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ERIK'S POV

I followed after Christina as fast as I could. Seeing a trail of wet converse footprints on the sidewalk, I followed it all the way to the French Rivera to, a pier. What I saw made my heart stopped. Christina cornered by four thugs. Before I could stop her she launched herself over the edge and into the freezing water. The men ran before I could reach them.

Without a second thought I ripped off my cape and jumped into the water. Grabbing her and swimming for shore as fast as I could. When I reached shore I retrieved my cloak and rapped it around her. She was so pale and her lips were purple and blue from the rigid temperatures of the water.

I knew that Hypothermia was already causing her blood to flow cold, and that once it reached her heart it would stop and she would die.

I cradled her in my arms with my cloak wrapped around her and ran as fast as I could towards the Opera house. Taking the passageway on the right wing of the Opera that led to the memorial chamber and then to my quarters.

Once there I started to undress her and I then took of my shirt. I knew that the only way to get her temperature back up was to use my own body heat. Hoping that I too hadn't caught Hypothermia, but doubting at the speed I as in and out of the waster, I laid her on the bed and pressed my body against hers while rubbing her arms hoping it was enough.

"Come on Chrissy, come on warm up." I said to her.

I just laid there rubbing her hoping it was enough. It felt like hours when I noticed that the coloring to her lips was coming back.

"Oh thank god." I sighed in relief. I got up and grabbed as many blankets as I could and started to wrap her in them. Hoping they would be enough.

When I was done I got under the covers with her and wrapped my arms around her waist hugging her to my stomach. After hours I finally fell asleep.

CHRIS' POV

When I finally woke up I couldn't feel a thing. My entire body was numb and I couldn't think right. I tried to open my eyes but couldn't even feel them. Everything was so cold and so numb at the same time. I just laid there for hours, or at least I thought I was lying there.

Errr why can't I think straight? Think, think, think!

The longer I just laid there, the more started to come back to me.

Water I remember water. And a necklace. A necklace what happened to the necklace.

Everything was playing over in my head like a slow motion movie in rewind. A necklace lifting from the ground to a neck, A girl with strange hair lifting from the water onto a pier.

Uuuuh! What is going on? Why can't I feel anything?

Finally the last of the memories came flooding back and I could remember.

Oh. So that's is what happened. THAT CONIVING BITCH! If I get my hands on her neck Erik's Punjab wont be the last thing she feels before she is admitted to Saint Augustus's Mental Ward because she thinks a girl from the future tried to lodge something somewhere. Speaking of lodging things where am I lodged.

At the though of Erik sorrow started to well up inside of me. How could he have done that? How could he have let her kiss him? Then came that annoying conscious of mine again.

Maybe he didn't. Maybe he was trying to pull away. How long are you gonna run away from true love. You even ran from Darienne at first. Now you're running from Erik.

"Oh just shut up!" I heard myself reply to the voice.

Suddenly I felt really warm. That was weird cause I had thought I had forgotten how to feel. At first it was just a warm rubbing, but then it became a wave of suffocating heat. And then I could feel warm flesh against what I thought was my chest. My body had been so numb for so long I started to push against the warmth. Begging for more of it.

It took a long time but finally I could distinguish the things I felt and I knew that the heat was coming from the naked chest that was holding me. A wave of panic struck me just then. What had happened after I hit the water? After that my memory failed me.

Oh crap I've been raped. Those men jumped in the water after me.

I was seriously worried now.

Where am I. Why aren't I with Darienne? Wait no, why aren't I with Erik? Oh my head hurts so much. Aren't Erik and Darienne the same person. They look so much alike. No… that isn't right. Why is Darienne wearing a mask? It isn't the Halloween formal.

I was starting to remember a dance that Darienne and I had been to. He had gone as the Phantom and I as Christine. But as a joke earlier into the dance we had switched and I had gone as The Phantom and he had gone as Christine.

I found after another lifetime of waiting I could open my eyes and saw that Darienne was holding me wearing a mask.

That isn't Darienne you ass that is Erik.

At the thought of that my heart skipped a beat.

Wait why are you happy it's Erik? You ass it should be Darienne. No… it shouldn't be Darienne.

I was sick of all these thought running through my head. Sick of it! I started to notice that I had been struggling away from Erik during my contemplation. He was holding me now trying to hold me to his chest.

"Ssh Chrissy, ssh its okay. I'll never leave you. I'm so sorry Chrissy, this is all my fault. I'm so sorry Chrissy."

I could feel his chest shake as he cried into my hair. At first I felt pity towards him. But then I remembered what I saw. At that picture I got up noticing I was naked. I grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around myself and then turned and stalked out the door. I grabbed my bag on the way out and started to walk away when someone grabbed my arm.

"Christina wait where do you think you are going?" He said.

I turned on him and slapped him. "Away from you" I whispered and then walked to one of the gondola's and rowed away.

When I reached the other end of the lake I noticed the other gondola and Christine curled up inside crying.

I would have felt pity towards the thing in front of me, but do to the circumstances I only felt hate.

I looked down at my hand and noticed then in grabbing my bag I had also grabbed my cane. It was hanging from one of the loops on the bag. Erik had tied it to it.

A wave of memories hit me of that day. Of the day after and the one after that. The first time we kissed, and first time we made love. My promise to lodge the cane in inappropriate places if anyone told him he was ugly. I couldn't run from him. I loved him.

I looked down at Christina and remembered how she had sung of him being as ugly on the outside as inside. A wave of anger rushed through me as a grabbed the cane and did exactly what I told Erik I would do.

When I took the cane back I looked down at her.

"You need to go now unless you wanna know what they mean when they say 'do you want a knuckle sandwich'. And I would best not tell anyone of this encounter unless you wanna end up at Saint Augustus's Mental Ward." She looked at me and shook her head and got up.

"Here take this with you find yourself a hotel room and then I want you to go back to Raoul and say your sorry." I didn't know why I was being so nice to her. I just shoved a cane in her ass. Still that look in her eyes told me she was truly sorry.

"Why are you doing this for me?" she asked.

"Because… you... youand Raoul no matter how much I think you don't deserve him… belong to each other. Plus you left Erik for him so now you have to stick with him." I said.

"What are you gong to do?" She asked me noting the way I looked.

"I don't know really."

"Erik loves you. I saw it in his eyestoday." My heart started to race at these words.

"When I kissed him he tried to pull away. And when I first arrived here he asked me to go. He had a lovely breakfast prepared, which I though was for me. It was for you though… he really does loveyou. I am truly sorry if I did anything to upset that love."

At these words I started to cry. All along he had really loved me.

"Thank you. Maybe we could have been friends if the circumstances were different. Though you still are a conniving bitch." At this she laughed knowing what I meant.

I looked up at her since she was a few inches taller than me. We smiled at each other just then acknowledging each other as equals.

ERIK'S POV

I stared after Christina. A tear trickling down my face. I was holding the beast in my hands at that moment. I turned around about to once again turn my pitiful abode into a wreck and try to end it when I heard something scrape against the landing. At first I though it was indeed my imagination when I turned around and saw Christina.

I gasped thinking it was indeed a dream, and then I said what I knew I should have said all along.

"Christina I love you"

I sang to her while the tears still fell. She then ran to me and jumped me wrapping her legs around my waist.

"Erik I love you too"

She sang into my ear.

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