A/N: Yea i know I suck, just work has been really stressing me out recently so I haven't been in the right midset to write, and then I watched a few episodes of Reign and got back into it! Hope you guys like this part Please R+R so my muses will be happy
Christine
Christine gasped when the older woman called our Erik's name. Her gold and red scarves and her bronze colored dress enhanced the tiger eyed colored eyes she bared. Her dark hair was in a long braid and she wore a single ring on each of her fingers. She didn't smile but her eyes seemed kind.
"Madame Endora," Erik said, as he put his hand about Christine's waist.
"My great- great- granddaughter told me she saw your spirit, I see this is the body it has chosen."
Then Endora turned to Christine and walked forward and reached for her hair, Christine quickly pulled away, feeling a sort of still in the air.
"Great- great granddaughter? My, you haven't aged a bit." Erik said, sarcastically. Christine just stood still and let the woman inspect her.
"Now this is she," Endora said, avoiding Erik's remark, "Quite a beauty, she was definitely worth the risk."
"Please, Endora, do not mock this situation."
Endora took her bright copper eyes away from Christine and turned them to Erik. "I do not mock anything, I merely made a statement. This woman is the one you sacrificed your lives for."
"My dear," she turned back to Christine, and Christine held her breath, "Do you truly love our Devil's Child?"
"I…I know of our history…"Christine started.
"I didn't ask that, I questioned your true feelings for him." Endora's eyes narrowed, looking more like a cat's.
Christine felt a fire light up in her chest and she knew Endora felt it too. Christine knew that Endora could feel it as well. "You know how I feel for him, do not ask me."
"Erik," Endora said, as a slight smile, "You are true soulmates."
"Yes, this is why I have waited for her all these ears," Erik kissed Christine on the forehead.
"Here," Endora held out two pendants, both of tiger's eye, "These will protect you both, I now know that she is true and Erik," Endora smiled, her teeth sharp as a cat's, "Protect her, she is all you have left."
With that, right in front of Christine's eyes, Endora turned into a tortoise shell cat and ran out of the exit.
"Do not be alarmed," Erik said as he took Christine's hand and moved towards the exit, "She is a woman of nine lives; the stones that she has given us will protect us. Wear yours always." Christine nodded and looked down at her stone. It was in a beautiful pointed shape with the point facing down and on top a golden opening to put a chain in and around. It was simple but beautiful, once Christine found a chain for it, she swore to herself that she would never take it off.
That night as Erik slept; Christine stared up to the ceiling to think about today's events and how much of a hard life Erik had. Not only of his life with the Gypsies, but his life without her, a soul living through life alone without it's mate. Christine couldn't bear knowing that all these years he had lived without real happiness and she knew even now that Erik was afraid of losing her.
A single tear fell from her eye, but when she brought her hand up to wipe it away, she awoke Erik. He turned to her and she faced him. She could see his scars even in the darkness of the bedroom. She took her hand and traced his scars from his forehead and down to his lips.
"Erik, I am so sorry." Christine's sobbed, quiet at first.
"My dear, we are together now. I am happy that I have waited this long for you, I wanted to be in a life where we could be freely together, where we could both make choices that were our own."
"I don't want this ever to end," Christine said, as she scooted closer to him.
"This will never end, my dear."
Christine looked into his eyes and knew this is what she wanted, she was skeptical at first, but this was what she wanted.
Christine moved her face closer to his, and then kissed him. He reciprocated with a stronger kiss. Once they broke free Erik furrowed his eyebrows.
"What's wrong," Christine questioned.
"Nothing, I just…" Christine didn't let him finish, she moved both of her arms and put them around Erik's neck, as they lay.
"Erik," Christine started, "Please, I want this. I want this."
Erik sat up, leaving Christine laying there.
"We can't…"
"That first night I came to your place, we almost…but now, you don't want to?"
Erik sighed. "I do want to, Christine, I just can't."
"Why not, Erik? I don't understand," Christine sat up to meet his height.
"You don't love me yet, Christine," Erik answered her in a mournful tone.
"I do love you, Erik. Didn't you hear Endora's blessing on us, she knows I love you."
"Endora can see that you love me in the future, but she cannot know what is now."
"Erik, please…"
"No," Erik stood and started putting on his jeans and his jacket on top of his sleepwear. "You don't love me yet, we cannot do this."
"Are you seriously leaving me right now," Christine said, as tears streamed down her face, "You can't possibly leave me."
As Erik started walking towards the door Christine fell for him, grabbing his legs. "You can't leave me, Erik, not right now! Erik I want to give myself to you! I love you!"
Christine didn't understand why Erik turned cold so fast, she couldn't understand why he didn't believe her.
"Please Christine, stop acting like a child. Go to sleep, I need some air. I will see you in the morning."
Christine's sobbing grew louder. "I don't understand! Why don't you believe me!?"
Erik turned to her, his eyes filled with sadness. "I will see you tomorrow morning once you've calmed your nerves."
With that Erik closed the door behind him leaving Christine all alone in a dark hotel room. Christine through herself on the bed and cried "I love you, Erik, I do love you!"
Erik
He couldn't believe her. Modern women now a days never fell in love this fast. His heart didn't believe her; he didn't want to believe her. He knew that the curse would be broken if she really truly loved him, but every time she loved him, something would happen and she would die or he would die. He couldn't go through that again. He couldn't lose her again.
"You dumb bastard," Erik heard a grunt behind him.
Madame Endora sat on a bench staring straight at him.
"Endora, not now. I have no patience." Erik tried walking a bit faster but as soon as he did, Endora was there, blocking anyway forward.
"You listen to me boy, you don't understand what you have just done. If you don't go back to her, she will never love you as she does now."
"Don't say that, Endora, don't say that she loves me."
"I have been following you many lifetimes, Erik Mulheim, and I have seen the patterns, but Christine is now a different person. She isn't the same as she was before, she is a fireball, and she will fight for you. If you leave her for the rest of the night, her heart will turn cold and she will never truly give her all to you."
"I don't want to lose her," Erik whispered.
"You will not, as long as you both wear those pendants, you will both go the path that is chosen for you." Endora put her hand on Erik's shoulder. "Erik you must let her love you, if you do not, you will never fully have her trust or her devotion."
"I have already lost it, you should have seen her Endora, she begged for me. Her eyes," Erik closed his own, "I will never forget those pleading eyes. She wanted me, she wanted us."
"You must go to her before the sun rises, if not, you will lose her forever." With that, Endora turned back to her feline state again, leaving Erik running back to the hotel room.
It was an hour before sunrise when Erik walked back into the room. He saw Christine with her back towards him, shaking vigorously and still sobbing, the same as he left her.
Erik took off his outerwear and was back in his sleep wear. He slowly crawled back into the bed and put his arm over Christine's body, pulling her to him.
"I am sorry," Erik whispered in her ear.
"I told you that I loved you and you left me…" Christine's voice was horse, as though she had been screaming for hours.
"I know, and I don't know why I did that."
"I don't get you, Erik, I don't get why you treated me in such a manner. I offered you everything, even groveled on my knees to show you, and you still left me."
Erik felt the guilt rip his heart open as he moved Christine around to face him. Her face was twice the size from all of the sobbing she had been doing while he was gone; her eyes had bags and were red from all of the tears she had lost. Erik actually gasped at the way she looked, so beaten, so destroyed.
"Oh, Christine," Erik hugged her and felt more shivers and wetness coming from her eyes, "I will never ever leave you again, I love you, Christine and I was a stupid person for leaving you."
"Never leave me again, Erik, never."
"I promise," Erik answered, as the sun rose.
