Erik smiled at him reassuringly and replied "Yes, Gustave I am okay with it as long as you are." Gustave smiled at him as he went and hugged him. Erik hugged him back and whispered "Thank you Gustave." Gustave nodded and whispered back "You are welcome dad. I thought that this way I could show you that I know your my real father and that I care for you." Erik smiled and nodded as he said "It does Gustave and I will put this picture above my piano." Gustave asked "Why there?" Erik smiled at him sincerely and replied "Because my piano means a lot to me and this picture means more so I will hang it above it." Gustave asked "Why there?" Erik smiled at him sincerely and replied "Because my piano means a lot to me and this picture means more so I will hang it above it." Gustave smiled and said "Thank you dad." Erik asked "Why are you thanking me?" Gustave looked down sheepishly and replied "Because Raoul never appreciated my drawings." Erik felt a sudden rush of anger down his spine and asked "He never appreciated them how?" Gustave replied "He just asked me things like why did I include certain objects and then when I would help take out the trash I always saw my drawings for Raoul in there." Erik asked "So why would you draw me one?" Gustave smiled and replied "Because I trusted that you would not throw it out. And also because you are my real dad so I figured that maybe you would care." Erik looked at him and said "I do care and always will." Gustave smiled brightly at that and asked "Father, where is mother?" Erik replied "She is still with Emory and Sarah." Gustave asked "Why are you not with them anymore?" Erik replied "Raoul's parents and I do not really getting along very well and I left before my temper could get the best of me and I would say something that would hurt your mother's feelings." Gustave nodded and said "They are not very fun people to be around." Erik replied "It wasn't just that. It was the fact that they did not like how I felt about your mother or how I felt about their son." Gustave looked at him with understanding and said "They had a fit when I told them that I hated wearing fancy clothes." Erik replied "I can see that they would. But I think that if they truly cared about you then they would care about you regardless of what clothes you are wearing." Gustave said "Thank you father." Erik nodded and asked "Would you like to go back to where you are staying?" Gustave nodded and replied "Yes please, but will you stay there until mother comes?" Erik said "Okay. Of course Gustave I will not leave your side for one second." Erik stood up from the table and Gustave followed. It was then that Madame Giry and Meg walked in. Madame Giry asked "Are you guys leaving?" Erik replied "Yes, I am taking him back to his and Christine's room and stay with him until she finishes her meeting with Monsieur and Madame De Chagny." Madame Giry said "Okay." She smiled at him before walking back into the kitchen. Meg smiled at him and replied "See you soon Erik. Bye Gustave." Gustave smiled and went over and hugged her. Erik smiled at them and walked over to his son. He said "See you soon Meg." As Gustave turned and went for the door Erik hugged Meg and softly told her "Thank you for being such a great friend and I am truly very sorry that I never realized it before." Meg replied "You are very welcome Erik and it is okay. I see the way you look at Christine and Gustave and the way they look at you and it would have been wrong for me to have taken you away from them." They pulled apart and smiled at each other before Erik turned and went to the door where Gustave was waiting for him patiently. They stepped out the door and turned to the direction of where they were heading. They started walking to the room in which Gustave and Christine were staying. They were getting closer to the room when there was a shrill shriek from next to him. Erik instantly tensed and moved towards Gustave protectively looking around for where the noise was coming from. He stared at Raoul's mother as she marched towards the two of them looking very angry and sort of like an angry Chihuahua. Gustave whispered quietly so only Erik heard him "That woman scares me." Erik whispered back "I know. She reminds me of one of those little dogs who get so angry they try to chew your legs from your ankles to your knees." Gustave giggled as Sarah continued to march angrily towards them with Christine and Emory running behind her trying to catch up with her. Sarah arrived at the two and glared at Erik and Erik stepped in front of Gustave protectively. Sarah shrieked at him angrily "What do you think you are doing going anywhere near that little boy?"