"You Will See."

[personalmephistopheles]

Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: G
Characters: Enjolras, Grantaire
Primary Pairings: Unrequited Enjolras/Grantaire
Word Count: 551

General Summary: When Enjolras orders him to leave, Grantaire can hardly hear the words leaving his lips, but he can hear his voice and he can see his face.

Author’s Note: A reverse perspective take on a particular scene in Les Mis. Written February 2013.


He is beautiful.

Through the haze of the alcohol, this single thought registered itself in his mind. With the light behind him, Enjolras’ features would have been difficult to make out, had not they already been so carefully memorised in his mind’s eye, which rendered both the man and his displeasure as clear as day. The haughty lift of his head as he turned from where he stood, the faint glints of muffled sunlight on his hair and face both gave him the air of an avenging angel.

Or of Milton’s Lucifer. The observation fluttered to his lips, but never left them as he squinted up against the light - whether it was the sunlight or a light somehow emitted by the contained fury etched into his features was both indistinguishable and irrelevant.

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