This is a fan fiction based on the story of The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies. I do not, under any circumstance, own Erik, Gustave, Meg, Madame Giry, or Raoul. I wish I did though...
It's 2 years after young opera sensation Christine Daae was shot and killed, and she left giant scars in her passing. Her ex-lover Erik Destler is devastated, but when he meets Phantasma's newest star, a mysterious beauty named Ariadne, can he find hope? Or will he rely on a criminal to fix his broken heart?
As for Gustave, being a 12 year old with no mother sucks. No one understands the pain, and he feels alone. When Gustave enters the first few stages of depression, he begins to view the world in ways children his age shouldn't. When his only happiness is through music, can he be saved?
Meg Giry killed her best friend. That's not exactly something you can let go. Alas, Meg claims that she is healed, but through receiving the love, pleasure, and attention of others. Yet, will she learn to let down her high walls, and let others in?
Innocent people, victims of an accident. Will they find happiness, or will they forever feel incomplete?
"I have realized... it is better to be alone, Meg. The people I love won't get hurt." He whispered to me and then I saw him. The man I know and love; the man torn between wanting to love and scared of it; the man wanting to feel but runs away from everything that makes him feel because he is afraid of losing it.
"I learned with Christine that I cannot love, Meg. I cannot love anyone...I only hurt them. And no one can love me. Who could?"
"I could." I couldn't believe I just said it. He froze and I just kept talking, afraid the words would stop coming out of my mouth.
"That's where you're wrong, Erik. You've always believed that no one could ever love you, all of you, even with your deformity. And yet, I have loved you since I was seventeen years old. You hid yourself behind the "Phantom of the Opera" but I never saw a Phantom. I saw a man desperate to be loved, to be loved not only for his music but for himself. I thought Christine could be the one to finally show you that love since I was so afraid to do so. But not afraid of you but what I know you would say. Christine chose wrong, Erik. I would've chosen you in a heartbeat... I do choose you."