A/N: Sorry it took so long to update! I do not own anything as usual.
See Why in Shadow I Hide
Chapter 4
Katarina
The morning seemed to drag on the next day. I still wasn't sure if what had happened was a dream or was it actually reality? I sighed and cleared up the worn costumes and hung each one carefully backing it proper place.
"Perhaps work will clear my mind." I wondered a loud, and continued to put the props away back in the trunks.
Erik
"So she doesn't know if she is going crazy or not?" I mumbled to my self as I watched Katarina working. Her face looked a bit concerned but as she continued she looked a bit at ease.
"I certainly cannot have everyone at ease," I smirked and found my way into box five. My Box Five. The idiot managers had done their job and kept it nice and clean, good for them.
I cleared my throat. "I am glad to see everything is in fine working order."
Everyone gasped, I always liked that part. That is when I knew I had everyone's attention. All faces were now turned towards me or actually toward Box Five.
"However," I went on, "there was something of a mishap last night which I am not pleased. From now on, a certain Monsieur Leon Vesper is not welcomed into my Opera House and if any allow him in or even hide that he has been here, I WILL KNOW."
And that was all. "I think they will get the idea."
Katarina
He was here; at least we could all hear his voice. Everyone stopped what they were doing and listened intently to all that he had to say. When he talked about Leon my heart jumped, he was really protecting me, well protecting all the women from danger even if they didn't realize it.
Then I had the most brilliant idea: I could go and see him in Box Five! I hurriedly put things away and went along the back way to the Box.
I was standing outside the door when I heard him murmuring to him self, "Perhaps now they will be careful about whom exactly they allow backstage…"
I carefully opened the door and then I was pulled in roughly, a hand pressed against my mouth to smother my scream.
Erik
"I knew you would not listen to me." I smirked, she then stopped squirming and I let her go.
"You did not have to pull me in like that, monsieur." She complained and rubbed her shoulder.
"You did not have to defy my direct command and deliberately search me out!" I snapped back.
"I thought maybe… we could be friends…" she said the last bit in a whisper.
"Excuse me mademoiselle, I did not hear that last part."
"Yes you did, you just do not want to try to become friends with a normal human being!" I laughed to my self, getting her angry was starting to become a fast new hobby of mine.
"It is true I do not wish to have any new friends, especially those among the female kind." Suddenly her face brightened and she looked up at me.
"Is that right? Why do you still have my ribbon?" She tugged at it. I pulled away quickly, and opened my mouth to reply, but I could not think of an excuse.
"Well, I better be going. Madame Giry probably needs me to mend some clothes or something." She curtsied and left the Box.
"Perhaps having a second pair of eyes and ears above ground would be a good idea."