Chapter 11

"What happened in here?" Erik asked out loud. What Erik didn't know was that Raoul and Heather had been there and they had looked through the whole place looking for any sign of where Erik might have taken Paige.

"Erik…..what happened?" Paige asked shocked. Erik looked up at her. He shrugged.

"I don't know what happened," Erik replied. Paige just stood there in shock. She looked around at the disaster.

"Who would do this?" Paige asked. She walked over to Erik and placed a hand on Erik's arm.

"I don't know," Erik replied.

"Who else knows where you live? Do you have any enemies that would do this to you?" Paige asked wanting to get of info.

"I don't think so and there is Raoul, but I doubt he knows where my labyrinth is. No, wait….he does!" Erik exclaimed.

"Raoul," Paige whispered to herself. She thought she saw him once, but outside the Opera House.

"Why would he want to come here, Erik?" Paige asked Erik. She looked up at Erik. Does he want to hurt Erik? Paige asked herself. Now Paige started to get evil thoughts on how to kill Raoul. Muahahaha! Paige thought. Paige started to get an evil grin on her face. Erik looked down at her with puzzlement on his face. Wow! She's even attractive when she's thinking evil thoughts Erik thought. Erik smiled to himself when that thought occurred to him. Erik watched as Paige walked out of the room with evil written on her forehead. Erik smiled to himself again. Wow, I wonder what made her like that…I likey Erik thought. He mentally slapped himself for thinking that, even though it was true. She will be mine, and mine alone though…so I can likey Erik rethought.

Erik walked out of the room to see Paige leaving. Erik ran towards Paige and grabbed her around the waist to stop her.

"Where are you going?" Erik asked, worryingly. Paige smiled at him from him being worried about her.

"I'm going to find Raoul and give him a piece of my mind," Paige replied.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Paige added. She removed Erik's hand and started to walk again. She was stopped again by Erik having his hand around her waist again.

"Erik…please," Paige pleaded trying to get out of Erik's grip around her waist.

"I can't let you," Erik replied. Paige gave him a confused look.

"Why?" Paige asked. She noticed that Erik had tightened his grip around her waist. Paige did as best as she could to get free, but didn't succeed.

"I don't want Raoul to take you away from me. That already happened once," Erik replied, looking down. He noticed that Paige stepped closer to him. Erik moved his head to where he could look Paige in the eye.

"He won't take me away from you Erik, I promise. Cross my heart hope to…" Paige replied and started to say. Erik covered her mouth with his hand.

"Don't cross your heart and hope to die…I don't want you to die, I care for you to much to let you die," Erik said being serious. Erik loosened his grip and grabbed her hand and kissed it. Sometimes I think he tries to hard Paige thought. Paige smiled at him.

"I won't leave you Erik. I don't want to hurt you in anyway. That's why I said sorry, I thought I hurt you," Paige said. Erik looked as if he might fall over.

"You okay?" Paige asked making sure he was.

"Yea… just a little…stunned by what you said," Erik said stunned. Paige smiled. Paige then wiggled free from the rest of the grip that he had on her, and ran off. Please don't be mad at me for doing that, but I have to go and kill the red-butted-monkey's-uncle, also known as the baboon Paige thought. Oh no, your not getting away that fast from me Erik thought. Erik started to run after Paige. He then caught up with her and tackled her. He grabbed her arms and pushed her against the wall.

"Why are you so determined to leave?" Erik asked pinning Paige to the wall. Paige struggled.

"Because I want to kill the freaking Pansy," Paige yelled in anger. Erik never knew she could get that anger that fast. Just like me Erik thought.

"You what?" Erik asked stunned.

"You heard me, I want to kill him Erik; just like you do," Paige replied softly. Paige let her body go limp in Erik's hold. Erik let go of her and stepped back. Paige sunk to the floor and started to cry. Erik quickly rushed back to Paige and embraced her.

"Don't cry my love," Erik pleadingly said.

"Why are you crying my love?" Erik asked looking into Paige's eyes. I never knew her eyes were blue like mine Erik thought.

"Too many emotions hit me at once," Paige said, quieting down. All the crying and sniffing subsided.

"I'm sorry," Paige replied softly.

"Sorry for what my love?" Erik asked. Paige shrugged her shoulders.

"For anything that I might have done to hurt you," Paige replied looking down at the ground. Erik lifted Paige's chin up so he could look her in her gorgeous eyes.

"You have never hurt me," Erik said softly. Erik saw that a smile was spreading across her face and that her eyes were watering.

"Please don't cry again; it pains me to see or hear you cry," Erik said wiping the fallen tears away. Paige nodded. Erik then got up and offered to help Paige up and she accepted. Paige then leaped on to Erik and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Paige let go and walked back towards the labyrinth. Erik stood there for awhile, shocked and stunned. I wonder why she did that Erik asked himself. Erik then realized where he was and headed back to his labyrinth.

When he got back, he saw Paige had made dinner and was serving it on two plates. Paige noticed a presence, and looked up to see Erik. She smiled at him and finished serving the food.

"Supper is served," Paige said. Erik walked over to Paige and helped her get seated and then he took his seat. Paige has been with me for over a day or two and she has never asked or stared at my mask…Erik started to think, but got distracted.

"How is it?" Paige asked. Erik looked up and did the thumbs up sign. Paige giggled.

"Make sure you don't shove everything in because then you'll get the hiccups," Paige said. But she was a little too late. Erik got the hiccups. Paige started to giggle again.

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Heather and Raoul walked out of the door that they walked into before.

"I wonder where he took her?" Raoul asked worried. Heather rolled her eyes.

"I don't know and I don't care," Heather replied coldly. Raoul looked at her in shock.

"You don't care? You don't care that your friend is with that 'Monster'?" Raoul asked. Heather nodded her head.

"Yea, I don't care because Paige liked him. She called him her and I quote 'Angel of Music'," Heather replied. Raoul looked at her shocked.

"She likes that 'Monster'?" Raoul asked getting angry.

"Yea. She always said that she wanted to be with the Phantom then the Fop, I mean Raoul," Heather said hoping he didn't hear her say 'Fop'.

"May I ask what a 'fop' is?" Raoul asked curiously.

"Don't you know that curiosity killed that cat?" Heather asked trying to guide the question in a different direction.

"Yes, but what is a so called 'fop', and you better answer me Woman!" Raoul demanded.

"First off, you are to NEVER call me 'woman' and second off you 'fop', I'm not telling you what it is," Heather yelled at him. Heather turned around so she wouldn't have to look at him. Don't you even dare talk to me Heather threatened. Great, the silent treatment Raoul thought. Heather then couldn't stand to be anyway near him so she walked off. Raoul watched her walk off and didn't care.

"I hope you get kidnapped," Raoul shouted at Heather.

"I hope you get killed by the Phantom because you deserve it," Heather shouted back. Either that Paige will gladly do it because your trying to take her away from Erik Heather thought. Maybe the Phantom should kidnap you too Raoul thought. Just then, Raoul felt a hand on his shoulders and turned around to see who it was. But then he couldn't turn around because he got hit in the head with something.

"That should knock him out," said the voice. After that, everything went black. Heather watched from afar that it was Paige. Heather ran over to Paige.

"Paige!" Heather exclaimed. Paige looked up to see Heather running towards her. Paige started to smile.

"Heather!" Paige exclaimed. Heather looked at Paige and circled her.

"Are you some kind of vulture?" Paige asked jokingly. Heather started to giggle from that.

"No…its just been two days that I haven't seen you and I just wanted to see if you've changed at all, and to me…you haven't," Heather replied. Erik was in the darkest shadows of the alley so he could watch and Paige didn't know it at all. Erik promised her that he wouldn't follow her or go with her. Of course he had followed her so he broke his promise. He knew that if Paige found out, that he had lost some of his trust with her. But he was amazed to see Paige go up to Raoul and knock him out.

"So what have you and Erik been doing?" Heather asked curiously.

"Don't you know that curiosity killed the cat?" Paige repeated. Heather started to giggle.

"You heard that didn't you?" Heather asked. Paige nodded her head.

"Kind of hard not to," Paige replied. Heather giggled even more.

"So?" Heather pushed on eager to know. Paige showed Heather that she sealed her lips and threw away the key.

"Paige…did you guys do something that your not suppose to do?" Heather asked curiously.

"NO!" Paige exclaimed. Erik was baffled for a little while, but he figured it out what Heather was asking Paige. For heavens sake girl, I would never do that to Paige until we are married Erik thought. The thought of doing anything to harm Paige gave him a chill.

"Then what did you guys do?" Heather asked getting more curious by the moment.

"We just talked, sang, and laughed together," Paige replied. Heather just rolled her eyes.

"I have a feeling that you guys did something that at least YOU weren't suppose to do," Heather suggested. Paige shook her head, avoiding eye contact with Heather.

"Paige?" Heather replied.

"Ok ok, we…um….kissed," Paige replied. She says it as if it was a bad thing Erik thought. Heather could tell that Paige was blushing.

"So…how was that kiss?" Heather asked making it worse.

"Heather it was just a kiss," Paige replied. Heather shook her head.

"Was it better than Brandon's?" Heather pushed. Paige was getting very annoyed and agitated by all the 'kiss' questions.

"So?" Heather pushed again. Heather walked over to Paige and nudged her arm. Paige was now getting ticked off.

"Tell me," Heather replied still poking her. Paige secretly grab the lasso that she had brought for a just-in-caser and all in a swift motion the rope was around Heather's throat.

"YES, ok it was better than Brandon's and I did feel something, so would you lay off now," Paige yelled. Erik rushed out of the alley and grabbed Paige's waist and arms and pulled her back away from her friend. Paige struggled.

"Let me go!" screamed Paige. Paige finally calmed down. Heather hurried up and got away from Paige when Erik came to her rescue. Heather could still feel the rope around her neck. She lifted her hands to her neck just to find that there was just a rash from the rope. Erik turned Paige around to look at her.

"What has gotten into you?" Erik asked looking into her eyes.

"I don't know…I don't want to talk about it and I want to go home," Paige replied wrapping her arms around him.

"You will be able to go home in 2 years Paige," Erik replied thinking that she wanted to go home home. Paige shook her head.

"Not that home, your home…our home or whatever it is," Paige replied. Erik smiled from what she called it…'our home'.

"Ok…lets go," Erik replied. Paige looked back at Heather. Heather was looking over Raoul. Paige stopped walking and almost made Erik loose his grip on her. Which he didn't want to do.

"Where are you going to sleep…live etc. etc. etc.?" Paige asked Heather. She pointed at Raoul.

"With his sister," Heather replied. With that the friends went their different ways for the night. Heather dragged Raoul to his sisters and Paige and Erik went back to his labyrinth.

When Paige and Erik arrived, there was dinner waiting for them on the table. They looked around and saw………………………

A/N: Man, I wish she'd stop doing that! lol I hope that chapter kept you entertained. Just between you and me…this is my longest chapter yet. lol Please review!