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A Daughter of Darkness
Chapter One
Raoul de Changy walked silently through the Paris Opera House, not being there in thirteen years. The halls and grand staircases were covered in dust. Everything looked as if it hadn't been touched for ages. Raoul could not think of what had drawn him back to this place that held so many bad memories for him and his dear wife Christine.
He had finally reached the grand stage that had once held great performances. Raoul sighed at the memories, but then a sword was at his neck. Raoul dared not turn, he knew who it was.
"Erik, we meet again after all these years," Raoul said with a strong sense of arrogance in his voice. The person only laughed, and it was not Erik's laugh.
"It is my father you speak of dear Viscount, yes; he has told me much about you. How you stole away my mother, how you ruined our lives! I should just kill you now!" Raoul turned towards the speaker, who was a beautiful girl around thirteen with a mess of curly hair down to her waist, tight pants and a white mask outlining only the edges of her eyes.
"You must be speaking of someone else my dear! Who is your mother?"
"Your wife, Christine Daae. You stole her from us, me and my father!"
"What Christine! No! You MUST be mistaken! I don't get it!"
"From what my father says you don't understand much. Yes, my father, Erik the famous Opera Ghost and your wife. Some things she never told you. You never really cared for her, and she new that. My father did, so she would come back when you weren't watching, which I assume was often. She used to come here often, come back to the man she truly loved, and loved her in return. She must have hidden her little secret well for you not to have found out. After I was born, she gave me to my father, because she just couldn't stand the thought of people finding out what she did. I have never met my mother, and it's your entire fault! Does this come as a bit of a shock to you Viscount?"
"I can't believe I never knew, I never noticed. I… wait! I love Christine with my heart and soul! How could she do this to me?" he yelled at her.
"Your problem, not mine," she said lowering her sword and walking away from him.
"Wait!" he called back to her,"There is so much I want to know about you! No idea why, but maybe it's because you look so much like your mother." There was a long pause and a sigh from Raoul as he accepted reality. "I must have known, I've always known, but I never accepted it."
"Ah, so it is fate that has brought us together today? Very well, my name is Elisabeth, my father calls me Bethy, I'm thirteen years old, I've never cut my hair, I'm a musical genius like dad, and I've been raised to hate you."
'Well," said Raoul with hesitation, "Glad to know that. Why do you wear a mask?"
"Family trade mark," she said sarcastically.
"Do you have good skill with a blade?"
"Let's just say you really don't want to tick my off right now, okay?" she answered threateningly.
"Are you nice to anyone?" Raoul demanded
"I've been raised to hate the human race; I don't feel like changing my tune at the moment. People know where I come from! Do you have the slightest idea what happens to me in school? Yes, I go to school. People make my life miserable, just because my father doesn't look like most people."
"Ah, I think I've found your weakness, your father's deformity through other people's eyes." Raoul said gently.
"What makes you think that!" she spat at him
"Because, you're so much like your mother, you're a compassionate person just like Christine."
"You're wrong! I don't want to be anything like Christine Daae! Christine Daae is one of the least compassionate people I've ever heard of! I would never leave my child to grow up motherless; I would never stay with a man I didn't truly love…"
"Are you saying that Christine doesn't love me?" Raoul almost yelled at the girl.
"Shut it preppy boy, that's exactly what I'm saying! Can you honestly look me straight in the eyes and tell me that she loves you?" she yelled right back at him. There was a long pause between the two. Raoul was trying to prove her wrong, but he couldn't. In his heart he knew what she said was true, but he wasn't about to admit that to Erik's child.
"Yes she loves me! She loves me with all her heart!" Raoul cried.
"Fine, you keep telling yourself that. You better go now, if my dad finds out I didn't kill you I'm grounded. Goodbye Viscount!" Elisabeth cried as she flung herself up into the rafters, and with a puff of smoke the Phantom's daughter was gone.
A/N Yes, her name is Elisabeth, NOT Elizabeth! Just wanted to clear that up. PLEASE REVIEW!
