Moonlight Misery

A Twilight and Les Miserables crossover!

Bella and her sister Cossette were very sad. The evil werewolf police chief Javert had taken away all the civil rights of the vampires in Paris. They weren't allowed to have jobs, or live in houses or go shopping. Now they had to live in the sewer and eat sewer rats. And they couldn't go to school anymore. When Bella and Cossette had arrived at shcool that morning,

Everyone had looked at them all weird, and whispered. It had made them feel real bad. Then when class started, Mr Noir, the headmaster had come in and given a lecture of why the vampires had no rights. Then Bella and Cossette had to go home and pack their things to move to the secret vampire caverns below the sewers.

It wasn't too bad in the caverns. They were a bit dark, but vampires see well in the dark so it didn't matter. Everyone they knew had moved down there, and they could go visit and there was secretly installed cable TV that they had jumpwired so they didn't have to pay bills. They also had a cool underground swimming pool that there was no sewer in, because it was too deep below the ground.

But not everything was well. Since they vampires wasn't allowed to go shopping, they couldn't get new clothes. They had to make their own on some old looms they had found in a victorian factory ruin. But they couldn't grow cotton underground because there was no sun. So all the thread was spun from rat fur. Bella and Cossette were allergic to rats, so they had to wear the rags of their old clothes.

When the vampires had lived in the caverns for 10 years, Bella suddenly saw a boy she had never seen before. By then she knew the faces and names of all her neighbours, so she knew this boy was not one of them. He was the most beautiful person she had ever seen. He had wonderful bronze coloured hair, his skin looked like alabaster silk and his face was beautiful.

"My name is Edward," he said. "You are as beautiful as a morning sunrise, what is your name?"

"My name is Bella," Bella said sadly. She was depressed that her clothes were so tattered. They were stitched together from bits of her other clothes. She wanted to look beautiful in front of Edward, because he was so incredibly sexy.

"That is a very beautiful name," said Edward sensitively. "Do you want to join our secret army? My dad is the leader, and we are going to start a revolution for vampire rights!"

"Of course I want to," said Bella. Her heart was soaring. The sexy and beautiful Edward wanted her to join his secret army!

"Come to the pool cave tonight," said Edward. "We are going to have a secret meeting with all the vampires."

"That is fantastic! Said Bella" She was very happy.

Just then a big and muscular vampire and a tall and skinny vampire came dragging in a man who had a bag over his head.

"Who is that under that bag?" Edward asked suspiciously.

"That is Jacob Noir," said the big guy who was named Emmett. "He was spying on us. What are we going to do with him?"

Edwards eyes turned red with anger. He was so handsome when he was angry.

"We have to kill him!" he said.

Bella was sad, because she remembered Jacob from school. He was the headmasters son, but he was kinda nice to her.

"Please don't kill him!" she said. "Maybe we can turn him to our side."

"We must lock him up in the secret dungeon!" said Edward.

They dragged Jacob Noir with the bag over his head down a long, narrow, dark tunnel that ended in a dungeon with lots of cells. All the cells were currently empty, because the vampire resitance hadn't been all that good at catching and imprisoning their emenies. Edward explained that this was why they had come to Paris, to teach the resistance leaders to be better at fighting enemies and werewolves.

Jacob looked really sad in the dungeon, and Bella felt really sorry for him. Just then a guy with a red nose and his hair in a ponytail and a half-consumed bottle of absinthe in his hand came stumbling in the door, singing a shanty. It was Combeferre. He had been in the pool, getting all the vampires rallied for the secret meeting, and was wondering what all the noise was.

"Some werewolf punk has been stirring up crap!" said Emmet with disgust in his voice.

"Chain him up and toss him an old bone," Combeferre said impatiently. "The meeting was supposed to start ten minutes ago."

They all went down the long, dark tunnel again, and came into the Main Street. It was beautiful and old fashioned, with lots of golden gas lamps to give light. Many rooms had been carved into the stone, and there was light behind the windows. The ceiling was painted with scarlet and gold. The streets were tiled with marble. Even if they had to live underground, the vampires wanted to do it in style.

The entrance to the pool cave was right behind an old pub. Bella had been there a few times before, when her clothes hadn't been so worn out. She used to have a pink bikini, but it had become transparent over the years. However, they weren't there to swim. Although, a few people were in the pool, kind of not paying attention to the meeting going on.

"This is Carlisle Cullen," said Combeferre, introducing Edward's dad. "He is our new resistance leader, and is going to help us get rid of Javert and the werewolves!"

All the vampires cheered. Bella and Edward sat in the back of the cave. There were lovely old velvet seats in there, because the vampires liked hanging out by the pool and sometimes they had concerts in that cave with the water as a beautiful backdrop. The cave had really ood accoustics. But now the seats were worn out and some had the velvet replaced with rat cloth. In the darkness, nobody could see that Bella and Edward were holding hands. They were a bit shy, and didn't want nobody else to know that they liked each other that way yet.

It was really exiting to be part of a grand plan, and Edward's father was a good at giving speeches. He explained why it was wrong to exile the vampires to the caverns, even if the caverns was a nice place. Because vampires in Paris should be allowed to travel outside and see the world just like humans and werewolves could.

"We are going to dig a new tunnel," Carlisle explained. "It will take us out of Paris, so we can at least get out in the world again. But we will have to fight Javert and his evil reign if we are going to live freely as vampires in Paris again."

"Where will the new tunnel lead us?" Marius asked.

"It will come up in the basement of a hotel run by vampires in a small village outside Paris," Carlisle said. "We can trade with the humans there, because they are not against us."

Suddenly two girls came into the cave. It was Alice and her sister Eponine who hadn't heard of the meeting and were going to take a bath. There was nothing to do at home, because their parents were watching The Bold And The Beautiful. They didn't like to be disturbed when that was on, which was all the time.

"You can't swim here tonight!" said Combeferre, "Because we are planning the revolution."

Eponine really liked Marius a lot, so she pretended to be interested in the speech so she could sit next to him. Alice ended up sitting next to Edward's brother Jasper, and they were looking at each other a lot. Bella didn't like that Eponine sat with Marius, because she knew that Cosette was in love with him. Cosette was even more shy than Bella, and was very scared of talking when she met him.

After the meeting, Edward walked Bella home. She was secretly hoping that he would kiss her when he said goodnight, but he only gave her a peck on the cheek. Bella's dad Réné and her mother Charline were watching The Phantom of the Opera on DVD when she came home. It was very depressing, so she went to bed. In her dreams she and Edward walked through the streets of a free Paris in spring, the petals of cherry blossoms falling like confetti around them.

The next morning, Bella woke up in her big four-poster bed that was draped in scarlet velvet curtains with gold embroidery. She blushed when she remembered the dream she had dreamt about Edward. She hoped he hadn't had the same dream about her, because then he would know and that would be awkward. She went into the bathroom, which was like a miniature version of the pool cave. It had black marble floor tiles with silver inlays, and niches for candles were carved into the walls. Bella sighed when she saw they they were out of lavender bath salts. Cossette was always greedy about it.

After her morning bath, Bella went into the kitchen to grab some rice puffs for breakfast while there was still some left. René was frying rat sausages and beans, and the smell made her feel a little sad. She missed the days when they could have real bacon every day, although she usually had toast and a glass of blood-orange juice. Cosette was sitting at the table, scribbling on a piece of paper. When Bella leaned over to see, she quickly curled the paper into a ball and threw it into the fire.

"You were writing a poem about Marius, weren't you?" Bella asked.

"I was not!" Cosette protested. "I couldn't care less about that air-headed bufoon. Besides, he's going out with that stupid tart Lorraine!"

"Nu-uh!" said Bella. "They broke up last week, because she thought he had cheated on her with Jessique."

"He would never do that," Cosette said with conviction. Her eyes revealed a lot of sadness and disappointment, but also a glimmer of hope.

"No, he didn't," Bella stated triumphantly. "Jessique was actually sleeping with that filthy muttMichél Neuton. Remember he used to like me? Bwwwrrr!"

"Yes!" Said Cosette. "He carved an image of you in the wall behind the laundry room, and it didn't look anything like you."

Bella shuddered at the memory. It had actually looked quite a bit like her, but it made her look like she had really lank hair and one eye was clearly bigger than the other. She had been really scared that she actually looked like that, and sat for hours every day staring at her reflection to see if her eyes were the same size. Eventually, Charline had removed the bathroom mirror, and Bella knew very well it was because she was deformed and Charline didn't want her to look at her own face and get depressed. It had made her feel really insecure around people, and since that she had hated Michél. Her rat-allergy and ragged clothes didn't exactly make her feel any better.

But now she was secretly dating the beautiful and attractive Edward, and was part of his dad's secret resistance. She was feeling good about life again. It was time to ask René if he wanted to make himself useful to the community, and help dig the tunnel. But René didn't react as she had hoped. He wanted to know why he hadn't been told that there was a secret resistance army being assembled, when he was chief of the vampire police in Paris. Bella suspected it had something to do with the fact that he had used to hang out with werewolves a lot before the fall-out. At least he had an oportunity to get them to trust him again by working for the vampire cause.

René stomped out of the house to go and have a chat with Carlisle Cullen about how things really worked in subterranean Paris, and Bella decided to slip out before Charline gave her any chores to do. Maybe she would bump into Edward.