Photography. Simply a new game The Phantom played. A game that captured the image of a most willing subject.

Think of this as Down Once More: the extended, modern-day, jet set remix. Gunshot wounds, fast cars, first class flights, FBI in pursuit - but it's the quiet moments, the conversations, that leave Christine shaken. Hurtling towards her inevitable decision. COMPLETE.

Erik takes it upon himself to learn how to live. He starts with a morning stroll that has rather unforeseeable consequences. Leroux-based, E/OFC. Well and truly completed.

So he had not pulled away when she kissed him, had kissed her back, and they had fallen and clung together because maybe, just maybe, when you put together two second bests, you could create something that came first. EM, ALW

Erik's final confession of the affair at the Opera Populaire as it really was; as dark as you would expect from Erik and more depressing than you would usually expect from me.