I do not own the Phantom of the Opera. I only own Tiffani and Lexi.

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"Raoul, let's just leave. I can be a star somewhere else. It's not safe here for us, let's just run away from this place," Christine pleaded as she pulled Raoul a small distance away from the group around Tiffani.

"But this is your dream," Raoul said as he placed his hands on Christine's arms.

"My dream is to be with you," Christine said and Raoul just nodded before he and Christine fled the opera house. He would send for Christine's possessions another time. Lexi and the Phantom were the only people who noticed the departure of Christine and Raoul. Lexi looked to a shadowed area to see the Phantom standing there with a furious expression.

"She told you that Christine would leave you," Lexi whispered as everyone walked past the shadowed area. She gave the Phantom a glare before rushing back to the doctor and to the worker that was carrying Tiffani to their room.

"Will her throat heal soon?" the music director was asking the doctor as Lexi and the stage worker helped gently set Tiffani onto her bed and under the covers. The doctor had already wrapped her head. The stage worker took off Tiffani's shoes while Lexi arranged the pillows to make her friend as comfortable as possible.

"She will need to rest her throat for a week at the most before she plays again, which means no practicing and not talking much," the doctor said and Tiffani gave Lexi a frown.

"You'll survive not taking for a week, or maybe you won't," Lexi said and finished with a changed opinion after she thought of how much her friend talks. Tiffani glared at her before smacking Lexi's arm. "You'll be better in no time," she whispered to her friend before assuring the music director that Tiffani would not forget the music and that she would be well enough to play for the first performance in two weeks' time.

After everyone was assured that Tiffani would be fine, they left the room and Lexi was pacing around angrily. "I should kill him for what he did to do you. Mainly I should just kill Raoul for starting all this in the first place. If you hadn't saved him and if he hadn't run off to make out with Christine again instead of getting the doctor then this wouldn't have happened to you," Lexi was saying while ringing her hands as if she wanted to choke Raoul.

"Lexi," Tiffani croaked out and Lexi glared at her.

"Don't you dare talk, you need to get better," Lexi hissed as she walked over to Tiffani and sat beside her on the bed.

"I'll be ok," Tiffani mouthed and smiled at Lexi before she fell asleep.

"I know you will, but a certain Phantom won't be if I get my hands on him," Lexi whispered heatedly as she grabbed the hairpin and a sword she had found earlier that day. She marched over to the room containing the mirror leading to the catacombs. The lock stood no chance to her pickpocket skills and she was soon inside the room lighting a lantern she had also found earlier in a storage room.

"You do not hurt my friend," she growled as she opened the mirror and entered the catacombs with a lantern in one hand and her other hand tightly clutching a freshly sharpened sword. "Oh Phantom, I have something to talk to you about, and if I don't like your answer I'm going to cut your throat. I might just cut your throat anyways," she yelled as she went deeper into the catacombs.

Lexi frowned as she waited for the man she was yelling at to appear. She did not have to wait long as the Phantom did appear before her. He was not holding any weapon that she could see but she would not lose her weariness around him. "You hurt my friend," she growled pointing her sword at the man.

"She stopped me from killing that pathetic boy," the Phantom growled back in return.

"Oh grow up, she told you that Christine would leave you. Christine would never be able to handle you anyways. The one woman that might be able to actually stand you is lying on her bed with your handprint bruised on her neck. Trying to put a noose around my friend is one thing, but actually choking her is another. If Tiffani decides to forgive you when she can talk without cringing in pain, then I might not kill you. However, I warn you now, do not go anywhere near Tiffani if you have any intent to harm or kill her. Neither she nor I have done anything to deserve your wrath. A young girl you have been obsessing over and tricking may have left you, but she never loved you. She never knew who you really were. To her you were just her father's spirit come to guide her in her singing career, but she never knew or cared for the Phantom that was actually pulling her little strings like a puppet," Lexi said seriously, as she stared the man before her down, because he truly was a man and not some all-powerful phantom figure.

"You may scare others, but you do not scare me or my friend. You never will scare us, nor will we ever back down when you challenge us. However, do yourself a favor and release the idea of Christine out of your mind. She is out of your reach and always will be. After you've finally let her go, then I expect you to apologize to Tiffani or so help me I'll find where you live and drag you out of there to apologize to my friend," Lexi said before she eyed the Phantom with disgust before leaving the catacombs and returning to her room where Tiffani was still fast asleep.

"Let's hope that sinks in or next time I'm hurting him," she growled before she rid the lantern of light and set down the sword. She looked sadly at her friend before she went to her own bed. "I've never seen you this hurt," she thought looking at Tiffani, who would cringe at times in her sleep when she moved her neck. Lexi sighed before falling asleep as well.

The week after Raoul and Christine left and Raoul and the Phantom hurt Tiffani, everyday life in the opera house was going smoothly. Tiffani had been on bed rest for two days, but now she was walking around fine and could talk a little bit, but not much. A few glares from Lexi and the music director and she would shut her mouth.

"So bored," Tiffani whispered as she watched Lexi practice and perform beautifully. She was sitting in one of the theater seats that were situated in front of the orchestra area. She was watching Lexi, but playing with the coat covering the dress she was wearing. Buttoning and unbuttoning the buttons on the coat only kept her occupied for so long.

"Alright take a break," the owners yelled and Lexi grabbed a glass of water from a worker before she joined Tiffani in the seats.

"How are you feeling?" Lexi asked after she took a few drinks of the water.

Tiffani just looked at her friend with a small glare before whispering, "I am more bored than I could ever imagine and no one lets me do anything. I cannot even go explore the opera house anymore without a chaperone because everyone is afraid the Phantom is going to try to kill me."

Lexi sighed before giving her friend a sad smile. "It's for the best, anyways you'll be able to talk soon," she said before giving her friend a side hug.

"I know my voice will get better, I just want something to do during the day. I want to explore. I'll carry a dagger if that makes you feel better," Tiffani whispered as she hugged Lexi back.

"Fine, just be careful, and if the Phantom shows up then kick his ass," Lexi whispered as she slipped Tiffani a dagger before making her way back to the stage since practice was over.