A life without love Chapter 6: The Plan The big clock in the Montemarte Square chimed, loud echoing through the whole city. Christian jumped; he'd been sitting in a small café finishing off his coffee after a good meal. His eyes flickered over to the huge clock tower, the big hand hovering over the twelve and the little hand resting on the eight. This was it, he had been waiting for it all day since he awoke he thought of nothing but it, it ticked over in his mind until he was walking around in circles and now that the moment had arrived..nervousness overtook him! He sat frozen for a few seconds as if soaking in the time, the sound of the chiming still ringing in his ears. "Christian.go..come on lets go" he gave himself a pep talk shaking his limbs and getting up from his seat, he flopped a few francs onto the table and left the café. The Absinthe bar was just across the street, very convenient for him. He ran across the street as it was beginning to rain and almost slipped in the mud, splashing the brown dirt all over the bottom of his pants, he cursed loudly, now he would have to meet Satine in dirty pants! He stumbled the rest of the way across the road and stopped a few centimeters away from the Bar door, breathing loudly, butterflies were invading his stomach but he couldn't back out now, he had to save his love, in the name of love he couldn't back out now. Yet he still stood there, thinking how to act, what to say, he just wanted to run to Satine and get her away from this place and be with her again. "Oi! Mate, move outta the doorway!" came a rude rough voice as a man pushed past Christian and barged through the door, "You coming in lad or are you gonna stand there in the rain?" the man asked Christian in his rough voice, holding the door open. Christian realized how wet he was getting, "Ah yes, thankyou" he said in his polite innocent voice, stepping through the door. He hung his wet overcoat and hat on the coat rack and glanced around the room. His eyes rested on the poker table where a young lady was sitting at the table next to it, a veil covering her face and a large extravagant hat covering her hair. Christian grinned a little to himself then walked casually over to the bar. "Ah, excuse me sir" he said to the beefy bartender. "What'll you have sir?" the bartender replied. "Ah, nothing, I was wondering could you tell me is a Miss Lidia here?" Christian asked as casually as possible so not to raise suspicion. "So you're the boy Satine's in love with, Christian is it?" the bartender smiled nicely. Christian looked shocked he wasn't expecting this. "Don't worry lad, I'm an old friend of Satine's I know all about her plan, she's sitting over there near the poker table" the barman went on pointing over to the lady he'd seen before. "Ah, thankyou" Christian said, still a little shocked. He turned away from the bar and began walking slowly towards the table when he got there, being a gentleman he asked "Excuse me madam may I sit down?" The lady looked up at him, it was Satine, he could tell the second she looked at him, her eyes were as blue as the sky and he could see little red curls of hair that had slipped out and fallen around her face. "Why of course dear sir" she replied, smiling a cheeky smile to him. Christian sat down, not taking his eyes off her. They were silent for a moment as a waiter put down a glass of absinthe on the table in front of Christian. When the waiter had left it was Satine who spoke first "Christian, I'm so glad you came, I though when, before, I." she trailed off not knowing what to say. Christian put his hand on hers "It's ok, I was shocked and stuff then, but now I'm going to save you" he smiled. Satine smiled back. "What's the plan?" he asked. "Well, remember that contract the Duke has?" Satine began, Christian nodded "Well, if I'm going to be free off the Duke that paper will have to be destroyed and that will free me from the engagement to him as well , without the legal document he has no power over me" she explained. Christian nodded "How do we get the contract?" Christian asked. "That's the problem, he keeps it with him all the time, and its always in his jacket pocket, I'd have to.." Satine trailed off when she saw Christian's expression, he hated the fact that she had to sleep with him just to get his jacket off and get that stupid contract. "Christian I can't think of any other way" Satine said nervously. Christian nodded, reluctantly. "Yes, but." he was cut off when the bar doors burst open causing the whole bar to go silent. "Everybody get out" came a deep powerful scary voice, "Now!" a shot was fired into the air making everyone around them scream, "Lets go!" Christian said, pulling Satine up, they turned around to head to the door when standing a few meters away, one holding a gun, the other beside him grinning angrily was the Duke and Warner. What do you think? I'm having heaps of fun writing this, and just wanna give a big thanks and hug to all my reviewers!! Thankyou!