Next chapter done, I couldn't help it. I love working on this story. I have so much planned for it and maybe if I get some good reviews I will update sooner or maybe even :gasp: make the chapters longer. Hey enjoy this chapter. Lady Elanya.

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….

Without You

Chapter 3

Drowning In Tears

The night slowly passed for Rain as she found that she was unable to sleep. Darkness had never bothered her in fact it had always been a comforting thing for her. Although she could usually sleep fairly well, for some reason this night all that she could think about was the voice.

Words echoed in her head, 'I have the potential to be a lead soprano?' She almost laughed to herself at the thought. She decided that the voice had to have been a figment of her imagination. 'I just got lightheaded after singing. My mind got the better of me and started to tell me things that I always wanted to hear, that's all.'

Despite thinking these thoughts she could not help but hope that she was wrong and that somewhere in the darkness of the Opera Populaire was a man who thought that she had potential. A man who could train her to be what she had always dreamed of being.

Suddenly out of nowhere she could faintly hear an organ playing and she thought that she could hear singing. She didn't know why but she couldn't help but follow where the voice was coming from. The more she walked the clearer the words got and she could not help but realize that the lyrics were beautiful.

"Slowly, gently

Night unfurls its splendor

Grasp it, sense it

Tremulous and tender"

Rain moved closer and closer to where the voice was coming from. She was entranced by the voice and she hoped deep down in her heart that the voice was the very same voice that she had heard earlier.

"Turn your face away

From the garish light of day

Turn your thoughts away

From cold unfeeling light!

And listen to the Music of the Night."

'What light of day? I'll stay in the darkness forever if this is what it offers.' She thought to herself as she continued to walk. She found herself standing outside the empty dressing room that was reserved for the star of the show. She placed her hand on the door knob and entered into the dark room.

"Close your eyes and surrender

To your darkest dreams

Purge your thoughts of the life

You knew before

Close your eyes

Let your spirit start

To Soar"

Rain had never heard a note like that before. She stood before the mirror in the dressing room and she placed her ear to it and could hear that the music and the voice that was coming from the other side. She placed her fingers on the side of the mirror and it opened with ease. Slowly she took a step forward into the mirror.

"And you'll live

As you've never lived before

Softly, deftly

Music shall caress you

Hear it, feel it

Secretly possess you."

The corridor was almost pitch black and although she could not see where she was going she kept walking onwards anyways. She allowed the voice to be her guide and slowly she made her way through the winding darkness and found herself looking down at a beautiful stairway.

"Open up your mind

Let your fantasies unwind

In this darkness

That you know

You cannot fight

The darkness of the Music of the Night."

As Rain walked down the stairway she could see the faint glow coming from up ahead. She was still entranced by the voice as she continued to move forward but as to where she was moving forward too, she did not know and frankly she did not care.

"Let your mind start a journey

Through a strange new world

Leave all thoughts of the life

You knew before

Let your soul take you

Where you long to be

Only then can you belong

Me."

Rain took a blind step into the darkness and felt herself start to fall. She didn't fall a long ways but it was enough to cause a large splash in the water that she fell in to. The water was not deep but something was preventing her from getting up to the surface. She looked down and found the strings of her corset hooked on something at the bottom of the water. She could barely get herself up to breath and her corset would not release itself instead with each passing breath it got tighter and tighter making it even more difficult to breathe.

Thoughts whirled around in her head as she continued to struggle for each breath. She could not scream out for fear that she would lose the chance to take a breath. She flailed her arms around in the water and found that tears began to fall from her eyes.

Her thoughts reflected on the irony of the situation. 'I remember once long ago I told someone that I believed that I would someday drown in the pool of my own tears and now here I am drowning in water with no one around to hear me, no one to save me. Am I really going to drown in my own tears?' She did her best to reach the top of the water once more and then all at once her energy seemed to dissipate and she started to sink…

I love cliffys. Hey if I get some good reviews I'll update soon so that you will be able to figure out the fate of poor Lorraine. Please review. 

Darkest Dreams

Lady Elanya