Thanks so much for all the reviews on the last chapter! Heres chapter 7, hope you like it :)
"Oh God, Hannah. Baby please wake up. Please." Monica ran through to Rachel and Joey's with Hannah in her arms (Can't remember if i mentioned that Rachel had moved back in with Joey?).
"Rach! Joey!" She was almost hysterical by this point, tears streaming down her face. Rachel was the first one out of her bedroom, the breath almost being knocked out of her at the sight of Monica standing in the middle of the room with a limp Hannah in her arms.
"Oh my God. Honey, just stay calm. I'm calling 911 right now." Within minutes she'd been informed that an ambulance was on its way.
"Rach, i can't lose her. I can't." Rachel let the tears finally fall now at the sight of her best friend holding her baby close like she was the only thing she had left, looking more broken even than when Chandler had left. And she could do nothing more than pull her into a hug and let her cry onto her shoulder, unable to think of anything to say that would be of any comfort to Monica.
"Guys? Whats wro ... " Joey gasped when he saw the sight in his living room but didn't have time to react, for at that moment the buzzer went. Rachel raced over and buzzed them in, not wasting any time to make sure that it was actually the paramedics.
"Honey, they're here now. Everythings gonna be fine." But before Monica had a chance to answer, the paramedics came through the door and straight over to her, carefully lifting Hannah out of her arms.
"Mrs Geller, please follow us down to the ambulance. It seems like your baby is suffeing from apnoea, which is fairly common in young babies. I'm sure she'll be fine, but we need to get her to hospital as soon as possible." Monica simply nodded as Rachel took her hand and led her downstairs after the two men.
"Joey? .." Rachel paused and turned to look at him.
"I'll call Phoebe and Ross and then we'll get a cab to the hospital and meet you there." Rachel nodded and then hurried Monica out of the apartment and down the stairs where they were both allowed to ride in the waiting ambulance.
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Ross was first to burst through the doors of the hospital, almost falling over Rachel who was waiting for him just inside the entrance. He was closely followed by Joey and Phoebe, who immediately began bombarding Rachel with questions.
"Guys, guys. Hannah's fine. Well not fine, but they managed to get her breathing again so now they're just needing to keep an eye on her. Monica's with her just now, and she's pretty shaken so i think we should just leave her for now." The other three nodded, also clearly shaken about what had happened. Monica had dealt with enough, it just wasnt fair that she had to go through this as well.
"It just doesn't seem fair. She doesn't deserve this." Rachel accepted the hug Ross offered as she finally let all her emotion out. She had done her best to be strong for Monica all this time, but it was taking its toll on her as well. She loved her so much, and it was killing her as well, having to see Monica go through this much heartache. She didn't deserve it. Not one bit.
"She'll pull through. She's strong." Ross rubbed Rachel's back as he tried to comfort her.
"Yeah i know. It still doesn't make it right though." She continued to cry onto his shoulder, lifting her head when Ross nudged her and she turned round to see Monica walking towards them. She attempted to dry her eyes and erase all the signs of her recent emotional outburst, but she stopped. Monica knew her well enough to know that she had been crying. As she got closer, she could tell that Monica too had been crying, a lot.
"Honey, come here." She closed the gap between the two of them, and wrapped her arms tightly around her. They didn't need to say anything, both just silently comforting eachother. Both just really needing their best friend right now. Phoebe wiped a tear from her own cheek as she watched the two of them. She didn't feel jealousy, as some people would. She was glad they had eachother, she knew that Monica wouldn't have been able to cope if she hadn't had Rachel. And she was so proud of Rachel, they had all seen a different side to her. A thoughtful, maternal and caring side that had helped Monica so much throughout the past year.
"Thankyou." Monica whispered in Rachel's ear, softly, so no one else could hear. "I love you. So much."
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The others had all left Monica and Rachel together, feeling almost like they were interrupting the two friends. Joey then looked out the window and quickly jumped up, mumbling something about being hungry. No one bothered to stop him, it was so like Joey to be hungry even at a time like this.
"Hey." Joey walked out the front entrance of the hospital, tears filling his eyes as he saw the man in front of him.
"Hi." Chandler stopped in front of Joey, unsure what to do. But in true Joey-style he pulled Chandler into a massive bear hug.
"Dude, i am so, SO mad .." Chandler cut him off mid-sentence, filled with panic when he remembered where he was.
"I know. But look, why am I here? Whats wrong? Is it Monica?" Chandler was finding it heard to catch his breath by now, knowing that he wouldnt be able to live with hmself if anything had happened to Monica.
"No, Mon's fine. But no one else knows i called you. So you can't let them know you're here. Just, i can't tell you anything right now. Follow me."
"Okay, but why? Who is it then?" Chandler ran a hand through his hair, fighting tears.
"Just come with me, okay? Trust me on this. " Joey looked Chandler in the eyes for the first time and was shocked at how much pain he saw. He had obviously been hurting a hell of a lot. More than Joey had realised.
"Sure, okay." Chandler said, more softly this time, as he followed Joey. When he looked down he noticed that his hands were shaking.
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"Right, heres the room. I'm just gonna leave you to it, okay? I think you'll need time for it to sink in." Joey wondered if what he was doing was wrong. But Chandler deserved to know, he had a right to know.
"Joey, you're kinda freaking me out."
"Just go in." Chandler opened the door slowly and walked in, noticing that Joey made his way down the corridor, leaving Chandler completely on his own.
He gasped when he noticed that there was in fact a baby in the room. Shocked at the fact that she had been left on her own, he realised Joey must have deliberately had whoever was in the room leave before he got there.
He walked over to the small crib and looked at the tiny baby girl lying in it. She was beautiful. And then he looked at the chart above the bed and he could swear his heart stopped in his chest.
Hannah Bing.
And then he noticed her eyes. And he knew it must be true. She had the most amazing blue eyes he had ever seen. The same amazing blue as the person who made his heart ache everytime he thought of her. The person who he missed every second of every day, with every ounce of his soul. He heard someone take a sharp intake of breath and his head snapped up, looking towards the door where the noise had come from, and his eyes were met with those same beautiful blue eyes.
Thats it folks, another cliffhanger! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, i really enjoyed writing it. I know its shorter than the rest but i felt it was a good place to stop. Please leave a review, they make me smile.