Heya again! Alright now, allow me to introduce you to someone: Chapter 5!

It had been a few days later. Monica was sitting in the chair beside the hospital bed, listening to the beeping of the heart monitor. "Come on, just open your eyes. Please?" She placed her hand in his. "I've got so much that I need to tell you! Charlie was arrested a few days ago, and there's something else you need to know.." she paused, not exactly sure how to say what she needed too.

She had opened her mouth to speak when she felt a gentle squeeze. "Chandler..? Can you hear me?" She asked hopeful.

Chandler's eyes flickered open. "..Mon?" He asked softly.

Monica nodded excitedly. "Yeah, its me!" She smiled, then her smile quickly faded as she remembered what she needed to tell him. "Uhm.. Chandler, there's something you should know.." before she could finish, the others came in, well minus Joey of course.

"Your awake!" Rachel squealed excitedly.

"How do you feel?" Ross asked.

Chandler was just glancing around. Someone was missing, then he swallowed nervously when he realized who wasn't here. He glanced at Monica. "Mon? Where's Joe?"

Monica glanced nervously at the others, then decided that they needed to tell him. "Chandler.." she paused, tightening her grip on his hand. "I don't know if you heard me earlier when I said that Charlie was arrested.. but before the cops got to him, he had shot you both, then took Joey hostage. Charlie had called me later that day to tell me to meet him in the abandoned warehouse and to come alone. Well we had made a plan to catch him so that the cops could finally arrest him.." she paused, before continuing. "By the time we got there, Joey was really weak and just barely alive." She glanced around at the others, then back at him. "The paramedics made it to him in time." She paused again to take a breath.

"They got him into the emergency room. When they came out to talk to us, they said that they had almost lost him." She took another breath. "But the main thing to remember is that he's okay, for now anyways. They currently have him on life support though."

Chandler fell silent after that, then glanced towards the ceiling.

Monica briefly wondered if she should say something, but had also stayed silent. No one in the room spoke for a long time afterward, no one knowing what to say or even if they should break the silence. She took a deep breath as the doctor walked in to check on Chandler, but still no one spoke.

All that they could hear was the beeping of the heart monitor, and the doctor scribbling something into his notes.

"I want to see him," Chandler had finally spoken up in a soft voice. "Please?" He pleaded.

The doctor sighed. "I will see what I can do, I'm not making any promises though." He walked out of the room.

The door softly opened to the ICU room, and the doctor walked in, with Monica following, pushing Chandler in a wheelchair. "Don't stay too long," the doctor said, then left the room.

The others had to stay out in the waiting room and wait for any news.

Monica paused beside him, taking the chair beside the bed.

Joey was hooked up to a machine that was breathing for him.

"Hey, Joe," Chandler greeted him softly. "I'm sorry about what my brother did to you. Mon told me that he had been arrested." He reached for his friend's cold hand, then gently squeezed it in his own. "I just wish that you would wake up so that we can talk."

Monica listened to him and sighed softly, wishing there was something that she could do to help.

The doctor had come back in 15 minutes after that and told him to go back to his room, and now he was laying in the bed, once again staring at the ceiling until he eventually fell asleep.

Monica had kissed his forehead, then walked slowly out of the room to where the others were waiting. "Hey guys," she greeted them, then sighed. "He got to see Joey, and I think it hurt him to see his friend like that."

Callie sighed, nodding slowly. "I guess it did. I'm guessing that he feels partly responsible for what happened."

Monica glanced at her. "What? Why do you think that?"

Callie shrug. "Because before going after Charlie, he had sent Ross back to the apartment with us, but him and Joey went after Charlie alone." She paused, as if to think.

Monica glanced at the floor, deep in thought.

Phoebe took a deep breath. "Well, I'm sure they will both be okay."

Chandler had been released from the hospital a couple of weeks later, but he didn't want to leave the hospital until he was sure that Joey would be okay. "I'm not leaving!" He hissed at the doctors and nurses who had tried to get him to go home.

The others had even tried, but he would just snap at them too. He had been moody ever since he was discharged.

"Chandler.." Monica started, but then stopped when he shot her a glare. "Look, the doctors are right. You need to come home, take a shower, and rest. You should probably eat something too."

Chandler miserably shook his head. "I can't, why can't you understand that? Joey is more than a best friend and roommate to me, he's like the brother I never had. I have to be here when he wakes up, because I know that he will."

She glanced around at the others, as Ross stepped forward and wrapped an arm around his shoulder. "Look, man. I know its hard. Joey knows that you care about him, but you need to take care of yourself while you are waiting for him to wake up." He tried. "Let's go down to the cafeteria and get a coffee or something. But if we were to leave the hospital, the doctors would call us if anything changed."

Rachel, Callie, and Phoebe remained silent as they listened.

Charlie wrapped his fingers around the bars of his cell. "Look, they just attacked me! I was walking into the coffeehouse to mind my own business, but then they just jumped on me!" He called out, searching for the prison guard. "Hello?!" He called out.

The other inmates just snapped at him to shut up while they went back to probably planning their escape.

Charlie growled to himself, then went to sit down on the hard bed, grumbling to himself as he did so.

They had finally got Chandler to leave the hospital, even if it was to just outside to smoke a cigarette. Callie had watched Monica and Ross follow him out, then she glanced over at Rachel and Phoebe. "I'm going to go check in with Joey now," she said, then walked down the hall, as she made it to the ICU room that had her friend in it. She slowly and softly opened the door, then walked over to the bed and sat down in the chair beside it. "Joey, Chandler refuses to go home while your still in here," she said softly. "I think its kind of sweet that he cares so much." She wrapped her hand in his. "Can you wake up for us today?" She asked, hopefully. She sighed when she didn't get a response.

"But I just know that you'll be okay. You have to be." She brought his hand up to her lips and kissed it gently.

Then the door opened, and a sleepy looking nurse walked in to check on him. She didn't say anything to Callie, as she started scribbling something down in her notepad. She silently left the room.

Callie watched her leave, then sighed. "Come on, Joe. Give me a sign that you're coming back to us." She leaned back in the chair, but had drifted off to sleep before any nurses or doctors could run her out of here.

Okay, we know that Chandler is going to be alright, but we don't know about Joey yet. Fingers crossed he will pull through, right? Oh, and to my favorite reviewer I just have to say this, I want Charlie to change his attitude and become good. Because I can picture him having to leave at the end of the story and him and Chandler share their first brotherly hug. That would be totally awesome! But as of right now since I am really in no hurry for this story to end, I am thinking about Charlie maybe teaming up with another inmate and they break out of prison together. Anyways, I have to go plan the next chapter now. Toodles!

Tall, Out!