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Christine had awoken later on that night to see Erik still sound asleep next to her. She sighed and wrapped her arms around her angel of music and re closed her eyes again as she listened to the sound of his heart beating ever so softly. Just then the door was kicked in and Raoul entered and grabbed Christine by her neck and pushed her up against the wall.

Erik had awoken to the uncomfortable motion of jerking coming from beside him. The movement was causing him discomfort in his wounded body so rolled over to find Christine asleep and rocking her body back and forth. Erik realized that she was having a nightmare and placed his hand gently on her shoulder to wake her. "Christine, Christine wake up." Christine awoke to a soothing voice, Erik's voice calling her name ever so softly. "is he alright?" thought Christine as she rolled over to face Erik and gasped in fright as she opened her eyes and found the distorted half of his face staring right at her. The handsome side was lying on the pillow, making it hard to see past the distorted side, and she could have slapped herself in the face for gasping in fear. After hearing her gasp in fright, Erik quickly covered his distorted skin with his hand in attempt to hide it from Christine. "Erik I'm sorry.. you frightened me." said Christine trying to find a match to light a candle. Erik reached over on the night stand and grabbed his mask and slipped it over his distorted skin. "yes frightened of my face." said Erik. "no Erik it's not like that." said Christine lighting the candle. Erik quickly blew it out and said "sorry, I should have known that sleeping with the mask off my hideous face would be a bad idea. I just thought that it would cause less agitation to my already agitated skin." said Erik rolling back over and closing his eyes. Christine lied down beside him, and outlined the mask with her fingers and said " Erik, Please I didn't mean to scream at you, I only screamed in fright because I'm not used to waking up with someone lying next to me. Please forgive me Erik, I shouldn't have done it."

"leave the mask on." said Erik Coldly. "Erik please forgive me. I shouldn't have screamed." said Christine. "it's fine, what woman wouldn't scream." said Erik as a few tears escaped his eyes. Christine wiped them away, and said "I'm sorry." "you were having a bad dream. I woke you because your movements were giving my body discomfort." said Erik changing the subject. "oh, I'm sorry Erik." said Christine. "would you like to talk about it?" asked Erik. "no, I don't want to." said Christine remembering the horrors of the dream that Erik pulled her out of. "goodnight then." said Erik closing his eyes once more. "Erik." called Christine as she continued to touch his mask. "what?" asked Erik opening his eyes once more. "are you going to make me go back to Raoul?" asked Christine in a worried tone of voice. "why wouldn't I? you belong to him, he is your husband." said Erik Coldly. "I'm not married to him." said Christine. "not yet." said Erik reassuringly. "don't be like that Erik, that's not very nice." said Christine. "I forbid you to stay here with me! In the morning you are to return to him and never show your face around me ever again." said Erik carelessly. "Raoul has changed Erik, he isn't the man I once knew." cried Christine. "oh can you honestly look me in the eyes and tell me that?" asked Erik turning away from her. "yes I can, he hit me Erik and he did something else…something horrible." cried Christine. "what?" asked Erik. "he shot you, he tried to murder you." said Christine. "you should have told him to aim higher Christine. I wish he would have aimed higher, aimed high enough to kill me. I don't want to speak to you ever again Christine, I want you to leave and go live with your precious Vicount." said Erik in disgust. "he beat me Erik. He raised a fist to me and beat me…I cant be with someone who would do such a thing to me." cried Christine. Erik pushed her out of his bed and yelled "there I raised a hand to you now leave me be too." "done make me go back to him Erik he frightens me. He will kill me if I go back and most of all what man wont kiss the woman he loves? He wont kiss me Erik, he wont kiss me because I kissed you." cried Christine. "oh don't you wish you could turn back time? Turn back time enough to have second thoughts about that kiss?" replied Erik as he lied back down.

Christine had had enough of Erik's nonsense at that moment and jumped up on the bed and pinned him down to the mattress, applying pressure to his pelvic wound. "let me go." ordered Erik in agony. "no not until we get something straight." said Christine in anger. "let me get something straight with you! You're on my injury and you best get off it." said Erik in agony. "not until you admit that I broke your heart and that's the only reason you hate me." said Christine keeping a firm grasp on his arms. "I hate you Christine, I thought those many years ago that if I taught you how to sing in return you could love me no matter what. Madam Giry warned me about how you would never love me as much as I loved you but I denied her. Only did I find out that she was right and came to realize that no woman would ever love me no matter how kind I could be to them. I gave you everything Christine…fame..lessons..love everything and yet you denied me." cried Erik.

Christine let go of Erik and said "I know, I…cant be here with you." Erik watched her leave his room as silent tears rolled down his cheeks once more feeling the heartache of Christine's rejection. The next morning, Christine who had left Erik's room the night before woke up on the couch in Meg's room feeling torn and horrible. She had so many mixed feelings about who to love that she couldn't face Erik enough to continue lying next to him. She felt really bad about rejecting his love for her once more but in her heart she still had feelings for Raoul. Christine had decided to Check on Erik to make sure that he was ok so walked down the hall to the room where he was and entered to find the bed empty. She immediately approached the bed lifting up the covers wondering where Erik was. Then out of the corner of her eye she saw him sitting over at the piano hovering his broken hands over the keys as if he were playing it. "Erik." she softly called to him.

Erik had heard her voice call him once more..he couldn't stay in bed any longer no matter the pain so decided to sit at the piano and hover his broken hands over the keys. How badly he wanted to play and hear it's beautiful sound once more but with the condition of his fingers it was impossible. Then he heard the voice of Christine softly calling his name as she entered the room. He put his head down in sorrow and just wished that she would go away. It wasn't until he felt her wrapping her arms around his shoulders did he realize that she hadn't left. "you shouldn't be up." he heard her reply. "what did I tell you last night?" questioned Erik. "I came to see you." replied Christine. "just leave me be." said Erik angrily. "I bet you wish you could play, what Firman and the mob did to your hands was wrong." said Christine. "it seems as if I haven't played in a hundred years. I'm even forgetting how each key sounds, horrible isn't it." said Erik. "let me refresh your memory." said Christine. She then had a seat directly behind him, and sat her arms beside each of his. "what are you doing?" asked Erik. Christine then intertwined her fingers in between his so that her fingers were lying on the keys and his fingers rested comfortably on hers. "play Erik, you know what keys to press." said Christine. Erik took a deep breath and began to play one of his music pieces. As he would move his hands over the right keys, Christine's fingers would press down on them making the most beautiful music enter his soul once more. Nothing made Erik more happier than being able to play once more. He knew that he wasn't going to be able to play by himself for months because of his broken fingers but Christine was making it happen. "Oh Christine." mewed Erik as he finished pressing her fingers on the last key of the song. "if music will make you recover faster than I shall do this for you all the time." said Christine with her fingers still intertwined in between his. "when I play all my agony goes away." said Erik. "then everyday I shall play with you." said Christine. "you cant." said Erik. "why not?" asked Christine. "because you need to return to Raoul." said Erik. "let me stay with you until you're better Erik. Then I promise to leave you forever." said Christine. "is that a promise?" asked Erik. "yes just let me see to it that you get better, then you shall be rid of me for good." said Christine. "then you may stay." said Erik.

Christine smiled and said "that was a beautiful piece of music, where did you get it from?" "I wrote it." said Erik. "when?" asked Christine. "years ago." said Erik. "any lyrics to it?" asked Christine. "I never had the time to think of any." said Erik. "play is again and let me sing." said Christine. "As you wish." said Erik. Christine sat her head on his shoulder, and intertwined his fingers with hers once again and began to sing as he played.

"no one would listen..no one but me

Heard as the outcast hears..

Shamed into solitude

Shunned by the misunderstood

No one would listen

In my soul my heart heard your music..

You are a genius..far from

Meaningless.. No one

Would listen.. I alone could hear

Your music..

Then at last your voice in the gloom shouted out

"I love you" I feel your fears, your

Torments and your tears. I saw your

Loneliness turned hate into kindness..

No one would listen, no one but me heard as the

Outcast hears…no one would listen no one

But me heard as the outcast hears.."

Erik stopped playing, and couldn't stop himself from shedding tears. "oh Christine." cried Erik as he put his head down. "why are you crying?" asked Christine. "you sang so beautifully." cried Erik. Christine untwined her fingers from his, and brought them up to his face and wiped his tears away. She then easily touched his mask and slipped from over his head. "look at me Erik." said Christine. "no, I cant." cried Erik as he kept his head down. Christine shifted her body to the side of him, and took her hand and easily forced his face towards her.

Erik couldn't even bare to look upon her beauty, she had been given such beauty that he felt disgraced being in her presence. "don't be ashamed Erik. You're not hideous, you're handsome." said Christine. Erik took his hand and covered the distorted side of his face with it and said "yes, but only when I look like this." Christine lowered his hand and said "no, now you're handsome." Erik sobbed and began to softly sing to her..

"pity comes too late this can't be

Your fate…you're too beautiful to

Stay with me anymore.. I love you

And it's over…. let love close

It's door…."

Christine began to cry too, and softly sang back to him..

"this love cannot end…I love you and can

Help make your heart mend. I have done you so

Much harm let me re enter your heart with open

Arms. Erik please forgive my feelings they were in the

Wrong..Raoul was a mistake that love can never take….I'm

Here with you now and far away from Raoul. Forgive my sins and

Lead me from this shack I swear I'll never go back…"

Erik got to his feet, and walked limped over to his bed and lied down. "Christine you are making my heart ache." Christine approached his bed and lied next to him. She placed her hand on the center of his chest and said "is that where it hurts?" Erik took her hand in his and touched his chest and then his distorted face. "it in my chest but most of all it hurts here." he replied as he ran her soft fingers along his distorted flesh. "Erik I can mend a broken heart just give me a chance." said Christine. "what about the Vicount?" asked Erik. "he isn't important anymore Erik." said Christine. "but you still love him." said Erik. "yes I do but I love you too." said Christine. "my heart doesn't have room for him.." said Erik. "Erik I love you." repeated Christine. "and so does Raoul. You should go to him, he will be missing you." said Erik coldly.

Christine loved lying there with Erik and wasn't going to make any attempt to move away from him. He was either going to have to kill her or take her back to Raoul himself before she was ever going to leave him. A little while after, Madam Giry came in and sat a tray of food down on the night stand. "Erik I need you to finish all the food that is on the tray." she replied. "I'm not hungry." said Erik. "well you need to eat something." said Madam Giry. "Don't worry I'll keep an eye on him." said Christine. Once madam Giry had left Christine took the glass of water off the tray and held it up to his lips. "drink this Erik." "no I'm not thirsty." moaned Erik. "you need your nourishment." said Christine. Erik sighed, and took a sip from the glass and then lied his head up against his pillow once again.

As he swallowed the water, he felt an agonizing feeling localize in his stomach and he immediately leaned over and couldn't hold himself back from throwing it up. Erik felt so embarrassed as he looked down on the floor and saw the liquid splattered all over the place. "Erik, are you ok?" asked Christine. "fine." said Erik sarcastically. Christine brushed the hair back out of his face and said "you poor man, let me clean you up." Erik lied back down and Christine took a damp cloth and wiped the through up away from his skin. "what am I going to do with you Erik." said Christine. "I feel so ashamed." Cried Erik. "oh Erik don't talk like that." said Christine. "look at me, I'm nothing more than a body now. I can't conceive, play a piano or eat. I'm a mess compared to the man I once was." cried Erik. "look at me Erik, you are a wonderful person, and you deserve nothing but the greatest things that life has to offer a man." said Christine. "you're right but I never once in my entire life received any of those things." said Erik. "you have me." said Christine. "yes I have you to look at.. To look at and see the things I could have. I can't touch you, I can't make love to you and damn it I can't even marry you. You love a man who is handsome, rich and full of love for you. Sometimes I think that if not for my face you would have chosen me instead of the Vicount." said Erik. "Erik I love you for the way you are." said Christine. "you love me for my music and nothing more. You would never make love to me, you would never look me in the eyes and make love to me Christine." said Erik. "I kissed you, doesn't that mean anything to you?" asked Christine. "you kissed me and blocked my distorted skin with the palm of your hand." said Erik. "no Erik, I was touching your skin, I wasn't hiding it from my sight." said Christine. "look me in the eyes Christine and tell me the truth…you wouldn't make love to me." said Erik.

Christine looked Erik in the eyes and couldn't say anything. Erik the gently grabbed her jaw and forced her to look into his distorted face. "look into what you would have to look at while making love to me…what kind of turn on is that? It wouldn't make you want my body..it would only disgust you. I have never taken my clothes off in front of a woman before Christine and sometimes I know that….I never will." cried Erik. "you can't sit here and honestly tell me that you've never gone with a prostitute Erik…a man of your age would have done that.." said Christine coldly. Erik turned away and coldly said "I couldn't bring myself to do it." "and why is that?" asked Christine. "because deep down I only wanted to do it with you… for years I have saved myself in hopes of my first time being with the one girl I had feelings for..and now I know that I will never be able to touch and lust for the delegate creature I fell for years ago. You are too beautiful to want a hideous creature like me pleasuring you in bed… you shouldn't be here with me. You should be with the Vicount." cried Erik. Christine felt so bad at the point and realized that she was going to have to return to Raoul sooner or later…maybe not to love him but to tell him that she was starting to have feelings for Erik…or not.. She had a point because she was still in love with Raoul and only loved Erik out of pity for his dark fate….

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