Les Miserables
Eponine's Journey
My mind is racing like a stagecoach as I run through the streets of Paris.
I have to reach Marius before it is too late and tell him what I feel whenever I see him.
In the distance I can hear the occasional musket shot fired though I can not tell which sides shoots when. I press on hoping to get to the Students and other citizens of Paris who are brave to stand up to the Government and the Army, before they erect a barricade or some sort of barrier.
There – I can just make out a crowd of people – soldiers! Damn them, before they see me, I dart down a side-street and run behind buildings hoping they will not hear the sound of my feet as they hit the cobbled pavement.
At last, I see a gap in the soldiers' lines. I stop at the end of a street and peer round the corner. No one is there. Suddenly there he is my only true love. Marius is stood at the top of the barricade. Loud bangs tell me that the soldiers are shooting at him, but they miss. Before they have a chance to reload, I run towards the barricade hoping to climb it.
A huge pain shoots up my side, I've been shot. As I slip, I see Marius directing fire on the small group that shot me. He himself comes down and picks me gently up and over to safety on their side of the barricade.
But it is too late, I feel myself slipping away, even though it is a warm night, I am getting colder. He tells me that I will be alright and that I will live for a hundred years, but I tell him that it does not matter. The rain can hardly hurt me now.
I try to tell him this, but before I can complete the words, I slip away safe in his arms… and his embrace at last.