Chapter One: Christine's Arrival

(Roughly 9 years later)

Christine's POV

I was running… that was all I knew. I did not know where I was, or if I was still alive, all I knew was that I was running. When my bruised legs finally gave out on me, I collapsed on a rough stone surface. Where am I? I thought, dazed. After a moment, I sorted myself out, and realized with a moan of panic that I was in the catacombs beneath the Opera House… again.

I am Christine de Chagny, I am 9 years old, and my parents are Christine Daae, and Raul de Chagny. I have light blonde hair, and blue eyes (which is kind of funny since both my parents are brunettes, and have dark eyes.) I typically have bruises on my arms, legs, and sometimes face (though very rarely). The reason is that after my parents got married, my father started drinking… heavily. I had always wondered why he hit me… Then I started asking if the stories about the Phantom of the Opera where true. I never told then that he was secretly giving me lessons at night. Father would have killed me.

Anyways, after my panic began to subside, I heard music in the distance. I followed the sound and ended up in front of a lake. I swam across, and after landing on the beach, passed out.

ERIKS POV

I was playing the organ while visiting my old home when I heard a crash… I got up startled, and looked at the beach just in time to see a young girl collapse on the beach. I gently picked up the little girl and noticed a number of bruises. I knew whose child she was, and, what was more, I knew how she had gotten those bruises. I looked at her and almost threw the unconscious girl. She was almost an exact replica of Christine with blonde hair! When I had been teaching her she had looked more like Raul… now she… I sighed for the poor girl's fate, and laid her on the silk-covered bed.

Raul arrived moments later.

"Where's my brat!" He bellowed.

"hush you stupid, drunken, fool, she's sleeping" I snarled at him. "What's her name?" I asked, to cover up the fact that I had been teaching her… although I didn't really know her name… she never told me.

"Why should I tell you, monster?" Raul sneered.

I pulled out my gun and fired. I had never liked guns… too messy, so my aim wasn't that good. I hit his leg instead of his head.

He cried out, and managed to snap "Fine, if you want that… thing, keep her, she is under your protection now" before he left…

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