Hey everyone, this is like my third chapter written for the day. I just had so many ideas and needed to get them all onto fan . Thanks for the reviews and keep reading…..Enjoy

Erik and Christine trudged through the deep snow with Erik pointing the lantern in front of him to light their way. Night had arrived and the only thing lighting the way was the small light coming from Erik's lantern. He had kept himself calm as they searched for his daughter but he had began to worry.

"Clorinda!"

"Clorinda! Answer me!"

When she didn't answer, Erik walked over to a boulder and sat down on it's cold surface and placed his head in his hands. Christine sat down beside him, and patted him on the back.

"It's ok Erik we'll find her."

Erik moved away and started to cry.

"Just leave me alone Christine! This is all your fault! If you weren't so hard on her she wouldn't have ran away to find me."

"Erik we'll find her, don't worry."

"No Christine, I'm so heart broken right now. What you did to me was wrong and it hurt my heart. How could you Christine? How could you!"

"I made a mistake Erik please don't be like this."

Erik got to his feet and wiped his eyes before grabbing the lantern once more.

"Come on, the temperature is dropping fast."

Christine followed behind him, as they entered the park. Erik held his lantern in front of him so he could see where he was walking in the dark wooded area.

"Erik, I don't think this is such a good idea. It's too quiet."

"We have to find her Christine, come on."

As they kept walking into the park, Erik heard a cracking noise coming from beneath him.

"You hear that?"

"Hear what?"

The cracking noise occurred again, causing Erik to shine his lantern at their feet.

"That."

"Erik I don't hear anything."

Just then the ground beneath their feet broke away, causing the both of them to fall through and slide down a steep icy hill. A tree at the bottom stopped them from going any further, causing Erik's mask to fall off his face and slide away from him. Once Erik had a few seconds to process what had happened he shun the lantern in front of him to try and find his mask Since it was white it blended in with the snow causing the situation to become impossible.

"This is just great."

"Are you ok Erik?"

"Just fine if I could find my mask."

Erik got to his feet and shun the light on where they had slipped from.

"God sakes that was high."

"I told you it was too quiet Erik."

"Come on, help me find my mask, it couldn't have gotten far."

Erik shun the lantern in front of him and looked on the ground. Once the snow thinned out a bit further ahead he spotted his mask lying there on a frost covered path. Erik picked the cold piece of leather and placed it back over his disfigured skin.

"Did you find it?"

"Yes no thanks to you."

Once he adjusted the mask, Erik shun the lantern in front of him once more and noticed a large hole right in front of him.

"What in God's name is that Erik?"

"Looks like the ground broke away there too."

Erik approached it, and shun the light to the bottom of it and nearly died at the sight of what he saw. There down in the bottom of the hole lied Clorinda's small, snow covered body all curled up in a ball.

"Christine! She's down there!"

Christine looked down in the hole and gasped at the sight of her daughter's body.

"Oh my God Erik, how did she get down there!"

"The ground probably broke beneath her."

Erik handed Christine the lantern and jumped down into the hole, as Christine shun the light over him.

"Is she alive Erik?"

Erik placed his hand on her small neck and felt for a pulse, a pulse that couldn't be felt through her frozen skin. He immediately took off his black cloak and wrapped it around her body and held her close to his.

"She's barley alive Christine."

"Get out of there Erik, we have to get her warm."

"Put down the lantern and let me hand Clorinda up to you so I can climb out of here."

Christine did as she was told and put the lantern down and held out her arms so Erik could hand Clorinda's small frozen body up to her. When she got a good grasp on her, Erik let go and climbed up out of the hole by grasping onto the frozen ice surrounding it.

"Here, give her to me."

Christine handed Clorinda and picked the lantern back up and led the way to the Opera House. As Erik walked, he looked down at his daughter who was ice cold and frozen. Once they were back inside the opera house, Erik ran down to his lair as Christine went to get Nadir and Alex. Once Erik was down in his lair, he began to undress her out of the cold, wet clothing that she was in. By the time that was done, Nadir, Alex and Christine had arrived. It broke Erik's heart when Nadir had taken her out of his arms but it was for the better.

"Alex, grab me some warm blankets quickly."

Nadir immediately slipped a night gown over her frozen body and then wrapped her in the blankets that Alex had returned with. He then began to check her pulse and blood pressure without hesitation.

"How long has she been out there?"

"I don't know, Christine came to me and asked if she was with me and I said no."

"And what time was that Erik?"

"I don't know, around 4 or 5 of this evening."

"Well from the way her body temperature is so low I would guess no less than around 7 or 8 hours."

Erik placed his head down and wiped his teary eyes. Christine tried to join Erik's side but he wouldn't let her and kept moving away.

"Will she live Monsieur Nadir?"

"She has hypothermia Miss Daae, I don't want to say yes or no. She needs to be kept warm and out of the cold. I am going to leave some medicine with you to give her when or if she wakes up."

Once Christine walked Nadir and Alex out of the lair, she walked over to Clorinda's bed where Erik was holding her wrapped up body in his arms.

"Erik, please….I'm…I'm.."

"Go away you little Vixen, you've done enough damage."

"Erik please I'm sorry."

"You left her when you knew she was going to run off! She's all I have Christine! If something happened to her I wouldn't know what to do!"

"Don't you think I'm upset too Erik?"

"Oh Christine, is it because she's my daughter? Is that why you not care?"

"What do you mean?"

"What? What do I mean? last night for example. You brought her to the masked ball and left her alone in a corner why you danced with Colum. If it wasn't for me coming to look after her she could have been dead last night. What kind of mother leaves their child unattended at a ball full of drunks and older men? She doesn't even know I'm her father and yet tells me how good of one I am to her. Then you have the galls to tell her that I never wanted to see her again, hence her running off like she did."

"Is this your nasty way of telling me that I'm a bad mother? You weren't even there when she was born Erik! You had to see the scar on her face before you even believed that she was yours. Don't blame this all on me! You may think that you're a good father by giving her violin lessons or baby sitting her while I'm at work but the truth is that being a father is more than that. It took me a long time to realize that for myself when it came to loving you."

"What do you mean?"

"You think that love means giving singing lessons or watching my operas when it's much more than that. It's your selfishness and temper that makes you a bad person."

"I'm not a bad person Christine and you know it."

"No Erik, you are. You get mad over things before you even know the whole story behind it. Maybe I was wrong to tell Clorinda what I did, and maybe that's why she ran off. I'm a human and I make mistakes just like you. Yelling at me for it is what makes you the bad person. Maybe what I did last night was wrong, but when I see you like I do I think that maybe what I did was right."

"Why is it that you seem to fall in love with every other man but me Christine? The other night when you sung in the opera I brought you a single rose like I always do and you destroyed it before you even got the chance to look at it. You were too mesmerized by the 5 dozen that Colum brought you."

"I did no such thing Erik."

"Yes you did, you sat on it when you walked into your dressing room."

"Why was it on my seat in the first place?"

"Because Colum's 5 dozen roses were hogging the entire dresser top. I had the whole night planned and it turned out to be a disaster. It seems that every time I try to do something nice to show you how much I love you it gets ruined one way or another. I should have known that an opera dive could never love a man like me."

"I wasn't drunk last night Erik, I know I wasn't."

"That's a lie."

"I swear I only had two glasses of what Colum was giving me."

"You disgust me Christine, I knew you weren't drunk from the moment I saw you. When you came down in the lair last night and tried to do what you did to me…..I just couldn't believe you were like that."

"I came down here last night?"

"Yes, you tried to have your way with me. Then when I wouldn't have it you left."

"Oh Erik what have I done? I'm sorry, I acted like a complete animal last night and I'm sorry."

"It's too late, the damage is already done. You betrayed me and slept with that Colum man."

"He told me I was drunk Erik, I swear."

"Nonsense, I was in the ball room today and saw a half empty bottle of aphrodisiac Chardonnay sitting there."

"What on earth is that?"

"Andre banned that months ago because it causes one to lust for their wives or husbands body and if not then the first person they had contact with in the last few hours. In order to get the drink out of your system one must make love to someone."

"Oh Erik, he gave that to me. I trusted that man and he gave that to me to have his way with me….what have I done? I'm sorry Erik, please listen to me when I say that I was under his spell and wouldn't have done it willingly. Please believe me."

"Go away Christine and leave me with Clorinda."

When Christine walked away, Erik pulled his daughter's body closer to him and rested his head against a pillow before closing his eyes. It had been a long night and now with Clorinda to care for the days were going to be even longer. He couldn't let his guard down, and he surly couldn't sleep. Erik watched as Christine crawled into his bed and eventually fell asleep with the red blankets covered on top of her. As he glanced back down at his daughter he noticed that her skin was pale and breathing was very shallow. As he covered her body up even more to keep her warm Erik decided to sing to her hoping that she would feel better.

"I'm at loss for words Clorinda. I don't even know what to sing to you."

Erik thought a moment and then deiced to sing her one of the songs that he had written for his new opera, the opera that he was behind in because she had gotten the pages so out of order.

"Here I lie beside you my hands running through your hair.

I'm here no one can harm you my arms will warm and calm you.

You will be my freedom, my one chance at life……your kisses will

Surround me touch me and will be around me. Solitude is in the past I swear

That this will last….. Lie there beside me every night and morning…I'll

Be there to kiss you with romance…Solitude is in the past.

I once saw you walking…. all alone so fast. I swear you were not happy

You were crying and not laughing. Then I walked right past you and dried away

Your tears….I'm here now nothing can harm you my arms will warm and calm you.

There on the stage is where we shared the kiss….the kiss which I claimed you…I kissed

You and I claimed you. Your kisses they surround me…they touch me and will be around me. Solitude is in the past I swear that this will last…..lie there beside me every night and morning…I'll be there to kiss you with Romance…solitude is in the past.

Now the years have passed and now it is our last…our last kiss…kiss together for

Now and forever. We shall live together in this life we shared….it's now and forever our love ends never. You'll always be here with me beside me….I'm here nothing can harm you my arms will warm and calm you. This room Is where we declared our love and where we shared……your kisses they surround me, they touch me and will be around me. Solitude is in the past….I swear this love will last….lie there beside me every night and morning…..I'll be there to kiss you with Romance….solitude I swear its all in the past…..so love me….love me I swear it surly lasts."

With that, Erik wiped his teary eyes and hugged his sick daughter hoping that she would be fine in the morning……

More to come soon!