-1Ch.17: Where Erik is from.
It was now 10:00pm and Tara had school the next day so she put her homework aside and took a deep breath and prayed. "Dear, Lord Please forgive me for all my sins great or small. Lord also; help my mom realize I'm not a kid anymore. Oh, yeah umm watch over my family, friends and the choir and people at church. Amen." It was a short and simple prayer she usually said before bed. She got up off her knees turned off her little cat lamp and turned on her fan then jump in bed and nestled herself in the covers.
The next day she awoke and found Erik sitting on the side of her bed. He was holding a rose in his hands and he was staring out her window. She slowly moved so the bed wouldn't move with her she gently moved the covers and went to move off the bed when he turned around. "Oh, Tara your awake." he said softly. Tara only nodded. "Tara, I'm sorry to come on strongly but you see I'm not originally from this era. My first Love was Christine Daae in 1870. In 1919 she died giving birth to the man she lover's son. I couldn't last with out her so I worked vigorously on a way to go back in time. I succeeded too. When I finished it I figured why go back in time when I could go forward and so I did and I came to this era and watch a couple of people from afar but you so young and beautiful caught my interest. I saw you as a reincarnation of Christine except blonde and religious. Your voice calm and gentle to everyone you spoke to and your eyes sparkled each time someone asked for help or something. Your voice isn't like Christine's but your kindness and understanding surpasses hers. I told myself I wouldn't mess up with you and that I'd be calmer and less controlling but I can't. I'm so use to acting like this so full of hatred and pain, I just feel to have to make you understand I have to force it upon you." he whispered. As he told her this Tara noticed he was crying his voice didn't sound shaky or broken by tears, if it weren't for particles of light glistening through them she wouldn't have known they were there. "Erik, your story is sad and I wish I could believe you but a time machine….especially back then it's just too hard to grasp." she said softly.
"Come with me I'll bring you back with me and when you see me in my own era then maybe you can learn to love me." he said quickly. "No, Erik this is my time and if it is true about the time machine then if I go back I can change the future or well the present." Tara said thinking that if it is true and she did go back with him will he keep her there or will he let her come home.