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I kept my eyes on my Angel who I have now found out is the phantom as he guided me foward.
"In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me and speaks my name
And do I dream again for now I find
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside my mind." I sang as he guided me through a hallway with hands on the walls holding candelabra. He occasionally looked back at me. Now we began to descend down steps after he grabbed a torch. He began singing in reply.
"Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind" he sang after I looked behind us and noticed we had gone quite the distance.
"The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside your mind." he finished singing and helped me onto a black stallion that was at the bottom of the steps. Once I was on he guided the horse foward. Then we came to a river with a small gondola in it.
He helped me off the horse keeping his eyes on mine. Then he brought me to the gondola and helped me into it. He got in after me and began to push us through the water.
"Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear." I sang as we floated through the water.
"It's me they hear." he joined.
"Your/My spirit and your/my voice in one combined
The Phantom of the Opera is there
Inside your/my mind." we sang together. It felt so right singing with him. Our voices were in perfect harmony.
"He's there the phantom of the opera!" I sang smirking slightly."Ah." I sang out, singing different notes. The gates and curtains ahead of us were opening as I sang and we continued foward.
"Sing my angel." he said softly and admiringly. So I continued. Candelabra lifted out of the water and magically lit themselves.
"Sing my Angel. Sing for me!" he ushered on me. I sang louder and a bit higher.
"Sing my Angel. Sing for me!" he shouted. I sang the final notes. Then let out a nice and high one. When it ended we had arrived at steps. He stepped out of the gondola and took his cape off.
"I have brought you
to the seat of sweet music's throne
to this kingdom where all must pay homage to music,
music..." he sang walking up some steps and gesturing to around the room. I looked at all the candles and instruments lying around as well as an organ, and many other things.
"You have come here,
for one purpose, and one alone" he turned his back to me facing the organ. Then turned back to me as he continued.
Since the moment I first heard you sing,
I have needed you with me,
to serve me, to sing,
for my music ...
my music ..." he sang. I smiled slightly at him. He walked foward slightly then began a new song.
"Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation.
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination.
Silently the senses abandon their defenses." He sang coming back down the steps back to the gondola. I stood and he held a hand out to me. I grasped it and he helped me out. I stumbled a bit but he caught me and steadied me while continuing singing and guiding me foward.
"Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.
Grasp it, sense it tremulous and tender." I looked around with awe as he sang. He put his hand under my chin and turned my face back to him at the next verse.
Turn your face away from the garish light of day,
Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light -" I glanced at the mine-stage he had built with a mini figurine dressed in my costume and hair.
"and listen to the music of the night ..."
"Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams!" he let go of my hand and walked up the steps again.
"Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before!
Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar!" he sang and I closed my eyes and listened to his beautiful voice with the little smile still on my he ended the note I opened my eyes smiling.
"And you'll live as you've never lived before."
He walked foward and offered his hand. I walked foward and took it as he continue singing.
"Softly, deftly, music shall caress you
Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you" he sang bringing me up the steps to the organ. Our faces were inches away from each other. I looked down blushing softly.
"Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind,
in this darkness that you know you cannot fight" he gestured around. I smirked at him slightly our of breath. Yeah. I was totally getting turned on.
"the darkness of the music of the night." he finished the verse.
"Let your mind start a journey through a strange, new world!
Leave all thoughts of the life you knew before!
Let your soul take you where you long to be!
Only then can you belong to me." he sang circling the small organ before stopping in front of me and caressing my face then my arms. He turned me and sang his next verse keeping his hands on me.
"Floating, falling, sweet intoxication!" he sang and kept one hand on my hip while the other caressed my stomach and thigh. I closed my eyes and sighed in pleasure.
"Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation!" he brought my hand to caress his face. I gave another sigh and turned to him as he held my hand in both of his.
Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in
To the power of the music that I write
The power of the music of the night." he sang gesturing to the whole area. I smiled a full smile at him. He pulled me over to an open curtain and looked inside. I looked in with him. I saw a wax figure that looked exactly like me with a wedding dress and veil on. I gasped and put a hand to my mouth. I stumbled backwards a bit before fainting into his arms. All went black.
I woke some time later to a music box playing soft music. I opened my eyes and found myself on a bed unknown. Black transparent curtains surrounded me. A music box with a monkey on it was what I was hearing.
I saw a rope and pulled it. When I did the black curtains lifted and the music box stopped. I got out of bed and began walking out of the room.
"I remember there was mist ...
swirling mist upon a vast, glassy lake ..." I sang softly to myself looking out to the lake I remembered.
"There were candles all around,
and on the lake there was a boat," I continued looking at the hundreds of burning candles and the gondola on the lake.
"and in the boat there was a man ..." I finished a verse looking to the phantom who had turned to me from his organ. Then he turned back to his work.
"Who was that shape in the shadows?" I walked quickly down the steps to him and softly petted his head. He closed his eyes and sighed softly.
Whose is the face in the mask?" I finished and caressed his face before quickly taking off his mask. I caught a glimpse of deformation before he knocked me down and began cursing at me.
"Damn you!
You little prying
Pandora!
You little demon - is this what you wanted to see?" he shouted tearing a clothe off a mirror and looking at the mirror. I caught another glimpse before he began cursing again and covering his face.
"Curse you!
You little lying Delilah!
You little viper - now you cannot ever be free!" he said coming towards me but I crawled backwards the best I could so he couldn't hurt me. He turned away.
"Damn you! Curse you!" he knocked over a candle stand then calmed down a bit.
"Stranger than you dreamt it -
can you even dare to look or bear to
think of me:
this loathsome gargoyle, who
burns in bell, but secretly yearns for heaven," he began singing while walking and looking at me while keeping a hand to cover his face. I had puppy dog eyes for I knew I did wrong but I could not resist. I hate secrets. He wanted me to love him but I need to know all about him.
"secretly ...
secretly ...
But, Adelina..." he continued looking into the room with the wax figure of me. My eyes had unshed tears in them as I grasped his mask. I understood his pain of loneliness.
"Fear can
Turn to love - you'll learn to see,
to find the man behind the monster: this ..." he looked to find the words reasoning with me sitting onto the step next to where I was lying where he had knocked me down.
"repulsive carcass, who seems a beast, but secretly dreams of beauty,
secretly ... secretly ...
Oh, Adelina..." he finished sadly and looking at me longingly. Keeping his face covered and holding a hand out for the mask. I looked at him shedding tears of understanding.
"I'm so sorry, Angel." I whispered handing it back to him. He took it while scoffing.
"How could you possibly call me that when I have this...monstrosity on my face?" he whispered to me with a scowl. Then he turned his back to me and put his mask back on.
"Because I understand what it's like. Not everyone is perfect and I'll prove it." I said quietly, scared of what I was about to do.
"How?" he asked. I sighed shakily and looked down. I began to roll down my left stocking. He looked away modestly.
"No. You need to see this. It's only fair." I said causing him to turn his head back to me. I finished taking off my stocking. And showed him my scarred leg. He gasped slightly. From my mid-thigh to the bottom of my foot was scarred from being burnt.
"When my mother was rushing me out of my home. A burning board broke under my foot and my leg slipped through. My leg got stuck and continued burning until my mother and I could get it out. She dropped me off outside before going back in for my father and sister but...the house had collapsed and killed them all." I finished my story with tears rolling down my face.
"I understand what you are going through. I hide this as much as I can." I said finally looking into his tear filled eyes. He looked down. After a while of silence he sighed and spoke.
"Come. We must return. Those fools who run my theatre will be missing you." he said. I rolled my stocking back up and took his offered hand helping me stand up. We went to the gondola and back through the entire path we went through before. I did my best to ignore the cobwebs and rats. I also stuck close to him in the darkness lit only by torch light.
At the end he slid a window aside and I realized it was the mirror in my room. 'I'll have to cover it when I change.' I made a mental note. I stepped out of the mirror and into my room. He was sliding the mirror closed but stopped when I spoke, "May I see you again?" I asked. He nodded.
"For lessons and such. For now get some rest. You've had a long night." he said softly. He tried leaving again but I stopped him.
"What's your name?" I asked softly. He froze. After a moment he answered.
"Erik." he said. Then slid the mirror closed and left leaving me looking at my reflection.
"Erik." I whispered smiling. I sighed softly. Then climbed into bed with the phantom on my mind as I fell asleep and rested for the remainder of the day. I was then woken up by the chime of the clock. It was time to get ready for the next performance. The gala was the night before now it is the actual show.
Though to my surprise and disappointment Carlotta had returned and was taking the lead role. I would be cast as the silent page boy. Meg and Christine will be the fops in the room with Carlotta's character.
I arrived at the dressing rooms and got dressed as the page boy and put a dress over it that can easily come off as the page boy's disguise as a maid. Then put all the make-up on. I walked over to the stage-bed behind the second curtain and waited for Carlotta.
She finally arrived. "Squawker." I insulted her. She glared then sat on the bed putting her fan up. I hugged around her waist and put my face behind the fan waiting for the curtain to rise.
When it did I played my part. I pulled away from her with a shocked face pretending that I was a caught cheater.
"Seraphim your disguise is perfect." Carlotta sang. Then three 'knocks' sounded. "Why who can this be?" she sang after the knocks. Piangi walked in at his cue.
"Gentle wife admit your loving husband." he sang off key then slapped Meg on the bum shocking her character.
"My love, I'm called to England on affairs of state and must leave you with your new maid." he sang as I walked around 'cleaning' and turning around bending over so he could make the perverted gesture. I rolled my eyes then smiled when I turned back around.
"Though I would happily take the maid with me." he joked. The audience laughed.
"The old fool is leaving." Carlotta said covering how mad she was. The she began singing and prancing around. She began her next line.
"Seraphim, away with this pretense." she sang and I ripped of the maid lair 'shocking' the people in the room. I put my hands on my hips and smirked.
"You cannot speak but kiss me in my husbands absence." she sang putting up a fan and we leaned in and "kissed" I stuck my tongue at her from behind the fan.
"Poor fool he makes me laugh time I tried to get a better half." she sang while I pranced around smirking.
"Poor fool he doesn't know. If he knew the truth he'd never ever go." The chorus joined in from the side. Then began singing/laughing. I hid and popped up behind Carlotta and continued prancing with a smirk.
"Did I not instruct that Box 5 was to be kept empty?" Phantom's voice boomed in the whole audience room shocking everyone and causing the instruments and singing to silence.
"It's him." I whispered happily with a small smile looking to the ceiling where I believed I saw him behind the chandelier on the walkway.
"Your part is silent little toad!" Carlotta said harshly to me before smiling to the audience and going to the side to spray her throat.
Then she came back and ordered the maestro to begin again.
"Seraphim away with this pretense. You cannot speak but kiss me in my...*croak*" she began again but her voice suddenly croaked and everyone gasped loudly but then we began to chuckle and laugh. I giggled behind my hand. Trying not to burst out laughing.
The orchestra pit didn't know what to do. Reyer calmed them down and got them to start from the beginning.
Carlotta began to sing again but ended up croaking whenever she tried. We all began laughing. My arms held my stomach as I finally let it out. She ran off the stage and the curtains began to close so we all ran off.
Firmin and Andre went to give an excuse. I was waiting for a command looking around the stage not knowing what to do when suddenly my arm was pulled and I was in front of the curtains with the managers. They announced that I would now play the lead role. I was then pushed back behind the curtain harshly and pulled to the side to get ready.
I sighed and went to the room to get ready. Madame Giry helped me get into the dress for the next scene and tied my corset. When we finished I saw the rose and ribbon on the dresser. I smiled knowing he was looking out for me still.
Then screams were heard outside. 'What did he do?' I thought franticly. Knowing phantom. Something bad. Madame Giry and I ran out of the room and to the commotion. Joshua approached me. "Are you alright?" he asked. I sighed barely hearing him.
"Come on. We have to talk elsewhere." I took his hand and led him up many stairs to the roof. Knowing that if the phantom saw me with him. He would get the wrong idea.
"Why have you brought me here?" Joshua asked.
"We can't go back there. He'll kill you if we're seen together." I replied racing up the steps with Joshua close behind me.
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