Chapter 15: But the Night Was Rent Asunder
Summary: A sequel to the She Was Bound to Love You series, featuring a genderbent, lesbian Raoul de Chagny, and a bisexual Christine Daae. A year and a half after the events of the lair, Raoul and Christine are thriving. Christine is a star. Raoul is running the opera house. They're in love. And slowly, Paris is forgetting the scandal and the opera ghost, even if Raoul and Christine can never forget the man behind the specter. But just as Charles Garnier himself is set to attend the premiere of Faust, notes start appearing again. And some old friends have secrets.
The question remains: Is the Phantom really gone?
Chapter Summary: Christine, Philippe, Erik, and Ismael race to save Raoul. Raoul fights to hold on. Alexandre reaches the end of his game.
As the past echoes into the present, a ghost searches for the meaning of atonement.
Philippe finally relents, and that’s when, much to Erik’s chagrin, the attention falls on him.
Christine’s attention, in particular.
“Well,” she says, pulling Raoul’s tweed coat tighter around her shoulders as she faces him, having not taken it off when she and Eloise rushed in the door. “Are you coming?”
“You,” Christine echoes, a touch softer than before. “I’m certain we could use your help.”