Beyond the Abyss
Raoul de Chagny can't let Christine be blackmailed into marrying the Phantom on his account. But he can see only one way out of the trap she is caught in...
A slightly alternate take on the 'final lair', in which Raoul attempts to forestall Christine's choice.
The Choices of Raoul de Chagny
After ten years of marriage, Raoul and Christine de Chagny are travelling to New York for a single performance to be paid for by a mysterious anonymous backer. But the demons that are haunting Raoul threaten to destroy their marriage...
Based on the original soundtrack recording of "Love Never Dies"; can fate be subverted, or is it inevitable?
Waiting in the Wings
A chance encounter with Meg Giry in the wings at Phantasma sparks a disastrous inspiration; meanwhile, Christine tries to solve her dilemma with a fateful choice of her own... In the Australian version of "Love Never Dies", tragedy is the best of intentions gone awry.
The revised finale to the musical, from the point of view of those off-stage: canon-compliant.
To Ease Your Troubled Mind
"Never you mind the debts we owe": Christine and Raoul actually do walk out of Phantasma within an hour of their arrival, as Raoul had threatened to do, and the Phantom's schemes are forestalled. But returning home gives them a clearer view of the self-inflicted strains on their relationship...
A 'challenge' fiction undertaken to force me out of my comfort zone!
Teach Me to Live
Christine is dead, and Raoul, half out of his mind with grief and guilt, has to face the long journey home with her coffin. Only what remains of their past can help him to face the future.
A sequel to the tragedy within the bounds of canon -- just...
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Memories of Joseph Buquet, by one who knew him best. Based on the 2004 movie.
(written for the Writers Anonymous "Point of View Challenge")
Count Philippe Takes a Hand
"The boy was nearly twenty-one, for all he looked barely old enough to shave. If he was not prepared to take the necessary measures where this girl was concerned, then Philippe would simply have to do it for him."
A crackfic prompt that turned into a full-fledged bodice-ripper.
Shall We Dance?
Christine attends the Masquerade with her chosen partner, and defies the world.
My one and only attempt at ballet-fic!
The Writing on the Wall
Raoul's imprisonment at Erik's hands was in the end only a very brief one. So just whose initials were they, after all, that the narrator found carved into the wall of the Communards' dungeon?
The Sons of Éléonore
Furious and increasingly afraid in the depths of the Opera, Philippe looks for his brother, and remembers.
This Mask of Death
In the cold of the churchyard, Raoul's imagination threatens to run riot.
A 2016 Hallowe'en challenge entry for Writers Anonymous.
Newly Wed
"In this modern day and age, what difference did it make that his ancestors had ridden to battle behind some mediæval king of France when hers had remained as loyally rooted to a Swedish cabbage patch?"
Marrying Raoul means marrying into four hundred years of history... but love will find a way.
Christmas as it ought not to be
Three times when Raoul de Chagny spent an unhappy Christmas, and once when he did not; the week before Christmas, spread across fifteen years of Raoul's life.
A Family Man
Coming home from a picnic on a hot summer's day, Raoul and Christine have fifteen years of marriage to look back on, four lively children, and no regrets.
