Yeah, storytime seemed to be taking too long as it was, so Combeferre had been propelled into action time. He hated to hurt Eponine by harming what she thought was her true love, but sometimes,sometimes you had to hurt people a little, in order to save them.
You obviously apologized and made it right later, but in the moment, well, you tackled. And if you were Combeferre, your spectacles, badly mended with that bright and sticky substance duct tape, went flying off your face as you did so.
"Eponine, you cannot follow!" He tried to insist, as firmly as he could. "This is not Marius. Our Marius would never do any of this. He could not love you, because he was not...because he never saw you, though he should have done."
Personally, he felt it was more that Marius and Cosette had been meant, locked together in the way that he and Enjolras had been, soulmates first, romantic prospects later. But he did not dare say that just now. He did not want to hurt Eponine more than he needed to after all.
Unfortunate as it was to need to cut into someone in order to put them back together, unfortunate as it was to clean out wounds with cures that were sometimes worse than the initial problem, and that caused pain, sometimes, sometimes one needed to apply the knife, but that did not mean he had to wield it cruelly and at random.
Trying to fight off Eponine when everything around him was blurry, and to do it without hurting her as he tried to get a hold on her instead, took all the skill he'd mustered up, and he only hoped that it could work.
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You obviously apologized and made it right later, but in the moment, well, you tackled. And if you were Combeferre, your spectacles, badly mended with that bright and sticky substance duct tape, went flying off your face as you did so.
"Eponine, you cannot follow!" He tried to insist, as firmly as he could. "This is not Marius. Our Marius would never do any of this. He could not love you, because he was not...because he never saw you, though he should have done."
Personally, he felt it was more that Marius and Cosette had been meant, locked together in the way that he and Enjolras had been, soulmates first, romantic prospects later. But he did not dare say that just now. He did not want to hurt Eponine more than he needed to after all.
Unfortunate as it was to need to cut into someone in order to put them back together, unfortunate as it was to clean out wounds with cures that were sometimes worse than the initial problem, and that caused pain, sometimes, sometimes one needed to apply the knife, but that did not mean he had to wield it cruelly and at random.
Trying to fight off Eponine when everything around him was blurry, and to do it without hurting her as he tried to get a hold on her instead, took all the skill he'd mustered up, and he only hoped that it could work.