The Phantom felt tears slide down his cheeks, which had never happened before to him. He sighed and stayed by Margaret's side the whole time.
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Christine noticed the look on Raoul's face and then knew what was going on. She stood up and gently grabbed Raoul by the arm. "Can we speak alone please, Raoul?" She looked into his eyes.

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Margaret smiled as she dreamed. She was on stage with the phantom singing. They were doing his Opera. when suddenly the scenery changed. she was in the lair. The Phantom tied to the gate that acted as a door. Around his neck was a lasso wich was being held by Raoul ((The make your choice scene with the men reversed.)) "Raoul." she cried out. Her brother turned to her. "Return home and I will let him live." He sneered. Margaret shook her head. "Home is where the heart is, that is here." Then with a strong tug, she heard a crack, and watched the phantom fall into the water lifeless. "Erik!" she shreiked in despair, and continued in sleep with out dreams, not nowing her shreik had escaped her lips in the waking world.
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Raoul looked at Cristine and sighed. "Very well then." And they wen to an empty room.

The Phantom watched Margaret, in fear since she screamed. He knew that she was, most likely, having a bad nightmare about Raoul.
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Christine closed the door behind them and folded her arms. "Raoul... what is going on with you?" She looked worried for him.

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Margaret at first wa dreaming of nothing, then all the mamories of her childhood came rushing back. Instinktivly she gripped the phantoms arm harder, and buried her face into him as she cried, and whimepred things like 'no Raoul.'
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Raoul looked at Christine. "What do you mean what going on with me?"

The Phantom became even more enraged with Raoul, the more that Margaret cried out his name in her nightmares. He held her close to him and glared at the floor.
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Christine shook her head and rested her hand on her waist. "You've been so cruel to Margaret. You have to face the fact that she's in love. Just like we were... I can't handle all that you're doing, Raoul. Especially, since I'm..." She then stopped what she was saying. "Never mind..."

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Margaret started to shiver, and violently, she started to cough so hard her whole body shook, and between coughs she was starting to wheeze.
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Raoul, ran a hand through his hair. "You don't understand. Our parents don't care for her, I had to raise her. And I don't want her to be with he Phantom or any man." He started to get angry. "I have had to keep her under striked rules which I had to punish her for breaking so many times. Running of to see friends, especially the theatrical kinds. And all the men would look at her. She needs disipline." ((I know, totaly OOC but it works and makes things intresting.))

The Phantom held her very close to him and put a fresh towel on her forehead. He couldn't believe what was happening to her.
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Christine looked into Raoul's eyes and walked over to him. "Raoul... what would you have done, if I wasn't allowed to marry you? Or even see you, for that matter?" She hoped that he would understand where she was coming from.

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Margaret opened her eyes. Between the coughs she whimpered, "Erik, I'm scared." She held onto him for along time. soon the coughin slowed to a stop. she just layed their afraid to move. "I'm scared." she said again, but the worst had past and her srenght was slowly returning.
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Raoul just gapped at his wife, unable to know what to say.

The Phantom smiled at her and caressed her cheek, with his gloved hand, softly. "Don't be, my love. Everything will be alright, now." He whispered to her, lovingly.
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Christine took both of his hands in hers. "It wouldn't be good, would it?" She looked into his eyes. "Raoul, I love you to death... but, what you are doing is killing my love for you. And, I don't want that to happen, with a baby on the way."

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Margaret smiled, she was about to say something lovinly back when her stomach growled. At this she let out a cheerful laugh, on like an angel's. "I guess eating would be the best thing for me right now, she said quietky, her body didn't hurt as much, and she slowly sat up, with the phantoms help that is.
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Raoul couldn't belive it. A baby. he smiled and hugged her. "I am going to be a father. Now, all we need is Margaret, she'll help care for it when we are out at dinners."

The Phantom smiled at her and nodded. He helped her up and went into the other room to bring her in some food that he had gotten earlier in the day.
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Christine smiled a little, but looked deeply into Raoul's eyes. "Will you please let her fall in love with The Phantom? This is the happiest I've ever seen her. Do it for me and the baby."

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Margaret sat, and looked around. She loved it down here, in the Phantom's home, but would her brother let her go.

~All I want
is freedom,
a world with
no more night . . .
and you
always beside me
to hold me
and to hide me . . .~
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Raoul sighed and sat on a chair. "I will consider it."

The Phantom smiled and kissed her forehead; setting her food in front of her.

~Let me be your shelter
Let me be your light.
You're safe
No one will find you.
Your fears are far behind you...~
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Christine smiled lovingly at Raoul and sat down on his lap. "I love you..." She whispered and kissed him softly.

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Margaret smiled as she ate the food her love brought her. as she finished her eyes then looked down. "Erik, I had this dream. About you and Raoul. I think it might mean something, I don't know." She looked into his eyes "He had you tied to the gate, and a lasso around your neck that he was pulling on afetr it went through the gate. He was pulling on the rope, and gave me a choice. To return home, or he would kill you."

The Phantom looked to the ground, and remembered when he had done that to Raoul. He sighed and nodded. "It seems as though I know that dream, well..."

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Margaret got out of the bed, she wobbles a bit, but she went over to the Phantom. "I'm scared he'll kill you Erik. In the dream I told Raoul that 'home is where the heart is, that is here.' He killed you in my dream." Tears formed in her eyes as dhe remembered. "He broke your neck, I heard it, and your body fell lifeless into the water." Se was sobbing now. "I don't want you to die." She wraped herarms around herself and fell to her kness.