[fic] Toil Until the Old Colours Fade 1/8 [Les Misérables]

Title: Toil Until the Old Colours Fade
Pairing: (eventually) Javert/Jean Valjean
Status: Finished (except for one epilogue) but in-beta.
Summary: After his leap into the Seine, Javert finds himself back in Montreuil-sur-Mer on the morning of his first appointment with M. Madeleine. He soon discovers that while his choices can change the outcome of things, nothing can stop death from delivering him back to that same morning.
Now he has to defeat the game of fate or keep returning to 1820, eternally dying without finding peace.
Content notes: Groundhog Day / Time Loop, Temporary Character Death, Suicide, Purgatory
Rating: Mature
Credits & Acknowledgements: Everything Les Mis belongs, of course, to Victor Hugo.
A great many thanks to my betas, voksen and morgan - their hard work has improved this fic immensely! And thanks to the spiffy Les Mis kinkmeme, makinghugospin, for being such a lovely place.

Originally posted on the Les Mis Kinkmeme

( Chapter One: Hope twisted and dried )