A continuation not in the way you probably though I was going to go. I've decided to go through all the friends eventually picking flaws but tie it back Chandler somehow because I play blatant favorites. I thought Joey was the next logical step. I know this is mainly centered around Chandler than Joey but I found while I wanted to pick Chandler apart I just wanted Joey to simmer in thought and I thought his most glaring flaw. That is his dependence on Chandler. P.S still following Chandler's mysterious past that will be explained probably in the next chapter. Double P.S not a mondler fan, so don't count on it. (I know I'll loose fans over this)
Responses (never done one of these before- I like it )
Mondlerlove I'm glad you like it, but most likely not a mondler story- set before anything slightly mondler anyway.
Kate56 I'm glad you like my knit picking, while not romantic I will touch base on Chandler/Monica friendship and as for 'write more about how Monica and Chandler work their way together with both of them so concerned about control, physically and emotionally' as friends? You can absolutely count on it.
CrazyRabidPhoebe I really don't, I am ashamed to say I've seen limited friends episodes and am more of a new fan, but I'm glad I got the right idea on his character.
Marie hun the way I'm going we may never truly know who comes through the door, but a clue is given more glaringly in this chap and a very subtle one in the last one (but if you find the other one your golden on who it is).
gidget89 glows this is an awesome review, and I will so totally do that in another fic- just not this one.
KyliedaRock I have continued! Feel free to praise (not really ) thanks for the comment!
Exintaris most constructive review I've ever gotten. I'm glad you saw that none of them had very easy childhoods, except Ross, but I pointed out the worse case ones (also looked into Joey's family life, since I'm a total noob and missed huge pieces of info here and there I knew very little of this, but Joe's dad doesn't seem to bad.) Oh and no, not Janice (nice idea though.)
Joey prefers unfilled silences.
To him it had always been a good thing when it was just a little quiet, it gave him time, and God knows he needed time, time to think, time to understand everything around him and just time to wonder.
Joey best friend doesn't like silence. Chandler will fill them the best way he knows how, a joke, a random comment, or accidentally blurt out something personal. He wonders if maybe Chandler afraid of them. Silences that is. He will however, for Joey's sake create pauses, short ones, so he can work out whatever he had been to slow to process the first time around.
Joey liked to think Chandler does this cause he liked him the best, better than he likes anyone else because that what best friends did and that's what they were. Best friends. And that he would never suffer through silence unless it was for Joey's sake.
He always found this a strange comfort; that this is his way of showing how much he trusts him in his Chandler patented, mocking way. Because the reason he's so scared must be, Chandler must think that people judge him. He must know Joey would never judge him when he's already in a position where any sort of judgment would be hypocritical. Whatever that means.
Not that Joey has ever judged him, or could judge him even. He makes fun though. And tease him the way that good friends do. But he wouldn't dream of judging Chandler.
He wonders if it's an own personal fault, cause no matter how much he pokes and makes fun of him. Or points out glaring faults and no matter how much it seems like he doesn't put his friend on a pedestal, he knows that he does. He wants to be Chandler. He wants to be Chandler more than anything. He wants to be that smart, and quick and always know how to come through in the end guy. Not that he's ever admit it though, cause Chandler doesn't need that kind of ego.
But all he wants when it comes down to it, is what he knows Chandler will certainly get in the future, like he's practically be promised to since birth. A wife, kids, a white picketed fence and all that jazz. Or maybe he wants that feeling he gets when he's around him, the one that's so safe- Chandler must feel that way all the time.
He'd give away the dozens of nameless women in his little back book, or his natural confidence or his good looks to have what he has, to feel what he does, to get what he's going to get.
Though he worries if he were Chandler, he couldn't be best friends with Chandler. that would be the most horrible thing in the world. And even though that confuses him, cause he knows he's not the smart one. He guesses he better stick to being his best friend, and being that one person who gets close to him.
he ponders over this he's glad he's not Chandler at that moment, cause other wise he would have blurted it all out randomly in some awkward silence. As that's what he would do.
Joey questions if this would be his greatest flaw, he had many flaws; his sluttiness, his thick headedness, his pride and his obliviousness. But he thinks his co-dependant nature would be his biggest flaw.
He can't live without Chandler. The man sitting across from him in Central Perk who would usually be lost in some devastating thought, not to deeply though as he'd break to make some snappy, witty comment that Joey loved to hear.
Instead he sat uncomfortably talking to a tall man who's name or affiliation to Chandler he hadn't exactly got. He would shot Joey a pleading look that he hoped he will never see on Chandler's face again.
It takes all he can to mutter some excuse and drag Chandler forcefully by the hand up to our apartment, the man who Joey has decided he does not like, smirks knowingly at them, which also confuses Joey and makes his dislike the nameless man more.
I sit him down and put a beer in his hand.
"Joey…"
"I know"
A appreciative glance, a weakened smile and my favourite person watching me in an unreadable but not unpleasant way. This isn't bad.
And now to bask in the sounds of blissful silence.