1911

Arlene Lesch, on her death bed thinking about the events of The Phantom of the Opera and the events that came 10 years after that. Her involvement and the sins she felt she had committed. She's in hospice, not much time left. She called for a priest. 

"Yes, my child, you asked to see me?" he reached to her bed side. "Yes father. I'm ready to confess for I have sinned" she told him. He takes her hand, bow down, and told her "Speak my child." "Many years ago, when I was much younger, there was a child that was being treated cruelly" she started as she tells the priest her story. "There was a circus, and he was the main act. I couldn't let them continue to treat the boy like he is not human. I saw him beating and the guy with the wipe called him "The Devil's child." 

 "Was he? Was he the child of the devil?" ask the Priest. "Too me he was only a boy. A boy with a bag over his head so no one can see his face. After when everyone left, I saw him take that whip and strangled the man that was hurting him. I felt bad for the boy, so I take him out of there" she continued. "Sounds like you saved the child" he responded. 

"I did. At first, I had him to stay at my apartment but because I was a single mother with my daughter, I couldn't keep him there. He was truly disfigured. Half his face didn't look human. He was born that way and was mistreated by his parents and then the circus, so I felt bad for him. My daughter Rachel was afraid to look at him. He scared her so I thought it would be best if I moved him someplace else. I moved him to the new opera house in Paris. There he taught himself music. From his circus dies, he had learned many other talents that helped him to navigate the opera and he made traps so he can go unnoticed.  I would bring him food and clothes. After a while, people at the Opera started to notice that things were disappearing and that things were starting to happen.  That was when it started the rumors about the Phantom, or the Opera Ghost and people started to freak out." 

"I have heard the stories. He hung a man" responded the priest. "No, he didn't. That was only a rumor. But really Joseph had killed himself. They wanted to blame on this mysterious Phantom because weird things were happening. There was another girl at the Opera. A girl that I have taking in after her father died. Jasmine had a lot of untap potential with her voice. Colin noticed her voice and secretly taught her everything he knows. She was very compassionate towards him and eager to please him. She called him her angel of music. She never saw his face, only heard his voice. He fell in love with her and believed, she felt the same way. Because of him, she was finally the lead on stage to share her beautiful soprano voice." continued Arlene. 

"Didn't she marry that, Viscount?" asked the Priest. Arlene nodded. "During her last performance on that stage doing Colin's "Don Juan, Triumphant", he appeared on the stage and sang with her. Everyone watched. We didn't know what to think or to do. Then we saw her take off his mask. He went nuts. He grabbed Jasmine and they both disappeared, making the chandelier to fall. Destroying the Opera House.  I lent Raoul the way to where Colin might be keeping her. Raoul got Jasmine out of there and Colin was on the run again. The mob went after him but couldn't catch him. My daughter found his mask and show it to me." 

"There were rumors that this Phantom might have died alongside the opera house," said the Priest. "Yeah, well people talk like we know. That wasn't true" she confessed. "You know he's still alive?" he asked. "The Phantom as everyone calls him is a survivor, He will always survive. He can't die. I found him and I came up with a plan to help him to travel to the new world. Manhattan to be exact. I felt that he could finally find somewhere he can belong and start a new" she admitted. "Then my child, that was a sin and a crime" he told her. "let's pray on that and hope you will be welcome in Heaven my child and be forgiven of your sin." 

With tears streaming down her face, she took her other hand on his and said Please Father".