Restless Sleep and Close Encounters:

"People" said Mark

"Now the security guards are still searching, they have finished searching your rooms but I would advise you not to be lurking about they might mistake you for the crazed fan, but if there is anything you need just ask the front desk". He led the group up and down the halls showing them where hair and make-up would be and wardrobe.

"Now" said Mark "I will show you to your rooms". They walked up a set of stairs to what looked like an abandoned hallway there were old-fashion fixtures which ran on oil, spider webs, dusty carpet, and peeling wall paper at the very end of the hallway was a window which streamed a small pool of moonlight from the dirty window.

"We are staying here?" said Alice through a yawn

"Yes" replied Mark "Unfortunately they had no where else its really hard to imagine in a big opera house" he said jokingly, the cast just stared off and yawned

"Don't worry the rooms are quite fine-" he was cut off when Alice gave a huff of disapproval "the only problem is" Mark went on "there is no electricity in this part of there opera."

"Your joking right?" asked Alice

"No but lets get on to the rooms shall we?"

Mark pointed out the first two rooms on the left and the right were not to be used because they were storing lighting and wires.

"Ah ha!" he said

"This is Chad's room" he said

"And here is your key" he said handing Chad his key. He thrust the key through the hole and opened his room surprisingly it was nice enough a bed, wardrobe, nightstand, desk, and a very small bathroom.

"Good-night!" he said and gave a bleak smile

"Good-night" the others replied

"This room is Amy's, here you are" he said handing the key to her, she unlocked the door and walked inside it was dark yet, in the dark she could see the loveliness of the quaint room. Amy walked over to the lamp fixture and lit the wick with her lighter and then place it back in her pocket, she could see her luggage so she walked over to it and opened it up and reached in and got a pair of cargo pants and a tee-shirt she knew she wouldn't sleep tonight so she would decide to explore the Opera Populaire. She went into her bathroom and shut the door. She looked around there was a toilet and small sink. To her luck the sink worked and there was running water the only problem is it looked like from 1930 she turned the handle then, a small trickle of water came from it she tried to turn the handle more but no luck so she just washed her face with the water she had and looked at the small mirror above the sink her reflection staring back at her, her brown hair was a mess and her brown eyes had dark circles which made her look like a raccoon. Once she had brushed she teeth she turn out the light in her bathroom and opened the door the rest of her room was pitch black She reached into her pocket and pulled out her lighter "Come on work!" she said quietly and then alas it light she walked about three steps before it was blown out, Amy froze and a hand then rested on her shoulder she shivered and turned her head to see a mask "BOO!" the figure whispered into her ear. Amy ran across the other side of the room terrified when she heard laughter not the laughter of which she heard before in the lobby but laughter from……

"VINCENT!" Amy said angrily

Vincent burst into loud laughter

Amy made her way towards him but he ran to the corner.

"I scared you didn't I?" he said watching Amy so he could make his escape incase she tried to attack him.

"Yes" she said

"Good my work here is done" he said

"Wait hold on your not going anywhere" she said while blocking the door "What do you mean? 'My work here is done?' " she asked him.

"I just wanted to see if I would make people scared cause remember I do play the Phantom" he said to her while trying to get around her.

"Yes, but I play Christine and the Phantom doesn't mean to purposely scare her so I think you owe me an apology" she said to him.

"Alright I am sorry" he said "Now may I leave?".

"Okay but please don't scare me like that I am already scared" she said.

"Why" he asked with concern.

"Oh just because of earlier" she said and walked over to her desk.

"Don't because Chad and I will protect you" he said "Well until one of us gets scared" he teased.

"Thank you" she said

"No problem and besides it would be funny if the Phantom and I got into a fight" he said

"Why?" Amy asked not quite amused as him.

"Because you'd be the one to stop the fight" he said

"Why me?" she asked and gave a smirk

"Because" he said and changed his voice into a Russian accent "he could not revist your bleed" (A/N: "Could not resist your plead" for some of you people who don't know what Vincent ment to say )

They shared a laugh but not fair the phantom lurked under the trap door to Amy's room he had actually made them in each of there before they arrived so that he could scare them but he listened contently to there conversation and smirked when he talked about Vincent and him getting into a fight. He could see them through a small crack in the trap door. And watched thinking of many ways to kill Vincent because the thought of someone mimicking him aggravated him.

"Well its getting late" said Vincent

"Yeah your right" she said

"Well good-night" he said and was walking out the door

"Wait !" said Amy "You forgot your mask" she said handing him it.

"Thank you" he said and gave her a hug

"What was that for?" she asked him

"I just declared you my friend" he said.

"I see and I suppose I should declare you my friend too?" she asked

Phantom watched in amusement thinking of a perfect way to sabotage the cast.

Amy gave him a hug and a friendly kiss on the cheek.

The phantoms amusement turned to jealousy seeing Amy kiss Vincent and since Vincent was playing him and Amy was playing Christine he was jealous of the fact he could tell Amy liked Vincent.

Once Vincent had left Amy picked up her script and started to sing 'Think of me'. Erik left in a huff why was he jealous probable just the fact that watching them kiss reminded him of when Christine had kissed him after he had let her and Rahoul go free. He cursed slightly under his breath as he made his way down to his home. When he got there he looked around for anything to break but there was nothing, nothing left since the fire practically destroyed everything and anything left he destroyed himself out of anger from letting Christine leave him forever. He wept softly looking at the one thing that he could not destroy the manikin head of Christine it was slightly burnt and had a light layer of dust, the veil still laid on her head "Oh Christine" he wept into his hands. He sat there crying after almost an hour of his mourning he knew he must find something to do or else he would just remember the past and thinking about her more but how can he not? When they were filming a movie based on what happened here! He was furious "How could they do such a thing to me!" while he wiped his tears away "I will not let this happen" he said loudly and left his home.

Amy paced around in her room practicing her songs messing up on a few notes but correcting them but on 'Think of Me' she always got her voice caught in her throat letting no sound come out. She set down her script on her desk and walked over to her bed and sat down, surprisingly she wasn't tired. "I wonder if they ever found out if there was a crazed fan" she thought to herself, "Or is there really a ghost?" another voice said, "I'm too old to believe in ghost stories" she whispered. She got up and walked to her door but stopped she could he barely faint footsteps, she quickly turned the lock on her door and stepped a few paces back watching the door praying that the door wouldn't open when………… .

Erik walked down the hallway were the cast was staying stepping lightly he had his master key which he had stolen because recently the locks were changed. He grabbed his key out of his pocket and tried to open the door, it was locked he pushed the key lightly through the key hole and turn it slightly and he returned it to his pocket, he peered behind his shoulder and swore he saw a door shut. He then grabbed the handle lightly as if it were hot he turned it and pushed it open slightly………

Amy watched a shadow walk past her door she then walked to the door and unlocked it and looked out she saw a figure in the dark and quickly closed as it peered over its shoulder at her door. She caught her breath "It was just a shadow nothing is out there and why are you letting a little thing like this scare you" she thought and walked out into the deserted hallway she walked over to Celia's door she opened it and peered inside it was dark and quite all she could hear was Celia's breathing and something else something like a- she looked down and saw a rat, she wasn't very afraid of rats but she knew Celia would have a heart attack if she found it in her room so she picked up the rat it shivered she petted it gently and left the room.

Erik who lurked in the corner cursed he was irritated that the girl had spoiled his plan so he left through the trap door in Celia's floor and returned to his lair. He locked himself in his room and tormented dreams of Christine leaving him and when he tried to stop her his feet would not move he could not speak but stood there watching her leave him forever. He awoke sweating and crying and crawled out of bed and crawled out of his room sobbing like a child for his mother he got to his knee's and looked at the manikin head of Christine again, "Why am I tortured to stay on this wretched earth!" he asked the manikin but he knew he would not get an answer everyone from so long ago had died so had he but he was to resume his days at the Opera House and never leave its domain. Erik went over to his boat and rowed he was going to go for a walk maybe play a trick on the security guards who did anything but provide security for the Opera House. He climbed stairs and went through many different hallways and finally got to the stage trapdoor he opened it he looked around no one to be seen he climbed out and look around on the stage he noticed camera's and many boxes in the ails, looking around on the stage he saw the props for Hannibal on the stage and instead of painted boards to look like rocks there were styrofoam rocks he sat on them and thought about Vincent and how much he despised him and then Mark the director who he'd hang any day then Amy. For some reason all he could think about was how she sung after he had left from under her trap door. He brushed these thoughts away and focused on the silents of the stage.


A/N: I am sorry for having you all waiting but I have had finals and severe writing block and I am trying to fix the others but I dont have time but luckily tomorrow we get off school so I will have lots of time!