Christine1987: I think that does deserve an "aw" moment.

Phantomette of the opera: Mouse in the Opera House gave me that idea.

Erik's Secret Admirer: Meg will be happy now; she has a reason to live.

WanderingTeen: I think that does deserve an "aw" moment.

The Mouse in the Opera House: I got a couple of comments on that good idea.

Jamea: Sorry, I'll put Erik back in. He just wasn't as big a character. Raoul is back-without the voices.

MyDarkAngelErik: What normal newlyweds do-except in a carriage.

Raoul is Back

A/N: This reminds me of a little weird song. "Raoul is back, back, back. Back again, again, again. Help me figure out the rest."

Erik

How I love my Christine. She is so beautiful, sleeping next to me. I love waking up seeing her face first thing. As I drift off to sleep, this is all I can think of "Raoul can never take this away from me. He can never take away my love for Christine."

Meg

How wonderful it is to be in love. I forgot the moments of passion, the quiet whispers in the night. I had forgotten even in the short while what it was like to really be with a man.

It is a silent agreement that Nadir and I will marry. He will adopt my child when it is born, and for now he will be my love. Raoul might've been a good man at heart, but everything became twisted and distorted with him. Nadir is a good man, and he will never become twisted the way Raoul is. I wonder what drove Raoul to insanity? He has never shown any signs of insanity before, but now he is insane as any other man.

Raoul

Such fools, the doctors in the insane asylum. I cannot believe they actually put me there with those dirty, smelly people. I am better than that! I do not belong there. And I proved it. Through rigorous testing, I proved I was not insane. What they do not realize is that I was never insane. I have a constant pain now, a need for something I cannot name. The month in that asylum was torture, not only being in the same place with that scum you can't call humans, but the need for that I could not get there. They would not give me what I longed for, what I cried out for. All of the hallucinations stopped, as did the voices. But I still have the drive to take Christine with me. And I will. What that Opera Ghost does not know is that I know exactly where his lair is now. I will wait until he is away, and take Christine, far away, where he will never follow.

Nadir

I got more than I ever thought I would with Meg, my dearest Meg. She is a passionate, alive woman, something I never saw when she was depressed. It has been years since I have been with a woman, and it feels wonderful to be in love again. Being up all night with Meg, laughing and whispering was something I will treasure forever. We will get married, but I want to really propose, so that she will have an engagement better than anything she could ever have with Raoul.

Erik

I woke up, gasping for air from another nightmare. They are all the same. Raoul coming, somehow taking Christine, than impregnating her and her then having his child. That would torture. The only child Christine will ever have is mine. Raoul will never take her away, because she is too precious to me. I will watch over her always, silent, but I will always be there. She chose me, she wanted to marry me. She makes my soul take flight with her voice.

Music. I will now get up and compose music until morning. I have not done so in a long while, and I miss composing pieces. I will compose two pieces. One for my darling Angel, and the other for Nadir and Meg. I wish them a happy life. Christine is a little minx; she set them up just right. She asked me to put a little something in Meg's drink to make her have cramps. After we saw Meg began having stomach cramps, we left laughing, not at her pain, but at Nadir's concern. We drove around town, allowing Meg and Nadir some alone time. Christine was right. They got together, and they belong together. You could almost paint a portrait of them together. Neither of them dazzlingly beautiful, but both have passion and spirit, that makes them wonderful. They belong together just like Christine and I belong together. We will always belong together, no matter what.