Mirror, Mirror
By: Child of Dreams
Disclaimer: I do not own Phantom. I do not own Snow White.
There, I said it, are you happy now?
(stomps off to go sulk in bedroom about unfair copyright laws)
Chapter One: Prologue
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived a king and queen.
Kind and generous, fair and merciful, King Gustave and Queen Charlotte were much beloved by their people.
Then, to add to the kingdom's joy, the Queen was found to be with child.
A princess was born, a beautiful little girl with hair of golden sunshine and eyes as blue as the sky on a clear summer's day, and was given the name 'Christine'.
Unfortunately, just a few days later, Queen Charlotte grew ill and died of childbed fever.
The King was inconsolable, weeping loudly over his wife's body, a screaming Christine clutched tightly to his chest.
Six years later, the king remarried - having decided that Christine needed a mother.
But shortly after, he became ill, finally succumbing shortly after Christine's seventh birthday.
Now, Queen Carlotta was indeed very beautiful with her long, silky black hair and glinting dark green eyes - but she was also proud and haughty, and could not bear even the slightest idea that someone else might one day surpass her in beauty.
Each day, the vain Queen consulted her magic mirror.
"Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" she would ask.
And as long as the mirror answered, "You, O Queen, are the fairest of all," little Christine remained safe from her stepmother's cruel jealousy.
But then, on the eve of the Princess' sixteenth birthday, everything changed...
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