OMG You wont believe this but this was my dream, and then At first it seemed so real, then it seemed really funny, now it seems hazy and not stupid, but...very very weird...

it is an alternate ending horray for those pesky things, but it is...different.

RAOUL
I fought so hard
to free you . . .

CHRISTINE
Angel of Music . . .

PHANTOM
You've passed the point
of no return . . .

CHRISTINE
. . . you deceived me -
I gave my mind
blindly . . .

PHANTOM (to CHRISTINE)
You try my patience -
make your choice!

(She reflects for a moment, then with resolution moves
slowly towards the PHANTOM)

CHRISTINE (quietly at first, then with growing
emotion)
Pitiful creature
of darkness . . .
What kind of life
have you known . . .?

God give me courage
to show you
you are not
alone . . .

(Now calmly facing him, she kisses him long and full on
the lips. The embrace lasts a long time. RAOUL watches
in horror and wonder. the two pull away, both smiling.)

CHRISTINE
Should we tell him?

PHANTOM
I would assume that this would be the acurate time yes.

RAOUL
Tell me what?

CHRISTINE
Suprise Raoul!
This was all just an elaborate PRANK!

RAOUL
WHAT?

PHANTOM
Yes, this was a present to you from
your dear good friend Christine.

RAOUL (to CHRISTINE.)
why?

CHRISTINE
Oh, I am not Christine.
My name is Charlotte.

PHANTOM
and I, Erik.

RAOUL
How sick ARE you people?
YOU KILLED FOR A PRANK?

PHANTOM
Oh no, those were actors too...
Come out Joseph, Piangi.

(JOSEPH BOQUET and PIANGI suanter out from
one of the rooms in the PHANTOM'S house.)

JOSEPH
Hey Vicomte.
See, I was paid to go away for awhile,
expericence London, or even THE AMERICA'S!

RAOUL
What about Carlotta and her hatred
towards you Chris... Charlotte?

(CARLOTTA walks out from the room.)

CARLOTTA
You don't think I'm that much of a
horrible cow do you monseuir?
I knew my time was up,
Ubaldo and I were planning a retirement,
and for the hefty contract we signed
for this stunt, we surely will
live like royalty.

RAOUL
I don't understand,
this is all too much,
I feel very faint...

PHANTOM
OH dear, we will have to
cut him loose if he faints,
we cannot have him dead when
Mlle Daae gets here.

CHRISTINE (Charlotte)
Indeed, that would be most unfortunante.

(PHANTOM cuts RAOUL down.)

RAOUL
So your telling me this whole thing
was a carefully thought out prank?
Scam?
Hoax?
One that lasted for almost a WHOLE YEAR?

CHRISTINE (Charlotte)
Yes

RAOUL
Why Christine, why?

CHRISTINE (Charlotte)
I am not Christine,
but an actress who played her in this,
I would say it was becuase of a few
good jokes you played on her as a child.

RAOUL
WHAT?
She went through all this trouble to
get back at me for the ones
we played as CHILDREN?

PHANTOM
Incase you haven't noticed,
Mlle Daae is still a child at heart,
very much so indeed.

CHRISTINE (Charlotte)
Oh yes,
We had a wonderful time
together planning this.

RAOUL
Are you all totally derranged?
INSANE?
This was madness!

CHRISTINE (Charlotte)
Calm down Monsueir,
it was all in fun,
no one was hurt,
you are alive and well,
as well as everyone else.
Now if you would just wait for Mlle Daae.

(Meg comes sauntering down the protcullis.)

CHRISTINE (Charlotte)
AH! Christine!

MEG
Charlotte! How did it go?
oh what I would of done to see his face!

RAOUL
MEG? MEG IS CHRISTINE?

MEG (christine)
RAOUL! It is so good to finally see you.
A girl is not good at a prank?

RAOUL
I said that YEARS AGO!

MEG (Christine)
Making it even more unexpected dont you agree?

RAOUL
what the? I am sooooo confused.

MEG (Christine.)
Let me explain,
When I heard you were to be the
Patron of the Opera and help fund,
I went to the managers, Andre, and Firmin.

(Both the managers come out of the room.)

MEG (Christine.)
They had alway believed in a good joke,
especially on patrons,
so when I told them I knew you as a child,
they could not wait to use that to their advantage.

FIRMIN
Indeed monseiur,
this was our idea of a good prank,
of course, it was mostly Mlle Daae's idea,
however, we gave her the means to carry it out.

ANDRE
With help from you of course.

RAOUL
Are you suggesting, that I supported
and funded my OWN downfall?

FIRMIN
Downfall, no...
butt of a very humerous joke? YES!

RAOUL
But Christine!
what about the angel of music
and the phantom?

PHANTOM
It is easy really,
Charlotte and I were hired on as
the new leads in the Opera Populaire
when Carlotta and Piangi were to
take retirement. When we were told
of a these roles, we could hardly refuse!

RAOUL
But you are horribly disfigured?
how... this is I am so very very...

PHANTOM
You must understand Monseiur,
that make up techinique's for the opera
have greatly improved in the last few years.
This is merely all that it is, make up.

RAOUL
So to re-examine everything,
I am the vitcim of a henious joke,
funded by myself without knowledge,
and none of this is true,
other then the fact that Meg, is Christine...
Which is very odd because I could of sworn
that Charlotte was her...
Infact, Christine, what ever happened
to your singing?

MEG (Christine)
Raoul, I sang,
I wasn't the best singer in the country
even when we were children!
Father talked fo sending the angel of music
becuase I needed help!
I knew he would never come
and took up dance instead...

RAOUL
But what of Madame Giry?

MEG (christine)
I am her Ward,
she is very much an adoptive mother,
are you not Mme Giry?

(Madame Giry enters room from the ajoining one.)

Mme Giry
Indeed child, I am quite fond of you.

RAOUL
I Cannot belive you Christine,
you used to be such a sweetheart as a child,
and now? now look at what you have done,
you have ruined my reputation!
I SHALL INFORM THE POLICE!
and NO ONE WILL EVER VISIT
THIS OPERA AGAIN!

MEG (Christine)
Oh come now Raoul,
You know that if you tell anyone of this,
your reputation will be soiled even more,
infact you of all people should be wanting
to keep this our little secret.

If you tell the police, what are they going
to do?
We have done nothing wrong other then fraud
maybe, for you did not know where your
money was going.

However I think the police would find it
quite amusing that a Vicomte such as yourself
was fooled by lowly little theatre rats.

RAOUL
Oh... how, I cannot... I...

MEG (Christine)
There there Raoul, it has been a hard day,
why don't we all go home and get some rest...

(Everyone except RAOUL agrees and begins
to file out of the lair)

MEG (christine)
Raoul, are you coming?

RAOUL
Christine, I just have to know... Why?

MEG (Christine)
(Sighs) Well Raoul, how about we go
to supper and I explain.

RAOUL
Explain now, supper after.

MEG (Christine)
Alright... (Smiles) You dipped my hair in ink for the last time...

THE END

That was messed eh? Flame, scorn, laugh, hate all you want, I needed to get it out.