The Angel of Music Sings for Me

Chapter 7: Alone for Awhile

Erik's POV

It's been five months, and I'm falling apart without my angel. Giry has been checking up on me every so often, though I don't see the point in her doing so. Sure there was may or may not have been a chandelier crash, during final bows, but that was by pure accident. I was in a blind rage and panic. I also haven't messed with the managers since that night, everyone who doesn't know probably thinks I'm dead.

To appease my mind, I walked to the dressing room, relieved to find it untouched. I replaced the rose from last week, which was now wilting, not suitable for my beautiful flower, with a new one.

As I turned to leave something caught my eye.

A few pages of parchment with the ever familiar handwriting of Miss Rachel Daae. One was a note, the others were written in a poem format. Like lyrics to a song perhaps...

Rachel's POV

I'm so bored here at the De Changy estate. There's nothing to do really. Most of the time I'm either in my room reading or writing more song lyrics from the songs I've heard in the real world, or I've been going to the forest behind the house. I found a clearing there that's really peaceful. I'm here now, I can hear the lake water lapping where I'm sitting, back leaning against the base a large, weeping willow tree. I hope Erik is faring well in all of this. I know he was more heartbroken over me leaving than he had shown. Hopefully he found the notes I left for him. Since I was alone, and bored. I decided to sing what this scenario felt like.

3rd Person POV

Erik unfolded the note she'd left, tearing up as he imagined her writing it or her voice speaking with her angelic voice those words to him.

My Dearest Erik,

I know you're hurting and heartbroken, I am too. I'm feeling the same with us being apart. There won't be anyone else who makes me feel the way you do. I hope that this little piece of me will help until I come back, who knows when. It's just something that I've written that's come to my mind. I trust you'll put these to good use with your music. Again, I miss you. I hope to see you as soon as I possibly can.

Yours
Rachel Daae

Erik was saddened as he read the note. He then flipped through the other two sheets. One titled "Sapphire", which was rather good and made him smile, thinking of the night they officially met. Then the other, it reflected the pain of goodbye. He could hear his angel's voice in his head as she sang both. What he didn't know is that many miles away, she was singing the same song.

"Alone for awhile," Rachel began with a melancholy smile, "I've been searching through the dark.
For traces of the love you left inside my lonely heart.
Do we weave,
By picking up the pieces that remain?
Melodies of Life,
Love's lost refrain..."

Erik was singing as he traveled to the catacombs.
"Our paths they did cross
Though I cannot say just why.
We met, we laughed, we held on fast
And then we said, 'goodbye.'
And who'll hear the echoes
of the stories never told.
Let them ring, out loud,
Till they unfold."

"In my dearest memories
I see you reaching out to me," Rachel sang, getting up from where she was sitting.
"Though you're gone," Erik sang with a tear falling down his unmasked cheek, "I still believe that you can call out my name."

"A voice from the past
Joining yours and mine," they harmonized together, without the other knowing it, "Adding up the layers of harmony.
And so it goes on and on
Melodies of life
To the sky beyond the flying birds
Forever and beyond."

Rachel walked back to the stables of the house and left a note for her sister and Raoul. She hopped on a chestnut horse and rode off back to Paris, towards her angel. Erik stood on the roof, oblivious to what she was doing.