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Title: my heart lies buried like something dead [3/4]
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt
Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean, Cosette and Valjean
Length: Currently 24,800 words
Summary: That night on the parapet, Valjean forces Javert to live. Some time later, Javert finds himself returning the favor.
"Do you think," Javert said slowly, in a tone that perhaps meant to mock but trembled with another emotion entirely, "that once you have saved a life, you must also save that man's soul?"
"I know nothing of saving souls," Valjean said. "My soul was bought for God, not saved. But it is my belief that you are better than the fate to which you have consigned yourself."
Author's notes: Part three of four.
[AO3 link: Chapter Three: Valjean Gaunt, Javert Trenchant]
