"More Than You Know"

"More Than You Know"

A Modern Day Phantom Fiction

By: Katie Sheridan aka GerrysLittleMissSunshine08 and was GerrysISUChick04

Summary: Modern Day Fic. She was a lonely nurse with a hard past and he was a wealthy, miserable composer. One cat can change everything. E/OW pairing.

Disclaimer: I don't own the character of Erik Destler. Gaston Leroux, Susan Kay (who also owns Nadir Khan and Ayesha) and Andrew Lloyd Webber do, in ways. I only own the fictional characters of Maddie, Harrison, Megan, Wyatt and the others. Please don't copy, it's illegal and all that crap.

Author's Note: This is my first attempt at a Modern Day fiction, unless you count "Learning to Love" as one. I did change the name from Katie to Maddie. It just didn't feel right. I do know that Erik's mother is named Madeleine and he will remember that and maybe use that against her. I'll be honest I have no clue where this is going, its just an idea I had earlier. And as always, my Erik is based off of Gerry Butler's performance.

Please read and review!!

Katie

Chapter 1: Meeting Ayesha

The sun was shining outside as a short, brown haired woman walked around the local park close to her house. She noticed she wasn't the only one outside. Couples were holding hands while watching children play. Dog owners were walking their dogs and some people were roller-blading.

Madelyn Sheridan sat down on a bench in the middle of the park that overlooked most of the park and in between all the apartment buildings you could see a bit of downtown College Park. She was twenty-five years old and was a labor/delivery nurse at one of the most prestige hospitals in the state of Maryland. She worked hard for her nursing degree and enjoyed every minute at work.

But coming home was the hardest part.

Coming home shouldn't be the time of the day that people dreaded; home is where the heart is and where the love is. Where your family greets you with a hug and a dog jumps on you as you walk in the door with a big smile on your smile.

That isn't the real world, the reality of it all was that Maddie was an only child, loved by her parents and family, and was always surrounded by love and warmth, and more important was music. Maddie's parents were killed by a drunk driver on Christmas Eve on their way home from a dinner. While Maddie and her brother Matt was waiting patiently for them to come back home and the next morning, exchange presents and go to family get togethers, they were crushed underneath the car until both of them couldn't hang on any longer.

Now Maddie lived at her family's house, with her two cats that were her really true friends and now that she thought about it, it was sort of pathetic. Matt had graduated from college, got married to his college sweetheart and entered the military. Only to come home in a casket not even five months into his tour of duty. So she didn't have a lot of friends unless you counted two co-workers and two cats.

Her love life was another story, every relationship she had, had was a disaster.

As she was thinking about her life and fighting back tears, she failed to notice that a Siamese cat come up in front of Maddie and glance up at her with wide eyes. She jumped with fright as she felt something brush her leg. She glanced down and saw a cat rubbing herself against Maddie's jeans.

"Hello there sweetheart," Maddie said to the cat and held her hand out so the cat could sniff it. The cat took a sniff and rubbed its head against Maddie's hand.

She slowly reached down and picked up the cat that snuggled against her chest and she scratched behind its ear and looked at the black collar that read Ayesha on it. Plus a phone number underneath it.

"Well hello there Ayesha, I'm Maddie…like you'll answer me back." She said as she began petting the cat's head and Ayesha immediately began purring loudly.

"Now where is your owner sweetie? Let's stay for a bit longer." Maddie thought out loud and the only thing that responded was the purrs of the sweet cat.


An hour later, Maddie glanced down at the sleeping cat in her arms and sighed.

"Well you can come home with me. I have two cats named Frodo and Sam. They are nice cats, so they'll like you." Maddie said as she slowly stood up and held the cat tightly in her arms as she walked down the street back to her house which was only a couple blocks away from the park not noticing the man back at the park looking for a cat.


Later that evening, Maddie watched Ayesha eat her cat food next to Frodo and Sam, her other cats. Frodo was black and white while Sam was a gold cat.

She smiled as she went upstairs to her bathroom to take a shower. When she was done she put on her light blue silky pajamas and kept the door open as she laid in bed. She heard movement on the bed and she smiled when Ayesha snuggled up next to her on the bed.

She scratched the cat's ears some more as she slowly closed her eyes and the next day, she was going to call Ayesha's owner.