All About Us - Phantom of the Opera Love Story

Can you See Me Now?

Clowns are here to let you know where you let your senses go.
Clowns all around you it's a cross I need to bear.
All this black and cruel is fair, this is an emergency
Don't you hide your eyes from me, open them and see me now.

Erik

They have been in Paris only a few hours when Christine decided she wanted to go straight to the Opera house and down to the catacombs. It was true that Erik was afraid of what they both might find there, but he knew the only way that she would at least try and remember is if they went down there. It would be hard on him to actually be down there again after all these lives and all these years. Who knows how his old home looked now. That day Christine was kidnapped from his bed was one of the worst days of his life, well that and the day she saw him dying on the roof. It was a very interesting story actually. Erik had received a letter from Christine a few days later stating that she was trying to return to him but in secret. She wrote that she would meet him on the roof of the Opera House the same day he received this letter. Little did he know, Raoul was there to witness their love on the roof that night and he shot Erik. All he remembers after that was seeing Christine's face one last time before he fell into his long sleep, only to wake up in the year 1940.

Erik walked towards the window of their hotel room and stared into the Parisian skyline and sighed. It seemed so much bleaker, the fog was thick and he could barely see the Eiffel Tower. Erik felt a tap on his shoulder and saw Christine smiling at him.

"I'm ready Monsieur Phantom."

Christine looked beautiful as usual, even if she was wearing jeans, boots, and a thick brown parka. She wore very little makeup, but that was how Erik liked her best.

"Where would you like to go first, mon ange?"

Christine's smile widened, "I want to go to your home first. I feel like that would be the most appropriate."

Erik frowned, "Christine, I want you to know that what you see down there may have changed throughout all of these years."

Christine put her hand on his chest. "I don't care what it looks like, Erik, I want to see."

Erik sighed, "Alright, well, get your scarf, we will go now."

Christine

When the couple got to the Opera House, Christine was in awe. She had seen pictures of it, but never realized how massive it was. Even in the fog, the Opera House was beautiful and shining with the golden statues on top of the roof. Christine was interrupted by a velvety voice next to her.

"Unfortunately, this is not the entrance to my house. We will have to go underground, through the back of the building." Erik held out his hand for Christine to hold, and she accepted.

Erik held Christine by her hand, but also made sure they walked very closely together as they snuck around the building and down a few steps to a door. Erik felt a wave of relief that the lock hadn't changed. Taking out his regular keys, he picked a large rusted key with a skull at the base. He moved a few cobwebs that were blocking the keyhole and slid it in. Christine heard a few loud bangs and then the door creaked open.

When Christine tried to step forward into the darkness, Erik pulled her back, close to him.

"Please, do not hurry. Who knows which of my traps still work and which don't. I would actually prefer if you closed your eyes and held on to me."

"Why?" Christine felt her eyebrows furrow.

"I wouldn't want you to take a wrong step." Erik's eyes didn't leave the stairs that led down, down.