Chapter 4

Meg

When both Raoul and I got to the door of the lair, I backed out, and I feel terrible for being such a coward. I watched Raoul run in, and then I saw Christine! She was sitting at the table, eating breakfast with him like he was a normal person. Obviously this made Raoul extremely mad and yelled,

"Murderer, let Christine go!"

"She chose to live with me, it was her chose and now she is living with it!"

"Raoul, Raoul go away, he'll hurt you!" Then, turning to Erik, Christine cried "Erik, you promised that you would not kill him if he came back!"

Raoul muttered, "So now you're on a first- name basis with him, eh?"

Christine shot him a look, but the Phantom said,

"I did promise not to kill you, for her, but that doesn't mean I can't hurt you!"

And he leaped down to where Raoul was standing in the water, sword upraised, but somehow Raoul was in time to bring his sword up to match Erik's. They fought, and I ran out to try and help. As I was jumping up to tackle the Phantom, a sharp pain came to my head, and then blackness closed in.

Christine

When I saw Meg falls, terror seized me. I ran out to Meg, and pulled her out of the water. I was screaming for them to stop, but neither man would listen. I thought that Raoul would stop fighting for me, but when I went up to him, he knocked me aside like some stray dog, bruising my face and my feelings. He tripped over me, and as he fell he hit the bottom of the lake, and passed out. I must have done the same thing, for blackness enveloped me.

Erik

At last the fight was over, but I did not triumph. My Christine was dead! How much horror filled me at that moment is indescribable, I had loved this girl, and her fiancé was the one that ended up killing her. I had pulled her out of the water, but she had already drowned. I then remembered from a book that I read, that if you blew air into the drowned person, and pushed on their chest, it might let them live. I did so, using the proper position found in the book, hoping that it would work. I blew over and over again, but nothing was happening…