Say You Love Me (Phantom of the Opera Fanfiction)

Beneath a Moonless Sky

Heyy, so I am going to let you guys know that I will be using songs from Love Never Dies, so I would suggest listening to the songs from this chapter. Any how thanks for reading and voting, I am incredibly thankful for my readers!!



Eriks POV

The plan was folding out perfectly, Christine would soon be here and after ten long years, she would finally be mine, I know it will.



Ten long years
Living a mere facade of life
Ten long years
Wasting my time on smoke and noise

In my mind
I hear melodies pure and unearthly
But I find
I can't give them a voice without you

My Christine, my Christine
Lost and gone, lost and gone

The day starts
The day ends
Time crawls by

Night steals in pacing the floor
The moments creep
Yet I can't bear to sleep
'Til I hear you sing

And weeks pass
And months pass
Seasons fly

Still you don't walk through the door
And in a haze
I count the silent days
'Til I hear you sing once more

And sometimes at night time
I dream that you are there
But wake holding nothing
But the empty air

And years come
And years go
Time runs dry

Still I ache down to the core
My broken soul
Can't be alive and whole
'Til I hear you sing once more

And music, your music
It teases at my ear
I turn and it fades away
And you're not here

Without you, what are they for?
I'll always feel
No more than halfway real
'Til I hear you sing once more

Three Months Later

Christine's POV

" Come on Gustave, we need to make in onto the boat," I say while grabbing my son's hand and motioning him to the boat. Raoul was standing on the boat's deck telling us to hurry up. Gustave ran up to me and we made it onto the boat right before it left the dock. We were lead onto the boat's sleeping quarters and I slept unprepared of what would happen when we arrived in New York. Gustave snuggled into my arms as I drifted into a beautiful sleep.

Christine

Christine

I swear I heard him sing and I abruptly woke up, but only saw Raoul, motioning to the bathroom so that I could get ready. Once we were docked I could hear people talking and pictures being taken. I walked a head of Raoul and Gustave and told them to wait behind until things died down a little so that my son would not get frightened. I walked out onto the dock and I could hear multiple people yelling at me to get my attention.

' Miss Daae, why come to America?'

' Why go sing for Eric Destler?'

' Sing something for us?'

' Is it true that you and the Vitcome Changy are remarried?'

Before I could answer anything, Raoul came up and wrapped his hand around my waist to comfort me. " Miss Daae will not answer any questions," he said and tried to walk away but before he could a photographer yelled at him, " Why do you get to answer for her, she is not your wife." Raoul, spun around and yelled at the man, " Why does it matter, that child is ours and we are in love." That shut the guy up. A carriage suddenly appeared and a the man driving it came up and walk over to us. " Miss Daae and The Vitcome de Changy, Mr. Destler is waiting for you at the hotel." I shakily walked over to the carriage and got it, and helped Gustave into the carriage.

After the ten minute drive we had arrived and I felt as though I was going to throw up . I still had no idea that I was doing this, neither did Raoul, but we needed the money and I needed to get away from Paris. I was pulled out of my trance, and Raoul was motioning for me to go into the hotel. After we arrived in the room and Raoul, excused himself to go have his typical nightly drink, he had gotten into an alcohol problem as soon as he found out I was going back to Erik, he thought it was going to destroy me emotionally and physically. I had lied to Raoul all of these years, having him believe that I loved him. " Come on Gustave, its time for bed," I say leading him into the bedroom. After putting him to sleep, I sat down at the piano and started at the sheet music laying on the stand. I gasped at what he was having me sing. All of a sudden the door open and in he walks in. I look at him and instantly get up and run away from him.

I should have known that you'd be here
I should have known it all along
This whole arrangement bears your stamp
You're in each measure of that song
How dare you try and claim me now?
How dare you come invade my life?

Oh, Christine, my Christine
In that time when the world thought me dead
My Christine, on that night just before you were wed
Ah, Christine, you came and found where I hid
Don't you deny that you did
That long ago night

That night

Once there was a night beneath a moonless sky
Too dark to see a thing, too dark to even try
I stole to your side to tell you I must go
I couldn't see your face but sensed you even so

And I touched you
And I felt you
And I heard those ravishing refrains
The music of the pulse
The singing in your veins

And I held you
And I touched you
And embraced you
And I felt you

And with every breath and every sigh
I felt no longer scared
I felt no longer shy
At last our feelings bared
Beneath a moonless sky

And blind in the dark, as soul gazed into soul
I looked into your heart and saw you pure and whole
Cloaked under the night with nothing to suppress
A woman and a man, no more and yet no less

And I kissed you
And caressed you
And the world around us fell away
We said things in the dark
We never dared to say

And I caught you
And I kissed you
And I took you
And I begged you

With a need too urgent to deny
And nothing mattered then
Except for you and I
Again and then again
Beneath a moonless sky

And when it was done before the sun could rise
Ashamed of what I was, afraid to see your eyes
I stood while you slept and whispered a goodbye
And slipped into the dark beneath a moonless sky

And I loved you
Yes, I loved you
I'd have followed anywhere you led
I woke to swear my love
And found you gone instead

And I loved you
How I loved you
And I left you
And I loved you

And I had to, both of us knew why
We both knew why
And yet I won't regret
From now until I die
The night I can't forget
Beneath a moonless sky

And now
How can you talk of now?
For us, there is no now

He let go of me and I fell to the ground. " Don't say that Christine, please, the last seven years were a living hell, I couldn't bear living without you, and our child dying. Don't say that you still don't care about me anymore, I know you don't love that man that is your so called husband," he says while helping me up and cupping my face, looking me dead in the eyes. Before I could say anything, his lips smashed on mine. I could not bear to not kiss him so I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him into me. I opened my mouth and he immediately took advantage of it and his tongue explored every inch of mouth. The kiss felt like my heart had been stopped and now it was beating. The kiss was broken off by the sound of a door opening and closing and footsteps. ' Oh God no, not now,' I thought. Before I could save myself, in walks Gustave.

" Mother, please help me, I am scared," he says crying and walking over to me. " Ssh, its alright my dear, I am here and everything will be alright. Head back into your room and I will be in there in a moment, I have to talk to a friend," I tell him and he nods and runs back into the room. I turn around and Erik looks at me with a questioning glare.

How could you think I wouldn't guess?
What do you mean?
How could you think I wouldn't know?
Oh, no

Do you have something to confess?
Please don't make me
I want the truth right now, if so

Once upon another time
You went off and left me alone
But that's not all you did
You left me with a son

He looks at me and then runs out onto the balcony. " I didn't know what to do Erik, I was only nineteen, barely and adult, I didn't want to be caught in a dramatic mess," I say begging him to forgive me. " That doesn't mean that you just get to walk away with my child and leave me heartbroken and abandoned," he says spitting at me. I reach at my necklace and I pull on the chain. " Erik, I was heartbroken too, because of you and her," I say, " but I still love you to this very day," and I pull on the chain and he looks to see the wedding ring on the end of the chain.

His hands cup my face and he kisses me passionately, and my heart feels such joy and happiness than I have ever felt. When the kiss ends he smiles at me, " Christine, tomorrow at seven a.m meet me backstage of my theatre, I have something to tell you," he tells me and then kisses my head before leaving.