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American Psycho - I'll be There for You

By Dbud (feedback requested, email )

Summary: Chandler Bing has a fateful encounter with a man who will change his life.

Warning: While the first two chapters do not contain much rough material, future chapters most definitely will (Snuff, Rape, etc.). Read at your own risk!

Prologue

Starring:

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing (Friends)

Chandler Bing stepped off the train that brought him into the city from his house on Long Island along with thousands of others and began to make the trek towards the subway station for the first of his three subway rides to his office in New York City. It was a grueling commute he made twice every day, into the city and then back home again. He had been doing it for nearly ten years now, ever since he and his wife Monica had moved out of the city to their large house in the suburbs.

Most days he simply did it with little thought but the rut of married life was beginning to get him down. It's not that things were bad at home, on the contrary, Monica was the love of his life, but it was just the same thing every day. And on some days, like this one, the nearly two hour commute was really weighing on him. He had given up a lot to make his new wife happy. They rarely saw their former friends anymore; Joey, Chandler's very best friend, was off in Hollywood and was doing well as an actor; Ross, Monica's brother, was married again and having more kids; Phoebe, who was always a bit off, was working with Greenpeace and the last they had heard she was on some ship fighting whalers off the coast of Japan; and Rachel was living in the city and raising her daughter, Emma, who coincidentally was the child of Ross. But even though she lived and worked in the city still, they never saw her.

Most days, Chandler regretted moving out of the city. It was probably dumb to think things would never change after the wedding, but they had. He and Monica were in a rut just going through the motions. Sex, if he was lucky, was once a month and perfunctory.

"Stop feeling sorry for yourself Bing," he muttered to himself as he was jostled by the wall to wall packed commuters waiting for the second subway train on the platform.

"Look, I don't give a fuck what they said!"

Chandler looked over, as did several other people, at the man talking loudly on his cell phone.

"You tell that asshole if he gives me anymore shit about this take over I'll personally fire his ass and cancel his stock options! That ought to shut him up!"

Chandler rolled his eyes; he hated people who talked loudly like this on the train. The man on the cell phone was well dressed in an obviously expensive suit and overcoat. His briefcase looked leather and high end and his hair was slicked back. Chandler couldn't help but think he was styling himself after Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall Street. And not that Chandler often noted these sorts of things but the man also was quite good looking, with a solid build and chiseled jaw.

The thoughts of the man's rudeness faded as the sound of the train could be heard coming from down the tunnel. The crowd began to move forward, anticipating the arrival and jostling for position.

Suddenly, the man who had been talking on the phone lurched forward as the crowd pushed against him.

"HEY!" Chandler yelled out at the crowd in general, "Watch out!"

But the crowd kept pushing and Chandler watched helplessly as the man in the expensive suit was shoved off the edge of the platform.

"OH GOD!" someone screamed.

"SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!" someone else yelled out.

But no one was doing anything. Chandler began to push his way through the crowd, very nearly shoving people to the side to part the mass of humanity in his way. Reaching the edge of the platform, Chandler stopped to assess the situation. Lying across the tracks was the man he had seen on the cell phone. The man was trying to get up but was not moving quickly as he appeared to have struck his head and was dazed.

Just then, as if to emphasize the urgency of the moment, a loud train horn sounded and Chandler looked up just in time to see the bright light of the commuter subway train barreling down the tracks towards the man. Without thinking, Chandler leapt from the platform edge and landed roughly next to the fallen man, himself losing his balance and tumbling to the ground. Looking up, Chandler saw the train less than a hundred feet away.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, what the fuck are you doing Bing?" was all he could say as he scrambled to his feet. Grabbing the man in the overcoat, he pulled him up.

"MOVE DAMMIT!" Chandler yelled at him as he could feel the light of the train on his back.

As Chandler tried to push him towards the far concrete wall, the man began to fight him, "My phone! I have to get my phone! It's my life!"

Chandler looked down and saw a high-tech phone laying in the dirt of the tracks, "Are you crazy!"

Seeing that the man would not be deterred and assuming that the blow to the head was causing his irrational behavior, Chandler lunged back and grabbed the phone and threw himself back against the far wall just moments before the train roared past. It felt to Chandler like he was in the middle of a tornado as the noise and wind was so loud he thought it would rip the fillings from his mouth. Finally, after an eternity it seemed, the train came to a stop and both he and the other man collapsed to the ground panting and relieved.

"Oh, oh my god! Y-you saved my life!" the man said with a tone of genuine thanks and shock in his voice.

"What-what's your name?" the man asked.

"Chandler Bing."

"Well Chandler Bing, you have a new best friend."

He reached his hand out and Chandler took it and they shook, "My name is Patrick. Patrick Bateman."

End Prologue