orestes_fasting: (Always so serious)
Enjolras ([personal profile] orestes_fasting) wrote 2017-02-06 02:05 am (UTC)

I went back to read the scene in question and now my heart hurts

[ Being the last to leave was not a rare thing for Enjolras. They others dispersed as he finished things himself, as he focused on his books or detailing things they discussed in notes to be recalled at another time. The energy of tonight had been infections, and he was in good spirits, brimming with inspiration, laying down ink as quickly as his hand could form the letters.

That mood, however, started to tip downwards as he heard that tell-tale tinkle of glass falling to the floor. He stopped midword, closing his eyes. Of course Grantaire was still here. And he still had not addressed or dealt with the Richefeu incident. He'd figured if he simply ignored the problem, it would go away. Grantaire had actually allowed him to think there was a chance anything was different. That he might actually try this time.

Not even at his name did he look up, the muscle in his jaw flexing visibly as he ground his teeth together. Slowly he finished the word he'd been writing. He tried to complete the sentence as the other continued to speak, but he knew it was pointless.

Finally, as he looked up at the drunkard, all of that disappointment written plainly across his otherwise fierce gaze, now focused intently upon the one who had failed him. ]


When I sent you, I did so with your word, your promise, to rouse them. To shake them from the stupor they had fallen into. I noted precisely that they had a stronger affinity for drink and dominoes than for anything else. And when I passed that very cafe, I found you participating in that which I sent you to pull them from. If I gave you yet another "last chance" what would I find you doing, then?

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