A/N Hello! I hoped you all liked the first chapter and I hope it wasn't too boring. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR REVIEWING! And also favoriting and following! Thank you so much! As usual, pretty please review, fave and follow. They mean a LOT to me and please, if you have suggestions, please tell me. I'd love to hear about how you think of this. Anyways, thank you once again! Oh, and this one's gonna be short. Sorry! :P
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1832
It was the year 1832. The year everything changed. It was now nine years since Cosette and Favorite had met Monsieur Madeleine and nine years since he secretly married Favorite. It was two years after the wedding that Favorite died. Both Monsieur Madeleine and Cosette were in grief. The grief was barely explainable. It was also the year everything went wild. Monsieur Madeleine was being hunted down by an inspector called Javert. Nobody knew the story behind that but Monsieur Madeleine kept moving with Cosette and changing his name to something else every time they moved. It was one day that Cosette's life changed forever. The moving had no effect on her but that particular day made her life take a massive turn. It was a sunny morning in the Luxembourg garden. Cosette and Monsieur Fauchelevant (Monsieur Madeleine's name at that time) were taking a walk in the Luxembourg garden. Cosette was already a young woman with rosier cheeks, greener and bigger eyes and longer blond hair. Monsieur Fauchelevant was in his late forties or early fifties and he resigned from being the mayor after Favorite's death. Cosette stopped once in a while to admire the flowers and she'd picked one and put it in her hair. Monsieur Fauchelevant walked behind her, not leaving any space between them. He didn't want to lose her even though he knew that she could take care of herself. Both of them settled on a bench near a large tree and Monsieur Fauchelevant pulled out a book to read quietly. "Papa, can I take a walk some more? I am starting to feel a bit bored." Cosette suddenly spoke. Monsieur Fauchelevant looked up from his book at Cosette, nodded and continued to read. Cosette stood up from the bench and continued walking. Cosette took a book along with her on the walk and she was reading it while she was strolling. Suddenly, she crashed into a man. "Goodness! Are you alright, Mademoiselle?" The man asked. Cosette rubbed her eyes and stood up without assistance. She picked her book up from the grass and brushed her hair out of her eyes. She studied the man carefully and he looked somewhat familiar to her but it didn't occur to her at all that they'd met before. The man, for his part, recognized her, too. The man cleared his throat. "I'd better be going. It was really nice to see you. Perhaps again." He said and walked away. Cosette smiled and waved after him. She had a feeling they'd met before but she couldn't tell if it was just the spark of love she felt in her or just the feeling that they'd met. She sighed and found her way back to Monsieur Fauchelevant, smiling. He looked up from his book as Cosette sat down next to him. "What made you so joyful today, dear Cosette?" He asked her, setting his book down on the bench. Cosette went red and turned away from him. "Oh, it was nothing, father. I just...I met a stranger but I think I've met him before. Way back when we were kids. It's a mere memory that has pretty much faded already but I still recall some of it." Cosette said. Monsieur Fauchelevant froze in horror as she started ranting about love and the man she just met. He didn't want anyone to get in his way of loving Cosette but it seemed as if someone already had. His thoughts went completely wild and he was unable to focus. "Papa? Are you alright?" Cosette asked, breaking him from his thoughts. "Hmm? What? Oh, I'm perfectly fine." He replied, sweat dripping down his temples. Little did Cosette know that someone was watching her when the encounter with the man happened.
I'm so sorry that I made this one short but I promise I have a lot more to come. :)
