A Single Step

Calypso

Summary: A single step is no distance at all, and yet it is the ravine that separates Erik and Christine. Can it be overcome? Or will one step be the distance that separates them forevermore?

Author's Note: Well, It's been awhile hasn't it? I know that it's awkward for me to step away for so long and then come back with a completely different style of writing that's far to succinct even for my tastes. In any case, I hope that you like this. Please Review.

A Single Step takes place after the ALW musical when Christine and Raoul have long since left Erik. This story happens at Raoul and Christine's engagement party.

Erik's POV

Will she welcome me?

Will she want to see me?

After everything that's happened is there any reason why she would want to see me? I who have unintentionally caused her so much pain and so much grief.

Will she run from me now? Now that she has her precious Viscount and her much sought after light?

I never expected her to love me, never expected anyone to care for me in the way that other people were cared for.

Never expected to be loved.

My life was like a starless night, an unending blanket of painful darkness.

Until I saw that one gleaming star. Her star.

They say that for every darkness there's a divine light. Is she mine?

I love Christine more then could say, sometimes even more then music can/

Yet I know she's made her choice.

If I walk in onto that balcony, will she see me? Will she run from me.?

I don't think I'd be able to live if she ran. If I had to see her fall into the arms of her precious Raoul once again.

I wouldn't be able to live if she runs from me.

But I can't go on like this. Without her.

I don't have any reason to keep going.

Yet even so I hesitate. I cannot step back, and yet I fear to step forward.

Just one more step and I will stand in the light.

I would be able to bear that light. If she stood beside me.

But if she didn't?

I think I would die.

I fell so desperate. So obscured by shadows that I think I would vanish in the strong light she shines.

One breathe.

One step.

And she be before my eyes once more.

Can I make it that far? Is it possible for someone like me to move forward?

A single breath.

A single step.

And I have entered the light.

Her light.

God, if there is such a being, don't make her run from me.

Christine?

So beautiful… but grown so pale. So thin.

Oh Christine… doesn't your Viscount take care of you?

Has he really given you all that you've sought?

She dazzles out there, the brightest gem in a room full of diamonds.

Won't she look this way?

Please - Just give one indication that she knows I'm here.

Her hair glistens in the light, and her face seems like an angel.

Does she even remember her angel now?

Dare she?

Christine… so you do remember.

Oh Christine!

They say some things are Magic.

Some emotions lack any explanation at all.

She is my magic.

She is my soul.

"Erik!"

A single second, a breath of wind, and she is in my arms.

It seems that I have gained heaven after all.

~Fini~

Loved it? Hated it? Don't think that I could possibly remove it fast enough? Tell me what you think. I realize that Erik seems a tad sappy, but please try to remember that the man is on the verge of dying.