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Disclaimer: I don't own POTO, duh! But I do own any OC's I do not own Meg or Erik. Sadly..
Erik waited for Meg to come tell him what her mother was saying wasn't true. He longed to hear those words:
"Erik, mother lied. I do love you, and I'm not engaged to Sebastian." But as the day drew on; nothing.He felt as if his heart had been ripped out and stomped on.He couldn't stop crying, it had happened again. Because of his face he'd lost someone he loved. Someone he was ready to give his entire world to. Erik had planned that, after the house was finished, he would ask Meg to marry him. He would start a family with her.
No. Not any more. She was starting a family with Sebastian.
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Meg wanted to explain everything to Erik. She wanted to tell him it was all a lie; that she still loved him. But her mother locked both ways; there was no way for Meg to go see Erik. No way for her to tell him that her mother lied to him. But; without a way to get to him, and with him thinking she hated him for something that she didn't hate him for, all she could do was take a breath, and marry Sebastian.
Sebastian was happy. He was marrying someone he was deeply in love with; but when he looked at his bride-to-be, she didn't look happy.
"Meg honey." Sebastian confronted her. "What's wrong? Aren't you happy? Were getting married!"
"Sebastian.." Meg sighed. "I don't want to marry you. I mean, You're my best friend, but that's just it. I don't love you like a wife. I'm in love with someone else."
"Then.." Sebastian began, trying to be strong while figuring it out. "Then why did you agree? Why did you wear my ring?"
"Mother made me. I told her I didn't want to. I told her I loved someone else; but no. No she didn't like the man I love. So she told him I don't love him."
"It's the man with the mask. Isn't it?" Sebastian asked. Meg turned and nodded. "Lucky man. I understand Megara." He took her hand and slid the ring off her finger. "I'll always be in love with you, but forcing you to marry me isn't right. The man with the mask needs you more. I've heard rumors about him."
"From who?"
"The ballet girls. I've heard that he was the Phantom of the Opera. That half his face is deformed. Meg, if anyone needs you to love him, it's the Phantom." Meg nodded and hugged Sebastian.
"Thank you Sebastian. For understanding." Sebastian nodded; still holding onto her. He let her go and told her to go find Erik. Meg nodded and started towards the managers' office where the skeleton key lay. She found it and unlocked Christine's room, but before she could go in and tell Erik that she loved him and only him, someone knocked her out.
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Sebastian wondered if Meg had made it back to Erik safely. He had her ring sitting in the palm of his hand, and he'd shed his tears for losing her. But at the same time he was happy for her; she'd gone back to someone she loved instead of thinking she had no choice. He put the ring in his pocket and went to see if she was there yet. The dressing room door was unlocked; he went in and through the one-way mirror. He moved through the catacombs hesitantly; unsure if he was going the right way or not. When he got to the water; he walked through it without caring. He emerged at the Phantom's lair.
"Meg?" He shouted as he walked through. Erik looked from his organ and at Sebastian crossly.
"Get out." Erik boomed.
"Has Meg gotten here yet? I wanted to make sure she got here OK."
"Meg isn't here, and I don't want her here. She apparently never loved me anyway." Sebastian approached Erik and shook his head.
"That's not true. Meg loves you; her mother lied. It was her mother who engaged her- wait. Meg isn't here?"
"No. Why?" Erik asked; looking down at his organ keys. Unable to bring himself to press them.
"How can you just sit there?" Sebastian asked sourly. "Meg loves you, and you don't care where she is?"
"I thought she would be getting married to you." Erik told him, sadness in his voice.
"She isn't. Phantom you've got to help me find her. She could be hurt." Erik looked at Sebastian; confused and worry growing in him.
"Any ideas?" Erik asked; his voice showing he was more than happy to help find Meg.
"I don't-wait-Alex!"
"Alex? I haven't heard of him since that- you know." Sebastian nodded.
"I know. But that's just it. He loves Meg too.But unlike me, Alex will do anything to have her. I went to tell him Meg and I were engaged; and I heard him talking to someone."
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It was three days before Sebastian and Meg were to be married. Sebastian went to the clinic to talk to Alex, but he was talking with someone else when he got there. Sebastian pressed his ear up against the door and listened.
"Do you have it ready?" Alex asked.
"Yep. Cottage in the mountains is ready.The address is..." He told him the address. All Sebastian knew was that you had to take a train." "what are you planning on doing with it anyway?"
"You know Meg Giry?"
"Oh yeah! That ballet girl!"
"Yes. I'm going to take her the night before she gets married, take her up to the cabin and never let her go. What I do with her is not decided yet. But Sebastian won't be able to marry her, and neither will the infamous Phantom of the Opera."
"Why don't you just turn in the phantom and kill Sebastian?"
"Too much dirty work. You know as well as I do that won't work. No one will know she's gone, or where."
"Good point."
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"We've got to go get Meg. Are you going to help or not?"
"Of course. Give me a minute." Erik tossed his cloak over his shoulders; slid his gloves on; grabbed his sword and some money for the train. They both set out for the train to find meg.
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The people on the train were stupid. Erik was able to buy a ticket without any of them knowing he was the Phantom. He and Sebastian got to their seats; and Erik said not a word to Sebastian.
"Meg really does love you." Sebastian started. "Her mother engaged her to me.She didn't want it. Whatever Madam Giry told you was a lie."
"I knew it wasn't true." Erik replied. "It didn't sound like something Meg would say." Sebastian nodded. Taking the ring out of his pocket and holding it between this thumb and finger.
"I saved up for what seems like forever to buy her this. Meg is something special; you know that right?"
"Yes."
"She has that rare ability to find a human in monsters. She can make someone feel so much better with the truth."
"I know." Erik told him. "I know that. Meg is my everything now."
"I don't know why I wanted to marry her. I've got no money to support a family. If Meg ever got pregnant; I wouldn't be able to take care of her." Sebastian sighed and tossed Erik the ring. He caught it and looked at it. "I love her, but she is not mine. You need her more." Erik nodded and kept the ring in his glove.
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Alex tied Meg up and had her on the floor. A sword in his hands; he smiled at her.
"Meg. Were you really going to marry Sebastian? He'd never be able to take care of you like I can." He touched her face and she spat on it.
"Don't touch me. I was going to marry Erik, not Sebastian."
"Erik? Oh, the fellow with the mask? The one that burned the opera populaire to the ground? The Phantom of the Opera."
"How did you know about that?"
"Meg dear, I've been a doctor in Paris since I was seventeen. That only happened last year; and it was in all the papers, and patients came in wanting treatments. How did I not know?" Meg sat there silent. Unable to speak to him. Through the door came Erik and Sebastian.
"Erik! Sebastian!" Meg's face lit up. Erik held his sword to Alex's throat; but Alex didn't flinch or anything. It was as if he was not afraid. Erik had a firm grip on his sword; and was not afraid to stab him. A long tension filled the room as Erik held the sword to Alex's throat and waited for what would happen next.
"Good Monsieur." Alex told him cooly. "You can't really hurt me." Alex moved his sword to Meg's throat. Close enough that if Erik stabbed him, Meg would be stabbed too. "You don't want harm to come to your little blond angel do you?"
"Why are you doing this?" Sebastian asked. "Why do you want to hurt Meg?"
"I don't want to. I just have to. Any closer and Meg breaths through her neck." Erik clinched his sword handle and lowered it; so Alex would lower his sword.
"Alex, you had a crush on Meg too; why are you going to hurt her?" Sebastian asked, Alex smirked and put his sword to Meg.
"Because, I know you and the phantom love her. Truthfully; I wasn't going to hurt her. But, it seems like I have to. Phantom can't love anyone; he's too ugly to lure in any other women besides little Meg here. Sebastian, you couldn't ever love anyone else; not that you couldn't get anyone else."
"Let Meg go." Erik growled warningly. "I'm not afraid to kill you." Alex smirked and rose his sword to Erik.
"Fine. Show me those swordsman skills I've heard about." Erik rose his sword and the sword fight began. As Erik fought Alex; Sebastian moved over to Meg and untied her legs. But he didn't have time to untie her arms because Alex dodged Erik and stabbed his sword right through Sebastian.
"Sebastian!" Meg screamed. Turning around to see his lifeless body fall forward onto her. His blood dripped down onto her dress; and tears sprung from Meg's eyes. "Alex you heartless bastard!" Meg shot up and kicked Alex in the gut.
She ran to the curtains and grabbed the rope that held the curtains apart, with her teeth, and threw it to Erik. He dropped his sword and used the rope to strangle Alex until he was not moving. To make sure that Alex really was dead; he stabbed his sword through Alex's heart.
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Meg fell to her knees beside Sebastian's body as Erik untied her. Tears ran down her face as her free arms wrapped around Sebastian's body. Erik put his arms around Meg and comforted her. Meg had lost her only true friend from her past; her ex-fiance, and a potential friend for Erik.
Sebastian had planned on being with Meg when she and Erik got married, when she gave birth to Erik's first child, all through the big moments in her life. But he was gone now. He would never have the chance to be with her. Erik held her; and let her cry on him.
It's over.But this is not the last fic you will hear from me on the subject of Meg and Erik. I started a RyogaUkyo fic in Ranma, but I have this urge to write another Meg/Erik fic that is realy dark. Or at least I'm trying to make it dark.I'm trying to make it something diffrent from what I usually do, I hope to see you, my loyal reveiwers, at my other one! Oh! And if I do a sequil for this, the house that Erik had designed for Meg will be there. So don't think I forgot about it, even though I kind of did.
