Prologue

Months after the fire at the opera house, our mysterious Phantom has made a home for himself in the secluded countryside outside of Rouen, France. He has made a somewhat normal life for himself, keeping away from town most of the time and taking rare trips back to Paris.

He realizes how demented it is for him to visit the opera house, the saddest place on Earth it seemed. He would sometimes visit Madame Giry and check on the opera house. The managers finally decide after a month of debating that it would be a good idea to repair the Opera Populaire.

Many times he refused to go to the opera house, but soon it seemed to call his name. He visited Christine's dressing room many times and cried over his stupidity, and his loss. He thought many times of the chances and ways he could have killed that idiot Viscount for stealing his love, his Christine.

He knew that he could never have her, they disappeared soon after their wedding and he saw no sign of her anywhere in France. After a few weeks he heard that the de Chagny's had left for London to escape his grasp. He dare not go after them. The hurt of being rejected again would surely kill him. He had thought many times of putting himself out of his misery but what was the point?

Yes, of course he had no point in living any longer but he didn't think death would solve his problems. Madame Giry told him many times to try to move on but how could he? What could he even move on to? Was he cursed to live a life of sorrow and pain, or was there something he could live for? Was there some one he could live for?

The only love he had ever had was Christine, but was there someone out there who could love him for who he was? Like Christine would they betray him or be disgusted by him? Or will they sincerely have feelings for him? Little does our Phantom know that about three-hundred years in the future, the perfect girl for him is coming to France. Will she learn to love him? Having been a victim of bullying will she know his pain?