Disclaimer: Les Mis belongs to Victor Hugo
Eve of the 5th of June
I had him. After years of scouring the Parisian underworld I had finally caught my prey, the elusive Jean Valjean. He was in my power; even he knew and acknowledged his helplessness. Victory was mine at last.
I let him go. To have imprisoned him would have been…wrong. For the first time I have found the law to be in error; criminals should be encased in stone and steel for their transgressions but what is to be done when he that erred is righteous? I know of no answer.
He set me free when he could have killed me; as with that old farmer, he placed himself in danger for the sake of another. He hasn't changed. I see now that "Mr. Madeleine" was no lie; it was simply he under a different name.
He was like Valjean; He could not save himself so He saved another. I had thought His attempt at escape shameful and so I foiled it. I see now that that was His true intention: that I be seen as separate from Him and given a chance at a different life. That insurgent will live thanks to Valjean; I was able to gain a life beyond prison because of him, my father.
It is my duty as an officer of the law to capture the criminal Jean Valjean. He is a good man, undeserving of his sentence. There is only one solution to this quandary.
A job cannot be continued if the one to whom it is assigned is no more after all.
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A/N: He's a lot more contemplative here... if he's OOC please tell me.