[Les Miserables] A Quiet Study Night
Title: A Quiet Study Night
Author: bearit
Rating: G
Genre: Romance
Characters: Marius/Eponine
Word Count: 369
Summary: Eponine visits Marius, as she normally does.
Notes: thedarkestnightwillend on Tumblr requested some more Marius/Eponine, so here is more! Musical-verse.
Disclaimer: Les Misérables belongs to Victor Hugo. I have no rights to the novel, musical, anime, or any of the movies. This piece of fanwork is unofficial and not making a profit.
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Sometimes Eponine came to visit Marius. The excuses she told him and herself were not false: she needed to get away from her parents, the babies in the apartment downstairs were too noisy, she was on this side of town running errands anyway. But she was lying when she said that was her main reason for knocking on his door at after dusk.
He never complained, always letting her inside with a big, welcome smile. They often talked at lengths until Eponine felt like she was intruding too much on Marius’s time and hospitality, excusing herself to return to the hell that was the small apartment she shared with her parents. But tonight, Marius only greeted her with a small, awkward smile and told her that he would not be able to entertain her tonight; he had an exam the next morning and he had to study for it.
She shrugged and told him that she didn’t mind. Her father was meeting with some of his friends tonight, and Marius knew what that meant, so he let her inside anyway.
“I’m not sure what you could do…” said Marius sheepishly.
Eponine grinned. “I can read, you know.” And she picked up one of his books and opened it up, sitting next to him and mulling over the text as Marius read his.
The words were difficult and beyond her comprehension. She knew what a lot of the individual words meant, but put them together and her mind spun. Her head started to hurt.
Eponine glanced up at Marius and smiled. He was lost in his book, his eyebrows knitted together as though the words made as little sense to him as it did to her. She then yawned, and felt her eyelids start to drop.
“Are you tired, ‘Ponine?”
“Mm. No.” And yet her eyes were closed anyway.
She heard Marius close his book and felt him take hers away, and he set them down on his bedside table. She thought that maybe he was going to have her go home, but instead she felt his arm wrap around her shoulder. He drew her into him, kissing her forehead gently.
Eponine smiled and let herself drift off to sleep.
Author: bearit
Rating: G
Genre: Romance
Characters: Marius/Eponine
Word Count: 369
Summary: Eponine visits Marius, as she normally does.
Notes: thedarkestnightwillend on Tumblr requested some more Marius/Eponine, so here is more! Musical-verse.
Disclaimer: Les Misérables belongs to Victor Hugo. I have no rights to the novel, musical, anime, or any of the movies. This piece of fanwork is unofficial and not making a profit.
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Sometimes Eponine came to visit Marius. The excuses she told him and herself were not false: she needed to get away from her parents, the babies in the apartment downstairs were too noisy, she was on this side of town running errands anyway. But she was lying when she said that was her main reason for knocking on his door at after dusk.
He never complained, always letting her inside with a big, welcome smile. They often talked at lengths until Eponine felt like she was intruding too much on Marius’s time and hospitality, excusing herself to return to the hell that was the small apartment she shared with her parents. But tonight, Marius only greeted her with a small, awkward smile and told her that he would not be able to entertain her tonight; he had an exam the next morning and he had to study for it.
She shrugged and told him that she didn’t mind. Her father was meeting with some of his friends tonight, and Marius knew what that meant, so he let her inside anyway.
“I’m not sure what you could do…” said Marius sheepishly.
Eponine grinned. “I can read, you know.” And she picked up one of his books and opened it up, sitting next to him and mulling over the text as Marius read his.
The words were difficult and beyond her comprehension. She knew what a lot of the individual words meant, but put them together and her mind spun. Her head started to hurt.
Eponine glanced up at Marius and smiled. He was lost in his book, his eyebrows knitted together as though the words made as little sense to him as it did to her. She then yawned, and felt her eyelids start to drop.
“Are you tired, ‘Ponine?”
“Mm. No.” And yet her eyes were closed anyway.
She heard Marius close his book and felt him take hers away, and he set them down on his bedside table. She thought that maybe he was going to have her go home, but instead she felt his arm wrap around her shoulder. He drew her into him, kissing her forehead gently.
Eponine smiled and let herself drift off to sleep.