Hey guys! I finished my terrible exams. Thank you to those of you who wished me good luck! It was greatlyappreciated! I also got my marks back today and...i passed everything! 3 cheers for me! Hurry hurry hurry. k i'll stop.
Just letting you all know, not too much takes place in this chapter, BUT it is very important.
Chapter 15 – Getting to Know the Opera House
Erik held her close, breathing in her beautiful lilac scent. She leaned into his embrace and moved her hands overtop Erik's muscular chest.
"Oh Erik." Crystal moaned as she closed her eyes moving her hands up and down his chest wanting to know and feel every part of him. He took his face out of her soft wavy hair that was pinned up and ran a hand down her back while the other cupped her delicate cheek.
"Crystal." Erik whispered to Crystal as she leaned up into his kiss. She moved her hands up around his neck and pulled him in closer to her. "I need you." Erik murmured as he retrieved his lips from hers and looked deep into his eyes.
"Take me now Erik." Crystal said in a tone of voice Erik was not familiar with. It sounded as if she were demanding it while she found her hands around Erik's waist and pulled him in evencloser to her. "I need you as much as you need me." Crystal silently said as she lifted up her leg and wrapped it around his.
"Very well." Erik spoke while picking up Crystal and grabbed her bottom as she wrapped her legs around his hips. She put her hands in his hair and twirled it in her fingers as she passionately kissed him and gradually made her way to his ear and bit into it before sucking on it to sooth the pain.
Erik could feel that her wrist was no longer damaged but he cared not. He could simply not take it any longer. He wanted her, needed her now, and the journey to his lair was far too long for this kind of temptation. He pulled her away from his ear and placed her back down on the ground in the wet corridors.
He put his lips on hers and moved his tongue around her mouth groaning into it. He began undoing the buttons of her dress as Crystal untied his cloak and it fell helplessly to the floor along with her soft blue dress.
Erik felt her moving her body in front of his as he pressed her into the wall harder for he wanted more. He pulled back from her face and tore open the back of her corset. But something unimaginable happened right then and there. Once he had tore open the back of her corset…wings, beautiful black wings sprouted from her back. Erik's eyes extended greatly as he stepped back from Crystal tripping over his cape on the floor and fell to his knees.
"My God." Erik spoke looking up at Crystal, not believing his eyes.
"You, you creature of the night. You hideous thing. Did you honestly believe anyone would want you? No one wants a monster Erik. You were meant to be alone. You were meant to die alone." Crystal said looking down at Erik. A deathful look came upon her face as her feet lifted up from the ground.
"It can not be. You…you are an angel?" Erik asked sad and afraid.
"I am. And so are you. Remember Erik, you admitted it not so long ago yourself." She smiled down at him. "An angel of HELL." Crystal screamed and all went black.
Erik opened his eyes forcefully and jumped up from his swan bed. Sweat was covering his face and dripping down his neck. He woke shivering and looked around his labyrinth curiously.
"It was just a dream." Erik said wiping away the sweat surrounding his face. He was still breathing quite hard as he lay back down. "Just a dream."
It was Sunday, the day of rest. No practice today for Crystal, Meg and anyone else; of course Madame Giry would still be lingering in the ballet room no doubt. After breakfast that morning, Crystal returned to her room and ordered a bath. The remainder of her afternoon, she hadn't left her room. After her long bath, she laid down on her bed starring wide eyed at the ceiling above her. She found she could not close her eyes for she kept on replaying the night Erik carried her to her room in her head. It was just two nights ago and she hadn't heard from Erik since. Crystal knew that wasn't a long time, but ever since she arrived at the Opera House, there hasn't been a day that has gone by when she hadn't heard from Erik.
She sighed and placed her hands behind her head and bent her knees towards the ceiling simply thinking. She was not sure whether seeing Erik was a good thing or a bad thing. She desperately wanted to see him but whenever she did, it brought back horrible memories that she wanted to never remember.
Crystal quickly got frustrated thinking of this matter and practically flew off the bed trying to think of something to take her mind off Erik. She thought of something almost instantly and grabbed her key and left her room. Something as simple as a key even reminded her of Erik.
'The first time I forgot this little thing, Erik helped me and I grew more found of him.' She quickly smacked her hand with her palm against her forehead and shut the bedroom door. "No, I mustn't get distracted." Crystal said to herself as she put the key away.
As she was walking down the halls, a certain figure in the shadow's was following Crystal without her even noticing.
She walked around and about the empty Opera House as everyone was off places on his or her glorious day off. Meg was off no doubt dancing about with the rest of the ballet rats while Crystal decided to spend her afternoon getting to know the Palais Garnier a bit better.
She traveled around, getting to know the ballet dormitories, kitchen, and almost any other room she was allowed to wander in, including the famous costume room once again.
As she continued familiarizing herself with the Opera House, she found herself traveling in a hallway that had looked distinctly familiar to her. Suddenly, she had a flashback. A man was forcefully kissing her and pressing her harder into the floor. Just as soon and unexpected as the flashback came, it went. Crystal looked around the dark gloomy hallway curiously trying to remember what just happened in her head. Shaking her head she continued walking down the hall gliding her hand along the dusty walls. Just then, another mental image. A hand was finding its way down her torso and around her thigh. Suddenly it began lifting her skirts. Abruptly, she came back to reality.
"What in heavens name?" Crystal asked out loud wondering what these visions had meant.
A snapping of the wrist. A look of terror in the man's eyes above her. The screaming of Erik's name. A hard noise. A white mask.
Crystal stopped dead in her tracts and practically shouted "Pierre!" His name echoed down the hall as she now remembered every detail of the night Pierre almost raped her.
"You called for me?" a voicewith a French accent came from behind Crystal's ear.
Crystal ,frightend to turn around, bit her lip as she faced Pierre. Her frightened facial expression soon changed to one of hatred. She breathed in forcefully and lifted her hand and smacked it across Pierre's face.
"You filthy pig." She spat at him. "First me, then that poor girl in the auditorium."
'Oh there has been others my dear. Many others.' Pierre thought to himself now rubbing his cheek.
"Men like you shouldn't be allowed to wander the streets and do whatever they please." Crystal said taking a step closer to him. She could see her red hand print finding its wayon Pierre's cheek already and she was glad. Perhaps now he would know what it felt like getting slapped across the face.
Crystal gave him a hard look and turned her back on him hoping Erik was somewhere near so he could protect her incase anything were to happen.
Though Erik never came.
Crystal hadn't even walked a foot away from Pierre when he violently squeezed her broken wrist and threw her against the wall. Her head hit it with a thud and it had felt somewhat familiar.
Before she could even think one more thought, Pierre had took hold of her hands and placed them up on the wall above her head as he leaned his body in closer to hers pushing Crystal harder into the wall.
"Why do you have to be so complicated?" Pierre slyly asked to Crystal who had a disgusted look upon her face.
Pierre leaned his face in nearer to hers and stuck his tongue our and slid it down her face and around her neck. At that moment Crystal realized that she wasn't scared of Pierre, but mortified by him. Because of this thought, it caused Crystal to do the first thing that came to mind. She lifted her foot and hit him hard in the shin with the tip of her shoe.
Pierre immediately backed away from Crystal instantly and cried out in pain as he bent down clutching his knee.
Just as Crystal had lifted her leg to kick Pierre, the wall behind her opened and she fell back into the dark corridor. She let out a small scream as the wall shut itself and left Crystal in complete darkness. A few seconds later, Pierre looked up from his now bruised knee and saw only himself left in the old forgotten hallway. Confused at whereCrystal went, he began limping back to his bedroom.
Meanwhile, while Pierre limped out of the forsaken hall, Crystal was struggling to get up off the floor. She could hear what sounded like someone playing an organ in a far off place. Hearing the sounds gave Crystal the sudden urge to play again.
She had begun walking down the dark corridors following the sounds of the beautiful music as she used the cold wet brick walls to guide her along the way.
Several minutes later, Crystal found herself traveling further down into the corridors. She was lost of course but found the music was gradually getting louder and louder, and this is what made her want to continue.
Shortly after, Crystal found herself standing before a sparking lake. An underground lake. The lake she had heard so many rumors about had actually existed. If these rumors were to be true, the lake would lead her to the music, lead to the Phantom's lair, lead her to Erik. Sadly for Crystal, she could not get there. The only way of reaching Erik would be by gondola or boat, and that she did not have.
She knelt down by the water and ran her fingers threw the twinkling wetness. Had this been good for her? Was it a good thing there was no boat leading her to Erik?
Crystal got up and breathed out in disappointment knowing just standing around and gloating would not solve any of her problems. Looking around the magnificent passages Erik had made and developed throughout the years upset Crystal. She did not think it was at all fair for any man to live down here in shadow and despair, free willingly.
Crystal signed and though it best to leave and not just linger about waiting for some anonymous boat to come along. She decided to take another one of Erik's secret passageways to try and find her way out or at least back to her room.
After traveling almost half an hour in nearly complete darkness, light had found its way into the end of one of the passageways she was taking. Eager to find our where it may be coming from, she picked up her pace.
As she walked closer to the light, she had a guess where the light was shining from and shortly Crystal stood in front of the light source and found she had been right. Crystal put her hands up to the glass in front of her and looked around her room. She stood behind the grand mirror that Erik stood behind so many times.
She stood there for a few simple moments until she realized she was merely glaring into her room.She blinked her eyes back into focus and wrapped her fingers along the edge of the mirror and slid it all the way open.
Crystal took a deep breath and stepped into her room for the first time through the mirror without the assistance of Erik.
Before Crystal could take one more step into her room she saw something move at the corner of her eye. This person who had somehow gotten into Crystal's room was leaning their back up against her side flower printed wall.
"I see you have taken somewhat of a detour back to your room Crystal."
Just to let you all know. In future chapters when there are scenes along the lines of Erik's little dream, i will write it much better than that! More well, ya know, just not like that. I wrote it like that on purpose so Erik would know that was completly OPPOSITE of how Crystal would react to things. But please review! I just need/love to know what you guys think!