AN: Last chapter, you guys! Hope you all enjoyed reading this story. I'm going to get back to writing my other stories, Reconnecting and My Life. Please R&R.

Disclaimer: I own no one. They all belong to Bright/Kauffman/Crane.

Chapter 7: Moving On

Monica walked back into their room at the bed n' breakfast and saw Chandler still sleeping. He had moved towards the middle of the bed since she went down to the dining hall to have some breakfast. They had spent all afternoon and evening the day before talking about what had happened to Chandler during his captivity. It seemed as if a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders and he was back to his old self. Not completely back to his old self, but it was a start.

She placed the mug of coffee and plate of breakfast she was able to snag from the dining hall on the bedside table. She sat beside Chandler on the bed and softly shook him.

"Chandler, are you going to sleep the day away?" she ran her hands through his hair and his eyes slowly opened.

"What time is it?" he asked softly.

"Almost eleven." She told him.

"Seriously?" he sat up and glanced at the clock. "Why didn't you wake me?"

"You were sleeping so soundly." She told him. "You needed to get some sleep because you haven't slept great since you were found."

"You're right. I haven't." he rubbed his eyes.

"But the good news is you slept through the night without any bad dreams," she smiled at him. "And you didn't need to have a light on."

"You're right. I didn't." he took the cup of coffee and small plate from her. "So do you want to go back home or stay for a few days more?"

"We haven't been to the beach yet." She told him. "And there are a bunch of little shops we can walk to."

"We can start shopping for the baby, right?" he smiled at her.

"Yeah."

Chandler and Monica returned to their room a few hours later with their hands full of bags from all the shops they had stopped at. They dropped it all on the bed as Monica started going through everything.

"I can't believe we got this much." She looked at him. "Our baby is barely the size of a grapefruit and it's already spoiled."

"The first born deserves to be spoiled." Chandler smiled at her.

"When did you get these books?" Monica pulled them out of a small paper bag. "I don't remember you getting these."

"I went into the bookstore when you were getting our smoothies." He took them from her. "I figured we could get a jump start on the book collection."

"That's a great idea." She smiled at him. "Today was fun."

"Yes. It was."

"Rachel would've loved all the shops."

"Should we call them and let them know that we're ok?" he sat down beside her. "I kind of miss them. Want to see if they can come down for a couple days before we go back?"

"I think that'll be great." She smiled as he took out his cell phone.

Joey and Phoebe were sitting on the couch in Central Perk when Ross and Rachel came in. They sat by them as they looked at each other. It had been a couple days since Monica and Chandler had left to get out of town and away from everything. They hadn't called them yet, but they were trying not to worry.

"It's so boring without them here." Phoebe said. "I had no idea how much we depended on Chandler's sarcastic commentary until he wasn't here."

Joey's cell phone started to ring and he took it out of his pocket and smiled at the name that popped up on the caller ID.

"Chan?" he flipped it open and spoke as the others looked at him. "How are you guys? That's great. I'm glad you guys are having a good time. We all miss you here. What? Yeah. We'd love to come down there with you guys. Where are you at?"

Rachel got a piece of paper and pen out of her purse and Joey wrote down the address.

"Got it." He spoke into the phone. "We'll be there by tomorrow afternoon. See you then. Bye, man."

"How'd he sound?" Ross asked him once he had closed his phone.

"Better. Happy." Joey told him.

"So where are they staying?" Rachel asked.

"A bed n' breakfast on the beach." He told them. "They spent the afternoon shopping. There's a bunch of little shops right down the street from where they're staying."

"Chandler went shopping?" Phoebe asked.

"They went shopping for the baby. They want to show us everything that they got for it once we get there."

"But Chandler sounded ok?" Ross asked again.

"He sounded fine. Kind of like the old Chandler again."

"Maybe he is back to the old Chandler." Rachel told them.

"Hopefully."

The next afternoon, Chandler was lying back on the lounge chair that was on the balcony outside of their room as he watched the sun shine down on the beach. He looked back as he heard a noise and smiled as he saw Monica come back into the room with two glasses of lemonade.

"Hey." He took one of the glasses from her. "Are they here yet?"

"Not yet." She told him as she sat beside him on the lounge chair and he held her around her waist. "I told the front desk to let them up when they arrived."

They spent the next several minutes just sitting there silently as they watched the scene below them of everyone on the beach. They started to drift off when they heard the door to their room open.

"Hello?" they heard Joey call and they turned around and smiled as all their friends came out to them.

"Hey, guys." Chandler smiled at all of them.

"You look better." Phoebe went to give him a hug as he got up off the chair.

"I feel better."

"The kid has a lot of loot already." Ross saw all the baby items all over the bed, chair and table in the room. "Is there anything left for us to get you?"

"A few things."

"So what are we doing?" Joey asked.

"We wanted to go down to the beach," Monica told them. "But we wanted to wait until you guys got here."

"Sounds good to us," they all went to get changed and went down to the beach and set up some towels on the sand.

Joey started to make a sand castle, but gave up on it once Ross toppled it after running into it as he tried to catch a Frisbee that Chandler tossed to him. He joined in with them as the girls just relaxed on the beach as they tanned.

"He looks so much better," Rachel said as she glanced at Monica.

"The sparkle is back in his eyes." Phoebe told her.

"We talked," Monica told them. "Or he talked mostly. Told me what he went through, which I'm not going to divulge anything that he told me. But I think it helped him to finally get it out in the open."

"We don't expect you to tell us what you talked about. As long as Chandler is ok. That's all that matters."

"He'll be fine." Monica smiled as she watched Chandler and Ross burst out in a fit of laughter after Joey tripped over a mound of sand as he stared at a girl as she passed by them. "We'll all be fine."

THE END

AN: So what'd you all think of this last chapter? I didn't exactly wrap it all up nicely, but there is a semblance of hope for normalcy eventually for Chandler and Monica and everyone else. Please R&R.