Secret Santa for TheRandomPhangirl by CaeliaDiMekio, literature
Literature
Secret Santa for TheRandomPhangirl
“I’m sorry.”
Those are the last words spoken by Marius Pontmercy while he still lives. Or perhaps the first ones he speaks when he dies. It is difficult to tell. Cosette had him when she slipped into the final sleep, a few months past. He has no one. His family, his friends, his wife, all gone before him, his children scattered into the world. He dies in his bed, alone, and is greeted first not by Cosette, but by an angelic and terrible face he has not seen for decades. “Enjolras…”
“The savior of the barricades joins us at last. Well met, Marius Pontmercy.”
“Why do I only see you?&rdq