Title: Ends
Fandom: Phantom of the Opera
Characters: Christine/ Erik
Prompt: Ends
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Erik had pored over his copy of Machiavelli's Il Principe for weeks, like a zealot seeking absolution for a crime he had not yet committed.
If it was true that the ends justify the means, then he should feel no twinge of guilt for his part in the bedlam ensuing above - the smoke, the ruin, the screams of the dying and the terrified.
But Christine lay crumpled and weeping in the prow of the boat, and the sound echoed weirdly through the cavern, reverberating off the still surface of the subterranean lake.
This was not the end he had envisioned.
