RENT: Five Ways (2) (Mark/Roger, Collins | T | 450w total)
[ mild Mark/Roger | T | 450w total | 2007-04-27 | Mirror ]
Five ways Mark met Roger; five ways Mark met Collins.
Five Ways Mark Met Roger
5. A seedy bar. Roger’s on guitar and Mark contemplates throwing something at him or filming him and later mocking him in the voice-over. He settles for buying him a beer.
4. At the clinic. Roger’s just come out of the doctor’s door with a horrific look on his face, and it’s clear he was expecting someone (Mark later learned, April). Mark’s test just came back negative and he can’t help but offer the guy his bagel and later, dinner he doesn’t have the money to pay for.
3. Filming. Mark’s aware that the dark, musty alley thing has been way overdone, but if he can just get the angle right...
“Who the hell are you?”
2. They’re both waiting for the dealer to come out of his bedroom and Roger gets to the point where he can’t find anything more entertaining than to find out what this skinny blonde guy and his man-purse are all about. He thinks he must really need a hit bad.
1. Maureen introduces them.
“Lemme guess,” Mark says, already rolling his eyes, “You dated him, too?”
Roger laughs, a little too loudly, and Maureen looks miffed.
This might be the start of something good.
Five Ways Mark Met Collins
5. “The thing to understand about democracy is that, in its original form, was a just a slightly more organized form of anarchy.”
Mark slows on his way down the stairs, interested despite himself. His train isn’t arriving for another fifteen minutes, so he leans against the wall and gives the guy-who strangely enough, doesn’t have a hat out asking for money-a listen.
4. He and Roger are running, running, running-a few blocks back they heard the shop-owner still yelling-and they’re so busy looking behind them that they take Collins down. They are a mass of surprise on the pavement.
After he’s led them up to his loft and gives them both a glass of water, they all introduce themselves.
3. Mark’s doing a documentary for-gasp!-money, but it’s for a good cause, so he really can’t complain (not that that stops him). Anarcho-philosophists of the twentieth century, and Tom Collins is his first interview.
2. “He got you pretty good, didn’t he?” The man asks, giving him a hand up. Mark cradles his throbbing eye and tries to nod thanks but it makes him dizzy.
The guy looks at him, considering. “I’ll cover you at liquor store while you use one of their ice packs.”
1. Benny’s been talking about this guy for so long that Mark is sure that no one can live up to all that-but when he finally brings Collins around, he almost does.
He’s gotta give Benny credit-roommates weren’t such a bad idea. Collins will fit in well.
Five ways Mark met Roger; five ways Mark met Collins.
Five Ways Mark Met Roger
5. A seedy bar. Roger’s on guitar and Mark contemplates throwing something at him or filming him and later mocking him in the voice-over. He settles for buying him a beer.
4. At the clinic. Roger’s just come out of the doctor’s door with a horrific look on his face, and it’s clear he was expecting someone (Mark later learned, April). Mark’s test just came back negative and he can’t help but offer the guy his bagel and later, dinner he doesn’t have the money to pay for.
3. Filming. Mark’s aware that the dark, musty alley thing has been way overdone, but if he can just get the angle right...
“Who the hell are you?”
2. They’re both waiting for the dealer to come out of his bedroom and Roger gets to the point where he can’t find anything more entertaining than to find out what this skinny blonde guy and his man-purse are all about. He thinks he must really need a hit bad.
1. Maureen introduces them.
“Lemme guess,” Mark says, already rolling his eyes, “You dated him, too?”
Roger laughs, a little too loudly, and Maureen looks miffed.
This might be the start of something good.
Five Ways Mark Met Collins
5. “The thing to understand about democracy is that, in its original form, was a just a slightly more organized form of anarchy.”
Mark slows on his way down the stairs, interested despite himself. His train isn’t arriving for another fifteen minutes, so he leans against the wall and gives the guy-who strangely enough, doesn’t have a hat out asking for money-a listen.
4. He and Roger are running, running, running-a few blocks back they heard the shop-owner still yelling-and they’re so busy looking behind them that they take Collins down. They are a mass of surprise on the pavement.
After he’s led them up to his loft and gives them both a glass of water, they all introduce themselves.
3. Mark’s doing a documentary for-gasp!-money, but it’s for a good cause, so he really can’t complain (not that that stops him). Anarcho-philosophists of the twentieth century, and Tom Collins is his first interview.
2. “He got you pretty good, didn’t he?” The man asks, giving him a hand up. Mark cradles his throbbing eye and tries to nod thanks but it makes him dizzy.
The guy looks at him, considering. “I’ll cover you at liquor store while you use one of their ice packs.”
1. Benny’s been talking about this guy for so long that Mark is sure that no one can live up to all that-but when he finally brings Collins around, he almost does.
He’s gotta give Benny credit-roommates weren’t such a bad idea. Collins will fit in well.