Modern AU. A kind, innocent girl is taken, and forced into a relationship filled with abuse. Can she ever escape her tragic situation? Even if she does, can her wounds ever heal so that she may experience true love with an even more damaged person than she? Very dark and twisted. Read with caution.

Life has taken a hard turn into disasterland for Christine Daaé-unemployed, directionless, and in a rut. When a neighborhood holiday game brings her world colliding with that of the masked man next door, she must decide whether she is able to get back on track, or stay adrift-and alone. Modern AU COMPLETE

After leaving Iran, running for his life, Erik has no choice but to turn to the U.S. for clemency. The FBI is willing to offer it, under one condition: Erik, and Nadir, must uncover the latest threat to national security. And the epicenter of this threat is located at none other than Cartier, the conservatory Christine Daae attends in Washington DC. E/C. Also posted on AO3.

Modern-day setting. Returning to her university town in the northern USA, Christine Daae meets two very different, intriguing men. R/C, E/C, angst, drama, romance, mystery. WIP.

Before the whole Angel of Music fiasco started, Mamma Valérius falls ill, and a desperate Christine looks for help in the only friend she has, The Voice in her dressing room. He offers his help, and in exchange, she promises to give him the only thing he has ever wished for: a living wife. Purely Leroux-based. Rating may change.

Gustave continues to struggle with the memories of that fateful night on the docks so many months ago. Confused and still unsure of his place in this new life, the anxiety building within him threatens to break free at any moment. (Post LND AU where Christine lives, with mixes of Kay and other things)

Christine is faced with a monstrosity she never thought she would have to factor into her life as the wife of a deformed, musical genius that lives five cellars beneath an opera house - and yet there it was: big, red, evil, and right in the middle of her left cheek. [Leroux-based "elongated one-shot"]

Summary: For Not A Ghost 3's Christmas challenge. Christmas just happens every year - no matter who you are. Set after the Opera was finished but before Erik met Christine.

In the 1880s, Christine and her father move to Paris for a fresh beginning that is not as joyful as it first seems. When the truth of her new circumstances starts to unravel, only one man can help her. E/C. Kay/ALW-verse. Will eventually be rated M. COMPLETED.

Christine loses focus easily on the stage, and must work on her composure through all manner of distractions. Fortunately, the angel of music is there to offer a helping hand. Canon-set AU, E/C Smut, Kinktober 2018

Life can be painful and cruel and unfair, sometimes to the point where death seems like the only option. Until now. Let Second Chances Incorporated give you a second chance. Modern AU. Light sci-fi. Second Chances Incorporated. If only it were really that simple…Complete except for possible epilogue.

Never has Nadir hated a task more than this one, when he had to deliever that special gift from the Shah to Erik.

She stood, alive, a believer still, and Erik lived too, a Lazarus of flesh and blood. If Lazarus had sung praises to the Lord, Erik had only ever shown such devotion to her. No one should know such love, she thought, twisted into impurity. Christine chooses the scorpion. Leroux.

Very loosely based around the proposal scene from Kay. Erik asks Christine for a marriage of convenience until his impending death, but things gradually unfold rather differently than expected.

Blake's 7: the "Phantom of the Opera" episode. Blake and Gan find themselves trapped in an unfolding space opera on the planet Newparis, where the mysterious masked genius known as the Ghost takes an all too personal interest in a talented young girl...

Summary: What drives a successful contractor to give up his building enterprize and hide away in an underground dungeon of his own making?

Five times Erik refused to take his mask off for Christine, and one time he did...Leroux. E/C Angst. One-Shot.

Deformed boy meets cynical girl. Not exactly love at first sight, but no one ever said that the road to happiness didn't conceal a few sharp stones. A modern tale of second chances. A story of friends, lovers and music, with a little of the Bard thrown in for good measure.

"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." AU/Kay-based. After some convincing, Erik's mother decided it would be best to send him to the asylum, after all. Turns out, some kinds of madness can be taught. E/C creepiness.

Erik likes to know everything that's going on around the opera house. It's only rarely that he finds something that truly surprises him. But, there's a first time for everything. Daroga/Raoul.

Summary: Entry for Not A Ghost 3's Phantom's Valentine one shot contest. Modern day AU. Christine and her best friend Meg discuss Valentine.

Alone for years, an amphibious creature longs for companionship. His risk results in his capture, imprisonment, and torment at the hands of a research laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. One woman is able to see the intelligent being under the chains, but will she be able to save them both? Complete.

Erik and Christine spend their first Christmas Eve together at Mama Valerius' house. {Awkward Christmas in-law fluff}

Leroux-y modern A/U. Erik sits alone on NYE, working and regretting. But these days, it seems even his moping doesn't go interrupted. A tiny bit angsty with the promise of fluff.

Entry for 2nd annual Christmas Phantom One-Shot Contest. Based on Leroux and Kay. Set before Erik gets to know Christine.

Four months after the horror, Christine returns. Kind of. Short modern holiday AU phic. Lots of angsty E/Cness with a cup of fluff and a teaspoon of humor. Complete!

Kintsugi - the art of repairing the broken with gold. Her passion was fading, her greatest talent hidden even from herself. His humanity lost, his spirit broken long ago. In the hulk of an abandoned opera house, the art of restoration begins. M for Erik's past. E/C. Very dark in places so that light can shine on others. COMPLETE

Erik has a nightmare. Christine is kind. Leroux. Hurt/Comfort. Touch starved.

Fearful of forgetting the wonderful moments of Christine's presence, Erik journals them, reflecting his own hopes and thoughts. Leroux, canon-era.

The Force seeks balance. A scavenger from Jakku has become entangled with a deadly member of the First Order. Both wield the Force and both are torn between the Light and the Dark. She will be his redemption, but he will be her ruin. Picks up after the events of TFA.

A little bit of fall fun.

Erik and Christine have been married for two years, and Erik's only goal now is to please her as best as he can. Even if it means trying new things. Even if it means playing a certain role. He'd do it, for her. He'd do anything. Strong M rating. Modern one-shot.

Sorelli struggles to cope after Philippe's death, and contemplates their time together. (Sorelli/Philippe)

Follows the events of POTO. Erik is the architect of his own destiny - or so he thinks. Will Christine breach his defenses? Will the enemies who wish to destroy him succeed? Completed story.

Prior to the events of Leroux's original novel, Christine's adopted benefactor passes away sooner than expected. Fearing the fate that threatens a simple chorus girl in her position, this poor young woman turns to the only one she has left...and the equally fallen Angel Of Music is all too keen to embrace her. COMPLETE.

Erik thinks he is the best of hosts. Not everyone agrees. A platonic E/C story.

In 1920 France, the widowed Christine de Chagny returns to Paris. E/C. Complete/

Kay!verse AU. Christine and Erik are together for five months before his death. The pain is overwhelming, and in the weeks afterwards she receives some unexpected news. And, with the help of her friends, as she comes to terms with it and all that it means, she finds hope in the darkness.

Years before ultimatums were given and choices made, the consequences of which still echo through time. Will the demons of the past return to haunt those involved, or will they remain buried in the past? EC eventually as always. My stories are known to have many twists, abandon at your peril. You will understand in time. This story begins in the past but goes to the present.

Modern, Leroux-y A/U. Christine gets Erik a Christmas present. What do you get for a man who seems to have everything and nothing at the same time? Fluff fluff fluff, told from both perspectives. One-shot. ETA: Entry for Not of Ghost 3's A Very Phantom Christmas One-Shot Contest!

He couldn't breathe. He couldn't think about anything but the colors and the scared girl in front of him—not just any girl, he realized, his soulmate. A nobody, a scavenger from Jakku was his soul mate. It took one clear look at Rey for the colors to appear. Colors were for Jedi. Colors were for the weak.

TFA SPOILERS. Kylo Ren was on a war path. That is, until he met a certain scavenger on Takodana. Then, everything changed. Rey must train to become a Jedi. And the lingering feeling for a certain Sith had given her a new mission. Kylo Ren/Rey Reylo

In the days after the tragedy at the Opera, Christine risks returning underground to ascertain the fate of her former teacher. What she finds changes everything. Can an embittered man learn to love again? This is a new novel, and is set immediately after the ALW musical. Don't look for it to get any happier for a while. E / C Complete

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.

Redeemed Kylo Ren helped bring down the First Order. Five years after the establishment of the Reformed Republic, Kylo's loyalties are constantly in question, and Rey is the only person able to tame his temper. Reylo after the war told in a series of one-shots.

Erik has kept Christine in his house underground for two months, conflicted between desire and fear, not daring to touch her and yet unwilling to release her. But then she escapes…and Erik's pursuit has interesting, if entirely unforeseen, consequences.

Christine is sacrificed to a dragon in a medieval, small-town world, and for some reason, she does not need saving. Meanwhile, Raoul investigates the dark secrets of her past, and Philippe tries to retreat into the solitude of simplicity. The world seems intent on misfortune for everyone, and misunderstanding and close-mindedness abounds, but in the end, love will win…right? E/C.

She is tinkering with droids again. He feels her elation as she finds the right point on the circuit, watches the droid whir to life, bleeping its gratitude. She has a whole little family of them now. He is losing himself in her and he knows he needs to stop. Kylo Ren is Bound to Rey and hides from her, never revealing himself, quietly driving himself mad with her light.

After the face-off with Kylo Ren on the Starkiller Base, Rey again finds herself a captive of the mysterious Knight of Ren who is not all that he seems. Slow burn Reylo. COMPLETE

Christine and Erik are about to married, yet Erik, the once most feared man in all of Paris, has never been more afraid. What will he do once the hour of truth is upon him? Taken from the ALW musical and the book.

She never saw his face; the man who haunted her dreams. He wore a mask and she couldn't run far enough or fast enough to escape him. This isn't a love story. This is a story about obsession, manipulation and the fall from grace. *Make sure to read 'Creatures behind Masks' before this fic*

Divergence is a series of short stories in which a different path taken results in a different outcome to the 2004 movie. Each divergence is unique unto itself and not connected to the others.

Young Swedish singer Kristina finds independence, mystery, and love in Paris's Eclectic Theater (AU.)

Time heals, but the heart does not forget. A bond forged in shadow strives for life in the light. ExC story. Complete.

The fourteen nights Christine spends in Erik's captivity. The nights of horror, despair and admiration in her own words.

Kay based, E/C. Christine returns to the dying Erik to confess her love for him and they spend his last days together. After he dies, Christine marries Raoul and tries to be happy with her new life, although she knows that she will always love Erik. But their happiness is shattered when Christine gives birth to a deformed child, reawakening the ghost from her past.

How about a horror story? Set in Leroux's book. Chapter 4 of 4 definitely M rated. Led through the mirror by her Angel, and unmasking a man, Christine works to convince him to trust her. Left alone for hours at a stretch, but only sporadically, how do you spend that time? Plot your escape, certainly... is that all? Perhaps there's a way to pass your time in the library?

This is a two-shot, Mainly Leroux, with sprinkles of Kay if you squint. Basis- what if the Shah, after Erik had built his one of a kind palace, gone through with his plan to put out Erik's yellow eyes instead of deciding it would be safer just to kill Erik. What if Erik hadn't escaped Persia before his sentence of blinding was carried out? How would his life character differ? AU

A sequel to the events of the novel, Christine returns to Erik to live as his wife. But the promises Erik made are difficult to keep, and a kiss is not enough. Thanks to Stefanie Bean for her editing help and Joy for her support and inspiration.

Leroux!Erik, and a more thoughtful and mature Christine. I knew he couldn't really be an Angel, however much I wanted to believe it! But then, who was he? Why would he hide from me, unless..? EC

Summary: This time the fop has gone too far. What's a phantom to do when pushed to the absolute breaking point? ExC. Snap-shot. Rated Strict 'M'.

After a terrible accident, the bowels of the opera house call Christine home.

A look into one of the nights Christine may have spent in Erik's home. A promise made and a body freely given. Rated M for explicit sexual content. (Any world is applicable.)

MINI ONE SHOT SCENE. E/C of course. A little carriage ride to their new marital nest. But all is not well.

Modern day. Erik, quiet, bitter, and alone, attends a weekly group meeting for the facially disfigured so that he doesn't feel completely isolated from the world. He is a silent bystander, never involving himself with the others, until a new face with a similar penchant for music joins and takes an interest in him despite his mask. One shot. Completed.

Now older and wiser, Christine's son Gustave recalls his early years, the journey to Coney Island and everything that took place there which changed his life forever. Read his version of events as he tries to understand it all, including his life with Erik. Musical based. Characters:Gustave/Erik

Christine Daaé never had the luxury of studying at the Palais Garnier, and instead met her mysterious Phantom through different means.

In the dead of night, twisted thoughts become reality and intolerable fears give birth to perverted hope. Pity is not love, nor is regret, but sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference…

Last night I dreamt I went back to Manderley. There it still loomed, a grand stately manor, now forgotten except for the ghosts that continue to linger in the halls. We can never go back to Manderley. FULL SUMMARY INSIDE.

Christine is obsessed with his protection, though his obsession is exactly what she was afraid of. Modern telling.

A some-what fragmented re-visiting of Leroux's novel.

Their lips met, and Christine's fate was sealed. She knew the Phantom wasn't ever going to let her go. What she didn't know was how their story would end: happily ever after or not. This story is an Alternative Ending where the Phantom doesn't recant on his word.

ONE SHOT. E/C Of course. Erik takes Christine through the mirror in a desperate attempt for acceptance. No fluff. DARK with hints of Horror.

Christine goes to her father's grave to find resolution, and finds instead a Ghost. Without Raoul to protect her, she cannot escape him, and the course of their lives is irrevocably altered.

On the night of Don Juan Triumphant, a fatal twist of events leaves Christine the prisoner of the Phantom of the Opera once again. Without the Viscount de Chagny to fight to save her, she must learn to accept a new life with Erik by her side.

On her wedding night, Christine finds that heroes can be just as delightfully perverse as villains. RC, containing BDSM

Erik is Dead. Then why does Christine still hear his voice? Leroux based.

After a night at the Opera, Raoul decides that perhaps Charles should be told who his father really is... Alternate ending for Susan Kay's novel. Two-shot.

Christine is determined to bring the festive season to the house beyond the lake.

Christine loses her voice. Erik panics. Leroux verse. COMPLETE

Winter sunlight, an unexpected encounter outside a church, and a pot of displacement activity hairpins. Not quite fluff, but edging around it.

Kay AUs. Now showing: Erik proposes to Christine, and she surprises him. Fluffy, angsty, sometimes humorous smut. You're warned.

After Christine's departure, Erik decides there is one more thing he must do before he dies. Leroux-inspired one-shot originally written for a morbidity contest. Rated T for possibly gruesome content. Enjoy!

Christine sets Erik straight on a few vital points. Kayverse, for once T.

Christine hopes that Raoul will give up and go away, but Erik decides to make sure of it. Short story; one-shot.

This sequel to ALW's Phantom continues, with old characters and new, happy times and sad times, adventure and romance, but most of all our favorite Opera Ghost – Erik.

Summary inside. Rates M for a very good reason. Susan Kay-verse, very slight AU. Hope you enjoy if you choose to read it.

Erik can contain his madness up to a point in his daily life if he concentrates hard enough. That came with plenty of practice. Unfortunately, he's never had much opportunity to master his desires... Leroux-based. Oneshot. MATURE.

How the post-Music of the Night scene could have gone differently. Erik/Christine.

Christine's life slips dangerously out of control as the shadow stalking her begins to manipulate her world. Month by month everything she believes in shatters as the stakes rise to include her life, her freedom and even her sanity. DarkModern Lerouxbased

Erik fled a dark past in Soviet Russia and built an entertainment empire. But a ruthless mobster has never quit looking for him, intent upon revenge. Must Erik abandon his one chance at happiness in order to save himself in this game of wits? Modern.

Erik lies on his death bed, clinging to the hope that Christine will fulfill a promise to return for a last goodbye before her wedding. When Raoul refuses to honor his word, Christine goes against his wishes and confirms all of his worst fears. Fills in Kay's "Missing Chapters".

Brought back into her life by a strange document, the world they have both become accustomed to crashes down around them. Can they forget the past and trust each other again for their own safety? Can they ever forgive each other?

A naughty little tale of a slightly uncomfortable evening complicated by the addition of some misunderstandings as to intentions and several glasses of sherry. Warning: Dubcon.

Where Erik Delozier, a man treated as a monster, meets Christine Daae, a girl treated as an angel. What will come of it? A kidnapper, a victim.. A bit of an insane Erik.. Fear can turn to love... But will it? Modern day... COMPLETE

After three years of an unhappy marriage to a man she scarcely knows, Christine flees, hoping for a better life away from him. Yet can she truly escape Erik? Modern-day.

E/C- Modern. A cross between phantom of the opera and Shallow Hal. What happens when shallow Christine is hypnotised into only seeing inner beauty, and then meets the gorgeously handsome Erik? COMPLETE!

A Hades and Persephone story.

AU phic. A retelling, unlike any other...EC fic... Elements from Leroux...complete

What if Christine had overheard Erik's heartbreaking confession at the end of the book? Entirely Leroux-based.

A traumatic first encounter leaves Christine with nothing but hatred in her heart for Erik. Is it true, though, that only a fine line separates love from hate?

Leroux-based. Christine realizes what it's really like to be Erik's wife. Slowly, she learns that in order to unlock his heart, she must first unlock hers. Her perspective as his living bride. COMPLETE.

Christine's Angel of Music is a source of comfort and protection for her, but suddenly he begins to change and become obsessive and frightening to her...then she discovers that he and the Phantom are one and the same. EC, Raoul-friendly, rather dark Erik.

A modern day short story. If Erik really did live in modern times, and was wealthy, would he choose to "fix" his face?

Set directly after Susan Kay's novel, right after Christine leaves the second time. Is Erik really dead? Maybe. Maybe not. E/C. COMPLETE.

For the Persian, the siren's song reaches back all the way to the Rosy Hours of Mazenderan. Slash.

What if, after overhearing Christine's rooftop confession, Erik does not declare war upon them both, but realizes that he must change in order to win a woman's love? Slightly Leroux, a touch of ALW, but mostly AU. E/C. Rated M for violence and sensuality.

Christine and Erik have dinner together and she has to wonder...if Erik has no nose, can he taste anything?

COMPLETED. A dark, modern retelling of the original tale. **SEE AUTHOR'S NOTE FOR UPDATE (4/2019)

Christine’s attendance at her first bal masque, a year before the “strange events of the Phantom of the Opera,” results in curious encounters, as her “Angel of Music” becomes her guardian angel for the night and something far more unbelievable—a man.

EC Erik is dead. Christine returns to the Opera to keep her promise to take care of Erik's body, but the phantom is quite alive, and quite desperate to keep her with him forever. When all hope seems lost, will one man risk everything for love?

All you guys that write such sweet love scenes...did ya ever stop to think that that's not really what Erik looks like? an EC oneshot.

For tonight I am Hades. And you will be my Persephone...at least until the music ends. A journey out of darkness. EC

Two hearts devoted to music, two souls scarred. One living in darkness, one clinging to the hope of a father's promise. Modern day setting.

Erik is dead, and Christine returns to bury him, but past secrets don't stay that way. (R/C, past E/C, Leroux-based)

Erik sweeps Christine off to imaginary world of music where he hopes they can live happily, but sadly the fantasy can only last so long, before darker forces take over. Warning This is not for the prude of nature, there is sex in this, just be warned!

There is a fine line existing between true love and harboured hate. He gave her a ring to show his affection. This is a story of that scene. A continuing series of intertwined oneshots. Please R&R. EC per my usual.

She dreamt in red. The heavy scarlet colour no less condemning by its own nature possessed her, haunting her until all reason evaded her – the only solace found within one already dead as his skeletal hand clasped hers in the growing darkness.

Begins with Erik's thoughts on his wedding day. Very dark, very disturbed and disturbing Erik. Forewarned is forearmed.

Lerouxesque Erik despairs after Christine leaves with Raoul. Four months later she turns up on his doorstep! Loveable characters and much humor. You may just love this loooooong story, which spans about 24 years. I hope you enjoy.

A collection of eight complete, very short portraits of Erik and Christine's love. Twisted as it could only ever be. EC fluff, Scorpion style!

Leroux!Erik is an over fifty deformed recluse virgin who’s never been kissed and who smells like death. How will he perform on his wedding night?

Christine returns to the lair in search of Erik. Dark, Leroux based Erik.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. [Lord Chesterfield] FINISHED.

Architect, conjurer of dreams, angel, lover, deceiver, all of these things was he, if only to one who dared to believe in his artful deceit. He had never known love, or even felt the singular, caring touch inspired by another, until she came.

Christine had a choice. She could refuse him, and everyone within the opera house would die. She could accept him, and she would live underground, as his wife. She chose. Now, Erik writes about the time they shared. Leroux based.

AU. A walk home in the rain and a chance meeting. He came to her in the dark as a savior, only to reveal himself a twisted man. Erik's face may be perfect, but his soul is not so fortunate. Please read and review, but be kind! It's my first fic

.'Mademoiselle Daae,' the Persian declared, 'The monster bound you...and he shall unbind you. You have only to play the necessary part! Remember that he loves you' ...A Leroux fill in. Christine is torn between freeing Raoul, and saving Erik.

It's Christmas Eve and Erik wants to show Christine the beauty of Paris. While up there they find what beauty truly is.

Leroux Erik's musings after having abducted Christine and sung her to sleep. Introspection, onepost.

Leroux, EC. Christine has kept her promise to Erik by staying with him, but will they find the happiness that Erik was once so sure they would? By Chels

Christine is a aspiring American librettist, living in a small town, who catches the eye of the recluse Erik, running from the ghosts of his past. If he has to kill a thousand men...he will do exactly that to have her. COMPLETED.

Christine turns up unconscious on Erik's doorstep after six years. Erik has finally moved on, yet he struggles to save her life. What will happen when Erik is asked to make the same sacrifice of six years prior? Eventual EC Loads of angst COMPLETE

Erik asks Christine to be his bride...and her answer isn't what he expected. Completly Kay based. AU, oneshot.

This is a continuation of the story told in the 2004 film, beginning four years after the fire. This is a romance and eventually will have a happy ending between Erik and Christine.

Erik is a man of limitless potential that is unfortunately never realized. That is Erik's true tragedy: what could have been? How would he change if his tragic circumstances were altered? Could the damage done in the past be undone? EC COMPLETE

The original novel made simple. Hopefully good for a laugh or two.

After a terrible nightmare, Erik receives a special gift from Christine Complete.

You are more than just a student to me, were the words that changed a peaceful night of lessons and reading. Her discomfort provoked his anguish, which he releases through his music. Christine, drawn, is unable to resist coming to him.

Anguished and alone under the Opera, Erik is confronted by someone who may know more about him than he knows about himself. Very dark, very twisted. One-shot.

The Opera Ghost really existed, true. But M. de Chagny's version of events leaves out certain facts.

AU: Christine makes a different choice. Rated R for sexual content. COMPLETE: you know, when the site updates with the next 5 chapters (6 chapters total).

From time to time Erik's disected men for academic curiosity, this time it's a woman. Takes place before he meets Nadir. Susan Kay based. Introspective and slightly morbid

The 1st violent unmasking & surrounding scenes from a strong Christine's POV. Leroux, Kay & other. Ficlet. PG-13-Erik's scary when he's angry.

*COMPLETE* A unexpected reunion jolts Christine and Erik. Fluffy but fun! This story began as PG13 but rapidly escalated into an R rating. It is not possible to accurately portray such a passionate character as Erik in muted terms.

COMPLETE Short story with a twist - in which Erik stalks Christine once again. PLEASE read to the end! ;)

A late night carriage ride leads to conversation, and some realizations...