He sees the desire to be loved that she hides from everyone; she can't hide it from him. Yes, he sees; he listens, he learns, and one day soon, he'll show her. Because he is attentive. I DO NOT OWN PHANTOM OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS!

"If I'd of known this ecstasy would be in my future,…Christine, I swear to you I would never have taken it." "Taken what, Erik?" she said, shaken. "My life." In which Erik really is a ghost that lurks around the Metropolitan Opera. He terrorizes those who work in Lincoln Center, believing they are the ones who bullied him into suicide. Then he meets Her. His Angel, Christine.