Writer's Note- all right sorry for not writing for the past two days. Thursday I was too lazy and Friday I was over at a friends house but now I can write and I can write a chapter I have been dying to write I hope you enjoy it and thanks for all the great reviews.

Chapter 10- Betrayal and Death

Gabrielle awoke in a bed that wasn't hers. She went to sit up but when she put her weight on her left arm it burned with pain. She looked down to see it wrapped up in a bandage. She used her right arm to prop herself up to see where she was. The red veil around the bed was opened and she could see she was in Erik's room. She saw Erik at his desk with his head lying down.

'aawww I took his bed' she thought to herself as she got out of the bed. She soon as she rustled the covers off of her his eyes opened and he jumped up and looked at her.

"You're not dead," She said tackling him into a hug.

"Of course I'm not dead, why would you think that?"

"Before practice Aiden pulled me aside telling me he knows that you exist and he thinks you have me under some spell and he told me to tell the authorities about you but I said no because I do really like you and I told him to leave us alone, but then during practice he told me he knows where you live and he would kill you and it scared me so bad thinking to lose you so I fell down here and you weren't here so I thought I lost you forever" She grab him so they were closer.

He led her to the edge of the bed. " Mr. Axel told me that Aiden picked you as his partner for Masquerade and then in the middle of it he kissed you"

She cut him " Oh that horrible kiss, please don't remind me"

He started up again "Mr. Axel knew something was up so stayed later to make sure no one snooped, you had nothing to worry about, we would have made sure no one would come down here"

She smiled " Wow I feel stupid I guess I wasn't thinking very well so I was irrational."

He moved a curl that was in her face "well you should think irrational more often if you are going to visit me, but I must ask not to go through the manhole in the costume closet because it results in pain." He said holding up her wrist.

She smiled. With her free hand she caressed his unmasked face. Their lips met for a long awaited kiss that they both lust for. She started to lean back until she was lying down and he was on top of her. They kissed fiery letting their hands roam freely. He pulled away

"You should go, your parents are definably worried."

She starts kissing his neck. "My parents are out of town and won't be back till tomorrow please let me stay here, I don't want to go to an empty home"

He sat straight up away from her. "Alright but we can't both sleep in this bed, I would be afraid we might do something we will regret."

"Will you at least lie with me until I fall asleep, please?"

"Alright just until you fall asleep."

She lied down on the bed and he lied down next to her. He wrapped his arms around her

"Do you feel comfortable like this?"

"Yes I feel like I can stay like this forever" Her eyes closed and so did his.


He awoke to something warm and soft being in front of him. He looked down to see Gabrielle snuggled up close to him. They fell asleep like this without any complaint from her. He carefully got up trying not to disturb her thou it was a difficult task because they were so close. He got up and walked to the door but before he left he looked back to make sure this was no dream, that an angel slept in his bed with him, not in a sexually way, just in a loving way.
Weeks passed by and it was finally the nights of the show. The first three shows went perfectly, it was the last night that went horribly wrong. Gabrielle came a few minutes early before call time. She got on her first costume on. She was first in Hannibal as an actor then, Il Muto and last Masquerade. She got her make-up on, made she her other costumes were in place, and then she waited. She sat there and pondered for a while. She hadn't seen Erik that much in the past two weeks. He was very busy working on a new project. She was interrupted by Elizabeth who told her it was time for the show to start. The first part of the show went well; even the first part of the second act went well. She was in the hallway when she heard a high pitch scream from the bathroom. She ran there to see everyone huddled around the door. She made her way through the people. Cathy was hysterical. Mr. Axel was there trying to calm her. Her friend Ginger was explaining that they were in the bathroom when Cathy went into the stall she usually goes in when she screamed. Ginger said she looked and there was a fake bloody head, but to them it looked so real.

"Cathy can you still sing, that was a pretty rough scream."

"I can hardly talk," she said in a hoarse whisper

Mr. Axel frown, then looked into the group of specters until he saw Gabrielle. He pulled her out of sea of people and into a different hallway.

"Gabrielle I think you have to finish the show tonight."

"NO!" she roared.

"It's ok I think with the lessons you have improved and you can sing the part of Christine, I wouldn't ask you if I didn't think you would do a great job"

" That's not why I am NOT going to do it, the reason I am not going to do this is because this is Erik's doing, he said no more events like this would happen, but it did so I refuse to be apart of this show any longer." She was trying to stop from sobbing.

" I am sorry Gabrielle but you have no choice, now go get past the point of no return dress on and then go to make-up so they can fix the type of make-up you're wearing, you have to be on stage in 15 minutes." He turned and left.

Gabrielle stomped the costume closet and got the dress on. She was so furious with him. She went to make-up and while they were helping her one of the girls pointed out she might want to take off the necklace she was wearing. She kept the necklace with Erik's ring on. She torn it off and stuffed it in the pocket of her jeans lying next to her. While getting her make-up done Aiden came in sheepishly.

"Gabrielle I just wanted to say good luck and I am sorry for how I acted a couple weeks ago"

She smiled. "Thanks and apology accepted, we can catch up later now I have to get on stage." She said getting out of the chair she was in.

She waited on the wing waiting for her cue.

"Do you need to look over your lines?" Elizabeth said holding up a script

Gabrielle nodded her head no. She knew every line in the play. She knew she could be Christine. She heard her cue and she walked on stage.

"no thoughts within her head but thoughts of joy. no dreams within her heart, but dreams of love"

Gabrielle sang it perfectly. She sat near the edge of the stage with her basket of flowers.

She listen for her cue. She heard the words of the song being sung but not by the voice that usually sings them.

'OH MY GOSH IT'S ERIK!' Gabrielle screamed in her head.

It all made sense. All that happened was because of him. Gabrielle turned and looked at him. He was very handsome in his tight black pants, half opened white shirt showing his sculpted chest, and last his cape.

'Oh he looks so good like that' Gabrielle thought to herself.

'No, he lied to you, this moment wasn't suppose to happen!' a little voice said in the back of her head.

She stood up and started singing.

"You have brought me
To that moment when words run dry
To that moment when speech disappears
Into silence
Silence.

I have come here,
Hardly knowing the reason why
In my mind I've already imagined
Our bodies entwining
Defenseless and silent, "

On the second more like third last line of the song she ran her hands over her body knowing it would drive him insane unable for him to touch her the way he wants to. They both started gong up the staircase that led to the platform that was suppose to let escape.

"Past the point of no return
The final threshold
The bridge is crossed
So stand and watch it burn
We've passed the point of no return."

They sang in unison. He twirled her around so where she was in front of him very close and leaning on him. She looked down to the wings to see Aiden looking up at them, sword in hand, and a very upset Mr. Axel.

"Say you'll share with me
One love, one lifetime
Lead me, save me from my solitude

Say you want me
With you here
Beside you
Anywhere you go
Let me go too
Christine that's all I ask of…"

Gabrielle now facing him looked at him with teary eyes. She knew what she had to do. She went in like she was going to kiss him but instead tore off the mask revealing his face. Erik shook his head and pulled a lever that was suppose to make the chandelier crash but in mid fall it started to catch fire so as soon as it hit the stage the auditorium started to go up in flames. Gabrielle saw something metal in the corner of her eye. She turned around and saw Aiden with a sword. He sung towards Erik about it hit until Gabrielle pushed Erik out of the way but pushing them over the edge of the platform. Gabrielle landed on her back, heading her head leaving her unconscious. Erik landed onto of her making his landing not so rough.

"Gabrielle, please wake up" Erik said picking up her head gently.

"You foul beast, let her go" Erik heard behind him. He turned around to see Aiden with his sword raised about to strike. Before he could strike Mr. Axel tackled him bringing him to the ground.

"Come on grab her and let's go" Mr. Axel said picking up Aiden.

Mr. Axel went running through the wing but before Erik could get through the flame got bigger and he was trapped. They only way he could get out were to run through the flames. He grabbed Gabrielle closer to his chest and ran through the flames. There was a small flame on his back but he could hardly feel it. He ran outside and collapsed on the ground. He put out the flame that was on him and then made sure Gabrielle was fine and breathing.

"Come on Erik we have to go, the police will be here soon."

"I can't leave her."

"You have to, there will be another time you will see her, but now we must leave."

He looked down at her. He wish he could take her with them, but he knew it wouldn't be right. He brushed away a few curls from her soot-covered face and kissed her. The two men left and that's how Aiden and Gabrielle were found. He had a few burns and she had broken her ribs leg and her arm, from the fallbut she had no burns, it was a miracle. They all they it was her guardian angel who did that and in a way it was.


They looked for the body of the phantom, but could not find it. Mr. Axeltold the police that he saw the Phantomdied in the fire. Since the fire was so bad and couldn't find much they believed him. He was fired from his job because he let the Phantom live under the school and wreck havoc on the show. They started rebuilding the auditorium and it would take them all summer to get it finished. Gabrielle was too ill to go to school, (and she didn't want to face her classmates.) Schoolwork was brought to her and she had tutors. She healed over the summer and was forced to go to school the next year, her senior year.


Ohhhh I like where this is heading,I hope you are, don't worry this isn't the end. There will be more tomorrow since now there is no school I can write everyday, yay! Well I have to go but please enjoy and review, thankz!