#daimiku

Chapter 8: Steven wades through the sandpit of contract law, the duke makes a request, and Wallace draws a line with the troupe.

Chapter 7: Steven quits his day job, confides in a family friend, and learns even more about the man he loves. The troupe, for better or worse, is also there.

Chapter 6: Steven and Wallace meet alone to finally know and love each other. The Duke names his price and the Chairman sells his soul.

(More of the Moulin Rouge! AU that no one asked for, hooray!) Chapter 5: In which Steven pitches both the troupe and the show with Wallace's help. Also, he's a helpless romantic, but what else is new?

At the turn of the century in Kalos and in the midst of the Victini Revolution, exiled champion and heir Steven Stone has been forced to flee from Hoenn to escape the consequences of doing what's right, and he has spent the past two months in hiding at the Hotel du Roi in the Montmartre district of Lumiose City. When a theater troupe literally comes crashing through his ceiling, they drag him along with them to the notorious all-electric night club and pleasure house across the street known as the Moulin Rouge, where he is to act as their ambassador to the 'Enchanting Emerald'--the club's star performer and courtesan--in a last-ditch effort to pitch their play. However, when Steven discovers that said star is actually the beloved friend he'd met soon after arriving in Kalos, his existence shifts on its axis. Love may be like oxygen, but when it comes to the well-mannered but jealous and entitled duke, the ambitious and mercurial club owner, and the ambitions of those around him, one can find themself gasping for breath. (Aka, the Moulin Rouge! AU no one asked for.) - - - Chapter 4: Wallace seduces the duke, Steven wishes he was anywhere else, and an act of serendipity poses as a rude interruption.

In which the pair go to the red room to talk, plan, and fall even deeper in love. They also run out of time (in a non-morbid fashion).

In which two very different pairs of people hatch two very different plots, a star falls, and a budding love blooms uncaring of the hostile ground.

At the turn of the century in Kalos and in the midst of the Victini Revolution, exiled champion and heir Steven Stone has been forced to flee from Hoenn to escape the consequences of doing the right thing, and he has spent the past two months under a pseudonym at the Hotel du Roi in the Montmartre district of Lumiose City. One day, when members of a theater troupe literally come crashing through his ceiling, he finds himself all but drug along with them to the all-electric cabaret and pleasure house across the street known as the Moulin Rouge, where he is to act as their ambassador to the 'Enchanting Emerald'--the club's star performer and courtesan--in a last-ditch effort to pitch their play for production. However, when Steven discovers that the star is actually the beloved friend he'd met on the banks of the Seine soon after arriving in Kalos, his comfortable if bland existence shifts on its axis. Love may be like oxygen, but when it comes to the well-mannered but jealous and entitled duke, the ambitious and mercurial club owner, and the tangled web of ambitions of those around him, it's all too easily to find yourself gasping for breath. (Aka, the Moulin Rouge! AU no one asked for.)