It was a cold night in Paris and Danielle was walking home from her job at the pub. Danielle is a sixteen year old girl, who has to provide for her small family, which was her younger brother and drucken father. She walked through the freshly fallen snow to her little home. In her hand was a bag of food left over from the pub that would spoil. She walk though the door of her home, she saw her father drinking the last bit of rum that he had right from the bottle. He got up from where he was sitting and walked over to his daughter.
"Where my bottle of rum? Is it in that bag?" he said loudly. Danielle looked at her father with soft eyes and handed him the bag. He took and look through it then dropped it on the floor. She picked it up and brought it to the kicten. "Where the rum?" he yelled at her. Danielle start to but the food that she had away and ignor her father. He walked up to her and grab her wrist and made her face him. Then he spat in her face "Where's my rum?" Danielle's jaw tighten "There is no rum. I thought that maybe we would live better on food then on boze. And I think Christopher can't live without food, whereas you can live without rum for one night." he spat back at her father, her jade eyes staring at him.
Maurice, her father, took the empty bottle and slammed it against the right side of her head. Danielle screamed in pain as she fell to the ground. Her hand flew up to her head and she felt the warm blood dripping down her head. Then her father start kicking her in the ribs and yelled "You stupid wench. You just like your mother. No good for anything." Then he stopped at looked down at Danielle who was cruled up in a ball on the floor. He pulled her to her feet, and spat in her face again "You go and get me some rum, your not allowed back in if don't have any." Danielle looked at her father with fear "B-but I have no money." Maurice lead out the door "Then I'll see you tomorrow, if you have rum."
Danielle stared at the closed door, then lended against the wall because she felt like she was going to fall over. He hand went to her head and she knew that she had a big gash over her brow. Then she started walking down the street not knowing where she was going to end up.
An hour of walking through Paris, Danielle realized that she wasn't in her part of town anymore. He head was spinning all night, her head was aching and she was so very cold. She sat down then passed put on some steps, infront of a very large building.
A young Erik was sitting at his piano, writing down the notes and word for his newest song., but Erik became restless. He thought to himself that no one would be outside at this time so there would be no harm in taking a stroll around the opera house. He put on his mask and clock. Then he went down on of his secert tunnels that lead to the outside.
Erik started walking around that building, he walk in frount then noticed a body laying on the steps. He went up and saw that it was a girl. Then he started walking away, thinking that no one would help him, so why should he help her. Then he looked back at her and saw that he forehead was bleeding and her face was white from the cold. He turned around and picked her up and brought her to his lair.