New 'Love Never Dies' story

I really didn't intend to subject myself (or Raoul) to any more 'Love Never Dies'-based plots... but I was testing the Fanfiction.net search engine to see if it threw up any of my stories, as one does, and came across a bizarre fiction in which a grown-up Gustave falls in love with Raoul's daughter by a second marriage — who, by some genetic fluke, happens to look exactly like Raoul's first wife, to whom she is totally unrelated. Then the Phantom murders Raoul and rapes his daughter under the impression that she is Christine, but this is fine because he dies of a heart attack due to all the excitement and Gustave is happy to bring up the baby who is his half-sister and to marry his step-sister...
What's rather worrying is that I actually thought it was pretty well-written (with Raoul in character :-p) until it got to that last jaw-dropping plot development :-P

And some trace of this got weirdly cross-fertilised with emeraldphan's idea about a story with Raoul looking back from the deck of the ship as he returns alone to Paris, giving me the idea for what I believe is an entirely new twist on the ending of "Love Never Dies"...
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The Three Deaths of Anita Blake

Came across my notes on an early Anita Blake fan-fiction... http://igenlode.livejournal.com/14323.html
(https://igenlode.dreamwidth.org/14223.html)


Just for the record - the 'three deaths' of Anita Blake were:

1. Shot by Edward in a suicide pact to save them from being eaten alive by ghouls
   
2. Her bond with Jean-Claude brings her back into half-life: she tries hard to get him to release her (having no wish to spend eternity trapped aware in a rotting body), but in the end her consciousness clings to existence despite her will -- it's like trying to kill yourself by holding your breath.
   Jean-Claude takes drastic action to force her to 'let go', and her last memory is of fleeing from him in terror.
   
3. Jean-Claude then proceeds to have Anita raised as a zombie by one of her fellow-animators in order that he can apologise to her for what he was forced to do -- he truly was trying to carry out her own express wishes, allowing her to find true death rather than exist in his world as one of the undead. The story ends with the two of them hand in hand, awaiting the moment when she will be put back into her grave: it's a peaceful moment, with Anita ruefully amused and resigned.