SUMMARY: MOVIEVERSE OF POTO Okay, anybody ever see the 1996 TV Christmas movie 'Mrs. Santa Claus'? It's starred Angela Lansbury in the title role and the plot was she got fed up with Santa ignoring her around Christmas so she took the reindeer out for a spin around the world, but ended up crashing in turn of the century NYC! It's a fun old fashioned musical with Big Broadway-ish musical numbers. If you have seen it, you'll understand this story a bit more, but if you haven't, it's okay, you can still follow everything. The idea for the phic is to take the plot line of the Christmas movie and throw Erik in for some yuletide fun. Santa and Mrs. C will only be mentioned in passing, the year is 1886, not 1910, no cute, dancing elves and no big choreography numbers, (except maybe when dancing is suppose to be involved) but it will be a songphic! And Erik will stick around in the end...after all, it is an Erik/OC romance! So, to give you the regenerated plot,

SUMMARY: Erik, the Phantom of the Opera flees Paris almost five years later. He comes to New York City around Christmastime and actually begins to make friends and become accepted amongst the immigrant class. But when a corrupt toymaker seeks to make a buck off defective toys and exploiting children workers, only Erik can help put a stop to his plan...that is...if he won't get distracted by the lovely and fiery Irish lass living in his building.

DISCLAIMER: DON'T OWN POTO AND THE PLOT AND CHARACTERS MENTIONED FROM 'MRS.SANTA CLAUS'. THIS IS JUST FOR FUN, NOT MEANT TO BE A BRILLIANT PIECE OF PHANPHICTON...THOUGH IT WOULD BE NEAT IF IT TURNED OUT THAT WAY. AGAIN, I DON'T OWN ANYTHING, JUST MY OFC, KATIE KILKENNY.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and as always,

peace, love and lip gloss,

Mlle. Fox


Christmas Angel of Music

America

It had been five years since he had burned down the opera house. Five years since he had fled from the only home he had known since he ran away from the gypsies as a child. He only moved to Montmartre, just within sight of the ruins, but it was still a different life than what he had known. A different life for the Phantom of the Opera. For instance, the former Phantom now had to travel out of his small room in the private hotel to get food once a week in the marketplace. Looking out from the cowl of his hood, he sighed thinking that this was still a lonely, miserable life. And this is where he heard people talking,

"Have you-heard about Mimi-Chaveux?"

"She packed ...her.. bags to go..."

"To Amer-ica! To Amer-ica!"

"My son Phil-lip got a job in O-hi-o." said one widow.

"O-hi-o? Where's O-hi-o?" asked her friend.

"How should I know?" asked a third.

"In Amer-ica! In Amer-ica!" several people told her. The Opera Ghost overheard a man tell his coworker as they unloaded bags of flour,

"They say in America everyone is free..."

"But if you'd paid their taxes-, you know - there is a fee!" remarked his friend as several workers chorused,

"In Amer-ica! In Amer-ica!"

"But -every-one has a dream,

every-one has - a drive,

they don't have to worry, they don't have to fear

about their basic needs, about stay-ing alive.

They get to make a choice,

They get to choose,

And if it were me...

I'd like to be free!" He thought of all these things as people talked about America and everyone who was going there.

"I need...something challenging to do...

Somewhere...marvelous...to go..." he said to himself.

"My sister met a man...

In Amer-ica! In Amer-ica!

She was poor, he was rich,

In Amer-ica! In Amer-ica!

Now she owns half of Staten Island!

In Amer-ica! In Amer-ica!" said one man.That was when Erik made a decision. He was going to America!

"Every-one has a dream,

every-one has - a drive,

they don't have to worry, they don't have to fear

about their basic needs, about stay-ing alive.

They get to make a choice,

They get to choose,

And if it were me...

I'd like to be free!

"I've been scraping to get by,

and fighting to get my chance - to fly!

And the time has come, to beat my own drum...

Because!

"I want the world to know, I'm going to Amer-ica!"

He was just Erik now. Not an Angel of Music, not the Devil's Child, not the Opera Ghost...and certainly not the Phantom of the Opera. He was just...Erik. An ordinary man with little past and an uncertain future. Five years ago he had gone into the village of Montmartre to hide from the authorities who sought to string him up by his neck for his crimes. For five years he hid in a run down squalor, making a living by selling music to the Moulin Rouge up the road. But as it turned out, he had his champions. The Vicompt De Changy and his new bride along with the old ballet mistress Madame Giry told the authorities up and down that his murder of Joseph Bouquet was self defense, and the kidnapping of Madame De Changy was a crime to which they would not press any charges. In fact, Giry testified that the Phantom had saved many girls from rape and murder at the opera house which was true, but not something Erik readily admitted to. And one month later, he would find himself in America, with a chance to start anew.