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Following his reveal at Champmattieu's trial, Monsieur Pére Madeline is no more. Jean Valjean has been recaptured and finds himself once more in the Bagne de Toulon. However, having sworn to Fantine that he would find and rescue her daughter, he is determined to not stay long. Perhaps this fifth escape attempt shall prove his last, and he shall quit the binds of Toulon for the last time.
This is a story about a fall from grace and the resolution of the human spirit to endure through the most dire of circumstances. How can one who, having already risen from the ashes of a former life, bear to do so once again?
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Valjean finally gets back to the forest around Montfermeil, but he can't find his damn money!
Made for a "By the Numbers Short Fic Challenge":
Prompt: Write a fic that’s 404 words long about a character who can’t find something
Link to Original Post: https://www.tumblr.com/ao3commentoftheday/816831481506824192/by-the-numbers-a-short-fic-challenge
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ABANDONED FOR THE MOMENT.
James Vega wasn't exactly planning going back to the Alliance, but when Admiral Anderson showed up in the middle of a bar fight, he knew he couldn't exactly say no. This story follows James and Shepard through the events of Mass Effect: Conviction and beyond as he is assigned to guard perhaps the most important prisoner in the galaxy: Commander Shepard.
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One More Light by arancine
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
10 Jan 2026
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Javert turned slightly, preparing to leave.
But his feet refused to move. A flicker of memory stopped him - of one night of the past summer, at the barricade - that night something cracked within him, though he still couldn’t name it. Now, standing over the same man, he felt the fissure widen.
It was infuriating how the past refused to stay buried.
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After the June rebellion, Javert makes an attempt to return to his normal life. Fate has other plans.
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01 Jun 2026
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He had not looked at himself in years, not really. The water in the galleys showed only fragments: a distorted jaw, a shadow of eyes. He’d learned to know himself by other things: the ache in his wrists and ankles where the irons had bitten, the ever-present dull throb of hunger, the sound of his own heavy breathing in the dark.
He bent forward now, wary, as though the glass might break or bite. For a moment, he didn’t understand what he was looking at. And then he froze.
Or, Bishop Myriel gives Jean Valjean a bath and shows him what he looks like for the first time in nineteen years. Jean Valjean does not take it well.
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01 Jun 2026
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Scrupulosity by Spongyllama
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
22 Nov 2025
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Curse him. Curse his name and this supposed gift he’d given of life. Even Javert’s final thought, submerged willfully in the cold waters of the Seine, was littered with the remnants of Jean Valjean. Let him be free. Let the water wash away the curse inflicted on his soul. Let him die now, too tormented to wait in agony for a natural death, even if it meant the remainder of his soul would go to Lucifer’s domain. Let his eternal life be one of misery, as he deserved. Perhaps Valjean would meet him there, but Javert did not think it so.
Rescued from the Seine by a determinably anonymous benefactor, Inspector Javert struggles to cope with the consequences of being left alive.
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- Part 1 of Scrupulosity
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26 May 2026
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Why Should I Save His Hide? by Spongyllama
Fandoms: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
10 Apr 2026
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He simply could not understand it. Javert was not letting him go; that was an impossibility. It was not within the man’s capabilities. It was not in his character. It was not among the list of things that he knew how to do. Javert was France’s most well-trained hunting dog. He did not give up the scent. He would not.
Yet he had left. A frown was etched deep into Jean Valjean’s face, and a moment later, he was wide awake.
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A thoroughly deep examination into the thought process it would realistically take for brick!Valjean to follow Javert to the Seine that night.
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- Part 3 of Scrupulosity
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26 May 2026
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A Glass of Milk by BluePeople
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil
26 May 2026
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If you give a mouse a cookie, he may ask for a glass of milk. And if you let a convict take home a dying rebel, he may ask for a quick stop at his own house. Where does it end??
This is canon-divergent for after they deliver Marius to the grandfather's. They should be heading straight to the police station, but it seems that at least one of them is dragging his feet.
Now COMPLETE!
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26 May 2026