A/N: First of all: thank you sweeties for all your sweet reviews. I just received the 50th and it makes me really happy that I get this incredible response from you guys. Today I have some Eponine/Cosette for you. It's actually a bit more Cosette and their son, but hey it's my first time with this pairing so bear with me. I hope you enjoy it.
"Mom?" The small voice made Cosette look up from her newspaper, right in to the big, blue eyes of her son. She had been catching up on the news after a couple of busy days when the little boy interrupted her. "What is it Jean?" Jean, who's full name was Jean-Gavroche, had been playing silently with his cars ever since Cosette had picked him up from school. Normally that was Eponines job, but the brunette had a meeting this afternoon so Cosette had taken the afternoon of from work to spend some time with their son.
She pushed her paper aside and pulled the little boy on her lap where he hugged her tightly. "Mom, where is my dad?" His eyes were watching her expectantly. At moments like this it struck her, how much the little boy looked like her.
"Why do you ask sweetie?" She asked, in an attempt to give herself some time to think. Of course she knew this was a question that would come one day. She had just hoped it would wait a couple of years and Eponine would be there with her to answer it. Thankfully, the young boy was still easily distracted. So when she asked her counter question he didn't pushed her for an answer on his own. "Well... Miss Lily was talking about Fathers day today..." Jean told her, while fidgeting with his hands. "And she wanted us to make a gift for our papas..." The little boy paused again. Cosette stroked his blonde locks, but kept silent so he could finish his story. "We learned a song about how we loved our dads first and after that we had to make a painting of all the things we loved about our papas to go with the song. And Miss Lily told me to make a painting of all the things I like about Grandpa Valjean." Cosette smiled at the mention of her father, ever since Jean had started at school they had been open about their unlikely family and how her father was the male role model for their son together with his Uncle Gavroche. He was named after them after all. Luckily, their sons teacher had picked up on that and with mothers day the woman took care of the fact that Jean made two paintings instead of one. Cosette knew though, that this wasn't what had triggered her sons question.
"So I did as I was told. I made a painting about how I like that he is strong and he can put me above his head to play airplanes. And he makes the best sandwiches, but then Luc told me our family wasn't a real family because I didn't have a dad and everyone has a dad and I don't so he told me I'm weird." The boy started to ramble a bit, telling this part of the story and Cosette was just happy she was the one hearing it instead of her girlfriend. Even though Luc was her five-year-olds classmate, Eponine wouldn't have thought twice about telling him to stick his big mouth at a place the sun doesn't shine. "You're not weird sweetie. Luc is just jealous you have two moms who love you instead of one." She hugged her son tight and asked him if he felt like baking cookies after that. The little boy nodded excitedly. So while walking to the kitchen with him, Cosette decided to talk to both Eponine and miss Lily about the encounter, happy that her son didn't demand more answers right now.
A/N: Yep I know it's a bit early for a fathers day story, but it's around the time that kids start at school to craft something for it, so it seemed fitting anyway.