midshipmankennedy:

wolfwithpanthereyes:

so headcanon that Marius doesn’t tell Cosette about Courfeyrac because he’s still hurting from his death and talking about it with Cosette will only make it a confirmed reality

meanwhile Cosette notices that Marius sometimes carries around with him a handkerchief that she does not recognise as one of his own or hers (and not her papa’s either, Ursule is still a running joke between them)

one night he’s sitting on the edge of the bed gazing at it, and Cosette finally asks whose it might be

and that’s when Marius finally gives in and tells her about Courfeyrac because the handkerchief was his and it was the one item of Courfeyrac’s which Marius could not bare to part with, and how Cosette would not have noticed but he had tucked it into his pocket during their wedding so that, in a way, the best man would be present

#what if it’s not a kerchief but a cravat #the cravat courf used to wrap marius’s head wound after they carried gavroche’s body #imagine marius waking up #and being told that the cravat-bandage stopped the bleeding just enough to save his life #courfeyrac#the friend who saved his life twice and more (via combeferrescannon)