maybe there's a light that's always on

Title: Someone Else's Story
Characters/Pairing: April/Mimi, Mark, Benny, Collins, Joanne, Maureen, mention of Roger
Word Count: 13413
Rating: R
Summary: I could be in someone else's story, in someone else's life, and she could be in mine... April lived. Roger didn't. Mimi still knocks on the door of the loft on Christmas Eve.
Notes: Started for speed_rent challenge #166. Never really finished, and probably won't be.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rent. Plus, I kind of half-stole some lines from the show. Half-stole, because most of them I've kind of altered.

i. the night you came into my life
ii. there'd be a long embrace
iii. and it's beginning to snow
iv. clinging a shoulder, a leap begins
v. intermission
vi. depends on true devotion
vii. i used to shiver like that
viii. breathing the only sound

Title: The Opposite of April
Characters/Pairing: Mark/Maureen, Collins, Benny, Roger/April
Word Count: 1583
Rating: PG
Summary: Mark meets a girl at April's funeral who's the exact opposite of her cousin.
Notes: Written for various writing_game prompts.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rent, I am not Jonathan Larson or any of his family. Thank you.

( There were only a few people Mark didn't know at the funeral... )

Title: Summertime Blue
Characters/Pairing: Benny/Mark
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Mark's eyes are the bluest Benny's ever seen.
Notes: Written for writing_game pictures prompts #2 and 5, and fanfic100 prompt #99.
Disclaimer: Don't own Rent.

( ...the sort of stunning blue at the center of a flame. )

Title: No More
Characters/Pairing: Benny, Mark and Roger
Word Count: 181
Rating: G
Summary: Somehow, it's Benny's fault the ceiling's leaky.
Notes: Written for writing_game picture prompt #6 and fanfic100 prompt #51.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rent. I also don't own tick, tick... BOOM!, in case you were wondering. Though, y'know, stands to reason that if I were to own one I'd own the other, but... whatever.

( 'Okay, now this is ridiculous.' )

Title: Indelicate
Characters/Pairing: Benny/Maureen, Roger
Word Count: 144
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Roger is apparently five years old. Especially when drunk.
Notes: Written for writing_game prompt "indelicate" and fanfic100 prompt #50.
Disclaimer: Don't own Rent.

( 'You like Maureen, don't you?' )

Title: Frayed
Characters/Pairing: Benny/Alison, vague Benny/Maureen
Word Count: 118
Rating: PG
Summary: At a certain point, Benny really should get rid of that sweater.
Notes: Written for writing_game prompt "edgestitch" and fanfic100 prompt #97. Vague references to Sweaters and Stars.
Disclaimer: Don't own Rent.

( 'What the hell are you wearing?' )

Title: Sweaters and Stars
Characters/Pairing: Benny/Maureen
Word Count: 155
Rating: G
Summary: Maureen and knitting don't exactly mix.
Notes: Written for writing_game prompt "edgestitch" and fanfic100 prompt #46.
Disclaimer: Don't own Rent.

( 'Hey, Benny. You want a sweater?' )

Title: The Stories We Say
Characters/Pairing: Mark/Roger, Roger/April, Collins, Benny, the Man
Word Count: 20386
Rating: R
Summary: It's not for forever, but it feels good right now, so what could it hurt?
Notes: Written for various rentchallenge challenges. Tons of thanks to _chibidragon_ and emilystarr1.
Disclaimer: Don't own Rent or any of its characters. I also do not own "Eric's Song", which the title is from.

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen

Title: The Limits of Friendship
Characters/Pairing: Collins, Benny, Mark and Roger
Word Count: 448
Rating: PG
Summary: It's just one of those things best friends don't do.
Notes: Written for fanfic100 prompt #68.
Disclaimer: Not mine.

( 'The power's out.' 'No shit, Sherlock.' )

Title: Coffee and Conversation
Characters/Pairing: Benny and April, a little Roger/April, mention of the other loftmates
Word Count: 788
Rating: PG
Summary: Going out for food and conversation at one in the morning... actually doesn't involve all that much eating, or talking.
Notes: Written on request for starletfallen, for fanfic100 prompt #59. Purgatory-verse.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rent, Benny, or April.

( 'You almost hit me in the face, asshole!' )