MACKIE (A Céline Dion FanFiction)

The Show Must go On

Celine's almost 40 years in show business and she encountered a lot. A bad weather on a stadium concert, broken heels in the middle of a show even a bleeding finger during a number. She's been stage and crowd all her life but the worse and best, she'd been through.

She flew to her 19th destination of the tour in Madrid. She's almost restless. After in a place, a plane flight to another one. A day gap in between shows and that's all when she can do everything like, sleep, bath, eat and stay at a hotel and the flight. But she's used to this. Almost 40 years in show business and in front of thousands of crowds, what is the new thing?

But since she's aging and can't do it consistently like before, she has to check for the doctor once in a while. It just happened that this tour has a lot of destinations and she can't possibly just cross out any of them since most of them are places she's never held a tour.

It's when she woke up after Barcelona and she knew something is not right with her throat. She got up feeling something heavy and called René right away. She's lucky he stayed later in the morning so he was there at the hotel with her.

He's having his coffee when Céline almost ran to him with heavy steps. Not because she's nagging but because she don't really want to speak too much. Not especially now!

"Bonjour."

"Rene..." from that word. He knew.

"What happened?!" René's worried now. Not because of the show that possibly couldn't go tonight but because of her wife's condition. Her voice is failing, almost no voice coming out from her mouth!

This could never be like the tour in Phoenix!

Celine started to cry silently. She knew she has to make a choice. She continued on the preparations though. Get everything done, her hair, the make up and the clothes. And now they're at the venue. She's at the backstage still not speaking trying to revive the voice even at least a little bit more. She's taking medicine that could help her recover as soonest as possible.

The tour manager was there. The other performers are there. They're all worried at her. Having that voice, she could definitely choose to move the date even for a day but she could never do that to her people and to all the fans that's been waiting for her half an hour now.

"What do we do?" She asked. René was there as well. All day he's been telling her to take even a day off and just move the date. But it was too late for her to cancel it. Besides, her voice wasn't that bad earlier. It just went crazy an hour away from show!

"What do you think?" He asked her back.

She's never had anything worse than this. Her throat feels scratchy and a pin of pain whenever she tries to talk. She couldn't tell it now to her people! Certainly not to René! She'll definitely feel bad towards the 50 thousand people waiting for her outside if she can't continue on with the show!

She had the last 10 minutes to talk to her people before the show. They're all worried right now for Céline as if she could still do the show with that voice. All they can do is pray.

"I'll try my best for the show... I hope my voice will get better."

5 minutes before the show, her voice finally went okay a bit. Now she can sing better but still, she worry about her 'All By Myself' number. She just hope everything will be alright.

"Hola! Buenas Noches Madrid!" The show finally starts. She went out all smiles, giving herself to the world once more. Like the usual thing she does. All of them cheered, so happy to see her finally get out.

The crowd didn't even notice how she had a little crack when she greeted them!

The concert started from her song, 'A new Day has Come'. One change after the other, she's really thankful she's not cracking at any number. But nobody knows how her throat hurts a little bit more by each song she finish.