-I DON'T OWN HAMILTON'S CHARACTER OR MUSIC-
Alexander Hamilton landed hard on the ground as he opened his eyes to observe his surroundings the sharp twang of pang that was making its way up his leg was quickly ignored as he realized he was in a room he didn't recognize. He grunted softly as two arms hoisted his up onto his feet. "Alex!" The voice cried out in alarm as he put his injured leg on the floor only for it to give out from under him like a meek twig.
The voice he soon recognized as John Lauren's squatted down next to him and briefly examined Alex's leg, then sighing as he once again lifted Alexander up this time however John helped to support his weight. When he got up Alex finally noticed the other people standing in the room with them watching the interaction between the two. Aaron Burr stood nearby with one arm stretched out and frantic eyes as if he couldn't decide between helping or continuing to watch. Lafayette and Hercules Mulligan watching them with a odd mix of amused eyes but a worried expression otherwise, Alex smiled softly as it had been so long since he had seen the two. The realization of how he forgotten them hit him like a brick. (COUGH COUGH Jason Grace COUGH COUGH) Cold and hard.
The famous trio of Schuyler sisters were staring from the back of the room and Peggy trailing off as she'd been cut off when Alexander dropped from the ceiling, her words long forgotten. His wife Eliza, stood in the center with a soft smile that disappeared as she noticed Alex's inability to stand. Angelica stood with a stoic face as she looked over briefly before turning back to her sisters not before Alexander could catch the worry that flashed through her eyes.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson loitered in a corner they didn't seem to see Alex appear and hit the floor like a sack of flour (or didn't care), Jefferson peered over Madison's shoulder as they looked at what appeared to be a note. Only under Alexander's stare did the men spare him a quick glance before looking back down to the note with confused expressions painting their features. George Washington was the only one sitting at a table, though he was accompanied by a teenaged girl Alex didn't recognize as they- well Washington talked the little girl seeming to only reply in little shakes yes or little shakes no of her head, she glanced over at him quickly as George continued to speak to her. She was very gorgeous Alex would grant her that and seemed very fond of the color red but it suited her and her features perfectly.
He returned his attention back to John, but as he looked over his best friend of many years there was a feeling of emptiness inside himself that he couldn't quite place. He didn't resist as John put him down in a chair near Washington's and bent down to look closer at his leg, Alex winced as he didn't mean to inflict this much stress and worry. "John," He asked weakly and jumped as said person's eyes snapped up to him. "where are we?" John paused and looked down at Alexander's foot before locking eyes with him. "I uh I um we are-"
"He doesn't know," Burr explained after he snapped out of his state of panic. "None of us do."
Alexander looked up and noticed the he had gained the attention of all the people in the room as they were all gathered around his chair including Jefferson and Madison. The young girl in red stood near the back of the group with George's hand on her shoulder, when they met eyes she quickly turned away. George, somehow oblivious to her discomfort, guided her over to Alexander, after nudging her slightly to introduce herself which she did not George shook his head as he began to speak. "This darling young lady is Ms. Maria Lewis," The girl now known as Maria gave him a shy smile. "And this Maria is the intelligent Alexander Hamilton." Alexander scoffed at Washington's description of him and leaned forward- as much as Lauren's would let him without injuring himself- and grabbed the girl's hand and returned her smile. "It's a pleasure to meet you Maria, and I hope you stay with us here."
At Marias nod Hamilton released her hand and looked over to James and Jefferson. "Care to read that note?" He asked sharply only to be swatted on the head by Eliza who muttered something along the lines of 'manners and shut it'. Jefferson retrieved the note and sauntered over to Hamilton and stood behind John and placed a hand on John's head rather harshly and leaning on him as if he was a armrest, Alex narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth to retort before John cut him off with a shake of his head as he mouthed, "It's okay." while Alexander knew it wasn't 'okay' he bit back his tongue to please John.
Jefferson cleared his throat obnoxiously with a snooty look sent Alex's way, he was stopped by Lafayette shaking his head. "Mon ami, are you how you say, serious?" Jefferson switched his gaze to Lafayette then shrugged and looked down to the note and began to read.
Greetings fellows and felitas,
You must be kinda confused as to where you are, for good reason. You see this was written in the year 2017 a few hundred years after your guys time which that unfortunately-
"Wait what?" Peggy sputtered out and Angelica quickly pulled her closer and squeezed her tightly which slightly calmed her. "Does that mean we're dead?"
means you're dead.
Angelica chuckled softly along with a few others, even she wasn't sure if she was trying to ease the thought that they were all dead or that the note repeated what Peggy had stated.
However, your story was told by the brilliant mind of Lin Manuel Miranda. I know cool right, I wish I had a musical about me but hey. Anyways the musical is entitled Hamilton.
Said person smiled and laughed softly.
It follows the life of your very own Alexander Hamilton. I thought it would very fun to see your reaction as you watched it. Also don't ask how I got you all here, I'm not exactly sure myself but why not take advantage of the opportunity when you have it? So sit back, grab some grub, and enjoy the show. Oh, and one more thing I love you Lauren's.
John blushed and looked down and bit his lip. Alex raised an eyebrow confused and eyed Jefferson. "Thomas, what the hell?" Jefferson shrugged and folded the note once again and handed it back to Madison who unfolded it and read it to himself. "Anyways," Aaron said nonchalantly and if he was bothered at all by the note he hid it well. "who wrote the note Madison, that information might be useful." Madison read the bottom of the note where Jefferson left off.
Just kidding, but I do love you Laurens with all my heart. Anyways, you've yet to live some of the events shown in the musical, some others may join you throughout this experience.
Forever yours,
SL
Hercules frowned and crossed his arms over his chest and scoffed and looked over at Aaron pointedly. "That didn't help at all Burr." Aaron shrugged and looked away as he shrunk into himself, Alex frowned in confusion as he thought over the initials in his head, he couldn't think of anyone from their time with those initials. But the note was written in 2017 so honestly he had no clue at all, "Who the hell is SL?" he muttered under his breath and tried to move to stand up though John pushed him back into his chair. Jefferson scoffed with a smirk at Alex's lack of knowledge for once and laughed. "Wouldn't you like to know?"
John quickly swatted Jefferson's hand off his head and turned to scowl at him. "Do you know Jefferson?" Thomas coughed and blushed as he felt all the eyes in the room turn onto him. "Well no."
Maria who had been silent until then giggled softly then silenced when Jefferson glared at her.
John smiled smugly and moved to sit on the couch next to Alex as George sat on the other side of him. Hercules placed himself by John's other side while Lafayette sat on the floor in front of one of the couches with Peggy. Jefferson and Madison seized one of the empty couches to sit on. Eliza sat on the floor in front of Alex between his legs and leaned back on the couch. Angelica and oddly enough Aaron were standing near the couches and were conversing something quietly that only they could hear. The only person who had yet to find a spot to sit or stand was Maria she hovered around looking for an empty spot to sit, she was extremely uncomfortable as anyone would be if they didn't know anyone and were the youngest. Eliza being the first to notice patted the spot next to her on the floor, "Maria darling, would you like to come sit with me?"
Maria hesitated then nodded as she sat down near Eliza who gave her a bright smile. Maria loved how cheery the woman was. She admired that and hoped no one would ever come in the way of that.
BUM BA DADADADADADADA BUM BUM
Quickly everyone silenced their conversations as a man they assumed to be Aaron Burr appeared on the stage. Aaron Burr nodded his approval at his counterpart began to open the show.
{Aaron Burr}
How does a bastard-
"Hey!" Alex yelled and turned to glare at Burr who merely shrugged in response and gestured to the screen and Alex frowned as he turned back around begrudgingly.
orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor,
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
Alex frowned while many people didn't know about his hometown he shouldn't call it forgotten. He definitely hasn't forgotten what happened there.
The actor who played John Laurens joined Aaron on the stage similar in the way Aaron did. "Hey, is that me?" John asked confused from his spot between Hercules and Alex, as soon as the actor began to speak Laurens literally squealed. "That's me!" Alex laughed softly and wrapped a arm over his shoulder, which didn't go unnoticed by Eliza who placed a hand on her stomach.
{John Laurens}
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father-
Alexander winced softly at the reminder of his father, John scooted closer and leaned against him to try and comfort him.
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter, by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter.
A third actor joined the two and began to narrate his part. Jefferson smirked as he could recognize that shade of purple anywhere.
{Thomas Jefferson}
And everyday while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up. Inside he was longing for something to be a part of, the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow or barter.
"Steal?" Angelica asked and sent a sharp and scolding towards Alexander, who merely looked down and said. "It was a long time ago." To which Angelica fired back with. "It better have been." Peggy and Maria both giggled softly from where they sat on the floor at the two.
Madison quickly shushed them all as a man that dressed similar to him began to sing on the stage.
{James Madison}
Then a hurricane came and devastation rained,
Alex winced for the second time that day as he flashbacked to that day where his life had ended and began all at once.
Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain put a pencil to his temple connected to his brain, and he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain.
{Aaron Burr}
Well the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane man"
Madison shook his head and muttered "No kidding." Jefferson smiled as being the only one who heard Madison's remark.
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland. "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and the world's gonna know your name-"
Alex smiled sadly and tightened his grip on John as he thought about his mother who he remembered the day before she got sick had whispered him those words in his ear. He thought she was speaking non sense at the time and was slowly losing her mind.
"What's your name man?"
Burr yelled before side stepping to allow a new actor to take center stage, they all smiled at the face they had a feeling they knew who this man was. Alexander admired the man and smiled once the man began to speak the applause re ensued.
{Alexander Hamilton}
Alexander Hamilton, my name is Alexander Hamilton. And there's a million things I haven't done but just you wait, just you wait.
"Cocky much?" Jefferson asked rhetorically. Angelica sighed and left her spot next to Aaron and walked over to Jefferson and promptly smacked on the back of his head, and muttered. "Look who's talking." Maria smiled and laughed once again. Eliza smiled softly at her older sister's antics but didn't pay them too much attention as a women who bared a shocking resemblance to her was on the stage.
{Eliza Schuyler}
When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden. Two years later, see Alex and his mother bedridden half dead sitting their own sick the scent thick.
And Alex got better but his mother went quick.
Those few words had been the quietest but had the loudest meaning as to who Alexander was and how he got to be the way he is. From her spot on the floor Eliza made a extremely loud and audible gasp she heard about her husband's misfortunes.
{George Washington}
Moved in with a cousin-
Jefferson cut Washington off eagerly and exclaimed. "At least he's got some family left." Normally Jefferson looking out for Hamilton's well being was unheard of, but they all ignored it as Alex laughed darkly and looked over at Jefferson and replied. "Wait for it."
the cousin committed suicide
"My god."
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside, a voice saying "Alex you gotta fend for yourself." He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf.
{Aaron Burr}
There would've been nothing left to do for someone less astute. He woulda been dead or destitute without a cent or restitution.
Maria couldn't help but admire him the way she admired his wife, while his wife was a kind and caring women Alexander was a beacon of power she couldn't help but be attracted to, if she was in his situation she would've gave up after the departure of his father.
Started workin' clerkin' for his late mother's landlord, trading sugarcane and rum and all the things he can't afford.
Angelica raised an eyebrow as she compared how she had thought of Alexander and how this musical portation did. She had always considered him a cocky man who had gotten everything he wants, while on the inside he really was a poor boy without a mother or father trying to get and do more than survive.
Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on. Plannin' for the future, see him now as he stands on the bow of a ship headed for a new land.
In New York you can be a new man.
George who had been silent nodded his approval and voiced a thought. "Truer words had never been spoken." John smiled and bobbed his head along with the music little did he know that smile would soon be erased from and replaced with a look of fear.
As the on screen Alexander repeated the words just you wait and the rest of the cast sang their respective parts, Alex wondered how accurate this musical could be, who ever wrote it couldn't have had been alive during all of this so how did he know it all?
{Alexander Hamilton}
Just you wait!
"Wait for what?" Peggy couldn't help but ask, she only received a small smile from Eliza and Angelica while John burst out laughing, he soon began coughing violent and Hercules and Alex had to smack him on the back to stop his choking.
{Company}
Alexander Hamilton, we are waiting in the wings for you, you could never back down. You never learned to take your time!
Lafayette blinked at how beautiful that harmony sounded. "Bon dieu!" Eliza however frowned as she remembered how much she begged for Alexander to come home or to even quit his writing to spend time together as he promised when they married.
Oh, Alexander Hamilton, when America sings for you will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game? The world will never be the same, oh.
"What did he overcome." Peggy asked a quite dumb question. Alexander and Mulligan both sent pointing looks John's way as if daring him to burst out laughing again. This time they'd refuse to help him, taking a deep breath John smiled shyly and returned to watching.
{Aaron Burr}
The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him.
Aaron smiled at his counterpart, so far he had spoken way more then anyone else they had seen in the show, and hey he wasn't complaining.
Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom. His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him.
"Good riddance." Jefferson exclaimed pumping his fists in the air, Peggy made as tsking noise as she hoisted herself from off the ground and skipped over to Jefferson the promptly kicking him in the shin. Peggy flashed him a toothy smile then went back to her spot.
{Hercules Mulligan, Lafayette}
We fought with him.
Alex looked over at the two and said. "I never did properly thank the two of you, so thank you gentlemen for all you've done for me and this country." At their smiles and nodded Alex faced the screen again.
{John Laurens}
Me? I died for him.
Said boy stiffened as Alexander jumped to his feet ignoring the pain that once again shoot through his leg he stared at the screen shaking his head, before being pulled back down by John. "Laurens?" He asked, it wasn't asking anything all he needed was confirmation John was still there by his side alive and breathing, in all his beauty and glory. "Yeah."
{George Washington}
Me? I trusted him.
George raised an eyebrow. Trusted that's past tense, does Alexander do something to make the bond they have weaken or break completely?
{Eliza, Angelica, and Maria Reynolds}
Me? I loved him.
Angelica looked away from the screen and her sister as she saw herself standing alongside two women. "Angie?' Eliza called out voice breaking slight, when her sister didn't respond she looked down at her stomach and remained silent. While everyone was either watching Angelica and Eliza, Maria stared at the screen in horror as a girl in red stood alongside the two sisters instantly she knew why she was here.
{Aaron Burr}
And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him.
Angelicas and Eliza's head snapped back to the screen along with everyone except one person. Burr quickly excused himself from where he was by Eliza to stand in a separate corner by himself as he processed things. Alone.
{Company}
There's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait!
{Aaron Burr}
What's your name man?
{Company} Alexander Hamilton.
~All right~
That's it folks!
I'm thinking five reviews for the next chapter? If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask them, and they will get answered in the next chapter. I'll answer one now that I'm pretty sure will be asked; why didn't they know Lauren's was dead? Because i'm basing this to be right after The Battle of Yorktown and Lauren's hasn't died yet. Dang it, now I've gotta explain Jefferson. Okay so no, he doesn't know who they are with the exception of Madison and Washington, but he's already taken a disliking to Hamilton which will only grow as we progress through the musical. I'VE GOT A QUESTION, why is Peggy so gosh darn ignorant and adorable? I'm posting this story on Archive of our own and so don't freak out and be reporting copyright.
Next stop: Aaron Burr, sir.
Upcoming: My Shot. -SL