This is wonderful - you've explored their relationship and Erik's psyche so well and made us readers feel for his plight and Christine's in turn. Thank you.

Love it!

Love this so much. Ugh.

Oh wowoowowww...

This was so in character. Wish there was more!

"he'd spun it into a nightmare instead of rebuilding the dream." That is an excellent line! Lovely, lovely descriptions of their music together. You've captured his jealousy and anger very well in that mirror scene. Yes, that's just like him, blaming her for everything in his rage and loss of control. Poor man, you've done a fantastic job of describing Erik's inner turmoil of lust, longing, anger, and sorrow.

I want Erik to have Christine forever like he wants!

Woaaaah this was so dark and heavy and just ughhhhhh I wish they were normal but that takes all the unhealthy obsessive to the point of destruction magic away

Wow this story is so good! They are both completely kept in character, and it was just amazing. This has definitely made it to my favorites list :)

Considering Christine's face was cut with glass, she was very understanding!

This was absolutely breathtaking. 10/10

nice one shot.

As always,I love the creativity that you incorporate in your stories. You truly are a brilliant writer!

CHRIST ALMIGHTY.

Okay, I completely missed this when it was posted. Which was explained when I looked at the post date; I went to a dinner that was a reenactment of the last dinner on the Titanic on the 100th anniversary of its sinking. The dinner was on the 14th; the day you posted this, I was frantically sewing two dresses and the accompaning undies and wasn't on for something like two weeks. It was nuts.

Anyway. Enough about me. This was another brilliant story, my dear. You do such a good job of crazy, violent Erik. He was totally in character all through this, I think. Did you do research on abusers? Because his actions and words are just absolutely spot-on. So many writers (and readers) shy away from portraying Erik like this. You're very brave, and a darn good writer.

I find your writing style to be very romantic, which is good for this fandom. Which brings me to my only issue with this story; I find the bit when they're on the bed rather jarring, and not because of what's happening, which seems very plausible; what gets me is that the use of specific, overtly sexual words like "erection" don't seem to fit the style of the writing or these particular characters. I had the same issue with When Nightmares End, which I otherwise adored...well, to no end. Don't get me wrong, I love me some E/C sex scenes, and have been known both to write them myself and to search this site specifically for M rated ones. I just find word choices that are more euphemistic and sensual to fit better. Which I suppose could be a pun, given what we're discussing. :) Anyway, that's just my opinion, and you have every right to write your stories any way you please. You're still head and shoulders above 90% of other fanfic writers, in my book.

Kudos and keep writing!

The Countess of Rothes

Good point about using deformity as justificaton. It puts him beyond the reach of any law (in his mind, at least). That, perhaps is one of the most selfish things about him, really. Interesting story.