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((Disclaimer)) Does having the Phantom in your dreams count as owning him? Never mind, I still don't own Phantom of the Opera.

"That was quite an impressive performance." A voice echoed all around seeming to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same exact moment. Rain turned around quickly to find herself staring at…

Without You

Chapter 2

The Voice All Around

No one. There was nothing there. She didn't know where the voice was coming from because in truth she didn't believe that she actually heard a voice. She turned around once again to try and find the person to whom the voice belonged but all that she could see were the snow covered statues.

"Is anyone there?" Rain whispered, terrified that there was someone hidden among the snow. There was no reply and she let out a sigh of relief.

"Your voice has real potential." The voice suddenly spoke again and Rain jumped. She held her hands over her heart as she turned around to where she thought that she heard the voice come from.

"Who is it?" She shouted, no longer scared that someone was hidden because now she knew that there was someone out there. "What do you want?"

"With some training you could become a true singer in but a few months." The voice had yet to change the topic that it was determined to talk about. Rain could hear that the voice was a man's and she had to admit that the voice was beautiful.

"What are you talking about?" She could not help but be confused. Never before in her life did a strange voice talk to her. Let alone a strange voice that wanted to talk about her singing voice.

"Who are you?" She turned around again. "Where are you?"

"Must you ask questions that are irrelevant?" The voice suddenly seemed annoyed. "If you want my help to become good enough to sing a lead soprano role…"

"But Monsieur, I am but a chorus girl and a dancer, I am no soprano." She felt unsure of herself as she spoke to the voice. She believed that she was going in insane.

"Let me be the judge of that, mademoiselle." The voice was getting quieter and Rain understood that the voice was leaving. With each word it was getting harder to understand what he was saying.

"Wait; at least tell me who you are?" Her voice cracked as she shouted out. "Tell me how I can find you?"

"My name is of no importance and if you wish for my training the Chapelle is where you must go." Rain could barely hear the word "go" and at that instant she knew that once again she was alone, or she had been alone the entire time, she didn't know.

Never before in her life had she experienced something so frightening and exhilarating. The voice was so comforting and yet so demanding she didn't know what to think of it. She looked around her and then looked to the door that led back to the Opera House.

"Who was that voice all around?

It echoes like a resounding sound

Whose was that voice that I heard?

I can't help but repeat their words

Did he mean what he said about me?

What will his training cost me?"

Rain walked towards the door and went back into the Opera House. She slowly made her way back to the dormitories. She had concluded that she needed to get some sleep and think over what the voice had said.

When she finally reached the dormitories she laid down onto the bed that she had been given and pulled out the small bag that she had been carrying earlier. She opened the bag and brought out a small stuffed monkey that she had made long ago and held it to her heart.

She was ignorant to the fact that she had just had her first encounter with the Phantom of the Opera and that her second was only moments away….

Hello all, Lady Elanya just letting you know that I am going to try and get the next chapter up soon. Sorry for the short chapters I'm making them short so that I can get them out faster to you all. Please Read and Review, I would like to know what you all think, I know that I have a lot of readers but I have very few reviewers. Just remember extreme flames are about as welcome as the flames of the Opera House. Please be nice, it's my first POTO fic. Even "good story" works for me. Thanks, Later

Darkest Dreams

Lady Elanya