I do not own the Phantom of the Opera. I only own Tiffani and Lexi.
Story start
The next few days at the opera house were nothing too out of the ordinary. Carlotta thankfully never appeared ever again, which made everyone at the opera house relieved. Lexi was feeling a little pressure about the performance she would be giving in a few weeks. Tiffani had already memorized the music for the performance so she was bored more often than not.
The Phantom had not shown his face again but Christine Daae was seen chasing around Raoul, who had showed up a few days ago. Of course, the two lovebirds were flirting and seeing each other in secret alcoves whenever they had the chance. The two of them were actually running away together to a secret alcove right at that moment during practice and Lexi and Tiffani saw him.
"Bet the phantom is loving that," Lexi said during the break they were allowed to have during practice.
"I told the man to get over Christine but who knows, he's been obsessed with her for a while. She seems like an airhead to me," Tiffani with a shrug before laughing when Lexi went to smack her on the head.
"Be nice, anyways, I see you finally got to wear some pants and a shirt instead of that dress you always try to destroy," Lexi said as she looked at her friend, who was actually wearing men's clothes instead of wearing a dress.
"Well the director does not want me to be a distraction for the other musicians so he allows me to wear men's clothing. If you were not the lead you could wear this too, but since you have to be the lead then you have to wear the pretty dresses," Tiffani said sweetly while Lexi was glaring at her.
"Whose fault is it that I have to wear these dresses?" Lexi asked with a growl as Tiffani started backing away from her.
"The owners," Tiffani yelled before she ran away in the same direction that Raoul and Christine disappeared.
"Don't blame those fools," Lexi yelled as she chased after her friend. The two of them were running closer to where giggling was coming from. The friends ran quicker when they saw the noose about to swing around Raoul's neck from above him.
"Move," Tiffani screamed as she tackled Raoul and Lexi grabbed Christine to pull her out of the way. Tiffani narrowly missed the noose slipping over her own neck as she tackled Raoul to safety.
"What are you doing? Get off me," Raoul said affronted as he harshly shoved Tiffani off him and he stood up brushing off his clothes. Tiffani cursed when she was pushed hard enough to hit her head painfully on the floor.
"Such a gentleman, she just saved your life from an angry phantom and you hurt her," Lexi yelled as she let go of Christine, who ran to Raoul, and Lexi rushed over to her friend, who was still on the floor now holding her head. She grabbed Tiffani's head and hissed when she saw blood on her friend's hand and head.
"Go get a doctor, now," Lexi yelled at the couple, who looked shaken up. Christine was mumbling about the phantom, but when Lexi yelled again she snapped out of her mumbling. "Go get that doctor or so help me he will be in more pain than he could imagine," Lexi yelled pointing at Raoul.
"Raoul, let's get the doctor," Christine pleaded before the couple ran back to the stage where everyone was standing around.
"Tiffani, can you hear me? Can you see me?" Lexi asked worriedly for her friend, who was now holding her other hand to the bleeding area on the back of her head.
"Can definitely hear you after all that yelling, but seeing you is hard since you are really blurry," Tiffani muttered before trying to stand up, but her legs gave out. Lexi caught her before she hurt herself again and helped her sit back down.
"Just take it easy, hopefully those two numbskulls will get you a doctor," Lexi said as she moved the hair out of Tiffani's face.
"Or just leave me here while they run off to go eat each other's faces again," Tiffani said weakly before trying to chuckle.
"That's probably true, I'll go get you a doctor, just please be alright. Just stay alive until I can return," Lexi said before she ran off towards the stage to get help.
"Dumb pretty boy, oh phantom if you're listening, if you kill Raoul then I have no qualms with that, but please open your eyes to how much of a bimbo Christine is. If you kill me for badmouthing her then I will come back to haunt you for eternity, but you have to realize she is not the amazing woman you believe her to be," Tiffani said calmly as she tried to let her vision focus, but it refused to make the blurriness disappear.
Silence was the only answer to her words, but a big blurry black figure with a little bit of white appeared in front of her. "Why did you stop me?" the phantom growled as he stood before Tiffani, who looked up at the blurry white spot on his figure.
"Because I wanted to swing on the rope like Tarzan again, but I missed the rope," Tiffani said trying to speak normally with her big smile, but pain laced through her head. "Shouldn't have even helped that dumb pretty boy, he hurt me after I saved his life," she muttered before looking at her bloodied hands.
"Could you just scare the two of them away? I'm tired of seeing that jerk's face and listening to Christine's dumb giggles. She isn't the smartest cookie if you know what I mean," she said even though she heard the Phantom growl angrily at what she said. Her pain increased when he bent down and wrapped a hand around her throat. She struggled for air as he picked her up and pushed her against the wall with only his hand around her throat.
"I love Christine, she should be the star of my opera house. Do not speak badly about her," he growled as he brought his face close to hers.
"Do you really think she'll accept you? Do you really think she will be happy with you caging her like a pretty bird that you can listen to her singing whenever you demand? She'll never accept the phantom, she only wants the angel of music to help her become a star," Tiffani choked out when the man's hand loosened a bit. The loosened hold did not last long when he tightened his grip and cut off her air.
"How do you know all this? You have been here for barely any time. You are never around when I speak to Christine as her angel. You know nothing," the Phantom growled angrily in her face as his grip was hurting her neck.
"She believes the angel is her father, not you, Eric," she gasped out before noise erupted from down the hall. The glare on the Phantom's face left to look confused before he scowled and left Tiffani alone in the hallway. Lexi and the doctor were running down the hall towards Tiffani, who was now sliding down to the floor tentatively holding her neck and coughing.
"I'll kill him," Lexi thought angrily when she saw the black and blue handprints on Tiffani's neck.
"Who did this to her?" the doctor asked in shock before he went to work on helping Tiffani's head and her throat. The music director and the owners were the next group of people to rush to the scene. The music director was in shock and outrage at the extent of her injuries.
"She will not be able to play with those injuries, this fool's actions have caused me to lose my best clarinet player for a while until she is healed," the music director yelled angrily at the owners and Raoul, who had appeared with Christine just then.
"I did not mean her harm," Raoul said and Lexi was the one to glare and get in his face next.
"You shoved her as hard as you could after she saved your life from the Phantom who was about to put a noose around your neck," Lexi yelled before she slapped Raoul. Christine was in shock and fear when she saw the condition of Tiffani's neck. The bruised handprints on her neck made her cling tighter to Raoul.
"I did not put those marks around her neck," Raoul yelled back at Lexi after he was slapped.
"No, but because she saved you the Phantom hurt her while I had to go get the doctor since you and Miss Daae were too busy kissing each other in another part of the opera house instead of getting a doctor like I told you to," Lexi screamed angrily. Another cough and a small whimper from her friend made her leave the couple and rush over to her friend.