A/N- This is a bit dark I suppose, but I think it shows the depth of Mike's attachment to dancing.

Disclaimer: Idle Dancing On Neglected ' Trains Opens Walkways New


Heart's Blood

Ten years ago Mike Chang had still been in Glee club. Only ten years ago he had played on the football team as their wide receiver and danced his most impressive moves for Glee on the side.

Now he sat at the edge of his twenty story apartment building, looking down on the dead New York streets below. In the near dawn he clutched a photograph, staring at his past now long gone.

He thought, 'I'll have to apologize to Artie' with an odd smile that didn't disappear but just lingered on his mouth. When the sun broke over the city he was no longer up on the rooftop.

A poor grocery clerk would walk out of the building to a nasty shock 15 minutes later.

Half an hour afterwards the police found an abandoned wheelchair at the bottom of the stairwell that led to the roof and a picture of a 17 year old dancer placed carefully on the ground by the edge.

Ten years ago Mike Chang had had a life-long dream. And a little more than one short year ago, Mike had still had the use of his legs.

He'd flown for the last time.


A/N- I feel jumping is the best metaphor for Mike's need to fly as a dancer. Also, I'm a sucker since I wrote this myself, but reading the part about the 17 year old dancer kills me every time.