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A bet not worth winning by Menthe
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
29 Dec 2018
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Monsieur Madeleine never payed attention to rumors, that spread in the small town of Montreuil-sur-Mer. Also, he never payed attention to Inspector Javert, who had the unfortunate habit of following him. Yet, a curious bet, made by the older gamins of M sur M forces him to rethink both.
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- Part 2 of The gamins' bet
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The case of the apples by Menthe
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - All Media Types
07 Dec 2018
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"Madeleine glanced up again at the tree. One of the branches, heavy with almost fully ripe apples hang low, just above his head. Slowly he raised one hand up, towards one of the fruits. Javert's pale blue eyes followed his movements, almost challenging. So close."
The first part of a series taking place in Montreul-sur-Mer. It could be a short story on its own, but nope, just had to be a series.
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- Part 1 of The gamins' bet
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It would take forever by Menthe
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
03 Nov 2018
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„My cravat, Monsieur?”
„ Yes, Javert. That bow. As symmetrical as it can be. How come you wear your cravat in a bow, but not the ribbon in your…”
The question suddenly felt inappropriate, although Madeleine couldn’t tell why.
„ … in your hair” – he finished the question after a slight pause.Inspector Javert's neatly tied cravat doesn't match with the loose ribbon in his hair. Monsieur Madeleine tries to find the root of the problem, but unsure if he could ever fix it.
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The gamins' bet by Menthe
Fandom Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
29 Dec 2018
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my heart lies buried like something dead by Cinaed
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
06 Jun 2014
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That night on the parapet, Valjean forces Javert to live. Some time later, Javert finds himself returning the favor.
"Do you think," Javert said slowly, in a tone that perhaps meant to mock but trembled with another emotion entirely, "that once you have saved a life, you must also save that man's soul?"
"I know nothing of saving souls," Valjean said. "My soul was bought for God, not saved. But it is my belief that you are better than the fate to which you have consigned yourself."
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02 Jan 2026
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Angel of Mercy by Chrissy24601 for francu
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
17 Jul 2015
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This was very, very wrong on a great many levels. Valjean remembered having seen men in this state back in the bagne. As he recalled, some had recovered from their insanity as time went by. Others never had. It made him shudder to think what could have caused a determined mind like Javert’s to snap like this.
Valjean barely manages to save Javert from damnation, but soon finds that 'salvation' is relative. Lost in his broken mind, Javert struggles to come to terms with the dilemma that drove him to suicide, while Valjean faces the inevitability of losing Cosette and what that will do to his world. All they have is each other, but only time will tell if that will be enough.
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02 Jan 2026
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Bright as the night that brought us together by Spitfire (Spitfire84), Spitfire84
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
08 Sep 2025
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- Part 2 of Mine is the desire, mine is the curse
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03 Nov 2025
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In the Breach by cruisedirector, Dementordelta for esteven, Miss M (missm)
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
03 May 2013
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When the mayor of Montreuil learns that Inspector Javert may be planning to investigate the vices of the wharf, he takes advantage of the anonymity afforded by the night and the old buildings. But nothing goes as he expects that night, or, really, for the rest of his life.
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22 Mar 2025
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The Drowning Sky by zamwessell
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables (2012)
05 Jan 2013
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Valjean pulls Javert up out of dark waters.
""No," Valjean says, but Javert knows that he has planted the possibility – Valjean shoving aside the bedclothes and rucking up his nightshirt and the grim slap of flesh on flesh and those hard convict's eyes boring into the back of his neck, Valjean's breath on the back of his neck again, and –
The rush of blood southward catches him almost by surprise. He hopes Valjean does not notice the change in his eyes, the startled swallow. He always hopes too much. To see where he stands Valjean need only glance at the bedclothes.
This, Javert thinks, the thoughts leaden in his stomach. This, this, this is what becomes of you without the prop of your law. This is where your thoughts slink – vile and filthy, back to the gutter, this is the slimy rind that's left of you –"
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17 Mar 2025