Notes
This was my attempt to write a legitimate alternative outcome to "Love Never Dies", without cheating: all the problems and inconsistencies created by Andrew Lloyd Webber had to be included and whipped into some kind of psychological probability, whether I liked them or not 
I realised fairly early on that the only way to ensure a happy ending was to prevent the main characters from ever meeting one another in the first place, at which point they might be able to work out their pre-existing issues on their own...
Continuity is Lloyd Webber ("Phantom of the Opera"/"Love Never Dies") with sizeable helpings of the Leroux novel for the backstory where not actively contradicted in the musicals: the only thing I have deliberately changed from the musicals is that Raoul's parents both died (as in Leroux) while he was still a boy (although as per Lloyd Webber, he holds the title of Vicomte and not Comte de Chagny!) Specifically, the story is dated very precisely to 1907, which is supposedly the setting for "Love Never Dies" (whether or not this is consistent with the time-period for "Phantom"...) It is also tied definitely to the events and lyrics of the original London production, rather than the revised version - largely because a number of the specific lines I referenced here were among those subsequently removed in revision. I suspect this may have some relevance to the colossal struggles I myself had in getting this stuff to work together!
