Thanks again to everyone who participated by prompting, arting, writing, or reading. Please remember that you can submit you response any time, and it will be posted here! For those of you who have been waiting for this, I appreciate your patience. I hope more of you will go back and read the entries and comment.

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We had 7 artworks and 9 stories!

( And here they are! )

Now go forth, tell everyone "I thought it was you!", thank everyone for their hard work, and post your work to your ljs, other communities, forums, etc.

Thanks again!

Thank you to everyone who participated this round! We got some really quality material, and I'm really proud of everyone who tackled these prompts. Praise, too, goes to the prompters who inspired.

The reveal happens tomorrow, so this is the time to send me any lingering pieces you've got, or let me know that you have already and I've missed you entirely by accident (it's happened, and I'm sorry). If you're not ready but still working, fear not. I will post whenever you send me your completed story/art.

With that, stay tuned!

Title: Be Careful What You Wish For in Fic Exchanges (Because Some Crazy Person Might Actually Write It)
Author/Artist: sparklybee
Canon: ALW stage show, Watchmen comic/movie, Marvel comics
Pairing(s): Erik/Christine
Rating: PG
Summary: Ozymandias, Rorschach, and a special guest invade Erik's lair.
Warnings (if any): This probably only makes sense to three or four people on the planet. Fortunately, the original requester is one of them, so I guess it's peachy. Umm...also, I can be a little snarky towards ALW and the proposed Phantom sequel in this.
Total word count: 2026
Original prompt request number: 50 (for cherie_morte)
Author's/artist's notes (if any): I am not a funny person, but I tried, dang it.

( be careful what you wish for )

Title: The Horror with Holodecks
Author/Artist: cherie_morte
Canon: Phantom of the Opera (Leroux)/Star Trek (The Original Series)
Pairing(s): Kirk/Christine, Erik/Christine, Spock/Daroga? (that one is a joke)…alright, I make a Kirk/Spock joke in the end. I can’t stop slashing people!
Rating: PG
Summary: Kirk decides to take an unorthodox vacation but when it follows him back to the Enterprise, things begin to get out of hand.
Total word count: 2,833
Original prompt request number: 57
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Kirk’s behavior in this story is based somewhat on the episode “City on the Edge of Forever”. I know that holodecks are not strictly a part of TOS canon but supposedly there’s one on the Enterprise and it made sense for the story. I have never seen an episode of The Next Generation and am just taking what I understood from a friend’s explanation of holodecks and running with it—I made up all of the rules for them in this story, and really apologize if you’re a TNG fan and I am bastardizing your series! Also, I’m really sorry that this isn’t more Erik-centric. He’s a big driving force for the piece but he isn’t in it much—I hope that’s ok!
Beta(s) (if any): wutendeskind

( Doctor, I'm well acquainted with human characteristics. I'm frequently inundated by them, but I've trained myself to put up with practically everything. )

Title: Not A Word
Author/Artist: rjdaae
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): N/A
Rating: PG
Summary: The Persian looked at Christine's calm profile in the lamplight. She was reading a little gilt-edged book of a format often used for religious works: The Imitation of Christ, for example. appears in such editions. The Persian could still hear the natural tone in which Erik had said, "to please my wife."
He gently called Christine again, but evidently she was deeply engrossed in her book, because she did not hear him.
Erik came back and gave the Persian a potion to drink, after advising him to say nothing more to "his wife" or anyone else, because it would be very dangerous to everyone's health.
After that, the Persian remembered seeing Erik's black figure and Christine's white one gliding silently across the room and leaning over him and Raoul. He was still very weak and the slightest sounds--the door of the mirror wardrobe squeaking when it opened, for example--gave him a headache. Finally he slept, like Raoul.

Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, Lowell Bair translation, Chapter 27

Warnings (if any): None
Original prompt request number: 1
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches

( not a word )

Title: In the River Styx
Author/Artist: cherie_morte
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): Erik/Christine
Rating: PG
Summary: Erik draws parallels between his relationship with Christine and the Roman myth about Psyche and Eros.
Total word count: 1,148
Original prompt request number: 39
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Influenced by the Psyche/Eros story as told here. Story title taken from the Vladimir Nabokov quote, “One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.” which inspired this story.
Beta(s) (if any): wutendeskind

( One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx. )

Title: How?
Author/Artist: dartle
Canon: Kay
Rating: K
Summary: Erik, caught in his own rope.
Original prompt request number: 2

( how? )

Title: The Strange Case of the Unwelcome Visitors
Author/Artist: darkgondolier
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): None
Rating: PG/K+
Summary: Erik encounters a stuttering Brit, a clumsy, snooping sceneshifter, and a slightly inexperienced murderer. What he doesn't understand is why they keep coming back. Crossover.
Warnings: None
Total word count: 2,234
Original prompt number: 55
Author's notes: Enjoy!

( strange case of the unwelcome visitors )

Title: Those Eyes, They're His!
Author/Artist: metalmyersjason
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): Erik/?
Rating: PG
Summary: His son reveals his secret when the lights go out...
Warnings (if any): None
Original prompt request number: 12
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Photoshop CS4 was used in the creation of this image.

( those eyes, they're his! )

Title: A Disaster Beyond His Imagination
Author/Artist: crysania4
Canon: Leroux/Kay
Pairing(s): Erik/Christine
Rating: G
Summary: Erik attempts to work out his writer's block
Warnings (if any): None
Total word count: 4827
Original prompt request number: 35
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Some of the things Erik goes through here to get through his "composer's block" are things I have done in my years as a composer.

( a disaster beyond his imagination )

Title: Herr Mannelig
Author/Artist: crysania4
Canon: ALW musical
Pairing(s): Erik/Christine
Rating: G
Summary: A nervous Christine declares today Erik's "birthday" and presents him with a gift.
Warnings (if any): None
Total word count: 1984
Original prompt request number: 28
Author's/artist's notes (if any): None, because anything I might say would give clues as to what the gift is!

( Herr Mannelig )

Title: The Muse
Author/Artist: lilithsshadow
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): Erik/Christine
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Erik demonstrates just how much Christine inspires him.
Warnings (if any): Mild nudity and suggestive situation (bondage)
Original prompt request number: 26
Author's/artist's notes (if any): I admit it’s pretty tame. Sorry if you were looking for something hardcore. I just find that it’s rare to see romantic bondage, so I thought it would be a nice opportunity.

( the muse )

Title: A World of Difference
Author/Artist: cherie_morte
Canon: ALW!Stage
Rating: PG-13
Summary: At the end of the final lair, Erik discovers that something just isn't right. Is that clapping he hears? Why are people patting him on the back and telling him it was a good show? He needs to do a curtain call? What's that? Why are all of these people in his lair? He finds out that he's not really Erik at all, but a 21st century actor just playing the role of Erik.
Total word count: 3,778
Original prompt request number: 42
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Character names have been fabricated or taken from The Twilight Zone episode this story is based on. Also, I warn for a potentially offensive racial joke—it is not meant maliciously and does not reflect my personal opinions. I just thought it would be really, really funny and (this being crack!fic) felt no one would take it too seriously. Oh, also, a warning for homosexuality because…you know…men on Broadway…
Beta: wutendeskind

( All the world’s a stage but the play is badly cast. )

Title: Kicking in the Trapdoor
Author/Artist: lilithsshadow
Canon: Leroux-based
Rating: G
Summary: Erik joins a dysfunctional party for Saturday night D&D (3.5).
Warnings (if any): Full of geekdom
Original prompt request number: 29
Beta(s) (if any): zombiecook

( kicking in the trapdoor )

[continued from Part 1]

Title: Shades of Blue
Author/Artist: Midori
Canon: Doctor Who / Phantom of the Opera (Musical or Susan Kay)
Pairing(s): Martha Jones/10th Doctor
Rating: M
Summary: A strange blue box appears in "the Phantom's" domain, and he cannot keep himself from wandering inside. But its occupants sense that a stranger is in their midst! Will they be able to find him before he has them both in his thrall and wreaks havoc upon their lives?
Warnings (if any): Sex. Fairly graphic.
Total word count: 18,476
Original prompt request number: 18

( shades of blue )

Title: Shades of Blue
Author/Artist: Midori
Canon: Doctor Who / Phantom of the Opera (Musical or Susan Kay)
Pairing(s): Martha Jones/10th Doctor
Rating: M
Summary: A strange blue box appears in "the Phantom's" domain, and he cannot keep himself from wandering inside. But its occupants sense that a stranger is in their midst! Will they be able to find him before he has them both in his thrall and wreaks havoc upon their lives?
Warnings (if any): Sex. Fairly graphic.
Total word count: 18,476
Original prompt request number: 18

( shades of blue )


( Erik's song: translation )

Title: All I Wanted…
Author/Artist: lilithsshadow
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Summary: An illustration of the Leroux quote, "All I wanted was to be loved for myself."
Warnings (if any): None
Original prompt request number: Prompt 4
Author's/artist's notes (if any): Poor Erik, all alone. He needs a hug.

( all i wanted )

Title: The House of Stories
Author/Artist: finncullen
Canon: Leroux
Pairing(s): None
Rating: Should be safe for anyone
Summary: A tale of childhood
Warnings (if any): None
Total word count: 3957
Original prompt request number: 24
Author's/artist's notes (if any): I always considered Erik a very unreliable source of information.

( The House of Stories )

Title: Reaching Out
Author/Artist: finncullen
Canon: Musical
Pairing(s): Meg/Christine
Rating: PG-13 (for partial nudity)
Summary: The prompt called for an unrequited love - Christine's mind here is (as usual) elsewhere, while poor Meg is on the verge of taking an irreversible step.
Warnings (if any): Warning, Nipple
Original prompt request number: 32

( Reaching Out )

Thank you so much to everyone who's contributed so far!

It's time to start posting, which means that it's also time to ask for extensions. I'll be spacing out the submissions to allow for more of you to finish.

If you haven't asked for an extension yet, please consider completing your prompts. I'd much rather post late art/stories than none at all.

As before, when all are posted, I'll post a "reveal" and relieve you all of your suspense. Until then, have fun guessing. I hope those of you who wrote fiction will, after this reveal, consider adding your stories to The Fifth Cellar for all to read.

Thanks again to everyone who posted prompts/submitted art and stories/is here to read.