Title: Stay
Pairing: Valjean/Javert
Music: Find a Way by Safetysuit
Source/Film: Les Miserables (2012)
Warning: Spoilers. Straight off the bat in the summary. But Les Mis is really not about suspense, so... I would not worry.
Summary and link:
"When [Javert] had encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in him partly something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and partly too of the dog who finds his master again." - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
One man violently ends his own life; the other exiles himself from the only family he has left and wastes away over the course of a few months. Things could (should) have ended differently for them both. The way I see it, it all hinges on those hours between Valjean rescuing Javert from the revolutionaries, and Javert finding Valjean again and choosing not to arrest him. Before that point: their whole tangled, messed up history; after: despair and death, for both of them. Unless...!
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