A/N: THANKS TO ALL WHO REVIEWED! THAT MADE MY DAY! I HOPE THAT THIS CHAPTER IS LONG ENOUGH, THE LAST ONE WAS SHORT SO THAT I CAN SEE IF PEOPLE LIKE IT, SO HERE IT IS CHAP 2.
CHAPTER 2
Raoul and Christine were coming home from his parent's estate. They had been quite nervous about their reactions to the engagement, but their fears were ill placed. The elder de Changys were actually very happy for the young, happy couple.
After all the trauma of the past year, the press had finally backed away when it became clear that nothing scandalous was about to happen to them.
Christine, however, was still regretful about the way things had turned out. The thought of what she had done to Erik still haunted her. Then thoughts of how he could have killed her beloved would overrule her sense of pity and regret.
Once again, their night was full. After dinner with Raoul's parents, they were due to meet with the managers of the newly refurbished Opera Populaire, as Raoul was still their patron.
"How long is this meeting supposed to be?" Christine asked.
"Just long enough for them to tell me how my donations were spent and to go over costs for whatever they're planning next. You can stay here if you want to, I'm not forcing you to go you know." Raoul answered her, the last part as a joke knowing that she'd never pass up a chance to see her childhood home.
Christine, recognizing the joke, answered, "You know that were I to leave you to talk, you'd never come back."
"I think, my dear, you have me confused with someone else." Raoul said with a laugh and pulled her in a comforting embrace. "I meant what I said, though. If you don't feel all right with going back we can stay." He continued with a concerned tone as he knew that the place was bound to be plagued with pleasant and unpleasant memories.
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The three, standing by the Vicomte's estate and looking at the young coulple as they embraced each other, started talking quietly amongst each other.
"Robert," said one to the eldest, "when are we going to act? I mean, they're both right here, unsuspecting. We could get both without too much bloodshed."
"It would be an amateur move. As I am the only one here who has ever successfully pulled off a stunt as this, I will be the one calling the shots." Robert answered the man.
"But, we don't know when they'll be together like this again." The man argued. "We probably won't ever get a chance like this."
"Didn't you hear them talking?" Robert all but shouted. "They're going to a meeting, you idiot, which means if they went missing, people would look for them!"
"Well, then, when do you propose we deliver then, sir?" asked the man.
"After their meeting with the managers of the opera house. Then we will do our job, get our money, and never have anything to do with the Vicomte and his fiancée." Robert said with an air of impatience at his partners' incompetence.
A/N: ONCE AGAIN THANKS TO ALL WHO REVIEWED! I CAN'T TELL YOU WHEN I'LL UPDATE AGAIN, FOR IT HAS TO COME TO ME. PLEASE DON'T LOOSE PATIENCE WITH ME THOUGH!
NEXT, THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF TerpintineMind(nice name by the way) the term "PHANFIC" is a combination of PHANTOM and FANFIC:) and I thank you for your helpful pointers!
