(screams in excitement!)

Ok, ok, ok. Last night I saw RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway and it was the best 21 dollars I have EVER spent. It was almost as good as actually seeing the stage show live. It was so amazing, and I cried several times. Adam Kantor, Will Chase, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and the whole cast blew me away. And Telly Leung and Justin Johnson were in it, and they were in it when I saw it for real with Adam and Anthony! IT WAS SO AWESOME!

LAST CHAPTER!

(Thanks for the reviews.)

MARY SUE: Roger, what in Pinkness?

ROGER: (voice hard) I said let her go! Or explain to all of the fandom how Roger Davis forcefully silenced Mary Sue for good, while the admins watched.

MARY SUE: (speechless) Roger...

ROGER: I said, let her go.

(The admins release Mimi. She runs to him.)

ROGER: Mimi, go, now.

MIMI: No, not without you.

MARY SUE: Roger, dearest, come to end this?

ROGER: Mimi, please... go!

(Mimi is torn.)

ROGER: I can do this! Go!

(She runs away, obviously pained to do so.)

ADMIN: Seize him! (They all grab Roger)

ROGER: (shocked) Wait, what?! What are you doing? Stop it! In the name of Larson, stop! Don't you love me? Are you going to let them hurt me like this?

MARY SUE: (sadly, finally realizing) You’re never going to love me back, you just... you just... you love her.

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (suddenly feeling remorse at her actions when she sees panic in Roger’s eyes.) Roger, I'm so sorry! I’ve wronged this whole fandom! I didn’t want to be bad... I really am one of you, guys! I’m sorry...

MARY SUE: (ignoring Fuzzy) Well, if I can’t have him... (glowering) no one can. Take him to the discard room! Don’t put him in it yet and await my signal
(They drag him off.)

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (realizing what she’s done) No, don't hurt him! Please, don't hurt him! ROGER!!

(We begin with Mimi who has been hiding around the corner, she steps out just as the door slams. Fuzzy Bra Girl exits, crying. Tears stream down her face.)

MIMI: (in anguish) Roger!!
WHAT HAVE I DONE?

OH LARSON HELP ME,

HELP ME LARSON,

SAVE ROGER...!
WHAT HAVE I DONE?

OH LARSON HELP ME,

HELP ME LARSON,

SAVE ROGER...!
ON THIS RENT FANDOM

MARY SUE’S LEFT A DEEP UGLY STAIN,
AND MY ROGER...

SHE HAS CAUSED HIM PAIN...
LARSON, PLEASE SAVE HIM,

WE COULDN’T BEAR TO LOSE HIM,

REMEMBER LAST TIME, REMEMBER LAST TIME?!
WHAT HAVE I DONE?

OH LARSON HELP ME,

HELP ME LARSON,

SAVE ROGER...!
WHAT HAVE I DONE?

OH LARSON HELP ME,

HELP ME LARSON, SAVE ROGER...!
AH! WHAT GOOD IS THIS PRAYING?
LARSON MAY BE ABLE TO HELP ME
BUT IN THE END IS IT ME

THAT HAS TO ONLY TRY?!
OH ROGER, WHERE ARE YOU?!

ALREADY HURT OR GONE FOREVER?
ONE MORE DISASTER WE CAN ADD TO

THE FANDOM’S GENEROUS SUPPLY?!

(Runs off.)

(Back with Mary, she is on her way to the discard room, reflecting bitterly)

MARY SUE:

NO OCS GET ACCEPTED
NO ACT OF NONCANON GOES UNRESENTED
NO OCS GET ACCEPTED
THAT'S THE REAL TRUTH
MY ROAD OF GETTING ROGER
GETTING LOVED, IT CAME UP DRY
NO OCS
GET ACCEPTED!
MIMI...
NOT MARY SUE...
ROGER...
OH, ROGER!!
ONE QUESTION: WHY NOT ME?
WHY CAN’T I GET THE ATTENTION
I WAS REALLY SEEKING FIRST PLACE
AND GOT ONLY HONORABLE MENTION
IS THAT ALL OCS ARE WHEN

WRITTEN ON FANFIC DOT NET?
BUT SCREWED, THESE RENT FANS ARE
BECAUSE THEY HAVEN’T LOST ME YET!
I WILL BE ACCEPTED
SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE,

SOMEONE WILL LOVE ME A LOT
NO OCS GET ACCEPTED!
SURE, I MESS THINGS UP,

BUT HOW WERE THINGS BEFORE ME?!
ALRIGHT, ENOUGH, SO BE IT!
SO BE IT THEN...
LET ALL OF THE SITE AGREE
NO ONE LIKES MARY SUE
AND SINCE I COULD NOT SUCCEED
ROGER, STEALING YOU
I PROMISE NO FANDOM HERE

WILL I ATTEMPT HELP AGAIN!
NEXT TIME I’LL BRING IT

STRAIGHT TO ITS END!!

(A crowd of very familiar Roger fans have gathered, astounded by the news that Mary Sue is trying to forcibly delete Roger from the fandom permanently. Despite the irony of it all, being that Roger willingly left temporarily not long ago, they still are in shock, angered by the thought of a fandom already in shambles lacking Roger. They protest, planning to go after Mary Sue.)

ROGER FANS:
GO! AND HUNT HER AND FIND HER AND KILL HER!

X RAJAH X: Good fortune, bitch hunters!

ROGER FANS:
GO! AND HUNT HER AND FIND HER AND KILL HER!

X RAJAH X: Discard Mary, not Roger!

ROGER FANS:
MARY SUE MUST BE PUNISHED
EVIL EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATED
MARY SUE MUST BE PUNISHED
GET RID OF HER!

MIMI: (appears) No, this is my burden to bear. I appreciate the support, but this is a personal score I have to settle with Mary... with that BITCH!
IT'S DUE TO HER THIS FANDOM’S DEAD
SHE TOOK IT DOWN YOU SEE
BUT ON A MORE PERSONAL LEVEL
LOOK WHAT SHE’S DONE TO ROGER... TO ME!
And I am not the only one, mad by this. Believe me, I understand you! I’m glad you’ve come out to support my Roger, our Roger. This fandom needs him, and yes, this fandom also needs Mary out. How did you feel when she screwed up all the pairings, making them eternally noncanon? Did you like that?

ROGER FANS: No!

MIMI:
YOU SEE, TO BEAT HER POWERS
SINCE WE HAVE A GRIEVANCE TO REPAY
WE’VE GOT TO BE A TEAM AND FIGHT

THIS BATTLE, AND DO IT RIGHT!
WE CAN SET THIS FANDOM RIGHT TODAY!

ROGER FAN: Did Roger surrender himself to her?

MIMI: No, no, that's not the way it happened! There’s no time to explain. But listen, we’ve got to work together. Protesting and holding up keyboards lit on fire... it does nothing. We have to save him!

ROGER FAN: You don’t think Roger can take care of that himself?

MIMI: No, I don’t, something's gone terribly wrong! Mary plans to really throw him in the discard room. Do you know what that means? He won’t just not be in fanfics... in this fandom, he’ll be gone! It will be as if he never existed. And what will RENT be without one of its principal canon characters?

ROGER FAN: Oh no! ... Mary Sue is going to virtually wipe out RENT itself! Well, I guess this is more complicated than we realized.

MIMI: Yes, it is. Now...

ROGER FAN: (gasping) What are we going to do, Mimi? She may have hijinxed the whole fandom with her so-called powers, but you’re smart. You've been with Roger as according to canon... how it should be! So just go teach that bitch a lesson! Good fortune, good fortune, Mimi Marquez!

ANOTHER FAN: GET HER!

ANOTHER: MAKE HER PAY!

ROGER FANS:
MARY SUE MUST BE PUNISHED
OUR POOR ROGER, POOR FANDOM, POOR RENT
YES, THAT MARY BITCH MUST BE PUNISHED
PUNISHED... PUNISHED...
FOR RENT!!

(The scene changes. Mary Sue is pacing, frustrated, as Roger fights the group of admins holding him near the discard door)

MARY SUE: Oh, for the love of Pinkness, stop it, Roger!! I can't do this anymore! Oh, you want to see your beloved Mimi and your geeky roommate what’s-his-name-again?! You don’t want to be wiped off the face of the fanfiction world? (obviously past being insane, now morbidly ill in the mind) Then get over here and love me!! You hot hunk of manhood... it takes more than you struggling against the admins to stop me; you must be itching to be thrown right in, huh?! (looks around) Fuzzy?! Little bitch betrayed me. (Main Admin runs in.) Oh, Pinkness, there you are. Where are the others? I asked for a whole squadron, Roger must be contained! (to Roger) Oh, please... if you don't at least try to obey me your little site can say goodbye... (She sees Fuzzy Bra Girl standing off to the side, and frowns.) Go away.

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (obviously thrilled to tell her) They're coming for you.

MARY SUE: Tell me something I don’t know, you treacherous little bitch. No... just get out...go away!

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (softly) Let Roger go, and really save the fandom... Mary.

MARY SUE: I know you don't want to hear this, but someone has to say it... You are wrong!! I mean, come on! This fandom was already doomed! I’ve ruined nothing. Maybe this is for the better. Fuzzy, you can't go on like this.

FUZZY BRA GIRL: I can do anything I want. I am a canon character! Yes. I am a minor character. But you know something? You can’t tell me what to do.

(Roger, still in the middle of a huge scuffle with the admins, is thrown from the melee. He hits the ground with a solid thud and groans.)

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (runs to him) Roger?! I’m sorry! I want to help! I’m so sorry...

MARY SUE: (grabbing Roger and pulling him upright, cackling as he grimaces) I’m afraid you've seen his face for the last time, Fuzzy. It’s time. (Roger winces)

FUZZY BRA GIRL: Oh no! Don’t do this! You can’t win!

MARY SUE: (sighing) You're right... Roger will never be mine. It's time I surrender. Because he’ll never be anybody’s.

(Mary Sue moves toward the door to the discard room. Roger squirms weakly in her arms. Fuzzy Bra Girl lunges forward, trying to wrench Roger from her grip. Mary, enraged, seizes her and thrusts her sideways, sending her flying into the wall. She moans loudly as her leg twists beneath her.)

MIMI: (running in) Fuzzy... (seeing her lying there, clutching her leg) Fuzzy, what is it?

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (breathlessly) Mimi! You can't stop her! She’s already got him.

MIMI: No.

FUZZY BRA GIRL: (warning) She’ll hurt you! You must leave.

MIMI: (louder) No! (turns to Mary, who has frozen, Roger dangling limply in her arms) Mary Sue, don’t move another muscle.

ROGER: (protesting weakly) No! She’ll only throw you in too!

MIMI: I don't care!

ROGER: I do! Mimi, please...

MIMI: Roger... please. (desperately) Try to understand.
SHE’S LIMITED
EVEN MARY SUE IS LIMITED
AND IF WE FIGHT,

SHE HASN’T KILLED

THE FANDOM YET, ROGER…

ADMIN: (steps back, dropping the key to the door into another admin’s hand) This is wrong. Here. Go on. Take this. (The admins, affected by everything, realize the wrongness of what they have done and all refuse to take the key. The last one hands it to Mimi.)

MARY SUE: (suddenly panicking) Mimi... you can’t do that! No, please... Roger... I don’t know how to lose!

MIMI: Well then, you'll have to learn.
NOW IT’S ALL ON US
TO FIX THINGS
NOW IT’S ALL ON US.

(Mary Sue drops Roger, enraged. He stands shakily, a bit beaten up. But he smiles halfheartedly at Mimi. Then, sensing that something big is about to happen, he walks stiffly to Fuzzy Bra Girl to help her stand, letting her lean on him.)

MIMI: (looking determinedly at Mary) You're the only OC I've ever had a problem with.

MARY SUE: (just as angry) And I've stolen so many boys from so many girlfriends... but only one that mattered.
I'VE HEARD IT SAID
THAT OCS TRULY ARE ONLY

WRITTEN FOR ONE REASON
SO THE AUTHOR CAN MAKE THEMSELF
HOOK A HOTTIE
AND SOMETIMES THEY’RE MEANT TO BE
ANNOYING DISTRACTIONS
FROM THE CANON THE FANDOM KNOWS
WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF

I BELIEVE THAT'S TRUE
BUT I KNOW THIS FANDOM’S

TREATED ME WRONG
BECAUSE I’M MARY SUE
WHY WON’T I EVER BE ACCEPTED?
OR LOVED BY ANYONE?
AM I DESTINED TO BE LONELY?
AND HATED BY BIG AND SMALL?
WHO CAN SAY IF I COULD’VE CHANGED

YOU FOR THE BETTER?
‘CAUSE WHEN YOU LOSE ME...
WILL YOU HAVE CHANGED AT ALL?

MIMI:
IT WELL MAY BE,
THAT YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A FAN
DEFINITELY NOT IN THIS FANDOM
SO LET ME SAY BEFORE WE PART
YOU HAVE TO GO
IT’S REALLY WHAT’S BEST FOR US ALL
YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND CANON
AND HOW I HAVE ROGER’S HEART...
AND YOU SEE WHATEVER

WAY THOSE FANFICS END
I’LL KNOW EVEN MARKROGER’S

BETTER THAN ROGERMARY
‘CAUSE I’LL STILL HAVE MY BOYFRIEND...
AT THE END OF THE DAY,

WHEN THE FANFICS ARE THROUGH
IT’S NOT THE AUTHORS OR THE CANON THAT
TELLS US WHAT TO DO
WITHOUT YOU WE’LL CERTAINLY BE BETTER
BECAUSE WHAT RENT IS…

ROGER:
(echoing) BECAUSE WHAT RENT IS...

MIMI AND ROGER:
IS WHAT LARSON WROTE US TO DO...

MIMI:
AND JUST TO CLEAR THE AIR
I’M SORRY THAT YOU’LL NEVER FIND A TRUE PLACE TO BE…

ROGER:
BUT THEN I GUESS, WE KNOW IT’S ONLY FAIR…

MIMI AND ROGER:
... ‘CAUSE NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE, ESPECIALLY NOT ME!

MARY SUE:

I’LL PREY ON ANOTHER FANDOM,

YOU’LL BE IN SHAMBLES, DON’T YOU SEE?...

MIMI:

WE’LL BE BETTER OFF

WITHOUT YOU, THE NEXT

FANDOM, WE PITY.

MARY SUE:
(to Roger)

YOU CAN’T SAY YOU EVER LIKED ME BETTER?

ROGER:
I DO BELIEVE I’VE ALWAYS LIKED MIMI BETTER.

MIMI:
AND, WITHOUT MARY SUE

ROGER:
WITHOUT MARY SUE

MIMI AND ROGER:
WITHOUT MARY SUE
THIS FANDOM’S SAVED

FROM BEING SHITTY.

(Mary Sue is crying now, tears of raw anger and desperation are rolling down her cheeks, swirling her excessive makeup in grotesque patterns.)

ROGER: You have to leave. No one wants you here. You know its right.

(Mimi approaches, holding out the key.)

Distant Chorus of Authors:
AND GOODNESS KNOWS
NO ONE WILL MISS MARY
GOODNESS KNOWS MARY HAS NO HOME...

(Mimi turns the key in the door. Mary Sue hiccups and stares at Roger.)

MARY SUE: Roger...? Please...?

(Roger shakes his head slowly.)

FUZZY BRA GIRL: Well, I don't know why they’re being so gentle about this, I think you were a downright bitch and ruined everything. I’m thrilled to shreds right now that you’re leaving, and I regret that I ever listened to you... And oh, Roger, oh, Mimi! I thought you'd never forgive me.

ADMIN: (handing Roger the controls to the alert board) Her reign is over. Please, let the fandom know. And on behalf of the whole admin staff, I apologize for our involvement in this. It was wrong.

MARY SUE: (sobbing) No... please... I can’t... Roger!

ROGER: (accepting controls) It’s over, Mary. I don’t know what you want me to say. Well... I do... but I won’t say it. I’ve only seen the fandom remotely close to looking this bad one time. It was my fault entirely, and this time... I can’t let things like that happen. You have to leave.

(Your Eyes is played in the background.)

MARY SUE: But... oh my Pinkness... Roger...
YOU ARE A SEXYLICIOUS MAN
WHO I ALWAYS LONGED TO BE...
HOOKED UP WITH...

MIMI: But that’s it. Even though you had such powers! It’s canon that you couldn’t defeat in the end, Mary! It was Larson!

MARY SUE: (crying)

ROGER: (limping toward Mimi with Fuzzy) I want you to leave here. I'll make you leave myself, if I have to. You said yourself you want to be accepted, and one place you’ll fit in is the discard world. We need to heal now, and we’ll do so in your absence! (Mary stares longingly at him) Did you hear what I said?!

MARY SUE: (looking her her heels) Yes... yes, Roger...

MIMI: Now just go without a fuss. Admins!

(They surround her.)

MARY SUE: Mimi, dear, I know we've had our miniscule arguments in the past... but can’t we...?

ROGER: (stares Mary hard in the face) No! Mary, have you ever considered why the guys you lust after don’t like you back?

MARY SUE: What?

ROGER: It’s simple really. You’re a... controlling bitch! Personally, I don't think you are even pretty. My professional opinion is that you do not have what it takes to exist in a real fandom. And you’re about to prove me right. I wish you well. Take her away!

MARY SUE: (as the admins grab her and carry her toward the door) !!

(Fade out of flashback. We are in the present, some time afterward.)

AUTHORS:
GOOD NEWS! SHE'S GONE!
THAT AWFUL MARY SUE IS GONE!
THE MARYEST SUE THERE EVER WAS
HATED BY ALL OF US,

SO WE’RE GLAD BECAUSE
SHE’S GONE!
GOOD NEWS
GOOD NEWS!!

(Mimi sits in the Somewhere Place Suite, and Roger strides in, returning from a MarkRoger.)

ROGER: (hugging her) Mimi!

(She stands up and grabs him tight.)

MIMI: Roger! I thought you'd never get here.

ROGER: (sighs) Well, the MarkRoger had ten chapters. But it’s okay... I have you now...

MIMI: (kisses him)

ROGER: Go ahead, kiss me again, I definitely don't mind. Ah, those authors did the best they could. That was the only MarkRoger this week. And we’ve got two RogerMimis in the next twenty four hours. (laughing) In a way, Mary Sue helped the fandom realize that we could be beautiful again.

MIMI: (flirtatiously) You were always beautiful.

ROGER: (laughing again) You don’t have to tell me. (she slaps him playfully) Aw, I’m kidding. But seriously, Mary Sue did help us, by hurting us...

MIMI: I suppose that’s true... if you look at things that way. Not that we... you know, miss her or anything... (smiles slyly) So what do you say we practice for those RogerMimis?

ROGER: I say... sí, Senorita.

AUTHORS:
NO ONE MISSES MARY
NOW THAT SHE’S FOREVER GONE!
NOW AT LAST THERE'S

JOY THROUGHOUT THE SITE!

MARY SUE: (in discard world) Fellow neglects, friends, we have been through a frightening time. There will be other bunnies and other things that will be rejected. But if we work together, we can be accepted through each other. My eternal heartbreak will be... partially overshadowed.

AUTHORS:
GOOD NEWS!!

ROGER: (looks up from passionately kissing Mimi as the alert board chimes, his face covered in lipstick marks) It's time to go.

MIMI: We never get to practice long, do we?

ROGER: (laughing as they rise) No.

MIMI: I only wish...

ROGER: What?

MIMI: I just hope the fandom appreciates us more, now that they’ve seen their worst nightmares come alive.

ROGER: They have to know now, they have to have seen the light, at least a little, if we want to be safe. If this fandom is to continue to thrive...

AUTHORS:
GOOD NEWS...

ROGER: (gesturing to door into Fanfics) Come on...

MIMI:
WHO CAN SAY IF WE CAN

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER?

BUT...
BECAUSE OF MARY SUE…

AUTHORS:
NO ONE MISSES MARY

MIMI:
BECAUSE OF MARY SUE
WE KNOW HOW NOT TO CHANGE...

(Roger and Mimi depart, hand in hand through the door.)

AUTHORS:
NO ONE MISSES MARY!
MARY...!!
SUE!!

The end!!

YAAAY! Thanks for reading, reviewing, and supporting this fic. I’m not sure if I’m going to write another. They are so damn fun to write though. I might write one for Cabaret/Sweeney/Aida/TTB or something.

But first… other fanfic ventures.

Thanks again!