Leanna part 2
The next day Christine confronted Leanna about Tod and his relation to the Phantom. "Leanna may I have a word with you." Leanna had been walking with Mary. "Yes, of what is your concern?" "It's about Tod. Have you noticed anything about him that's, unusually." Leanna cocked her head in curiosity. "No, Tod has been Tod and nothing more." Christine could hear the sence of defence in Leanna's voice. "Sweetheart...your father and I have reason to believe that Tod is related to the Phantom." Leanna's eyes darkened, and she turned to face her mother. "Tod is in no way related to the Phantom, are you crazy! That man is an obsessed, revenge seeking, brute. Tod is a kind, caring, young gentlemen. How could you ever think that he is related to such an opposite!" Leanna was almost in tears, how could her mother think of such a thing? "Leanna...my angel of hope...you must see through this love and think of the logic. This boy knows every song that pops into your head, without even a single word from you. He never talks of his father or his mother, Leanna, we're not even sure of where he came from. And you must admit that he does look like the Phantom." Leanna tried hard to stay true to her love, but know that she thought about it, it seemed all too true. "Does this mean I may never see him again?" She asked, her entire expression going bleak. "No, you may still see him. He's the only one you feel protected with, and I would not even dare to take that from you." Christine tucked Leanna's hair behind her ears. "I also feel protected when I'm with you." Leanna said as she leaned on her moms shoulder.
Leanna had wished to tell Tod the news on her own, it would only upset him more if her parents were there. They had decided to stay in her room until the moment when their plan could be unraveled. "Tod," she began slowly choosing her words carefully. "why don't you ever speak of your parents?" He looked up at her shock at her random question." Well, my mom was a sickly women who could barely take care of me, and my father died in the Opera Populare fire." Leanna gave a small flinch of knowing. No one had died in the fire, but there were rumors of the Phantom's untimely end during the event. "No one died in the fire, but there was a rumor that the Phantom had died." Leanna knew she had dropped the bomb, because Tod immediatly sent out renforments. "My mother wouldn't have lied to me." "I never said that she did, but she might not have known." "Known what, Leanna? She had to have known the man that was my father! It would have been foolish for her not to know." He stood up and made his way to the door, but Leanna blocked his path. "Listen to what I'm trying to tell you, Tod! I wouldn't think of our love to be a set up, but you need to sit down and listen." Tod's eyes darkened upon her reluctant expressions. "Get out of my way, Leanna." She threw herself at him, landing swiftly in his arms. "No! Tod, please, listen to reason. How do you know every single song that pops into my head? Why have you yet to say a word about your family or where you came from? Why...why is it that when your face darkens you resemble him?" Leanna lowered her head into his chest and began to cry. "I never knew my father, and barely my mother, so you have no right to be making these conclusions." Leanna shivered, his hands weren't warm suns of hope anymore, they were cold stones of truth. His eyes were no longer green pools of light, but a black sky with no trace of faith. "Please Tod, this side of you scares me. My love for you is still as strong as ever, I think of you as my one and only saviour." Tod stood there for a second, then looked down at her. "He left me and my mother to die, he will regret the day he ever came back into my life." Now his eyes shown with revenge and excitment, it was much better than darkness.
It was finally time for the plan to unfold, they exited the room and headed for the stage. Leanna watched as her friend Mary ran along the beams unting the sand bags that held the back drop. She would occasionlly stop and make a funny face at the workers who were trying to retie them, only to become enraged at the mockery and take off after her. Leanna couldn't help but laugh at her life long friend. The backdrop fell and her mother made her way across the stage, and annouced that there was a minor delay, and that Leanna and Tod would be singing an unknown opera sequence. With that being said she took a step back and walked off stage. "Leanna, what ever happens do not give in to his demands." Leanna nodded and then Tod and her made their way out onto the stage. They gracefully began to dance, while they sang the one song that had burned in Leanna's head for the longest time:
The Point of no Return
TOD:
You have come here
in pursuit of
your deepest urge,
in pursuit of
that wish,
which till now
has been silent,
silent . . .
I have brought you,
that our passions
may fuse and merge -
in your mind
you've already
succumbed to me
dropped all defences
completely succumbed to me -
now you are here with me:
no second thoughts,
you've decided,
decided . . .
Past the point
of no return -
no backward glances:
the games of make believe
are at an end . . .
Past all thought
of "if" or "when" -
no use resisting:
abandon thought,
and let the dream
descend . . .
What raging fire
shall flood the soul?
What rich desire
unlocks its door?
What sweet seduction
lies before
us . . .?
Past the point
of no return,
the final threshold -
what warm,
unspoken secrets
will we learn?
Beyond the point
of no return . . .
LEANNA:
You have brought me
to that moment
when words run dry,
to that moment
when speech
disappears
into silence,
silence . . .
I have come here,
hardly knowing
the reason why . . .
In my mind,
I've already
imagined our
bodies entwining
defenceless and silent -
and now I am
here with you:
no second thoughts,
I've decided,
decided . . .
Past the point
of no return -
no going back now:
our passion-play
has now, at last,
begun . . .
Past all thought
of right or wrong -
one final question:
how long should we
two wait, before
we're one . . .?
When will the blood
begin to race
the sleeping bud
burst into bloom?
When will the flames,
at last, consume
us . . .?
Carefully Leanna spun into Tod's arms and stayed there, protecting him from any attacks.
BOTH:
Past the point
of no return
the final threshold -
the bridge
is crossed, so stand
and watch it burn . . .
We've passed the point
of no return . . .
Leanna noticed that they were at an angle, she was no longer protecting Tod. The Phantom grabbed the rope that held the chandler, and began to slide down it. Leanna fought with herself, but she needed to make a choice. She pushed Tod away from her, and dove in the path of the Phantom. As his feet made connection with her stomach, she screamed at the pain. "Leanna!" She heard Tod scream. "You bastard, how dare you touch my daughter." Raoul screamed, Christine was already running out onto the stage, but the wind from the Phantoms cape blew out every candle. Leanna rolled on the stage in pain, gasping for air. Carefully Christine knelt beside her, and began to ask a million times if she was ok, like any good mother would. "Where...is...Tod, the Phantom has found his time to strike?" Raoul knelt beside his daughter, and helped her up. "Leanna...please...breathe!" Leanna desperatly stood up, and looked at her fathers belt. She could hear the faint clashing of swords. Tod had armed himself in case their plan had fallen through, as it had, horribly. She grabbed her fathers sword and made her way to the attic stairs, letting her senses guied the way. She made her way up the stairs, the sounds of battle floating to her ear. She threw the door open. and caught Tod as he was thrown at her. "My torch of darkness will not be illuded by the winds of insolence." "Tod, are you...are you?" Leanna feared she was to late, Tod wasn't responding. "The wind has blown it's last gust." The Phantom crooned. Leanna no longer felt scared, anger was running through her like the music of the orchestra. "You killed your own flesh and blood, so what am I but a rag doll. The darkness you have brought upon my life is that of an earthquake." She unleashed her fathers sword, and ran full blast at the Phantom, but he kicked it from her and she fell to the ground. "You will carry on my legacy, Leanna." He knelt down beside her, but she stood up in a hurry. "Do not touch me." She said as she backed away. "Why you are so afraid of the hand of another is beyond my knowing, but I shall use it to my advantage." He stood up and began to walk towards her, his hand out stretched. Leanna slapped away, having no paitence for him. "This will be the last time you disobey me." The Phantom wrapped his hand around Leanna's neck, and pushed her into the wall. "Why must it be me who carries your torch!" Leanna screamed as the hand tightened around her neck. "You and your mother's voice, they resemble a haunt to me, none the less the people who were involved in the Opera Populare fire." Then Leanna heard an all too familar voice begin to sing:
This Voice
TOD:
The Angel of Darkness has betrayed me
Haunting my love, and her family
Leaving his mark, and spells
We see the Angel who forever rotted in hell
LEANNA:
Who would have thought such an angel
Would still lurk inside minds
Haunting me until find...
BOTH:
The Angel of Music that lay inside
Hiding and waiting
tossing and turning
burning and urging
The songs of Heaven to leap and soar through this voice...
TOD:
A mother trying to make a living
With no one to fall on...
For the man she loved was...
an angel who was turned to stone
LEANNA:
A mother and father
So desparatly trying to free their daughter
from the grasp of monster
The monster of the night...
Who once spoke of...
BOTH:
The Angel of Music that lay inside
Hiding and waiting
tossing and turning
burning and urging
The songs of Heaven to leap and soar through this voice...
The Phantom still had his hand wrapped around Leanna's neck. She stared at him, waiting for him to make his choice. "You two remind me of...of Christine and I." He stared at Tod. "Philisity missed you for the longest time, but her tears of sorrow were washed away by a baby boy. I never knew my father, until now. I will revenge my mother, she worked so hard for so little." Leanna was pushing as hard as she could into the wall, trying to free herself. "Philisity was a foolish women, falling in love with a man of the night. I see the same foolishness in Leanna." His gaze returned to her. "You've fallen for a man with no honor behind him." Tod ran at the Phantom, sword drawn. To avoid the attack the Phantom pulled closer to Leanna, which was a big mistake. "I thought I was perfectly clear, don't touch me!" She kicked him away from her and ran to Tod, falling into his arms. "I thought you were...you were-." Tod didn't let her finish, he gently kissed her and she kissed him back. There was no doubt in her mind that they were suppose to be together. "Leanna, you, you are the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. I don't care if I'm the son of your haunt, I will protect you with my life." The Phantom was recovering from Leanna's kick, and was now standing. Leanna grabbed Tod's sword, and began to walk over to the Phantom. "I have sang a song that was contained within my heart, mind, soul, and voice. I am no longer yours to control." The Phantom moved closer to her, but this time she didn't move nor flinch. "You're as foolish as your mother, I had no intention of letting my control over you slip." Leanna tapped him in th leg with the sword, as a little reminder of what she was capable of. He looked down upon the sword as if it were a joke. "You wouldn't dare hurt me, Leanna. I'm the one who brought to your mind those wonderful songs." He had a smirk on his face that Leanna would have loved slap away, so she did. She swatted him with the broad side of the sword, leaving a nice scratch on his cheek. He glared at her, but the only thing that remained on her face was a smirk of pleasure. Then the door flew open and Christine and Raoul appeared along with Meg and Mary. The Phantom siezed this moment of distraction and grabbed the sword and hit her gently, but firmly, in the head with it. Leanna fell to the ground almost instantly, unconcious from the minute it hit her head. "Leanna!" Christine cried, and Raoul began to advance forward, but the Phantom put the sword over Leanna's unmoving body. "Do not move any further or I will kill her." Raoul froze in his tracks and Christine was just staring at her unconcious daughter. Mary's eyes began to well with tears, but Meg was eyeing Tod carefully. Apparently the Phantom had forgotten all about his son. As the Phantom began to shout commands, Tod made his move. He grabbed the handle of the sword from him and put it to his throat. "No it is you that shall be advised to not move." The Phantom looked down at him as if he were some tiny speck of dirt on his cape. "You wouldn't dare kill the man who gave you life." Tod's eyes went dark and his hands went cold. "You think that, but it's not true. You left my mother and me to die on the streets, you've almost killed Leanna, intruded her dreams and mind, but more importantly; tried to kill the one and only thing that made her happy." The Phantom had the evil smirk back. "You think you made her happy, you made her feel insecure about her decisions. Her decisions to join me." Suddenly they heard the sound of a sword scrapping across the floor, and before anyone could do anything...Leanna wacked the Phantom across the back with her fathers sword. He fell over onto the floor, and now lay there dead.
3 days later...
"Excuse me Miezure Frary, have you prepared the...um...masked man...who was found dead in the Opera House's attic?" Leanna asked, Tod at her side. "Excuse me Madimoselle, I'm afraid I did not recieve such news of preparing this body of which you speak." Leanna froze and looked at Tod. "But I...I hit him with the...and the corners took him...I...I." Tod took her hand as if to calm her, but it was no good. "We shaden't talk of this here." As they walked out he heard Miezure Frary ask where two of his corners had gone. Apparently they haden't returned after picking up a body the other day. When Tod asked who the corners were he replied: "Your little friend Sara and her older brother."
Tod and Leanna immediatly fled from Paris with their friends and family, but returned after they felt it was safe. Leanna and Tod married and had two children: Tucker, and Philisity in honor of Tod's mother. Leanna died at the age of 78. Tod never remarried after that and lived till the age of 93.