It's always been you // joey tribbiani

Chapter 1

There was a knock at the door of joey and chandler's apartment. "I wonder who that is." Chandler says, he opens the door and sees his sister that he hasn't seen in ages with bruises and cuts on her arms and face. "El? Oh my god what happened?!" He let's her in. "P-peter he..might have hit me."

Chandler looks at his sister like she said a curse word or like she hit someone with her car. "I'll kill him!!" He grabs his jacket and starts walking out until Ellie grabs his arm. "No! No! Chandler no!" She starts crying at her older brother. "Okay okay I won't go come here." He hugs her but not tight enough so she hurts him just so that it shows he cares.

Joey comes out of his room looking at the Bing siblings. "Jesus Christ what happened?" Chandler looks at his best friend and mouths 'I'll tell you about it later'. Ellie wipes her eyes. "Hey els what if we go to the girl's apartment and I can get rach to patch up your cuts and bruises?" She nods at her and the trio go right next door.

Rachel, Monica, Phoebe and Ross are all sitting in the living room watching that one show they all love. "Hey Joey, hey chandler." Rach says without turning her head away from the tv. "Hey guys, umm Rach could you come here a sec?" Chandler asks her. "Yeah sure.." she stands up and looks at the trio. "Oh my god! Ellie!" That expression made the other three that we're watching the tv turn around and their mouths drop to the floor.

They all know Ellie because she used to see chandler a lot so seeing her like that breaks everyone's hearts. "What happened?" They all look as she sits in the kitchen and Rachel goes to get the first aid kit to patch her up. "Her boyfriend or well I hope ex boyfriend now, anyways." Ellie nods at chandlers comment as Rachel sits next to her putting bandages on a really bad cut on her shoulder.

"Your boyfriend did this to you?" Joey asks concerned as he takes a seat on the other side of her. "Yeah I have a talent for getting into bad relationships." Monica walks over. "Oh honey." She hugs her from the back putting her arm around her. "Ow."

"Sorry." She pulls away and looks at the others. "Sis do you have another place to stay?" Chandler asks her kneeling down to her hight and puts his hand on her leg. "No I stayed with him at his apartment.." Joey then gets an idea in his head. "You could stay with me and chandler. We'll be your protecters if he ever comes to find you." He says putting his hand on hers in a friendly way. "Really?"

Chandler and Joey nod at her. "Thank you, you two but I still need to grab my things from his." The group look at each other. "Do you have a set of keys?" Monica asks her. "Yeah here." She takes them out of her pocket and shows them to the group. "Okay so Joey, chandler and the rest of us will come with you tomorrow to go grab your stuff to make sure he doesn't hurt you again." Rachel says putting plasters on the smaller cuts. "Really? Thank you all of you I forgot how great you all are."

"We're always here for you, els." Ross says giving her a warm smile. They all nod giving her a group hug. "Ow.." everyone pulls away and everyone mumbles a 'sorry' out their mouths.