text | in spacetext no one can see you crying like a toddler.

[borndying]

Who cares if you die?

( feel free to interpret that however you please, denizens of the EXTREMELY POORLY NAMED tranquility! all possible interpretations are acceptable in harry's current state of complete emotional breakdown. he probably doesn't care if any of you die, for instance, and may bitterly resent you for having an actual answer to this question.

who cared when norman died? who really cared. people mourned the man who'd contributed so much, but that man was an idea. an image carefully cultivated. harry knew enough to know better, but even he wouldn't pretend to have known his father, and who's going to care when harry dies? just like norman did.

harry's legacy is just disappointment and isolation. his best friend is his only friend and he's pretty sure they're totally not friends any more, also. everything sucks and he broke a bottle when he got back to his room and he can't be bothered to clean it up, he's just going to sit here and hate all of you, publicly and violently, and

you know, by text, because he looks even shitter than usual. )

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[jondrette]

The others did not know me.

He wasn't supposed to let you see

[lafautedevoltaire]

We gathered all our fallen that night. He couldn't have kept me from seeing you among them.

[jondrette]

Gavroche. My sweet, sweet brother.

You should not have been there.

[lafautedevoltaire]

I wanted to be there.

[jondrette]

they should have sent you away.
all there were doomed to die gavroche.

[lafautedevoltaire]

Marius tried. But at least I was doing something. Nothing was ever going to change from nothing.

[jondrette]

it was a hopeless cause.

[lafautedevoltaire]

You've heard all the people from the future here. Someday it won't be. But nothing was ever going to change if we just keep scrambling for bread and hoping we don't catch cholera.

[jondrette]

Someday. But not immediately.
I didn't die for their cause.

[lafautedevoltaire]

[But he did]

But I stayed for it.

And they honoured you like everyone who did. No matter why you were there.

[jondrette]

Did Marius kiss me, as I asked?

[lafautedevoltaire]

I don't know that, I didn't see until later. But he tried to keep the other promise, so he must have kept that one.

[jondrette]

Thank you.

[ but that news doesn't hit her quite the same as it should have ]

So you did not see, then. And none of them knew you are my brother. Until now.
You are a fool to have gone there, to thrown away your life.

[lafautedevoltaire]

Would it have been better to starve? Or catch cholera?

[jondrette]

I would have neither for you. I would have you live a long and happy life.

Something I would never have. So I ended my life. Happily. In Marius' arms.