Prologue:
Christine stood there, so frightened. She didn't know what to do, she couldn't think. She still couldn't get over the fact that the phantom had held her captive and that Raoul was tied up and defenseless. She looked over at the Phantom, and then back at Raoul, things seemed to be going in slow motion after that. She had to choose somebody soon, before it was to late. She wanted to pick the Phantom so desperately, but then again she couldn't leave Raoul, after everything he had done for her. But her heart told her differently, she wanted the Phantom and that's all there was to it.
Christine looked at Raoul, she mouthed the words I'm sorry, then trudged through the mucky water to the phantom. The phantom looked at her, his hands trembling, a tear ran down his cheek. Christine wiped the tear away, and said, "I've chosen you."
Chapter 1
Love can find a way
(con't from "ive chosen u" )
Raoul looked up quickly…he couldn't believe what Christine had just said. Did she really just pick the phantom?
"Christine, what? You chose the phantom?" Raoul asked angrily.
"you both wanted me to choose the one I really had feelings for, and I made my choice." Christine said back to him.
The phantom looked at Raoul he could see the pain in his eyes. But he still couldn't believe he had gotten Christine, for once his life didn't seem so dark and gloomy. For once he wanted to go outside and be apart of the world, because he had the light of day in the palm of his hand, and the darkness that he knew had been thrown away.
"well untie me then! I wont stand here and see the love of my life be taken away by a cave dweller." Raoul said hastily. Then he continued, " Please just untie me, so I can leave."
The phantom picked up the rope and untied Raoul, and opened the big gate. Christine walked over to Raoul to explain why she chose the phantom and not him.
"listen, I chose the phantom because I feel a special connection, I love him." She said slowly. Raoul looked down, and then back up facing Christine.
"I…I understand. Its just, I gave you everything you wanted Christine…what more can I give u…anything you want, just don't leave me." Raoul said sadly "don't leave me…for HIM."
Christine heard enough " you don't understand him at all! You don't get why I chose him and not you. For this very purpose, you are nothing like him, and that's what I hate! I love him…I just don't love you anymore, I don't feel the same." She managed to say the words that were swirling in her mind, the very words which had made her burst into tears, for the thought of this conversation becoming a fight between Raoul and the phantom.
"Christine…let me handle this." The phantom said as he trudged through the water, hastily making his way to Raoul. He could sense that Raoul was not pleased with him and that any mishap could easily cause a fight.
"Just let me go, I want no part of this any longer. Good bye Christine." Raoul replied tensely. "But there will be a day, you will regret doing this to me, some how, some way, I will get revenge." He said loudly to both the phantom and Christine as he walked through the gate and out of site.
Christine looked down, tears welling in her eyes. Thoughts of what had just had just happened swirled in her mind.
She built enough courage to speak " what do we do? What's gonna happen?" she asked. Tons of questions were forming but she couldn't say them all.
. She suddenly realized the content of the situation. Then hearing the mob who was quickly approaching them. "hunt down this murderer he must be found!" they chanted as they walked through the murky water.
The phantom only replied, " come with me, you'll be safe as long as you do as I say, and stay with me."
He grabbed her hand gently and led her to a big mirror, he opened it, and he led her inside. Christine felt nervous, she knew what she did was the right thing to do, but now they had a new problem. People were after him now.
The phantom could tell she was nervous. He paused, and stopped short, Christine bumped into him slightly. "everything will be alright." He said as he pulled her in, he rapped his arms around her waist and held her tightly.
" I wont let anything happen to you, I love you to much." He said softly.
"i..i love you too." She replied. "but I must tell you something, I feel so guilty."
"what is it? You should have nothing to be guilty about." The phantom said as he pulled her hair back and placed it gently behind her ear.
"its just that…earlier tonight, when I pulled off your mask…I..i don't know what came over me, I embarrassed you greatly." She said as she looked away. Trying to avoid eye contact. For she was sure if he remembered that he would quickly make her leave, to fend for herself with the mob.
"no…no…don't feel bad, I love you to much to every be mad at you about something like that. And I have to tell you something." Christine looked at him with a puzzled look on her face. Then he continued " im so sorry that this is how it worked out, the chandelier, the mob, the fighting. All this anger was not meant to be put on you or even Raoul. Yes Raoul was in the way of my love for you, but all this anger I've kept in me for so long wasn't meant to come out on you. I love you to much…and I put it on you anyway…" tears welled in his eyes…one by one they ran down his cheeks.
"I forgive you…it was all for the best, and now we're together and I wouldn't have it any other way. Like my father used to tell me… ' fate and destiny come in many different ways.'" Christine said as she calmly held him tight. She could feel him crying on her shoulder, his breathing rapidly increased as he cried. "shh…its ok, its all ok now." She said trying to help him feel better. Suddenly reality struck once again….
"hunt down this murderer he must be found!" the mob shouted, they were growing closer, they were in his lair by now.
He looked up, his face went from soft to tense as he grabbed her hand and led her down the pitch-black hallway, which she had never seen before.
"What if they find us? What will they do to you?" Christine finally managed to say.
"If they find us, I'll do what I plan on doing all my life…protect you." He stopped and looked her straight in the eye. All he saw was sadness and pureness. Something he loved so much about her. "I wont ever let anything happen to you, no matter what happens to me." He stated softly as he started walking once more.
Christine felt relieved with his answer, yet distraught. She couldn't bare to think of living her life with out him.
Finally they entered an entire new lair, something hidden so far back in the Opera House, no one could ever find it. "How…why is this here?" she asked she was confused on how there could be another lair, just as big, and as beautiful and mysterious as the last.
"I discovered it a few years after Madame Giry brought me here, I made it just like my other one if not better, just incase something like this was to occur. And it has, so this is where we will stay until things clear up."
Christine gazed at everything in amazement. She was finally, after such a long terrible day, feeling happy. She now had the one she loved, and nothing was going to stand in her way of this relationship.
"I love it…" she said happily as she hugged him. She glanced up at the phantoms face, looking right into his eyes. " I love you, and in no way will I ever think choosing you was a mistake. It's the best thing to happen to my life." Christine said, as she held on tighter.
"I love you to, my angel of music." He held her tighter also, he ran his fingers through her hair, ran his finger along her jaw…just like he had done when they had first met in his lair. Those many weeks ago.
COMING NEXT TIME…
WILL THERE RELATIONSHIP STAY STABLE WITH RAOUL OUT FOR REVENGE? IS THERE TROUBLE LYING AHEAD OR IS FATE SOMETIMES DEADLY? FIND OUT.