A/N: I know Valjean wasn't at Marius and Cosette's wedding, but this is just what I imagine him thinking while they were getting married…


Gillenormand: All right, all right, that's what I'm talking about! Now everyone give it up for the father of the bride, Ultime Fauchelevent!

Valjean: A toast to the groom

Company: To the groom, to the groom, to the groom

Valjean: To the bride

Company: To the bride, to the bride, to the bride

Valjean: From your father

Company: Ultime Fauchelevent

Valjean: Who is always by your side

Company: By your side, by your side

Valjean: To your union

Company: To your union (Les Amis ghosts: To the revolution!)

Valjean: And the hope that you provide

Company: You provide, you provide

Valjean: May you always (always) be satisfied

Company: Rewind…

Valjean & Eponine: I remember that night, I just might, I remember that night, I just might

I remember that night, I remember that -

I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days

I remember those student boys shouting in the streets and building barricades

I remember that dreamlike lantern light, like a dream that you can't quite place

Eponine: But M'sieur Marius, I'll never forget the first time I saw your face

I have never been the same, intelligent eyes found my hunger-pang frame

And when you said hi, I forgot my dang name

Set my heart aflame, every part aflame, this is not a game

Marius: You strike me as a girl who knows her way around

Eponine: I'm sure I don't know what you mean, you forget yourself

Marius: I need help finding someone in this town

Eponine: Is that right? I know my way around

Marius: My name's Marius Pontmercy

Eponine: Eponine Thenardier

Marius: Where's your family stay?

Eponine: Unimportant, but Javert is on the way, so get away, get away

So so so - so this is what it feels like to match wits with a student and a lawyer

What the hell is the catch? It's the feeling of freedom, of seeing the light

It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right?

The conversation lasted two minutes, maybe three minutes

Everything we said in total agreement

It's a dream and it's a bit of a dance, a bit of a posture, a bit of a stance

I'm trying to flirt, but he won't give me a chance

He asked about my family, and I couldn't answer

My hands started fidgeting, I looked askance

We're penniless, we're flying by the seat of our pants.

Handsome, and boy does he know it, peach fuzz and he can't even grow it

Valjean: I wanna get us far away from this place

Then I turn and see my daughter's face and she is

Cosette: Helpless

Eponine: And I know he is

Marius: Helpless

Valjean: And her eyes are just

Cosette: Helpless

Eponine: And I realize

Valjean & Eponine: Three fundamental truths at the exact same time

Marius: Where are you taking me?

Eponine: I'm about to change your life.

Marius: Then by all means, lead the way.

Company: Number one!

Valjean: She's a girl in a world in which her only job is to marry rich

Locked up in a convent she'll have no fun, living like a nun

'Cause she's the sweetest and the prettiest, and the gossip here in Paris is insidious

And I used to be penniless, but that wouldn't make her love me any less

Cosette: Cosette Fauchelevent. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Marius: Cosette?

Eponine: We were children together…

Company: Number two!

Eponine: He's after her 'cause she's a flawless beauty

She has a lot of status, I'd have to be naive to set that aside, maybe that is why

I introduce him to Cosette, now that's his bride

Nice going, 'Ponine, your dad was right, you will never be satisfied

Cosette: Thank you for what you're doing.

Marius: If it takes fighting a revolution for us to meet, it will have been worth it.

Eponine: I'll leave you to it.

Company: Number three!

Valjean: I know my daughter like I know my own mind

You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind

If I let him die tomorrow, she'd be silently resigned, stay confined

She would say "I'm fine", she'd be lying

Eponine: But when I fantasize at night, it's Marius's eyes

As I romanticize what might have been if I hadn't sized him up so quickly

At least now Marius has a wife

Valjean: At least I keep her eyes in my life…

Eponine: To the groom!

Company: To the groom, to the groom, to the groom

Valjean: To the bride!

Company: To the bride, to the bride, to the bride

Valjean: From your father

Eponine: And Eponine

Company: (Your father/And Eponine)

Valjean: Who is always by your side

Company: By your side, by your side

Eponine: To your union!

Company: To the union! (Les Amis ghosts: To the revolution!)

Valjean: And the hope that you provide

Company: You provide, you provide

Valjean & Eponine: May you always (always) be satisfied.

And I know (she'll/he'll) be happy at (his/her) side

And I know I will never be satisfied, I will never be satisfied.