Hallelujah Replayed, a drake & josh fanfic

I find this highly appropriate to be writing now seeing as Alec is indeed dating Allison.

Which kinda sucks because he was my celebrity dream husband. D:

But I'm thrilled for them, really, and to celebrate I decided to throw another wall of angst at you guys. This is what my other fic, Hallelujah, should have been the first time.

Less angst than the first time. Hope you enjoy it.

Hallelujah Reloaded

I heard there was a secret chord

That David played and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this, the fourth the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Mindy was all science and all facts and Craig was all music and poetry and thinking and when she came back from the clinic she thought and his heart soared and it was beautiful and he ran to tell Eric about how beautiful she was. She had tried, failing miserably, to write a song for him, which he graciously fixed and played on guitar for her. She swooned, and he fell in love with her that day.

So he asked her out.

And she was all happy and blushy and accepted the date and they were both thrilled, really. Everyone was thrilled. Except the one person who he desperately wanted to be thrilled: Eric.

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne, she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Mindy got terribly bored with Craig after a few months of steady dating, so she invited Eric to her house one day.

She neglected to tell him that she would be nude in the tub when he arrived.

She knew his one weakness, his one Achilles heel was women. He loved women. He had very few opportunities with them, so when he arrived at her house and saw her beauty and glory in the dark bathroom he knew that he could not let the opportunity slip away.

"Come into this tub with me."

"You're my best friend's girlfriend." He said dryly, bitter that he could not ask her first.

"He doesn't own me, Eric. He'd never know about this." He smirked and pulled his shirt over his head…

Baby, I've been here before

I know this room

I've walked this floor

I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

But love is not a victory march

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Craig's old room is where he and Mindy would have their trysts. Sometimes, she stayed the night there and he would just pace in excitement the next day, trying to capture all the air from the previous night. He couldn't imagine the time before Mindy, ever, not until now when he's pacing for a different reason.

Josh caught her cheating on him with Eric.

Eric. His best friend.

And both of them wore it proudly. They were damned proud of the fact that they were trampling on his heart.

There was a time you'd let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show that to me, do you?

And remember when I moved in you

And the Holy Ghost was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Mindy had been going to Eric for a roll in the sack less frequently lately. He knew it shouldn't affect him at all, not really, because after all it was only a game. A stupid, sick game between them was it. But now that Eric knew her, knew her body and spirit and mind he couldn't get over the fact that she simply did not need him anymore.

He reminded her how badly she needed him two nights later.

Well maybe there's a god above

And all I ever learned from love

Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you

And it's not a cry you can hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Craig hated his best friend. He hated his girlfriend. He hated himself for getting involved with such cruel people who taught him too-harsh lessons about love. It just wasn't fair. It wasn't just. Eric had everything else. Mindy was the one thing he loved the most, Mindy was his essential person.

Eric was greedy. Eric had to have everything. And when Mindy became pregnant and Eric was completely fucked out of a future, instead of being angry at Mindy, Craig was angry at Craig for destroying his beautiful love.

Hallelujah

Everything was destroyed, and all three were crying in mourning of a day that they so desperately wanted to go back to where no one was dating anyone.

Fin

Woo. I'm actually pretty pleased with this. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be, and it makes a lot more sense than the first one, too.

I'll have more stuff tomorrow maybe.