Remember I said I wanted to write Martha Jones/Combeferre? I wrote Martha Jones/Combeferre.
[This is set after Human Nature but before Blink for Martha. I had to give Combeferre a first name, so he’s ‘Michel’. Enjoy my odd, tragic take on shipping.]
(more…)This is based on a long-ago prompt from Sclez! I hope it’s okay…
Title: The Drowning Man and the Candle
Rating: R (pun not intended)
Fandom: Les Miserables (bookverse)
Warnings: Grantaire being Grantaire (but I think the tone of this is…bordering on the optimistic? I don’t know.)
Summary: Combeferre and Courfeyrac try, in as kind a way as possible, to turn Grantaire away from Enjolras.
eight scenes: javert at the barricade (5/8)
“Shoot me now or shoot me later / Every schoolboy to his sport”
#javert held up his head with the intrepid serenity of the man who has never lied #surrounded by one man whose heart is too full to lie#who has too much dignity to do so #and another man whose heart burns for justice #who deals it out only moments later in the book and willingly damns himself in the process #and yet one more man whose lies are wrapped inside others and harm only himself #his heart is too full as well with a weight he accepts even when he doesn’t understand it #lightened only in the presence of its cause #all four men can see their ends right here in this moment#and accepts it in his own way #javert smugly and with a challenge he’ll soon be shocked to see unmet #combeferre with a resignation that he will have earned his death here but his dreams will live on and come true all the sooner #enjolras with impatience and his blood at a simmer he’s desired for so long #and grantaire who would sooner follow the others to their ends than exist in a world without them #three will offer the protest of corpses #the other will protest only his survival #from the heavy embrace of all desolations springs faith #faith that soothes and affirms #faith that burns and drives #faith that comforts and overwhelms all those protective lies #faith that cannot conquer a heart that will not let it survive
(via maraschinocheri)
“Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments.”
#omg this is gorgeous#combeferre the egoist#forgets his own mother dammit#sweet baby#i bet his mother loved him#i bet she waited to hear from him#he was a good son#got a bit distracted sometimes with his revolutionising#but he’d write home#and no letters came#no word#until she got wind of what had befallen him#and his activities#and she just didn’t want to believe it#she’d put a candle in her window every evening hoping he was on his way home#hoping it would help him find her and his childhood home in the darkness#but he never came back#she had his things sent for#and got only some books and clothes#she’d sit with his baby clothes#lay them out and look at them all#and wonder what had happened because she’s a good woman but she doesn’t understand#she just loves him and he’d had such a future before him#she still nearly calls for him on instinct to come and have his lunch but he’s not there#he’s not there and he never will be (via punforrestpun)
……..annnnnd I’m out, goodbye world
There’s a lot of sad Enjolras/Combeferre stuff on my dash today and it reminded me of one of my more depressing headcanons, that Enjolras saw Combeferre killed and nearly ran to him, so he would at least be able to move his body and close his eyes. But then he realised that Combeferre wouldn’t want him risking his life unnecessarily, and that all things considered, it would be best to leave him just looking at the sky…
This was based on this post… and I died doing this because, ugh, feels *creys*
OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD
SOMEONE DID IT
AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL
