Almost, Always, Forever (Male Reader x Monica Geller)

Y/N L/N didn't plan on starting over-not in New York City, and definitely not in a coffee shop surrounded by a bunch of neurotic twenty-somethings. But after returning home from the Gulf War to find his world irreversibly changed, he makes a choice: leave behind the ghosts of Georgia and find something new in the city that never sleeps.

He doesn't expect to find family.
He doesn't expect to fall for Monica Geller-organized, competitive, fierce, and maybe the only person who sees the calm behind his chaos.

As he becomes part of this unlikely group-Chandler, Phoebe, Ross, Joey, Rachel, and Monica-Y/N finds himself pulled into the whirlwind of broken relationships, late-night diners, awkward confessions, and moments that turn strangers into soulmates.

This is the story of what happens when a soldier walks into Central Perk-and finds something worth fighting for again.
This is Friends, re-imagined-with one more heart in the mix.