Chapter 10: A Disaster Beyond Your Imagination
Gwen sat watching the performance; did no one realize that that was not Piangi singing? Were they that blind? Oh Yeah... I forgot... they are... Gwen smiled a little...
"Past the point of no return, the final threshold! The Bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn... We've past the point of no return..." Gwen watched and felt a painful sadness wash over her, Erik was singing those words to her now. Why? He love's me doesn't he? Gwen hadn't seen Erik since she'd almost left; she wondered if he knew that she was here? Probably, after all he knew everything that went on in his theater. Gwen watched nervously, hoping that maybe, just maybe, Christine would not actually take the mask from Erik's face. She did and just as Andrew Lloyd Webber had written it, Erik took her. Gwen screamed.
"No!" She took off running, wondering if her dreams would come true, those horrible dreams of Erik's death. She ran and then jumped taking the same route that Erik had taken. She ran and ran down the stairs. She felt a stitch in her side and her lungs felt as though they were filled with ice, but still she ran. She ran for what felt like years.
"Pitiful Creature of darkness..." She ran harder. A few minutes passed, though they felt like hours, and then she tripped. She screamed as she fell. The pain over whelmed her, would the falling never end? Then she heard voices, like in her dream "Pitiful creature...Past the point of no return...I am your angel... I am there inside... This is your choice... Think of me fondly... I am your angel... Poor fool... You will curse the day you did not do all that the Phantom asked of you... Christine I love you...Love me that's all I ask of you... Christine...Christine..." Would the falling...the pain ever stop? She felt something in her neck snap... The pain shot through her like hot needles and then suddenly it all stopped as her head hit the ground with a sickening crack and the pain was unbearable...
Erik heard the scream and fought every instinct that told him to turn... Christine had just kissed him, but it did not have the same effect as Melody's kiss... Erik felt the tears burning hot trails down his face... The sobs came after he heard the sickening crack and the horrendous screaming ended, he didn't have to look to know what had happened...
"Melody..." The name was like a prayer to him... Christine looked at him with knowing eyes "Take her forget me, forget all of this..." he sobbed. "Leave me alone forget all you've seen, go now don't let them find you! Take the boat; swear to me never to tell... the secret you know of the Angel in hell!" His secret, Melody... "Go now! Go now and leave me!" He turned his back to them and went to Melody's body... Her breathing was harsh and shallow. He could see that she had broken her neck and split the back of her head open when she finally reach the bottom of the winding staircase... Her beautiful golden hair was matted and soaked in her own blood. She was so beautiful... And their child... their child would never see the world... Erik held Melody close and began to sob...
"Melody... My beautiful Melody..."
Gwen heard his voice as the darkness closed in around her. It hurt so much to breathe... she must have broken a few ribs... Then there was the pain in her head... hell she just plain hurt... She could feel her life slipping away from her as Erik held her...
"Erik..." Her voice was barely a whisper...
"Yes my love... my beautiful Melody..." His voice was choked by sobs and it broke her heart to hear it...
"I-I'm so..." She cried out in pain... it hurt so much..."I'm sorry my love... I- I love you..." and the darkness took her completely...
Erik felt Melody shudder and the she was still, completely lifeless... He let out a long mournful cry and pulled her body closer to him...
"You alone can make my song take flight... It's over now the Music of the Night!" He carried her body and began kicking out his mirrors in his rage, trying to find the one that led out... when he found it he carried her body with him so that he could bury her and say his final goodbyes and there would be no one to comfort him, to share his pain, never again... He lost the only person to ever care for him...
A/N Ok I lied; a note: I'd forgotten how sad that was... how hard it was to write...