Title: Toil Until the Old Colours Fade
Fandom: Les Misérables
Pairing: Javert/Jean Valjean
Categories: Action Adventure, Angst, Repeating-time, Romance,
Length:Epic (94,300)
Warnings:Suicide, Failed Revolutions, Cannon typical violence

Author on LJ: drcalvin
Website: Drcalvin's A03

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.

Review: This started out as a Kink-meme fill that grew, got betaed, and was recently reposted in it's entirety on Ao3

Beautifully written and extremely touching, Toil Until the Colour's Fade is one of the best ground-hog day redemption fics that I've seen. A lot of that has to do with DrCalvin's very stong Javert voice.

He fails, falls into depression, falls in love, and continues this cycle for years never knowing why or when he will be called back to the first moments of his life. What makes this so different from many of the ground-hog's day fix-it fics before it, is that Dr. Calvin doesn't give Javeart a particular time period that he is forced to repeat. Instead he has a whole life to try and piece together.

If he manages to find a way to fix on piece of his life, he gets to live further and learn more about what went wrong. Until finally he is able to live all the way through the events of "Le Mis". And then even further...

Toil Until the Old Colours Fade