A/N Thank you to all who reviewed. It is so much fun to see what you all have to say. This was the first story I ever wrote about Erik, so its nice to see what you have to say about it. Please enjoy and review.

Ch. 15♪

"She is pregnant." Erik cried as he looked at Christine.

"Well, that is what she said." Christine told him softly. "But if you look at her behavior over the past two months it sort of explains it all. She has been feeling nauseous and fatigued and Raoul told her that she had a certain glow to her."

Erik had to stop from pacing for he had been doing so for the last half hour. He was a complete mess. He wanted to talk to Anna but he did not see how he could even approach her.

"What should I do?" Erik asked Christine.

"I really do not know." Christine answered. "I can't give her any more of my advice because she is sick of hearing it."

"I know you have tried but I just want to know how she is." Erik asked just wanting to know that Anna was happy.

"She is a lot better than she was a few weeks ago. I suppose she is getting better, maybe the pain is starting to subside."

"How can her pain be vanishing when mine is still as raw as the day it was when she left. I just do not understand." Erik said flatly.

"Erik do you truly believe that she still does not feel any pain when she thinks of you. You can see it in her eyes; she is always thinking of you and the baby. She loves you and I know that she is hurting, no woman in her position could be completely void of any pain or emotion, and she still loves you." Christine turned his face to her as she spoke. "I believe some of her new found happiness has come from the fact that your child lies within her womb."

"I love her so much for that. She is granting me a wish that I never thought would come true." Erik cried, his tears falling freely.

"I know, Erik." Christine told him.

Christine was furious at Raoul, he had told her of Andrew's and his plan to capture Erik. She was so upset that she had not talked to him for three days. She thought that Raoul was acting immature trying to kill Erik.

"Erik I must tell you something." Christine began. "It is very important."

"I take it you fop of a husband told you his plan to my downfall, am I Right?" Erik told her.

"How did you find out?" Christine asked completely amazed by him.

"Please my dear I am the Opera Ghost, I know everything." He responded back with a sound of amusement in his voice.

"What are you going to do?" Christine asked and then a thought dawned on her. "Erik you are not going to kill them are you?"

"No Christine, my murderous ways died when I let you go. No I am not going to kill them; I will just have to put them in their place. Show them who Anna belongs to now." Erik told her nonchalantly.

"Erik, why do you believe Anna belongs to you, and when you were in love with me, why did you feel I belonged to you?" Christine asked wanting to know so badly what emotion it was that had driven Erik mad by loving Anna and herself.

"I loved you and I had been the only male influence in your life for a long time, over that time I came to love you in an unfatherly way, and I knew I had to make you mine. I did that by making your voice what it is. But when I finally saw that you were mine no longer, I let you go." Erik told her. "But with Anna it is different. Her heart is mine as mine is hers. I love her and she loves me, and as long as her heart bleeds for me in the way mine bleeds for her, she will belong to me, as I will belong to her."

Christine was speechless. His words were so truthful that it made her want to cry. That is what love is. Two hearts loving each other more than anything else in this world. Two hearts needing one another to survive each and every day. Two hearts knowing that the other will always be there. That is what love is, Christine had just never understood that before.

"Christine, are you happy with Raoul?" Erik asked.

He needed to know even though he knew if she said no that his heart lied with Anna. Christine had missed her chance the moment she left him. It hurt to think that but it was true.

Christine was surprised at the question. Was she happy with Raoul? Yes, in her heart she did love Raoul and he had given her all that she could have asked for. He treated her fairly and she knew he loved her.

"Yes Erik, I am happy here with Raoul." Christine replied.

"Good, that is nice to hear." Erik told her. "I will win her back, Christine. This is not happening to me again."

OOOO

Anna was such a mess. She loved Erik and knew she would forever more, but she just did not know how to handle her situation.

"Why did I say yes?" Anna asked herself over and over.

The truth was that she could not understand why she had said yes to Andrew's proposal. She knew she had no intentions to marry him.

'Poor Andrew' Anna thought to herself.

Anna thoughts were interrupted at the sound of the door opening. Richard was impeccably dressed in an elegant black suit and his beaming, white smile only added to make him appear more attractive.

"Anna you look absolutely radiant." Richard told her merrily.

It was true; her pregnancy had made her skin glow. She had looked more beautiful these last three months that she had ever looked in her entire life. The rich midnight blue of her gown only added to the ravishing beauty of her appearance. No one could yet tell that Anna was with child. Her waist was still small her breasts had only swelled slightly. It was only lately that she had to stop tying her corset so tight.

Anna still appeared to be the petite, young girl that she used to be. It was only when Anna showered that she could see the tiny bump that lied at the bottom of her abdomen. She still found it hard to believe that an actual human being was residing inside her. The workings of God truly baffled her.

"Thank you, Richard." Anna replied as they embraced. "You don't look too bad your self."

"You have no idea how happy I am to have you teasing me once again." Richard told her excitingly. "I hate to see you lovely face so gloomy."

Both walked into the dining room at sat down at the small table that was set for two. Anna could feel butterflies in her tummy. She was finally going to tell Richard that she was pregnant.

"Well like I said earlier. I have some wonderful news to tell you." Anna said beamingly.

"Tell me." He responded, excitement and curiosity filled his voice.

"I am pregnant." Anna said gaily.

"WH-at." Richard cried out as he choked on his drink.

"I am pregnant Richard, you know with child." Anna told him as she felt her insides melt. "Are you not happy for me?"

"Anna of course I am happy for you. It is just; well I just never expected this out of you." He told her hoping to spare her feeling. "Who is the father?"

"Erik."

"But I thought that you ended it with him." He replied confused.

"I did, but he does not know of our bundle of joy that is soon to be here." Anna told him.

When Anna's eyes met his, Richard could see all the pain that she had been holding in for the past month or so.

"How far along are you?" Richard asked Anna as she walked towards the window.

"I think about three months or so." Anna told him as her hand rested on her womb. "To answer your next question, I am going to tell Erik when I am ready."

"What about Andrew." He asked her another question.

"He asked me to marry him today." Anna told him without a single ounce of happiness in her voice.

Richard's head shot over in her direction. "What."

"I told him yes. How horrible am I? Telling a man who loves me more than life that I will consent to be his wife, when I truly have no intention on even marrying him." Anna said as she scolded herself. "I know that it is wrong and I will forever be sorry, but it is just something that I know is right. I am leaving him opening night."

"What of Erik then? Are you going to marry him?" Richard asked her.

"Andrew found out that he is the Opera Ghost." Anna told him as she smiled at the look upon the Richard's face. He had not known that bit of information.

"What is going to happen?" Richard questioned more.

"They want me to help capture him." Anna said as a tear fell from her eye.