1Disclaimer- I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA CHARACTERS, but I do own BELLA and her friends and family.
Silence, darkness, rats. The cellars of the Paris opera House. A perfect place to hide. Grimmy
stones walls and cold dirty stone floors. To the right, long forgotten set pieces from previously
performed operas and to the left a rack of old costumes. In the corner of the vast room sat a girl
huddled into a ball. Her long curly brown hair was ruffled and dirty and her plain grey dress was
torn. She sat there alone, the horrific scene from only moments ago replaying in her head.
She was cleaning the sea of red velvet seats, like she always does before the performance of an
opera.
"Bella are you almost done?" A man who was cleaning on stage yelled.
"Yes Papa!" Bella smiled at her father and slowly began to hum a lullaby that he had
taught her when she was little. Bella looked up when her father began to sing I loudly. His tenor
voice filling the house. Pretty soon Bella found her own high soprano voice joining that of her
fathers. Bliss filled Bellas heart but I was all taken away when her father stopped singing and yelled,
"NO YOU CANT HAVE HER!!!" She looked at the stage in time to see a man jump her
father. The trash bag fell from her hand as she took off towards the stage. The man was
strangling her father when she arrived on the stage and she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"LET MY PAPA GO!!!!" Tears threatened to fill Bellas eyes when she looked at the
form of her deceased father. His eyes red and his face white. Bellas looked up in time to see the
man standing here smiling menacingly at her. She froze to the spot. She wanted to run but the
mans blue eyes captivated her. The Bella saw it. A black masquerade mask. It covered the
majority of the mans face.
"Phantom.." She whispered her voice quivering with fright. She looked at him and
realized he just destroyed the only thing that she had left to live for. Her father. Her whole world
came crashing down in one moment. The Phantom let out a bellowing laugh that echoed off the
walls and sparked something in Bella. She took of running as fast as she could towards the
closest place. The cellar stairs. She ran her legs burning for rest until she came to the third cellar,
where she collapsed tears free falling down her cheeks.
Pain and fear overtook Bella when she thought of her life without her father, the only one who
cared ever. Her mother had died before she was old enough to remember and she had grown up
here in the Opera House as a maid. Bella squeezed her eyes closed and took a deep breath but it
caught in her throat when she heard faint footsteps.
"Who's there?" She asked fear ringing through her voice. A deep laughter filled the air
and Bella sobbed.
"Are you scared?" The voice asked and it seemed to come form everywhere. Bella
opened her eyes and was about to scream when the Phantom who was an inch in front of her
clasped his and over her mouth. His blue eyes stared into her pale silver ones and he smirked.
"Well, you should be. If I let go you better be quiet". Bella nodded in defeat and the
Phantom removed his hand. Quickly she pushed the Phantom back and stood running yet again
but the Phantom pulled her against his chest, so her back was against him and she was facing the
wall. Bella just stood there feeling defeated and broken.
"I always thought of you as an angel but Christine and everyone else were right. You're a
monster." The Phantom dropped her at hearing this and looked down at her angrily. His eyes
glinting red.
"A MONSTER!!! Well if that's what you believe then FEAST YOUR EYES!" The
Phantom forced Bella to look into his eyes and she could have sworn that his eyes showed
sadness for a spilt second but it was replaced by anger in a second. Bella looked at him more
tears spilling past her eyelids and onto the phantoms hand. He let out a loud sigh and released
Bella. He turned away and Bella stood cautiously. Slowly she walked in front of him and placed
a soft hand on his shoulder. He looked at her and then lifted her bridal style into his arms. Slowly
from exhaustion and the confusion of different emotions Bella fell into a deep deep sleep.
Confusion. Confusion of how she just let her the monster her murdered her father take
her away. How she just gave up and almost felt compassionate for this creature that has taken
her world her life. She laid there her eyes closed for fear of what she might see if she opens them
again. She breathed out slowly anger coursing through anger at herself for not stopping the
phantom anger at the phantom, no not anger, anger isn't strong enough, hate. Hate is what she
felt for the man no monster that destroyed the only thing she lived for. Finally building up
enough courage Bella opened her eyes, and sighed in relief when the almighty phantom wasn't
inches from her face with his death's head. Cautiously Bella stood looking around at the room.
Taking in every possible hiding spot and exit or entry, you see Bella has a very photographic
memory. She felt like she had been here in this room but she knew that it was only the stories
that Madame Giry had told her about this place, but that was all in the past Madame Giry died
mysteriously some say the phantom killed her and that made Bella mad before. But know as the
thoughts ran through her head she stopped and her eyes widened, it could be a very high
possibility that the phantom did kill madame Giry. Tears threatened to fall again but Bella
wouldn't let them. If she was going to be stuck with the phantom for any amount of time she
could not show her emotion. She knew the phantom without ever meeting him until now. He
manipulated people who were weak and showed emotion like when he manipulated Christine
Daee into loving him but he would not do that to her. He didn't trust anyone and was like a
ticking time bomb he could go off at any moment.
"Well I see that you are awake. Do you like what you see?" The Phantom appeared
before Bella menancingly and spread his arms jestering towards the room.
" Go ahead and search your new home. You will need to know where things are because
you my dear are going to be here forever." Bella froze the fear in her eyes. Forever was a very
very long time, and worst of all... She had to spend it with him.
Please review and tell me what you think. I accept all constructive criticism. I just wanted to let you know that I wrote this a year ago and am pulling it out of hiding officially and there is deffinately more than a single chaper.