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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables) Characters: Enjolras (Les Misérables), Grantaire (Les Misérables)
Summary:
Grantaire is supposed to be a man of the world, but he's shocked, and he handles it badly. “I beg your pardon?” he asks, and then, a heartbeat later, “I never proposed any such thing!”
Enjolras goes red and then white in quick succession. “I apologise,” he says. Even his full mouth has blanched, thinning down to a disciplined, painful-looking line. “I must have misunderstood.”
“I take no offense,” Grantaire says hurriedly, which is at least somewhat better, “indeed, I am flattered –”
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Enjolras decides to take Grantaire up on his longtime offer. Only, Grantaire, as Hugo puts it, has long admired Enjolras' "chaste, healthy, firm, upright, hard, candid nature[...] without being clearly aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having occurred to him."