Chapter 9
Erik sat at the organ, re-living the night before last in his mind
That night, one certain person kept haunting his mind, his thoughts, no matter how hard he tried to push those thoughts away. He knew his mind would not rest until he made a sound decision, so he sat contemplating- to do it or not to do it? Deep in the heart he wanted to and he knew it, but he couldn't forget what had happened last time, and he certainly could not afford for that to happen again. He barely survived it that time, and still had to fight with all his soul to forget about what happened. Still, he could not silence the half of him that burned with a desire to do this, and eventually that half of him won out. Getting up, Erik began to sing.
Soon later, Erik found himself on the other side of a large mirror, looking into an old, unoccupied dressing room as he continued to sing. In just moments, the door on the other side of the dressing room creaked open. The figure of a teenage girl, half-entranced, entered the room. Erik smiled a small smile, while the other half of him said to himself "Here we go again, and this can't turn out well..."But just then, so suddenly, the girl fainted. Erik looked, half-shocked, upon the girl now lying on the ground, and he wasn't sure what to do. His trance had apparently overcome her quite easily, and simply became too strong for her. Seeing her lay there made Erik panic a bit. What could he do? To leave the girl lying there would arouse great suspicion, but to bring her back would be risky. Everybody in the Opera House thought he was dead, and he hadn't set a foot outside the mirror since...the "incident". Still, Erik knew he could not just leave the poor girl lying there, so he pushed the glass of the mirror aside and stepped out into the dressing room. Taking the unconscious girl into his arms, he went stealthily down to the ballet dormitories. He tried not to think about the fact that there was a beautiful girl in his arms.
Now, two days later, Erik sat at the old organ again, once more contemplating what to do. He could just abandon the whole matter, and forget about the one talented ballet girl, and it would cost him much less effort. Any recollections of that night could be easily passed off as merely a dream...unless the girl was to tell Madame Giry about the recollections. Madame would understand exactly what was going on, and know that Erik was indeed still alive. He would be hunted down again, and things would become very difficult. Even though it was not certain that the ballet girl would tell Madame Giry or if she even HAD any recollections of that night, there would always be a chance, and Erik's mind would be constantly in panic. He knew he had to follow through with his plan, even with the chance that it might lead him down the same road it did last time.