Just like Erik had promised the nurse the previous night, he would be back in the morning to check on Christine. Instead of having Elle take him, he rode his own horse to the hospital and had Elle devise a plan for when Raoul was released from the city prison. Thinking about it, Viscount Raoul de Changy in prison, royalty in prison, was quite humorous!

He jumped off the horse and quickly ran to the door. "Yes, I'm Erik. I'm here to see..." It was the same nurse from the night before and she looked as though she understood for she got up from her seat and led him to her room.

"She hasn't gotten much better. Her survival chances are the same but doctors are saying it will be a risky life/death scenario. I'm sorry for this news." Erik noticed the nurse staring at the tears falling heavily from his eyes as he wiped them up continuously.

"The DAMN Viscount!" The nurse left him outside of Christine's room to cry for a while. He couldn't help but strive for her life to be ok.

The nurse came back, "Sir, don't be surprised if she lives. She's been in much worse cases - "

"WHAT!" Erik couldn't control his rage.

"Sir, she says she living for her..."Angel of Music." Do you know anything about it?" He wiped up more tears and progressed to open the door.

"Yes...all too well." He closed the door and cried some more. His angel was still sleeping and breathing slowly and steadily. She looked so...defenseless. He crept by her bed and took her hand and laid his head by their hands. She would make it. He could tell.

Something beneath him stirred and he noticed it was Christine. He got up, in hopes that she would just stay awake to talk normally to him. She looked up at him like she did the previous night. "You came again. Why?" He laughed, which made her smile, "You should smile more."

"I came back for you." She let out a great sigh. "Did you not want me back..."

"NO! Never...Think...That! I love you and I was just...I don't know. Raoul, he was someone I trusted but that changed when the Duke came. Raoul started to abuse me and do things that weren't normal. I got scared and when we became wed, I had a separate room from him." Erik started the water-works again; he cried a lot that day. "Please don't cry; you'll make me cry."

"When you've had a scare, like me to you, you cry when you see the love of your lives eyes. Raoul will be in jail for sometime. They're deciding on a sentence today. When I get news of what it is, would you like me to tell you; I'm coming to the hospital everyday so it's not a burden." Christine nodded and yawned widely.

"I'm so tired and I've got an incredible headache. It still hurts from that particular hit. I've had bad ones, Erik, but nothing like this...OUCH!" She tired to see how swollen her head was; it turned out to be very.

Erik reached back to get her hand and place it back on the bed. She looked like she was in so much pain. He wanted to hang the damn viscount! "Christine, how often does...he do this to you?" His eyes pleading with love, anguish, and hope, received an answer he dreaded.

"Anytime I sing, dance, or do anything related...to the old Opera House...ssssssss." Her eyes were swelling with tears from pain in her head, her scars, and her heart.

"It's okay, mon amour. We'll get you out of this mess. Shhh..." He gingerly picked her upper half up and swayed to a pace that was relaxing. "It'll be..." he looked down and found she fell asleep. He laid her back down and placed his trademark by her nightstand, as a surprise.

He left in time to notice a crowd around the center of town. He made his way through the mass and found the Duke and Raoul in the towns' gallows! He swallowed as the Viscount shot his gaze at him.

He then shouted. "Officers! Officers! The Phantom, he's right..." but Erik had already buried his face in with the city's population. The officer then tightened his noose around Raoul's neck and made his face burn a deep shade of red.

"I, people of Paris, sentence both the Duke and Raoul, Viscount de Chagny, to death." The town gasped in horror while Erik smiled inwardly.

He walked out just as they hung the most talked about people in town. The next day, he heard that Raoul didn't die immediately. He sat there looking up, trying to catch his breath but his head just dropped all of a sudden and the towns' women screamed in shock.

Erik went to see Christine the next day to break the news to her. He was scared to see what she would have to say but stayed confident.

"Christine?" he whispered into her room. He looked around, as well, to make sure nobody had moved her to a different room or anyone had been near her.

He saw her and let out a sigh of relief. She was staring out the window, looking at the lily pads on the pond. He started walking towards her as quietly as he could be she managed to hear him...when a floorboard squeaked.

"Hello Erik..." she said somewhat distracted. He looked at her in a lovers' way; relaxed yet passionate.

"Hello, how are you?" he proceeded heading towards the chair next to her bed.

"I'm doing better. I don't know what I'm going to do when I get back home and Raoul...I'm scared to go back to him." Tears started welding up in her eyes and Erik went straight over to the bed, kneeled down and held her hand.

"Christine, I've come to tell you what's going on with Raoul. Well, rather what was going on with him."

Christine looked confused; her look gave Erik the courage to continue with his explanation. "Raoul was tried at the local court house, as you know, and was found guilty due to the fact that all the witnesses had showed up. He and Duke were sentenced and they were hung last night."

She didn't respond immediately; she looked down at his hands. She could tell he was still playing the organ. They were very muscular and big. She felt comfortable with him holding her hand, unlike Raoul. "Well, that has been needed done for a very long time." He smiled at her while she kept looking at his hand. "Erik,"

"Yes."

"Thank you."

A/N: Ok, I know a weird ending of the chappie (not story) but I think it's good for the next chappie. This will prob. be the last time for the review responses due to the fact my story was deleted for that fact. Yes, MORE THAN was deleted. I will post when it gets back up. I'm thinking of changing some parts.

Erik's Secret Admirer – Yeah. As you can tell, I don't write as often as a I prob. should. Oh well, I have another story going so...it limits this a LOT! And the fact I have been stuck so...yeah. Thanx for readin'

Gi Xian – Hey, wat ? Well, I hope this cappie showed the two ugly men! YAY! Gallows rule...when you hate someone and wish that they died!

the Mouse in the Opera House – I like the way she thinks too! I don't think I've too much of Elle in this chappie but DON'T WORRY! She will make an appearance in the next chappie.

Lonemutant – Well, DUH! And, what do you know, it's in this chappie too! Whoo-Hoo!

Genius of Music (Ari) – Srry it took so long to update. Like I said above, I have another story that I update frequently and I was stuck. Hope this will cover it for a while.

scully35 – Yes, Raoul got what he deserved, too! I'm happy they had gallows...and still do. YAY! I'm sooooooooooooo mean!

hisdarkprincess – SHUT UP! It was not awful! But, thanx ERIK and ANA! Love ya guys! Ok, here ya go.