ALW Post-canon. Raoul is able to give his wife everything, except for the one thing she wants most. Will a desperate situation cause his old rival to reenter their lives, changing it in ways they could never have imagined? Of course, or it wouldn't be a PotO story. Passion, angst, betrayal(?), True Love, revenge, messy relationships, but also kinda funny? Slow but steady updates

On the rooftop Christine told Raoul, "When the time comes we shall leave, but if I then refuse, you must carry me off by force!" Erik later said to Christine, "If you loved me, I would be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do with me as you pleased." But would either of these predictions come true? And…should they? "Your hand at the level of your eyes," said the Persian...

19th century - An ill-gotten rose becomes the bar to her cage of a magical chateau, empty of all save for a ghost. Her song is the key to unlock the chains to his troubled soul…But so long a ghost, can she find the man hidden inside? - E/C - a gothic retelling of PotO & Beauty and the Beast - eventually will be rated M... R&R

An alternate ending to Anathema. The gunshot changed the course of her life forever. Now Christine must learn how to survive all over again, this time alone.

19th century - She came to him with a request. He offered her a challenge. Now each must face their demons in a future that will mark them and shape their lives - only to bring them into the inferno once more. A coming of age story for Christine & Erik. romance/angst - E/C - eventually will be rated M

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.

After they spend a passionate night together, Erik leaves Christine behind, thinking that is what she wants. However, he finds can't stay away from her permanently, and he puts in motion a series of events that will bring her back into his life. Love Never Dies influences, but this story will follow a different path. Erik/Christine. Angst, pining, eventual fluff. Modern AU

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

Christine is en route to visit Mama Valerius for Christmas, but when her flight gets cancelled last minute, a disagreeable masked man might be her only hope to help her get home for the holidays...Modern AU. E/C.

As summer draws to a hot ending, a new café-concert singer performing under the name La Suedoise holds the imagination of Paris in her hands. Little does the city know of the strange music that lives in her head. Little does the city expect what will happen when the source of such music confronts the young chanteuse in front of a packed audience. Leroux-ish fluff and smut.

A dangerous revelation leads Christine to a heart wrenching decision, but Erik will not let go of his family so easily.

"If Erik's secrets cease to be Erik's secrets, it will be a bad lookout for a goodly number of the human race!" In which Christine stumbles upon some personal items she was not meant to find, igniting a powder keg of mutual lust and loathing. Leroux-based. Eventual smut. Unbeta'd. UPDATE: Completed.

Erik means to live by his promise of a happy marriage—the promise of a life above the earth in a normal house, with a devoted and caring husband at his wife's side. Unfortunately for him, Christine never forgets. Leroux-based. Completed. Thank you for your readership.

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 Daaé likes everything about her new job - except for her boss, Erik, who seems to dislike her for some reason. However, when circumstances leave them alone in the office for two weeks, will they be able to find some common ground? Erik/Christine, Modern AU

"Erik?" she whispered as he carried her away. "I am here, Christine. I will not leave you." "You…will…not leave?" her voice was drowsy. "Never," he swore in a low tone, slightly tightening his hold on his protégée. Her head lolled onto his chest. She could fight the darkness no longer. Christine's body went limp, curls tumbling over her savior's arm. (Slow burn fic.)

1870- Erik resumes teaching his star pupil, while struggling with feelings far from angelic. Christine regains her dark Angel as her teacher, eager to learn his Music of the Night. While fate unveils a future unforeseen by both of them. (Sequel to APCC) E/C - R&R - COMPLETE

The first kiss turned a ghost into a man. The second turned a girl into a woman. Two kisses, a ring, a backward glance: on such things do lives turn. In the real world outside the opera, two people struggle against themselves - while around them, France careens into military disaster. Some RC, mostly EC. WIP.

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

A contract killer's world is thrown into disarray when a broken woman inserts herself into his life. *A dark tale about addiction COMPLETE

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.

A man fighting to gain ultimate power, a woman trying to survive through tragedy. Washington D.C. Two unlikely souls cross uncharacteristically through music. Phantom characters based in House Of Cards universe. Rated T for adult topics & words. Part One & Two are complete!

Following the death of her father, Christine Daaé relocates to New York City and quickly finds herself in the middle of the intoxicating world of speakeasies. In this scene money talks, music roars and murder lurks just around the corner. Historical AU set in 1927 Manhattan. Kay/Leroux inspired. E/C COMPLETE

A collection of short, one-shot scenes, E/C in general, each chapter complete but unrelated to each other. Erik, Christine, the Persian, Philippe and Sorelli, Carlotta and Ubaldo, Meg, Madame Giry...all make their appearance in various short stories. Mostly T, one M. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Hermione is determined to have her cake and eat it too. Since arriving at the Ministry, she’s been on an unswerving path to the top. When a workplace accident leaves her with Veela wings attached to her back, her plans are derailed. Why is this happening to her? And why is Draco so interested?

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.

“Tall? That’s what you think I should notice about Malfoy? His height?” Ginny quirked an eyebrow and licked the tip of her quill suggestively. ”Well, isn’t that your thing? Lockhart. Krum. McLaggen. Ron. The only thing they have in common is being tall enough to give me a neck ache.” Dramione Height Differences Minifest 2020.

Christine is plagued by uncertainties. Fearing that they will taint her imminent marriage, she makes a last desperate effort to put them to rest. But, well-intentioned though she is, the eve of her wedding takes a very unexpected turn. This is an LND fix-it / fill-in fic written by someone in love with Phantom of the Opera and frustrated by Love Never Dies.

An ongoing collection of E/C vignettes. Mostly fluff, some angst.

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.

Erik visits Christine one hour before her wedding. Leroux based. Trigger Warning for sexual violence. Dark!Erik / DubCon COMPLETE

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.

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

Following the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger has devoted her career to the rights of magical beings and works reluctantly with the sardonic ministry lobbyist, Draco Malfoy. But there is ancient magic at work in the aftermath of the War and its consequence will be severe if Hermione fails to look up from her legislation and notice it. COMPLETE.

An evening of spring cleaning leads to a confession from Christine. Short story, E/C, complete.

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.

There are things more dangerous than accepting lessons from a dark stranger in a bell tower, things that can destroy a man's face and his life—and Christine Daaé is soon to become intimately acquainted with them. Modern AU. ON INDEFINITE HIATUS.

One always hears the echo of their soulmate's heartbeat, and can only recognize them by feeling the person's pulse match up with the rhythm in their head. Erik never heard the echo until he was in his thirties. Christine has heard it for as long as she remembers.

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

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.

Erik has avoided touching Christine for almost an entire month after a particularly bad dream. Fed up, Christine comes up with a naughty little plan of her own to sort things out between the two of them and things get...steamy...One-shot.

Erik has evaded Christine's touch for two weeks now, and she will not stand for it any longer. Leroux AU; oneshot.

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.

In 1880 Paris, a man returns to reclaim the Opera as his sanctuary. Set before Red Rose and A Second Chance, and the ALW stage play. E/C, complete.

COMPLETE - 19th century– "Listen well, for the tale I will tell you is quite shocking but true, a tale beyond your wildest imagination...Take care not to consider it lightly, for it is a dark tale of a forbidden love, tragic and fantastic, obsessive and wild..." A gothic retelling of PotO with a Wuthering Heights feel ...E/C

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

Rain, a music lesson, an injury. Each has the chance to care for the other. Part of the Night Encounters Series. E/C, complete.

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

Their first Noël together brings surprises for Erik. Set a few months after Second Chance. Complete, one-shot, humor and sweetness. Please read and review :) Merry Christmas, everyone!

Christine remembers the man she loved. E/C, complete, one-shot short story. Please read and review.

The press of curved silver against her cheek. Sharp. Blood pulsing under the skin. And beneath that, dizzying ecstasy, a kind of sickening thrill. The whisper of breath against her mouth, cool and metallic. "Wendy."

In the days after the tragedy at the Opera, Christine risks returning underground to ascertain the fate of her former teacher. What she finds changes everything. Can an embittered man learn to love again? This is a new novel, and is set immediately after the ALW musical. Don't look for it to get any happier for a while. E / C Complete

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.

AU. Peace in Giovanni Marchesi's Roman house is a fragile thing between Luciana's fractious nature and Erik's dark tempers. This fragile peace is shattered when a Swedish violinist and his daughter come to visit.

He had asked for a living bride...but was he prepared for that prayer to be answered?

This was a sweet, excruciating torment he deserved—he would endure the blaze she kindled in his mind and body, and the more intense it was, the more his conscience was soothed. 'Yes,' it told him, 'feel this tortuous want, and know that it will burn you forever, and you will never act to sooth it. She is your wife in name only—she will never be yours.' E/C, of course.

Christine is a waitress struggling to make ends meet when a call to jury duty comes as a most inconvenient summons. Though reluctant to participate, she is intrigued by the defendant; a badly deformed man accused of blackmail and murder. Though the world seems to begrudge him his very existence, she begins to feel pity for the accused who is only a man, after all. A man named Erik.

VERY SHORT song fic based off of the song Lying to You by Keaton Henson. You should all listen to this song while reading. A darker take on Christine's regrets and her life with Raoul after the last visit to the opera house. Little help with my writer's block.

She only wanted to relieve his tension.

Time heals, but the heart does not forget. A bond forged in shadow strives for life in the light. ExC story. Complete.

Veela Fic set Ten Years after the War. Draco is a Veela. Hermione isn't his Healer. She's just his. Update Chapter 29: 02/06/14

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.

Perhaps there was a dark side to Christine that only Erik could bring out. Between the smudged lines of right and wrong, she had always been destined to be the Phantom's bride. She ached for every bit of him. Dark and not fluffy. E/C romance StageMusical.

Summary: It has taken years, but Christine will finally have her revenge. Follow-up to one-shot: Dancing with Myself. Pure fluffy smut. Rated 'M'

In the dead of night, twisted thoughts become reality and intolerable fears give birth to perverted hope. Pity is not love, nor is regret, but sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference…

"It's not your face that scared me, Angel."

Erik begins his life anew in Paris after many years of trial and struggle, swearing to never again submit to a man's fickle emotions. Perhaps Christine Daae can change his mind . . .

It’s been several years since Christine left the opera forever years with Raoul by her side and her life apparently complete. But when events beyond her control thrust her into a new world, she must find the strength to once again live, love, and forgive.

Christine hopes that Raoul will give up and go away, but Erik decides to make sure of it. Short story; one-shot.

Erik, Christine, Raoul and Philippe meet in a dark cemetery. Short story, one-shot; Leroux Phantomverse.

When Christine's world crumbles, she returns to the man who had once loved her beyond all reason. But even if they can slay their own demons, will they be able to escape the wrath of those left in their destructive wake? COMPLETE.

Erik can contain his madness up to a point in his daily life if he concentrates hard enough. That came with plenty of practice. Unfortunately, he's never had much opportunity to master his desires... Leroux-based. Oneshot. MATURE.

Hermione hates Draco in the springtime, Hermione hates Draco in the fall, Hermione hates Draco 247.

After three years of an unhappy marriage to a man she scarcely knows, Christine flees, hoping for a better life away from him. Yet can she truly escape Erik? Modern-day.

Leroux EC morbid romance. Erik does not let Christine go, but keeps her with him so that he may finally live the ordinary life he's always longed for. But little does he understand the sometimes ugly nature of the ordinary.

Love Conquers All. An extensive retelling of the story that combines known versions, with a few believable changes. Most of all, it reveals what could have happened on those down times, and the characters inner most thoughts.

Christine has spent four years mourning a life she never lost. Erik has spent four years mourning a love he never had. When fate and tragedy bring them together, can they find a way to forgive? EC, ALW2004 and Leroux.

COMPLETED! An EC Leroux based fiction. What if Christine did not have the resolve to approach Erik as his "living bride" when Raoul and the Persian are in the torture chamber. A huge thank you to all who read and especially to those who reviewed.

A nightmare leaves Erik unable to sleep. This is the second in the continuing series of Night Encounters, and is reposted after being removed by FFN. Please read and review.

What if...Christine was a bad little ingenue one day and Erik got REALLY pissed off? A short phic that explores the extreme side of dark and frightening aspects when our phavorite Phantom gets reeeeeeeally angry, loses his temper...and snaps!