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Christine looked up to see Meg still in the same spot rooted in fear, and shock. Erik held Gustave and Christine when Gustave noticed the blood coming from his stomach and broke down crying. Erik asked "What's wrong Gustave?" Gustave replied "I just lost one papa I don't want to lose the one I never got to know." Erik wiped away the tears with his gloved thumb and said "Don't worry Gustave I'm not going anywhere it's not that bad." Gustave looked skeptical and he said "It's hurts you to breathe though how do I know that you won't leave me and mama too?" Erik said gently "I promise you Gustave that I'm not leaving you or your mother I won't let that happen." Gustave looked into his eyes and asked "Promise?" Erik nodded and replied "I promise Gustave."
He smiled and hugged him tighter. Christine looked up and saw that the police men were coming and she whispered "Angel, the police are coming." Erik replied "Wait here." Gustave gave him back his mask and headed back over to Raoul, while Erik headed over to Meg. He said "Meg look at me." She still stared at Raoul in shock, and fear and Erik repeated gently but firmly "Meg look at me." She looked at him and was shaking and Erik said "It was an accident okay I'll handle the police man if they ask you it was an accident got it." She nodded and he went over to the police men and watched them cautiously. They asked "What happened here sir?" Erik said "The blonde Mademoiselle was trying to commit suicide but accidentally shot the Viscount de Chagney and myself." The police looked at Meg who nodded in confirmation still standing there shaking and the chief turned to Erik and asked "Do you want to press charges sir?" Erik replied "No Monsieur I do not." They turned to Christine and asked "Do you want to press charges ma'am?" Christine shook her head and replied "No Messieurs." They put Raoul in a body bag and Christine sank to her knees on the pier and started sobbing and Erik went over to her and got down on his knees next to her and held her in his arms and Gustave sank to his knees and Christine held him in her arms.
Meg walked up to them still shaking but now sobbing uncontrollably and she dropped down to her knees next to them and said "I am so sorry Christine I didn't mean to shoot Raoul." Christine said "It's okay Meg I know it was an accident and that you are really sorry." Meg turned to Erik and scared of his reaction "I am sorry that I shot you Erik." Christine asked "Who's Erik?" The Phantom said "I am Erik, it's okay Meg I forgive you." Christine blushed that she didn't even think that her Angel of Music had something so simple as a name. Erik looked over to see Christine blushing and he wondered why until he realized that she must not have thought that he could have something so simple as a name. He started feeling light headed and looked down to see that his stomach was bleeding pretty badly still but it was worse now.
They got up and started heading back to Phantasma with Meg leading the way looking sad, and scared. They were walking along with Meg in the lead, Gustave and Christine behind her and Erik behind all of them. He started feeling light headed and was seeing black spots and the world was spinning. He looked and saw that he only had a little ways to go and knew that he had to keep from passing out from the loss of blood until they got to Phantasma. They arrived at the gates and entered into the park and went to where the workers and some of the people stayed. Madame Giry met them and asked "What happened?" Meg ran to her mother and started crying into her arms and Christine broke down too and Madame Giry held her too. Gustave looked at Erik who was leaning against a street pole breathing heavily and holding a hand on his stomach that was covered in blood. He was worried that his father wouldn't make it. Erik leaned against a street pole watching everyone breathing heavily since it was getting hard to breathe, or even walk for that matter.
He looked up and saw Gustave staring at him nervously and he closed his eyes and tried to breathe evenly. He heard Madame Giry's voice ask "Erik are you okay?" He breathed and tried to answer but no words would come out. He heard the worry in her voice when she asked again "Erik are you okay?" He opened his eyes and saw everyone looking worriedly at him. He sank to the ground his legs not being able to support him anymore and he knew that he looked like he was going to crawl his way to where he was staying but in fact he was trying to keep strong and not pass out. Christine ran over to him and said "Please don't leave me Erik." Erik looked at Christine and whispered "I will not leave you if you do not leave me." Christine grabbed his non-bloody hand and said "Promise." Erik started coughing and blood dripped from his mouth and dropped to the ground and he found that it was getting even more hard to breathe. Meg whispered "No, god please no." Madame Giry asked "What is it Meg?" Meg replied "I think his lung is collapsing." Everyone looked and saw Erik still in the same position and blood was dripping out of the corner of his mouth and drops dropped onto the ground and Christine had tears rolling down her cheek. She turned to Meg and said "Go get some help, please Meg and hurry." Meg nodded and took off running towards where everyone would be staying.
Erik felt the darkness growing stronger and it was hard to fight but he knew he had to for the sake that he might never wake up again if he didn't. He winced as he coughed up more blood and a sharp pain came into his side and he had a feeling that his lung was collapsing. He heard running footsteps and he looked up to see Fleck, Squelch, and Meg running towards him. They ran towards him and asked "What do you want us to do to help?" Christine asked "Can you support him back to his quarters?" They nodded and helped him up and had his arms on both of their shoulders supporting his weight equally. They supported him back to where he was staying in Phantasma and helped him to his room Christine helped him the rest of the way to his bed and he continued coughing up blood. She sat in a chair next to the bed and grabbed his hand and he looked up at her and smiled at her weekly. She looked and saw Meg had disappeared and wondered where the young blonde went. Madame Giry came in and she had tears in her eyes when she saw her longtime friend lying on his death, and some slid down her cheeks from the guilt of not being the friend she was supposed to be after she had gotten married. She realized that she hadn't really been there for him after she had gotten married to her husband and she felt horrible for that and even more horrible now that she might not have the chance to tell him how much his friendship had actually mean to her.
Erik looked up and saw Madame Giry in the doorway with tears rolling down her cheeks and he wondered what on earth would make her cry so bad. He heard little footsteps carefully walking into the room and he looked to see Gustave walking into his room scared of what he would walk in on. He asked "Are you going to be okay?" He walked carefully over to the bed and Erik let go of Christine's hand and put it on Gustave's shoulder reassuringly and he whispered "I'll be fine, I promise." Gustave started crying and said "But what if you can't keep that promise and you get taken away from me and momma." Erik wiped away a tear from his eye and said "I will not leave you guys I promise." He walked closer and hugged him and Erik hugged him back with one hand that was not the one covered in blood trying to stop his bleeding stomach. There were heavy footsteps and they looked up to see a doctor with a medical bag in his hand. Gustave stepped back next to Christine while the doctor started working. He asked "Does this man have any family here?" Madame Giry replied "Not any biological family." The doctor said "He needs some blood in his system, kind of like a blood transplant but not really so it would be better if he had a family member." Erik growled out "I do not have a blood family member that would care so just pick somebody else." Meg said "I'll do it." They all looked at her and she was scared and upset still and everyone could tell she felt horrible about what she did.
