A/N: Just a quick drabble. I was watching the movie today and I wondered what Mark is doing and feeling when during 'without you' Roger is comforting Mimi on the couch. The only difference is that this is set post Rent, Mimi has relapsed and her health is getting worse. Please review.
Its six minutes to midnight, I'm sitting by the window.
You are asleep; at least, I think you are, but I can usually always tell.
Well actually I can always tell, 'usually always' doesn't really make any sense-
Shut up brain
There's ice on the window tonight. Glittering shards explode across each rectangle of glass like fireworks frozen solid and placed on each individual pane. I trace them with my finger and race the raindrops until they're out of sight.
I hear a noise in your room, coughs that wrack the tormented frail body. The back of my hand prickles and it's like I can feel her shaking.
"Please, just one more hit-"
I hear you pick her up and carry her to the battered old couch.
Should I go and help?
I hear you say the words I used to whisper to you every night for weeks on end.
"It'll be over soon, you're going to beat this"
You run your fingers through her ratty brown hair and pull her shivering skeletal body close to yours. Her shoulders tense and then her body gives in to you.
The storm calms, the rain has turned ice and in my mind I see Collins lying in the middle of the street. Making snow angels.
It's been nearly a year since-
Mimi's breathing must have calmed now, I don't hear anything at all. Except the muffled sound of someone crying.
I smile weakly and bite down on my already too bitten fingernails, Roger's right, he beat this and now she's going to do it to.
She has to.
We can't lose anyone else.
Its six minutes to midnight, I'm sitting by the window.