Hi everyone! This is my new fanfic "Wandering Child", I haved Loved Phantom of the Opera for a long time, I love the movie and listen to the music all the time! (I also listen to love never dies as well!). This is my first fanfic so i'm hoping you will all enjoy it. This chapter is more of a set up for what is to come, it takes place at the cemetery and highlights what would have happend if Raoul had not showed up in time to break Christine out of Erik's trance at her fathers grave. Please review, i would love to know what people think and would greatly appreciate you taking the time to read and review! enjoy! (No matter how much I wish I did, I do NOT own anything from the Phantom, the characters and songs belong to ALW.)

Christine's POV

I shifted off the carriage, thanked the man for bringing me to my destination, and handed him a few franks. As the man began to drive off, I slowly turned around to face the dark hollow cemetery where many souls have been set to rest. As I walked through the cemetery I thought of my father. I closed my eyes and imagined him giving me a hug and telling me everything would be all right.

I had come to the cemetery for his advice. I was torn between one of the hardest choices of my life. Do I stay with Raoul and betray my angel of music or do I leave Raoul to be with my angel. They both had their good and bad qualities, the Phantom was my angle of music, he was kind and brave, but that temper of his and all his killings honestly made me more scared of him. Raoul was safe and secure, but he did drink a little too often and sometimes I could the strangest gleam in his eye like he wanted to hurt me which frightened me even more than the Phantom's temper. I began to quietly pray to my father. "Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing, her father promised her that he would send her the angel of music, her father promised her, her father promised her….

You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered't the curse just die!

Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you helped me to do
All that you dreamed I could

Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companion, you were warm and gentle

Too many years
Fighting back tears
Why can

Wishing you were here again
Knowing we must say goodbye

Try to forgive
Teach me to live
Give me the strength to try!

No more memories
No more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years

help me say goodbye
help me say goodbye!

I slowly ended up kneeling In front of my father's grave when I began to hear a soft melody playing, something familiar. Then I heard his voice, his beautiful voice.

Wandering child,
so lost, so helpless
Yearning for my guidance

I began to sing back to him,

Angel or father?
Friend or phantom?
Who is it there, staring?

Have you forgotten your Angel?

Angel, oh, speak
What endless longings
Echo in this whisper!

Too long you've wandered in winter
Far from my fathering gaze...

Wildly my mind beats against you...

You resist...

Yet your soul obeys… Yet the soul obeys...

Angel of Music,
you denied me I denied you

Turning from true beauty!
Angel of Music!
Do not shun me my protector!
Come to your strange Angel... Come to me strange Angel...

I am your Angel of Music...
Come to me; Angel of Music...

Suddenly the doors to my father's grave opened and a small light shone through the room. I climbed inside and the doors closed again. Suddenly from behind I felt a hand rest upon my shoulder. I spun around and there was my phantom.

"Phantom" I cried out. How did you get here?"

"I followed you." the phantom replied, "now come there is much to be done."

"Well how are we going to get back to the Opera house?" I asked

"You'll see…" replied the Phantom

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Raoul's horse galloped as fast as it could.

"How dare she how dare she leave so early this morning, and without me! When I get to the cemetery she is going to get it from me." Raoul thought

Soon Raoul approached the graveyard to discover that no one was there, he searched high and low and soon gave up and left while cursing under his breath that the next time he saw Christine would not be pleasant.

OK I know there wasn't to much in this chapter, but like I said it's just a set up chapter for the story. I promise that the story will get more interesting after this. I will try to have the next chapter posted either later today or tomorrow! PLEASE REVIEW! I'd love any comments, idea's or constructive critism. Thanks again :)