Chapter 25

"I have the solution!" Raoul trilled to himself, skipping back to his mansion. "Bella!" He hollered, running into the house.
"Yes?" she answered, walking down the stairs.
"I know how to make Erik leave Christine, and come straight into my arms! I am going to kill Madame Giry"
"Hahahaha." Bella leaned on the banister for support, but stopped at the sight of Raoul's face. "Oh you're serious."

"Yes." Raoul nodded his head vigorously. "I mean, he's so close to leaving that cold hearted bitch, and I feel that this will push him into it"
"Let me get this correct, Madame Giry is one of the only people Erik actually likes?" Bella asked, and Raoul nodded.
"She helped him in some way, I don't know, but the point is that the closer they are the sweeter the kill will be"
"So kill Christine"
"Please," Raoul rolled his eyes. "It needs to be someone he likes. Hello!"

"I'm sorry but you're not making any sense." Bella commented, sitting down. "Usually when you kill someone's 'friend', they have an urge to kill you, not the urge to jump into your pants"
"Haha." Raoul chortled. "You'll see, once Erik sees that I killed Madame Giry, he'll see that I would do anything for him, and come running right into my bedroom." He nodded to himself. "Yes that is what he'll do."

"That is the stupidest plan ever, and it doesn't even make sense." Bella giggled, getting up and rummaging through the cupboards. "But I hope I'm there when it blows up in your face"

Erik slowly made his way back home, and dazedly walked in the front door, and plopped down on an armchair.
"And where have you been?" Slowly, Erik turned, and saw the figure of Christine in the doorway.

"I don't know, you see I was on my way here, when I tripped, and smashed my head against the concrete." Erik began talking amicably. "And then, you see, I died! And I was rising up towards heaven, I saw the light!" He was getting quite into his speech. "Then a voice began speaking to me, it said that I had never done a good deed in my life, and I was forced to spend all eternity in hell, and then I ended up here."

"Don't be a smartass." Christine hissed, stepping towards Erik, and pulling him up by the ear.
"Oww!" He let out a holler, and pushed Christine away from him, who let out a scream of outrage.
"Don't you dare do that again!" She screamed, tears forming at the ends of her eyes.

"One of these days Christine," Erik said shaking a fist in front of her face. "One of these days." And he moodily made his way up to the bedroom, and soon, the house was vibrating with unstable music.
After a long time, Erik could no longer play, and he lay a shaking head on the keys of the organ.
"Curse you Raoul de Chagny, curse you to hell." He whispered hoarsely to himself, and closed his eyes.

"Oh my god, Erik!" Christine's shrill voice carried up the stairs, jerking Erik out of his thoughts, and in his surprise, he toppled backwards off of the bench. "Erik!" Christine voice persistently called. "Look out the window! There are carolers Erik! Carolers!" Swearing slightly, Erik got up, and looked out the window in the crisp night air, where a bunch of carolers had gathered and were singing a song of some sort.

"Happy hol-" The carolers were interrupted by Erik screaming,
"Oh go fuck yourselves!" There were some scandalized looks, and angry grumbling, and Christine shouted in a shocked tone,
"Control your temper Erik!" Erik sighed, and lay his head on the windowsill. The carolers moved on to Raoul's house, and resumed singing joyfully. Erik turned away from the window, when the sound of crashing glass made him turn around in time to see Raoul shout out the window,

"Go fuck yourselves!" The carolers quickly ran off, and Erik leaned back out the window.
"Oh hey!" Raoul noticed Erik, and waved vigorously at him, who waved halfheartedly back with something of a smirk on his face.

"Oh Erik," Christine's singsong voice came from behind Erik, and he grudgingly turned around to see Christine clad in a bathrobe. She started swinging the ties of the bathrobe, and slid part of the robe off, revealing her bare slender shoulders. She licked her lips in what she thought was a seductive manner, and Erik looked back at Raoul desperately. Christine let the robe fall to the floor, and Erik stared at her naked body.
"Oh dammit." He cursed softly to himself.
"Let's make love." She growled, and shoved him onto the bed.

Raoul turned away from the window, and grabbed a knife off of his dresser.
"All right, operation: fish is now under way." He jumped down the stairs, and slammed into Bella, nearly stabbing her.

"Oh for goodness sake, I'm telling you, if you go and kill that Giry woman you will live to regret it." She said, continuing on her way up the stairs.
"Bah." Raoul muttered, and walked out of the house. "All right, now where to find Madame Giry." He murmured to himself, and began walking towards the Opera Populaire.

"This really is a stupid plan." A voice inside Raoul's head informed him.
"Quiet!" He hissed, clenching the handle of the knife. "I love Erik, and this will work dammit. Oh my god, oh my god." He started hyperventilating as he saw Mme Giry exit the Opera Populaire. "Ok, ok this is it." He quickly ran up behind Mme Giry, and held the knife to her throat. She immediately stiffened, and opened her mouth to speak, but Raoul quickly covered it.

"Do it now!" He told himself, but found that he couldn't. "Dammit, you were in such a rush to do this stupid thing, so do it!" The voice inside his head yelled at him.
"Oh screw it, I can't it." Raoul muttered, and suddenly a scream pierced the air, and Raoul turned around and in doing so, he accidentally drew the blade of the knife across Mme Giry's neck. She fell to the ground with a thump, and Raoul turned back around fearfully.

"Madame Giry?" He asked, and when she didn't move, he fell to the ground next to her. "Oh SHIT!" Raoul screamed as he saw blood across her neck. "Shit, shit shit!" He gasped. "It was an accident! An accident!" He cried up to the heavens. He quickly got up off of the pavement, and started running off in search to find Erik, unaware that someone lurking in the shadows had been watching him all along.

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