Starting Over

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Erik's point of view🌹

I was kissing Trixie, when i heard someone enter the lair.


"Ew, guys." My son called.


She, in a very un-ladylike fashion, flipped him off.

I chuckled.


"Well, what were we to do here?" I asked, trying to de-fuzz my head.

"Oh! Andre and Firmin, they wanted us to re-intact some of your stunts, for publicity. Twelve years has really killed things." Trixie stated, matter-of-factually.


"Well," I said, hypnotically. "Let's give them the show of a life time!"

And so we headed out.


I ran up to box five, and smiled at the state it was in. Not touched, exactly as I had left it.


On my cue, my signature quintuplet of notes erupted from an organ.

The hall fell silent.


"Why so silent, great messieurs?

Did you think that I had left you for good?

Have you missed me good messieurs?

I have returned with a vengeance!"


I saw poor Andre faint, and chuckled.

An evil laugh echoed through the hall, and people ran, screaming.


One small girl, a ballet rat, looked up. She looked straight at me.

I gasped at the face.

She looked exactly like Meg.


"He's there, the phantom of the opera!" The small girl sang out.

I was taken aback by her voice. So strong, so whole. She was but five years old!


Trixie walked into the hall at that moment.

"Juliet! What ever is the matter?" She scolded, lovingly.

"Pattie, Pattie! He's there!" She cried, seeming terrified.

"Julie, you must have been dreaming! 

He left this place, long ago! 

Julie, you seem quite excited,

But It's not the same!" Trixie sang out, twisting that long-ago song.


Juliet crumpled up, and fell at Trixie's feet.

"There, there, Julie. Auntie Pattie's got ya." She said, as she scooped her up.

"Poor kid, misses her mother. To be honest, we all do." She said, thoughtfully.

"If only I had gotten there in time..." She muttered.


"Patricia, let's go freak out the owners." I called down to her from my box.

"Oh! Erik!" She squealed when I dropped down in front of her.

I chuckled, then grabbed her free hand, and we walked to the office.




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