A/N I don't own Erik or any relations to the play, the musical or the book "the phantom of the opera".

Sorry for taking so long. I went on spring break. Hope this chunk is good. Keep reviewing. Also if any of you want a Raoul prospective just ask but till then it is strictly Rouge, Christine, and Erik perspective story.

Chapter 3……

Rouge again woke in a bed of fine linens. This time when she went to get into a sitting position her back didn't paralyze her. She remembered the last thing that man said to her,

"Do not thank me just yet. Once you are fully healed you will despise me. Do not trouble yourself with such toils yet. Now rest if I know anything you will need to be well rested to be able to help me."

I know he probably saved my life but what does he expect me to do? Why will I despise him and need to be well rested? Anyway who is this mysterious man? Why would he need me? Well I wonder if he is still here. I could make my escape if he's not here.

"Hello is anyone here?" all of a sudden an organ started to play. Nothing like rouge expected it to be. To start out loud and bounce around notes while trying to keep a tune. No this was soft and perfect. It gracefully flowed through rouge's being. Slowly enveloping rouge as if in a warm embrace. The music lulled her back to sleep. Where she remand unconscious for the remainder of her recovery.

Christine…

Raoul hates to command Christine to do anything but this he had to.

"Christine we have to go up north. You must come with me. There is to be a ball for us. Please come."

"You can go and keep your name clean but I will stay. When we go to balls and galas you make me feel like I being put on display. I'm not a prize to be won. Besides we aren't married yet it would not be proper to travel alone with a man."

"Christine we are engaged so don't worry about being proper. Also I never knew I put you on display. I try to help that. I can't have a clean name if I go alone when both of us are invited. I hate to say this but you are going and that's final!" Raoul walked away. Christine threw herself on the bed with a huff.

I can't believe Raoul is making me do something. What if while I'm away Erik needs me? There's no more use in arguing. I'm going whether I like it or not. I love you Erik. I always will. I promise I will never stop loving you. Christine fell asleep crying.

Erik….

When he got to his coffin he found sleep would not come to him. He was filled with doubt. What if she can't help? What if it is all a hallucination? I'm supposed to be a monster a living corpse but I still have a heart. A bleeding love filled heart. Why can't I just die in peace? God or who ever controls the fate of my life is cruel. You control your own life. If I could would I have chosen this life?

"You were cursed the day you did not do all that the phantom asked of you!"

No I was cursed the day I was conceived. Christine doesn't love me. How could anyone love a phantom? We are like ghost as in non existent. He couldn't sleep so he went (oh I wonder what he's going to do?) to his……organ! He got lost in his music. Before he knew it he was finished with the score. Then he heard someone,

"Hello is anyone here?" it was rouge she woke again. She still wasn't fully recovered. She should sleep more. Erik didn't want to deal with her right now so he played his music. He knew it would drift her safely into unconsciousness.

Several days pass…..

Christine….

"Raoul how many more balls are there to be? We have been here for three days and we have gone to three balls."

"We will have one every night until we depart which will be in six days."

"Six more balls. I'll have no more feet."

"What's wrong? You never complained before the incident. Now all you can do is whine. I still love you but your holding on to something not worth holding on to."

"Don't ever talk about Erik like that. He's worth holding on to. "

"Christine? If you love him so much why did you agree to marry me? Is that why your cooped up in you room all day every day. You're pining for your lost love."

"I was asking myself the same question. Why did I agree to marry you? And yes I do miss Erik like the sun misses the flower in the depth of winter."

"You disgust me Christine. When we were married you would have run to him, right? Left me alone but you would have come back to tell me your leaving me. You would have tried to tell gently. But inside you would have been counting the second till you were with your phantom again. My family was right. You're just a selfish chorus girl trying to climb her way to the top. "

By now Christine was crying, but she collected her composer for one last stand.

"If I'm so horrible why have you not kicked me out onto the streets? Before you do I just want to say I'm not trying to climb my way to the top. I was born on the bottom. I have lived on the bottom. Then when you came back in to my life I did think I was going to grow higher in social standings but in fact everyone knows I'm a chorus girl. A poor girl who's about to marry a rich boy. You'd think that would raise my status but in fact it lowered it. When I'm around you I'm suppose to be the perfect wife. You were infatuated with little lotte. I'm not little lotte I'm Christine. "

"Every second you're with me I'm lowering your status. You're so low you're almost in the hell that bore your lover."

Christine slapped Raoul. She wasn't wearing a glove. The impact made a satisfying crack.

"I'll order a carriage. You're going back to the Paris. You can live happily ever after. Take what you want. I never want to see you again."

With that he walked out of the room never to see Christine again.

Later that night at the ball…

"Sir where's your wife? She's such a breath of fresh air at these dull parties."

"I regret to inform you but we are no longer to be married."

"Why?"

"Well see, beg pardon I think the host is calling for me. I must go."

"But I am the host of this ball."

Christine….

Christine didn't want anything Raoul could give her. She put on a simple grey dress and called for a carriage. She left that night for the 4 day ride to Paris.

I'm coming angel.

Rouge…..

She slept for three days. When she did wake there was a dress laid out for her on the bed. Finally she got the dress on but it was too large. (In almost all phan fictions the dresses always fight the character perfectly.) There were no mirrors around but she didn't look too horrible. Rouge smoothed out her red locks and walked out of three doors, but found herself in a closet. The next door leads her into the main area of his home. It was pitch black that she couldn't see anything around her. She wiggled her fingers in what she thought was the front of her face .still nothing.

"I was wondering when you would wake up." It was that voice again.

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Seven to eight days. How does your back feel?"

"It does not hurt."

She felt breathing on her left ear." Come sit down." This startled her. She turned around to what she thought was where he would be standing. Al of a sudden a strong hand was on her shoulder leading her some where. That same hand pushed her on her collar bone. She thought she was about to fall on her bottom and braced for the impact but found instead she fell into a cushy chair.

"Now I know you can't see me. Yet don't be frightened. I won't harm you. What is your name?"

"Rouge and yours?"

"Rouge? That's an odd name for a girl. Is that your real name?"

"Yes."

"Did you love the man you were living with?"

"No he was just my husband."

"Then why did you marry him?"

"I hate to be rude but you didn't bring me here to ask me about Jorge. What do you want from me?"

"I'm just wondering if you'd miss him. He died about seven to eight days ago."

"You killed him." Rouge didn't know where this man was but she had to get out of this place. He could just want to kill her to.

"I'm not going to kill you but he was. I needed you. I did what I had to."

"I'm not angry that you killed him nor am I ungrateful for what you must have done for me and I'm eternally in your debt. Yet why do you need me. I can't give you anything. I'm no one."

"The day I brought you here, I had seen you earlier that night. You were crying. You said things that only I should know. Then you just got up and walked off as if it never happened. You have to tell me what you were doing then."

"You saw that."

"Yes now how can you do that?"

"I have this ability. When there's someone with strong emotional feelings I'm able to express what they're thinking saying or feeling. I can't tell when one is going to come or how to control them. They come and go. Usually I don't feel anything once they're gone but with her I felt everything. She really loves you. "

"You are not toying with me? This is not some joke."

"Not that I know of."

Okay I have to say sorry for taking long to post. Plus I don't own Aladdin or a knight's tale. I used some quotes from those movies.

Peace out

IndiaPyro