I am so sorry. I know it's been four months, and that this is short, but my life has basically been one thing after another with work and major anxiety/depression issues and trying to sort out meds - again - and packing up for university which I put off again while I finished this tonight which I probably shouldn't have done since I leave in less than eight hours but who am I kidding, I'm not going to get any sleep tonight since I'm a mess of nerves and I just wanted to finally finish off this story. So here you go. Nearly two years after I started writing part 1, the third and final part is done. For now. Severe editing to the full trilogy coming soon - as in whenever I get around to it. Also, other Enjonine fic, All I Need to Know: I will be working on that at university. Let's see if I can manage an update every Thursday or so, I have no classes at all Thursdays... Oh, hey, that's another thing I need to do. Print off my schedule. Yeah, I may or may not be currently running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, drinking Pepsi to fuel my caffeine addiction the night before I leave for uni at like... 12:30am? Oops. Enjoy.

Epilogue

Fifteen years later…

"Bri, wait for me!" yelled a small, dark haired girl as she chased after her older sister who was happily walking around chatting with a blonde boy.

Eponine smiled as she watched them. Her two daughters were brilliant, and she truly cherished them. They were quite different from her son, who was just like his father. The past fifteen years she had spent with Enjolras had been the best years of her life.

"Madeleine, leave your sister alone and come here," she scolded, and her six year old daughter reluctantly obeyed.

Her eldest child, Gabrielle, or Bri as Madeleine preferred to call her, was typically shy, calm, and reserved, preferring books to people, unlike both her parents. She had, however, proved herself to be her mother's daughter in becoming increasingly close to Marius and Cosette's fair haired son, whom she was now happily chatting with as they walked around the garden together.

Cosette took great pride in her garden, and was always eager to show it off to all of her friends, and Marius' friends as well. Anyone she could drag out to see her beautiful flowers would be subjected to at least an hour of hearing all about them. Eponine didn't mind, she was happy to let Cosette talk her ear off about the flowers each year, and she had to admit, it had been quite hilarious when poor Joly had been forced to endure it, particularly when he had started talking back and asking if there were any diseases he could catch from the flowers.

"I wouldn't be surprised if there are wedding bells in the future for those two," Marius commented offhandedly.

"No," was Enjolras' instant reply. "Gabrielle's only thirteen, she's still a child!"

"Now you've done it, Marius," Eponine sighed.

"Well just look at them-"

"They're friends. That's all," Enjolras insisted.

"It's not like Jean would do anything to hurt her-"

"I don't care."

"Don't bother, Marius," Eponine told him, intervening before Marius said something that would cause Enjolras to strangle him. "He's incredibly protective."

"Which is hardly a bad thing," Cosette chimed in. "I think it's adorable."

Enjolras frowned at her at that comment, causing Eponine to chuckle. As sweet as Enjolras could be at times, he hated anyone pointing it out, which she found hilarious.

"Sorry if I upset you, Enj, but they are kind of cute together," Marius said quickly, trying to make amends. He was met with a glare, and chose to give up.

"I'm just glad that everything's going well for all of us," Eponine said, changing the topic. "Our lives could have gone a lot differently at the barricade. But instead here we are, all alive." She turned and smiles at Enjolras. "And happy."

Cosette nodded in agreement, also smiling. "Yes, everything did work out pretty well in the end."

"So, you've finally forgiven me after all of these years for being an idiot then, Ep?" Marius asked teasingly.

"No, you're still an idiot," Eponine replied, a smile on her face as she remembered how once, long ago, she'd actually preferred him. Everything really could have gone much differently that night at the barricade.

But as she looked at her family and her friends, and considered the way her life was now, she knew she wouldn't have it any other way. And however her story went from then on, she knew that all that mattered was that for now, at least, it was happily ever after.