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Chapter 11: A Summary of the End

Summary:

I can only apologise.

Notes:

Okay, so it's been a year and a half since the last update, and over three years since I started this fic. My level of sorry is so high.

My only excuse is that I just...fell out of love with this story. I wasn't inspired by it anymore and for that I can only apologise. Rest assured, I will never post another WIP as long as I live.

But I didn't want to just leave this completely abandoned because I have the last three chapters planned out, I just can't write them at this point. So instead I'm just going to leave you with the general summary of what each chapter would've been focused on/included.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Chapter 11
- Javert makes a visit to the ward in preparation for the inspection, Enjolras uses Joly’s phone to call his own voicemail to record Javert ordering Joly to destroy documents and admitting to over medicating patients. He specifically mentions Grantaire and the fact that his parents are paying him to keep their son locked up. Enjolras is sickened (so is Joly) but he now has enough evidence and information to write his story.

Chapter 12
- Six months after the article was published, Javert was arrested for medical malpractice and had his license to practice medicine revoked. Jehan has been out of Bradey for over four months, Courf for nearly three, Bossuet for six, Bahorel for two. Grantaire’s parents were arrested? Joly ended up running Bradey and fixing it. With Combeferre’s help Grantaire is now ready to be released into the wild. Grantaire is leaving the hospital and Enjolras is waiting for him outside instead of Jehan. Grantaire is obviously surprised, but Enjolras starts to apologise for sort-of-lying and not visiting and how he wanted to but he wasn’t sure if R would want to see him. Grantaire starts laughing, “Shut up Apollo and take me somewhere with decent coffee, you can tell me all about the real Enjolras.”

Chapter 13
- Five years later, Enjolras looks around at all his friends at his and R’s engagement party and thinks about how far they’ve come. Everyone’s happy and laughing and R is glowing and talking to everyone (telling the story of how Enj proposed if his hand movements are anything to go by) and Enjolras thinks life works in mysterious ways sometimes, who would’ve thought that walking into a mental hospital five and half years ago would’ve ended up here.

 

Also, for anyone interested, here's what I noted down for everyone's diagnoses, some might not be wholly accurate (ie. Bossuet) but it's what they were diagnosed with:

Grantaire:
- Diagnosed: Alcoholic, Bipolar I - dysphoric, Boderline Personality Disorder, (DTs when in withdrawal), Insomia.
- Involuntarily commited by his parents.

Courfeyrac:
- Diagnosed: Histrionic personality disorder
- Voluntarily committed.

Jehan:
- Diagnosed: Bipolar II - euphoric
- Voluntarily committed.

Bahorel:
- Diagnosed: Intermittent Explosive Disorder
- Court mandated involuntary committment

Bossuet:
- Diagnosed: Persecutory delusions and paranoia (suspected schizophrenia)
- Involuntarily committed

Eponine:
- Diagnosed: Schizoaffective disorder (delusions and hallucinations -sometimes pretty severe)
-Involuntarily committed after being arrested on unrelated charges.

Enjolras:
- Diagnosed: Grandiose delusions relating to unknown illness.
-Voluntarily committed.

Notes:

And this is the end of an interesting journey that turned into more of an uphill battle. I just want you guys to know that I'm really sorry for letting you down :( 3

Notes:

To be fair, I don't know much about psychiatric hospitals (though I know a little about psychiatric wards) so some things are going to be wrong and not at all like real life. Though the whole idea is that the hospital isn't run properly, so that's kind of the point.

This fic started as a labour of love, and I'm no longer really in love with it, and I think that really shows in the writing, so I am so, so freaking sorry that the quality has dropped so much since the beginning, there is no excuse and I apologise.