Back to the cellar, we go.

Cosette was staring balefully out the widow, when she noticed Gavroche picking the lock.

"Okay!" Gavroche yelled. "It's unlocked." Valjean threw the doors open, and all three of the humans scurried out of the cellar. Cosette ran to the stables, where she pulled out Philippe, the spare horse, and Combeferre's horse. They mounted, and galloped off into the forest, after Combeferre picked up Gavroche and stuck him in his pocket.

At the castle, the objects finally drove all the humans away and began celebrating. Courfeyrac even kissed Enjolras on each cheek. Enjolras shook it off and slapped him.

But only forty- eight French men ran from the castle... why?

Well, Grantaire had passed out due to alcohol poisoning and was snoring contentedly on the rug in the main hall. And Théodule was hunting Marius.

Théodule burst into the West Wing and aimed his gun at Marius, who glanced at him a moment, then stared dejectedly down at the floor. Théodule shot and hit Marius in the shoulder. Marius grunted a bit in pain, and then tumbled out of the room off the balcony and onto the rooftop. Théodule jumped after him.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" Théodule... laughed. Really, there aren't any adequate synonyms in this case. He cornered Marius on a corner of the roof.

Marius, now in pain as well as despair, just lay on the roof wishing for death. Marius was not a cheerful person.

"Get up! Get up!" Théodule laughed evilly. "Ha ha! You're under arrest and will be guillotined very shortly. Come with me!"

But, as luck would have it, Cosette, Combeferre, and Valjean galloped in.

"No!" Cosette yelled.

Marius perked up at the sound of her voice. "Cosette..."

"Théodule, please! Don't hurt him!"

Marius smiled, but very quickly became depressed and angry, as Cosette had come back, but now he was quite obviously going to die and would never see her again. Bummer.

Marius fought back against Théodule, and they began fighting to the top of the roof. Marius's pack of wild animals did him proud. They viciously attacked Théodule, while Marius struggled back up to a part of the roof that was closer to the balcony. But Théodule kept shooting the wild animals, which promptly vanished. New ones took their places, but all the same, Théodule was an excellent sharp-shooter, and soon caught up with Marius, who hid behind a gargoyle.

"Come out, bete! You're under arrest! Were you in love with her, idiot?" He laughed and continued shooting at the wild animals. "Did you honestly think she'd want someone like you when she had someone like me?"

Marius had enough provocation at that. With a yell, he attacked Théodule himself.

"It's over... idiot... Cosette is mine!" Théodule shouted. They continued fighting, and soon Marius's wild animals had Théodule pinned against a wall. A wolf remained by Marius's side, ready to rip out Théodule jugular vein.

"I didn't mean it!" Théodule said in a strangled voice. "I really didn't mean it, and I'll do anything... and... you look familiar. Am I related to you? Do I know you?"

"I don't know who you are," Marius said calmly, clutching his shoulder. "But, whoever you are, I won't kill you, so long as you get out right now and never come back here."

Théodule nodded, and Marius's wild animals vanished. Cosette ran out onto a balcony near Marius.

"Marius!"

"Cosette..." Marius walked as quickly as he could to the balcony and attempted to lift himself over the railing. It proved a bit difficult, as he thought his collarbone was broken from the gunshot. Cosette smiled at him brilliantly. "Cosette... you came back."

Cosette was about to say something, then Théodule, who was putting away his gun, accidentally shot at Marius... again.

"Sorry!" Théodule called frantically. "Are you okay?" Marius, falling into anger and depression yet again, sent a hyena at him. Théodule scrambled into another balcony and ran off screaming.

"Marius! You were hit!" Cosette cried. She helped pull Marius over the railing and he collapsed on the floor, due the blatantly obvious bullet in his collarbone.

Marius, now rather dizzy from blood loss, stared up at Cosette happily. "You came back."

Cosette attempted to smile but tears streamed down her face. She pretended it was the rain. "Of course I came back. I couldn't let them... oh, this is all my fault. If only I'd gotten back here sooner..."

"Maybe its better this way," Marius murmured.

Cosette smoothed down his wet hair and concentrated on being as cheerful as she could. "Don't talk like that! You'll be all right. We're together now. Everything's going to be fine, you'll see." All the talking objects huddled at the door to the balcony, looking worried. Combeferre and Valjean looked on as well.

"At least I got to see you," Marius muttered, lifting a hard to caress Cosette's cheek. "One... last... time..." With that, he smiled, and he closed his eyes. His hand dropped limply to his side. Cosette, oblivious to the rain, put her hands to her mouth in horror. She couldn't believe this had happened. She couldn't believe he was dead.

"No," she sobbed quietly. "No, no this can't happen. Please..." She tenderly stroked Marius's hair. "Please don't leave me... I- I love you." She burst into tears and flung herself on top of Marius's body.

The objects and the two humans in Marius's rooms glanced at the rose, who forlornly shed its last petal, which floated down lazily to the tabletop. The objects looked down at the floor. Fantine began to cry. Enjolras patted her soothingly on the back. Valjean looked at everything in confusion, but especially at his daughter, who was sobbing on top of Marius's chest. Combeferre looked at Cosette and Marius a moment and sighed. (A/N: tattered sparrow... make what assumptions you will of this sentence you will.;-P)

Cosette didn't notice any of them, being too absorbed in sobbing until she just dried up and died. The rain continued to fall, but beams of light fell as well. One narrowly missed Cosette's head. Cosette wiped her eyes quickly and stared at the beams of light. Everyone else was mystified as well.

Eponine the beautiful fairy floated down on one such beam of light and landed next to Cosette.

"So..." Eponine wheezed in her raspy voice. "You love him?"

Cosette, terrified, nodded. "More then anything..."

"Oh good. I remember you from when we were young. Yes... and he loves you?"

Cosette gently smoothed back Marius's hair again, thought a moment, and nodded. "I would hope so. Please... can you help him?"

"Good," Eponine sighed, looking wistful. "Well, I'm glad he loves you. You two deserve some happiness." She walked over to Marius and tapped him three times with her magic wand. With that, she flew off, leaving everyone to stare after her, stupefied.

Marius began to float and was ensconced in his large black cloak.

There was a sudden burst of light. Cosette moved away from Marius and flinched at the light. The objects, Valjean, and Combeferre stared, fascinated.

The castle was suddenly as it had been before; full of... light... and white marble. And Marius was as he was before as well. His mask was gone, and he was dressed very elegantly. Cosette timidly walked to him and reached out to touch him. At that moment, he stirred and stood up. Cosette shrank back. The man who might have been Marius felt his face to make sure the mask was no longer there, and looked at his clothes. Then he turned to Cosette.

Cosette noticed that the new person that she wasn't sure was Marius was extremely handsome.

"Cosette..." he whispered walking toward her. "It's me."

Cosette looked up at him, and then seeing Marius's familiar, gentle smile, smiled and threw her arms around his neck. "Oh, Marius, it is you!"

With that, they kissed rather passionately. Valjean coughed and looked away. Enjolras looked annoyed, but when no one was looking, he secretly looked a little pleased. Combeferre smiled at them and Courfeyrac chuckled and nudged Combeferre with his elbow. Fantine dabbed at her eyes and Musichetta sighed romantically before wandering off to find Joly.

The objects hopped out onto the balcony and resumed their former shape, as soon as Marius and Cosette stopped kissing, which was quite a bit of time.

"Courfeyrac... Enjolras... Madame Fantine!" Marius laughed and shook hands with them, but kept one hand clasped in Cosette's. He glanced into the room, where Jehan came running out, elated. Combeferre waved, and hugged Enjolras, who looked rather amused, now. Apparently he still hadn't gotten much sleep.

Grantaire even woke up and came to see what all the happiness and laughter and whatnot were about.

Gavroche came riding in on the footstool and were transformed into a cute little gamin and a dog respectively.

"Madame! Look at us!" Gavroche cried in delight. Fantine laughed, and quickly walked over and kissed Valjean on both cheeks in thanks for raising Cosette so well. Valjean blushed.

The next day, Cosette and Marius were waltzing around the ballroom after their cute little wedding, unable to take their eyes off each other. Cosette and Marius kissed each other happily and then continued dancing around, eyes shining.

Courfeyrac, leaning against a handy marble pillar, chuckled to himself. "L'amour..." At this, a maid who used to be a feather duster walked by, after lightly dusting him off with... a feather duster. Courfeyrac straightened his cravat and walked after her. He was stopped by Enjolras, who was cheerfully carrying about a big red flag.

"Well, Courfeyrac, apologies for saying you were a traitor to the revolution and all. Will you join in our crusade still?"

"Of course!"

Marius and Cosette waltzed by, looking cute and completely in love with each other.

Courfeyrac chuckled to himself again. "I told you she'd break the spell."

"I still think the spell was stupid."

"No it wasn't!"

"Yes it was, you pompous, paraffin –headed pea- brain!"

"En garde, you over grown pocket watch!" Courfeyrac pulled a glove out of his pocket and slapped Enjolras, who hit him on the head with his large red flag. They began fighting. Joly, who was pleased not to be a mirror again, and Musichetta walked by giggling, ignoring the two fighting revolutionaries.

Marius and Cosette danced on, oblivious to anyone but each other.

Let us visit Valjean a moment, who was smiling fondly after the couple. Combeferre, standing next to him, smiled and talked to his friend Jehan. Combeferre was very happy... he had friends again!

Fantine, who was beginning to cry, was on Valjean's other side, and Gavroche was seated on the floor, playing with a deck of playing cards, and several wedding guests who he was cheating out of their money. Monsieur Mabeuf was standing by Fantine, holding a book and looking bemusedly at his 'niece' and the nice young man he used to be friends with before he disappeared. He still did not quite believe all the tales about talking objects and white- half masks, and beautiful fairies who drowned in moats, but was having a good time anyways.

"Ah... young love..." Fantine sniffed and, borrowing Valjean's handkerchief, wiped her eyes. "They are so cute together."

"Yes, very." Valjean agreed. "And they've asked me to come live them. Isn't it marvelous! We'll be one, big happy family!"

Gavroche made a face. "What! Are we going to all live happily ever after now or something?"

"Oh, of course!" Fantine laughed.

"This is disgusting," Gavroche muttered. "I'm going to go build a barricade. Bye!"

Marius and Cosette waltzed around the room happily, and all the guests were 'moved' to sing the song Fantine had made up earlier (by the large amounts of money that Valjean was flinging about)... though with different lyrics this time.

"Certain as Théodule... is now filled with regret!"

"Hey!" Théodule shouted, with several waitresses hanging off his arms, looking anything but regretful. Grantaire chuckled, and then decided to be Enjolras's beat-up side-kick instead of Théodule's.

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme... la belle et la bete!"

Marius and Cosette smiled at each other and kissed again.

"Tale as old as time! Song as old as rhyme! La belle et la bête!"

THE END... finally. ^^