A/N: This is different from all my other stories. It's dark and anyone who like dark, not very good looking Erik will like this.

The first chapter isn't to exciting. I hope to post chapter two tomorrow.

Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes. I'm getting better at it. It's work in progress.

Disclaimer: I don't own The Phantom Of The Opera. It all belongs to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gaston Leroux.


Erik walked into the bar with one intention and one intention only, to get drunk. He walked to a quite table in the back. He sat down facing the makeshift stage.

"What can I get you?" The waitress asked coming to stand beside the table.

Erik looked up at her, she wasn't making eye contact with him. She stared at the ground. "Single malt scotch." He replied to her question.

"Sure, coming right up." She replied hurrying off towards the bar.

It was a dimly lit bar. All the tables were big enough to only accommodate two people. Erik like the setup because unless people stopped and looked straight at him they wouldn't see the white mask coving the right side of his face.

A few minutes later the waitress returned with his drink and left without a single word. Erik leaned back in his chair and stretch his long legs out in front of him under the table. He took a sip of his scotch.

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Christine Daae was having a horrible day. She had been sent out to do a outside interview with now only Republican presidential candidate. Senator Kevin Mills was only going to be in the small town of Great Northern Falls for two days. Today being his first day here, Christine had to be the first reporter to meet with him. For weeks she had been calling senator's advisers trying to get a meeting. She finally got a call back 3 days ago saying 'sure we love to do an interview for The Falls Tribune.'

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They asked where she would like the interview. So Christine sujested in the local park. The adviser thought that was great. Have the future President do interview in a small town in a park. American family's would love that. Once everything was setup, she ran to tell her boss that she got the interview and their paper would be the only local paper with a direct interview with Mills.

Thomas Brink couldn't have been more please with his youngest reporter. He told Christine that if this went well she would be put on bigger and better cases then what she was doing now. Christine knew that bigger and better wasn't to different from what she was doing now. The town of Great Northern Falls had a population of three hundred in the town and a total of four hundred and five people when you added the cabins and little developments within a thirty mills radius of the edge of the town it's self.

So not mush happened in the small town. They've had a total of three break ins, one domestic violence call, six car accidents and nine hunting accidents in the last five years. Christine mainly wrote about whatever fair or festival they were having that month. The town puts out about 9 festivals a year. Christine was hoping to move up to write in the section of paper called 'What do you think about America today?'. She would get to go out and interview different people on whatever the topic of the week was.

As soon as Mr. Brink got up Christine's hopes, he shoot them down some. He said "Fail though and I fire you and no second chances."

His warning put her on edge for a couple of days but as the interview grow closer she became more confident. She had her questions all laid out and how she was going to asked them. Christine Daae was sure that nothing would stand in her way.

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Today the day of the interview, she was not nervous at all when she woke up. She got out of bed, and got dressed in a sky blue lady's button up shirt and put on a black skirt with a matching blazer. Christine got her tape recorder, multiple pencils, and a pad of yellowed line paper. She stuffed them into her brief case and head out her front door down to the park. It was only a short walking distance away. She gave her self a half an hour in the park before Senator Mills would get there.

Christine had sat on the bench near the little pond where they were to have their interview. She heard a car and looked up to see two black suv's pull up. A guy in all black with a ear piece got out and open the rear passenger door. A guy with long blonde hair got out. He to had an ear piece, and was also going over a folder he held in his hands.

He turned towards her and Christine's heart fluttered a little. He had boyish features but looked handsome all the same. He gave her a quick smile and turned back around to face the door he had just gotten out of. Now stepped out a older man with brown greying hair who was senator Kevin Mills.

From the other suv three guys in black suits and ear pieces stepped out. Walking towards her with the senator, the blonde guy, and the other secret service guy following close behind.

When they reach her one of the guys in front ask her if she was Christine Daae the reported. She replied yes. The senator stepped around the three guys introducing himself.

Mills sat down on the bench next to her and Christine started the interview. Not ten minutes into it did it start raining. The guys rushed Mills back to the car. She asked about being able to finish the interview later. The same guy in black who asked her who she was answered "no he's book the rest of the day and tomorrow in till he leaves."

She watched as the black suvs drove off. With her shoulder slumped, Christine head home. By the time she got there her clothes were soaked through and she was freezing. Her paper with the answers to the questions he did get to answer was now soak to and her voice recorder broken. She didn't get to put them in her brief case right away do to running after the senator.

Christine call Mr. Brink to relay the story and it didn't go very well. He didn't fire her saying 'she couldn't control the rain.' but he did move her from festival report to paper sorter at the office.

After her phone call to her boss, she took a shower disparately trying to warm up. She felt down and just wanted to go back to sleep wishing it was yesterday. When she got out of the shower and had changed she went down stairs to get something to eat. Her house mate Meg was there. She had two guy friends with her sitting on the couch.

When Christine and Meg were in the kitchen alone, Meg explain to her that her two college buddies had come to see her and they were going out to the local bar to night. Meg begged Christine to come. Christine wasn't much of a drinker but she go for a drink tonight.

After Meg made her wear a ridiculously tight part of jeans and a black tank top. The four made there way to the bar. The guy Meg had pushed off towards Christine kept looking at her like he was going to throw her on the ground any minute and have his way with her.

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Erik didn't look up when four people walked past his table. He was to busy thinking about the last couple of days. He downed the his drink and got lost in his thoughts.

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Erik had come to Great Northern Falls not because wanted to but because he had to. He was hiding out and a small town with a lot of woods seemed like the perfect place. He bought a cabin in the woods 15 miles out of town with cash. He need to be lost. Lost so no one could find him.

He figured six states away if you drew a straight line from Texas to upper state New York would be safe. He couldn't leave the country he would get caught but he had to hide.

He got to the small town and found the minute he saw it he hated it. But he figured hey baggers can't be choosers. So he stayed. That was four days ago.

So far he seemed safe. No one recognized him yet and everyone seemed to stay away from him. But this morning he about died. He small portable tv in his cabin and he watched the local news. They reported the Senator Kevin Mills would be in town for two days.

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Erik knew he shouldn't be in a bar or out in public in till the senator and his brigade left but he needed a drink. So here he sat in a bar. Drinking.


So was it any good? Like I said it wasn't to exciting, next chapter will be better.

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