Now its 5:30 and I still have nothing to do so here's chapter 8! R&R!


Erik's POV

I picked her up. She had bruises and scratches all over. Her face was bleeding. I took her to the river. I have a cave there like the one under the opera house. I don't like to stay there though.

I took out my handkerchief after laying her down on my bed. I grabbed the basin of water and began to wash her face. Her arms and legs were also full of scratches. There was one that I knew would get infected if I did not wash, dry and bandage it.

I can't believe I told her that! Why? She has probably lost all of what little respect she had for me. I began feeling for broken bones. I must have found one, because Cosset sat bolt upright and gasped loudly. It was her ankle. I chuckled softly.

"What?" she asked.

"You nearly broke your ankle." We both began laughing. I love her laugh. It is so beautiful. She is so beautiful!

She began wincing at the pain. "This is going to hurt, but It's a very bad sprain ,and I have to bandage it."

"Go ahead, doctor." She said jokingly.

Cossets POV

After he bandaged my ankle, Erik lay down beside me on the bed. I notested a gash underneath his unmasked eye.

"What happened to your eye?"

"My e…" he began feeling around for what I was talking about.

"Here let me get it," I picked up the abandoned handkerchief and began sponging at his face.

"Thanks," he said when I was done.

"Thank you! Look what you've done for me!" I indicated my ankle and bandaged cut.

"What were you going to say about that man?" I asked tentatively after a moment.

"… He was the only one that… got away…till tonight anyway. I caught him sneaking around my lair one night. I grabbed my lasso and threw it around his neck. He had his hand at the level of his eyes, darn Giry, and got away from me with nothing but a bad rope burn. But I got him back tonight! I…"

"You have to promise me that you will never murder another human being on this earth unless you have no other choice and it is self defense!"

"Let's not t…"

"Promise me!" I commanded

"Okay fine I promise." That was the first time I kissed the Phantom of the Opera.


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