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Chapter 2 – Tour of Opera House

They woke up after their long days at the theme park. The tour was just after lunch so they fed themselves and spent the rest of the morning reading in the hotel room. When it was time to leave they got their things ready and left the room. They got a taxi to the opera house and was there a little early but was really excited

The staircase to the stage was a magnificent and was made of marble which had various colours, it had a double staircase leading to the foyers and the various floors of the theatre. At the bottom of the stairs, a true theatre within the theatre, two female allegories holding torches greet spectators.

They travelled through the theatre seeing nearly every room.

The auditorium itself was a true Italian theatre, the horseshoe-shaped "French" auditorium, so-called for the way the seats are arranged according to their category, was designed for the audience to see and to be seen. Beth and Leo did extensive research about the place. The seats were made of a plush red leather and were very comfortable to sit in.

(AN: Reading back through our work we realised we had done a little too much research sorry if throughout this story you get random facts. We based all of this off the original theatre from the book.)

They then travelled to Beth's favourite room the Opera Library. Books were her favourite thing in the world. Beth turned to Leo and asked "Can I live here?"

"No Beth amazingly I don't think they let people live here." Leo promptly replied.

"Why not?" Beth whined.

The collections of the Library-Museum of the Opera were holding three centuries of the theatre's history right in front of Beth's eyes who looked at everything in wonder. The museum gallery houses a permanent exhibition of paintings, drawings, photographs and set models. In the staircase leading to the temporary exhibition hall, remained the massive stone blocks dating from 1870. Access to the reading room was restricted to researchers. As you can guess Beth was not pleased.

The Opera's secret places was Leo's favourite part of the tour. The tour manager explained that there were many passage ways under the theatre and all around.

The backstage areas were fascinating both for their sheer size and for the intense activity that takes place before, during and after performances. They were shown a lever that when pulled would slide a part of the wall to show a corridor. Leo was impressed and proceeded to ask about a million questions to the tour manager who looked scared.

They soon moved onto a room called the Foyer de la Danse. The Foyer de la Danse was for many years open to a select public who were rich or well known. Serving as a salon, a place for courting and a meeting area all at once, the Foyer de la Danse provided a model or a source of inspiration for many painters and writers.

The public are now no longer being admitted to the Foyer de la Danse, which is now the exclusive domain of dancers from the ballet, who are happy to have a rehearsal studio just a few steps from the stage. It is used before, during and sometimes after performances. It is where the dancers warm up and gather when the ballet master or the Director of Dance needs to speak to them they were told.

Mysterious as it may appear, the Foyer de la Danse is not entirely inaccessible. Situated directly behind the stage, it can be used to provide additional depth and was a good hiding place to begin any scenes. It was rumoured that it was the main way the Opera Ghost travelled through the theatre.

They were then allowed one hour to wonder as long as they didn't go where they were not allowed. They made their way to the stage to pretend to be acting and singing on stage. The sound of an old film reel being played sounded throughout the theatre and suddenly ghost like creatures appeared before their eyes.

They see a small child being lead into the theatre walking next to a woman who looks like madman Giry. As the young girl and Giry look-a-like walk past them they realise the young girl looks like a young Christine.

Leo and Beth turn to each other and the scene changes to the chapel with Christine kneeling on the ground crying in front of the description of Gustave Daaé. Then out of the shadows we see a silhouette of a man coming from the far wall concealed in the shadows of the room and they can just make out a white porcelain mask concealing the right half of his face. Beth gasps upon seeing the mask and the scene before them changes again as Erik begins to speak to Christine.

The scene changes to Meg and Christine having a ballet lesson when they are young still learning the basics so in the future they can perform in the opera. Madam Giry has them and the other young dancers practicing their pirouettes that during mid turn Leo and Beth see all the dancers all grow up and are now practicing more complex ballet moves.

The scene changed to teenage Christine having a singing lesson from her Angel. She is singing scales and taking instructions from the musical and beautiful voice tat was resonating throughout the room. The teenage Christine was beautiful and Beth could see why he loved her. The Angel praises her voice, but criticises her posture.

The scene quickly changes to Christine gracefully dancing ballet in a performance with Meg as the lead ballerina and the music is following her movements. Beth was carefully watching her wanting and wishing with all her might that Christine would fall over or make a mistake, but Christine made no mistakes.

The next scene that the girls saw was Erik wearing his mask in Box 5 in the audience watching and admiring Christine. Beth could see the love that he held for her in his eyes and how he was watching and observing everything his eyes and ears could be hold. As a note was played wrong in the band the phantoms sharp eyes found quickly who looked the guiltiest and knew exactly who played the wrong note.

More and more scenes flickered through the theatre all featuring Erik, Christine, Meg and Madame Giry, showing them their lives from when Christine came to live at the theatre. The last scene they saw was Erik being greeted by his friend Nadir, who had come to visit him as they had not seen each other in years.

The music slowly faded as did all the images and scenes and the girls were stood there in silence not knowing what to say or whether they had just been dreaming of what they saw. Silence was ringing throughout the theatre.

"What the fuck was that?" They both say as they turn to each other.

"Jinx" Beth says quickly afterwards realising Leo had spoken at the same time as her.

"Come on, let's head back to the hotel I don't think it is wise to speak what we just witnessed here" Leo quickly drags Beth out of the opera house and they catch a taxi back to the hotel.

Upon arriving at the hotel the two girls quickly go up to their room and lock the door and windows so there is no chance of them being overheard. Beth turns to Leo after she finishes locking the window in their room. "Did that really just happen?"

Leo gives a small smile as she perches on the end of Beth's bed "If your referring to seeing moments of the past of a purely fictional world flash before us. Yeah that happened and I have no idea why"

Beth sits down on the bed "Shall we head back tomorrow and see if that actually happened or if we just got caught up in the moment."

"That's sounds like a plan. I am going to bed to see if I can process what happened anymore as this seems all surreal"

"I think I am going to turn in as well...I will see you in the morning Leo"

"Night Beth"

Day Seven

It's the final day of the holiday but the night before has left Beth and Leo in a state of shock and they pack their bags and grab all their bags of souvenirs and placed them inside the suitcases after a lot of juggling and rearranging to make them all fit along with clothes. Even though Leo argued the clothes they brought with them aren't as important as the gifts they bought but Beth claimed they were important so they kept them all without having to buy another suitcase.

Before they headed to the train station they headed back to the Opera House and went on another tour to see if they have gone mad or if they had just got caught in the moment. When they received their hour of free time again the went to the stage and messed around for a little bit before Beth decided that if what they saw was true, then that must mean The Phantom of the Opera is real and that also means there is a trap door on stage. Beth grins and turns slowly turns to Leo and opens her mouth "Ca-".

"No"

"But you don't know what I was going to ask"

"Beth, you were going to ask if we can search for the trap door on the stage as if what we saw was true that means the trap door must exist as well" Leo turns to look at Beth "Am I right?"

"Yes but come on you know it would be cool. Well I am going to look no matter what you say" Beth turns around to walk towards the rig.

"Just one holiday without any mischief would be nice, maybe next I should just stay home…or leave without Beth..." Leo mutters under her breath "Beth wait up, I might as well help as someone has to keep you out of trouble" Beth gives Leo a shove.

As they climb up the rig they look for a lever to open up a door to lead into the fabled Phantoms' lair. They try some levers and they cause different pieces of scenery to fly through onto stage, somehow no one had noticed that bits of scenery are flying on stage, before Beth sighs and leans against the railing and sighs in defeat. But as she leans it is against a lever which swings open a door at the end of the rig. Beth and Leo look at each other then turn on the torches on their phones before walking towards the door but as they both step through the door everything goes black…

DUN DUN DUUUUUUN

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