Me: I'm really sorry for the angst i caused in the last chapter. I've been planning that for awhile

Enjolras: One day your fans are going to kill you. By the way one of them is over there!

Me: I know... but not today! Now let me introduce PurpleFanMagic

PurpleFanMagic: YAYAYAYAYAYAY! I bring joy and alcohol and show tunes xD

Me: Alcohol is not necessary. We're actual trying to ween R off of that

Grantaire: No don't stop her!

Enjolras: R watch it. You're already enough if a wine-cask

PurpleFanMagic: Well then Enjolras I won't give Taire this lovely big bottle of expensive wine if you do one small little teeny tiny thing *smirks and winks*

Enjolras: I know where you are going with this and the answer is no!

Me: hang on you can't say no! For all you know I could ask you to build another barricade and we all know how much you LOVE barricades *mutters* amongst other things *cough cough* Eponine *cough cough*

Enjolras: ahh can't I catch a break from you people!

PurpleFanMagic: NO YOU CAN'T!

Enjolras: *yelps and crouches behind haybale*

Me: *rolls eyes* Very manly Enj

Enjolras: Don't judge me! These visitors scare me.

Me: whatever! We have some time to kill before the chapter. Have any activities in mind?

PurpleFanMagic: Well considering we now have an empty wine bottle thanks to Taire who managed to swipe it off me whilst I was scaring Enjy, which by the way I'm upset you didn't let me have some considering I bought it! *evil glare... Wink* we could play...SPIN THE BOTTLE truth or dare style ;)

Me: are you serious?!

Enjolras: what? No we are not playing-

Courfeyrac: oh come on Enjy it will b fun! It's truth or dare style, what's the worst that can happen?

Enjolras: I can think of a lot of things...

Courfeyrac: oh loosen up!

PurpleFanMagic: Grantaire would you do the beautiful honour of spinning the bottle! *bottle spins and lands on Enjy!* And now go the moment I think all of us here have been waiting for in a long time! *evil grin* You can have aTruth: do you love Eponine Or... Dare: snog eponine right here right now in front of all of us! And the choice is yours ;)

*both me and him turn bright red*

Me: Gavroche is right there, lets not traumatized him.

PurpleFanMagic: Well then that just leaves the burning question... Enjolras Do. You. Love. Eponine?

Enjolras: love is a strong word...

Grantaire: Answer the question!

Enjolras: Do I love her?... *Takes deep breath* Well...

Me: I don't like this! *get up and run away*

Enjolras: Ep wait! *follows me*

PurpleFanMagic: :O wow I Urmmmm wasn't expecting that... Maybe we should give you two some privacy... Hey Taire got any more wine?!

Combeferre: While those two sort things out lets let on with the story!

Enjolras groaned as he looked at his reflection in the mirror once more. With a wet paper towel in his hand and a patience that was growing thin he let out one last sigh and tossed his fifth paper towel in the wastebin. After wiping his shirt angrily for six minutes he gave up and decided to live with the oily stain on his shirt. If he had known the rice was so greasy he wouldn't have thought to order it. Taking one last look at his shirt he decided the stain was a lot less visible than before and he gave it his all. He ran a hand through his curly hair one last time before straightening out his shirt and heading out the door. As he walked over to the table he pulled his phone from his pocket and began scrolling through his emails. With college right around the corner Enjolras had everything set to go, from what he was studying to where he was going. However there was a internship he had applied for yet he still hadn't heard back from them. It was only the first few days into the window they said they he would contact him but he was still getting anxious over it. He was just looking through his last new email a when he reached the table and saw the back of Eponine's head.

"Next time I eat Mexican please remind me not to order something so greasy." He joked as he rounded the corner, "I mean I don't think everyone needs to know my shirt was hungry too."

"I'll keep that in mind..." responded a small broken voice

Enjolras' stomach dropped at the strained sound of Eponine's voice and for the first time since he left the bathroom he looked up from his phone and took note of the scene in front of him; it made his heart meet his stomach. Eponine was sitting there looking like she was about to crack. Her dead brown eyes were set on the glass on water in front of her while her front teeth were biting down so hard on her bottom lip Enjolras was afraid she would draw blood. One hand had her fingers curled around her mouth and the other hand gripped at the table so hard her knuckles were white. She looked three shaded paler than usual and her entire body was trembling, though Enjolras could tell she was she was trying to contain herself. The sight scared Enjolras and chilled him to the bone. In an instant he was at her side kneeling next to her. He reach out a tentative hand and placed in on her shoulder but she didn't respond in any way shape or form.

"Ep are you ok?" She licked her lips before pressing them together and shaking her head. "Ep what's wrong?"

She didn't respond.

Enjolras swallowed down the lump forming in his throat and flagged down a waiter who took his bill and to whom Enjolras gave a hefty tip. As soon as business was taken care of he took Eponine's hand and led her out the restaurant, his arm wrapped around her shoulders to hold her closely as they walked to her car. Eponine remained silence as they drove on, the only thing to accompany their breathing was the sound of the car tires going across the gravel. They drove around the cities' roads without a destination in mind- he knew she wouldn't want him to take her home but he didn't have an idea of where to take her. He spared a glance over at Eponine only to see her staring out the window. This side of Eponine scared him. She was a strong person and it took a lot to crack her, even back when she found out about the bet or Marius had fallen for Cosette she hadn't reacted like this. She did stare out the window and close herself off but that was nothing compared to what he was seeing now. Before she had blown up in his face and closed herself off, as much as he hated to admit it he prefered that Eponine to the one he was seeing now. She had channeled her emotions through sarcastic comments and angry outburst or simply by forcing it down, but he could tell it was too much to force down this time. She was trying to numb herself and lock away her pain but it was still finding a way to her through cracks in the walls.

"Eponine what's wrong?" He asked after a silent twenty minutes in his car, she didn't respond. "Please talk to me 'Ponine. I can tell you're hurt."

"I'm...I'm f-fine." She said forcefully while she willed her body to stay still but allowed her eyes to roam over to him. She shook her head and said nothing more, fearing she wouldn't be able to contain herself if she spoke. Finally after what seemed like an hour to them both she swallowed and took a deep breath before finally speaking. "C-could we pull over?" She said, her voice cracking, "I really need some air."

Enjolras nodded and without another word he pulled over. Eponine didn't even wait for him to turn off the ignition before unbuckling her seatbelt and sprinting out the door and onto the stone path of the riverwalk. Enjolras sighed and followed her, making sure to separate himself from her by at least a few feet. She wasn't the kind of person to let her feelings out into the open, it took lots of probing on his part - it always had- but he also knew that if he probed too hard she would sink deeper into her shell and it would be difficult to bring her back. The two of them walked on the stone path in silence, to Enjolras it was awkwardness but to Eponine it was familiar yet painful. After walking for God knows how long Eponine reached a familiar gap in the trees and snuck through to reach the river bank, without thinking Eponine sat down near the edge of the river and brought her knees to her chest before wrapping her arms around them and placing her chin on top of them. Enjolras quietly sank down behind her and leaned back on his hands. They both stared out into the river and watched as the leaves flowed across the water and the ripples spread across the surface.

"I should have seen this coming." Said Eponine, thoroughly breaking the silence.

"What?" Enjolras asked, shifting his body so he could face her.

"I should've seen this coming." She repeated, her eyes never leaving the water. "Life was getting good but it never stays like that for me. Karma was going to bite me in the butt." She wrapped her arms tighter around her knees and took Enjolras' silence as a cue to go on. "You're not going to like me much after this story."

"I severely doubt that." He said in a serious tone

She nodded, "When i was younger things weren't so bad at home, actually they were great, at least I thought they were. My parents owned this crappy inn in the middle of the city, for a time it was decently successful, even when we didn't make much money my parent scammed people to make ends me, and regrettably I helped them." She pursed her lips and let out a deep breath as if trying to prepare herself for the next part of the story, "Cosette used to live with us. She and her mother lived next door to us for a time but after a few months she couldn't make ends meet. So she moved to a more prosperous part of the city but she couldn't take Cosette with her as she knew she could make more money without Cosette holding her back. She asked my parents to take care of her, promising to send money every month to pay for Cosette's expenses. She didn't have any other family and she really didn't want to put Cosette in the foster system, I don't blame her. However our place turned out to be even worse than the system. My parents acted sweet around Fantine but as soon as she left all hell broke loose on poor Cosette. At 5 years old she was forced to become like a servant to us. My parents forced her to clean and do all kinds of chores around the house and she had no choice but to do it, she would get yelled at and spanked otherwise. She slept on the pull out couch in the corner of the living room, and her clothes were either crappy hand me downs from me and Azelma or really cheap stuff from the second hand store and garage sales. When she first moved in I tried to play with her and for a few weeks it was nice but eventually my parents told me not to because she was dirty and beneath me. I believed them. I treated her horribly! At first it was to please my mother but after awhile I guess i enjoyed it. I taunted her and teased her, I made messes just so she could clean them up or to get her in trouble. When it came time for us to go to school I made so it seemed like I walked above her. I was jealous of how pretty she was even with all the things we did to her, people were automatically drawn to her. So I made all the kids think she was pathetic. I was a bitch to her but I didn't know any better. My parents taught me to be that way." Eponine paused and pursed her lips once more in an attempt to force back the tears in her throat, "For three years she lived in that torment but eventually her salvation came. Right around Christmas time when we were eight this man came to the inn and paid off her mother's debts and then some. She was taken away and I was left thoroughly confused. He took her away and I watched them as they walked down the street, she looked so happy with him. Well anyway he gave my parents a lot of money for her and my father was overwhelmed. He gambled it all away and soon became a compulsive and we lost so much money due to that. We went to into debt we had to close the inn and move. 'Luckily' one of his friends was able to pull some string and move us into this crappy two floor termite hole. After that things kept getting worse. I became the scum of the street, I was a pickpocket, a look out, pick-lock, scout, everything and anything. I became the person who everyone taunted and spit on." Her voice cracked and a tear spilled from her eye, " My parents were no help to me, they cared more about money than they did about me and Azelma and Gav. I had to grow up and leave everything behind me, I had to make this shell and force everyone out because I couldn't afford to be weak, I had to be strong. There was no other way. I didn't want people to feel sorry for me so I pushed them away. Fair to say I became someone no one wanted to mess with me." Eponine wiped her face and blinked away more tears forming in her eyes, "When I befriended Marius he was the first person who was genuinely nice to me in a long time. He didn't look down at me and he wasn't scared of me either. I began opening up to him and he slowly helped me peel away my stone walls. He actually seemed to care for me and for once I felt important." She paused and took a deep breath, "When I saw Cosette a few months ago I knew it was her but she didn't remember me. Why would she? I was horrible to her and she moved on to bigger and better things. She wanted to be my friend though so I automatically said yes, partly for her partly because I wanted to redeem myself. Then Marius and Cosette fell for each other and the pain came back. I was loosing my once source of happiness to the girl who I took it from. Ironic no? I did everything in my power to get them together though. I owed it to them both and I just wanted them to be happy. But it doesn't matter anyway, they don't care. I went through so much pain but they still pushed me aside like I didn't matter. I don't really blame them I have done so much worse but...but they were my closest friends Enjolras! They made me feel like I was cared for and I was actually important in their lives, it's thanks to me they were together! I actually had value! But they left me and I don't matter any more! They hate me just like everyone else! I'm alone and I don't know what to do!"

By this point Eponine had let all her walls crumble and she was sobbing into her knees, her hard exterior finally cracking after taking the last blow it could. Enjolras looked at her with pain filled eyes before wrapping his arms around her and bringing her to his lap and cradling her, even the strong needed someone at times. Eponine looked up at him with a sad smile before collapsing her head onto his chest and holding him tightly.

"I'm here." He whispered softly

"That's all I need to know."

Montparnasse bared his teeth in his rear-view mirror as he waited for the rest of the gang to show up. After two weeks of planning it was finally show time. After hearing which house they were robbing Montparnasse decided to do his own research on their target house and he had to admit he was pleased with Thenardier's selection. The house was big, secluded and best of all it was practically empty. He heard the muffle of cars come up behind him and he knew it was time to go. They all parked a block away from the house to avoid suspicion and dressed in dark colors to blend into the night. This was just like any other house they had raided but to Montparnasse it was going to be a lot more enjoyable. Everyone met up and silently crept through the neighborhood to reach the house. As always he was sent out first since he was the fastest and stealthiest, best for the job. However as he neared the house he saw a familiar figure that only made him smile wickedly.

Oh this will be fun.

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