OOC Setup:
Gillenormand *wants to take a chunk out of Marius. Oblige?
Javert * thinks Jav & Gil could be Buddies :) Heh... well, at least they'd have someone who wouldn't try to shoot them when they said long live the king.
Javert * Oooh... okie.
Gillenormand * GRINS. and they both think Marius is a Dolt.
Gillenormand * oOoh, let's make friends. They both need one. but When?
Javert * cries. Right-pre-barriacade? A kind of Royalist pep rally? *lol*
Gillenormand * Okay.
Javert * oooh... can we be in your drawing room?
Gillenormand * um, why are you there?
Javert * Because I love you.
Javert * blinks. Um.
Gillenormand * But...but...WHY?
Javert * Ummm.
Javert * do you know your grandson is at the barricades?
Javert * or... is soon-to-be at the barricades?
Gillenormand * No.
Javert * could TELL you. :)
Gillenormand * Okay.
Javert * is so damned smart sometimes.
Gillenormand * yeah.

Story:
Javert is shown to the door of the room by a servant, and he knocks on it softly but deliberately.
Gillenormand says, "Come in."
Javert turns the handle and steps in after the door. "Good evening, Monsieur, I ask pardon for the intrusion."
Gillenormand waves his hand. "Don't beg my pardon, get on with it, boy."
Javert says, "I'm afraid I bring bad news. It is believed that your grandson is about to participate in an insurrection."
Gillenormand puts one hand to his brow. "That boy will be the death of me. His mistress, his Emperor, his insurrection." He speaks to Javert next. "Why?"
Javert is a little puzzled over the old man's mumblings, and wonders the significance of this "why?" Why was his grandson participating in the insurrection? Or why was he believed to be participating in the insurrection? He decides to answer the latter. "He has been seen in frequent contact with the people whom we believe about to be leading it."
Gillenormand says, "What do they want to do, resurrect Buonaparte?"
Javert says, "Bury Lamarque."
Gillenormand says, "They can do that without a revolution. He died, didn't he, without their help?"
Javert says, "He did."
Gillenormand says, "Then find my grandson and send him home, man."
Javert says, "If he decides to go along with this, there will not be much anyone can do to save him. Even if he were to survive the fighting, the law requires that he should be executed for his crimes."
Gillenormand says, "He's just a child! Stop him now. I am a citizen of France. I know my rights."
Javert says, "Monsieur, if it were as easy as "stopping them now", I doubt I would have to be here with you discussing the situation."
Gillenormand says, "You don't have to stop All of them. Just mine. You don't want me to go out there and try to find him myself, do you?"
Gillenormand tries to get to his feet and struggles.
Gillenormand collapses into his chair.
Javert's eyes widen a bit in hesitation, lest the old man actually try to go out in all this... mess. "No. No, Monsieur."
Gillenormand says, "He Can't die. He's all I have, the stupid boy."
Javert says, "I will... try. If I see him. I cannot promise anything."
Gillenormand gets crotchety. "Go away, boy. Go save my grandson."
Javert bows, and walks toward the door. "Fare well, Monsieur." he says before he leaves.
Gillenormand says, "Take care of him. That's what you're paid to do."

Marius wanders around Paris, moaning for Cosette and heading toward the Rue de la Chanvrerie.
Marius fiddles with his unpleasant coat.
Javert steps suddenly out of a dark alleyway (a la the 1998 flick) and into the light, in front of Marius. "Marius Pontmercy?"
Marius looks up and takes a step back. One of the many things _no one_ wants to see before them in a dark alley is Javert. He says, "Present," reflexively, even though Javert is hardly Blondeau.
Javert says, "You will come with me."
Marius backs away another step. "I've done nothing wrong."
Javert says, "I know you haven't. You're coming with me, anyhow."
Marius shakes his head and backs away from the specter to try to get enough room to turn and run.
Javert sees the move he's about to make and steps forward, grabbing Marius's arm with his usual vice-like grip. "where do you think you're headed?"
Marius thinks of the first name he can. "To see my grandfather."
Javert says, "Good! I'll accompany you. The streets are full of danger tonight."
Marius says, "You don't need to do that, Monsieur!"
Marius says, "His house is just in the next street."
The 'next street' is the Rue des Gres.
Javert says, "But I will, /Monsieur/."
Javert peers over to the next street. "You don't even remember where your grandfather lives?"
Marius shakes his head again with his deer-in-the-headlight eyes. "He will worry if he knows I had to walk with someone else. He'll think things are worse than they are."
Javert says, "In the."
Marius says, "No, I know where he lives. In the Rue des Gres, Monsieur. Just a little further on. Please."
Marius feels even colder than the brisk June night should allow. "Why," he asks in a hoarse voice, "Why do you think my grandfather lives there?"
Javert says, "I've just been to see him. He's asked me to bring you home. To the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire."
Marius says, "But that's not where my grandfather lives."
Marius clings stupidly to his lie.
Javert says, "Well, that is where he asked me to bring you."
Marius says, "I don't know anyone who lives there. But I will go with you."
Marius plans to sneak out later, of course.
Javert indicates the direction, still holding onto Marius, but not forcing him to move.
Marius walks slowly, scheming along the way.
Marius mutters under his breath, "Cosette..."
Marius says, "Here is the house," in front of the wrong house. "Thank you, Inspector. I shall go in."
Javert thinks "Cosette?" And his mind suddenly races. Marius-->Girl- >Father-->Police Post-->Patron-Minette-->Valjean-->Cosette-->Marius. He stops. "What's that?"
Marius points. "My grandfather's house."
Marius walks up to the steps.
Javert looks up. "No." He points over to the correct house.
Marius says, "Oh, you're right, how silly of me, I am losing my way in the dark."
Marius says, "Where do you think my grandfather lives, Monsieur?"
Javert gestures over at M. Gillenormand's house. "Come, we'll go there."
Marius says, "All right."
Marius resigns himself.
Javert leads the resigned rebel to his grandfather's door. Mentally bracing himself for being called "Boy" again, he raises a hand and knocks quietly.
Basque opens the door. "Yes?"
Javert says, "Um, Monsieur's... grandson, is here."
Basque backs away and bows. "Yes, Monsieur." He disappears.
A stumping noise is audible. An old man with a cane.
Javert places Marius in front of him and enters through the door, into the middle of the reception-chamber.
M. Gillenormand scowls at Marius for all of three seconds, then springs to his feet, as much as a man his age can spring, and embraces the boy.
Javert backs up a few steps, not quite sure what to do at this display of affection.
Marius squirms as his grandfather hugs him. "Let me go."
Javert saves Marius. Again. He steps up to the pair bravely, and comments, "Excuse me, Monsieur. I have a few questions for the boy, if you don't mind?"
M. Gillenormand lets the kid go, slowly. "Ask him and then leave him to me."
Javert looks to Marius. "You mentioned a... certain person... by the name of Cosette. How do you know her?"
Marius says, "I met her in a garden one day."
Javert says, "Do you know where she lives?"
Marius says, "No."
M. Gillenormand looks up. "Ah, Nicolette. Bring me wine."
Javert growls slightly. "Do you have any idea how I would be able to get in touch with her?"
Marius says, "No, Monsieur."
Javert sighs. "In which garden did you meet her?"
Marius says, "I don't recall."
Javert says, "Have you seen her since then?"
Marius says, "No."
Javert says, "Not in an incident earlier this year, in Number 50-52, Rue de la Barriere des Gobelins, the Gorbeau Hovel?"
Marius says, "There were two girls involved. I didn't know your Mademoiselle Cosette at the time."
Nicolette comes back with some wine glasses and a bottle of wine on a platter, "Here, sir."
Javert says, "When did you meet her, in this garden?"
M. Gillenormand says, "Pour, Nicolette."
Nicolette smiles and pours wine in a few glasses, "Sir."
Marius says, "The sixteenth of June."
M. Gillenormand asks, "Wine, Inspector?"
Javert politely declines with a raised hand. "And, eleven days short of a year later, without contanct with her in the interim, you just happen to mention her name?"
Marius blinks a few times. "Um. I saw something that reminded me of her."
Javert says, "What was that?"
Marius says, "I don't recall, now."
Marius says, "Monsieur Inspector, I know nothing of the girl you seek. Let me go in peace, please."
Javert restrains with inspectorial skill a burning desire to break something very expensive and SCREAM. He tries one more thing, with a tone nearing desperation. "You haven't happened to have any contact with her... father... have you?"
Marius says, "No, Monsieur. Except that I saw him in the Gorbeau flat."
Javert says, "And... after that, nothing, I suppose. No idea where he went, that night."
Marius says, "Not at all."
Javert bows his head silently to Marius and M. Gillenormand. "Well, that will be all, then. If you see this this Cosette again, or her father, please come inform me. He is... a very dangerous man. Fare well." He bows deeply, and turns to leave.
There's a knocking on the door.
Nicolette curtsies and says, "Thank you, sir. Have a pleasant day!"
Basque sticks his head in. "Monsieur, a man to see you."
A breathless Delphax comes running into the room. "M... Monsieur... Inspector..." he says, panting. "I heard I might find you here." Regaining his breath, he stands at attention. "I have news, sir."
Marius wonders who this man is.
M. Gillenormand curses. "Basque, you fool, he was not for me at all.
Javert looks at Delphax, and nods curtly to him. "Well? What is it?"
Delphax: "It's over, sir. The barricade is taken. It will be cleared out before dawn. The prefect sent be to tell you not to bother going there."
Marius says under his breath, "My friends..." and closes his eyes slowly.
Javert appears unaffected by this information. He knew it would fall sooner or later, it just seems it was sooner, instead of later. In any event, it does not cheer him from his most recent "loss" of information concerning Valjean. "Very well. I shall report right away to go over plans to deal with those who attempt to escape."
MG says, "Thank goodness all that foolishness is over and you are safe, Marius."
Javert looks over to Marius, scowling slightly, knowing he'd willingly have been with those fools given half a chance. But he simply bows. "Good night to you both, Monsieurs." and leaves, Delphax at his heels.

Javert * it is... On the 5th of June Marius arrives and saves the barricade from being taken... until the 6th ;)
Marius * only, he didn't, so he didn't.