All You Need is Love

by Li'l Yahiko

A heartsick, alcoholic Christian is all but enjoying his new fame as the writer of The Moulin Rouge, when an accidental meeting with a strange boy leads him to a Satine lookalike who's given up on love. Christianoc

1. Introduction

All You Need is Love

(Moulin Rouge and all related characters are property of Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pierce, and err… everyone else.)

INTRODUCTION

In store windows everywhere, there is a book entitled The Moulin Rouge. It is a story… about love. It is a story that almost everyone knows. It taught people how to believe in the principles of truth, beauty, freedom, and that which is above all things, love. It was the story that made people laugh. It was the story that made people cry. It was the story of my life.

I found it unfair to my readers that I hadn't published a single thing since that story… but it seemed there wasn't anything left within me… The only thing I could ever think about was her… Satine… the woman I loved… the woman I lost… the woman that the story about love starred.

I constantly found my self singing our song barely above a whisper. I did all I could to keep her sad memory from my mind, drinking until I couldn't even stand up. I would then sleep, and I would dream about her… It was all so hopeless. It seemed my life would never take a turn for the better… until one fateful day… when an obsessed fan of mine… ran into me on the street…