Very loosely based around the proposal scene from Kay. Erik asks Christine for a marriage of convenience until his impending death, but things gradually unfold rather differently than expected.

Through heartbreak and trial, Christine must learn to trust and grow under the guidance of a sinister and deadly guardian.

Christine, fed up with her every day life, her basic and bland relationship, and distraught over the recent loss of her father, turns to an unexpected place for comfort and uncovers a side of herself that she never knew was there. HIATUS: NOT DEAD JUST LIMPING

Christine struggles with hysteria and depression, losing herself in a 7 year marriage to the Vicomte. Having twins girls; one bearing a birthmark on half of her face, the three travel to Lourmarin, as Raoul's family will not accept this child. It is there where Christine will find healing, and falls desperately into the arms of a mysterious and powerful man with half a marred face.

I turned the scorpion and promised to become his Living Wife.

In a modern-day AU, where France has fallen to a dystopian dictatorship, Erik is gifted a bride. He was the most feared shadow in Paris; the chief architect, spymaster and ruler of 'The House of Ghosts'...and then he heard her sing. E/C

Nothing happens in Christine's Daaé's sleepy town, so when a mysterious record shopkeeper sets up wares in her middle of nowhere, his strange disfigurement becomes visible to all, but only when she looks at him. On the quest for answers, they will learn how twists of fate like to play wicked tricks on both voices and faces. Weird niche supernatural 60's AU. Rating (did) change.

When 21-year old Erik Devereux lets Nate Khan drag him to a karaoke bar to celebrate a week of abstinence, the last thing he expects is a voice that gives him a euphoria like no drug he's ever tried before. He's addicted, but there's a lot he doesn't know about Christine Daae - not yet. A modern day AU following EC as they fall in and out of each other's lives, and in again.

Before the whole Angel of Music fiasco started, Mamma Valérius falls ill, and a desperate Christine looks for help in the only friend she has, The Voice in her dressing room. He offers his help, and in exchange, she promises to give him the only thing he has ever wished for: a living wife. Purely Leroux-based. Rating may change.

Think of this as Down Once More: the extended, modern-day, jet set remix. Gunshot wounds, fast cars, first class flights, FBI in pursuit - but it's the quiet moments, the conversations, that leave Christine shaken. Hurtling towards her inevitable decision. COMPLETE.

In the wake of the 1892 fire at the Metropolitan Opera, an arrangement born of practicality and ambition may become far more than Erik or Christine expected. E/C.

When a canoeing mishap leaves Christine stranded, she's forced into the wilderness for help—only to find a haunting stranger who does not want to be found. COMPLETE.

Modern-day setting. Returning to her university town in the northern USA, Christine Daae meets two very different, intriguing men. R/C, E/C, angst, drama, romance, mystery. WIP.

Christine steps into a ghost story when an impromptu séance raises the spirit of a long-dead musician, enigmatic and alluring. An old house, an attic mirror, a gramophone, and a childhood sweetheart also star. 1920s AU.

In the 1880s, Christine and her father move to Paris for a fresh beginning that is not as joyful as it first seems. When the truth of her new circumstances starts to unravel, only one man can help her. E/C. Kay/ALW-verse. Will eventually be rated M. COMPLETED.

Life can be painful and cruel and unfair, sometimes to the point where death seems like the only option. Until now. Let Second Chances Incorporated give you a second chance. Modern AU. Light sci-fi. Second Chances Incorporated. If only it were really that simple…Complete except for possible epilogue.

The Internet; the anonymous medium. What better mask for a reclusive genius? Will a certain gifted barista draw him out of hiding? Erik/Christine. Updated and Complete (cover art by Ilustrariane)

She stood, alive, a believer still, and Erik lived too, a Lazarus of flesh and blood. If Lazarus had sung praises to the Lord, Erik had only ever shown such devotion to her. No one should know such love, she thought, twisted into impurity. Christine chooses the scorpion. Leroux.

Vicomtesse Christine de Chagny is frantic to cure her "modern illness". In desperation, she seeks out an unusual doctor, one who doesn't advertise and hides away from the world. Victorian doctor/female hysteria AU

Erik becomes sick with the flu and Christine takes care of him. Trying to keep it strictly Leroux, will be several chapters.

A scorpion and a grasshopper. A choice. One moment in time can change the course of life. Can Christine learn to love? Can Erik learn empathy? Can either of them ever forgive themselves or each other? Tuesday/Thursday.

Deformed boy meets cynical girl. Not exactly love at first sight, but no one ever said that the road to happiness didn't conceal a few sharp stones. A modern tale of second chances. A story of friends, lovers and music, with a little of the Bard thrown in for good measure.

There was no kiss that night below the Opéra, only a binding promise between two broken souls. Christine chose to spend a lifetime with Erik and must now get used to her confinement underground. She can only hope that she is strong enough to save them both, and to stop them from slipping deeper into the darker recesses of their minds. Leroux/Kay based. Complete.

Life is a ticking time bomb, and those living under its oppression become desperate to hold onto those they love. One-shot.

It's her first masked ball at the Opera, and it may very well be her last when she accidentally acquires one of the Opera Ghost's personal effects. Leroux-ish, post-canon, E/OC. COMPLETE.

Christine struggles to understand the workings of her husband's mind. One-shot.

Kintsugi - the art of repairing the broken with gold. Her passion was fading, her greatest talent hidden even from herself. His humanity lost, his spirit broken long ago. In the hulk of an abandoned opera house, the art of restoration begins. M for Erik's past. E/C. Very dark in places so that light can shine on others. COMPLETE

"Erik," he said to her. "I am Erik. I am no Angel and we both know it. You will call me Erik and you will understand that with this decision you will be binding yourself to me irrevocably. Think it through, Christine de Changy. If you say yes you are mine forever." Dark Erik, disturbed Christine.

Follows the events of POTO. Erik is the architect of his own destiny - or so he thinks. Will Christine breach his defenses? Will the enemies who wish to destroy him succeed? Completed story.

Prior to the events of Leroux's original novel, Christine's adopted benefactor passes away sooner than expected. Fearing the fate that threatens a simple chorus girl in her position, this poor young woman turns to the only one she has left...and the equally fallen Angel Of Music is all too keen to embrace her. COMPLETE.

Immediately after the musical, Christine struggles with moving on. When she finally decides to start making choices for herself, her life and that of her Opera Ghost will collide once again. Post-canon. E/C. Sloooow burn. Eventually, will be rated M. COMPLETE.

In 1980 Soviet Russia, renowned opera singer Christine Daaé is dismayed when her husband Erik, a discharged KGB spy, returns from war shattered beyond repair. In their world of tragic love and dauntless devotion, where all is so easily torn apart, these fragile and lost souls must learn each other once more before it is too late. —A tale of love, loss and healing. EC.

Christine Daaé has spent eight months imagining what she might say to the Opera Ghost if she ever saw him again. Now he is here in her flat, quite by accident, and the fact of the matter is she can no longer speak. COMPLETE.

The fates have conspired to separate Erik from his love at his time of greatest need—and by gods, he will finally have her if it kills him. An E/OC "bonus scene" from By Starlight consisting entirely of sweet, obscure, lemony fluff.

It's summer festival season and PHANTOM is the biggest hard rock band on Earth. Mystery surrounds the anonymous lead singer who writes every song but performs onstage only in silhouette. His temper is legendary and dangerous; his demands are impossible - and as the story always goes, he's about to meet a soprano who will bring him to his knees. All kinds of AU… and yet. Leroux/ALW

There was nothing left to her but questions and a short note. How could she ever be satisfied with that?

A thoughtful Christine reflects on what she's learned from marriage and about the man she loves. In part 2, Erik reflects as well. Short, E/C, complete.

Erik has kept Christine in his house underground for two months, conflicted between desire and fear, not daring to touch her and yet unwilling to release her. But then she escapes…and Erik's pursuit has interesting, if entirely unforeseen, consequences.

Two unlikely people forge an alliance and a tentative friendship in the dark days of the Paris Commune. A young ballerina is saved from a horrible fate by a deformed recluse deep in the bowels of the Paris Opera House. Together they overcome the deprivations of war, and Louise must learn to understand the paradox that is Erik. Begins ten years before the events in Leroux's book.

Futuristic AU. Unemployment is high, the streets are violent, and the people are beginning to panic. Trapped in a cult-like community, Christine only knows that the Spirit keeps her safe from the madness on the inside and the outside. But when the son of a Senator reenters her life, she will discover just how much power the Spirit has over her—and the entire country. Complete.

Erik Reauchard travels to a small town in the U.S. to search for a killer, and finds Christine Daae instead. When dangerous forces coalesce around them, can he keep her safe? Modern. Leroux's Erik, but with hints of Kay and ALW.

The opportunities for growth always came at a painful cost. Anathema sequel.

Supernatural. Modern. It's been with him since birth. Always slithering in his veins and mind…in every horrific decision he's made and every action he's taken. Yet just as he's determined to be free of it, she comes along. And perhaps then there was no saving either of them. Because what chance did a fragile girl and an unhinged deformed man have against pure evil? COMPLETE

Christine bandages Erik's face after he uses her hands to scratch himself. Characters are not mine.

Christine Daae is a girl poised on the cusp of womanhood, when a stranger moves into the house next door and her life is changed forever.

Modern. With her father ill and her husband severely injured in a car accident, Christine desperately turns to a darker source for hope. Once she begins to discover a new side to herself, there is no turning back. And, by the time she quits lying to herself, an inevitably tragic choice awaits her. Rewritten and completed as of December 2013.

Seven 100-word dabbles from Erik's point of view. A brief glimpse into a tortured heart that could hold the whole world.

It is simple, really. Something was stolen from Erik. He wants it back. And he will stop at nothing until he gets it. EC. Eventually Modern.

What happened behind the closed door? Missing moments from the Kay novel.

Erik loses control. Loosely Leroux inspired. One shot.

Erik's thoughts when Christine cannot take the truth and the moment that will keep hope alive.

With all the warmth of her life gone, Christine tries desperately to get it back. Heavily edited and rewritten in 2025.

Silence hung in the air, draped with endless emotion, heavy and stifling and steeped in sorrow so powerful that I could not help but sob anew. "You came back."

Erik's time in Persia takes an unexpected turn when the woman he is destined to love enters at the darkest period of his life.

Christine's life slips dangerously out of control as the shadow stalking her begins to manipulate her world. Month by month everything she believes in shatters as the stakes rise to include her life, her freedom and even her sanity. DarkModern Lerouxbased

Erik lies on his death bed, clinging to the hope that Christine will fulfill a promise to return for a last goodbye before her wedding. When Raoul refuses to honor his word, Christine goes against his wishes and confirms all of his worst fears. Fills in Kay's "Missing Chapters".

Vignettes that follow "When All is Lost." Now that the battle is over, lives must slowly be reclaimed. Complete.

A young Leroux-Erik encounters an equally young gypsy fortune-teller one evening on the way to the shows at Nizhni Novgorod and she reveals something of his future. A possible excerpt from my prequel.

Leroux-based. Christine realizes what it's really like to be Erik's wife. Slowly, she learns that in order to unlock his heart, she must first unlock hers. Her perspective as his living bride. COMPLETE.

He never wanted it. Them. He never wanted one… much less two of them. It wasn’t fair, Erik decided. He had only just gotten Christine all to himself and now… this.

And sometimes... he gives me this look... like he's been hit with something painful.

What has draped and shadowed those glittering eyes?

Set directly after Susan Kay's novel, right after Christine leaves the second time. Is Erik really dead? Maybe. Maybe not. E/C. COMPLETE.

Sweet and slow, from Erik's point of view. E/C, naturally. Complete.

Against my better judgment I am starting this journal. As a habit, I don’t like to write things down. The concept of having tangible proof of my innermost thoughts is unsettling to me. What if someone reads this? I know it’s cynical… but I have never had

Modern. Will a deformed man's desire for revenge destroy the future of a young couple? Or were all three fated to begin this dark journey and face the evils of the past? A story of the struggle between hatred and love, vengeance and redemption. COMPLETE.

Something sinister is stalking Christine, and only one man can save her. As they uncover deadly secrets taken to the grave, they find that the greatest mystery of all is the human heart. A tale of intrigue, love, and redemption.

Kay, EC. An alternate view of Erik's final days on Earth. One shot.

On her deathbed, Christine looks back on her life and her final days with Erik. Kay based, one shot.

Another spoof involving the ever popular Owners Manual. Updated! Now has Kay and Leroux. Will soon have Gerik and ALWStage Phantom. I may possibly then go on to fanfic Phantoms.

...The first raindrops plunged to the roof, and Christine fell violently into a chaise and wept... The soon to be Madame de Chagny realizes what she must do. Christine's heart is still in the Opera Basement, but is Erik?