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Eponine had never been happier to see the café. As she stood at the entrance now, she was free, Courfeyrac was beside her and she about to see her little brother and take him home where they could be a sort of family. "Okay Eponine?" Courfeyrac asked breaking her out of her thoughts and bringing her back into the moment. She nodded walking up into the meeting room of the café beside him. She couldn't help herself looking at him, with his handsome face and boyish smile as he took the steps two at a time, bounding up into the room. She smiled to herself.

"Hey" Courfeyrac smiled walking into the room to see Jehan and Grantaire in similar positions as they had been when they left. Grantaire was still drawing, the evidence that Gavroche had been 'helping' clear from the sight of brightly coloured crayons scattered around a number of papers. Jehan was writing in his much used notebooks, various pages dog eared and tattered. It was the sight of Combeferre that was different. Courfeyrac smiled at the sight. The young doctor was reading from one of Gavroche's storybooks in a gentle tone, the tiny boy curled into his arms, clearly having just only fallen asleep.

"Afternoon" Combeferre smiled looking up and setting the book down as he adjusted Gavroche in his arms. "Did everything go alright?"

"Yes" Eponine smiled, taking in the sight of her sleeping little brother. "It was fine"

Grantaire smirked at the pair of them, standing close together, Eponine smiling back at Courfeyrac. There had to be something there between the two of them. He smiled to himself, spotting the drawing of the 'family' Gavroche had drawn earlier that day.

"Was everything here alright?" Courfeyrac smiled moving to sit beside Combeferre. "He seems pretty comfortable"

"Yes, everything was fine. He settled down once you left, he taught me how to play snap and won, which he enjoyed and he did some drawing with Taire" Combeferre smiled. "Then, as you can see, he could barely keep his eyes open so I thought it would be a good time for a nap so I read him a story and he was sound asleep in minutes"

"Thank you Ferre, he obviously enjoyed it" Courfeyrac smiled gently taking the sleeping boy. Eponine watched him with a smile on her face, watching how easy Courfeyrac made it look to move Gavroche into his arms and hold him against his chest without him stirring. He smiled, gently running his hand down the child's back and holding him close, kissing his head. "I'm glad he wasn't any trouble"

"No trouble at all" Grantaire smiled picking up the drawing "Me and him had a little talk actually"

"I don't like the sound of this" Eponine said with a cheeky smile, rolling her eyes "What sort of strange ideas have you put into my brother's head?"

"No strange ideas at all, we are talking about gossip actually" Grantaire smiled. "I asked him if he knew what was going on between you and Courfeyrac"

"Between us" Eponine said, a blush creeping onto her cheeks. "There is nothing between us, what are you talking about?"

"Then why did Gavroche tell me that he saw you two sharing cuddles and sharing a bed this morning?" Grantaire smirked.

Eponine blushed scarlet, hiding her head on her hands as she sat down. "I had a bad dream that's all, and he came to comfort me and we fell asleep, that is all"

Through this exchange, Courfeyrac was struggling to keep a straight face. Of course, he thought Eponine was beautiful, but he wasn't going to say anything else on the matter. "You shouldn't put ideas into his head Grantaire, he believes anything" He said looking at the child in his arms.

"Aww, come on, it's sweet" Grantaire smiled, showing Eponine the drawing. "He drew this for you"

Eponine broke into a big smile when she saw the drawing. Three little stick figures. Her on one side with messily drawn brown hair and wearing a pink dress. He had drawn himself in the middle, stick hands holding onto the stick hands of Eponine and Courfeyrac. Bright yellow squiggles made up his blonde curls and his monkey toy was drawn sitting at his feet. Courfeyrac was also drawn with squiggled lines for his black curls. The drawing represented a little family, the family that Gavroche wanted. "Wow" Eponine smiled. "That's so cute". Carefully she folded the drawing and slid it into her pocket, hoping to stick it on the fridge when they got home. Home, it was her home now.

….

"There we go" Courfeyrac smiled lowering Gavroche into his bed for his afternoon sleep. "Sleep well little man"

He stirred as his head hit the pillow, pulling his monkey toy close as he woke. "Papa?"

"Hey Roche" Courfeyrac said sitting beside him. "Hey sleepy head, we're home now, and you need your little sleep"

Gavroche nodded, looking up just enough to see Eponine standing in the doorway. "Ponine live here now?"

"Yes I do Baby, you me and Courf" Eponine smiled coming over and kissing his head. "Just like in your picture"

He smiled cuddling up to Courfeyrac's side as he sat beside him. "And you love each other like Mr Taire said?"

"Well, you shouldn't really listen to him kiddo, he says silly things" Courfeyrac smiled. "We love you though"

Eponine nodded. "We love you so much" she smiled

With a little pout, Gavroche nodded. From what Grantaire had told him, he kind of liked the idea of Courfeyrac and Eponine being in love. In the movies, there was a mummy, a daddy and a baby. If they were in love, Courfeyrac would be the daddy, Eponine would be the mummy and he could be the baby. "I love you too" He smiled letting them both kiss his cheeks as he yawned.

"Alright little man, enough talk" Courfeyrac smiled tucking the blankets around the tiny boy. "Little people like you need their naps. When you wake up we can play with your toys, or watch a movie"

Gavroche nodded sleepily, curling up small, falling back to sleep in minutes as Eponine stroked his hair. Once he was sleeping, they left the room. "Eponine" Courfeyrac started "About what Grantaire said, and what Gavroche said, it's just Grantaire being his usual stupid self and putting ideas into Gavroche's head. You don't have to be embarrassed"

She nodded sitting beside him on the couch. "It was embarrassing when Grantaire talked about it, and Gavroche talked about if as if he wanted it to be true"

Courfeyrac nodded "He doesn't understand it like that; he just sees this as a family. Like you said me, you and him. That's all he wants. He wants you here with us all the time. It's going to be the same when he starts going to school, he will see his friends with a mom and a dad and think that he should have the same"

"Like this" Eponine smiled showing him the drawing. "Me and you, holding his hands and always being there?"

"Exactly" Courfeyrac smiled taking the drawing and sticking it on the fridge. "That's a family drawing, for sure"

Eponine nodded. "We can be a little family can't we Fey? For him?"

"Absolutely" Courfeyrac smiled "For Gavroche"

….

"I'll make dinner Eponine, you sit down" Courfeyrac smiled watching Eponine get out all of the ingredients for cheese pasta bake, Gavroche's favourite meal.

"I insist, Fey" Eponine said pouring pasta into the dish.

"Papa" Gavroche smiled walking into the kitchen and wrapping his arms around Courfeyrac's legs, laughing as the young man swung him up into his arms. "Papa, come and play airplanes"

"There you go, you can go and play airplanes with 'Roche and I'll call you both when dinner is ready" Eponine smiled.

Courfeyrac nodded, smiling as he lifted Gavroche above his head. "This is Gavroche airlines ready for take-off" He chuckled, running into the lounge holding Gavroche in the air.

The little boy held his arms out like wings and laughed wildly. "This is a bumpy ride"

"Oh no, crash landing" Courfeyrac laughed dropping down onto the couch onto his back and bringing Gavroche down with a 'crash' against his chest, tickling his sides.

Gavroche laughed, squirming in his arms and playfully pushing his hands away "Papa, no" he giggled. "Papa stop"

Courfeyrac chuckled laying him down on his chest and rubbing his back to help him get his breath back. "You silly boy" He smiled

"You the silly one papa, you tickled me and made the airplane crash with a big bang!" Gavroche laughed pressing his forehead against Courfeyrac's and kissing his nose.

"I did do that didn't I?" Courfeyrac laughed kissing his tiny nose in return and sitting up, setting him down on the floor "What do you want to do now?"

Gavroche smiled pulling a sheet of paper out of his jean pocket. "Mr 'Taire thinks 'Ponine will like this, but it has to be from you papa" he said giving him the drawing of a flower he had done earlier that day at the café. "Mr 'Taire says girls like it when boys give them flowers, and we don't have real flowers so you have to give 'Ponine this"

Courfeyrac couldn't help a blush coming to his cheeks as he kissed the child's cheek. "Thank you little man, I will give it to her"

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