It had started to rain on the way to the café, Enjolras and the students had a production line under way for making bullets. When Rosette arrived, shivering and dripping wet. The rifles were now stacked and ready for the uprising. Grantaire was downstairs flirting with a barmaid. Madame Hucheloup, the proprietress of the Cafe Musain was sewing a red revolutionary flag to help the students.
"Grantaire!" Rosette snapped
"For God's sake man! Have some pride!" Grantaire rolled his eyes. His favorite response when it came to Rosette. And went back to his flirtations, with a frustrated sigh Rosette headed upstairs.
"One more day before the storm!" Enjolras was saying as she arrived.
"At the barricades of freedom! When our ranks begin to form- will you take your place with me?" Rosette cleared her throat. Everyone turned,
"I thought you went home." Enjolras said indifferently,
"I must speak with you" Rosette said. And so they returned to the back room.
"What happened? You're soaked!" Enjolras cried
"It's raining amour. My father is going to England. He tried to take me with him."
"So you ran?" Enjolras cried
"Of coarse! I couldn't leave you, our friends our revolution!" Enjolras cupped her cheek.
"I worry about you Ro," he whispered pressing something into her hand. Rosette looked down, in her hand was a beautiful ring on a fine chain.
"It was my mother's, it's silly but she use to say that true love followed this ring wherever it went. She'd want you to have it." Rosette smiled and slipped the chain over her head.
"It's beautiful. Thank you." And with a quick peck on the lips they rejoined the others.
"The time is now! The day is here!" Rosette cried Joly took a tray and collected empty tankards. As he ascended the stairs, Madame Hucheloup tried to get him to give the tankards back. Once upstairs, Joly started to melt the tankards in a pot to make more bullets. Marius entered the ground floor and took the red flag from Madame Hucheloup that she had just finished. The citizens on the ground floor joined the students.
"One day to a new beginning! Raise the flag of freedom high! Every man will be a king! Every man will be a king! There's a new world for the winning! There's a new world to be won! Do you hear the people sing?" Rosette cried as she encouraged the new comers
Marius entered the first floor to join them at last.
"My place is here! I fight with you!" He announced
"It's about time." Rosette mumbled, just then Gavroche burst in all smiles
"Bonjour Mademoiselle Rosette!" The gamin chirped.
"Hello Gavroche, what are you doing here so late? I would have thought Courfeyrac would've taken you home by now." Rosette smiled, much like Courfeyrac, Rosette had a soft spot for the child.
"Nope! I'm gonna be a soldier just like Courfeyrac! I'm gonna fight in the revolution!" Rosette was startled. War was no place for a child a sweet as Gavroche. She sought out Courfeyrac, who looked up and met her eyes from across the room. Rosette arched an eyebrow at the boy's father figure and gestured to Gavroche. Courfeyrac shrugged his, Gavroche-asked-and-I-couldn't-say-no shrug and resumed his work. Sighing Rosette turned back to Gavroche,
"Go help Courfeyrac, we need lots of bullets if we are to win this war." With a curt nod Gavroche scampered off.
"Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in heaven has in store -One more dawn! One more day! One day more!" Rosette said as Enjolras and Marius held their flag at the first floor window with the students beyond them to see that citizens have spilled out of the Cafe Musain into the street and had joined them.
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