Chapter Eleven - The Finale
"Christine, why can't you see it's all for you!" Raoul shouted at a distraught Christine.
"Let me go Raoul! shouted Christine, "let me go back and help him."
"It's too late now my love, we are already behind our schedule. Will will return to Germany and live at peace until we die."
"Raoul I don't want that, I don't love you anymore. Please, just let me go." Christine pleaded, "if you love me you'd let me go."
Raoul turned to face Christine; his face showed anger and disappointment.
"I thought you'd want to come away with me and live with me forever. You do, don't you?" Raoul asked her confidently.
"No Raoul! I want Erik."
Raoul loosened his grip around Christine's hand. Christine noticed this and shook free and ran as fast as she could away from him back down to corridor to see Erik.
"Come back here!" Raoul shouted and chased after her.
Christine arrived back at the Box. Erik wasn't there. She looked puzzled.
"Ha," Raoul laughed smugly. "I knew he didn't really love you. He is probably away to hide underground again."
Raoul found his joke hilarious and started laughing madly to himself. He grabbed Christine's arm and headed back out of the door. Erik was standing in the door way. He punched Raoul and sent him flying along the corridor. Christine ran over to him and gave him a huge hug.
"I knew you wouldn't have left me," said Christine and kissed Erik on the cheek.
They both heard laughing and turned round to face the source.
"If I can't have Christine then no one will."
Raoul came charging at them both with a sword. Erik pushed Christine out of the way. Raoul was still charging towards him. Erik side stepped him and Raoul fell over the edge of Box Five.
Christine gasped. They both Raoul's scream until he hit the floor with an earth shattering thud. Christine ran up to Erik and started crying.
"I thought I'd lost you forever," Christine sobbed. "I knew putting on this show was a terrible idea."
Erik hugged Christine back and kissed her.
"Is he dead?" Christine asked.
"I don't know," Erik answered.
He walked over to the edge of the balcony and looked down. Raoul's lifeless body lying between chairs where the audience sat.
Erik turned around to face Christine.
"We're fine now."