hello everyone! i hope you are enjoying the story! this is the wonderful chapter where raoul finally loses it! yeah!!! Raoul in the loony bin! well not literally, but you get my point. i will be leaving on monday for camp and i'll be back next friday, so it might be a while untill i update, so hang tight for a while. i kno i didn't put erik in this chapter, but he is alive and well and he knows that christine is gone, i'll start out the next chptr with him, but for now read and enjoy and don't forget to leave me a review!!!!

the craziest phan alive,

Chapter 5

Solitude

Several weeks had past since the time Raoul had Christine taken away and she had stopped fighting, she had no more strength left. She had no more tears left to shed and she had no more laughter. Her eyes looked glazed and she had stopped eating and had lost a lot of weight from her already thin dancer's frame. Her skin had gone deathly pale and it had seemed she had already died and in a way he had. She had lost her will to live, the absence of the music and her Erik was killing her.

What once was a very alive and vibrant person was now a cold and empty shell; she was stuck inside her own mind, living in silent solitude. The only that kept her alive was the thought that maybe tomorrow Erik would come for her… maybe tomorrow.

Raoul entered her room quietly and gently. Christine sat her window in total silence looking out towards the opera house. She turned and Raoul was met with a totally different person than who he had known before. Where had his beloved Christine gone? All that was left was an empty and hollow skeleton.

She really loves him, he thought and then immediately cast it out of his mind; he just couldn't believe it. This couldn't be happening, he was losing her to him! No she would come around; after he married her everything will be as it was.

"Christine," he said softly, "I have some wonderful news."

She didn't respond she just turned back to her window where she had spent so many hours staring out of.

"We will be married in three days," Raoul continued, "Isn't that wonderful?"

"Raoul…" Christine said barely above a whisper, "If I marry you then you must know it will kill me."

"Nonsense! Those silly games are behind us now!" He said with a hidden glee in his voice, "We will be married in three days time and we will raise a beautiful family with out that horrid creature and the silly distraction of music."

He was too happy, how could he be happy if he kills me? Christine thought.

"Raoul if I walk down that isle I will be walking to my death, why put me though this? "

"Oh come on now!" Raoul was now laughing, "Enough of these silly games we love or I might be forced to play them with you! Here let me try!" He wiped the smile off his face and said sadly, "I cannot marry you, because if I do I might die from fear of commitment!" then he burst out laughing hysterically.

All this enraged Christine, "I cannot marry you, because I do not love you!" she yelled at him shaking in anger; this just make him laugh all the harder and it was no longer the laugh of a you man but that of a lunatic. What was wrong with him had he lost his mind? She was surely beginning to believe it.

"Christine you are mine and mine alone!" He said gruffly.

"NO! I am not yours, I never was and I never will be."

"Stop this right now!" the laughter was gone now replaced with rage. "You will marry me! You will!"

Christine looked into his eyes and saw the madness in them, he would stop at nothing to have her.

"Then if you must kill me, then let me see my friend Meg before we marry. As a wedding present."

This seemed to calm him and he returned to a more dignified state, well as dignified as a lunatic can be.

"Anything you wish my bride," when he said those two words it sent shivers up her spine.

He kissed her thin hand and left the room. As soon as he was gone Christine burst into tears. She could only hope Meg could help her.