After dismissing myself from Cecelia and Gustave's presence I went to the bar I knew Raoul would be attending
I found him moping at the bar, a drink in hand and a perplexed look on his face. He moved on to mutter and question why Christine loved him. A short while later he demanded another drink.
He asked me what to do and I simply ignored him as Meg Giry stumbled in demanding black coffee. She told him how she would leave the hurt behind and I drowned out the conversation. They argued a moment before Meg strode out. Finally it was just Raoul and me.
"He's just another circus freak!" Raoul mutters. I spin around looking him in the face, insulted but the old wound he just dug into. He pales murmuring, "No, it can't be."
"Not afraid of me, you say?" I jab, recalling a bit of their earlier conversation.
"S-stay back or I'll kill you I promise you." He blubbers, stepping away from me. "You can't have her. She's my wife."
"I could care less about the traitor you call your wife. What I want is far more beautiful than her." I say as Raoul's eyes widen in understanding. "Look at you, deep in debt, stinking drunk, how pitiful. Shall we make a bet, Devil take the hindmost."
"Look at yourself. Foul as sin, hideous and horrible. Draw the stakes, deal me in, Devil take the Hindmost."
"Christine shall choose tonight, if she sings you lose and Cecelia will remain with me in Phantasma and you will leave, disappear and take your wife with you."
"What if she doesn't sing and I win?" He countered, taking a shaky step forward.
"All your debts will be wiped away."
His eye glinted at the thought, his greed swimming behind his eyes like sharks in water. "Very well, let's begin." He grins, "I won her long ago, I will win her again."
"You stole her long ago!" I boom, my rage for him burning hotly. "Christine will choose tonight. We will see who truly holds Christine's heart. If she sings you and her will leave together and Cecelia will remain here, with me."
Raoul fumed, stomping towards the door. "I'll win, Christine and Cecelia."
"I'd like to see you try." I whisper to the empty bar.
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Through Music We Love
FanfictionIt's been ten years since the Opera Populaire was destroyed. Cecilia has been chained to Christine and Raoul since they took her away. Yet when Christine is called to America and she brings her husband, Raoul, Cecilia, and her son, Gustave along for...
