Title- Éponine and Her Romeo
A.N This is my first attempt at fanfiction! So please be gentle! Let me know what you guys think! Constructive criticism is good and will only help me improve! Let me know if you have any ideas for this fic. It will be a few chapters long.
Disclaimer! I do not know Les Miserables! Wish I did!
Summary- Éponine growing up loved reading the story of Romeo and Juliet. But as time passed she stopped believing in love stories, that was until the day she meet Enjolras. AU setting
Chapter 1:
Éponine Thenardier had very few happy memories of her childhood. She remembers the day Cossette came to live with her family. The poor girl was so thin, but she had beautiful blue eyes, and dirty blonde hair. The two girls were not supposed to be friends, but when Madame Thenardier or Thenardier himself were not around the two girls would play games, as through they were actually sisters. Éponine was so sad the day that the man came and took Cossette. She knew that Cossette would begin to live a better life under another roof, but it did not ease Éponine's pain nonetheless.
The next set of happy memories that Éponine had were the births of her sister, and three younger bothers. Azelma, Gavroche, Peter, and Jacques. They each brought such happiness to her life. No matter how hard things were in the Thenardier household because of her Papa's drinking, or the lack of money, Éponine's siblings always brought her happiness.
Her last happy memory was when she read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Éponine cried after she finished the book. For a young girl, she loved the idea that two teenagers could fall in love at first sight and would give-up their lives to be together. To a young girl who had nothing she wanted someone to be her Romeo.
As Éponine grew up she stopped believing in love, between her father's beatings, the starvation, her fathers drunken slurs, and stealing to feed her siblings. She had found a job at the Musian. She worked in the back and the kitchen cooking and cleaning. At the Musian is where she met the Les Amis, and Marius when she finally upgraded to waitressing. She knew that she was a street rat who had to take responsibility for her siblings, and that she would never find her Romeo.
That was until the day she meet Marius Pontmercy. Éponine was so in awe of his kindness, his sweet smile, and his ability to look through the dirt and grime. She feel for him the second she meet him. He was helping Gavroche out of a jam, after a shopkeeper saw him stealing his apples. Marius paid for the apples and gave the shopkeeper something extra for all the trouble. Éponine went to thank him and pay him with what little she had, but he turned her down. He then recognized her from the Musian. She remembered smiling at him, felt her heart race. After that Éponine knew that she fell hard for Marius Pontmercy, but little did she know that her life was about change.
Éponine worked at the Musian early in the morning, and very late at night. This is the time Marius would come in for coffee and breakfast. He was one of the few patrons in the morning, giving Éponine time to talk to him. She would sit with Marius while he ate and talked about University life. Éponine loved to listen to his stories. She was determined to save enough money so that her siblings would be able to go. She had already in a few weeks saved enough money to rent the apartment above the café, and to put more than enough food on the table. Now with Azelma working they were starting to buy furniture and clothes. Life was getting better for Éponine especially when Marius was around. Éponine enjoyed his company and since he never put her down, and listened to her when she spoke. Marius treated her like a human being, something that her parents never treated her as. Her parents had just treated her like she was dirt.
When Marius left after his meal. Éponine continued to work. She finished around 5 p.m. for the Les Amis came in for their dinner, meeting, and drinks. Éponine never served them but she would only wave to Marius. When the group did come when she was working late, they took the only table large enough to hold the big group, which was in another waitress's section. She knew the other group members by their faces, but never spoke to them. She knew that she was from the gutter, and that they were from the highest class in society. Just because Marius was from the upper crust of society and spoke to her does not mean that everyone from high society that he socialized with would be has kind to Éponine.
Éponine waited for Musichetta to come to start her shift. As soon as she saw the redhead at the door she started to walk up the stairs to her apartment, when she heard Marius call her name, she turned around.
"Éponine!" Marius yelled. He was smiling right at her, and her made her heart beat so fast.
"Marius!" Éponine said smiling.
"How are you doing today?" he asked.
"Very good thank you." She told him.
"Éponine I need to talk to you about something." He said.
"Sure." She spoke.
"I meet this girl the other day. She is wonderful. Her name is Cossette. She said that she knew you, and that she lived with your family for sometime!" he told her.
Éponine was in such shook. She could not believe what she was hearing. She had not though about her old friend in such a long time. She had a million questions to ask Marius.
"Mari…" she began before she was cut off by one of his friends, whom she had never seen before.
"Mari…." His friend began until he started to stare at Éponine. Éponine looked at his friend. He was tall, strong build, blonde curly hair, a well-defined face, the most piercing blue eyes, and wore a red jacket. Éponine look right into his eyes, and never felt so lost, but also never so complete. There was something about this handsome stranger's eyes that she could just lose herself in. She knew that one moment that her life was going to change. She knew that she would never look at Marius the same way again. She felt like Juliet when she first laid eyes on Romeo. Éponine looked at the man's face and she knew that he was just as awe struck as her. The two of them looked into each other's eyes, as the young man grabbed her hand to kiss it, both of them ignoring Marius as he spoke.
TBC