Disclaimer- I do not own these characters (Well except a few)





Note- This story is about Satine's life before she met Christian. It's how she came to the Moulin Rouge and how she became Satine.





Late autumn, Paris 1893

The rain poured down on Annette as she watched her mother's frail little body was lowered into the muddy wet earth. Having no money for a coffin, the brittle little woman was wrapped in cloth and dropped into the deep hole as if she was some rag doll. As if she were an inconvenience to the men that buried her.

Annette felt her crystal blue eyes well up with tears as they began to refill her mother's grave. She wanted to scream at the diggers. She wanted to leap into that dark melancholy hole with her mother. She wanted to die. But she didn't. She just stood there and watched as her beautiful, vibrant, mother start to drown in a sea of mud.

Memories of her mother flooded Annette. Memories before her mother had become so ill. Memories of her dancing in their small little flat while she made breakfast. Her mother singing to her before she fell asleep at night. He mothers voice telling her that one-day she would fly away from Paris and become a star. "Oh my little diamond" her mother would exclaim "One day you will be a great actress and fly away from this horrible way of life."

The pain in Annette's heart became too great. She rushed over to her mothers freshly made grave and collapsed on it. She sunk her creamy white skin and firey red hair into the dank earth as if she was trying to hug it. As if she was trying to hug her mother.

"I'm sorry Mama.....I'm so sorry," she cried in a muffled whisper "I promise I will never fail you ever again." Annette curled up in a small little ball and sat with her mother in the rain the rest of the night.

She made a promise to herself and her mother that night. She promised herself that one-day she would go far far away from this hell and become a great actress. A real actress. Even is she had to sell her soul to become an actress she would do it. Annette would never let her mother down again.

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Authors Note- In case you didn't figure it out Annette is Satine. Hope you guys like it so far! Next chapter will be up soon!