Here's the next chapter. Enjoy!

Sorry if it's kind of a filler chapter.

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Eponine's eyes widened upon hearing these four words: will you marry me?

"I... I... yes! Yes, of course!" she exclaimed with a sudden burst of energy. Happiness can cause such things to occur. "Of course I'll marry you!" She smiled widely. Marius grinned before kissing her forehead and then slipping the ring on to her finger. He kissed her hand. Eponine sat up, seeming stronger than she had in days, and wrapped her arms around his waist. Marius hugged her back, though he was a bit worried, wondering how long this sudden strength would last for. The answer was not very long. She soon fell back, exhausted. He sat down next to her on the bed. "I love you, Marius." she murmured.

"I love you too, ma fiancée." he replied. He gently took her in his arms. Eponine smiled lightly and rested her head against his chest. She loved listening to the sound of his heart beat. It was always a source of comfort as it always reminded her that he was there.

"Has anyone ever told you that you're a good pillow?" she murmured tiredly as she closed her eyes. Marius laughed quietly.

"Only you, 'Ponine. Only you."

...

A couple more weeks passed and Eponine had started to recover. The medication had finally started to work, making it clear that it was only pneumonia and not tuberculosis. She would live. Marius, at Eponine's insistance, had gone to see Les Amis de l'ABC a few times, so they wouldn't worry ("They won't worry." Marius had insisted. "They're your friends, of course they'll worry. For all they know, you could be dead!" had been Eponine's reply.) A few had even come back with Marius to see Eponine, which had been a pleasant surprise (Courfeyrac had made her laugh, her first real laugh in months, though it had been at the expense of Joly, who had maintained what he deemed to be a safe distance from Eponine, who had still been rather ill). None of the Amis had noticed the baby bump, nor had they been told that Eponine was pregnant. Or that she and Marius were engaged... or that they were even in a relationship! (Eponine and Marius had decided that it would be funnier if they waited to tell them anything until Eponine's baby bump was more visible, just to surprise them even more.)

"Don't you ever get bored?" Eponine asked one day, shortly after receiving a dose of medicine.

"Get bored of what?" Marius asked, absentmindedly playing with a strand of her hair.

"Laying here with me for hours on end. I know I'm stuck here, but you aren't. Don't you get bored?"

"'Ponine, I could never get bored of being with you." he told her, causing her to blush. He smiled and kissed her temple. "Soon we'll be able to leave the hospital," he said, "soon you'll be all better." Eponine smiled.

"I hope so," she said, "I really don't like hospitals."

"I know you don't, but if not for hospitals and doctors..."

"I'd be dead right now." Eponine finished for him. Marius didn't say anything, but nodded, a far away look in his eyes. He was, despite how hard he tried not to, thinking of how close Eponine had come to dying, to leaving him. Well, technically she had died and had then been resuscitated. Eponine knew what was undoubtedly in his mind and she kissed his cheek. "But I'm not." she reminded him, "I'm alive and I'm here with you. I'll never leave you."

"Thank God." he breathed. "I don't know what I'd do without you, 'Ponine."

"I'm sure your world would go on turning." she said, a bit of sadness creeping into her voice. She still found it hard to believe, despite the fact that they were engaged and that she was pregnant with his child and he had not abandoned her, that he actually loved her. It seemed too good to be true. And what had she done to deserve love? She was a thief, she was a streetrat. She wondered what exactly Marius could possibly see in her.

"No," Marius told her, "it wouldn't. I love you, 'Ponine, with all that I am. Without you... I'd be lost." he thought back to when he had nearly lost her and shuddered at the memory. Eponine took hold of one of his hands and kissed it.

"I'm here." she repeated. Marius smiled.

"Thank God."

"I love you, Marius."

"I love you too, ma belle 'Ponine." he gave her a quick kiss on the lips. It was the first time he had kissed her on the lips since the night he had been drunk, as Eponine hadn't wanted him to get sick. Eponine smiled as Marius placed a hand on her baby bump, which had gotten a bit bigger, but still wasn't very noticeable. "I think the baby will be a girl, and she's going to be beautiful like you."

"I think it'll be a boy, who'll be just as good looking as his father." Eponine said, still smiling, as she placed a hand on top of his. Marius smiled. Both were silent for a few minutes, just thinking about what the future would hold.

"It's still hard to believe that we're going to be parents." he said. Eponine nodded in agreement.

"But I think we can do it, no– I know we can do it. Together."

...

After another week, the doctor finally told Eponine that she was healthy enough to leave the hospital. Eponine smiled brightly and all but jumped out of the hospital bed. Both she and Marius thanked the doctor numerous times and Marius discreetly payed the doctor, hoping it would escape Eponine's notice. He knew that she didn't like that he payed for her. Eponine did not accept charity. Though Marius had tried to tell her that he was doing it out of love and not pity, Eponine still was not completely happy with it. She just felt bad because she knew that she wouldn't be able to pay him back.

"Before you leave, there is one more thing you should probably know." the doctor said to Eponine.

"Yes?" Eponine asked.

"You're pregnant–"

"We've already had this conversation."

"–with twins."

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