maybe there's a light that's always on

Title: This Isn't Home
Characters/Pairing: Benny/Mark/Maureen
Word Count: 1037
Rating: PG
Summary: After April's death, the loft is a different place.
Notes: Written for soscaredtolove - supposed to be a drabble request. Obviously, this is not a drabble. Nevertheless. Also written for fanfic100 prompt #71.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( ...as if this were not a home of living, breathing people... )

Title: 6 AM
Feedback: Will make me love you muchly.
Characters/Pairing: Mark/Benny
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Sane people don't get to see the sun rise.
Notes: Written for cameraneverlies and fanfic100 prompt #31.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( 6 AM. The sky glows. Somewhere, a bird chirps. I want to shoot it. )

Title: Perfect Where We Started
Chapter: Two - More Like a Lost Boy
Feedback: Will make me love you muchly.
Characters/Pairing: Mark/Benny, Mrs. Cohen
Word Count: 2590
Rating: PG
Summary: Things always return to their natural state, but the way back isn't always easy.
Notes: Written for fanfic100 prompts #7 and #27.
Disclaimer:I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?
List of Chapters

( 'What are you, Peter Pan?' 'Would that make you Wendy?' )

Title: Some Kind of Support
Characters/Pairing: Benny, Collins, Mark
Word Count: 961
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Collins and Benny go out to get a drink after Angel's funeral.
Notes: Written for speed_rent challenge #112 and fanfic100 prompt #38.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( 'Let's pay him off and then get drunk.' )

Title: Unscripted
Characters/Pairing: Benny/Mark/Maureen
Word Count: 807
Rating: PG
Summary: There's an old film in a cardboard box, a memory long forgotten.
Notes: Written for fanfic100 prompt #40.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( Old film, lying at the bottom of one of the cardboard boxes in the closet... )

Title: Somewhere Else, Not Here
Characters/Pairing: Benny, Alison
Word Count: 395
Rating: G
Summary: Benny misses Christmas in the loft, however chaotic.
Notes: Written for fanfic100 prompt #92.
Disclaimer: *Looks in the mirror* Nope, still not Jonathan Larson. Sorry.

( Christmas bells are ringing... )

Title: Road of Good Intentions
Characters/Pairing: Benny + Collins
Word Count: 721
Rating: G
Summary: Collins has a talk with Benny between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
Notes: Written for fanfic100 prompt #22. Started as a response to a speed_rent challenge for the prompt "No good deed goes unpunished", but I was too late. Nyeh.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( My road of good intentions led where such roads always lead... )

Title: It's a Good Day
Characters/Pairing: Benny, April
Word Count: 358
Rating: G
Summary: Benny runs into April while doing early Christmas shopping.
Notes: Written for speed_rent challenge #7 and fanfic100 prompt #89.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( Yes, definitely the last time he went into a toy store for a long time. )

Title: Maybe I've Grown Up Much too Soon
Feedback: Will make me love you muchly.
Characters/Pairing: April Coffin/Roger, Benny, Mark
Word Count: 1265
Rating: PG
Summary: There's only so much Benny can do when April doesn't want to be helped.
Notes: Set in the April Coffin series (Her Name Was...). Written for speed_rent challenge #58 and fanfic100 prompt "Where?".
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent, and I'm extremely unlikely ever to. Shiny?

( Tell me please what's on my mind… )