Corrected January 2007

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CHAPTER 4

"Okay you are not going to believe a word I say to you when I tell you how Emily and I know you are the phantom of the opera." Tom said sitting down on an overstuffed red armchair.

"I believed you when you said that you have traveled through time from the year 2005 so why don't you try me." Erik responded taking a seat across from him in an identical chair.

"In Emily's and my time there is a book titled The Phantom Of The Opera, it takes place in the year 1870 it tells the tale of you and a 16 year old opera star named Christine Daae. You pretend to be an angel sent by her dead father to watch over her. You teach her to sing and you fall in love with her. But she doesn't love you, instead she loves a Viscount by the name of Raoul and you proceed in lack of better words to make their lives a living hell." Tom explained running a hand through his muddy river hair keeping his green eyes down towards the floor.

Erik looked at him in shock. "There is no way that I would ever do such a thing to Christine. For the love of God man she is but 12 years old. Yes I pretend to be her angel but only to keep her company she was so broken when she arrived here. Some rubbage for brains writer must of took the tale of the Opera ghost and twisted it to his own needs in order to make a franc."

"No you did do this or you will do this it is recorded in history books all over the world in our time. You even burnt down this theater and it took them 10 years to re build it."

"This place is my home! I would never do such a thing! There's got to be a way to stop this from happening." Erik looked a Tom in horror.

"The only way to stop this is to not fall in love with Christine when she gets older and from experience let me just say this the heart wants what the heart wants."

"That you are correct in." Erik said staring in the direction of the bedroom were a sleeping Emily lie. Tom noticed this right away.

"Your attracted to Emily aren't you?" he asked.

Erik quickly snapped back to reality "I am sorry I know she's yours but I cant help but notice a beautiful women with a fire deep inside like her."

"Wait hold on a minute. Emily and I are not together we just work together in our time she's one of my best friends nothing more."

"So she belongs to no one?" Erik asked raising an eyebrow.

"No she doesn't" Erik responded

"What did you mean by you and her work together?" Erik asked.

Tom sat for a moment trying to figure out how to explain film to a man who lives in a time where it doesn't exist. "In our time plays and operas aren't as big as they are now. Instead we have something called movies. They are plays that people can watch in their homes on a box that receives a signal from wires, which in turn makes the films appear in the box. And Emily and me star in these. In our time we were filming The Phantom Of The Opera she was playing Christine and I was playing you."

"But she looks nothing like Christine. You I admit look like you could be my twin if I were...normal. But she is much more beautiful then Christine could ever hope to be. I mean with that golden hair, pouting lips, and big brown eyes. My God she is a treasure."

Tom nodded his head in agreement "That she is any man would be lucky to have her."

"Tell me more about her." Erik requested.

"Well let's see, she is 24 years old. She was born in America in a state called Kansas; she spent most of her life in New York but now lives in Paris. She has 2 sisters and 2 brothers. But from what she tells me she only gets along with her youngest sister. And after meeting her older brother I can understand that. Her mother passed away when she was 15 years old of something called lupus. She has suffered from a pain disorder that causes her to be in bed for weeks at a time since she was 11. But she's got a strong will to her. Everything she has gone through in her life seems to make her stronger. She's a fighter. If you are loyal to her and she considers you to be a friend she will go to the ends of the earth to make you happy and if anyone hurts you she will be the first in line to kick there ass. She loves acting and singing but she once told me that if the right man came along she would give everything up to be a wife and mother. Oh and she's been in love with the Phantom story since she first heard it in high school." Tom told Erik knowing that once Emily found out everything he had revealed about her she would find the tallest tree and hang him from it.

"Do you think I have a chance with her?" Erik asked

"I would say yes as long as you're honest and have a good heart I would say yes you do as long as you promise me you wont hurt her. She's like my sister and I will not stand to see her hurt."

You could see I genuine smile forming on the half of Erik's face not covered by the mask. "You have my word."

TBC