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Erik was extremely upset as he tended to her every need, never refusing her anything. He gave her water when she asked soup, made sure she had a cold cloth to her forehead, and he even sang to her when she could not sleep from nightmares.
Her brothers and sister had heard a stranger's voice yell, "Fire!" As they ran toward the voice they saw a man in all black, wearing a white mask escape from a trap door in the hall.
They had sent guards after the mysterious man and found that Lucy's room as alit in flames to the ceiling. Peter and Edmund Desperately came and went with pails of water. Trying to douse the fire. Hoping to Aslan their sister had not been burned alive.
To their relief they found no burnt corpse but they did find a torch on the ground.
Someone dropped a lit torch. It had to be that masked man.
"Search the whole castle and the grounds for a man in a mask and arrest him!" Peter shouted out orders to guards whom scattered all around to follow their duties.
Tumnus had heard news about fire at the castle and had ran back to see what had happened to find that Lucy had almost been burned alive but was missing and had been kidnapped. Something about a masked man and a torch.
His heart stopped. No! Erik would not do that to her! He loves her more than his own self. It has to be that Duke Venice Deces!
He ran all through the castle trying to find his best friend in the world. Heartbroken he collapsed in the hallway.
The Guards searched all around and had not found the man. They had searched everywhere from high and low and beyond. No one was able to get in the tower. There was only one key to the door and Erik had taken it.
"He has to be in the tower with Lucy. Break in however way you can!" Edmund said, furiously.
"He better not harm her!" Susan glowered.
Erik walked around the tower, impatiently looking at the moonlight.
Aslan, what happens now? I have failed to protect her. I am doomed.
Lucy tossed and turned her head in a fitful sleep. At first after Erik sang her asleep she had peaceful sweet dreams. They were strange in a way. Erik was carrying her in his arms in a field of fire flowers. He bent down until he was sitting with her in his lap. He took a few of the flowers and made her eat them. Suddenly she was able to walk and Erik helped her stand. It was a beautiful moment. The sun shining down on them as they ran around the field, laughing.
But that dream started to fade into a gloomy dark dream. Lucy lay in bed, immobile and helpless as Venice burst into the tower with guards.
"Arrest him!" he shouted, pointing at Erik who stood in a corner.
"No!" Lucy screamed in horror, "Don't take my angel from me please!" she tried to get out of bed but instead of standing she buckled to the floor at Venice's feet.
"Angel?" Venice scoffed, "You disgust me, girl. He has the face of a monster!" He kicked Lucy cruelly in the stomach then turned to Erik who was horror-struck by his treatment of Lucy. "Monster!" Venice hissed, ripping Erik's mask off.
Erik cried out, covering his face like at the summer dance.
A guard withdrew a sword, pointing it at him, "Come on."
One jeered the handle of a sword into his back.
"Don't hurt him!" Lucy wailed, trying to crawl toward her angel.
Venice turned around and kicked her in the head.
She heard Erik start to cry, "I'm so sorry, Lucy," That was the last sentence he said before.
Venice withdrew his sword and stabbed him in the heart.
Lucy screamed as he crumbled to the ground. She crawled, weakly to where he lay and put her arms around him, sobbing.
"I—love—you," Erik coughed, his strength failing him.
"I love you too," Lucy kissed him.
"I have to leave you now, mon ange," he closed his golden eyes, flinching.
"No, don't leave me here all alone! I want to come with you," Lucy screamed in tears.
He did not answer and she realized he was already gone.
Venice sighed in annoyance, "I've had enough of you!" he pointed his sword at her.
Lucy tightened her arms around Erik's body, laying her head on his chest, not caring anymore she was getting soaked by blood.
"My life is over. I don't care what you do with me," Lucy said, dully.
"Very well," Venice snapped, bringing his sword down killing her right then.
Lucy screamed and screamed hysterically, falling off the bed, "Erik? Erik?"
Erik heard a great thud and heard Lucy scream his name and ran.
Lucy lay on the floor, sobbing.
Erik bent down and scooped her up in his arms, "Don't cry, dear girl. Everything's alright. I'm here."
"He killed us. He killed us!" Lucy said in tears.
"No he has not. We both safe in the tower," Erik laid her down.
Lucy realized her angel was very much alive and so was she, "Oh thank God!" she started sobbing all over again.
"Here now, calm down, miel. I'm not leaving you," Erik said with a kiss on her lips that quieted her into snubs.
Suddenly there were great bangs on the wooden door, and Lucy stifled a scream that was muffled by Erik's gloved hand.
"Open this door. We know you both are in there!" a guard shouted.
"Dear Aslan, my dream!" Lucy cried into his hand.
Erik's eyes met hers in fear. This could be his death sentence. He could escape through the passageway in the tower but he would not dream of leaving Lucy. But he could carry her through it.
He did not have time to think through his plan for the door banged open and Lucy clung to him for dear life, frightened out of her wits.
"Hand over the Queen, now!" the leader shouted at Erik.
"She's not here unwillingly. I don't keep her here," Erik said, unable to escape Lucy's vice grip.
"It was the Kings' orders to arrest him!" the leader said to a guard.
"No, please, he didn't do anything!" Lucy cried as the guard pried her fingers free from Erik's arm.
"Its okay, Lucy," Erik assured the poor girl.
"How dare you address the Queen as a mere commoner!" the leader snarled at Erik.
"What's behind this mask?" a man asked.
"I hear a monster," one man answered.
The mask was ripped from his face, revealing his deformity to all to see.
Erik did not make a sound only looked to the floor in defeat.
Lucy growled in frustration. Why can't I walk in a time like this? She decided to try but like her dream buckled to the floor in a heap.
Erik then looked up, "Your Highness, don't," he protested, not wanting her to hurt herself.
"Take him to the dungeon. Your Highness, the Kings and Queen will be here shortly," the guard said.
The guards pushed Erik out, leaving her on the floor not realizing she was paralyzed.
Erik's eyes showed so many emotions as he left her. Love, fear, determination, protectiveness, hurt, and tortured.
Everything was silent and dark. Lucy crawled toward the mask, taking it in her hands then hugging it close. All she had of her angel now. Not caring to try to get back in the bed. She lay down on the cold floor and knocked out, still holding onto the mask.
And that's how her siblings and Tumnus found her.
Erik: Aren't you mean?
Me: Look who's talking.
Erik: *silence*
Me: *gives a Erik-like cackle*
Erik: Stop that! Be glad I haven't killed you yet. *glowers*
Me: You couldn't kill me even if you wanted to.
Erik: Oui I could!
Me: Aucun!
Erik: Oui!
Me: Aucun, aucun, aucun!
Lucy: Enough, you two!
Tumnus: You two fight the worst!
Erik: What's wrong with that?
Lucy: pushes me at Erik.
Me: Oof! *smacks into Erik's chest* What was that for?
Lucy: Make up!
Me and Erik: *jaw drops* How?
Tumnus: *clears throat*