My Intro: When I wrote this short piece of fiction, I had in mind the moment Satine went to Christian to lie to him about her love for him.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from Baz Luhrmann's Original Motion Picture, Moulin Rouge. As for the sake of this fiction piece, I write what I feel, not what really is or could be.



So Christian writes a story about love. Above all this undying love. Behind the masquerade stood two people and their love towards one another.

She was unobtainable but very available.

To look, touch or taste her was an everyday greeting, but beyond the visage no one could enter.

She wouldn't allow it. She bound men by their fantasies and leaving them well satisfied.

To break her meant to allow love in and nothing was meant for true love. Something so pure as love, true love she couldn't afford to let in.

Letting your insides out.

In a rage of intense furry Christian reached for the nearest object to launch across the room.

"Show me some sort of understanding or I shall go mad."

"Mad? What do I see before mine eyes, but a man out of control, spouting off about going mad?

What is madness if I am scared beyond my wits?"

"Stop with the double tong; tell me once and for all whose heart holds you near? Who has stolen my heart out from under me?"

"This heart you speak of holds nothing but the physical affection you give between moans and pants.

Vain fantasies of a poor fool."

"How dare you judge my love? When all I did was love you with my very being."

"It was all just a fantasy full-filled, either between your legs or behind thy eyes.

Stop with this nonsense and tell me this doesn't move you."

She fault hard against his kiss and finally found that place of numbness.

Christian soon broke the knowing once and for all, behind those cold lips stood his real beauty.

"I feel nothing."

"Of all that I have loved, I've mistaken you as my true love. No real love deceives her heart. And you my dear never loved me. I'm sorry for the time lost through endless days of lies. Love was nothing more than bought time.

My love would never deceive her heart."