A/N: I only planned on writing Erik's, and then Raoul possessed me and said no, mine must be written as well. So now I ask those who come across this additional segment: would you care to see Christine's answers? Or were the questions direct enough to gather a hint of what her answers might be?

For: My Wife

Questions regrettably labored over by your husband, Raoul Vicomte de Chagny.

Do be cruel, Christine. I can take it. I need it. I needed it sooner than I was willing to ask.

1) When I met you were you also so very taken by finally having a companion?

2) Did you ever wish I had been a female companion considering you lacked your mother?

3) I always wondered if you had ever made any other friends, Christine, or was it just me and Mademoiselle Giry? (I purposefully omit your teacher.)

4) Could you imagine me living every day thinking of you after that summer we spent together?

5) Do you recall every detail of how we met that freezing Spring like I do?

6) Can you still feel the soaking wet of your scarf, or my cold hands which you warmed in yours?

7) Did I ever tell you during those eleven years we were together, that I had not courted a single woman after I left Sweden for want of you?

8) Over those eleven years did I ever tell you anything?

9) When I first discovered you at the Opera Populaire, what aria were you singing?

10) Did you know the managers had discussed keeping you on stage if Carlotta did not return?

11) Could you tell when you saw me next that I had spent hours looking for you in the theater?

12) Do you remember, how even then, I demanded things of you?

13) Would you forgive me if I told you I did not believe you about Monsieur le Fantome until he showed up at the Masque Ball?

14) Do you know you never told me you loved me the night the chandelier fell? Though I had spoken it plainly, I suppose it was quite soon.

15) Would you judge me even now if I expressed how I thought Buquet was a drunken man who merely fell at the wrong time? Who probably hung himself.

16) Can you see how I grasped for rationales instead of believing you?

17) What of those blissful months we spent as the opera remained calm? Was even a moment of our life after the opera like that?

18) Had you already loved your angel then?

19) If I had not been there to interrupt at the Masquerade, would he have taken you and never brought you back?

20) Would you have wanted to return?

21) I ask so often in this when you fell in love with him, Christine, and I wonder if I was already years too late, or maybe just a few moments. Can you tell me? Do even you know?

22) Did you really love me when you agreed to be my wife?

23) Did you know I never mourned your father with you? I felt responsible for that evening in the graveyard. Maybe you would not have gone if I had properly missed him with you. If that was the moment you loved him, maybe you wouldn't have.

24) My insensitivity escaped me for a moment, but I had wanted him gone so badly, all I saw was red that day. And what were you seeing, Christine, fear? Was I as ignorant as I remember being?

25) Was I as cruel?

26) Were you as surprised as I was when you removed the hood of your phantom?

27) Or had you known the moment you stepped onto the stage? Don't answer this one… but I think you knew.

28) Was the chemistry I saw real?

29) Will I ever forgive myself for seeing it and not wanting to believe once I had discovered the voice's owner?

30) What happened on your journey down?

31) How did you get into that dress?

32) Had he forced himself on you?

33) How have I never asked these things before?

34) Were you clinging to me for protection or because you wanted to protect me?

35) What hopes did you and your phantom share, Christine?

36) Did you know the noose I was tied to was not as tight as I would have expected it to be?

37) Why did you kiss him?

38) Why did you kiss him again?

39) Why did you linger?

40) When he let us go, did you know I pitied him then? For only a brief moment, but his screams haunted me until I again was face to face with him.

41) Were you coming with me because you had no other choice?

42) When I let you bring him back his trinket, did you respond in kind to his beacon of love?

43) Did you know I heard his?

44) When you cried in my arms that evening, could you tell I thought it was the trauma?

45) When you disappeared the night you created Gustave, only a month before our wedding, and you came back crying, did you know I merely thought you at your father's grave? You had been so cold, Christine, every inch of you, I thought you fell asleep in the cold summer night by his side.

46) Can you believe my naivete?

47) You cried on our wedding night, darling, did you know? You cried yourself to sleep, yet recovered in the morning when you took something from me I could not claim from you.

48) Did you know I thought I was torturing you? I tried to give you space, I tried to nurture you as you grew with a child, I attempted to show you the love I have for you, but I was never man enough to do it.

49) I had lost footing on my life, and nothing was going to plan, so I gambled and drank. I never knew what people were capable of until I saw what I could do to someone I loved. Did you have a vice, Christine?

50) I knew it was music, but I stifled that, was there anything else?

51) When we reached three years together and things started downhill, did you know my frustrations came from us not having anymore children?

52) Would you believe me if I told you I blamed you? Your mother had died during her first pregnancy, and while you were strong with Gustave, I imagined the problem laid with you due to inheritance.

53) Do you know why I never let you sing?

54) Do you know your voice scared me?

55) Did you know it turned me on?

56) When did I really lose all grasp, Christine? Five years? Six? … Four?

57) Did I ever hurt you?

58) You know that I never strayed, right? Even after all those nights away? Even after I lost everything?

59) Do you believe me when I say I love Gustave as if he were my own? He was my son, for all intents and purposes, and I am proud to have partially helped in raising such a fine boy.

60) True or False: We accepted the offer from Hammerstein only because we needed the money.

61) Circle one:

You thought nothing nefarious was going to happen once we arrived.

You suspected things were not right the moment we got there.

You knew before we even left you would not be singing for Hammerstein.

62) Even in his coldness and threats that he told me of later out of a misguided sense of transparency, were you in love with him?

63) Did you almost fall into him when reminded of your betrayal to me?

64) Was I really so nasty?

65) Gustave asked if I loved him that day… did he truly not think so up until then?

66) When you agreed to sing for him again, had nothing else happened, would I have gone home on that ship alone, still?

67) Again: Did I hurt you, Christine?

68) I need not hear the answer to this one, but did you know I drank the night away? And the morning too?

69) Did you know that was where I was?

70) How did he find out Gustave was his? Neither ever told me.

71) I had seen Mademoiselle Giry's insanity… glimpsed into it… do you think if I had been less worried about drinking and gambling away your fate, do you think I might have seen it? Paid attention to her a little?

72) Why do you love me? Please leave this one blank if you do not.

73) When I told you I knew the costs of my mistakes over the years… did you know I had learned of Gustave's parentage?

74) If not, do you appreciate the fact I was still willing to raise him?

75) I knew I had lost already, though I am sure you pondered the choice. You did ponder the decision between us, yes?

76) No matter, did you enjoy singing again?

77) Was it everything you wanted it to be and more? You deserve more.

78) Could you tell my hand had been shaking when I wrote the note?

79) Did you know I had the rose since that morning?

80) When Gustave fetched me, a strange chance even running into him on that damn island, had you died happy, Christine? Had you died loved?

81) I was in shock when I found you, can you forgive me for not immediately crying?

82) Can you blame me for letting loose years of pent up frustration into my tears?

83) Do you consider me less for it… or possibly more?

84) Are you proud that both Erik and I raised your son together?

85) Would you have wanted us to be friends had you lived?

86) Are you upset with me for bringing around my American cousin which your lover fell in love with?

87) Is it my place to assure you he loved you more?

88) On a scale of one to ten, one being abysmal hate, and ten being true affection, what would you rate my second wife?

89) Do you think I even deserved her? (I know I don't.)

90) Would you have been her friend had all things gone well?

91) Would you have been mine?

92) Erik inquired as well, but I would like my own answer, Little Lottie. Do you like Gustave's wife? (We certainly did. She was more than we could have asked for him. Completely outgoing and the light of his life. I wish I had been that for you more.)

93) Did you welcome your first grandchild in the heavens?

94) Was it a boy or a girl?

95) Did you present them to Erik when he arrived?

96) Did you welcome him with the open arms I am envisioning?

97) Would you do the same for me? (Simply as a previous spouse, not in love. I ask only a little of you.)

98) When you watch us from above, the two of you probably swooned in one-another's arms, are you happy with what you see? With the three babies your son had? With the wife Erik left behind playing grandmother? And myself and my own wife like distant relatives?

99) If I get up there, do you anticipate the moment the three of us will welcome Erik's widow as much as I do? (I could not help myself, this has become too heavy to bare.)

100) Are you as surprised as I am that I ended up in the same place as you and your beloved? I had worried, you know?