#combefere

ANDTHEN THERE WERE THREE

 The first time Jehan walked into the Musain,Combeferre’s heart skipped a beat, and then he felt guilty beyond all measure.He was with Courfeyrac, how could his mind have reacted that way, especiallysince he loved Courfeyrac more than anything in his whole life? He tightenedhis hold around Courf’s waist and kissed the top of his head, trying to pushthe thought of the adorable ginger with flowers in their hair out of his mind.He somehow still found himself glancing their way throughout the rest of themeeting, each time feeling more guilt-ridden, as Courf was seemingly obliviousto Ferre’s distraction.

Once the meeting was over Feuilly stood up, “Heyeveryone! This is my foster sibling, Jehan, they’re going to be joining us fromnow on!” he announced rather excitedly.

Jehan stood up and waved at everyone, blushingsoftly, “Hi,” they nearly whispered.

Courfeyrac looked up to see what Feuilly was saying,and his mouth fell open slightly before he caught himself and quickly shut it.Jehan was one of the cutest people he’d ever met, excluding Combeferre ofcourse, he reminded himself. He stepped a bit closer to Ferre as he looked Jehanup and down, trying not to blush or change his expression in any way as henoted how their freckles looked just stunning. “Take me home, love?” he lookedup at Ferre.

Ferre nodded, “Okay, my sunshine,” he took his hand,“Is everything okay?”

“Yeah, I’m okay,” Courf smiled and stood up on histoes to kiss his cheek.

The two of them went home. Months went by and thingsonly got harder for them both, though neither of them would admit it to oneanother. They found themselves growing closer to Jehan and spending more timewith them, even outside of meetings. Ferre would go with them now and then tothe observatory, and Courf would go with them to the gardens for lunch. Itseemed that they couldn’t go one day without one of them seeing Jehan.

Late one night they were lying in bed, Courfeyraccurled up against Ferre’s side with his head on his chest and his boyfriend’sfingers in his hair. Combeferre broke the silence, “Joly Bossuet and Musichettaare really happy together now that they’ve finally made it official.”

Courf smiled and nodded, “Indeed they are, they weremeant for each other.”

Combeferre took a deep breath, “Have you everthought maybe you could be polyamorous? I mean at any point in your life haveyou questioned that about yourself?”

Courfeyrac looked up at him, “Yes, um…recentlyactually…I’ve been thinking a lot about someone, but that I wanted that someoneto be with both of us…”

“What person is that?” Ferre asked him, “Because I’vebeen thinking about that kind of thing too…”

Courf looked away, “I’ve been thinking about Jehanthat way.”

“Oh thank God,” Ferre sighed in relief, “So have I…butI was afraid to tell you.”

Courf kissed him and smiled, “Let’s have them overand ask them about it, right now.”

“Right now?” Ferre laughed softly and ruffled Courf’shair, “It’s late, are you sure they’re up?”

“Yeah, Jehan does their best writing after midnight,”Courf reminded him.

Courfeyrac texted Jehan and asked them to come over,to which Jehan replied that they would be over in an hour.

Jehan paced back and forth for most of that timetrying to pick something out to wear that both of them would like. They’d beensecretly pining over the two of them for months, but they were such a cutecouple that Jehan didn’t have it in their heart to tell them and ruin it. Butthey wanted them to come over, and Jehan had a nasty habit of getting theirhopes up.

Jehan knocked on Combeferre and Courfeyrac’sapartment door and nervously played with their hair as they waited for it toopen.

Combeferre was the one who wound up answering, whileCourf was in the kitchen brewing a pot of Jehan’s favorite tea, “Hi, Jehan,come on in, Courf’s making us some tea to keep us awake so we can all chat,” hesmiled.

“Hey, Ferre! Oh it smells like the lavender honeytea I like,” They smiled brightly, “What do we need to talk about so late atnight? I mean I was up already, you two didn’t wake me or anything.”

Courf walked in and set the tea down, “Well, Jehan, Combeferreand I need to ask you something and it’s a pretty big thing.”

“We were wondering, well hoping,” Ferre started, “Thatyou were, or that you would consider being…I mean that you and us could—,”

Courf interrupted him, “We want you to be in a poly relationshipwith us.”

Jehan smiled from ear to ear, “You…you both want me?Like…romantically? Both of you?”

“Yes, both of us,” Ferre assured them, “We want youto join us in our relationship.”

“So, will you?” Courf asked.

“Yes, I will, I would love to be with you both. I’vehad such a crush on the two of you,” they admitted, “But I didn’t want to breakyou up, or have you hate me for liking you.”

“Why don’t you stay the night, Jehan?” Courf smiledand kissed their cheek.

Ferre kissed the other cheek, “That sounds like agreat idea to me.”

Jehan nodded, “Okay, I think we can find some way tooccupy ourselves for the night.”

A full colour Courferre Comic with the 1982 versions (featuring also the infamous Courfius kiss) by me? 

It’s more likely than you think!

(In other words: I got my SAI brushes back and used them for a quick messy comic with coloured outlines which I start to like more and more)

ENJOLRAS WATCHING COMBEFERRE WALKING TO MARIUS AFTER THE SPEECH PREPARED TO DROP: "To be free" AS A FINAL ANSWER:

"LES MISERABLES"

(theatre Châtelet version)

(PART 8 -some of this are references to things in the brick so im really sorry non brick readers- HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM)

JOLLLLY (to the national guards)

FEUILLY

LE CABUC (to Enjolras before being shot)

COSETTE (I swear that's her in the brick)

BARRICADE BOYS (the 6th of June of 1832)

GRANTAIRE (about Marius)

GAVROCHE

BAHOREL

COMBEFERE

MARIUS (Cosette asks -after the love letter-)

(sorry for the bad quality, a free editing phone app can just let me do that much)