"His Past Her Future"
Ebony Gashes
A/N: Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed my story. I got a way better turn out than I thought I would, so I will continue the story. IChooseTheScorpion had a good question… My story is based off of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom. I have yet to get my hands on the book and I would kill to do so. Also some of the story is based off of what I have learned about Erik over the years I have played his part in the school's musicals. I know what you're thinking. "Oh no! A girl playing Erik on stage! Evil!" Anyway… here's more story for you. Sorry in advanced about not putting Erik in this chapter.
The next morning the old Volkswagen Van pulled up into the visitor parking lot of the near by hospital. The gang had slept crunched in that van till Raven was jolted awake by another scream.
It had been fifteen years since she had seen her mother little long heard from her. As she sat in the waiting room; head on Aubrey's shoulder, her mind was running a mile a minuet. 'Will she remember me? Will she try and hurt me?' this and other questions kept her mind busy even after a nurse had called out to her.
"Miss Talbot? Miss Talbot?" An older nurse stared straight at her burning holes into her soul.
Aubrey nudged her after the third time the nurse had called out. She was looking quite ticked.
"It's Maddox…" Raven whispered as she stood with a heavy heart. She was leaving her real family to visit this woman who was no more than a horror story about to end.
"What ever Miss Tal… I mean Maddox." The nurse rolled her piercing green eyes and opened the door for the now shivering girl. Finally Raven stepped through the heavy oak doors into what looked like a hallway of offices and conference rooms.
"Look… How is she?" Raven's voice was no more than a whisper as they walked further and further down the white walled and white tiled hallway.
The nurse stopped dead in her tracks. "You're some daughter… Not even knowing how your own mother is."
Those words sent Raven's heart to sink further inside of her. "I know… Please just tell me."
A soft smirk fell over the nurse's face, a morbid smirk as if she knew something that she held over the younger girl's head. "Your mother has been under critical condition for almost a year now… "
"She's going to die!" Before she could continue Raven grabbed the wall to steady herself. Her head was spinning out of control. Waves of guilt flooded over her, she hadn't even known that her mother was in such a bad state and that nurse was smirking about it! She raised her hand like she was about to strike down the older woman. "Wipe that smirk off your face before I…"
Before she could finish her words a lonely soft whisper of a voice called out from behind a cracked door. "R… Raven? Is that you?"
Raven dropped her arm and nearly kicked the door down. "Yes mother, it's me."
Her mother looked no older than her. Her brown hair lay about her face like a halo. Raven quickly locked the door before the nurse could follow. She wanted to be alone with the woman who had been in her darkest depths of mind.
"Raven… Listen to me, there isn't much time." Raven turned her head to face her mother who had reached out with her hand.
"Mother, what are you talking about?" The younger girl took a step closer, afraid of what that woman wanted.
"Come to me child!" The tone of the woman's voice became demanding. She sat up straight almost effortless. To Raven the woman who lay before her shouldn't be in a hospital bed of any kind. A padded room maybe but not a death bed. The woman's eyes were a dark almost black color that could see right through anyone's soul.
"You're scaring me…" Raven's voice was a soft whisper that barely convinced her that she was brave. She nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard the nurse banging on the door yelling for her to open the door up.
The woman on the bed gave a sickening smile as she slipped her legs off of the side of the bed. Raven took a small step back but it was not enough the woman on the bed, her mother reached out and grabbed the side of her daughter's face.
Images danced in front of Raven's eyes causing her to fall back and black out. She saw her father and her mother, actually happy. She heard a low voice that she could not place. She could see what she thought was the Opera House at one time, brand new and glowing angelically.
She did not hear nor see the nurse slamming the door open and bending down over her.
The girl had gone very pale and her eyes were wide with terror. The visions still refused to stop. She could see and hear everything her mother had seen and heard during her dementia.
Finally the nurse had gotten a doctor and the two of them had Raven in their arms. It was then Raven snapped out of it. Most of the color returned to her face except a long scar that was in the place her mother had touched her.
"Girl? Miss Maddox are you okay? What happened?" The nurse helped her back to her shaky feet.
"My mother seemed possessed! She grabbed me and all of these things flooded my mind! Memories of someone else… Or something." Raven's eyes traveled from the nurse's puzzled look to the doctor's face which was just as puzzled.
"Girl, your mother has been dead a week now. Your story is impossible! What really happened?" The doctor put a firm hand on Raven's shoulder.
"You have got to be kidding! She was just here!" Raven broke away from the doctor's firm grasp just to see that the room and bed lay empty. Her mother was not there at all. "W… What happened? I swear I saw her."
"You look exhausted. Sleep lately?" The nurse and doctor exchanged glances, hers of amusement, and his of concern.
"I… I just want to go home." She knew that she could not convince them of what she had witnessed little long convince herself of it.
"If you're up to it… Make sure you get sleep. I think lack of sleep is catching up to you girl." And with that she was still in the dark more than ever.
As she walked out of the building, once again her eyes started to tear but this time she did not fight them off. For once in years she cried on the steps of the hospital.
The drive back to the Opera House seemed like it took decades. Everyone was silent and if someone would say something Dorian would hiss at them till they'd drop it.
During the whole trip back the awful memories that had been lodged into the girl's mind replayed themselves causing the once strong to become a mess of tears.