au where everything is exactly the same except grantaire is a reaper and the night before the revolution he gets assigned to reap enjolras
the weight of the coming revolution is crushing grantaire and other reapers stand in wait the night before it begins grantaire’s eyes are fixed on the beautiful boy in front of him wishing and willing for the target over his head to somehow disappear but it doesn’t and Grantaire knows what happens to souls when they aren’t reaped they die slowly god knows where those souls go after they rot become something lesser something evil and so grantaire deeply in love with what Enjolras is who he is now will let him die but he’ll be damned if enjolras is going to go alone not after the revolt failsnot when he is the last to go and he is alone and still so brave so grantaire takes his hand he wasn’t much of a reaper anyway and they go together
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