Percy

Summary: A drabble written for the Tumblr hurt/comfort dialogue prompt: "What happened? Are you okay?"

Mozzie suffers a loss – his pet rat, Percy.


Mozzie entered Neal's apartment without knocking and headed straight to Neal's wine collection.

Looking up from his sketchbook, Neal noticed Mozzie's sombre expression. "What happened? Are you okay?"

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them," Mozzie replied as he selected and opened a Bordeaux.

"George Eliot. Did someone die Moz?"

"Percy. I found him dead in his bed this morning."

"I'm so sorry Mozzie. He was one of a kind."

"That he was mon frère." Forgoing a glass, Mozzie drank straight from the bottle. "The memorial's tomorrow at 10am, at Wednesday."

"I'll be there Moz."