I hope you guys are liking the story! I am trying to make it very dramatic and put cliffhangers. So, I hope it's working. Sorry, no one can guess what the song is from last chapter because he will sing it in this chapter! So yeah I hope you guys like it. You know what in going to tell you to do, so you should do it!

~Lauren

OH AND THIS CHAPTER HAS SPOILERS ABOUT "Love Never Dies" (the Phantom sequel)

Chapter 15

For You

Erik paces the floor thinking about Eva. He has been pacing and thinking for the past hour and can't stop mumbling to himself. He now stops and looks over at the organ and sees the sheet music of his song. He grunts and walks forcefully over to the music. He rips it off of the stand and stares at it. "I should rip it." He whispers. "But I can't." He shakes his head. He sits down at his organ and starts to play the piece.

The day starts.

The day ends.

Time crawls by.

Night steals in, pacing the floor.

The moments creep,

Yet I can't bear to sleep,

Till I hear you sing.

Erik gets up out of his seat and decides to sing it a cappella. He starts walking around the room. Just thinking all about her.

And weeks pass,

And months pass.

Seasons fly.

Still you don't walk through the door.

And in a haze, I count the silent days,

Till I hear you sing once more.

He starts to tear up, just thinking. This song brings back so many memories of when he was in Coney Island. But he represses the memory as he continues his song.

And sometimes,

At night times,

I dream that you are there.

But wake holding nothing but the empty air.

And years come.

And years go.

Time runs dry.

Still I ache down to the core.

My broken soul can't be alive and whole,

Till I hear you sing once more.

Erik now has many tears streaming down his face. But he must finish his song. He needs to do this for her. He inhales deeply.

And music, your music,

It teases at my ear.

I turn and it fades away.

And you're not here!

He lets out all his sobs and can't hold it back anymore. This emotion and passion he is feeling is way too strong. This song is as close as he can get to her.

Let hopes pass!

Let dreams pass!

Let them die!

Without you,

What are they for?

I'll always feel no more than halfway real.

Till I hear you sing,

Erik falls down to his knees and peers into the room where he kept all of him mannequins of her. He inhales. This is for you, Christine. He thinks, before finishing his song.

Once more!

His cries echo through his whole lair. He can't stop it. Christine was his one and true love and now show was gone. Never to return. Erik still remembers that night. That night when Meg almost killed herself. She was hanging his son, Gustave, over the edge of a river. She would let him go if they tried to take the gun from her. They were all persuading her to not do anything bad or regretful, and she did eventually stop and let Gustave down. Then that's when the trigger was accidently pulled and the bullet went straight to Christine's stomach. And then… "Grrrr! STOP THINKING THAT! SHE'S GONE! She's gone…" Erik shouts.

He gets up off of the floor and sighs, his crying over. He then puts his hand in his back in his pocket, pulling out the ring. He sighs once again, not knowing what to do. His gut is telling him one thing, but his heart is telling him another. "The ring belongs to Eva, but my heart doesn't." Erik turns around and starts to walk up through the passageway to Eva's mirror.

When he gets to the mirror. He stops for a moment and breathes. "Here it goes." He whispers so soft that even he couldn't hear. Then he slowly slips the mirror open. Eva's head whips to look as she sees Erik emerging from the mirror. She gets up from her chair and meets him at the mirror. His whole body gets through the mirror and they stand, staring. He just holds out the ring, and she takes it. She half smiles. "So you do love me?" Erik doesn't say anything. They keep staring at each other. Neither of them know what to say. He then walks past her and starts to pace behind her. She turns and watches him in wonder.

"You still don't know. Your gut is telling you one thing and your heart is telling you another. Am I wrong?"

Erik stops dead in his tracks when she finishes. "That's exactly right." He says quietly.

Eva half smiles and says, "Erik, I want you to follow your heart. Whether you love me or not, I need us to be friends, and I need your help with our baby." Erik shakes his head.

"But, I can't follow my heart." Eva furrows her brow and meets him where he is standing. Then he leads her bed and they sit down.

"What do you mean?"

He starts to tear up again, but he will not cry. Not anymore.

"She is dead. I can't love her."

"Who?"

"GOD DAMMIT, EVA! You know who I mean! Stop making this harder…stop making me talk about her…" He starts to cry and doesn't hold back. Eva hugs him and rubs his back.

"I-I am so sorry, Erik. I had no idea. I should've stopped talking about her." He shakes his head. "It's fine. I just can't get over her. I want to love you, Eva. But, I just don't feel it right now. I don't even know if I will. But, I still want you to have the ring. It was meant for you." Eva nods. "Thank you. I am okay with you not loving me. All I am asking is that you help me with the baby." He grasps her hands tightly. "I promise, Eva! I promise with all my heart. And I never break promises. I can finally have a child again, and I am not going to ruin it."

Eva furrows her brow. "What do you mean you 'can have a child again'?" He sighs and looks at the floor. "Well, Christine and I made love the night before she got married. And we ended up having a son, which I didn't meet until he was ten years old when they came to America. Then I lost him when Christine died. Her husband took him away from me, and I have never seen him since." Another tear streams down his face.

"I am so sorry. Erik, this must be so much stress on you having to deal with me and then all this trauma! You need to go on a vacation or something like that." Erik shakes his head vigorously. "I could never leave you. The child is due in a few months and I need to stay here." Eva nods. "That is true."

Erik then gets up and says, "I must rest. I am so tired and stressed." Eva nods. He grabs her hand and takes the ring out of the other hand. He slips it on her hand and kisses it before slipping back through the mirror.