Authors note: OK so I know it has been ages since I posted anything. My laptop has been acting wonkey. Anyway this chapter will be fluffy and also suspenseful. Kisses and rainbows to all of my lovely readers. Please review.
We stayed locked in each others embrace for ages. Finally Erik spoke breaking the peaceful silence that had fallen over us. "Christine, can I ask you something?" He asked tentatively. "Of course you can you can ask me anything." He seemed hesitant. "Did you tell the vicompt where you were going?" I thought back to the conversation I had with Raoul this morning. "No I didn't, why do you ask?" I knew I sounded worried. "I just wanted to know. If he knew where you went he would no doubt be coming after you." He said with a small smile. I knew he felt a small piece of victory in me choosing him over Raoul. "Erik can I ask you something?" I don't know why I was so nervous to ask him something he would never harm me. "Of course Christine ask what ever you want and I will answer you the best I can. "How did you survive? There were so many people coming down here to kill you but here you are." He let oout a small laugh. "Christine I have loved down here for so long did you honestly think I wouldn't have a hiding place in case someone came after me." I smiled of course he would. "That actually doesn't surprise me." I said with a laugh. That was something I hadn't done in a while I had been so stressed over Don Juan and Raoul. Erik smiled at me with a warm expression showing on the exposed side of his face. "What is it?" I ask curiously. "You haven't laughed in a while, I have missed it almost as much as hearing you sing." He said. I had missed singing with him as well. His angelic voice correcting me when I did something wrong or singing along with me. "Say you want me with you here beside you." He caught on and began to sing with me. "Say the word and I will follow you." Saying these words with Erik felt so much different than singing them with Raoul. "Love me that's all I ask of you." As I sang the last verse Erik brought his face close to mine. "Always." He said before bringing his lips down on mine. It wasn't the same as the kiss we shared last night which was full of too many emotions to count, no this one was soft and full of love. It lasted until a voice shattered the quite surrounding us. "Step away from her you monster!" I heard Raoul shout as he came out of the shadows on the edge of the lake. "Christine thank goodness I found you." Raoul started to come closer to us. Erik tightened his arm that was around my waist bringing me slightly behind him. "Raoul what are you doing here?" I asked nervously, I thought I would never see him again after this morning. "To bring you back Christine if you haven't forgotten we are getting married tomorrow." He said rather coldly scowling at Erik. "Raoul I'm not marring you I told you that this morning." He looked full on furious now. "You this is all your fault." He said pulling out a gun and pointing it at Erik's chest. "she loved me until you got in her head again. Well if I cant have her no one can." I jumped in front of Erik as he pulled the trigger. The last thing I felt was a horrible pain rip through my side, then everything went dark.
