He stormed out of their bedroom raging angry. How could she say something like that? He thought she loved him. But did she? Or was he just convenient?

"And for God's sake stop leaving your stuff around my apartment!"

Chandler whipped around at the speed of light,

"What did you just say?"

Monica's eyes grew wide when she realized what she said she didn't mean it, not at all. This is what their whole fight was about when they moved in together. It wasn't just her apartment, it was theirs and she probably just made the one mistake that will send Chandler over the edge.

"No! Chandler! I didn't mean it!"

"No, no of course you didn't but let me do you a favor and get out of your apartment." he spat, storming out and slamming the door leaving Monica to cry alone, convinced she'd just made the biggest mistake of her life.

He will never get over this

Even if we make up, this will always be sitting in the back of his head.

Chandler moved quickly into Joey's apartment. He didn't want to stand around in the hall in case she came looking for him.

He closed the door silently behind him, not wanting to wake Rachel. He had no clue what time it was and didn't want to drag her into this now. So instead of sleeping on the couch, he snuck into Joey's room.

"Joe" he whispered but Joey was sound asleep. He crawled into his bed anyway.

There was no discomfort; they'd slept together before, like the first night of the trip to London. Joey was terribly homesick and asked to sleep in Chandler's bed. Chandler should have spent the whole trip in Joey's bed, instead of what happened.

He curled up close to Joey trying not to wake him or be too awkwardly close, but he needed the comfort of his best friend and easily drifted off to sleep.

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Joey rolled awake and when he opened his eyes he saw Chandler lying next to him.

Joey was still half asleep and thought it was just another of his favorite dreams.

"Morning Chandler" he mused happily. He leaned over and kissed his forehead, then his temple, then his cheek, then his jaw, "Morning Sweetie" Chandler whispered still mostly asleep thinking all the sweet kisses were from his girlfriend Monica. Then Joey trailed his lips to Chandler's. That had woken Chandler up a little more and he kissed back gleefully. Joey pulled away and whispered,

"I love you."

"I love you too" Chandler whispered back opening his eyes.

"Ahhh!" Chandler shouted, falling off the bed.

"Yu...Yu...You! What are you doing!" Chandler yelled. Joe shouted, startled and realized what was going on

"Me! You! What are you doing here! I thought you were just a dream!"

"A dream?" Chandler yelled, "What the hell kind of dreams do you have Joe!"

Joey's insides tickled at the sound of being called Joe. He loved it. But he had to remind himself of the situation before his imagination got the better of him.

"Well why are you even in my bed?" Joey exclaimed.

"I had a bad fight with Monica and I didn't want to sleep in her apartment!" he spat out the last words, "and I didn't want to sleep on your couch because I didn't want Rachel to see me yet!"

Joey got very serious and inched toward Chandler, "What happened with you and Monica?"

Chandler sighed, "We had a bad fight over stupid things and then she called it 'her apartment' instead of 'our apartment'" Joey's face showed the slow realization of how badly those words would affect Chandler. There was no way they could get over this and stay together comfortably in that apartment.

Chandler would never forget this and never get over this. Joey slowly realized that this could be the end for Chandler and Monica. Joey tried not to get too excited. Just because they were over, did not mean Chandler would want him either. But he had hope.

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The rest of the day dragged on and the entire group found out about the fight. They all secretly agreed that this ruined Chandler. Monica had to be very lucky if Chandler was to ever get over this. They were all sitting on the couch of the coffee shop when Chandler and Joey walked in together. Joey was relieved that Chandler seemed to have forgotten the intimacies of their morning, but he knew he would remember eventually and he was prepared to come out when he did. But when they came into Central Perk and Chandler saw the group all huddled around a teary-eyed Monica he turned on his heels to leave. Joey turned to follow him, committed to not leaving his best friend's side but Phoebe was already on her feet and put a hand on Joey to stop him.

"Let me talk to him please?" Joey reluctantly nodded and let her go. He stood there awkwardly not wanting to join Rachel, Ross, and Monica. And plus, how could they ever be on Chandler's side. Monica was his sister and her best friend. But they all knew how Chandler was. They all knew too well about Chandler. How could they not be on his side? Or at least understand this was ruining Chandler. Ross and Rachel shot Joey a look that almost seemed to say they were sorry for Monica, but way more concerned for Chandler. But they could never understand. Chandler spent a god part of the morning in Joey's arms trying not to cry. Monica started to babble just as Joey was about to start yelling at her.

"I just love him! And now he's going to leave me for sure! And all have to fix the apartment all over again and get that stupid white dog off the balcony and," her next words were drowned in her sobs.

"Honey," Rachel said sweetly rubbing her back, "you never changed anything in your apartment for Chandler. So there's nothing you have to fix."

"I changed so much!" she protested. Joey stood up flustered ready to yell and scream at Monica so she would understand how Chandler felt. But Rachel shushed him and motioned for him to sit down.

"Monica sweetie, you didn't do anything for him. Nothing of his is in your apartment. It's all at me and Joey's place. And you just called it your apartment. You know how Chandler is! That was the worst thing you could have ever said! Ever! You probably just crushed him! You know his past and you know how he is with relationships, all relationships. It's amazing he got as close to you a he did and you acted like you wanted to keep him at a distance and then you called it your apartment! Honestly Monica you probably just ruined him."

Monica grew very silent,

"What kind of friend are you Rachel?" she said angry.

"An honest one!" She shouted then stormed out. Joey stood up prepared to follow Rachel out and Monica looked up at him hopeful.

"How is he?" she babbled.

Joey used every muscle in his body not to yell at her.

"How do you think? He slept with me last night and woke up and cried into my chest. Chandler! Chandler cried! For over an hour! You broke him and I don't think anyone will ever be able to fix him. I hope you're happy! Oh! And the dog is not stupid!" Joey stormed out angrier than ever.

"You'll stay here with me right Ross?"

"Sweetie, I know you're my sister, but Chandler is my best friend. And you know you're the one who's wrong here and you know it. I need to go make sure Chandler is okay. I'm sorry." Ross stood up and left the coffee shop to go talk to Chandler. Mnica had never felt more alone in her life ever.