Disclaimer: I don't own Phantom. Duh.
Notes: This will be a mini series, with each chapter detailing the life of a different character. The first chapter tells about everyone's favorite Phantom.
Our Lives
Chapter One - Erik
9-14-05
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Erik.
All too well she hurt me.
Denied my need, made me hide my face from view until the pain was too strong.
And I left.
Kept then in a cage to perform my tricks like an animal, then show the horrors that lay hidden beneath the silken black cover of my mask.
His 'Don Juan'.
God forgive me, I killed that man who kept me like a creature, and ran at such a young age, became a mason, an architect.
But soon death by my unwilling hands occurred, and once more I made myself disappear.
To Persia I traveled, with the Daroga, and designed palaces of wealth and beauty. I made ornate torture chambers for the Khanum.
And yet I was empty.
Going then to Boucherville, narrowly escaping death, I arrived back home to find my mother was dead. So I left again.
Paris was beautiful that night.
Down, down, down I went, deeper and deeper below l'Opera Gariner, escaping those hateful gazes, those accusing stares... deep down below I made my home, and none but my own eyes befell the surroundings I called my own.
Secret passages were what I constructed to take up my time, save my sanity.
And then I composed my bitter magnum opus, my opera.
Don Juan Triumphant.
Forgive me Father, but I fell in love, fell in love with an Angel of light, a beautiful woman, no... more a girl, who looked so much like the only woman whose love I have ever wanted, whose love I could never have.
I taught this angel to sing, made her my own. My soul called to her, but she tore away my mask, and screamed at the monster who lay before her.
Now she is gone, so I lay broken and empty, and wonder why God had no mercy left to spare.