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    A modern AU in which James and Francis are two barristers who keep butting heads in court and who happen to live across from one another. Installments follow a chronological order, but by and large, can be read by themselves.

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    Valjean does not ask, for he knows what Javert’s answer will be. Neither does he inform Javert of his intent, for it requires no leap of imagination to imagine the man’s reaction: his wild words, perhaps an attempt to throw something. And so it is that, when Valjean steps into the room with a heavy basin of steaming water held in his hands—he had asked his housekeeper to heat it, and yet knowing the nature of Javert’s complaints, had insisted on bearing it up himself—Javert raises his head from the sweat-stained pillows which have become his prison these past weeks, curls his lip in distaste, and says, “You presume too much.”

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    16 Sep 2025

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    Javert lives and learns.

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    12 Sep 2025

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    She reminded him of James. Everything did these days. She wasn’t even jamesian in any easily pinpointable way, other than having brown eyes. She was timid and shy, somehow he hadn’t seen her yet after two weeks of a summer camp he was the director of.

    At this rate he wouldn’t be able to look at a single person with dark eyes without his thoughts turning soupy and maudlin.

     

    After James dies, Francis sees him in everything. Unfortunately he can’t just sit inside and morb, he has a summer camp to run.

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    09 Sep 2025

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    Guilt is a burden James cannot afford to carry on the march. Francis devises a plan to lighten the load before they set out.

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    22 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    He is not the same man who set sail from Greenhithe all those years ago, nor does he possess the same stamina. He tires quickly now, and besides the aches and the bad eye and the missing molar, he fears his hair will never regain its proper shine, nor his affect its debonair ease. He is prone to disagreeableness, and the many demands of polite society grate upon him as often as they delight him.

    God help him, but it had all been easier to face out there, when he’d been staring down death in the Great White Nothing.

    For the first time since their rescue, James Fitzjames falls ill.

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    09 Jul 2025