Chapter 1: uncaring and cold
Ok I'm warning you now this is going to get pretty angsty. And will most definately be rated M. This takes place after Christine leaves Erik in the dungeon. The opera house didn't burn down though and she still sing's there. Their both off character but they have to be in order for this to work.
Erik moved through his ruined home. The sadness was all but gone from him, replaced purely with a feeling of loathing. Not merely toward Raoul but Christine as well. How could she just leave him after all he'd done for her? He was going to teach her a lesson she'd never forget.
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Christine sat outside the Opera Populaire. It was dark and she should be in side sleeping but thoughts were racing though her mind.'How did things get so complicated?' Yes she felt regret for everything that had happened but why should she dwell on it. Everything that happened was Erik's fault. She had every right to hate him. She was so caught up in her thoughts she didn't see the figure approach her.
"Erik? What are you doing here?" Christine asked in utter shock when she finally noticed him standing in front of her.
"I came here because I miss you," he slurred, reaching up his left hand and stroking her hair.
"Erik are you drunk? Get off me."
Everything happened so quickly. Erik's arrival. The drunken act. The hand on her neck. The stroking. But she felt it. She felt the needle clip her. But it was too late. She felt her body go numb, and then she started to fall.
Erik held onto her still form and lifted her into his arms. He realized that by doing this she'd hate him forever but he had to show her what she did to him. Had to make her pay for all the pain he was now in.
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Christine tried to focus as the darkness evaporated into light. She looked around, wondering where she was. Her neck was incredibly sore. She remembered seeing Erik and then? Her hand moved over the sore part of her neck. 'Did he drug me?'
She attempted to get up, though the chains on her arms made that amazingly hard. 'Chains? Erik?' Oh how she prayed this was some sort of horrible dream.
"I see you are awake my dear. I'm glad I was starting to think I may have given you a bit to much." Erik said as he strode into the room and towards the body lying out along the ground.
"Don't come near me." she told him.
Erik thought about that for a moment. Then shrugged "I'm afraid it'll be a little hard for you to do anything to stop me at the moment my dear."
"Why am I here Erik?" She decided to get right to the point. "What sick game are you playing at now?"
"You want me to tell you why you're here Christine?"
""Yes" she hissed back at him.
"Because of what you've done to me."
"What?" Christine couldn't believe what she was hearing. 'What she had done to him?'
"Your betrayal Christine I gave you everything and then you turned your back on me. You need to be taught a lesson."
Christine just starred at him.
"I swore that you would curse the day you did not do all that I asked of you my dear. And I plan to make good with my oath."
"Your just jealous" she told him. "Of Raoul, mad that I chose him over you. God its good to know that I have this much power over you despite everything. I was never sure…"
Erik just smirked at this. He had years of practice of using mind games and knew just what to do to break Christine's spirit.
Christine trailed off unnerved by his smile.
"Ahh Christine how he's changed you. Look how bitter you have become. This only goes to further prove that he is no good for you and I shall have to help you my dear. Get you back to your old self. Get you back to me."
"This is me Erik. I'm Christine and always have been."
"Not the Christine I knew and loved."
"Well I'm not that Christine anymore. I'm not the girl you can manipulate and play with the mind of. Not anymore."
"But you haven't become something better. Your bitter Christine, uncaring and cold. And from what I've been seeing. And Yes I have been watching you. You've become some what of a bitch.
"Really is that so?"
"Yes"
Christine sighed and leant her head against the cold wall behind her. Erik sat on the opposite side of her.
"Here's what's going to happen you'll stay here until I'm satisfied with the way you are acting. Until I decide you are your self again. Until you're the girl who once breathed at my very command."
"Maybe I like being this way."
"Is that a confession?"
Christine's eyes darted up to meet his. "No"
Erik handed a blanket to her then blew out the candles the only light in the room.
"Get some sleep my dear. You're going to need it."
And with that he walked away. He could feel her eyes following him burning into him. He heard the chains rattle and for a moment he felt guilt for what he was doing. But then he remembered how she'd left him alone in this dark dungeon alone. Left him for that boy. She deserved this the darkest part of his soul whispered. Besides this was for her own good as well. This wasn't the true Christine. This was just an act, a shield, to protect her self from more pain. And this act would only lead her to loneliness. But he would stop that. Yes he would lead her back to him.
So it's not that bad yet. Plz tell me if you like it or not. I love my Reviews.