Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognise in this Fanfic. That includes anything to do with Friends, X-Men or any of the movies/songs I mention.
RossBeckett: I was so shocked to see all your reviews, it was weird, but anyway thank you. Ross is most certainly going to go into protective father mode and Ben will be slightly protective older brother. Janice will appear very soon, I promise, and on the subject of the Actress to play Emma I have absolutely no idea. However Telaka and I began forming a complete cast list so when it's ready I'll email it to you!
Merry-2004: I'm glad you like. This had been my fastest ever update by the way so I did update soon!
Rachgellergreen: I love your reviews, they're so fun, and Jack and Ben are my faves too! They're gonna get so much better!
OTHlover04: Thanks for your review.
Exintaris: The whole Joey thing was trying to communicate how the friends feel about Janice. Ben most likely never met her so all he has knows is what he has over heard in conversations and like you said no member of the friends group is ever gonna give Janice a good reveiw. Sorry if there was any offence. Janice is gonna be one of the most fun brilliant characters in this!
Telaka: The annoying siblings from hell are coming very soon dont you worry! And I thought Logan would be your fave. THERE IS A CLAIRE!
BroadwayDiva: I'm glad you like so here's the next instalment
Chapter 4: Conversations
If you had walked into the living room of the Bing residence at the time Emma and Aaron were at the movies you could've sworn you'd gone back in time sixteen years. Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe were just having a normal conversation, but probably for the first time in those sixteen years there were no children about, none of Joey's girlfriends, even Mike had left them to it.
"… So anyway, I got the lead!" said Joey.
"Explain the movie to me again," said Rachel.
"Okay, I play this guy who meets this girl, then they fall in love and he gets sent to war and she's distraught. But then he comes back and they get back together and stuff," said Joey excitedly.
"So it's a chick flick," said Chandler.
"No it's a war romance," said Joey defiantly.
"So it's a chick flick," repeated Chandler.
"No, it's…a good honest…chick flick," replied Joey.
"If it helps Joe, we'll go see it," said Monica sympathetically while the others, even Chandler, nodded in agreement.
"Thanks guys. So what's goin' on with you lot?" asked Joey.
"Emma is on a date with Janice's son," said Ross.
Rachel promptly hit her husband and said, "We don't know that yet, so don't jump to conclusions."
"Ben and Logan mentioned that," said Joey. "Hey how do you guys remember Janice's son's name?"
"'Cos he's part of the day Emma was born, and you never forget anything about the birth of your child," said Rachel. "Even if you want to!"
"Yeah, I mean I still remember on the day the twins were born that we went into the wrong room and there was like a toddler coming out of this woman," said Chandler.
"God that kid was big," agreed Monica.
"Okay so that's Rach, Ross and Emma. What about you Phoebes?" asked Joey.
"I'm gonna be a great-aunt! Chandler's preganant" said Phoebe excitedly.
Evreryone turned to look at her strangely
"One of the triplets!" exclaimed Phoebe.
"Ohhh" replied the reat of the group.
"That's so cool Phoebe," said Rachel.
"I dunno, 'Great-Aunt Phoebe' makes me feel old," said Phoebe.
"Nah, you'll always be the weird hot girl I know and love," said Joey.
"Awww, that's so sweet Joey. So what about you guys?" she said to Monica and Chandler.
"I'm worried about Jack. I think he's having girl trouble," said Chandler.
"Unlikely honey, he's gay," replied Monica.
"WHAT!" said all three guys in unison.
"Guys are so dumb," said Phoebe.
"Yeah it's plainly obvious. I mean he wears better clothes than me which I might add are always clean, he always looks perfect, smooth skin the works," said Rachel.
"And has he ever brought a girl home?" asked Monica not expecting an answer.
"Umm… well he…no… My son is gay!" said Chandler.
Just then Erica and Jack, who had been listening in, came downstairs.
"Well that saves me coming out," said Jack to his sister.
"Exactly," said Erica and both of them burst out laughing at the sight of their Father and two uncles trying to act like they were okay with it all.
"It's ok guys, just 'cos I've had my whole life to get used to it doesn't mean you have," said Jack after he had stopped laughing.
"Are you sure?" asked Ross, as Logan entered reading the latest X-Men comic.
"Logan am I gay?" asked Jack.
"Well, considering at conventions you check out Cyclops and Wolverine's asses rather than Storm, Jean or Rogue's I'd say yeah," replied Logan from behind his comic.
"Okay, well we're going to Ben's. See ya!" said Erica and the three teenagers left.
"Oh and Dad, don't worry, I won't steal your Judy Garland records just yet!"
All three men looked horror-struck as the girls collapsed laughing.
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On their way to Ben's new apartment, Erica, Jack and Logan laughed as the re-enacted the reactions to Jack's sexuality.
"Okay I knew that my mom had an idea but not Rach or Phoebe!" said Jack
"Well, they tell each other everything so she probably told them. If they hadn't guessed already" replied Erica
"I wonder how it's goin' with Emma and Aaron" said Logan out of the blue.
"I dunno but I hope they went to see "An officer and a gentleman" instead of "White Noise" God that film's scary" said Jack
Before Jack could tell them the plotline of White Noise, they arrived at Ben's and were greeted by his girlfriend Claire.
"hey guys come in. Ben is actually cooking for the first time in three years you have got to see this" said Claire
"Do we actually have to eat it?" asked Erica and Jack in unison
"It's so obvious you two are twins you know" said Logan
"Why thank you" replied the twins again in unison.
As they entered Ben looked like a blonde, male version of Monica.
"Okay no-one enters the kitchen area until I'm done!" said Ben loudly.
"Are you glad we ate that bar of mint chocolate before we came?" Erica whispered to her brother.
"Hell yeah" he replied
"So, where's Emma tonight?" asked Claire
"She's on a date" said Logan immediately returning to the page of his comic he had been previously reading.
"Oooh with who?" asked Claire.
"A guy she met in a hospital called Aaron" said Logan
"Is he cute?" asked Claire
"The way Emma described him-very cute" replied Jack
"You better watch talking like that your parents are gonna work out your sexuality sooner or later" said Ben from in the kitchen
"it doesn't matter anymore he was out-ed by his mom tonight" said Logan
"You're kidding me!" said Claire "How did she know?"
"She's a mom and they guess these things," replied Erica "But then again both Rachel and Phoebe knew so maybe you were pretty obvious…to women anyway"
"Okay dinner is served" said Ben
The other four entered the kitchen and surprisingly all the food looked quite good
"Dig in" said Ben
Each of them put the food in their mouth with great care and surprisingly-it was really nice although Claire and Ben's next revelation made each and every one of them choke their food out onto the floor…
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At the movie theatre Emma and Aaron were walking out after their first date. It was scary, scarier than anything Emma had ever seen before. She spent most of it burying her face in Aaron's neck, a fact which neither of them minded.
"Do you wanna go get something to eat?" asked Aaron. "I thought you'd be hungry since you spilt your popcorn on the floor."
Emma's face went slightly red. "It was scary!"
Aaron laughed. 'God he has a lovely smile,' Emma thought.
"And yes I would like something to eat," she declared and started to walk in the direction of the nearest café. Aaron ran to catch up with her.
"Do you always run away from your dates?" asked Aaron as they sat down at a table beside the window
"Nope. They normally run away from me," replied Emma.
Before Aaron could answer the waitress asked them for their order.
"Okay, I will have a cheeseburger and fries with a diet coke," said Emma. "You want anything?" she asked Aaron.
"Umm the same thanks," he replied.
"Okay thanks, I'll bring your drinks over in a sec," replied the waitress.
"So do you have much family?" asked Emma trying to break the silence.
"Yeah a sister and twin brothers. You?" replied Aaron.
"I have an older brother Ben and that's about it, except my cousins are practically my brothers and sister too so I suppose I have quite a big family," said Emma.
"What are your cousins like?" asked Aaron.
"Logan is an X-Men fanatic and if I ever saw him without a comic in his hand I think I'd drop down dead," she started as Aaron laughed. "What?"
"Nothing you're just really funny," replied Aaron.
"Really? Most people just think I'm weird," said Emma in shock.
"Nope, funny," said Aaron as he looked into Emma's crystal blue eyes.
"Okay… Anyway, as I was saying – Gilda and Austin are the most annoying younger siblings you could ever meet, and Erica and Jack, they're twins and probably the ones I'm closest to. It was Jack who told me how scary that film is and for the first time in my life I'm convinced of what he said," said Emma.
"My friends told me to take you to a horror, said it's the best way to get a girl to hug you on the first date," said Aaron quietly.
"What! That is utterly degrading to a woman-" said Emma and when she saw the look of horror on Aaron's face she continued, "but also the sweetest thing I've ever heard."
"Really?" asked Aaron.
"Yeah," said Emma as she lightly touched his hand.
"So what would you have preferred?" asked Aaron as the waitress brought over their hamburgers.
"An officer and a gentleman," replied Emma.
"What's that about?" asked Aaron.
"It's about this guy in military training and he meets this girl but he chooses her career over her even though they're in love." said Emma.
"That sounds depressing," said Aaron.
"But the ending is good – he walks into the factory she works in wearing full sailor's uniform, picks her up, puts his hat on her head and carries her out of there. And all of this is accompanied by the song "Up where we belong" by Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker – it's so romantic, I'd love a guy to do that to me," replied Emma.
"So it's your fantasy then," asked Aaron.
"Yeah, well one of them. The other one is from Pretty Woman. At the end Richard Gere goes to Julia Robert's apartment in a limousine with the top open and opera blaring and even though he's afraid of heights he climbs all the way up to the top of the building using the fire escapes to get to her, kinda like a knight on a white horse thing."
"So you're a romantic then?" asked Aaron.
"Oh yeah. This is normally the point where guys run, they think I'm some weird bunny boiler, so feel free the door's just over -" Aaron cut her off with a kiss, "…there."
"I don't think I'll be needing it somehow," said Aaron.
"Nope, me neither…"
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A/N: And I'm going to leave it there. One little thing here:
If anyone knows Janice's daughter's name please let me know as she's going to feature in the next chapter. If no one knows I'll make a name up.