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Christine looked at him and asked "Really?" Erik nodded and replied "Really, if you two want to I would love to have both of you move in." She said "Yes I would love to. But I want to make sure it is okay with Gustave first." Erik replied "Of course. I would not expect you to make that kind of decision without him." She smiled and asked "Does that mean that this might be more than temporary?"
He smiled and responded "As long as you do not order me away from you then it will be permanent." She laid down and he laid down next to her. She whispered "I will never order you away Erik." He kissed her forehead and whispered "Then I will never have to leave you unless you want me to." She smiled and said softly "I could get used to this." He responded just as softly "Me too."
He stared into his blue eyes with her brown ones and said "I love you Erik." He smiled at the words and replied "I love you too Christine." He asked "When are you leaving for Raoul's funeral in France?" She replied "The day after tomorrow." He asked "Do you know how long you will be gone?" Christine replied "It is a 3 day trip there, we might be there a day and then it is a 3 day trip back. So probably we will be gone a week." Erik felt his muscles tense all over at the thought of her being gone a week. She said "You could always come with us Erik."
He replied "I wish I could Christine. But even though I cannot stand the thought of being away from you that long, I will not be welcome there and cannot stand the thought of getting you mistreated because of me."
Christine said "I wish that you were not right so that I could spend some time with you and Gustave." Erik replied "Me too Christine, me too." She went behind the dressing scree in the corner of the room to change into her night gown and Erik laid down on top of the sheets.
He stared at the ceiling thinking of what Gustave will say about him and his mother moving in with Erik. He hoped that Gustave would accept the offer and Christine and his son would live with him.
Christine came out and said "You do not have to sleep on top of the sheets you know." Erik replied "It would not be proper to sleep under the sheets with you unless we were married." Christine crawled under the sheets and said "We have broken almost every proper rule about what not to do before you are married which would make it pretty much pointless to follow this one."
Erik looked at her smile and replied "I know but it was just the way I was raised. You can thank Antoinette for that." She said "I am glad that she was there for you after your mother abandoned you." He whispered "Me too angel. She is like a mother to me and Meg is like a sister."
Christine replied "Same here." Erik smirked and said "If you think of them as a family does that mean you and I are like siblings. Which would make this creepy if that is true." Christine laughed and replied "No Erik that is not true."
He laughed and kissed her forehead as she laid her head on his chest. As she drifted to sleep Erik wondered how he could have been so lucky as to have gotten a second chance with such an amazing woman and to have a chance at a normal life with a family. He definitely was feeling blessed. He wondered how long it would last before something happened and he would lose it.
That was how his life normally worked when he had something good going for him. He fell asleep himself after not having slept in a while. He woke up early in the morning and knew that he had to get up and prepare the crew and grounds for a show that night. He went out into the kitchen and saw a vase of roses on the counter. He grabbed one and also grabbed her black hair ribbon from the table in the bathroom.
He tied it in a ribbon around the rose and set it down as he wrote his angel a quick note. He left the rose and note on the pillow next to her and disappeared silently out of the house to get the work done. When Christine woke up she found the bed empty and she instantly started to panic that something had happened to Erik.