Fic: "my heart lies buried like something dead" (Chapter 5/6, Les Miserables, Valjean/Javert)

my heart lies buried like something dead (74777 words) by Cinaed
Chapters: 5/6
Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean, Cosette and Valjean, Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy
Characters: Inspector Javert, Jean Valjean, Euphrasie "Cosette" Fauchelevant, Marius Pontmercy, Azelma Thénardier, M. Thénardier, Original Characters
Additional Tags: POV Male Character, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Developing Relationship, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Era, Slow Build, Noncanonical Character Death, Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Javert Survives
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."

Chapter Five: The Use Made of M. Pontmercy's Six Napoleons