Satine ran out the door after him, tears streaming down her face. She stopped and looked around for him. He wasn't there. Just as she was about to turn back around, the crowd cleared and she saw his retreating figure. She ran up to him screaming his name. "Christian! Christian Stop!" He stopped dead on the spot. It surprised her, and him none the least. "Christian, can I please talk to you? Tell you what is going on?"

"No, Satine. I don't need this. I don't you to tell me lies like you always have. I'm done."

Satine just stood there dumbfounded. "Nothing I have EVER said was a lie! I love you, and only you. That man in there, he was a client. Nothing more. I love YOU Christian, I love YOU!" Christian turned around and looked at her. "Are you telling me the truth?"

"Of course! Why would I lie to you? I love you Christian."

"You lo-you love me?" He said filling with anger. "IF you loved me so much, why did you not respond to my hundreds of letters? Huh? If you loved me so much, why did you do that to me?" he said with tears welling up in his eyes. Satine looked down at the ground. "Har-Harold told me that I must not write you. That it would be best if you stayed away. And stupid me, I believed him for a while. Then I tried to send a letter out one day, but Marie found it in my vanity and told Harold about it. He got very angry with me. And you don't like to see Harold mad. I'd NEVER seen him that mad before. I just wanted you to know that I received every letter you sent and I read them all. I kept them under my pillow at night hoping that it would give me sweet dreams of you. It did some nights. I dreamt of our wedding, our new house we'd move into, and our children. I'd dreamt of it all. I tell you Christian. I love you and ONLY you!"

With the last of her words, Christian ran into her arms and hugged her with all of his might. "Oh, Satine, I've missed you so! I thought something had happened to you. I got so worried. I am so relieved to see that you are okay. You are still the same Satine that I knew 2 years ago when I left. The same beautiful, funny, talented woman that I fell in love with that first night that I met you, up on that trapeze singing your lungs out." And after he said that, he enveloped her mouth in a passionate kiss. The first kiss of many to come. While they were walking back to the Moulin Rouge, Christian was filled with so much inspiration that he started to belt out a song.

Friday night and the moon is high

I'm wide-awake just watchin' you sleep

And I promise you you're gonna have

More than just the things that you need

We ain't got much now, We're just startin' out

But I know somehow paradise is comin'

Someday baby, You and I are gonna be the ones

Good luck's gonna shine

Someday baby you and I are gonna be the ones

So hold on

We're headed for a better life

Note from author:

Hope you liked it! I had a blast making it!