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    He closed his eyes against the nauseating vertigo, only to snap them open when a calloused hand framed his forehead. It felt ice cold.
    “Oh dear God above,” Madeleine muttered under his breath. “Why didn’t you tell me it was this bad?”

     

    When Javert faints in front of Monseur le Maire while asking to be dismissed for denouncing him, Madeleine takes Javert into his house and his care without realizing how serious the man's condition really is. As Javert sinks ever deeper into delirium, both of them are forced to be honest about the long-buried feelings that now resurface from the depths of Toulon. Valjean must piece by piece let go of his comfortable life as Madeleine in a desperate attempt to save his guard... and the man in Arras, who faces the death penalty in Valjean's name.

    How much is Valjean willing to sacrifice to save innocent lives? Can Javert stay alive long enough to save Valjean in return? In the end, do any of them even have a future?

    With artwork for ch's 11 and 14.

    Download complete, polished fic as PDF-novel here.

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    20 Mar 2026

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    “Entrust your fate to the hands of God and He will deliver you from evil,” they say. “ You only need to have faith.”
    No.
    Not in here.
    Not in this place.
    This is where fate and faith come to die.

     

    1804. The young guard Javert finds himself tried and convicted for a crime he didn't commit - and the red string of fate tying him to Jean Valjean becomes a chain.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    When it turns out all Cosette really wants as a wedding gift is for her lonely empty-nester, perpetually single father to actually bring a date, Valjean is caught completely off-guard. He knows he's too old and inexperienced to bother with romance, but he can't disappoint Cosette. Now if only he could get someone to pretend to date him—just for one day—all would be well...

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    06 Mar 2026

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    “The cruelest thing I saw in Toulon had naught to do with lashes or chains,” said Valjean.

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    Pre-slash or early in their relationship, Valjean and Javert are just beginning to open up to each other about the past. When Valjean tells Javert about an act of cruelty from a guard at Toulon, Javert has a realisation.

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    06 Mar 2026

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    Valjean does not ask, for he knows what Javert’s answer will be. Neither does he inform Javert of his intent, for it requires no leap of imagination to imagine the man’s reaction: his wild words, perhaps an attempt to throw something. And so it is that, when Valjean steps into the room with a heavy basin of steaming water held in his hands—he had asked his housekeeper to heat it, and yet knowing the nature of Javert’s complaints, had insisted on bearing it up himself—Javert raises his head from the sweat-stained pillows which have become his prison these past weeks, curls his lip in distaste, and says, “You presume too much.”

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    05 Mar 2026