Chapter 21
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Faye POV
I woke up and I was in a strange place. At least from the looks of it. Once my eyes adjusted it didn't seem that strange. Anymore…what was going on?
Then I remembered…everything.
I tried to hit my head and tell myself this was a dream, but I couldn't.
I was tied by my wrists and my ankles.
I was on a bed, wearing a stunning wedding dress.
I was also gagged.
I flip myself over to see who had done this.
The door opened and it was the man I loved and feared the most.
Erik.
What did he want with me now?
I struggle and he sees this, amused and smiles he ungags me.
"What do you want from me Erik? Why did you bring me here? Where am I?"
I felt like asking him a million different questions. His face remained the same. No expression. Like it was the normal for kidnapping me.
And he doesn't answer any of them.
"Faye you were the one who taught me that if you love something set it free. That doesn't seem to work for me. Once she was gone, I noticed that I couldn't and can't let her go." he said this in such sorrow, but I snapped, he had officially gone insane to kidnap me and tell me this.
"What do you mean Erik? How many times have I told you Christine… is… gone. She married that Count de Chaney or whatever. Get that through your head!" God, I was angry with this man. I wanted to hit him, but unfortunately I was kind of tied up.
It was at that moment, that I realized whenever I'm not around him I know how much I love him, but when he's near me I don't let on the way I feel inside. The love I have to hide.
"Faye, I made a mistake once and I learned from it."
"What mistake Erik?" I asked with irritation.
"It doesn't matter anymore, the point is-"I cut him off…again.
"Erik what-"
"STOP INTERRUPTING ME YOU LITTLE BITCH!" As he slapped me across the face and I couldn't stop it, because of course I was tried up.
I didn't say anything. I thought it better for him to speak. I felt my cheek sting. That actually hurt. But no tears would come. I will not cry in front of Erik.
He untied my wrists and ankles, but I didn't move. Erik came over and put his hand on my bare shoulder and said pleadingly
"I made a mistake once with the woman I loved so dearly, that I never letting it happen again."
Oh, god get your hand off of me, I can't stand that wave of passion you've created inside of me.
Remember stay strong.
I take a deep breath to resist and remember I was angry.
"Well, is that really why you dragged me back to wherever we are is to tell me you still love Christine? Really Erik if that's all you wanted I'm going to leave now…"
I get up so fast and head straight for the door. But Erik ran in front of me just as I was reaching for the knob. He looked at me straight in the eyes and said
"What I'm trying to say is Faye, is that you can't leave."
"What? Why not?" I was so confused. I hoped that I misunderstood him.
"This time I'm going to be the one who gets the happy ending." He grinned menacingly.
"Erik, get this through your mind I am not…" I roll my eyes; please I couldn't bear to do this all over again. Just let me go. I'm not what you want. Why are you torturing me? Why must you do this to me?
"Whatever you try to say or do won't change my mind. You will stay here with me until you come to your senses. AND you will love me because you know you do. I KNOW, you do. I KNOW YOU."
He grabbed my arm and brings me close to him as I reluctantly look up
"Don't even try that on me, I know your dreams and desires."
Good god, what is he saying? My mind was spinning from his touch.
"Erik, what I "desire" is for you to let me out of here and come to MY senses? What are you talking about? Ugh! Erik I don't have time for this just let me go and we will go our separate ways and go on with our pathetic lives and never see each other again."
I said this so quickly, I didn't even have to think.
"No, my love, we must get ready for the wedding. This time this wedding will go as planned, unlike the last time." he growled.
I push away and go to the other side of the room.
"Oh my god Erik! You are just trying to believe I am Christine and this whole thing that's going through your mind is so "revenge" on those two. GET THIS THROUGH YOUR BRILLANT MIND!"
I come over to him look at him directly in the eyes and yell
"I AM NOT CHRISTINE! I don't know what's going on with you! Madame Giry said you would never get over her!"
"To hell what Giry said! Faye, my darling Faye. Don't you see? It was fate that brought you here."
"YOU brought me here!" I was fuming.
"FAYE! WHY ARE YOU BEING SO DIFFICULT?" He shouts at me as I run from him into another room.
"ME?WHAT ABOUT YOU? YOU ARE THE ONE WHO KIDNAPPED ME? I'M THE ONE BEING DIFFICLULT?" I try not to show fear, but my voice betrayed me. I was trapped.
"GOD FAYE!" He grabbed me so harshly my body is shoved against the well. I screamed. He covered my mouth.
STOP IT! FAYE STOP! His cold eyes staring into my own innocent ones. He slammed me into the wall at every stop. I stopped screaming but I begun to cry. He studied my face and he held me there for the longest time. If he didn't see the fear in my eyes I swear I think he was insane. He was breathing as heavily as I was. He held me so high that my feet where above the floor. For he raised me to his height to look me straight in the eyes. Then I was too scared and frightened to make eye contact with him any longer. He wouldn't, would he? Before I could scream out again in fear he surprised me when
He began to sing.
How do they know of beauty?
Up there, is darkness
up there, insane
Will you live in chaos?
With the bitter and the plain?
Why dwell in shadows?
Here the light has shone
We'll leave the world to its madness
He brings me to him, I am too weak to resist. This song had a power over me I couldn't even try.
We can live in bliss, alone
Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone
Perfect music will go on and on
Mine is the gift I'll make you see
All you must do is sing only for me
Singing together and in love
Perfect music leads to perfect love
I am perfect spirit, imperfect man
He removes his mask and has me look upon that stunning face that held me spellbound when I first met him that night after the opera had set on fire. That felt so long ago…oh good lord. And his hands moving around me I couldn't breathe and he knew it too.
You could learn to love me as I swear I truly am!
I know your terror, I feel your pain
I saw your soul through the mirror
And I saw that we're the same!
Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone
Perfect music will go on and on and on
I've always loved you, I'll never leave
You will never hunger, you'll never grieve
Living forever and in love;
Perfect music, perfect love
He brings me down onto the floor and he hovers over me. His eyes never leave my own.
Forever tender, forever dear
He caresses my figure. Surveying it with his perfect hands. Oh god, take me before I perish, Erik! I thought.
Forever faithful, forever here!
Hands roaming all over me. I give no resistance. There is bliss I waited. I waited for the flames to consume us.
He lets go of me for an instant. I see him points to himself and then to me.
I'm always passion, you're always fire
His face closes into my chest and follows to my own face and is barely an inch from my face.
I'll always be your fulfillment
And you'll always be my desire!
Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone
Perfect music will go on and on and on...
Always together, and in love
Perfect music, perfect love!
Living forever and in love;
Perfect music, perfect love...
He held me there which felt like forever. In those moments I felt the music and its meaning screaming, flowing through my veins. Heaven help me, I was past the point of no return. All I wanted to do is have the flames consume us. I was tired of denying, tired of pretending, tired of trying to forget the feeling of something I knew I couldn't and shouldn't deny.
"You can't escape. I know you too well. I've made sure of that." His grip on me slackens and he leaves and locks the door, ceremoniously.
Leaving me alone on the floor and sobbing uncontrollably. What the hell just happened? What did I do to get all mixed up in this? Reality had come back to me the moment his touch left me.
What the hell Erik? I thought. Why do you want me here? To you all you see when you look at me, I'm Christine. I'm no Christine, I'm Faye. You used me in ways I can't describe. Now all you see yourself doing is marrying Christine! My god, if I ever met that woman I swear I would tear her limb from limb! This was all her fault, straight from the beginning. I would have never been in this situation.
But yet Erik came back for me. ME! No one ever came back for me except Dior who loved me as her own daughter. What did that say about Erik? I don't know. He's always been there. Always…
I don't know what to do. There's only one thing I can do right now. And that's hope. Hope that he really loves me…because if he did…I don't know anymore. All I can picture is him, right there. And I begging him…oh god Erik listen to me now… I need to know…
There only so much
That a heart can take
Before it starts to break
Please don't make me love you
Please don't make me need you
I've no room in my life
For something like this
Please don't take my mornings
Please don't steal my summers
I know they will vanish
The moment we kiss
I grow weak when we talk
I'm confused when we touch
I should just walk away
But that's asking too much
Pease don't make me do this
Please don't make me want this
All my drams were taken
Until I met you
You're the one I think of
Soon as I awaken
Funny how the heart tells
The mind what to do
I'm not sure I can go through all
The joy and the pain
Much better now
To let these dreams take flight!
Please don't make me love you
Please don't make me need you
Simplify my life
By just setting me free
Promise me you'll do this
Only you can do this
Please don't make me love you
Unless you love me…
I stumble towards the bed, and I cry. I cry until I fall asleep. Hoping, dreaming that this nightmare will go away…yet I wish to stay and hope for him. Shall I become his prey to his oozing, sinister charm? Or escape this situation and get away and forget that this ever happened? I don't know anything anymore.
Unless he loved me…
Perfect music, Perfect Love: Rosen and Schierhorn's The Phantom of the Opera
Please Don't Make Me Love You: The musical Dracula
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