Summary: Just some of Eponine's thoughts after she delivers Marius's note to Cosette and prepares to head back to the barricade. I know it's been done before, but I just wanted to give you my take on her feelings for Marius.

Author's Note: Hello everyone! This is my first fan fiction of any kind on this site, so I hope you like it. Please review; I would like to know what you think.



Most people, wouldn't have done it, I know that. Marius, the one I love so much it hurts, asks me to deliver a letter to Cosette, his beloved, and I do it. After he asked I hesitated, even though I already knew what I would answer.

"Yes," I said, my eyes on his beautiful face, while inside I was silently screaming," Yes, of course Marius! Anything for you."

And so, I delivered the letter. Seeing the look of joy on the face of the one Marius loves was more than I could bear. He loves her, her and not me. Well, I can't really blame him. She is beautiful and worthy of him, while I am just a ragged street girl. But I am not jealous of her. She can make my Marius happy, and that is enough for me.

And now, I'm going back to the barricade where they are preparing to fight, to die. For of course, they will die. A handful of college students, enthusiastic as they are, do not stand a chance against the French army. If I go back, I will most surely die also. Why, someone might ask, do I go back to sacrifice my life for a man who does not love me? Well, as I see it, I think I've gotten as much as I can get out of life. I have loved someone, and that alone is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. Love is about taking chances. There's always the chance that the one you care about won't love you back. And Marius doesn't love me back. But I love him. That is enough.