"Come on" Gavroche smiled rushing forwards through the crowd of the market road that lead through to the square. Leola and Annabelle followed him, giggling to each other at the excitement of seeing the rally. Gavroche knew that Courfeyrac, Grantaire and Combeferre would be there first handing out pamphlets to those who wished to attend. Enjolras was not keen at having children listening to his speeches and having plans to join the fight in their heads. Gavroche was the exception. Enjolras knew that he listened to the speeches, and could tell anyone about the revolution as he was keen and a good listener, but the leader did not know that the little boy wished to join the fight at the barricades.

"Gavroche, are you really going to introduce us to your friends?" Annabelle asked looking at the boy with wonder in her eyes.

"I've already met them" Leola smiled "Well, I've met Courfeyrac and Grantaire, haven't I Gavroche?"

"Oui, you will meet Combeferre as well this time. He is a doctor" Gavroche smiled "And maybe Enjolras will greet you. He is the leader and very serious"

The little girls giggled, following Gavroche as he climbed across the stands of the carriages into the crowd of the rally. They held their shawls tight around their shoulders as they stood beside the young boy, watching him search the crowd for the students. "There's Courfeyrac" He smiled "Come on Mon Anges"

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Courfeyrac looked up seeing the little boy rush towards him, the two smaller girls following quickly at his heels. "Bonjour 'Roche" He smiled "And bonjour petite Mademoiselles"

"Bonjour Monsieur Courfeyrac" Leola smiled standing beside Gavroche

"Pleasure to see you again Leola" Courfeyrac said with a smile, stuffing the pamphlets into his pockets. "And who is this" He added, looking to Annabelle who had shyly sunk back.

"I'm Annabelle" She said quietly looking at her feet.

"Bonjour Annabelle" Courfeyrac smiled looking back at Grantaire and Combeferre approached him

"We have to hand these Pamphlets out Fey, everyone needs one" Combeferre said.

"They can wait, Gavroche here has brought guests, and little ladies they are too" Grantaire chuckled.

Combeferre looked to the little boy with his two girls standing on either side of him. "Gavroche, you know Enjolras won't want to see more children here"

"I know, we are just visiting" Gavroche replied "My girls wanted to see"

Leola and Annabelle giggled at the statement. "Oui Monsieur, our dear Gavroche here is treating us to the right to visit the rally, it is ever so exciting"

Courfeyrac chuckled at how much each of the young girls seemed to hang on Gavroche's every word, Leola boasting about being close to the boy and Annabelle shyly holding onto Gavroche's hand or his clothing. He had obviously taught him well. "Indeed little ladies, it is" he smiled

"But it isn't safe" Combeferre argued, giving Courfeyrac a glare which suggested that the young man really should stop encouraging the children. "Gavroche, take them back to the elephant please before Enjolras gets here, he won't like this"

"What will I not like?" Came the voice of the before mentioned Enjolras, the students leader

"Gavroche here has brought 'his girls' to the rally" Combeferre replied "I know that he means well, but we shouldn't encourage this"

"Indeed we shall not" Enjolras nodded "Now, young ladies, I am afraid that this is no place for little girls. The police are around and things could turn rough. I would feel much more comfortable and happy to continue with my work if Gavroche here was to accompany back to the elephant and stayed there with you"

"Hey!" Gavroche complained. "I'll take them back if I must, but I will come back here. I'm a revolutionary too"

"You are our messenger, I allow you to show your support but I shall not allow you to fight alongside us" Enjorlas argued. "Now, away with you children"

Leola and Annabelle sighed looking to each other and then to Gavroche as he gave a defeated sigh and took their hands, leading them away.

"And Gavroche, I believe we need to have a serious talk later" Combeferre said before the boy was out of hearing range. "With these two as well" He added gesturing to the still chuckling Courfeyrac and Grantaire.

"Come on Combeferre, he hasn't done anything wrong" Courfeyrac argued once the children were out of sight.

"He's followed your example, that's wrong enough" Combeferre replied rolling his eyes as he took the pamphlets from the man's pockets and began to hand them out. "Your behaviour with young ladies is bad enough, I do not wish to see Gavroche, an impressionable little boy, following my your example"

"I agree" Enjolras nodded. "He is eleven years old. If society was correct he would be in school. I know that he acts older than he is being out on the streets, that does not been that he should be flirting with little girls"

"It is harmless fun" Grantaire complained. "It's not like anything can happen, they're eleven"

"All the same, you are also encouraging this ridiculous behaviour" Combeferre nodded. "Now carry on with your work wine cask"

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"Come on now Gavroche, you know that you shouldn't listen to a word that Grantaire says, I thought we have taught you that over the recent years" Combeferre sighed "And Courfeyrac is no better, telling you that you should flirt, it is ridiculous behaviour for a child of your age!"

"He didn't tell me, Ferre, he just suggested it" Gavroche replied narrowing his eyes at the young doctor. "He said that he was flirting when he was younger than me, and he said that it would keep my mind away from my puppy love. And don't shout, and don't call me a child! I am eleven, as much a grown up as you are!"

"Love this and flirting that" Enjolras grumbled walking over to where Grantaire and Courfeyrac sat sheepishly at the window. "You two are awful examples for Gavroche to live by; you probably taught him that he could talk to his elders like this as well"

"It is all in fun" Courfeyrac replied "It isn't like I've told him to grow up and act older, let him have his moment and you know fully well that he does not like to be called a child"

Combeferre shook his head. "He is too young to understand any of this"

"I am still here" Gavroche complained walking to Courfeyrac and climbing up to sit on his lap. "I like Annabelle and Leola and they like it when I talk all nice to them and give them nice things, is there really anything wrong with that?"

"In a way no, it is that these two here have allowed you to think that it is alright to flirt and make these two little girls think that you love them" Combeferre said angrily glaring that the two young men in question.

"We have done nothing wrong!" Grantaire snapped. "It was fun, and he is doing harmful to those little girls"

"Some role model you are, he'll be drinking his time and his mind away soon enough if he listens to another word that drops from your lips!" Enjolras replied with a similar tone of anger.

"I would never let him take a drink for Grantaire" Courfeyrac said looking to Gavroche.

"You say you look out for him but you allow him to behave like this" Combeferre said, keeping his voice calm.

"And I shall repeat, Mon ami, those two little girls looked happy did they not?" He smiled. "Therefore, he is doing nothing wrong, nothing of the sort. He is breaking no little hearts."

"I treat them well, Combeferre I do, and they're my girls" Gavroche nodded.

"Absolutely, he can gave the heart-breaking for when he is older" Courfeyrac smiled.

"Not another word of the kind from your lips Courfeyrac, for a guardian you do put some simply awful ideas into his head" Combeferre replied. "He shouldn't listen to you"

"I like listening to him more than you, at least he knows how to smile" Gavroche replied with a cheeky grin. "You and Enjolras are far too serious, maybe you are both made of marble and stone"

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"Those two treat me like a five year old" Gavroche mumbled to himself as he left the café that night, sliding his hat back onto his head of blonde waves. "I will fight with them that is for sure". As he complained to himself, he didn't notice the small form of another child until they had barrelled into him.

"Oh, sorry" Gavroche gasped sitting up to help the other child up from the ground "I wasn't paying attention"

"I see that Gavroche, too busy thinking aloud huh?"

The voice was high and girly, despite the finger being dressed in a tattered pair of trousers, rolled up at the ankle, a shirt and cap. The cap covered a head of deep brown, almost red hair. "Oui" Gavroche nodded, looking at the figure. The hat was obviously being worn to give the appearance of being a boy, but her small frame and strands of hair falling from the cap revealed her to be a little girl. "What you doing around here, not back at the slums? I haven't seen you before"

"I'm new, but I know you, the petit revolutionary" She smirked straightening her cap.

He nodded. "You've heard correctly"

"You were correct also, I should be at the slums but I was exploring" She smiled. "I bet I can beat you in a race back there, come on now Great Gavroche, you scared to be beaten by a little girl?"

"No!" Gavroche said strongly, intrigued by this new young girl in her boys clothing "Come on then, new girl, on the count of three"

She smiled and nodded standing beside him to get an even start "First one at the elephants feet wins"

"Absolutely" Gavroche smiled "One two three"

She charged ahead….

And here we go, a new little girl in Gavroche's life….

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