AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Ho'kay, here were go again, it's ya boi CoD back again with yet another fic that they're just doing whatever they feel like with, let's see how far we get this time. So I just...::deep sigh:: Honestly, all I can say for myself at this point is that like six planets were in retrograde and I had nothing better to do with my time, seriously somebody give me a job please, unemployment blows. The only positive we get out of it (maybe?) is that I have the time to sit down and plot, plot, plot some stories. This time around it's the founding fathers that are getting the CoD treatment, oh joy! Interesting side note, when I was 14 and writing the first fic I would ever post here I distinctly remember thinking to myself, "Am I weird for writing stories about my favorite characters kissing face when they clearly don't do that cannonly? Eh, fuck it, there are weirder things you could be writing about; it's not like you're writing gay porn about Thomas Jefferson."

::ques music:: LOOK AROUND, LOOK AROUND, LOOK AT HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ALIVE. RIGHT. NOW. LOOK AROUND, LOOK AROUND. LOOK AT WHERE YOU ARE. LOOK AT WHERE YOU STARTED.

Tho to be fair, this isn't gay porn about Thomas Jefferson; It is, however, totally gay porn about Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens. C'mon, I know you're reading this because you saw that summery I wrote and were like, "sign me the fuck up for their hot mess," I KNOW HOW THIS GAME IS PLAYED. Side note, I...have already started writing ANOTHER Hamilton fic that may or may not be polished and published along side this one, and that one still ISN'T a gay porn story about Thomas Jefferson, but Thomas will play a bigger role in it, soooo...Check it out? When it COMES out?

Before I let you run off into the debauchery tho, I got some things to tell you. I've gotten into the habit of posting a big ol' fuck off author's note at the beginning of my stories so that I don't have to take up a lot of time doing so at the start or end of each chapter and I'm gunna encourage y'all to read this shit through to the end so you aren't blind-sighted by my fuckery, because hoo-booy if you don't know me already from previous projects then you don't know the fuckery you're about to get into. But first, we got somma dat good ol' trigger warnings the kids are all about these days! ::clears throat, puts on glasses and pulls out a piece of paper to read from::

Mentions of past child abuse and trauma, homophobic slurs and comments, gas-lighting, mentions of past stalker, threats and threatening behavior, blackmail, seduction under false pretenses, penises, penises everywhere, mentions of a minor engaging in pornography, aggressively bi and sex positive Alexander Hamilton, swearing out the wazoo, gay lovers, abusive relationships, college, the destroying of an entire person's life because there was nothing better to do, rough sex, safe sex, lots of sex (if "Alex is a porn star to pay for his college education" didn't tip you off to that, then I don't know why you're here, tbh), mental breakdowns (sorry John, I swear you are my favorite), suicidal thoughts, self harm, religious damnation of queer expressions and sex, mentions of rape and forcing someone to engage in sexual activities to ensure the safety of their family, Benjamin Franklin in a dominatrix outfit, mentions of miscarriages and forced abortion, the use of real people's names in conjunction with the characters they played on a popular Broadway musical, poorly written lap dances, and Peggy.

Okay, so first things first, I'm like a 30 year old geezer now, and as much as I can enjoy writing for writing's sake, I am very much aware that it is not my greatest passion. Now, I put a lot of work and effort into my fics, and there is a lot that I write that never sees the internet, but if you take a peruse through what I have posted here you'll quickly notice that I tend to follow a certain little trend.

I start writing chapter stories that I never finish.

I am the worse. I literally don't deserve to have readers. I will start you on some of the best fucking fanfiction this side of the Mississippi that you've read in a while, and right as shit seems to be getting good I will stop and just ghost you all. And I always do the same shit, I always start a new project and I say, "Oh, ho, ho! Not THIS time! It's different THIS time! I'm gunna actually finish this story THIS time!"

NO. NO, WE ARE NOT DOING THAT THIS TIME. I AM A CRONIC CLIFFHANGER-WRITER WHO GHOSTS OUT ON HER READERS ALL THE TIME AND YOU DESERVE BETTER, YOU DESERVE SOMEONE WHO WILL WRITE YOU GOOD STORIES FROM START TO FINISH AND WON'T LEAVE YOU WITH BROKEN PROMISES AND LIIIIIEEEESSSSS! DO NOT BELIEVE YOUNGER ME, SHE IS A LIAR AND A FLAKE AND YOU COULD READ LITERALLY DOZENS OF BETTER FICS COLLECTED IN HER FAVORITES SECTION, WRITTEN BY READERS WHO ARE SWEET AND GOOD AND WORTHY OF YOUR REVIEWS AND FOLLOWS AND FAVORITES! SLDSKLASJFKSDFJKFJ!

::long drawn out sigh:: Look, I'm just...OLD, okay? Life kinda has these things called priorities and, believe it or not, I do not consider myself an "actual" writer. Like, I like to write fanfiction, it's fun, but fanfiction is about the only creative writing I do. And I'm not trying to say that if you write fanfiction you aren't a "real" writer, on the contrary there are a LOT of you that are amazeballs and so much better at this then me. I mean, take a look at my other stories, look at how many projects I's started and then just dropped and haven't finished. Take a look at how often I post. SERIOUSLY.

I.

AM NOT.

A WRITER.

I am just a person who writes the kind of fuckery she wants to see in the fanfiction realm for her own amusements and literally nothing else. I do it because it amuses me for a while and when the amusement is done, I just move on to whatever else I want to be amused by. I have a lot of other hobbies that I like to pick at or indulge in, and while I wish I would start a writing project and see it through to it's completion, at this point in my life I think it's just easier to be open and honest with my readers and say:

I just feel like you should know that this story might not have an ending that will satisfy you.

I'm just starting something that I'm gunna see how far it goes before I drop off the face of the world again. Once that happens, wherever we are, however far we get, I'm sorry if it's not the end-end. I can say right now that I want to write this story out fully and see it through til it's end, and I mean that honestly, but wither or not I actually will will be decided as time goes by. And I just can't make any more promises that I won't keep. So that's it really, my intention here is to just do all the work that I feel like doing, put forth my best efforts and take it as far as it'll go. If nothing else please just let me be an inspiration to you, a challenge to you, to always better yourself in your own writings or your creative passions, even if it's not something you think you'll dedicate your life too. Just get better at what you like to do. I don't expect you to take everything seriously and be the best at everything, but always strive to be better then you were last time.

That all being said, let's get on with the fic!

~Child of the Dragon