Hey everyone, here's the next chapter..hope you all enjoy. Once again I don't own any of ALW'S characters but I would have loved to..maybe if I win the lotto I will come to own them haha.
Christine watched as Erik turned away from her and walked over to his organ and had a seat. He angrily bashed his broken hands up against the keys and sobbed at what Christine had told him. Christine knew that she shouldn't have told him that she was with a man who couldn't make love to her, but felt the need to tell Erik so he would stop verbally bashing Raoul. Christine got to her feet, and walked over to the organ where Erik sat and had a seat next to him. "you should be in bed." said Erik coldly as he turned his face from her. "Erik, please." begged Christine as she placed her cold hand over his broken one. "does my face really repulse you that much Christine?" asked Erik as he tried to hide the tears in his eyes. "Erik, don't think like that." said Christine. "well how else am I supposed to think when you would leave me for a man who can't pleasure you. How
could you love somebody who can't physically love you back?" cried Erik. "Erik I didn't leave you for that reason." said Christine. "then why did you leave me? I didn't do anything but love you Christine." cried Erik. "I have loved Raoul way before I found out that he couldn't make love to a woman. I thought that I would have hurt his feelings if I left him now…I'm sorry that I couldn't be two people at once Erik because if I was I would have given you my other halve." said Christine.
Erik got to his feet, and walked over to the broken mirrors in his lair and yelled "what about me! What about my feelings Christine! You hurt my heart badly." "he's making me go to England with him Erik..he's not the man I knew. I thought that we would get married here and adopt some children, and now he wants to move me to England." said Christine. "You made your choice so now leave me." said Erik.
Raoul barged into Madam Giry's office and approached her desk. "where is she?" "who?" asked Madam Giry. "Christine, she's gone." said Raoul. "Vicount, I haven't seen her since the chandelier accident last night." said Madam Giry. "then she has been taken by the creature that lives In the cellar." said Raoul. "impossible Vicount, he has been killed." said Madam Giry. "Madam, I need to find her. My carriage is leaving for England in an hour and she is no where to be found." said Raoul. "like I said I haven't seen her since last night." said Madam Giry. Raoul then stormed out of the room, and made his way towards the cellar to see for himself.
Christine watched as Erik sat angrily at his organ not doing anything but sitting there in disgust. Just then she heard the familiar voice of Raoul calling her name from a distant. Erik got to his feet and took one last look at Christine before he stormed off to hide. Christine followed him to his bed chambers where he frantically gathered a few of his things up. "Erik, don't let him find me." said Christine. "no, go to your lover." said Erik storming off and away from her. Raoul's voice was getting closer, and as Erik walked out his chamber's he slipped and fell flat on his face. He then saw Raoul entering his lair and just decided to stay still and play dead. Raoul entered and saw Erik's dead body lying on the shore line, and then he saw Christine sitting on his bed. "Christine! What are you doing down here?" he questioned as he scooped her up in his arms. "I'm fine." said Christine. "no you're not, your neck has sores all over it and you have a fever." he replied. "I'm fine Raoul." said Christine. "good then we shall be off to England." said Raoul. "no Raoul, I don't want to leave France, I don't want to leave music." said Christine. "you're delirious Christine, let us talk about this later. We must go to England now." said Raoul.
Christine pushed him away from her, and said "no Raoul, I'm not going with you." "what? What about our engagement?" asked Raoul. "I can't go with you Raoul. If you love me the way you say you do then you would care about what I want. I don't want to go to England Raoul and I'm not going to go." said Christine. "I have to go to sell scrap metal Christine." said Raoul. "but I don't want to go, I want to stay here and sing in the opera house." said Christine. "I do love you Christine and that's why I'm going to make a deal with you. I shall go to England and sell off my scrap metal and then come back once I am done. When I return we shall be married here and if you want to live there then we shall go and if not then we shall stay here." said Raoul. "how long will you be gone?" asked Christine. "a month maybe two." said Raoul.
Christine jumped into Raoul's arms and said "I love you Raoul." "then we are still engaged?" asked Raoul. "yes." said Christine. "ok come, you shouldn't be down here." said Raoul. Erik watched as Christine and Raoul got into the boat and left him. Once they were out of his sight, Erik got to his feet and mumbled as he angrily flipped over his organ and stomp on it. "I hate you Christine! And if you ever come near me again you shall pay!"
Christine watched as Raoul's carriage pulled away and was a little relieved that she was alone again. She still felt sick so decided to go inside and lie down for a little bit in her dressing room. When she entered her dressing room and didn't see Erik standing there she began to wonder where he was. Just then as Christine closed the door she saw Madam Giry standing there. "oh, you frightened me." said Christine. "Just where do you think you're going?" asked Madam Giry as she saw Christine approach her mirror. "no where." said Christine. "don't you think that you have caused him enough heartache?" questioned Madam Giry. "who? Raoul or Erik?" questioned Christine. "both of them, why cant you just pick one of them and stop these games of cat and mouse." said Madam Giry. "I don't know what you're talking about?" questioned Christine. "it's a waste to go down there because he is no longer here. Erik has left for good." said Madam Giry. "what? No where did he go?" asked Christine. "he asked me to give you this." she replied as she handed Christine a letter. Christine tore it open and read what it had to say..
"Christine,
I find myself at the end of my wits in this lonely lived life… I find it true
To be that you are in love with the Vicount and not myself. I can't stand to
Live in the cellars any longer because the memories of you being with me surround
My chambers. I hope that you are happy in the life you have chosen and wish you nothing but the best for the rest of your days. I will tell you the truth and the truth is that I have done nothing in this life but wish you would love me. No one on this earth is able to give that love to me so it is with a heavy heart that I shall take my own life…don't try to stop me because as you are reading this letter I am aiming the gun to my head ready to pull it's trigger as soon as I finish…. You are and always will be my angel of music..
Erik"
Christine put the letter down, and then saw that inside the envelope was her ring…the ring that she had given Erik when she left him for Raoul..she was too late.
Erik had to stop Christine from ever coming down to him ever again so he thought of a plan and went through with it. He wrote her a letter about him committing suicide and sent it along with her ring up to Madam Giry. He just couldn't bear to see her ever again and his heart couldn't take the stress. It was almost night and he decided to take a walk to get his mind on other things. As he walked down the dark streets it had started to rain really hard. He loved walking in the rain because it seemed to keep more people indoors and him hidden from the world. As he went past the docks of the bay he thought he saw a woman standing there but ignored her until he saw a huge wave come and knock her into the ocean. Without caring about his own safety, he quickly took off his cloak and jumped into save her. It was hard to see once he jumped in but he kept swimming to save the woman who was knocked into the ocean. The water knocked him back and forth and one even knocked the mask away from Erik's face, but he kept swimming. Once he felt an arm, he pulled her to shore and lied her body down under a dock so he could get a good look at her.
Once he lied her down he pulled the hood off her head to reveal that the woman was Christine. She wasn't breathing and Erik knew what he had to do. He thought about just getting up and walking away but couldn't let her die in front of him. He quickly pressed his lips to hers and breathed into her mouth, hoping that she would come back to life.
Christine felt the hot breaths being forced into her throat and opened her eyes and gasped for air. Water came up in her throat and she spit it out and then gasped for some more air. She had walked to the docks to throw the ring Erik had gave back to her in the ocean. She couldn't live on with the ring in her possession. She then turned over and yelled in fright as she saw that Erik was the one who rescued her. "what the hell are you doing here? You're dead." said Christine. "I am." said Erik. "Erik, what the heck is going on? You wrote that letter to me telling me that you killed yourself." said Christine. "and you should have just went with the Vicount to England." said Erik. "come on we have to get dry before we catch our deaths." said Christine. Erik didn't argue when it came to that so he followed her to her dressing room where she locked the door and they both had a seat on her bed. Christine tended to Erik who was shivering badly by handing him a blanket. "take you shirt off." said Christine. Erik nervously unbuttoned his white drenched shirt and took it off. He then handed it to Christine and she hung it over the fire before walking behind her closet to change. Erik noticed her come walking out now wearing her night gown and had a seat next to him. Christine wrapped the blanket around Erik's shoulders and said "keep that on you." "my mask is gone…for good." said Erik. "you don't need it Erik." said Christine. "no, I do need it. Without the mask I feel exposed to the world." said Erik. "Erik, tell me why you wrote me such a letter." said Christine. "because I didn't want to see you any longer. I wanted you to go away and never come back." said Erik. "Erik, I couldn't leave you." said Christine. "I can't be around you Christine, you break my heart into two and I get sick from it." said Erik as he pulled the blankets closer to his flesh.
Christine let a few tears run down her cheeks, and then sang to the man who was sitting next to her.
"pitiful creature of darkness what kind of life have
You known? He only gave you the power to live and
Learn to be left alone. Angel of music guide and guardian yearning
For true beauty. The beauty I see lies in your soul not on the outside where true
Beauty would be seen. Each night I pray that you would take me, take me away
To the heaven you know..the heaven where I want to go.
Take me to your heaven and never let me go, take me to heaven
And sing to me each night and day singing me songs
So that everything will be okay. Never let harm get in my way so
That I can stay with you forever more with you making anyone who harms me
Pay.. Together we shall live and lie next to each other at night passing sweet
Thoughts to each other with the grasp on one another kept tight."
At that moment the urge in Erik's body could no longer be kept bottled up. He began to cry, and as he was he saw Christine's hand come and softly touch his distorted face and wipe his tears away. "Oh Christine." cried Erik as he kept sobbing. What happened next sent Erik over the edge of broken heartedness, Christine leaned in and pressed her lips up to his and passionately kissed him. Erik didn't accept the kiss, and pushed her away from him, and cried "what are you doing? You belong to the Vicount." "Erik.." "no, don't do this out of pity for me Christine." cried Erik. At that moment Erik felt a pain localize in his chest and he grasped it in pain and looked at Christine as he dropped to the floor in agony. "Erik? Are you ok!" gasped Christine as she came to his aid. "my heart." was all that Erik could get out. Christine immediately helped him to her bed and had him lie down as he kept grasping his chest. "Erik, what's going on?" asked Christine. She wanted to cry when she saw Erik pass out but what else could she do? She knew that she had given him an attack because of his broken heart. Christine filled up a cup with medicine and held it to his lips so he would get better. "oh Erik, what am I going to do with you." cried Christine. She knew that she had to figure out what to do with him because if she kept things the way they were going then she knew she would break his heart and kill him.
When Erik awoke, he noticed that he was back in his bed, in his own chambers. His heart oh how his heart ached for what Christine was doing to him. He then saw Madam Giry approach his bed holding out a glass of water. "drink this." she replied. Erik did as he was told and then handed it back to her. "where is Christine?" asked Erik. "she is up in her dressing room. She didn't want to come down here again and break your heart." said Madam Giry. "she kissed me." said Erik. "yes she has told me everything." said Madam Giry. "yes and she has told Raoul too." said Madam Giry. "is he back?" asked Erik. "he never got onto the boat to go to England because he couldn't leave her here alone." said Madam Giry. "so he knows I'm alive?" asked Erik. "no I told him that you have left us for good and to protect you I am sending you away first thing in the morning." said Madam Giry. "what?" questioned Erik. "the Vicount has told the army that you are still alive and they are now looking for you. You shall be leaving in the morning." said Madam Giry. "where will I go?" asked Erik. "to New York city, I have a few connections in the opera houses out there and so you will be kept in good hands." said Madam Giry. "this is for the best." said Erik.
Christine wasn't glad to see Raoul come through her dressing room door. He told her that he couldn't leave for England without her and that he loved her. "oh that's great Raoul." said Christine sarcastically. "so Christine what shall we do today?" asked Raoul. "Raoul I have something to confess to you before we can go on living." said Christine. "what?" asked Raoul. "Erik, he isn't dead and I went to see him before you left and I kissed him." said Christine. "what? You kissed that monster?" questioned Raoul. "yes and I'm sorry." said Christine. "you're sorry? This is what poisons our love Christine the love for your creature. He is a wanted man and shall be brought to justice, no matter what." said Raoul. Christine tried to kiss him but Raoul pushed her away and said "no I cannot kiss you after you have kissed that creature." he then stormed out of the room and left Christine alone once more…
That night as Erik gathered the last of his things together he couldn't help but leave without seeing his angel of music one last time. Erik walked to the mirror in her dressing room and saw her crying on her bed. He opened the mirror and approached her as she kept crying. Christine turned around and looked at Erik who was now standing in her room. "I'm so sorry Erik, if only you knew how sorry I am." cried Christine. "I just came to say good bye Christine." said Erik. "where are you going?" asked Christine. "the army is after me once more and I am being moved…I can't tell you where though." said Erik. "oh Erik Raoul..he won't kiss me. What man wont kiss the woman he loves just because I kissed you on accident?" Cried Christine. "accident, that's what it was? An accident." yelled Erik as he stormed to the mirror once more. "Erik..please." cried Christine. "no Christine, have a nice life!" yelled Erik as he went through the mirror again. Christine touched the mirror and cried because in reality she was loosing both men that she cared for….
More to come…