Disclaimer I do not own the Phantom of the Opera or its characters, but I really wish I did. -_-
"Keep running Christine were almost there"
"Where are we running to?"
"Home" Erik said with a happy toned sigh.
He pulls her along a little while longer and then she trips and falls on her wedding dress, he stops dead to feel her weight get heavier, Erik turns instantly falling to his knee's with her.
"Christine... are you okay?" He looked at her with sympathy and compassion.
"No.. I think I broke my ankle" She said in pain, almost crying.
"Can you make it a little longer? I promise you were almost there"
"Carry me my love" Christine said in tears from pain.
Erik was stunned, this was the first sign of love she had shown him, so in return for the compassion she just shared with him, he gives it back by picking her up and carries her to a heavy looking stone door and sets her down again to open the door. Erik struggles to open the door so he rest a moment siting next to Christine.
"Erik we have to go soon, Raoul will find us"
"Shh.. Christine, I love you" Erik said caressing her face with one hand and grabbing her right hand with the other.
She blushes and takes her hand back but only to remove the wedding ring Raoul had given her, she throws it down the corridor. Erik hears it bounce and looks up at Christine.
"Do you not want to marry me?" "No" She starts to say.
Erik bows his head down in heart brokenness, but she lifts his heavy head, only to see his eyes have started to redden with tears.
"I do not want to marry you with a ring that you did not give me"
"Oh Christine, I have longed for you to say those words to me" He wraps his arms around her in a long embrace.
When he finally lets go of her, Erik stares at her for a long moment and leans in to kiss her waiting for her rejection, but she doesn't Christine leans in to make him feel more comfortable, and when there lips finally touch Erik's eye's burst out in tears, he has finally felt "the Joys of the flesh". They hold there for a long moment until he releases to try and open the door, ignoring the fact she saw him crying.
"Erik what is wrong? Your crying"
"You surprised me Christine, I never knew the passion one's kiss could be, I got overwhelmed is all"
"Oh" She sighs. "Erik..." She says kinda fainting, hitting the ground hard.
He glances over to her and he gives a slight smile at the sight of her beauty.
Over powered with strength and joy he gets the door to release, having a rush of cold, snowy air fill the tunnel, it wakes up Christine, she shivers.
"Erik I can't go out there I'll freeze"
"I would never come unprepared, trust me..." He pauses at his poor choice of words. "Your safe in my arms" He says quietly.
She smiles at him as he does the same, he removes his cape and wraps it around her and lifts her up, carrying her out into the night.
"Did you hear that?!" Raoul shouts.
"No sir I did not over your shouting" Meg Giry said.
Everyone at this point has left him but not Meg, she is completely in love with him and would do anything to make him happy even if it means not being with him.
"It sounded like metal dropping, and then a large bang!"
"De Chaney, I really think you need to go home we can look in the morning for her"
"Go home then Meg"
She stops shocked at what he just said to him.
"If I go home you will never know where the mirror is" Meg said smartly.
Raoul runs up to her and grabs her shoulders.
"Where? Meg please tell me I must know now!"
"Marry me De Chaney" She looked into his eyes passionately.
"Only after I find Christine dead or gone for good" He gives her the same look back.
She looks at him with tears in her eyes, Raoul gets upset at her crying and kisses her, with no love or feeling.
"Now tell me! Hurry"
She points to the beautiful red velvet drapes.
"There's his door"
He removes the curtain and see's a mirror with a door handle, he lifts Meg up in happiness and twirls her around.
"Oh Meg, I love you!"
"I love you too" She said over joyed.
"Now come we must hurry, we have to save her"
They ran down the tunnel until Raoul felt a crunch under his foot he looks down to see a broken ring, he lifts it up into the light and see's that it was the one he gave to Christine, he gets enraged and throws it to the ground in disgust.
"Raoul there's a door down here come quick!"
He runs to find Meg at a stone door trying to open it.
"Move"
He tries to open but he couldn't budge it either.
"We will come back later to open the door when we have our strength back"
"I guess so, lets go I need to get some things" Raoul says grabbing Megs hand and pulls her back to the Phantoms lair.
Erik carries her through the night to his secret carriage in barnyard close by and sets her inside, he goes to get out but she stops him, he looks at her.
"What my love?"
"Thank you for loving me"
"That's not something you should thank me for my dear, I should be thanking you"
"No Erik, Raoul never loved me it was all childish love, you have loved me since the day I was alone without a father, you cared for me when no one else would, you sang to me when I needed you too, you helped me become the woman I am today, and I love you, and I will always choose you"
He gets on his knee's in front of her and holds her hands.
"Oh, Christine, I love you and I love what you say to me" He kisses her once more.
"Stay with me here?"
"I will, I promise, but first let me see if my driver is awake"