There was tension in the air, Éponine could feel it. She knew that things between the people and the regime were not good, the people were starving, work was hard to come by, and some schoolboys were whipping the city into frenzy with talk of revolution. Éponine was pulled from her inner musings by Courfeyrac's booming voice.

"When's it gonna end?" He cried

"When we gonna live?" called a beggar

"Something's gotta happen now!" said Joly

"Something's gotta give!" Said a beggar

"It'll come, it'll come, it'll come... It'll come, it'll come, it'll come..." Enjolras, stood on a raised step, making an impassioned speech with fellow student and his close friend Marius. Éponine fixed her eyes longingly on the handsome Marius. Of coarse he didn't notice, a girl like her didn't deserve happiness with a man like Marius,

"Where are the leaders of the land? Where is the king who runs this show?" Shouted Enjolras

"Only one man, General Lamarque speaks for the people here below!" Marius looked towards Lamarque's house behind him.

"Lamarque is ill and fading fast- won't last a week out, so they say. With all the anger in the land, how long before the Judgment Day? Before we cut the fat ones down to size?"

"Death to the King!"

"Liberty for France!" Someone yelled

"Before the barricades arise?" The crowd began to chant,

"Vive la France! Vive la France! Vive la France!" As mounted police rode in to break up the crowd.

"Look down, look down, don't look us in the eye! Look down, look down, stay here and you die!" They cried the crowd broke up. As the students shouted to the crowd: "Tomorrow we will return!"

"Tell everyone you know!" Cried Marius

"We will show them!"

"Lamarque is the only leader on our side! We have a right to pray for Lamarque!" Courfeyrac cried

"We need more people, then the police will not dare ride against us!" Said Joly

"Vive le General Lamarque!" Cried Marius as he ran

"Meet back at Café Musain!" Cried Enjolras. Smiling to herself Éponine trotted after Marius like a loyal dog. Only trailing him from a safe distance, when she arrived at Marius' tenement she stood staring at him through the door. Day dreaming of a life that she knew could not be, but was nice to dream about. Finally she made herself known

"Hey there Monsieur what's new with you? Haven't seen much of you of late. Planning no doubt to change the world? Plotting to overthrow the state? Still living here in this old sewer might as well doss down in a ditch you still pretending to be poor? Everyone knows your Grandpa's rich." Éponine giggled, Marius rushed down the stairs of the slum, Éponine followed.

"How did you...?"

"There's lots of things I know" Éponine said

"Won't take a franc that I've not earned, all of those bridges have been burned." Replied Marius

"I like the way you talk Monsieur!" Smiled Éponine

"I like the way you always tease." Replied Marius Éponine came to a stop, looking wistfully after Marius.

"Little he knows -Little he sees."

Marius was stopped as he exited the front door of the Gorbeau Tenement by a passing carriage. Once it passed he saw two people in the street outside. One was an old gentleman, the other was a beautiful young girl. The two were giving alms to beggars as they walk back from evening church service. Marius couldn't take his eyes off the girl. He had never seen anyone so lovely in his life. As if drawn by Marius' gaze, the girl looked up and met his eyes. She too was amazed: he was looking at her as if he already knew her. A second carriage broke their held gaze. Marius continued on down the street and when he looked back, at that precise moment the girl looked at him again. The old gentleman instinctively put his arm round her, guarding her jealously from the distant boy's gaze. Further down the street to an alleyway where the Thenardier's, heavily disguised, were waiting for a wealthy man's approach with their gang of crooks, Babet, Brujon, Clacquesous, Montparnasse.

"Everyone here, you know your place -Brujon, Babet, Clacquesous -You, Montparnasse, watch for the law -with Éponine- take care." Montparnasse hurried over to the doorway where Éponine was watching Marius.

"You turn on the tears!" Madame Thenardier was holding a baby

"No mistakes, my dears!" Monsieur Thenardier approached a man and lured him into the mouth of the alleyway where Madame Thenardier was sat on the ground holding the crying infant. The beautiful girl Marius had watched was a few steps behind, still entranced by the sight of the man.

"Please, M'sieur, come this way. Here's a child that ain't eaten today. Save a life, spare a sou! God rewards all the good that you do." As the man bent down to look at Madame Thenardier she recognized him.

"Wait a bit! Know that face! Ain't the world a remarkable place!" Monsieur Thenardier looked at the man and saw what his wife saw.

"Men like me don't forget -You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette!" Hollered Monsieur Thenardier the man was grabbed by some thugs.

"What is this? Are you mad? No, Monsieur, you don't know what you say!" The Thenardier's pulled off their disguises. And the man recognized them.

"You know me! I know you! And you'll pay what I'm due." Thenardier cried, he signaled to his gang. A door opened in the alleyway revealing the huge Brujon. The gang moved in on the man menacingly. Just then Éponine shouted from up the street

"It's the police! Disappear! Run for it! It's Javert!" The gang spilled out into the street to find themselves confronted by Javert now with his men. Marius watched, as did Éponine's little brother Gavroche, drawn by the rumpus.

"Another brawl in the square! Another stink in the air! Was there a witness to this? Well, let him speak to Javert!" The Inspector saw the a man with his arm protectively round the girl called Cosette, but did not recognize him for he had averted his face.

"Monsieur, these streets are not safe. But let these vermin beware, we'll see that justice is done!" He turned back on the Thenardier gang in the passage.

"Look upon this fine collection crawled from underneath a stone. This swarm of worms and maggots could have picked you to the bone! I know this man over here, I know his name and his trade. And on your witness, M'sieur, I'll see him suitably paid. " He turned back to find the man and Cosette gone.

"But where's the gentlemen gone? And why on earth did he run?"

"You will have a job to find him!" Monsieur Thenardier cried

"He's not all he seems to be -And that girl he trails behind him she's the child he stole from me!" Marius, equally baffled, went off in search of them.

"Could it be he's that old jailbird that the tide now washes in? Heard my name and started running... All the omens point to him." Javert said Thenardier, listening, heard this all with great interest. So the man was a crook like them. "And the girl who stood beside him, when I turned they both had gone. Could he be the man I've hunted? Could it be he's Jean Valjean?"

"In the absence of a victim, Dear Inspector, may I go? And remember when you've nicked him It was me what told you so." But Javert was too caught up in his own thoughts to reply.

"Let the old man keep on running I will run him off his feet!" He turned to the crowd,

"Everyone about your business! Clear this garbage off the street!" Gavroche was sitting on a horse trough and fell back into it when Javert surprised him. He was furious. He called out to Javert's departing back, and to Marius who was close by.

"That inspector thinks 'e's something but it's me who runs this town! And my theatre never closes and the curtain's never down! Trust Gavroche! 'Ave no fear! You can always find me 'ere!" No one heard Éponine whispering

"Cosette! Now I remember... Cosette! How can it be? We were children together. Look what's become of me." She turned back to find Marius gazing down the street

"Éponine! Who was that girl?" He asked

"That bourgeois two-a-penny thing!" Cried Éponine

"Éponine, find her for me!"

"What will you give me?"

"Anything!"

"Got you all excited now," smirked Éponine

"But God knows what you see in her. Aren't you all delighted now?" Marius pressed a franc into her hand.

"No, I don't want your money, sir."

"Éponine, do this for me, discover where she lives. But careful how you go -Don't let your father know. Éponine! I'm lost until she's found." Marius said

"You see? I told you so! There's lots of things I know! Éponine, she knows her way around."

So if you can't tell this is E/E my first E/E fic so I hope this ship sticks reviews would be adored and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have! REVIEW!