Ross/Rachel and Monica/Chandler for fanfic100

Title: Waste
Rating: PG
Pairing: Ross/Rachel
Prompt: 51. Water
Word Count: 146

“This can’t be it.”

“Then how come it is?”

No one ever told Ross about this. They told him about love, sure. They told him about finding someone and spending the rest of his life with them. They told him about marriages and babies and everything in between.

They never told him about lesbians and taking a break and copy shop girls who really weren’t worth throwing Rachel away for.

He just stands there, staring at her. There’s no way this is happening. He’s been waiting for his since the ninth grade, and it can’t end this way.

But she just closes her bedroom door in his face.

When the tears start to fall, Ross thinks of romantic things like waterfalls and oceans, pools of salty tears.

Then he remembers what they didn’t tell him and realizes it’s more like toxic waste, coming from within himself.


Title: Righteous
Rating: PG
Pairing: Ross/Rachel
Prompt: 52. Fire
Word Count: 117

After the Valentine’s Day Fiasco, Ross invites Rachel over and has her teach him the whole burning your ex’s stuff ritual that she and the other girls did. She laughs at first, but eventually agrees to come over and teach him.

He’s got to cleanse himself of Carol. He can’t get her out of his head. Which is really unfortunate, given the whole lesbian thing.

Rachel comes over and the two of them throw Carol’s things into the fire and watch them burn. It all melts and meshes together, and when Ross looks at Rachel in the fiery glow, she whispers, “The next thing is the semen of a righteous man. You look pretty righteous to me.”


Title: Four Corners of the Earth
Rating: G
Pairing: Ross/Rachel
Prompt: 53. Earth
Word Count: 143

Ross has heard the saying about going to the four corners of the earth for love, but he only has to go to London. Those are his options: go to London, or not have love, and it really kind of sucks because he loves Emily.

Except that he said Rachel’s name at the altar, and that’s no fluke. Maybe he still loves her, too. Maybe he never stopped. Maybe he’s always loved her since the ninth grade, even if he has been married twice since then.

He and Rachel have that sort of love that gets written about in books. It’s epic love. It’s that kind of love that he actually would travel to the four corners of the earth for.

So it should really say something to him when he realizes that he’s not even willing to go to London for Emily.


Title: Puff of Air
Rating: G
Pairing: Ross/Rachel
Prompt: 54. Air
Word Count: 120

Ross’s marriage to Rachel shouldn’t even really count as a marriage. More like drunken stumbling into a chapel and muttering two words that he’s pretty sure he would’ve said to her, even sober.

The problem is that she doesn’t want to say those words to him, and that’s really kind of sucky because Ross will always love Rachel until the day that he dies. Even if he marries someone else, just like with Emily, it’ll always be her name he’s saying when he says “I do.”

It nearly kills him to sign the divorce papers, because just like that, the one marriage that he’s been waiting for his whole life is gone like nothing more than a puff of air.


Title: Say
Rating: G
Pairing: Ross/Rachel
Prompt: 55. Spirit
Word Count: 127

Ross holds onto Rachel when she gets off the plane to Paris because he simply can’t let her go. Not now, not ever. He’s not sure he believes in soul mates, not after all the Carol-Susan-Emily-Rachel insanity, but if he did have one, she’d be it.

She’s been everything he’s ever wanted since before he even liked girls. Even back when girls were icky and had cooties, Rachel didn’t. She was always special and always who he wanted to give his heart to.

So when he stands on an alter with her one year later and says, “I do,” he takes heart in the fact that he’s finally saying it and that finally, after ten years of her being back in his life, she’s saying it, too.


Title: Blur
Rating: PG
Pairing: Monica/Chandler
Prompt: 81. How?
Word Count: 142

Somewhere along the line, it changed. At some point he stopped thinking of her as his best friend’s little sister and his next-door neighbor. At some point he stopped wanting to comfort her after a break up, and instead wanted to kiss her pain away. At some point his hand started to linger too long on her shoulder, and he realized that he was staring at her far too often. At some point, his fantasies quit being about strippers and hookers and who ever Joey had brought home that week, and they started being about her. At some point, the lines between friends and lovers blurred, and it was long before London. At some point the space in “girl friend” disappeared and Monica became his dream.

At some point he became hers.

The only thing Chandler had left to wonder was How?


Title: Perfect
Rating: G
Pairing: Monica/Chandler
Prompt: 80. Why?
Word Count: 139

How on earth did he ever snag a girl like that? Monica was everything he wasn’t. She was strong. She was put together. She knew what she wanted out of life, and she strived to achieve her goals. She was so smart and so witty. Everything she touched turned golden, even if only he could see it. Her eyes shone with a light that gave everything and nothing away at the same time. She was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen. She was perfect.

Why would anyone like her want to be with him? She was a goddess and he was just Chandler. Monica should be with someone like Richard or maybe even Brad Pitt, but certainly not Chandler Bing. He was everything she didn’t deserve and shouldn’t want.

But she did.

But why on earth would she?


Title: Space
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Monica/Chandler
Prompt: 79. When?
Word Count: 137

Chandler tried to pin point the moment when he realized that he loved her. Surely there had to be a moment when a switch was thrown or when something changed or when a puzzle piece clicked into place…there had to be a moment when she stopped being his “girl friend” and became his “girlfriend” in his mind. Even after they started having sex, she was still just a friend to him. She was an incredibly hot friend that he cared about, and yeah, they rattled the bed frame several times weekly, but the space still existed.

Then suddenly it didn’t.

He couldn’t put it down to an exact moment in time when the letters had shifted and the space went away, no matter how hard he tried.

Maybe, he realized, it had never existed to begin with.


Title: Reason
Rating: PG
Pairing: Monica/Chandler
Prompt: 78. Where?
Word Count: 164

Being with Monica was the single most rewarding experience of his life, and not just for the sex. She made his life better some how. Even though she’d always been there, she was there in a whole new way now and his life just some how got better. Like it meant something. Like he had a purpose in life other than getting up and dragging himself to the office where no one really cared who he was or what he did. Monica gave him a reason to live.

And now he had two more reasons. Two beautiful children to raise. And then they had to think about where. They loved living in the city. But deep down they knew they couldn’t raise their kids there. Jack and Erica needed a place to run around and play or learn to ride their bikes. They couldn’t do that in the city. Deep down, Chandler knew that they’d have to leave.

The only real question was where.


Title: Understand
Rating: G
Pairing: Monica/Chandler
Prompt: 77. What?
Word Count: 147

“We’re moving to the suburbs.”

“WHAT?!”

“Monica, he won’t say that,” Chandler sighed.

“Chandler! You told me to pretend I was Joey. That’s what he’ll say, and you know it.”

Chandler sat down on the bed and sighed. “I know. I know he’s going to take this news really hard. I mean…he feels left out enough already.”

“I know.” Monica wrapped her arms around Chandler. “But we can’t help that. We have to do what’s right for our children. And that means moving out of the city.”

“I know, I just…I don’t want to hurt him.”

“Chandler, we have to do this. We have to tell him.”

Chandler nodded and swallowed, taking her hand. “All right. Let’s go.”

They knocked on Joey’s door.

Taking a deep breath, Chandler opened his mouth and prepared for the inevitable what, knowing that there was no way to make him understand.