Satine walked near the piano and started to dig through the music.
The music was hastily placed in the box and most of the music had markings
on them some in red ink. She sighed and started to pick out the most
interesting looking pieces. She blew some dust off the papers and held back
a sneeze. She was being very careful not to damage the paper since the
edges were becoming brittle. A composition written in red ink caught her
eye. She picked it up and tried to hum the melody as she walked over to the
piano. Satine plopped the music on the stand and sat. She shifted in her
seat trying to get comfortable while looking over the music.
"This seems so familiar." Satine said whispering out loud. "Oh, I can't sight read anyway." She said blowing off the idea
She started to play and from the first few measures she could tell it wasn't a church related song. She skimmed ahead and saw the vocal part was a soprano. Markings on the music read 'Stage Left" She stopped to think. "Why does...did Mamma have music to an Opera or something with stage directions?" Satine said to herself thinking there was no one else in the room. But, Sandra one of the maids was dusting the room making herself unnoticeable
"Satine darling..." Sandra said as she placed the duster down and walked over to Satine. Satine jumped at her voice thinking she was along and turned around. "I know it's not my place to say anything here but even your nurse maid will tell you the same. You shouldn't be messing around with your mother's music. Your father is very sensitive about all her things, you know that. Especially her music...now I don't want you getting into trouble let's get all this packed up." Sandra said looking at the music on the floor.
"Sa...Sandra! Look a bug!" Satine said with some quick thinking knowing Sandra was deathly afraid of bugs. Sandra jumped back a few feet. "Hurry go get your duster I'll knock it off the bench!" While Sandra was turned around Satine quickly got the music from the stand and lifted the bench open and threw it in.
"What was that?" Sandra said turning around with the duster over her head ready to strike the bug.
"I moved the bench, now he left and went under the divan." Satine said holding back a laugh.
"Okay, Okay now come you must show me where you got this music from."
"Why did my mother have all this music she had Pointe shoes too. Remember when I first started ballet when I was around five years old? I got out the shoes from her closet and put them on and showed Daddy he was so mad at me. Nobody ever told me why."
"I'm not the person to say Satine." Sandra said rubbing her neck with her hand.
"I knew it! Your all hiding something very important from me. All of Daddy's friends want him to forget about me and find a new wife. Their wives speak of my mother as if she was a beggar off the street. Calling her a ballet rat and speaking of some scandal I hear bits and pieces about but I never can understand the whole picture. He never tells me anything of the sort. Never! What is he keeping from me?" Satine said in a mad rage. She ran to her room slamming the door, throwing pillows around her room.
"Raoul can't possibly have mistress! Why would a man ever need someone else after he has won Christine's heart. If he hurt her in anyway I'll kill him! I leave Paris for 13 years and have to come back to this?" Erik said angrily to Nadir pacing back and forth. He started to rub his temples
"Erik...please calm down you don't know the facts." Nadir said trying to calm him down.
"Why did you tell me then? You saw that bastard at the party and made certain it was him. I knew I shouldn't have left Paris, I told my self I wouldn't but the pain was just too much."
"Maybe it was perhaps a niece or their daughter?"
"You said the girl looked older...you put these ideas in my head why Dargoda why? I can't imagine Christine having a child over the age of a toddler. How could someone so young a beautiful have a daughter old enough to go to party's with Raoul? That fop would never bring a niece or a daughter to a party anyway. I know he was cheating on her. I could feel it"
"I haven't really heard much either while you were gone. You know I've only been in France my self for the past five months."
"Now that's even worse! Christine at home with child or having a little baby all alone while the Viscount is away at parties drinking away. What were you doing at that party anyway?"
"You see Erik is wasn't really a party. But a benefit concert for some charity. There was little gatherings before and after. Anyway Mrs. Pyrdsa had gotten into some trouble that she didn't want her husband to find out about. She paid me very well to keep in under wraps. Then I was passed off as an old friend."
"A concert? I know he'd wouldn't bring a daughter to that. Let's dismiss the whole idea of a niece or daughter. I'm going to find out about this. I'll go to their house, if he touched Christine I'll kill him. I'll kill his whore and him. What did she look like?"
"I had been drinking Erik I'm not really sure."
"Not sure? Your protecting some whore? You must remember something."
"She was a few inches shorter than Mosieur de Chagny, dark brown hair."
"Was it in soft curls like Christine's?" Erik said leaning back into his chair and picturing Christine.
"I couldn't tell, her hair was in some kind of braid."
"I'll most likely will be able to hear some kind of gossip from the ballet rats."
"Erik please don't hurt anyone. How would Christine feel if you murdered her husband? Or that girl it's not her fault she was the mistress of Monsieur de Chagny if he and Christine weren't married he'd be the most eligible bachelor in Pairs."
"It's still not right." Erik said calming his mood. "I could just see Christine with a baby crying as she holds it. I hate it when she cries. I'll know if I was to kill Raoul she would be doing a lot of crying. It's so horrible. My mood isn't getting any better tomorrow night is the opening of a new opera. It needs so much fixing but I couldn't possibly make myself seen. I have money put away enough to live in comfort before I die."
It was 12:00 in the morning and Raoul was just arriving home from Paris with a bouquet of flowers for Satine. William opened the door to the carriage and he walked out. He was expecting Satine to be there and run out to him but she wasn't there. Raoul felt something was wrong because she wasn't there. He kept walking to the door and William ran ahead to open the door for Raoul. He started to the back of the house to go to Dara's quarters he knocked on the door and waited for her to come out.
"Monsieur....."
"Dara I hate to bother you on such ungodly hour but is Satine ill or anything. She hasn't been herself all day. It's odd of her not to greet me and I don't want to wake her if she's unwell."
"She stormed up into her room this afternoon and she wasn't unlocking her door. Sandra was telling me about an argument they had."
"I can account for her foul mood. I raised my voice to her early this morning."
"Monsieur I assure you it's something else."
"I'm just going to wake her up and see if everything is all right."
He walked to her room and knocked gently as he opened the door. He looked to see some things were knocked over and pillows were tossed around. Satine wasn't anywhere to be found. Her window was unusually open a tree next to it. He knew she went outside. He dropped the flowers and ran down stairs to see what the argument was about with Sandra
"I knew there would be problems if I never told her. She's outside somewhere I don't think she could jump the gate with a dress on. We have to go look for her." Raoul said to Sandra and Dara after they explained the story.
It was freezing out side, Raoul sighed and saw his breath in the air. He looked up as he tightened his coat around him and saw the stables. Near them was a burnt out latern. He quickened his pace and opened the door. It was very cold inside he wondered how the horses could not catch cold. Than he said Satine asleep on the floor
"Satine!" Raoul said walking over
Her lips had a tinge of blue. She was only wearing a light dress not ready for the sudden cold spell. He bent down and took off his coat and wrapped it around her. Then he picked up her head. "Please wake up." Raoul said thinking the worse. Raoul was in such a panic he suddenly forgot Satine slept like a rock. "Satine...oh god please your all I have left of her. Your all I have...I love you so much you can't do this don't leave me....Satine!
"Daddy?" Satine said hoarsely as she opened her eyes. "Where...what's going on?" She closed her eyes and put her head on Raoul's lap
"Oh my love...did you hear me before?" Raoul said pushing some hair away from her face.
"No I just heard you calling my name. It's so cold in here." Satine said cuddling into Raoul more. "Take me home please."
Satine had forgotten why she was out sleeping in the stables in the first place. Raoul felt Satine shivering in his arms and it hurt him how much she was like Christine. He laid Satine down on the bed in his room and had a steward start the fire in the room. He sat on the edge of the bed reading a book not really but attempting to as he kept looking up to see if she was awake.
"Why am I in here?" Satine said in an grating tone. She was standing in front of Raoul with her arms on her hips. Having just waking up and remembering she was mad at her father and everyone else in the house.
"Satine darling... I know your angry." Raoul said standing up
"Angry? I'm beyond angry. I'm scared and confused. I couldn't possibly start. You have been keeping something from me my whole life. That's not half the reason. Your friends speak of my mother as a whore." Satine said through tears yelling at Raoul she was interrupted as Raoul saying in a shocked tone,
"Satine!"
"No, let me finish, if your speaking of my language. I learned it from your friends the aristocracy. That is a compliment from some things I've herd them say... 'Indigent little nothing' I know they want you to send me off to a boarding school and find a new wife. Talking of some scandal I don't understand. I'm worried every day you'll send me and I'll never see you again. I know you love me but I think your more lonely and miss my mother you would do anything to feel how you felt with her. Don't look so shocked Daddy... I'm not as quiet and naïve as you think. You of all people should know. What is it? Why are you keeping something from me everyone in the world seems to know but me? Why are you going to leave me?" Satine said screaming and when she was done she fell into Raoul's arms crying.
"I'll never leave you. Please don't speak that way." Raoul said smoothing her hair.
"Well...what are you hiding from me?"
"Your so young there's so much...."
"Don't even finish why?!? What is it!?" Satine said banging her fists into Raoul's chest crying.
"Calm down please." Raoul said several times which made her cry louder.
She was acting so wild crying and screaming Raoul slapped her.
She stood staring at Raoul with a blank look on her face. Then a look of horror. She put her hand to her cheek and then started to back up slowly from Raoul. She stopped at the door and looked faint. Raoul reached out to her and said
"Oh my love, I'm sorry please." "No." She said in an almost inaudible tone. She ran out the door and into her room. On her way she ran into Dara and started to cry again.
Dara didn't even bother to go see why Satine ways so distraught she went to Raoul's room to see him sitting on his bed with his face in his hands.
"Monsieur?"
"How could have I done that? She'll never forgive me I'll never forgive my self I'm a horrible person. I'm a awful father." Raoul said to himself not even bothering to look up.
AN okay sorry I thought they would be going to the opera house but the site being down gave me sometime to think. Well please review! How do you think she should meet Erik?
"This seems so familiar." Satine said whispering out loud. "Oh, I can't sight read anyway." She said blowing off the idea
She started to play and from the first few measures she could tell it wasn't a church related song. She skimmed ahead and saw the vocal part was a soprano. Markings on the music read 'Stage Left" She stopped to think. "Why does...did Mamma have music to an Opera or something with stage directions?" Satine said to herself thinking there was no one else in the room. But, Sandra one of the maids was dusting the room making herself unnoticeable
"Satine darling..." Sandra said as she placed the duster down and walked over to Satine. Satine jumped at her voice thinking she was along and turned around. "I know it's not my place to say anything here but even your nurse maid will tell you the same. You shouldn't be messing around with your mother's music. Your father is very sensitive about all her things, you know that. Especially her music...now I don't want you getting into trouble let's get all this packed up." Sandra said looking at the music on the floor.
"Sa...Sandra! Look a bug!" Satine said with some quick thinking knowing Sandra was deathly afraid of bugs. Sandra jumped back a few feet. "Hurry go get your duster I'll knock it off the bench!" While Sandra was turned around Satine quickly got the music from the stand and lifted the bench open and threw it in.
"What was that?" Sandra said turning around with the duster over her head ready to strike the bug.
"I moved the bench, now he left and went under the divan." Satine said holding back a laugh.
"Okay, Okay now come you must show me where you got this music from."
"Why did my mother have all this music she had Pointe shoes too. Remember when I first started ballet when I was around five years old? I got out the shoes from her closet and put them on and showed Daddy he was so mad at me. Nobody ever told me why."
"I'm not the person to say Satine." Sandra said rubbing her neck with her hand.
"I knew it! Your all hiding something very important from me. All of Daddy's friends want him to forget about me and find a new wife. Their wives speak of my mother as if she was a beggar off the street. Calling her a ballet rat and speaking of some scandal I hear bits and pieces about but I never can understand the whole picture. He never tells me anything of the sort. Never! What is he keeping from me?" Satine said in a mad rage. She ran to her room slamming the door, throwing pillows around her room.
"Raoul can't possibly have mistress! Why would a man ever need someone else after he has won Christine's heart. If he hurt her in anyway I'll kill him! I leave Paris for 13 years and have to come back to this?" Erik said angrily to Nadir pacing back and forth. He started to rub his temples
"Erik...please calm down you don't know the facts." Nadir said trying to calm him down.
"Why did you tell me then? You saw that bastard at the party and made certain it was him. I knew I shouldn't have left Paris, I told my self I wouldn't but the pain was just too much."
"Maybe it was perhaps a niece or their daughter?"
"You said the girl looked older...you put these ideas in my head why Dargoda why? I can't imagine Christine having a child over the age of a toddler. How could someone so young a beautiful have a daughter old enough to go to party's with Raoul? That fop would never bring a niece or a daughter to a party anyway. I know he was cheating on her. I could feel it"
"I haven't really heard much either while you were gone. You know I've only been in France my self for the past five months."
"Now that's even worse! Christine at home with child or having a little baby all alone while the Viscount is away at parties drinking away. What were you doing at that party anyway?"
"You see Erik is wasn't really a party. But a benefit concert for some charity. There was little gatherings before and after. Anyway Mrs. Pyrdsa had gotten into some trouble that she didn't want her husband to find out about. She paid me very well to keep in under wraps. Then I was passed off as an old friend."
"A concert? I know he'd wouldn't bring a daughter to that. Let's dismiss the whole idea of a niece or daughter. I'm going to find out about this. I'll go to their house, if he touched Christine I'll kill him. I'll kill his whore and him. What did she look like?"
"I had been drinking Erik I'm not really sure."
"Not sure? Your protecting some whore? You must remember something."
"She was a few inches shorter than Mosieur de Chagny, dark brown hair."
"Was it in soft curls like Christine's?" Erik said leaning back into his chair and picturing Christine.
"I couldn't tell, her hair was in some kind of braid."
"I'll most likely will be able to hear some kind of gossip from the ballet rats."
"Erik please don't hurt anyone. How would Christine feel if you murdered her husband? Or that girl it's not her fault she was the mistress of Monsieur de Chagny if he and Christine weren't married he'd be the most eligible bachelor in Pairs."
"It's still not right." Erik said calming his mood. "I could just see Christine with a baby crying as she holds it. I hate it when she cries. I'll know if I was to kill Raoul she would be doing a lot of crying. It's so horrible. My mood isn't getting any better tomorrow night is the opening of a new opera. It needs so much fixing but I couldn't possibly make myself seen. I have money put away enough to live in comfort before I die."
It was 12:00 in the morning and Raoul was just arriving home from Paris with a bouquet of flowers for Satine. William opened the door to the carriage and he walked out. He was expecting Satine to be there and run out to him but she wasn't there. Raoul felt something was wrong because she wasn't there. He kept walking to the door and William ran ahead to open the door for Raoul. He started to the back of the house to go to Dara's quarters he knocked on the door and waited for her to come out.
"Monsieur....."
"Dara I hate to bother you on such ungodly hour but is Satine ill or anything. She hasn't been herself all day. It's odd of her not to greet me and I don't want to wake her if she's unwell."
"She stormed up into her room this afternoon and she wasn't unlocking her door. Sandra was telling me about an argument they had."
"I can account for her foul mood. I raised my voice to her early this morning."
"Monsieur I assure you it's something else."
"I'm just going to wake her up and see if everything is all right."
He walked to her room and knocked gently as he opened the door. He looked to see some things were knocked over and pillows were tossed around. Satine wasn't anywhere to be found. Her window was unusually open a tree next to it. He knew she went outside. He dropped the flowers and ran down stairs to see what the argument was about with Sandra
"I knew there would be problems if I never told her. She's outside somewhere I don't think she could jump the gate with a dress on. We have to go look for her." Raoul said to Sandra and Dara after they explained the story.
It was freezing out side, Raoul sighed and saw his breath in the air. He looked up as he tightened his coat around him and saw the stables. Near them was a burnt out latern. He quickened his pace and opened the door. It was very cold inside he wondered how the horses could not catch cold. Than he said Satine asleep on the floor
"Satine!" Raoul said walking over
Her lips had a tinge of blue. She was only wearing a light dress not ready for the sudden cold spell. He bent down and took off his coat and wrapped it around her. Then he picked up her head. "Please wake up." Raoul said thinking the worse. Raoul was in such a panic he suddenly forgot Satine slept like a rock. "Satine...oh god please your all I have left of her. Your all I have...I love you so much you can't do this don't leave me....Satine!
"Daddy?" Satine said hoarsely as she opened her eyes. "Where...what's going on?" She closed her eyes and put her head on Raoul's lap
"Oh my love...did you hear me before?" Raoul said pushing some hair away from her face.
"No I just heard you calling my name. It's so cold in here." Satine said cuddling into Raoul more. "Take me home please."
Satine had forgotten why she was out sleeping in the stables in the first place. Raoul felt Satine shivering in his arms and it hurt him how much she was like Christine. He laid Satine down on the bed in his room and had a steward start the fire in the room. He sat on the edge of the bed reading a book not really but attempting to as he kept looking up to see if she was awake.
"Why am I in here?" Satine said in an grating tone. She was standing in front of Raoul with her arms on her hips. Having just waking up and remembering she was mad at her father and everyone else in the house.
"Satine darling... I know your angry." Raoul said standing up
"Angry? I'm beyond angry. I'm scared and confused. I couldn't possibly start. You have been keeping something from me my whole life. That's not half the reason. Your friends speak of my mother as a whore." Satine said through tears yelling at Raoul she was interrupted as Raoul saying in a shocked tone,
"Satine!"
"No, let me finish, if your speaking of my language. I learned it from your friends the aristocracy. That is a compliment from some things I've herd them say... 'Indigent little nothing' I know they want you to send me off to a boarding school and find a new wife. Talking of some scandal I don't understand. I'm worried every day you'll send me and I'll never see you again. I know you love me but I think your more lonely and miss my mother you would do anything to feel how you felt with her. Don't look so shocked Daddy... I'm not as quiet and naïve as you think. You of all people should know. What is it? Why are you keeping something from me everyone in the world seems to know but me? Why are you going to leave me?" Satine said screaming and when she was done she fell into Raoul's arms crying.
"I'll never leave you. Please don't speak that way." Raoul said smoothing her hair.
"Well...what are you hiding from me?"
"Your so young there's so much...."
"Don't even finish why?!? What is it!?" Satine said banging her fists into Raoul's chest crying.
"Calm down please." Raoul said several times which made her cry louder.
She was acting so wild crying and screaming Raoul slapped her.
She stood staring at Raoul with a blank look on her face. Then a look of horror. She put her hand to her cheek and then started to back up slowly from Raoul. She stopped at the door and looked faint. Raoul reached out to her and said
"Oh my love, I'm sorry please." "No." She said in an almost inaudible tone. She ran out the door and into her room. On her way she ran into Dara and started to cry again.
Dara didn't even bother to go see why Satine ways so distraught she went to Raoul's room to see him sitting on his bed with his face in his hands.
"Monsieur?"
"How could have I done that? She'll never forgive me I'll never forgive my self I'm a horrible person. I'm a awful father." Raoul said to himself not even bothering to look up.
AN okay sorry I thought they would be going to the opera house but the site being down gave me sometime to think. Well please review! How do you think she should meet Erik?
