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Christine's POV

The next morning I was lying wrapped in Erik's arms. I buried my head into his chest and smelled his wonderful cologne.

"Good morning Mon ange" Erik whispered.

"Good morning my amazing husband." I kiss him on his malformed cheek. "What shall we do today?"

"I have to go find a job." He said getting up. "We need to get a place for us, so no one can just waltz in as they please."

I laughed, while living across the hall from Meg and Madam Giry they just came into our room as they pleased and it drove Erik mad; he always complained about not having enough privacy and I knew he was tired of staying in this hotel.

"Oh, right" I sighed.

"What's wrong?"

"I just thought we could spend the first day being husband and wife together."

Erik put on his wig and mask and thought for a moment.

"How about when I come back later I take you out for a special dinner?"

"That's a wonderful idea!"

"Well then I will see you later tonight mon ange." He came over and gave me a quick kiss and was out the door.

I got dressed and decided to go get myself something to eat. I liked being out on the streets without having to be escorted like I was back in Paris, when I was with Raoul he would hardly ever let me go anywhere alone. I wandered the streets checking out all the wonderful shops, I stopped in a small café and bought a croissant and a pastry for later.

I walked along the beach for a little and then went back to the hotel. I hadn't realized before that there was not much to do with Erik gone. I sat down on the bed and read one of the few books Erik had managed to bring with him from his library.

I tried to keep myself busy till Erik got back; I mostly wandered around the hotel. Around 5 I came back and started to get ready.

I looked at myself in the mirror; you could clearly see my baby bump now that I was three months along. I slid on my green dress and grabbed one of Erik's shirts out of his bag. I stuck it under my dress where the baby was and looked in the mirror again. I was lost in my own head so I didn't hear Erik come in.

"Christine? What are you doing?"

I spun around and my face turned red.

"I just wanted to see what I would look like when I got bigger." I said taking the shirt out and handing it back to him.

He chuckled and kissed me on the top of my head.

"Erik are you ok?" I didn't notice it before, but he looked very stressed and tired. "Did you find a job?"

"I'm fine, and yes I have found a job."

"What is it?"

"I was hired to do magic tricks for a fair attraction, let's be on our way." He said changing the subject.

I had a feeling there was something he wasn't telling me, but I didn't want to anger him and ruin the evening so I let it go.

We found a nice restaurant and went inside. The woman who seated us gave Erik a strange look because he had his mask and wig on. A lot of other people gave him looks as well, but he just ignored them. It bothered me that people could be so rude.

I tried to focus on my menu, but many people kept glancing our way and it was making me feel irritated.

"We can go somewhere else if you want to." I said to Erik.

He put down his menu and stared at me. "Is there something wrong here?"

"No, I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable. Why can't people just stop staring?"

"Christine, I have been dealing with people staring at me my whole life, I'm a freak, and how can they not stare?"

"You're not a freak, and it's still rude."

I could tell we were being treated differently than any other customer in the place. The waitress avoided our table for as long as she could before coming back to ask us what we wanted. Erik ordered some pork meal and I got the same thing. While we were waiting I noticed a couple sitting diagonally from us; they kept staring and whispering about us until I had finally had enough.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you not to stare?" I asked them irritated "and that goes for everyone else here too."

Everyone stopped staring at us and looked away. I felt Erik touch my hand.

"Thank you, no one has ever done that for me before." He said.

"You are a person too and people should treat you just as they would treat anyone else."

We finished our meal and left. I wanted to go walk down on the beach, but Erik was tired and he had work tomorrow so we headed back to the hotel.

I was making dinner for Erik and me the next day when he came in looking completely exhausted; there were also a couple of scrapes on his face and his clothes were torn.

"Erik! What happened?" are you ok?" I went to the bathroom and got a cloth to wipe his dirty face.

"I'm fine; it was just a hard day at work."

"I know you lying to me now tell me what is going on."

"Nothing now stop pestering me about this." He said walking toward the bathroom.

"Erik I'm your wife just tell me what's happening."

"Damn you woman! Nothing is going on so just leave me be!" He slammed the door to the bathroom shut. I set the table for dinner annoyed that he couldn't just give me an answer, why did he always have to be so stubborn?

The silence at the table was strange compared to our usual dinner chatter. Erik quickly finished his meal and went off to write his music. I cleaned up and felt tired so I went to bed.

I wasn't sure what time it was when I got up the next morning, but Erik was gone so it had to be on the later side. I thought about going to find him and apologizing, but decided to let him blow off some more steam. I always hated when we fought.

When he came home later he seemed just as tired and this time he had a big gash across his shoulder.

"Erik, please tell me what's going on, I'm so worried about you." I moved my hand toward his arm, but he pulled away.

"Do I have to tell you everything! There was just a small accident at work today, he said tossing the money he made onto the table.

"Stop worrying and stay out of my business you little viper!"

"I'm just trying to look out for you!"

This happened for another few days, Erik would come home hurt in some way and then we would fight about it. He also began to have nightmares again and when I would try to get him to tell me what they were about he would yell at me. I promised myself that I was going to get down to the bottom of this, there was something he wasn't telling me and I was going to find out what.

The next day a little while after Erik left for work I got dressed and tried to find him. I started at the beginning of the board walk looking for any sign of Erik. I got later and Later and I still had not found him. I was about to go back to the hotel when I noticed a large crowd headed toward one of the tents in the far corner of the carnival. As I got closer I saw a sign across the tent, "Freakish Wonders" I quickly ran inside and pushed my way through the crowd. I prayed that my suspicion was a wrong, but I was right.

There was Erik surrounded by a crowd of people while he tried to do magic tricks, but people weren't there to see his tricks they were there to hurt him. They were throwing rocks and trash at my angel while calling him awful names. It broke my heart to see him treated like this; no one knew what a sweet man Erik was and here they were harming him.

Someone then threw a rock that sent his mask flying off of his face. My hand flew to my mouth, I heard some people laugh, others scream, and a few who called out more horrible names. Erik placed his hand over the deformed side of his face and bent down to grab his mask. A man came out from the far end of the crowd and kicked Erik in the stomach.

That was all I could take, I shoved my way past the people to where Erik was now laying.

"Stop it! Stop!" I screamed as I ran toward him. People started to quite down, soon the whole tent was silent.

"You are all awful! Leave him alone, he has done nothing, but try to entertain you and this is how you treat him!"

"Christine?" I heard him say surprised that I had found him.

I bent down to help Erik up when a man came out of the back of the tent with a few other odd people following him.

"What is going on out here!" the man yelled. "Who stopped my show?"

I stood back up as the man approached us. "So you're the man who hired my husband?" I asked angrily.

"Lady, I think your mistaken I only hire Freaks here." The man said sweeping his hand toward the people behind him. "Now if you looking for someone as your husband I can be of service."

Erik growled and I slapped the man across the face.

"My husband is the one here that is being mistreated by your customers." I said pointing to Erik "Is this the way you let people treat all your employee's because I think you are despicable!"

The man grabbed my wrist and twisted it; I yelped in pain. "I will treat my workers however I want to treat them and I most certainly will not have some filthy woman coming in here and ruining my business!"

He continued to twist my wrist and I tried to pull away, the pain was becoming excruciating. Erik tried to get up and help me, but the man kicked him again. I thought he was going to break my arm, but one of the other workers standing behind the owner pushed him to the ground. I helped Erik up and we both went back to the hotel.

I laid Erik on the bed and made him some tea, when it was finished I brought him a cup and sat next to him.

"Drink this, it will sooth your chest. It must be in pain those men kicked you pretty hard."

Erik took the cup from me and slowly sipped the sweet mixture.

"How did you find me?"

"I knew something was wrong when you started coming home hurt everyday so I searched all over Coney for you. Why didn't you tell me what was going on? Why did you keep working there?"

"The money was good and we needed it. I knew you would be upset if I told you what was going on so I tried to keep you from knowing, that's why I was so harsh with you all the time."

Erik was so kind he would always put me and the baby before himself; I was so touched I started crying.

"Christine, Erik is sorry he didn't mean to make you upset, Erik is a monster he has made his wife angry and sad." Tears formed in his eyes.

"I'm not mad at you."

"You're not?"

"No, I couldn't have asked for a better husband. You put your family before anything, even your own life, I just don't want you doing that ever again, if I lost you I don't know what I would do." I said still crying.

"Erik promises to never do that again."

He had finished his tea and as I went to take his cup he grabbed my arm to look at my wrist. It was in a lot of pain, but I had been so worried about Erik I had just ignored it; it was all purple and swollen, I could barely move it.

"This is what he did to you?" His voice was hard and tensed as he tried to keep his anger down.

"It's nothing I'm fine."

"Christine, you can hardly move it."

"I said its fine." Erik reached for my arm and grabbed my wrist instead. I let out a sharp breath and pulled away.

He grabbed my arm this time, ripped a long piece of his shirt, and gently began to wrap it tight around my wrist. When he finished he kissed it, then I kissed him on his malformed cheek. He pulled me closer to him and kissed my lips. My hands began to move over his chest.

"Christine" he moaned.

He went to remove my dress when there was a knock at the door.

Erik groaned as I got up to answer the door. I expected it to be Meg or Madam Giry, but it was the odd people from the tent earlier today, I recognized the man who had helped us.

"Hello, I don't mean to bother you," the man said. "I just wanted to thank you for standing up for us today."

"Oh it was no trouble at all, people like that are just awful."

"I'm Mr. Squelch, this is Dr. Gangle, and that is Miss Fleck."

"It's nice to meet you all, won't you come in?"

"No it's late, we just wanted to thank you, hope to see you around."

"You too." I said smiling. I shut the door and went back to Erik.

"Who was that?" he asked.

"The people who worked with you came to thanks us. They are all so sweet it's awful they are treated so badly by everyone around here, I wish there was some place where they wouldn't have to worry about being judged."

There was a small pause. "That's it! Christine your brilliant!"

"I am? What's it?"

"Grab me a pencil and some sheets of paper, oh and something to lean on."

I did ask he asked and watched him get right to work, I tried to stay awake, but sleep got the better of me. It was about three in the morning when I was awakened by Erik.

"Here take a look at this!" he said shoving sheets of paper at me.

I took them and flipped through each one, most of them were ride designs, and one was of a few shops, an opera house, and finally what looked like a flat. The last picture was of all of it together; it was amazing.

"This is beautiful, but what is all this?"

"An amusement park that I am going to build as a safe place for oddities. It just needs a name."

I sat thinking of a name.

"What about Phantom's Park?" he asked

"Hmm, it doesn't have that special ring to it." Then it hit me, the perfect name for Erik's park.

"Phantasma"

"What?"

"Phantasma!"

Erik pause thinking the name over "Phantasma, city of wonder."

"I'll start on it tomorrow!"

I smiled and rested my head on Erik's lap, thinking about Phantasma.

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