More J/H

Only because today is the 1 year anniversary and I wanted to get something up to celebrate

Love you all and thank you so much for sharing a love of American Idiot with me

T

Once upon a time, there were two suburban young adults, trying to free themselves from their world, a man and a woman.

She took the hand of his best friend and kissed him and tried to lose herself in him.

He stopped himself from suffocating in the claustrophobia of the world by screaming and fighting and lashing out.

Remember to learn to forget

I'm not stoned I'm just fucked up

Once upon a time, there was an inhibitor and a dreamer.

The dreamer longed to leave the black hole he'd spent his life in; he longed to start anew with everyone that meant anything to him.

But this inhibitor, she broke his dreams with a hand on her stomach, with a life starting anew inside of her, so his best friend stays with her and forces him to begin his journey, feeling like half of a person.

Dreaming I was only dreaming

Of another place and time where my family's from

Once upon a time there was a lover and a fighter.

The lover offered kisses to her mate and promises of forever and perfection in ways he never knew he wanted. But her mate began drifting; she could feel herself losing him, no matter how desperately she fought.

The fighter made his way to the damp, cold streets that rejected him violently, and with his warrior heart on his sleeve, he roamed these misty streets until, for the first time in his life, he found something he might be able to love.

I'm the son of rage and love

And there's nothing wrong with me

Once upon a time there was a scorned woman and a heroin addict.

The woman wanted nothing more than to have her family and her happiness, but the one she once called lover had shunned her in favor of wine and song and let her leave to raise the beautiful life they'd created on their own. She tries not to feel the burning of the tears that streak down her face as she makes her way to a new city.

The addict tries desperately to fight against the addiction, to love this woman who loves him dearly, but the call of his needle is too powerful, and she just gets in the way. She tries to stop him and he tries to ignore how he thinks it would be wonderful to press that silver blade to her neck.

Running away from pain when you've been victimized

Tales from another broken home

Once upon a time there was a single mother and a withdrawing schizophrenic

The mother holds her baby close and feels complete bliss in the loss of her former lover, because he didn't love their child as much, he didn't feel what she felt, and it feels so delicious to finally move on. Glory never felt so good.

The schizophrenic shakes violently, fighting off the hallucinations of the man in black who offers him the white powder; he spills the powder on the ground, trying to convince himself that it is not an option. He thinks being murdered might be more peaceful than this. Justice was served.

Bring out the bells again

The innocent can never last

Once upon a time there was a blessed woman and a broken man.

The blessed one returns home, with a rock star desperately in love with her, a good life in front of her and a daughter with a promising future. And those who have wronged her were sorry and those who see her can feel the glow and wonder of her life and the addiction of her presence.

And this is what draws the broken man in. He holds his life together with the weak adhesive that timed healing can offer and she sees this and the wide shine of her eyes is like heaven for him, he has never seen her in this light, but he's got a feeling that his life is in her hands.

Is she dreaming what I'm thinking

And she's holding on my heart like a hand grenade

Once upon a time there was a nurse and her patient.

And she isn't really a nurse, but this man comes to her in tears one day after she has decided that her rock and roll boyfriend is not the one for her and she holds him tight, not expecting this at all. Because they were friends, but she loved his best friend and she always though he resented her.

But this patient tells her everything that's destroyed him and how the withdrawal feels like hell all the time and he kisses her and she doesn't stop him, she doesn't fight him off, she kisses him back and loves him twice as fiercely.

I've got a really bad disease

It's got me begging on my hands and knees

Once upon a time there was a love struck woman and a guilty man.

She will not take one minute of their relationship back and she explains that to him when he comes over one day, just to wrap his arm around her shoulder and catch up with her and twirl his hand through her blonde hair.

But he realizes what he has done, he has taken the love from another creature, he will break her heart, the only thing he has to offer her is pain. So, with a shaky body and short breath, he gets up and leaves and because he is not taking to the needle, he finds himself the same bottle that drew her away from her former lover.

Too much too soon

Too little and now you're coming unglued

Once upon a time there was a beauty and a beast.

The beauty tries to convince her beast that she doesn't care what he's done, that her life hasn't been all rainbows and butterflies either and that he's what she wants, for better or for worse, but she only sees the better side.

But the beast roars and takes to his vices and shuns her and lies and tells her that he doesn't want her, that he can't love her, and watches her walk away, sees a little bit of death in her eyes, and only sees the worst in himself.

She said I can't take this place

I'm leaving you tonight

Once upon a time there was a broken being and an alcoholic

She hides in her tower with her baby, offering time to no one else, spending most of her days in seclusion, crying, rarely eating, rarely sleeping, because she put her heart out on the line and things didn't fizzle out or end mutually, she had her heart get torn to shreds then shoved back in her face.

He tries not to think of her, and the booze helps for a bit, but after each drink, he remembers her more, remembers the softness of her touch and the feel of her kiss and that cute way she bites her lips and ruffles her hair when she's nervous. And he begins, slowly, to realize what he has done. He realizes that Jimmy is gone and now, he can try to fix things before they're completely destroyed.

Do you think what you need is a crutch

Jimmy died today he blew his brains out into the bay

Once upon a time there was a fallen angel and a worn man.

She looks up one day to see him in her tower and looks away and tries to pretend he is not there or that she doesn't care, but when he wraps his arms around her, she falls apart in them and grips his shirt and hits him and tells him how much she loves him and hates him.

He knows and he takes it all and whispers how sorry he is and how he wants to try and for some reason, some miracle happens and he is forgiven.

Now that they both are finding

She gets so sick of crying.

So they hold each other and try and love and fight and work things out, because sometimes, two suburban young adults grow into something more than just that, sometimes a dreamer is nothing without the inhibitions that keep him tied to the world, sometimes a lover must fight and a fighter must love to learn how to live, sometimes it takes a scorned woman and a heroin addict to discover how cruel the world really is, sometimes a single mother and a withdrawing schizophrenic realize that the only way out is to return to the home they once left, sometimes a broken man needs a blessed woman to save him from what he has become, sometimes a nurse comes to realize that she loves her patient more than she could have ever imagined, sometimes a guilty man must shut out his love struck woman before he can see the light, sometimes the beauty and the beast do not get to spend their nights in the ballroom, holding and loving, sometimes the brokenness of the being can sober even the worst of the alcoholics, sometimes the worn man is the only one that can pick the broke angel up from the depths she has fallen.

Sometimes so much happens, but through it all, Heather and Johnny can find their way to a happy ending.