Christine was back in her room. Dinner was over, and she couldn't help but notice how William insisted on being a "fatherly" person. She thought again about what Mary and Victoria had said. That he's trying to re-live his childhood through them. It was a definite possibility.
Christine started to get bored. She thumbed through a large variety of books from a shelf situated in the corner of the room. They where no more than mildly interesting.
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Erik had started his game of hopscotch on the tiles in the main corridor. It was quite a sight to see him hopping on one foot through the hall. "1,2,1,2" He was too busy focusing on the "hopscotch board" to notice where he was going.
"BANG!"
Erik had run into the door at the end of the hall, head on.
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Christine heard a knock at the door.
"Hello?" she said, opening it.
"I know you!" shouted Erik with glee.
"And unfortunately," she said, looking at him confused, "I know you too."
Erik didn't say anything, but smiled brightly. Looking slightly stupid.
"What are you doing here?" Christine asked.
"They took Raoul!" He said in a child-like tone.
"What?" gasped Christine.
"He was trying to save you from the evil-y-ness. But he didn't have all those guys named Frank, so the meanie-faces at the gate took him away!"
"He was coming to get me? I knew he'd come! I knew it!"
At this moment, Mary and Victoria crashed into the room.
"Christine! There's a man the guards took that is saying he came for you!" Mary said.
"His name is supposedly Raoul!"
Victoria extracted something from her pocket. A key.
"Here's the key to the dungeons, we have to go get him. He's innocent!"
A plan was starting to be formed.
"Erik!" Christine said demandingly, "You come with me, and we're going to go back to the carriage. Mary and Victoria will go get Raoul, and meet us at the front gate. We'll all get into the carriage and make our way back to the Opera house."
Christine knew that Mary and Victoria would be especially pleased with this plan. She was sure that they would be accepted as ballerinas at the Opera House. They where quite good.
"Ok!" said Mary. They where already half-way out the door.
"We gotta go FAST!" yelled Erik, "They'll catch us!" and with this, he took the flat lid off of a chest full of blankets. Grabbed Christine, and ran down the hall towards the stairs.
"Get on." Erik said
"What?" Christine was confused. He was holding the lid to the chest.
"Get. On." Erik said, as serious as he had ever been (well, lately)
Christine didn't bother questioning his antics. She sat on the lid. And he sat behind her.
"Ready. Set. GO" shouted Erik as he pushed off the banister.
They where flying down the large spiral staircase on the lid. It was quite a bumpy ride.
They finally reached the bottom, and although Christine landed gracefully. Erik had flew off the lid, launching himself a good 5 feet forward.
He bounced back up, "Come on!" he shouted, grabbing Christine's hand. They had to get out of the estate, and through the gate before anyone noticed that they had even left.
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Mary and Victoria quietly made their way down to the basement of the house, otherwise known as the dungeons. It had two grimy cells in which disobeying people would stay in. Mary saw Raoul in the closest one. Guards surrounded the outside of the cell, interrogating him about why he had come.
Victoria was thinking rapidly...how could they get the guards away long enough to get Raoul out? Then it hit her.
"Guards! Guards!" she yelled, "Someone is trying to break in the back door! A thief! A robber!"
And with this the guards quickly ran away to capture this "robber."
"Quick!" Mary shouted, "We don't have much time until they come back, realizing nobody was there!" She grabbed the ring of keys off of the hook situated near the door to the basement, fumbling with them for a moment before finding the right key, and sticking it into the lock of the cell Raoul was placed in.
"Oh thank god you where here." sighed Raoul, even though he didn't know who they where.
"Come on!" yelled Mary, taking Raoul by the hand and dragging him up the stairs back into the house. Once they got into the house, they ran straight for the front door, when something...or someone was in their way.
"Trying to get out, I see." said Mr. Patrick, standing right in front of the door, "We can't have that, now can we?"
Raoul didn't bother negotiating with the man, he just pushed him aside and ran out the door, and William was still on the floor when they had all safely exited the house. There where no guards to catch them, they where all looking for a suspected robber.
Just as they left the gates, they heard a noise behind them.
"There they are! Get them!" yelled a guard, running from the back of the house.
"Go! Go! Go!" yelled Victoria, egging them onward as they made the mad dash for the carriage. Erik and Christine where already inside, and Raoul jumped into the drivers bench, and Mary and Victoria went inside.
They made a mad dash away from the estate, guards on their tail. But the horses where no match for the running guards, seeing as how they quickly outran them.
