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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean Characters: Jean Valjean, Javert (Les Misérables) Additional Tags: Javert Lives, Middle Aged Virgins, Morning After, Valjean is a skittish virgin, Javert is an awkward virgin, Rimming Summary: Two old men discovering physical intimacy.
Written for @valvertweek
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Valjean woke to a pleasant warmth. For long moments, he was content to drift in that half-asleep state, his mind not yet questioning the softness of the mattress beneath him or the sun that shone bright and warm onto his face.
Little by little, he became aware of other details. Something soft was resting against his face, tickling his nose. His body felt heavy, his limbs loose with the pleasant relaxation that comes after exertion. Then he shifted and felt a distant, dull soreness.
Memories of the past night resurfaced all of a sudden. Heat rushed to his face even as he opened his eyes and found himself face to face with Javert, intimately entwined.
Javert was still asleep. His features were relaxed, the stern mouth soft. Valjean had never seen him like this before—not even during those days after the barricades when, slowly, haltingly, they’d come to a new understanding of each other.
It had given Valjean something to cling to when he had realized he had to give up Cosette.
And yet, even that impossible friendship shouldn’t have led to this place—this room, this bed. He’d never imagined he might end up like this. Once, he would have sworn Javert felt no different.
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