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by She's a Star



Disclaimer: Moulin Rouge belongs to the wonderful Baz Luhrmann



A/N: Oscars tonight! Eeek! Cross your fingers for Nic and MR! (And your toes too, if that's possible)



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I sparkle.

I shine.

I giggle.

I flirt.

I dance for you.

You reach out to me, but you can never touch me.

I'll sing for you.

Just keep sipping the acid green liquid, and I'll keep sparkling. I'll keep shining. Giggling. Flirting. Dancing. Singing.

But I know, as I watch you, that you don't care that I can do these things. You just want an escape. An escape from the lies, an escape from the pain.

You're drowning. Drowning in a sea of absinthe, as she drowned in sin and blood.

If I could stop, I would. If I could, I would scream at the top of my lungs rather than sing as if nothing is wrong.

Why can't you stop?!

You're destroying your life! Can't you see? She wouldn't want you to be like this...all alone in the dark; empty bottles and myself your only company.

But I do as I've always done. I know that I can't help you see, so I just keep sparkling. Much as I'd love to free you from this eternal hell, I know that I can't do it. It's not my place.

After all, I'm just the Green Fairy. Just a hallucination...the works of your own devastated mind.

I hate that I can't save you...can't help you to see the light.

Instead, you'll just keep drowning...

Drowning in me.