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This makes me want a modern AU with our Pierre and Esme [ hislunegoddess ] where they meet at this cafe. Pierre eats breakfast here every day and makes one croissant and a coffee last an hour - he’s still poor. He sits scribbling poems in a black notebook all the while. More and more often these days they tend towards the romantic, and feature a girl with beautiful emerald eyes. Esmeralda takes her morning tisane there because it amuses her to be at a cafe with her name above it - “Free advertising”  she jokes with the waiters. She eye-flirts with Pierre, more as a tease than anything because he is handsome, and she likes the way he gets uncomfortable and keeps staring when he thinks she’s not looking [ he forgets about the long mirror behind the bar, which allows her to see this, until their eyes meet in it one day as he gets up to pay.]  Archdeacon Frollo passes by on his morning constitutional and sometimes stops for a ristretto, largely so that he too can look at the Romani girl. He notices the flirting and fumes because he has been having wild and inappropriate fantasies about the dancer, for which he regularly chastises himself with scourges and hair shirts, but he just cannot stop. He blames her of course, and fears she has been sent by the devil to test his faith. He reacts by giving blistering diatribes in his sermons against poetry inciting fornication, the tide of godless foreigners in Paris and the awful temptations of watching lewd dancing. Quasimodo, the bellringer was brought up in a Catholic orphanage of which Frollo is a patron. He was given the job as part of their scheme to find work for differently abled people. He is sensitive about peoples reactions to his strange appearance, and that they assume from his slow speech that he is witless, so he stays in the church most of the time, except when Frollo sends him on errands. He has a mind that belies his looks, and observes much more than people think, though he is naive as to their motivations. He likes Esme, as she is the only person who has patience to listen to him, and gives him a genuine smile. One day Pierre gets up the courage to follow Esmeralda to find out more about her and ends up cornered by the very protective Romani brothers who own the bar where Esme waits tables and dances in the evenings.  They think he’s the stalker who she has said has has been tailing her [ actually Frollo ] and are about to give him a beating when she stops them and to save him tells them she knows him and it’s okay. She gives him a drink and they chat… and so it goes..