Hey this is my first try at a Fanfic and I had to make it with Eponine and Enjolras because they have always had a special place and they are the best untold love story ever. Hope you like it!
xxxx
A young girl who could be no older than twenty slowly picked her way down a small paved street towards a tall building at the end with the word ABC cafe in big letters. Her bare feet made no sound as they hit the ground. The girl was dresses in a long ragged dress that was the colour of mud with just a small dark green shawl thrown over her shoulders to protect her from the cold autumn air. The girls name was Eponine. She brushed a lock of her tangled dark brown hair away from her eyes.
Marius is here I know it. He always is. Eponine thought. Marius was the only man in the world who she had thought of lovingly in a long time, ever since her papa had made them move to Paris. By move she meant run from the police from the law. Suddenly Eponine realised that she was standing in front of the door to the cafe and slowly pushed it open and walked in. To anyone who didn't know the reason people were in this cafe it would seem like a casual group of school boys talking and one teaching the others. But to those who did know, this was a place of revolution, a place where people went against the law to fight for those who were downtrodden and on the streets. People like Eponine.
All the men were on the second floor listening to a man with long curly blonde hair and blue eyes. Enjolras! The rebel leader of sorts. As Eponine sat on a stool next to a tall boy with sharp handsome features, kind brown eyes and dark brown hair, he turned around.
"Hey 'ponine. Where have you been? Enjolras is just getting to the best part. This is the most people who have listened in ages" Eponine smiled at the use of his pet name for her and whispered "I've been working for Papa" Marius only nodded at this thinking she meant at his pub instead of what she had really been doing. Pick pocketing rich men so she could give her father something instead of starving and being beaten every day. It was that or being a whore and Eponine didn't feel like that was an option she wanted to follow.
Eponine turned her attention to what Enjolras was saying. "...the people are starving and being mistreated. They have no means of survival and they don't realise that we could help them-that we could lead them to the light and help them be treated equally in our country." Eponine heard that and switched her mind off. She wasn't going to listen to a school boy who had no idea what it was like on the streets. She did as she had been on the streets since she was eleven earning for her family and for her own life. She didn't think the people on the streets would follow these boys even if they did want their lives changed.
Marius looked across at Eponine as he stood up at the end of the meeting. The girl had a blank look on her face but her brown eyes were full of fire. "Mademoiselle? Are you planning on sleeping here tonight?" Eponine blinked and shifted her head so she could she Marius. "Sorry Monsieur... I must have dozed off during the preaching." Enjolras who was passing jerked his head at the sound of a woman calling his speech a preaching. He saw a pretty young woman with his friend Marius. Enjolras thought for a moment then recalled her name was Eponine and she was a street urchin. He couldn't be angry at her for something she didn't understand. Marius laughed and held out his hand to the woman and together they strode to the stairs and disappeared from his sight.
As Marius stepped into the cold night he saw Eponine jump from the step behind him. He smiled at her childlike antics and noticed that living on the streets didn't seem to get her down. "'Ponine?" Eponine turned to look at him and he continued "What have you got against Enjolras' cause since you know what it's like?" Eponine stared at him like he was mad then answered him, "Monsieur Marius, Enjolras knows nothing of the streets and what people have to do to stay alive and what the consequences are. If we steal we are likely to be locked up in jail and if we don't we starve. That man has never had to experience that. The people are too scared to follow him!" Marius turned and saw Enjolras was standing nearby listening to the girl's speech too. He suddenly turned and walked stoutly down an alley that Marius had never seen him go down before. Marius laughed suddenly, startling Eponine, "Really 'Ponine, you don't realise that when people see what Enjolras wants to do they will follow him." With that Marius walked away leaving Eponine hurt and watching him walk away her heart breaking.