she called, "Joey!"

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When Monica's parents had gone Chandler walked into the living room to find Monica there. He sat down, "Man, lifting ten tonnes of baby stuff we don't need up the stair sure is fun isn't it?"

Monica smiled slightly, "Hmm, um Chandler? You, uh, ever think that maybe… threes a really big number?"

Chandler shrugged and frowned slightly, "Not much bigger than two."

Monica looked at Chandler, "Don't you think it's a bit scary?"

Chandler shook his head, "We're not just talking about numbers here are we?"

"It's just… we'll be having three kids Chandler! Three!"

"Yeah, I know Mon. I can count."

"But… what if we're terrible parents… what if they grow up to hate us?"

"Oh, come on..." said Chandler. "You are an incredible mother."

"Really? Okay… you're right. It was just the thought of three unruly teenagers hating us, but you're right… they're gonna love me."

"And me right? They'll… love me too, right?"

Monica smiled but shrugged, "If your lucky."

Chandler rolled his eyes.

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Mike and Ben both sat n the couch. An uncomfortable silence was in place as they stared ahead. "So…" Mike began. "Ben, you like music? I, uh, have a piano."

"Yeah!" said Ben.

"Yeah!?" Mike grinned and led Ben to his piano. "Okay, uh, I know some pop songs, I can -"

"Can you play Bahamian Rhapsody?" Ben interrupted.

"Uh, sure," Mike played the Queen hit.

Ben looked amazed when he'd finished, "Wow! Awsome!"

"Oh, really?" Mike looked surprised.

"Yeah! That's cool!" said Ben.

"Wow… okay, how about this?" he began another song.

"The saints are coming!" cried Ben immediately.

"Yeah. So, you kids, uh, like that, huh?"

"Sure!"

"Wow, what're you know? I can entertain a 7-year-old."

"I'm ten."

Mike shrugged, "Whatever."

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Joey enters the living room, "What?"

"I need to talk to you about something."

"Oh, Rach. If it's about the cream, it was only three times, and Emma-"

"Not that!" said Rachel. "Sit down." Joey did so. "Okay," she said. "Okay, I got a call from Jill earlier… and she said someone here called her."

"Ah," Joey looked sheepish.

"Ah? So you did call her? Why Joey? You know what she did to you!" Rachel said loudly.

"I'm sorry. It's just I've been thinking about her. And then I found something…" he took the bracelet from his pocket. "When I was looking for that movie I found this in a suitcase. I'm sorry, but it was Jill's… I got it for her a while back. I guess I just wanted to give it back to her, you know… 'coz I thought it was something special she ought to have… but I guess not."

Rachel looked at him sadly, "Oh… Joey. I'm so sorry."

Joey shook his head, still staring at the bracelet, "Nah Rach, it's okay, really. I'm fine."

Rachel looked at the bracelet in his hands, "You wanna keep that?"

Joey looked at it for a moment, "No." He stood up and dropped the silver bracelet on the floor; he hung his foot over it for a moment before standing on it, hard. "He stared at its remains, "It's time I let go."

"Wow, well done Joey. That's sure more than I could ever do."

Joey looked at Rachel and shook his head. "Don't. Don't ever let go of Ross, Rachel. Ever… because you know it's not over. Never over."

Rachel gave a faint smile, "Alright, well I'd better go and feed Emma, I'd hate for her to get used to that cream you've given her."

"Hey, that was no more than a couple of times." Rachel looked at him and he shrugged, grinning, "Or maybe a couple more…"

Ending Credits

Phoebe entered her apartment to find Mike and Ben singing as Ben played the piano. Ben wasn't doing very well, and all that escaped the keyboard was a lot of noise. Mike went over to Phoebe and yelled over the noise, "HEY!"

"What's going on?!" yelled Phoebe.

"I'm teaching Ben…!"

"How to make ears bleed?!"

Mike laughed nervously, "No! The piano! I can be a good father, see?!"

"Oh, so this is what it's gonna be like all the time?! I'll be out a lot then!"

Mike rolled his eyes with a shy smile.

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AN: Wooo! Another down. Lol. Reviews please! How was it?