AN: this came to me while listening to finale A on the OBCR. This is the image that appeared in my mind while listening to the OBCR. I finally saw RENT on tour, and decided to keep it seeming more like real life, so it isn't completely faithful to the play. This chapter is Roger's POV. I'm not going to bother with Mark or Collins because they are together most of the time. Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up.

Disclaimer: I don't own RENT, nor anything for that matter.

Hello Disease

"We'll make it yet. We'll somehow get to Santa Fe," Collins stated to his old friends.

"But you'd miss New York before you could unpack," Roger teased him. On the outside he was smiling. But inside, he was wincing at the irony. He got to Santa Fe and didn't understand what he left to find. After being tormented by his own imagination, so he sold the car that 'Took him away and back' and bought back his guitar.

"Wooooah woooah wooooah ooooooo," They sang, reminiscing the prior year. So much had happened. They got evicted, Angel died, Roger moved away, Mark sold out, Mimi disappeared, and they survived it all.

"Mark! Roger! Anyone! HELP! " It was Maureen. Didn't that lesbian and her girlfriend have anything better to do on Christmas Eve other than bother them?

"Maureen?" Great. Mark is humoring the drama queen, Roger thought.