Part 6. The wakeup
When Christine woke up again she was lying on her bed, surrounded by people. The first one recognized was Raoul who held her hand in his. He was also the first one to see that she opened her eyes a little. Her face was hurting, her arms was hurting… It was hurting everywhere on her.
"Wha... what ha-appened?" she asked feebly. Raoul smiled a little for her wake-up and answered:
"You passed out and did hit your face in the floor. The doctor thinks that your arm hit the table or something because it's broken."
Christine smiled a little as answer and then tried to look around the room at the peoples around her. The first person she saw was the Doctor, and then she saw Miles, then Carlotta. When she saw Miles and Carlotta she got pictures in her head, pictures of her and Miles in the kitchen earlier that day, or was it yesterday? However, she saw pictures:
She saw herself get grey eyes and stare at Miles.
"You… you… You know the Phantom… You know Erik…" she said frustrated and Miles nodded
"Yes mame, I know Erik." He said and her body started to wrench in the bed.
She could feel the doctor's hands on her but the pictures continued:
"Did you…? You did… You gave him that life…!" she said and tears wallowed up in her eyes. She wrenched more. Without noticing, she turned her face to Miles.
"You… killer… murderer."
No one except Miles noticed what she said, the others where to busy with her wrenches. She started to cry and the wrenches stopped.
"Raoul!" she said, half screaming. Raoul got closer to her face. "Get them out of her." She said. Raoul nodded.
"Everybody go out. I'll get you if anything happens doctor." They left and Christine told Raoul:
"Get him out of our house… please?"
"Who? Miles?"
She nodded.
"Yes, Miles. He… Remember when you told me about Madame Giry's tale, whit the travelling fair and how Erik got to the Opera?" she asked.
Raoul nodded. "Yes baby, I remember…"
"Miles… He made Erik get that life…"
"What do you mean?" Raoul asked.
"It was he who threw hydrochloric acid in his face, and then used him as something to look at…" she said and started to cry even more. "He ruined his life! He ruined Erik's life! If it wasn't for him Erik would never have lived in the opera, never seen me, never been so alone, sad, never have been killing anyone! Never had a mother who gave him a MASK so she shouldn't need to se him, her own son! It's all Mile's fault! It's all his fault!" she said, and then she passed out again.
Raoul left the room to get the doctor.
"She passed out again." He said and the doctor went to look after Christine.
Raoul went to Carlotta who was sitting on a chair in the living room.
"Carlotta, sorry for all this." He said and smiled a little. "But, why exactly did you come here?" he asked.
"Oh…" Carlotta said. "I came to invite you for diner some day."
Raoul was surprised. "Me or both of us?"
"I was thinking about just you, I got to know Christine while we worked together but I'd never learned to know you. Well, of course you can bring her if you want…"