Courfeyrac had never done this before. He'd never asked a girl to marry him, he was more of a free spirit. Not that he didn't understand why Enjolras was doing this, Éponine and him made a great couple and he appreciated how she managed to calm him down and consequently make Les Amis do less work. But, still, he wasn't an expert in this area.

But he knew enough to take charge in his new little project. He was currently in the midst of coming up with a super cool name to call their planning sessions. Operation Tie The Marble Man Down is high on the list. He had already called their first meeting, gotten a whiteboard prepared, and dug out his vast collection of coloured marker pens. Brainstorming and spider diagrams were key in the planning process, and they had to get it right.

He was now staring at the two other boys, both of them sat on his sofa as he stood in front of them and waited for them to give ideas. So far, the night had been unsuccessful.

"Well?"

"Courfeyrac, I asked for your help so you could tell me what to do. I wouldn't have asked for your help if I had ideas myself." Enjolras said flatly, setting his red marker pen onto he table in front of him.

"Do you have any ideas, Courfeyrac?" Combeferre asked, pushing his glasses up a little.

"Of course I have ideas, Combeferre." Courfeyrac turned and started sprawling the project name on the whiteboard. "What I was thinking is that we should do it in steps. A simple process should make this the easiest proposal ever."

"Okay. Elaborate." Enjolras said, leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees. "That's a horrible name for this proposal."

Courfeyrac ignored him. "We should do it in stages. Then, you won't get confused with the way things should go, and you can have a fool proof plan that Éponine can't say no to!"

"Carry on."

"Stage one: time and date." Courfeyrac said as he wrote it quickly on the whiteboard. "We need to figure out any significant dates that could make the proposal even more special. This will tell her that you remember things about your relationship, showing how committed you are, persuading Éponine to say yes."

"He's thinking too much into this." Combeferre whispered to Enjolras, the blond nodding in return. They both looked cautiously at Courfeyrac, who was busy writing on the board.

"Stage two: location. Similar to stage one, we need to find some place that holds a resemblance to your relationship, somewhere important."

"Courfeyrac, slow down."

"Stage three: speech. Arguably the most important stage, the speech shows how much you love and cherish Éponine, and is a catalyst to the inevitable acceptance of your proposal." Courfeyrac was writing the stages I'm different colours, and, although he was writing at an incredibly fast pace, he was managing to make it look neat and orderly.

"Stage four: the ring. Now, I'll help you with this, but the ring is going to be on her hand forever, it's got to mean something. Also, if it's ugly, she's gonna decline the proposal just because of that, so it has to be a nice ring." He included a quick sketch of a silver ring with a large diamond on, and a label that says 'sexy- ass ring'.

"Stage five: the proposal. I'm not even going to stress the importance of this stage, we'll need all night, and I doubt you'll understand it anyway." He muttered most of it to himself, finally putting the cap on his last marker pen.

"Great. Any questions?"

Courfeyrac looked at the two friends, looking confused at their startled and cautious faces. They hesitantly shook heir heads at him, neither of them moving anything except their heads.

"Good. Our next meeting will be tomorrow. We will start to plan stage one."

Enjolras and Combeferre smiled, got up and left the house silently, leaving the frazzled and excited man alone with his marker pens.

okay, I've already wrote the whole story, so I'm just gonna update this story really quickly. It'll all be up by tomorrow night.

I don't own Les Mis, okay? It's like it's taunting me now.