It was a very slow burn for Erik to finally open up to Darius- from their first meeting all those years ago to now he had taken a while to finally think of him as a friend, it wasn't until very recently that the masked dragon had noticed his heart betraying his cold nature.
Darius had been making him feel very strange things, over a certain amount of weeks Erik had found himself in the actor's company alot more often than when he just used to hand over completed music, and tonight was just about to cement these new feelings as Darius had come to visit his tower, with a rose in hand an a passionate look in his eye.

Erik turned and questioned the entrance, to which was replied with quite a heartfelt speech recollecting the times they had spent together and all the things the Phantom was dedicated to in this theatre, his heart pounded at his friend's words, his life had been unkind and Erik had walls people rarely got over but this man seemed to be knocking them down at every turn.

One thing led to another and the dragons had found themselves with their hands interlocked, Darius went to brush his hand through Erik's hair but wound up hitting his mask before he takes notice of the little spot where it exposed one of the ends of his mangled face, mentioning how he had never seen under it in all these decades.
The grey dragon winces and closes his eyes shut- expecting the worst reaction when it is peeled from him but instead he feels... a kiss?
All those walls, all that time forced to feel alone and cold comes crumbling down as his whole body washes over with such a warm sensation that he just sobs, clutching at his newfound lover's body and just repeating one single word to him- "Thankyou"