A/N: Alright yet again i'm sorry for the delay, but life is pretty insane for me right now between school work, social life, family, and college applications i haven't had too much time to do this. Oh well. Wel I hope everyone likes this chapter, the next chapter will be prett long, it's the first meeting between all three Eriks. I wonder how that will play out 0.0. I'll try to update soon, but no promises. Happy Halloween Everyone! And please review! I really appreciate feedback good and bad, it helps me see what I need to improve.
Your faithful author,
Evilquail

ALW Erik

This is all so alien to me. It seems that I have been truly transported to the future… No that is absolutely impossible. Pure science fiction. Ridiculous notion really. But perhaps I must indulge this strange girl in this bizarre fantasy… After all, I have nothing to go back to.

Oh Christine

She was my rock, my only connection to sanity and the light of the world. But she has run off with that… fop… and left me, her angel, alone to dwell in the darkness. But I deserve my fate. I am a hideous corpse. I have murdered, stolen, and tortured. I belong in hell, and I was too much of a fool to see that earlier. I never deserved her, and I never will. She deserves so much better than me. She deserves him, so beautiful, so perfect.

That girl is speaking to me, but I am not paying attention. I am too absorbed in my own thoughts. She is so very strange: she is dressed like a man with short hair and breeches, yet she seems to be as giddy as a typical schoolgirl. Quite an odd contrast to watch. But perhaps this is the normal way of this time…. Or perhaps we are still in fact in Paris in 1881, and this is simply a mental patient who has somehow escaped the grasp of her nurses. But then, what was that gadget she showed me? Could that simply be a trick of the eye?

"Erik! Are you even listening to me?"
I turned my attention to the bizarre female.

She looked at the startled expression on my face and sighed, "I guess I'll have to explain it again then. Pay attention this time!"

I nodded in apology as she started to repeat what she had just said.

"Now Erik, I know you are not completely convinced that you are in 2011, but you will have to bear with me. When we transported you from your time, we also transported two other versions of you into this time as well. There are many versions of you; however we only brought two others."
I looked at the girl perplexed. She really was mad.

"Now the first Erik you will meet is quite possibly the most similar to yourself. He is the first Erik that was created. He has a tendency to be very violent and sadistic, and his disfigurement is worse than any other's."
I opened my mouth to object to this ludicrous statement, but she continued

"The other Erik is much less violent than either you or the first Erik, however do not be mistaken, he is a murderer. He is a sensitive man, and his deformity is not nearly as bad as yours or the first Erik."

I was enraged. How did she know what my deformity looked like!

Sensing my seething anger, the girl began to back away slowly

"I am sorry if I upset you Erik but…"

"Upset! UPSET! YOU TOOK OFF MY MASK!"

She looked at me startled "I never did, I swear!"
"Then how do you know what I look like!"

The girl gulped. She was cornered.

"I… I didn't take it off, I knew beforehand. I didn't touch your mask I swear!"

"LIAR!" I grabbed her by the neck once again

I saw the white coated men rush into the room once again

I tried to fight them off, but I quickly felt the familiar pinch

And then it all went black.

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Film Erik

I listened to my guide's words intently; hanging on each syllable, in order to perhaps understand what was happening to me.

"The first thing we need to do Is acquaint you with the other Erik's"

Other Erik's? Are they simply other people with the same name or… no that is completely impossible… they couldn't be… could they

The girl smiled at my confusion "They are versions of you from other dimensions, however I warn you Erik, they are both cruel and coldhearted men"
"But I am…"

"You are not nearly as murderous as they are, Erik believe me. In addition you should know that both of them have worse deformities than you."
I looked at the girl dumbfounded. How could this be? I am hideous, disgusting, a monster. Could there be people who look even more frightening than the Devil's child?

"Erik, I warn you now, do not upset them, you are crafty and skilled with your weapons, but they are much more so. Stay on their good sides."

I nodded, dumbfounded. Surely she was mistaken.

Hopefully she was mistaken…

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Leroux Erik

Christine… no this Catherine, must be an illusion of my sick demented fantasies. Perhaps I injected myself with too many narcotics… But I don't remember taking opiates recently… perhaps the hallucinations have to do with the constant darkness. When I awaken from this strange dream I must spend some time out of doors, in the daylight. Perhaps I will find a deserted alley I can sit in for an hour in order to give my body a bit of much needed sunlight. As much as I detest it, my body does require the sun's nutrients.

"Erik, I know you don't believe that you are in the future, but you must listen. There are two other Eriks, they are somewhat like you but they are not. They are what you could call reincarnations of yourself, but from the same time period, just in a different dimension. However you must understand that they are not exactly like you. One of the other Erik's is more like you than the other, and make no mistake that both are violent, but you must understand that you are the most notorious of the three. You are the original Erik, and from your story the other two have been created"

I looked at her with a mixture of shock and confusion. What in Christ's name was she talking about? And why didn't she tell me that I had to literally face myself earlier? This dream or hallucination is getting more bizarre by the second. ..

"Child, Erik does not believe you, but he shall indulge you, come let's meet these other so called 'Erik's.'"