Title: Christine's Diary

Author: LittleLottexoxEriksTrueAngel

Chapter Three: At Mamma Valerius' Home

Disclaimer: I, no matter how much I wish I did, do not own 'The Phantom Of The Opera'. Also, any direct quotes from the book belong solely to Gaston Leroux.

Now…Onto the story….

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I went to visit Mama Valerius today and Raoul came for a visit also. As he walked in I rose and offered him my hand.

Mama Valerius was the first to speak, "Well, M. de Chagny, don't you know our Christine? Her good genius has sent her back to us!"

"I thought, Mamma, that there was to be no more question of that! You know there is no such thing as the Angel of Music!"

"But, child, he gave you lessons for three months!"

"Mamma, I have promised to explain everything to you one of these days; and I hope to do so but you have promised me, until that day, to be silent and to ask me no more questions whatever!"

"Provided that you promised never to leave me again! But have you promised that, Christine?" she replied.

"Mamma, all this can not interest M. de Chagny."

"On the contrary, mademoiselle," said Raoul, "anything that concerns you interests me to an extent which perhaps you will one day understand. I do not deny that my surprise equals my pleasure at finding you with your adopted mother and that, after what happened between us yesterday, after what you said and what I was able to guess, I hardly expected to see you here so soon. I should be the first to delight at your return, if you were not so bent on preserving a secrecy that may be fatal to you...and I have been your friend too long not to be alarmed, with Mme. Valerius, at a disastrous adventure which will remain dangerous so long as we have not unraveled its threads and of which you will certainly end by being the victim, Christine."

This made Mama Valerius uneasy.

She tried to get answers from Raoul but he doesn't know the truth of the matter. Mama Valerius was terrified of what Raoul said, of me being in danger. I pleaded with her not to believe him and that I was in no danger but all she wanted was for me to promise that I would never leave her again. That I could not promise. Still he went on trying to get me to promise to Mama Valerius and himself that I am to remain under their protection. Still I refused.

Then, he noticed my ring.

He tried to grab my hand to examine the ring further but I pulled away. I told him that the ring was a present but he argued that the ring was a promise and the promise was accepted. I eventually asked him what he saw.

He replied "I saw your ecstasy at the sound of the voice, Christine: the voice that came from the wall or the next room to yours...yes, your ecstasy! And that is what makes me alarmed on your behalf. You are under a very dangerous spell. And yet it seems that you are aware of the imposture, because you say to-day that there is no Angel of Music! In that case, Christine, why did you follow him that time? Why did you stand up, with radiant features, as though you were really hearing angels?...Ah, it is a very dangerous voice, Christine, for I myself, when I heard it, was so much fascinated by it that you vanished before my eyes without my seeing which way you passed! Christine, Christine, in the name of Heaven, in the name of your father who is in Heaven now and who loved you so dearly and who loved me too, Christine, tell us, tell your benefactress and me, to whom does that voice belong? If you do, we will save you in spite of yourself. Come, Christine, the name of the man! The name of the man who had the audacity to put a ring on your finger!"

I told him that he shall never know the name of the man. He countered that he believes that this man is not worthy of my love, yet he does not know anything about him...about Erik.

Then came the biggest shock...Raoul's next words, "I at least know the name that you thought to keep from me for ever...The name of your Angel of Music, Mademoiselle, is Erik!"

I felt myself paling.

"Who told you?" was all I could manage to say.

"You yourself!"

"How do you mean?" I know I never mentioned his name to Raoul nor anyone else.

"By pitying him the other night, the night of the masked ball. When you went to your dressing-room, did you not say, Poor Erik?' Well, Christine, there was a poor Raoul who overheard you." He had spied on me again!

"I was not behind the door...I was in the dressing-room, in the inner room, mademoiselle." He explained.

"Unhappy man! Do you want to be killed?" I was terrified and I had no intention of hiding it.

"Perhaps." I could hear the pain anddespair in his voice. I began to cry and took his hands.

"Raoul, forget the man's voice and do not even remember its name. You must never try to fathom the mystery of the man's voice."

"Is the mystery so very terrible?"

"There is no more awful mystery on this earth. Swear to me that you will make no attempt to find out," I insisted. "Swear to me that you will never come to my dressing-room, unless I send for you."

I promised to send for him tomorrow and he swore to do as I asked. He kissed my hands softly and left. I can hear him cursing Erik as he left. Mama Valerius and I were left to finish our conversation alone.

Christine

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