Dudeeeeee though, I always pictures Bahorel having lots of sisters?? So she’s an older sister, probably, and she runs off with Thenardier who Bahorel HATES and the whole family hates and they pretend they’re not talking to Madame Thenardier, but they keep tabs. And one day Bahorel gets tired of not hearing from her and finds them in that crappy inn and is like “yo, this is how you treat kids?” and just steals Eponine, Azelma, Baby Gavroche, and Cosette all away. Maybe Valjean is in the midst of helping Fantine then, and so helps Bahorel with that. Valjean can take Cosette still and Bahorel just takes his nieces and nephews home to his parents, leaves the girls with his mom and dad, and raises Gavroche himself. Then maybe he recognizes Valjean at the barricades and is like YO you are a good dude and Valjean saves them all and then no one dies isn’t that great?