Rent

Guarding Angel

By: NelleFang-Slayer

Ch. 2: The Truth Comes Out

Disclaimer: I don't anything of Rent that is property of John Larson. I love you John. All movie rights go to the cast and Chris Columbus. I own Emily.

Thanks to my reviewers Laurel Ducky and marry me mr pascal. I'm glad you liked it. Thanks to the two reviewers i desided to post the second chapter a little earlier than i wanted so enjoy and please review. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter because Emily meets the Bohemians.

Roger walks out room to find Mark making coffee while Mimi and Collins are talking on the couch. Mimi turns to see Rogers, "Morning sleepy head." She smiles.

"Morning sweetie, guys. Mimi how long have I been asleep?" Roger asked his girlfriend.

"Long enough to call it lunch time." Mimi said with a giggle.

Roger saw Mark and Collins laugh also. "Well then lunch we should have then."

"What? You mean out?" Mark asked his friend.

"Sure I bet if we try hard enough we can gather some money together." Roger replied to his roommate.

"Well Maureen and Joanne will be here soon so we can all go out to lunch." Collins said. They all agreed. About ten minutes later Maureen and Joanne showed up and they were all about to leave when there was a knock at the door.

Roger went to see who it was, thinking it might be Benny wanting the rent. He opened the door to find a young woman about 5'7" with brown hair and hazel eyes. "Can I help you?" Roger asked and Collins was walking up behind him.

The woman smiled, "Hi, my name is Emily. I went to Angel's apartment and he wasn't there. I thought he might be here. Can I see him?"

Roger's face went dark and moved back to let the woman into the loft. 'Maybe Collins should tell her' he thought to himself. Roger looked at Collins, he turned ghostly and the others were quite shocked to hear that this woman didn't know about Angel's death.

Collins stepped forward to introduce myself. "Hi, I'm Collins, Tom Collins. I…"

"…You're Angel's boyfriend. Oh she has told me so much about you. I can see why she liked you." Emily said.

Collins tried to smile but couldn't. "Why don't you come and sit on the couch." He said.

"So is Angel out or something?" Emily asked.

Collins moved her to the sofa and sat down. "Emily, Angel died October 31st last year." Collins replied to the young girl.

Emily's face turned pale in a matter of seconds, "No he can't be he told me he could see me when I turned eighteen and then we would be a family again. She can't be dead!" Emily stood up and started walking towards the door.

"Emily, he's dead. He died in my arms." Collins said with tears falling down his cheeks.

"No he can't be. He promised we would be a family again. He Promised." Emily started to cry and fell into Collins arms. Collins just held her while she cried and the others watched not knowing what to do next.

After crying for five minutes straight, Emily told Angel's family the night she meet Angel and how he saved her life. Maureen and Joanne were holding each other as were Roger and Mimi. Collins was sitting in front of Emily crying and laughing at her story. Mark had decided to film this because it was a part of Angel's past no one knew. By the time Emily was done with her story it was dark outside and everyone had noticed that they forgot about the time. Maureen had let go of her lover's arms and walked over to Emily and helped her up. She lead her to the fire escape and out onto the ledge.

"Remember what Angel told you about the wind?" Maureen asked the young woman.

"It tells us that our loved ones who aren't here anymore are here." Emily said with tears coming to her eyes.

"That's right. And you have us and the film Mark made. You will always have your parents and Angel forever." Maureen said.

Emily looked at the fire escape latter that lead up to the roof. Emily started to climb the latter fast. Collins quickly followed her afraid of what she was doing, as did the others who followed closely behind him. Emily got to the roof and ran over to the edge and stood on it. She then put her arms out like wings and just stood there. Collins was worried about Emily trying to commit suicide as was Roger, Mark, Mimi, Maureen, and Joanne.

"Emily, please don't move." Collins said walking closer to her. He stopped when he heard Emily saying something softly.

"What's wrong honey?' 'I lost my best friend in the world.' 'You do know he isn't gone?' 'But he's not here." Emily stopped talking and brought her arms in and took a step back off the ledge and onto the roof. "Thank you Angel." She said and sat down crying. Collins walked over and held her for a little bit then they all walked back to Roger, Collins, and Mark's apartment loft.

Collins helped Emily to the sofa because she was unable to walk by herself. Mark had grabbed her bag that was still by the door and he brought it to her. She searched through it the n finally pulling a shoe box out. "What's that?" Mark asked.

"This is… was my life line to Angel. I just had to read one and my day would go from bad to good, in an instant." Emily said opening them up. "You can read them if you want, but you may want to start from the beginning." She handed the box to Mark who started to read it aloud.

"Dear Emily, I know you must be having a crappy day when you read this but just remember sweetie soon you will be away from those jerks…" Mark continued to read and everyone was listening. Maureen was sitting with Joanne, Mimi with Roger, and Emily had laid her head onto Collins lap and had closed her eyes while Collins stroked her head. Each of the Bohemians read a letter. They laughed and cried especial for the one Collins had read.

"Dear Emily, I have to tell you about a wonderful, beautiful man I meet here in Alphabet City. His name is Tom Collins and I think he is the love of my life. I meet all his friends and I fell in love with them right away. It's like I have a family again. But of course I have you and the Connollys but I don't get to see you. I miss you so much. Soon you will be eighteen and you can come and live with me and meet Collins, Roger, and Mark (his friends), Maureen, her girlfriend Joanne, Mimi (a good friend you already know about), and yes even Benny. By the way I killed his dog for one thousand dollars. I almost told him it was so funny. Anyway Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Birthday; you should be getting your b-day present from Jack and Hannah in January. Love ya Emma! Love Angel." Collins and Emily were the ones most affected by this letter and hugged each other tightly. "Thanks for sharing these." He said.

"Well since we are family, it was the least I could do for you guys." Emily said with a small smile.

After another ten minutes went by Maureen and Joanne had gone home because it was late and they were extremely exhausted. Mark, Roger, and Mimi thought they should go to bed too. Collins and Emily stayed up all night talking about Angel and all their memories. Make woke up to find Collins and Emily asleep on the couch almost falling off. He smiled. There was a knock at the door and Mark opened it to find Maureen and Joanne. Collins woke up as they stepped through the door into the loft. "Morning." Collins said.

"Hey, did you two talk all night?" Joanne asked.

"Yeah it was a lot of fun. I think we should take Emily to see Angel's grave today." He responded.

"Are you sure she's ready for that?" Mark asked.

"No, but I think she needs to be able to finally say goodbye to him." Collins said. "But I will let her sleep until noon then we will all see Angel." Collins walked over to Emily and kissed her forehead and went to take a shower. Mark, Joanne, and Maureen just look at each other shocked at Collins connection with this girl. Of course they were technically brother/sister in-laws.

Please review and it will be at least a week before i post the next chapter unless i get modivation to post it if i get a lot of reviews. So if you want chapter three you will have to ask for it or you will just have to wait. For those that have reviewed and have to wait sorry in advanced i am writing three other stories so i kind of posted this to get my readers on my other stories something to read until i can post another chapter for those chapters. Also to warn you there may be sometimes when a chapter will take long and it may be because i am working on my other stories. So review and i may work hard to get these chapters on paper then to you sooner. Thanks for reading and listening to my blabble on i hope you have enjoyed my story so far and if you like how i write check out my other stories: More Than Charmed(Charmed), Fugitives(Underworld), and Unkown Past Unknown Future(Mutant X). Thanks again. :)