I hope everyone is enjoying these! Classes start for me on monday, so updates may become more sporadic. Thank you to everyone who's read and reviewed:D
Title: A Mother's Love
Prompt: Parents
Rating: PG
Summary: Cosette thinks about her mother.
Cosette sat in a corner chair, once again holding Papa's letter in her hand. She looked up as Marius entered. "I wish I had known my mother," she whispered, tears building.
Marius knelt down in front of her. "I'm sure she loved you very much," he said, taking a hold of her hand in her lap.
"Really?" Her lip trembled.
"Yes," he insisted. He pressed their entwined hands to her stomach. "Just as you'll love our baby." He leaned up and kissed her forehead.
Cosette smiled. "I love you," she said.
"And I love you," he returned, kissing her again.
Title: A New Day
Prompt: Birth
Rating: PG
Summary: Cosette greets a new day.
Beside her, Marius sighed and shifted closer, curling around her and tightening his arm across her lap, but he didn't wake. Cosette smiled and gently stroked his hair, her other hand resting on her distended stomach. As if on cue, the baby moved too. Pregnancy prevented her from sleeping easily now, but she found she didn't mind. She could stay like this forever, on the edge of dawn, her husband beside her and her baby under her heart. It was a peaceful time, the birth of every day reminding her of how lucky she was to have all of this.
Title: Breakfast in Bed
Prompt: Breakfast
Rating: PG
Summary: Marius has to take breakfast in bed
The door to Marius's room opened, and Cosette entered, bearing a tray. "Breakfast," she announced shyly.
Marius smiled and tried to sit up. But it had only been two days since he'd regained consciousness, and he was too weak to sit up.
Cosette set down the tray and hurried over. "Here, let me help." She helped prop him up with pillows, her hands gentle.
"Thank you," he told her. She blushed prettily and fetched the tray. When, to Marius's dismay, he also proved too weak to yet feed himself, she helped him with that too, love in her every movement.
Title: Pillows
Prompt: Children
Rating: PG
Summary: Cosette still acts like a little girl...
Cosette, Marius knew, was a child in many ways. He also discovered she could make him act like a child too.
He peeked over the top of the couch and had to duck as a pillow sailed his way. He crept along the side of the couch and came upon her unaware. She was waiting for him to show his head again, pillow ready.
He caught her around the waist, tickling her ribs until she collapsed laughing into his arms. When he released her, she retaliated, attacking his sides until they both fell into a laughing heap on the floor.
Title: Dinner Dress
Prompt: Dinner
Rating: PG
Summary: Cosette thinks Marius looks particularly fine in dinner dress
The first time Marius came downstairs dressed for dinner, Cosette stared at him. She had seen him dressed up before, in those first weeks when they had met and he had dressed up every night to climb over the garden wall. But he had since been confined to a bed, recovering.
He approached and offered his arm. "Shall we go in?" he asked.
She placed her hand on his arm, and smiled in agreement. He was so handsome, a far cry from the wounded man Papa had brought home. Secretly, she wondered how long it was before they could marry.