A/N: I'm sorry for the short first chappie. They'll get longer, pinky promise!
What Sweet Seduction
Chapter 2: Grace
Erik watched the young woman as she slept. She wasn't an exceptionally lovely girl, but she looked almost like an angel as she slept. Wait, what am I thinking? he wondered. Christine was his angel, not this petit rat who had gone almost completely unnoticed all her life, save for her semi-famous mother, Brielle Giry. Even though dear Brielle, who had been like a true mother to him, was dead, he would keep the promise he had made to her: that he would never harm her child should she ever venture into the lair of darkness that he had called home for 24 years.
He still didn't know what had made him save her from probable death out on the street tonight, though. He didn't need to do that; he hadn't promised Brielle that he would save her daughter. Marguerite was a mere flea on the window to him compared to Christine. She probably wasn't as charming and appealing as Christine was. The only thing she did better than Christine was dancing. That was what had caught many an eye of a young nobleman, he knew. She wasn't as attractive as Christine, certainly, and probably didn't sing half as well as she did.
Still, there was just something that made him want to stay and watch the young woman forever. He shook the feeling. He needed to work on his music. He then left the room.
Meg's POV
Meg woke up with a start. She found herself in a soft bed with a velvet coverlet and down pillow on it. Where of nations am I? she panicked. She jumped out of the bed and ran out of the room. She paid absolutely no attention whatsoever to the man sitting at the pianoforte, nor to his playing. She suddenly was faced by a massive lake. The lake seemed familiar to her, but she couldn't remember why it was familiar. Without a thought, she jumped into the lake and started to swim. She hadn't had much to eat in the past few days, so she was very weak. She felt herself going under the water.
Erik's POV
Erik looked up from his music-writing and saw Marguerite going under the water. He felt a cold stab of fear as he watched her start to sink into the light blue-green water. He took his boots off, then jumped into the water. He then swam over to the nymph-looking girl, grabbed her around the waist, and pulled her to the surface. He laid her on the ground and she immediately started coughing up water. He pulled her up and started yelling at her.
"How dare you risk your life like that!" he stormed. "That was stupid! Stupid!" He smacked her hard on the face, but then he realized what he'd done. The young woman's face was streaked with many tears, and the right side of her face was red and swelling. He became full of horror and disgust. He dropped her on the floor, then fled to his room. He could hear her wracking sobs, and with each of them, his soul cracked just a little.
A/N: I think Meg (in the '04 movie) had a beautiful voice, so I'll make her have a beautiful voice unknown to Erik.