"So you changed plans." The Phantom visited his daughter in her dressing room, minutes away from the performance. "Any regrets?"
"No," Louise laughed. "Meg went straight back into teaching after having the twins. They need someone to look out for them. An angel watching over them."
"So you'll take care of them as if they were your own." He smirked. "I didn't think you got so sentimental anymore."
"I put my feelings in my music." She shrugged. "As I did with this one." She gestured to the sheets lying on the desk by her mirror, written in her scraggly handwriting.
"I see," Her father nodded. "To think you just wanted to play nursery tunes through the night." They shared a laugh at his reaction of smacking her with a rolled up sonata.
But Louise's smile broadened as she thought of her inspiration, the nights she spent by the twin's cradle writing the notes, singing the tune to them as a lullaby, and watching over them with more care than their mother seemed to give them. Meg had barely registered her children due to her busy schedule, but Louise did not resent her at all for that. In fact she was almost thankful that her foster-mother was giving her the chance to take care of Lucas and Christine.
"You'll be on soon," The Phantom handed her the Stradivarius. "Playing royalty for royalty."
"It's my own composition, it's hardly royal," she rolled her eyes.
"I wasn't talking about you."
Louise scowled at her father. "Yes, I'm excited to play a Stradivarius too."
"Well you should go on soon." He turned to leave. "I'll be in my usual box. Break a leg."
The girl took a deep breath as she walked towards the entrance to the stage "It does feel good to be performing again," she muttered, entering the spotlight once more.
-offstage-
So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this! I'm sorry I've been dead for so long! I'll try and write some more - probably my Harry Potter and LOTR Crack! TALK TO YOU SOOOON~ -rolls off into sunset-