Disclaimer: I don't own Les Miserables.
It was 3 years since Marius and Cosette had gotten married and now she was pregnant. It was their first child.
Not even their first child but their first set of children. Cosette was having twins. She would be having a girl and a boy. There was some debate about the name. Marius suggested Eponine for a little girl and Enjolras for a boy. Cosette was LESS THEN HAPPY about that idea. She wanted to name the baby after her mother and father, both of whom were gone. Jean and Fantine would be the names that Cosette picked out.
"Did you notice her attitude," Marius's friend Clovis questioned.
"Her attitude?"
"Yes. She talked back when you chose the names for those children"
"First of all I didn't 'chose' the names. I suggested some names that I thought would be good. Secondly she didn't talk back. She expressed her opinion"
"I don't see why you don't just dunk her," Clovis said, "She'll learn her lesson from it"
"Because I'm not her master. She is my equal and because she doesn't have a lesson she needs to learn. She has every right to her opinion.
"I will never understand you liberal people," Clovis said, "We've been doing things the same way for many years. Why change it?"
"Exactly. I have been running my home as a partnership for many years. It has worked. So why would I change it. If I have a daughter I don't want Fantine-"
"You're seriously going to let her have her way?"
"It's an issue that is important to her. I will request to use Eponine or Enjolras for the middle name. I don't think she'll have trouble with that.
Nine months later Fantine Eponine came into the world at 7:39 PM. She was born breathing and beautiful. Seventeen minutes later her brother Jean Enjolaras made his way into the world. Looking at Cosette Marius knew two things. First, she was his equal and second... in many ways she was his better. He couldn't push a baby out of him and even if he could... she could do it much better.