Crystal growled despite her fear and was rewarded with a smack across the face. Sebastian snarled and pressed up agianst her harder making a pain shoot through her body. "Your here with someone. How dare you coem here with someone!" He spat the words out in her face making her recoil agianst the wall.
She soon regathered her courage and glared at him. "And im sure your here with Madame Giry's young daughter." She spat right back and was rewarded with a sharp slap across the face which made her face fly to one side as he let go of her arms.
She tried to get past him but was pushed back agianst the wall with great force and her head conected with the granite wall with a sickening crack as she slumped to the floor. She was still contious as she recieved blow after blow from Sebastian. First his foot connected with her stomach. Then her jaw. Then with her side and she was laying on the ground. Coughing from the hits.
Sebastian wasn't aware of the presence behind him as he advanced on Crystal. "You know Giry's daughter is alot prettier than you but I can still have you whenever I want. You like the abuse. And I love the way you beg for me to stop." He laughed at his sick taste of treating women and at his false accusation that she liked the way he treated her.
Erik looked around confused as the dancing stopped and conversations were now held inbetween the wait for the next song. He couldn't find Crystal anywhere. He began to panic as he noticed Meg was nto with the man she had come with. He knew he saw Meg and Sebastian dancing earlier and now he oculd not see neither Sebastian nor Crystal anywhere.
Walking around next to the darker corners of the hall trying to see if he could hear the two anywhere. No one went near there since the news of the Phantom's return and he knew that Sebastian wouldn't give it a second thought to drag Crystal back there. He'd beat and have his way with her if he wanted to and he didn't care if there was a "Phantom" that could be lurking back there.
Finally after going around the room a couple times he heard the familiar sound of Crystal's voice emitting through one of the corridors that led out of the entrance hall. As he walked into it silently he saw Sebastian now beating up Crystal. She was trying to speak, but everytime she got ready to cry for help or anythign she was recieving a blow hard enough to take her breath away.
Erik moved quicker as he saw Sebastian moving closer to her and now standing over her with a lust-filled smile that showed his intentions. He pulled back his elbow and smashed it into the back of Sebastian's head with ease knocking him out.
Crystal was crying as she saw the way Sebastian was looking at her and she knew she had no hope of getting out of there without being raped. Her fears slowly stopped as she heard the noise of bone connecting with bone and a grunt from Sebastian as he fell limp to the ground. His chest still moving up and down showing it hadn't been a leathal blow.
As she looked up she saw who her rescuer was. Erik. The overwelming feeling of love for this man hit her agian but she soon surpressed it knowing that he loved another and that other happened to be dead. "Thank you Erik.." She said and failed to keep the tears from comming agian as he picked her up and took her further into the corridor.
Crystal curled agianst his body as she felt his warmth and coldness all at once. It gave her comfort and she loved how it felt to press herself agianst him. Her tears were soaking the front of his suit slightly but he didn't seem to notice or care. His hands were running through her raven black hair as she sighed. The tears stopped and soon he was wlaking down one of the many passageways to his lair.
Crystal looked up at Erik with graditude and smiled at him as he looked down. Her fingers reached up and traced the lining of his mask. She noticed him tense up and she sighed taking back her hand. "Sorry." She said in a quiet voice.
He looked down at her with mixed emotions. A look that only someone who was remembering things of the past. A look she knew all to well. "Erik...Why do you where it? The mask I mean." She looked at him hoping she'd get an answer but wouldn't be upset if she didn't.
He shook his head. "It protects those who I care for and those who fear me." He said and she didn't quite understand but decided not to press the subject.
She couldn't help but wonder if Sebastian would find her alone somewhere. Without Erik to help her. And if he'd do to her what Raoul had done to Christine. He had certianly tried before. It has pulled at her thoughts since the first time he'd abused her.
Erik noticed the distant look at Crystals' face as she curled up in his arms. Soon they had reached the underground home and he was dressing her bruises and some cuts. After that she had fallen asleep on her bed and he pulled the covers over her thinking to himself and sighed retreating to his own room to rest from the tiresome night.
