love never dies

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  and christine and the phantom gaze at one another for the first time in ten years. a long, lingering gaze. then:
  
  christine:
  i should have known that you'd be here.
  i should have known it all along.
  this whole arrangement bears your stamp.
  you're in each measure of that song.
  how dare you try and claim me now!
  how dare you come invade my life!
  
  phantom:
  oh, christine...
  my christine..!
  in that time when the world thought me dead,
  my christine,
  on the night just before you were wed
  ah, christine!
  you came and found where i hid,
  don't you deny that you did,
  that long ago night..!
  
  christine:
  (remembering) that night...
  
  phantom:
  once, there was a night,
  beneath a moonless sky,
  too dark to see a thing,
  too dark to even try.
  
  christine:
  i stole to your side.
  to tell you i must go.
  i couldn't see you face,
  but sensed you even so.
  and i touched you
  
  phantom:
  and i felt you
  
  christine & phantom:
  and i heard those ravishing refrains...
  
  christine:
  the music of your pulse
  
  phantom:
  the singing in your veins
  
  christine:
  and i held you
  
  phantom:
  and i touched you
  
  christine:
  and embraced you
  
  phantom:
  and i felt you
  
  christine & phantom:
  and with ev'ry breath and ev'ry sigh
  
  christine:
  i felt no longer scared...
  
  phantom
  i felt no longer shy...
  
  christine & phantom
  at last, our feelings bared
  beneath the moonless sky
  
  christine:
  and, blind in the dark,
  as soul gazed into soul,
  i looked into your heart,
  and saw you pure and whole.
  
  phantom:
  cloaked under the night,
  with nothing to suppress,
  a woman and a man,
  no more and yet... no less.
  and i kissed you
  
  christine:
  and caressed you
  
  phantom & christine:
  and the world around us fell away.
  we said things in the dark
  we never dared to say.
  
  phantom:
  and i caught you
  
  christine:
  and i kissed you
  
  phantom:
  and i took you
  
  christine:
  and caressed you
  
  phantom & christine:
  with a need too urgent to deny.
  and nothing mattered then,
  except for you and i,
  again and then again,
  beneath the moonless sky.
  
  phantom:
  and when it was done,
  before the sun could rise,
  ashamed of what i was,
  afraid to see your eyes,
  i stood while you slept,
  and whispered a good bye.
  and slipped into the dark
  beneath the moonless sky.
  
  christine:
  and i loved you.
  yes, i loved you!
  i'd have followed anywhere you led.
  i woke to swear my love,
  and found you gone instead.
  
  phantom:
  and i loved you!
  
  christine:
  oh, i loved you!
  
  phantom:
  and i left you!
  
  christine:
  how i loved you!
  
  phantom:
  and i had to...
  both of us knew why...
  
  christine:
  we both knew why...
  
  phantom & christine:
  and yet i won't regret,
  from now until i die,
  the night i can't forget
  beneath the moonless sky.
  
  phnatom:
  and now?
  
  christine:
  how can you talk of now?
  for us (she breaks off)
  there is no now.
  
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