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That conversation was quite possibly the hardest Christian had ever have to deal with.
"Christian what are you doing? Taking on a woman like that? With a child no less!"
"I'm thinking perfectly father," Christian almost spat. "Satine and I came here to ask for your help…"
"My Help? MY HELP?" his father roared. "What kind of help do you think I shall give to a girl like that?"
Christian look down to the floor like he would when he was a child, "Help Us! Help us hide from the Duke, who might I add wants to kill me. Help us to set up a Home, send Nicole to school maybe, Things like that."
"Christian, maybe if you stayed here for a while," his father's voice suddenly calm, "then maybe we could find you a suitable wife, I hear that Miss McGregor is still single, true there was that slight trouble with the baker's boy, but she's alright now…"
Christian looked at his father almost shocked. "You can't be serious-"
"I'm not one to joke Christian. Now listen I'm sure there are…places for people like that woman downstairs, but it is not here."
Christian sighed, how was he supposed to convince his father to let him stay? Let Satine and Nicole stay? There was one thing he could try.
"My Brother would help us." Christian said almost calmly.
"What your brother does with his money is none of my concern."
Christian raised his eyebrows, "Only you because you cut him off, do you want to loose two sons, father? Then you'll only have Lucy to leave everything to."
His father glowered at him and looked at a piece of paper floating around on his desk apparently very concerned at its contents. "The Guildford house is yours. Nobody is using it."
Christian almost leaped up from his seat but somehow contained himself by running from the room and into Satine's arms. "We've got a house," he told her picking Nicole up and placing her easily on his shoulders. "The Guildford house."
"You have more than one house?" Satine said as they walked out to the carriage taking a key from Mrs Jenkins and taking a piece of cake for the road.
As Nicole waved good bye to Mrs Jenkins Christian explained to Satine that his father had inherited from his father a great fortune which he had inherited from his father and so on and so on and which each of these great fortunes had come a house, there were about six. Six houses that any member of his family could inhabit at any given time so long as they arrived with the key.
"Which you now have?"
Christian nodded as Nicole looked up at him with that look all young children get at night time, the: I'm-tired-but-I'll-never-admit-it look. Satine laughed and began to hum a song under her breath. Christian knew what it was before the hum became legible.
"Never knew," he sang softly, "I could feel like this, Like I've never seen the sky before, I want to vanish inside your kiss, Every day I Love You more and more, Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing, Telling me to give you everything, Seasons may change, winter to spring, But I Love You, until the end of time, Come what may, Come what may, I will Love You, Until my dying day" Christian looked to Satine to continue their song, but he needn't have bothered.
"Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place" Her voice was soft and almost strained. Not like it had been before…before the Duke, and yet to Christian it was still just as beautiful as it was that first day when they met. "Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace, Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste, It all revolves around you, And there's no mountain too high, No river too wide, Sing out this song, I'll be there by your side, Storm clouds may gather, And stars may collide, But I Love You, I Love You, Until the end of time, Oh, come what may, come what may. I will Love You, until my dying day, Oh come what may, come what may, I will Love You, I will Love You, Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place, Come what may, Come what may. I will Love You, Until my dying day." They finished it together, just like they always had.
Satine looked over at her daughter to see her sleeping soundly. She had to laugh, that song would make Satine want to do anything but sleep, but to her daughter it was a lullaby Worthing of lullaby hall of fame. Christian chuckled and looked at the little girl.
"What do you think she'll be like when she's older?"
"As long as she's not like her mother then I'm happy." Satine said glumly.
"If she's as beautiful as her mother than I'd be happy."
Satine rolled her eyes and leant on him to fall to sleep, Nicole curled up in her arms sleeping soundly as the carriage rocked along not seeming to care about it's occupants.