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    Curiosity causes Valjean to follow Javert to the Seine, and what he sees there changes everything. Now they must struggle to understand one another as their worlds come crashing down around them.

    A story about compassion, tenderness, and reconciliation. Based entirely on Brick canon.

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    06 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 66

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    "The thesis of Les Mis is that one act of kindness or mercy can move mountains within a person; Javert gets that at a young age, and everything changes." - @dandelioness

    (Or: Javert meets Jean Valjean (and family) long before Toulon. This and other small changes shape him into a much more human version of himself than fate (or Victor Hugo) would have had him be.)

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    05 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    Not all the ghosts from Javert's past can be drowned, no matter how he may try. He left one behind long ago in a prison cell before he ever knew Jean Valjean's name.

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    04 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 64

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    When Jean Valjean takes over management of the Opéra Populaire from Monsieur Lefévre, he knows it's only a matter of time before Javert catches up with him. When he does, Valjean heads for cover in the underbelly of the opéra house, pursued by the relentless Inspector. Unbeknownst to either of them, their presence down below does not go unnoticed, and the opéra's own deus ex machina, the man who calls himself the Phantom, treats them as he does all intruders to his realm. Trapping them in a storage room, Valjean and Javert struggle against the force seeking amusement through their pain, as well as their own volatile relationship.

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    03 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    Javert had seen people dying—it was hard not to in his line of duty. Mothers losing their will to live after their child died. Husbands losing themselves in grief when they realised their wives were dead. It was the natural course of action. It was their hearts breaking, his co-workers told him, it would be almost impossible to make them regain a will to live. How do you keep someone alive when their soul is with God?
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    Valjean wants to die. Javert stages an intervention that backfires horribly.

    Please read the tags and author's notes for warnings!!

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    21 Oct 2025