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

Fleeing scandal in Paris, celebrated opera singer Christine Daae travels to London to perform at the Grand Music Hall. Here she meets Erik, a magician with an undiscovered musical gift. E/C

Everybody is born with a heart locket, and the key to their soulmate's heart. Everybody, that is, except for Erik. E/C Soulmate AU, eventual happy ending, crossposted on Ao3.

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.

Christine Daae finally gets the chance to go to a Valentine's Day party, but when something comes up and Raoul is suddenly unable to accompany her, Erik steps up and escorts her to the party instead - causing her to examine her feelings towards both men. (written for timebird84's 2019 Phalentine's Day Challenge) (part 1 of Sonnet 86 series)

NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND PAPERBACK. Modern AU sequel. Christine's new life is being entangled and constrained again, but it's no longer by a man in a mask.

Three months after her escape from the Phantom's lair, a new, sinister threat forces Christine back into his orbit. Cold War AU.

No longer a one-shot. Modern AU. Erik bursts into Christine's tattoo parlor on an emotional, drunken whim, and lies himself into a corner regarding his cat. Hilarity ensues. (Inspired, but not exactly adhering to, a Tumblr post by little-jammes.)

We all have to learn to live with the choices we make. To save Raoul's life, Christine agrees to be Erik's wife for twenty years. But how do you survive two decades with someone you don't love? Leroux-inspired Modern AU. Dark E/C. Collab.

Nadir convinces Erik to download Tinder, and he matches with a pretty girl named Christine. And before he knows it, a first date leads to more.

He did not expect to meet his counterpoint on a house call, and he is shaken. Modern AU. Now a fourshot.

Erik, Christine and Raoul made their choices on the night of Don Juan Triumphant, and are prepared to live with them. But beyond the walls of the opera house, how much of their life's trajectory is determined by choice, or by fate, or by the meddlesome nature of their family and friends?

His dreams have come true, but he is suddenly realizing that he's never allowed himself to prepare. E/C, Oneshot

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.

Nadir visits Erik's home in an effort to not spend Christmas alone. Post-canon modern AU Pharoga. Rated M! (Now updated with Part 2.)

Four months after the horror, Christine returns. Kind of. Short modern holiday AU phic. Lots of angsty E/Cness with a cup of fluff and a teaspoon of humor. Complete!

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.

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.

The fairytale isn't what she had imagined it to be. Strict 'M' rating.

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.

Erik is not thrilled when a couple of swearing, possibly alcoholic uni students move into the flat below his. But somehow, the couple downstairs become the best thing that's happened to him in a long time. Erik/Christine/Raoul, modern AU. Threesome, polymory.

Tales from the Opera Populaire. Events may not have transpired as you remember; vignettes, missing scenes and retellings. #44: Epilogue. Where do we go from here?

On a long hold due to writer's block, but not forgotten. Days after the disastrous events at the Opera, Christine makes an impulsive, rash decision - but she is not entirely prepared for what will follow. Largely based on the world of the stage musical, sprinkled with Leroux. E/C.

Meg fires the gun, but the bullet doesn't hit Christine – and so everything changes. Widowed, left with her son and the man she has always loved, Christine finally has a chance of finding happiness. ETA: changed category from LND to PotO

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.

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.

Kay AUs. Now showing: Erik proposes to Christine, and she surprises him. Fluffy, angsty, sometimes humorous smut. You're warned.

Nadir Khan really needs a new best friend. Starring Christine, unborn!Charles, and the epic bromance that is Erik and Nadir.

How many years since first I saw you and dreamed of you… those long nights when our voices in union rivalled those of heaven… oh, that we could have been thus forever…

Instead of letting her go with Raoul, Erik makes Christine stay with him. In an attempt to understand what she truly wants, she proposes a game of pretend: to pretend to love each other. But where does the game end and reality begin?

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.

The whole of it, he had to admit, was rather embarrassing. Erik falls asleep in Christine's bed. Fluff. Erik x Christine.

If Erik cannot have Christine, he will at least be sure that his beloved is properly cared for in the years to come. Just a sad little oneshot.

A traumatic first encounter leaves Christine with nothing but hatred in her heart for Erik. Is it true, though, that only a fine line separates love from hate?

Raoul and Erik are not the men they once were. But the same woman still ties them together. Written for tkp on the Masked Ball livejournal community.

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

A tribute to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Oneshot.

For tonight I am Hades. And you will be my Persephone...at least until the music ends. A journey out of darkness. EC

Christine is gifted to Erik as a reward for his skills in the royal court. As time passes, they realize how much they need each other. Rated for language and sexual content.

The Phantom movie has just gone into production, and Erik is growing tired of his celebrity status.

Set in an alternate universe, Christine struggles to survive on the streets of a decadent city... when she finds herself an unusual and frightening guardian. Please R&R.

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.

Leroux makes it clear that every once in a while Erik braves the streets of Paris to buy provisions and supplies. How does each seller react to this mysterious masked man?

Christine and Raoul on their wedding night. Not a very happy story.

Begins immediately after the end of the 2005 movie. No characters belong to me. Reviews are always welcome. Nothing ever happens as you plan it, and sometimes what the heart wants is surprising. COMPLETE

A sequel to The Enchanter. (Although it is not necessary to have read the previous story.) Erik and Christine are reunited at the Paris Opera, having met when Christine was just a child.

Erik is on his deathbed, and he and Nadir resolve regrets. Song fic to "How I Feel" from "The Me Nobody Knows." This is actually quite good, summary doesn't really get it down.

**Complete** Christine is alone in the world with a small daughter. Her friends the Girys take the child in as Christine seeks her fortune, but all turns to a search for the little girl when she goes missing at the Opera.

The kiss that saved Raoul and Christine never took place. Enraged, heart broken, driven to madness, Erik has thrown Christine aside and taken Raoul hostage. Slash, written in a series of vignettes and drabbles. Finished work.

Instead of the "Down Once More" sequence, the Phantom is arrested, and Christine lives in regret as he is once again caged and humiliated. Written in a series of vignettes.

What if POTO had taken place in modern times and Erik was arrested and put on trial for his crimes? How would the modern world deal with Erik's sins? How would Erik deal with imprisonment after he let Christine go?...And Christine?

Christine is haunted by her dreams and the past. A move back to Paris seems that it will amend things, until Christine finds herself in terrible danger. Can she be saved? Can the past ever truly be forgotten? E/C eventually

“From time to time certain bone structures are repeated without a blood tie. No human face is entirely unique, my dear. I daresay somewhere in the world there may be another poor devil who looks like me,” says Erik to Christine. How right he is.

(COMPLETED!) So says the Paris Epoque.

Father and son struggle to move on after a mother's death. This is about the Persian!

Another of my fluffy fics. Erik's birthday celebrated in a way he had never dreamed of...

A conversation between Nadir and Erik, set in Persia.

The Phantom and his leading lady take a walk with unexpected consequences. Pure E/C phluff for your enjoyment. *Complete*

What begins as a pleasant evening out leaves Christine mildly injured. This is the latest in the Night Encounters series, and is another Red Rose "prequel." Please read and review.

Christine, as a young child, performs at a large fair with her father. Suppose that Erik and Christine's first encounter did not occur at the Paris Opera...

With the Opera House in chaos, Meg Giry searches for . . . a little privacy?

Complete, novel length. At the end of the musical and book, Christine and Raoul leave, and Erik prepares to die. But events have a way of not working out as we think! E/C, though Raoul lovers will like this. Please Read and Review!

For the last 2 Chapters read A Song Through the Night Continued. Erik lives beneath Paris Opera House, writing a an untitled opera and taking fun in runing the opera as the Opera Ghost. He comes across Chrisitne one night and vows to help her in any way.

Another Phantom of the Opera fanfic, but this one is different.. Erik, Christine and Raoul are kids! In - PRESCHOOL! What could a few three-year olds possibly do to cause trouble THIS time?

My first poemfic! Raoul has bad news for Christine, which means good news for Erik : A vaguely E&C tale inspired by a T.S.Eliot poem. Please R&R

My Phantom poem, written from Christine's POV. Somewhere in the middle of POTO.

This is my first proper phanphiction and is basically an alternative ending that popped into my head one day when listening to the soundtrack. E/C-friendly, with some Meg.

Here's angst laced with humour and tender enchantment; good grammar and lexicon serve as enhancement. And how can you not want Snape's wholesale Redemption. Or thoughts about Sex - sufficient temptation? Voted 'BEST ROMANCE' in Bloody Brilliant Awards.

A late night carriage ride leads to conversation, and some realizations...