Christine had a choice. Choose freedom and her fiancé, Raoul, would be killed, or choose the Phantom and Raoul would be set free. She chooses the Phantom and sacrifices her life for the person she loves. Since she chose the Phantom she must stay with the him for the rest of her life. Overtime will she fall in love with the Phantom or will she continue to fear him for the monster she was lead to believe he is? I do not The Phantom of the Opera. Those rights belong to Andrew Lloyd Webber. I am simply using his characters and plot to expand the original story.