A.N./ Here's the real link to the song. Last time, by accident I erased half the link. Sorry about that. Please check out this song. I just love this song. /w2Yh4exnBU0

Here's the chapter!

P.s. My word of advice to you is that if you get scared easily, don't read this before you go to sleep. It's really not that scary but it's sort of creepy in my opinion.

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It Watches

Éponine mouthed the words on the pages. She was currently reading the Bible and was in the book of Esther. She finished reading that page and shut the book. She made sure the door was firmly shut. Turning of her bedside lamp, she closed her eyes dozing into a peaceful sleep.

Sometime, during the night, the door creaked open. Something or someone was watching her through the doorway. Through her blurry vision she could make out a black figure waiting. The figure crept up to her room door.

"You'll never live to finish reading the Bible. You won't finish. Mark my word, girl. You won't finish reading that so-called book of promises." The figure said, backing out of the room, leaving the door wide open.

The next morning, when Éponine woke up, her door was wide open. She didn't know if it was a dream or not but when she asked M. Fauchelevent and Cosette if they had opened the door to her room in the night, they said they hadn't. Brushing off her strange predicament, she headed to her job as a waitress at the café. The day passed with barely any problems and soon she was back at home. Éponine spent the rest of the evening relaxing and reading the Bible. She was reading extremely fast and had already finished reading the books of Esther and started on the book of Job. The night flew back and Éponine settled herself into bed. She secured her door, just to make sure, and fell asleep. But the shadow spoke again. The thing that happened the night before repeated itself. The figure opened the door and told Éponine that she wouldn't live to see the day she finished the book of 'lies'. And again, the next morning, the door was wide open.

It happened again the next night. The mysterious figure told her the same thing. The shadow said that she wouldn't live to finish reading it. And again Éponine woke up with her door wide open.

Éponine was beginning to get scared. What did the figure mean, she wouldn't live to see the day she finished reading the Bible?

Éponine Thenardier is not afraid of anything. So, why is that voice scaring her? Éponine thought long and hard. Then, the realization clicked in her brain. The voice, the figure, they talked the same. They both had a mysterious, whimsical sounding voice. This 'person' wanted something from her. But what did they want?

The mysterious figure's voice plagued her mind for days after. The figure didn't come back after the third time but its voice was still always on her mind.

During her shift at the Musain the next day, she was extremely jumpy. A slight noise would make her around to make sure there wasn't anybody out to get her.

Enjolras noticed that when he entered the café, Éponine jumped, literally jumped, when she heard the chimes ding.

"Oh, it's just you." She breathed a sigh of relief.

"May I say, the way you said it, sounded like you were disappointed that 'it's just me'." He teased.

"Oh, stop it." She said whacking his arm with the dish towel she was holding.

"Seriously, Ép, what's wrong?" He asked with genuine concern oozing out of the words.

"Nothing you need to worry about. Besides, I'm Éponine Thenardier, I can handle anything. Now leave, I need to do my job. Not all of us have rich parents willing to give you money at the snap of a finger." She said heading over to where a person sat waiting for someone to fulfill their beverage orders.

"Okay, then. Have it your way." He called out.

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She looked over her right shoulder then her left as she hurried from the café. Éponine had gotten off her shift late because her coworker had fallen down some stairs in the middle of serving a group of students their drinks. Éponine decided to be nice for once and waited for 4 hours in the emergency room with the poor girl. And that resulted in Éponine having to work longer because of the time she took off to help her coworker. Why she decided to stay with her coworker was beyond her. She didn't even know the girl's first name! But she started to regret her decision because she could see shadows lurking around in the alleys. One of the shadows walked up to her. Not in a frightening manner but very mysteriously.

"I'm here." The shadow said with a whimsical voice.

Éponine spun around. As she was related to some not-so nice people and knew what could happen when alone in alleyway with some weirdo, Éponine searched quickly for her nearest escape route. The exit she found was adjacent to the shadow. Meaning the exit was closer to the shadow then her. So, it really wasn't much of an escape route. With all the courage she could muster, Éponine took two steps toward the shadow. She was directly under the shadow's nose. Being as short as she was, Éponine could feel the breath of the shadow on her face.

"You're the voice. You're the figure. You're the person who haunts my mind all the time, scaring me!" She screeched.

"My dear,sweet girl. Don't get too worked up. I'm just in human form to your eyes right now. Even though it looks like I'm a regular person, I'm actually not. Meaning, you can't hurt me." The shadow explained.

"I never thought this would happen to me. The devil himself is trying to tempt me just like in the Bible days. The devil sent my worst nightmare to earth to try and convince me he is better than anyone else. And that is because you are darkness. And darkness has tried to tempt me many times but this time it won't work. You can't trick me into your evil ways." She shot back.

"Well, as I said before I'll be back. And I'll be watching." The shadow said disappearing into the night.

A.N./ Sorry if this chapter offended anyone or if it sounded weird or cliché. But the figure telling Éponine she wouldn't live to finish reading the Bible, actually happened to someone I know. This person was 8 or 9 when it happened and he was halfway through the Bible. (I don't know if the book of Esther is halfway or not but I really like that book in the Bible so I used that.) He remembered closing his door and when he woke up the door was open. He asked his parents if they opened it and they didn't. He doesn't sleepwalk and it wasn't a dream. Something supernatural happened.

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Also, please tell me if you were confused with this chapter. Sometimes, I'll write something and it will make sense inside my head but in words it doesn't make sense and I know what I meant to write so I won't know there is a mistake. Like that sentence. In my head it made perfect sense but now that I wrote it down, it just sounds like rambling. I'm gonna stop talking now...

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