I hope everyone is enjoying these. I'm starting class again on Monday, so updates may be a bit more sporadic. But thanks for reading and reviewing. :D

Title: Ping Pong Balls
Characters/pairing: Mark/Roger friendship
Prompt: Strangers
Rating: PG
Summary: Roger likes to throw things at strangers...
Author's Notes :I actually had a dream about this, and thought it was too funny to pass up.

Mark walked out on the balcony to find Roger leaning against the wall, a bag of ping pong balls beside him. Roger leaned forward, aimed, and threw one over the edge. Mark could faintly hear a small thwok, followed by cursing. He raised an eyebrow.

Roger looked over and grinned. "Found 'em in the alley, and I got bored," he whispered, throwing another ball. More cursing, and Mark could see Roger trying not to laugh. Roger saw Mark's face and laughed more. "I'm not hurting anyone!" he defended himself.

Mark sighed and left. He didn't get Roger's sense of humor.

Title: Operation: Maureen
Characters/pairing: Mark/Roger friendship
Prompt: Teammates
Rating: PG
Summary: Maureen is practicing too much.

It was universally agreed that Maureen was too worried about her protest. This was the sixth time she'd practiced today, and she had to practice as loudly as possible.

Roger winced at a particularly high note. "Team Alpha, we're in position and ready to proceed. Are we cleared to go?" he said, miming a walkie-talkie.

Mark, on the other side of Maureen's door, just stared.

Roger sighed. "Ready?" Mark nodded. "Let's go."

Bursting into Maureen's room, they dragged her out into the rain, locking the window after her.

"You needed to chill out," Roger called over her shrieks, high-fiving Mark.

Title: Lazy Roger
Characters/pairing: Mark/Roger friendship
Prompt: Air
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Roger is asleep and making inappropriate suggestions

Mark stood beside Roger's bed and poked him. "Get up," he said, "We promised to go to Maureen's show, remember?"

Roger mumbled something, of which Mark caught only "Fuck Maureen," and burrowed deeper into his blanket until he was only a lump and a thatch of hair.

"Maureen is with Joanne," Mark patiently explained, "So that's not possible. And we promised, so we have to go or Maureen will nag us for the next three years."

Roger only grunted from under the blankets. Mark glared. "You asked for this," he said, grabbing the edge of the blanket and pulling, leaving Roger to shout and swear in the cold loft air.

Title: Tragedy
Characters/pairing: Mark/Roger friendship
Prompt: Grief
Rating:PG-13
Summary: The boys come home to a horrible scene

Mark stared at the scene in front of him. April, dead in the bathtub, the blood on her pale skin standing out like a beacon. He turned quickly to keep Roger from seeing, but his friend had seen and shoved him aside. Roger sunk to his knees, his grief pouring out of him in a string of pleas and curses.

Mark dialed 911 and went back to try to calm Roger down, even though he felt like doing the same.

Neither of them noticed the post-it note on the mirror.

Title: Anticipation
Characters/pairing: Mark/Roger friendship
Prompt: Fear
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Mark fears for the future

Mark closed the door to Roger's room, careful not to wake him. This peace wouldn't last, he knew.

He didn't know how much more either of them could take, the endless grief, guilt and withdrawal. He didn't know how things could change, not after what had happened. April's death, discovering that Roger was HIV positive, and the struggle of withdrawal as he tried to clean Roger up. Mark lived with the fear that someday he would find Roger in the bathtub like April, and when he thought of that it was his turn to run to the bathroom and vomit.