Hi. You clicked on this. Nice. This story is a work in progress. I have like, some of it typed on a different device, soooo... Yeah.

This is my first Fanfic, so try not to be too harsh. Lol.

It will be finished eventually. Sorry for any spelling/grammar errors. I'm typing this on a device with a really aggressive AutoCorrect. I've gone through and edited any mistakes in the first few chapters.

Disclaimer: I don't own Les Misérables. Unfortunately, a man who was alive before I was does.

3:00 am

Cosette woke up with a start. She glanced at her clock. The clock face read 3:00 am. The sound of bath water running filled her ears and the smell of... sewers? She wrinkled her nose. What's going on? Men. Two grown men? One? In the bathroom? She could recognize her father's breathing and... he was obviously straining. Lifting something heavy.

Cosette grabbed her robe resting on the chair in the corner. She slipped a pair of slippers on her feet. She had perfected the art of sneaking out when she would meet Marius in the garden of the Rue Plumet. Marius. Cosette stops. She smiles. Just the thought of Marius makes her blush. Just the thought of Marius makes her blush. She always wanted to get lost in his greenish-grey eyes and run her hands through his hair and kiss each and every one of the freckles dotting his face. No. Stop it, Cosette. You're better than this.

Her feet padded quietly on the floor, the slippers muffling her steps. As she neared the bathroom door, she stopped. The door was almost wide open with muddy footsteps leading straight in. Colette peaked around the cormer. Her heart almost slammed into her throat. Her eyes grew wide and she flew back around the corner. There was her father with an unconscious Marius. Both of them covered in sewage. Her father desperately trying to get it off the both of them.

She let what she just saw sink in for a minute. She had so many questions. Why were they here? Together? Why were they covered in sewage? Why-why-why? The word burned like fire on her tongue. She ran back to her room. Not caring about how loud she was being or how she was going to explain herself if her father caught her. She only wanted to throw herself in Marius's arms and cry until she had nothing left inside her as she has done so many times before. He always knew just what to say to calm her down. But now... She had known he was at the barricades. He must have been injured there. But how did her father know? And that still didn't explain why he was covered in sewage. And if he was injured, there was a possibility that he wouldn't live! Cosette's eyes widened. If Marius didn't live, she would have nothing to live for.

Cosette curled into a little ball and squeezed her eyes shut. Two tears managed to escape out of the corners of her eyes. She tried to clear her mind and fall asleep, but every time, she just kept thinking back to what she is seen. And of her Marius. And how much pain she would feel if he died.

4:00 am

"Cosette! Cosette, wake up." Cosette had managed to fall asleep for about thirty minutes when she woke to her father's voice beckoning her to rise. She rubbed and opened her eyes just to find her father's strained face staring down at her.

"Cosette, you've got to wake up and help me out here."

"Papa, what's going on?" She asked, confused and bleary eyed.

"I'll tell you later. What matters now is that you need to let Marius use your bed. He needs a place to lay down."

With that, Cosette jumped up and practically shoved Marius down on top of her bed. "Gently, Cosette." Here father warned. "He's in a lot of pain. I don't want him hurt." Cosette immediately retracted her hands. She didn't want to hurt her Marius. He meant too much to her.

"Papa?"

"Yes, Cosette?"

"Where will I sleep?" Her father ran his fingers through his hair. "Well, you obviously can't sleep in here." He gestured to the still-unconscious Marius laying on her bed. "I guess you can sleep in my bed and I will sleep on the couch."

"No, papa." She gently placed a hand on his arm. "You seem tired. You've had a long night. You need a good night's sleep. I'll sleep on the couch tonight." Her father's face noticeably relaxed. He planted a small kiss on Cosette's forehead.

"What did I ever do to deserve you?" Cosette merely watched as he slipped silently out of her room and across the hall to his.

Cosette stood and watched until her father's door was completely shut before walking over to Marius. She slipped into bed with him fully intending to spend the night beside her Marius instead of on the couch.

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