~ Hello everyone. This fic hasn't been updated in a while so I got my brain working and got inspiration for another chapter. Hope you all like this hehe :o)

I had one more showing and insisted that I perform it. The turtles said I should rest but I wasn't going to miss it. Since I confronted Eric's lair with the turtles, I haven't heard him anymore. I even went back alone to check, and it was empty. Maybe since confronting it, I stopped what ever was trying to take me over. Tonight's performance was going well, our best ever. We were in act two scene seven. This had the song, point of no return, where Christine is confronted with the phantom. I was onstage with the Phantom

Phantom and Melody: Past the point

Of no return,

The final threshold -

The bridge is crossed, so stand

And watch it burn…

We've past the point

Of no return…

As they play goes on to the end, where Meg holds the Phantom's mask, the light fades. Curtain call and everyone goes out on stage. When I went onstage with Michael, who was playing Raoul, I heard Eric's voice.

"Bravvi, bravvi, bravvi…"

I tired to shrink back behind the stage, but Michael pulled me forward. Trying my best to smile I couldn't help but look around for Eric. When the curtains closed. Michael sat me down and the director came over. I wrapped my arms around myself and tried not to start sobbing.

"Melody, what's wrong?" The director asked. I shook my head and looked towards the dressing room. Eric was standing there and waved at me. I started screaming and tried to run, but they held me down.

"Melody, please, what is the matter?" They demanded.

"He's there, by the dressing room he hasn't left after all." I ranted. The guys looked over there and saw nothing. The director shook his head and stepped away from me. Now I was rocking myself repeating over and over, "He's not real, he's not real."

"Michael," The director spoke quietly to him. I stopped chanting and listened. "Show has gotten to her . . . shame . . . wonderful talent . . . yes please go call them." Michael walked off and I looked suspiciously at the director.

"Where is Michael going?" I demanded.

"To call someone who will come to help you," The director said.

"Call…," I realized what he meant and I tried to get up, but he held me down. "Wait, I have friends outside, let them in, please, they'll tell you, I'm not crazy." The director called over to someone to find these friends of mine. Two of the turtles were waiting for me outside. I couldn't tell who was who as they walked in. One sat next to me while the other talked to the director.

"You okay, Melody?" It was Leonardo. I shook my head and leaned onto him. He put an arm around me and gave me a reassuring squeeze. "I'll always take care of you, no matter what," he said. I smiled at him then froze. I saw men, in white uniforms walking towards me. I tried to scramble out of Leonardo's grip but he held me down. They uniformed men grabbed my arms and stood me up.

"Easy miss, we can do this the hard way, or the easy way." I gasped as they squeezed my arms and I struggled.

"Here, let me help you," Raphael was who came with Leonardo. He grabbed my arms and gave me a slight shake. "Melody, they are going to help you."

"But Raph," I cried.

"No, listen," He stopped me. "Go with them, we'll visit you, get you all better, than bring you home, okay?" Seeing that I was going to be forced to go I sighed and nodded. Raphael let the uniformed men grab me again, but he stopped them before they dragged me away.

"Be gentle with her," Raphael said. They nodded and didn't squeeze my arms this time. At the clinic, they took my costume and gave me a pair of jeans and a shirt to wear for the day and a plain nightgown for the night. I sat in the room they gave me, with beds of dozens of other patients. Forcing some pills down my throat was the only way they got me to sleep that night.

The next day I met with the guy that was going to be my doctor, Dr. Gerner. I explained to him what I could about Eric, leaving out the part of the turtles, and told him how I was beginning to doubt myself. He nodded and leaned back in his chair.

"Okay, Melody what I'm going to do is prescribe some pills for you to take and we'll see if this helps this Eric, disappear," Dr. Gerner told me. Feeling defeated I nodded and was escorted back to my room. Later that day the turtles came to visit me. After hugs and hello's they asked how I was doing.

"I'm in a mental ward," I said. "Everyone thinks I'm crazy." They quickly tried to convince me that they didn't think I was crazy just having some problems. Tired of defending myself I nodded.

"Maybe you're right," I said softly. "Maybe it is all in my head." Later after everyone was in bed, I pretended to be asleep so they wouldn't drug me again this time. A few hours passed and I just lay there, watching the walls. Hearing a creek I look over to the door and saw Eric was there. I bolted up in bed and stared at him.

"I warned you Melody," Eric said. "Not to tell anyone about me." He walked up to me and sat on my bed. Touching my face I flinched away from his hand.

"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked.

"You're only doing this to yourself," Eric said. "You can go away with me, I can take you out of here. And you'll never have to see any of those nasty doctors again." It sounded wonderful, I wanted nothing more than to leave, but then I thought, if I go with him, I'll never see Leonardo or the other guys ever again. As if he could read my thoughts, Eric grabbed my hand to pull me up.

"Come with me," Eric, taunted. I shook my head. He walked me closer to the door. "Come with me."

"NO!" I screamed. Eric dropped my hand and I closed my eyes. "GO AWAY JUST GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE, GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OU…" The lights flipped on and nurses were standing there, syringe in hand. "No," I moaned. Forcing me back to bed, they gave me the shot. Sleep followed soon after. This happened night after night. Soon the only turtle that would visit me was Leonardo. He always brought me something. A flower, a note, just something to say he was thinking of me, but every morning what ever he brought was gone. Eric would take them away. So Leonardo stopped bringing me presents, but still came to visit.

"Leo?" We were both sitting outside, it was an over cast day. "With all these medications the doctors give me, why do I still keep seeing Eric?" Leonardo took my hand.

"I don't know, Melody," Leonardo said. "Maybe he's so strongly engraved in your mind that your body is having a hard time releasing it."

"But I want to release it," I said. "I want to go home, I still want that dinner…" I stopped and looked away. "I'm sorry I have no right to ask for that now." Leonardo turned my face back towards him.

"The first day you set foot out of this clinic," Leonardo promised me. "I will take you to a beautiful restaurant that is on the beach, and have dinner all night if you want." Smiling I gave him a hug and just stayed there, in his arms. Days like this would ease my mind. But at night, Eric was always there.