"Hey Alex?" Amelia slowly approached her close friend and colleague, who seem surprised at the sound of her voice. Alexander slowly turned his head. "Hm? What is it, Amelia?" "I was thinking..." Alexander smiled and set the papers he was working on down. "Might I ask what about?" "Well. I was thinking about...the future." Amelia couldn't help but frown. Alexander let out a sigh as he stood up. "Are you still thinking about what she said?" "Maybe..." Alexander put a hand on Amelia's shoulder. "Amelia, just you wait."

Amelia nervously rubbed her arm. "Do you guys really think I can be a great nation?" Alexander gave Amelia a big grin. "Are you kidding? You'll be the best nation the world has ever seen!" "Alex is right, Amelia." "Ma chèr, have a little more faith in yourself." Hercules nodded along to the advice being given. "They're right, kid. Don't let them get you down." Amelia couldn't help but smile. "Ha. With guys like you by my side, I'll be the best nation I can be."

"How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore-"

"Of course it's Burr calling me that." "Hush, Alexander." Eliza quietly scolded Alexander with the wag of a finger. "Just listen to the rest of the song."

"-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?
"

"Am I really a hero?" "Of course, Alex, especially to me." Alexander turned his head a little to give Amelia a grateful smile.

"The ten-dollar founding father without a father
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
"

"Is that really me, Amelia?" "It most certainly is."

"By being a lot smarter By being a self-starter
By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
"

"Why on Earth would they put HIM in charge of something like that?" Thomas could barely fathom the idea. Amelia let out a sigh. She and James shared a look. "Be quiet, Thomas." She predicted this experience would eventually end up with either Aaron and Alexander or Alexander and Thomas fighting again. And considering it's only the first song, fights will be inevitable.

"And every day 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
"

Amelia snuck a glance at Alexander's face. She couldn't quite place the emotion that seemed to be dancing in his eyes. But she knew these next lyrics would be painful for him.

"Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
"

A few people in the room gasped and looked at Alexander, who seemed to shrink down in his seat. He didn't like this attention. He certainly didn't want the pity. Whoever wrote this seemed to capture him quite well.

"Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man"
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. What's your name, man?"

Alexander Hamilton
My name is Alexander Hamilton
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait...
"

Amelia wanted to reach out and place a hand on Alex's shoulder, but she was too far. Instead, she shared a quick glance with Eliza, who was quick to do what Amelia couldn't at the moment.

"When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick

And Alex got better but his mother went quick"

Amelia grimaced a little as sympathetic looks were sent Alex's way. She knew all to well what it was like to lose a parent to illness, or rather, any parent.

"Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside
A voice saying

"You gotta fend for yourself."

"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself."

He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

There would have been nothin' left to do
For someone less astute
He woulda been dead or destitute
Without a cent of restitution
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford
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

Scammin'

Plannin'
Oooh...

In New York you can
Be a new man—
In New York you can
Be a new man—

Just you wait!

Just you wait!

In New York you can be a new man—

In New York—

New York—

Just you wait!

Alexander Hamilton

We are waiting in the wings for you

You could never back down
You never learned to take your time!

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

The ship is in the harbor now
See if you can spot him

Another immigrant
Comin' up from the bottom

His enemies destroyed his rep
America forgot him
"

"I never forgot you." "Thank you, Amelia." Alexander was a hard man to forget, something everyone in this room could attest to.

"Alexander Hamilton

Waiting in the wings for you

You never learned to take your time!

Oh, Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton…
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"

"Isn't that the truth?" "Mhm." "Seems like a hard man to forget." "You don't know the half of it."

"We fought with him"

Everyone watched as the screen showed not only Lafeyette and Hercules but James and Thomas as well. "Thomas and James fought with him alright...a lot."

"Me? I died for him"

Amelia visibly flinched as a bloody Phillip and bloody Laurens appeared on screen. John's death was hard for her, but Phillip's was even harder.

"Me? I trusted him"

Amelia seemed to be confused as she appeared on screen alongside Washington. Her voice was even heard with his. This wasn't in the original song.

"Me? I loved him"

Eliza was confused and visibly so. She looked at both of her sisters before Amelia spoke up. "I'll...explain later, Eliza." Angelica couldn't meet her sister's gaze."

"And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him"

Everyone's eyes were immediately on Aaron. Aaron looked down in shame. Amelia frowned and bit her lip. Not everyone knew that fact.

"What's your name, man?
Alexander Hamilton!
"

"You shot Alex? What the hell, Aaron?!" Amelia should have expected this. Conversations were to be had and secrets to be revealed before this ordeal was over.

-Meanwhile, in another space-

"This...Alexander person is interesting. Did you ever meet him, Alice?" The Brit tore her eyes away from the floor long enough to look the Finnish woman in the eyes. "Unfortunately, I did." Murmured voices erupted throughout the room until a German voice shouted for everyone to be quiet. "What about that boy, cher? Amelia looked uncomfortable when he and that other man came onto the screen." A quiet voice spoke up. "That's...Phillip, her first husband." Everyone turned to the source of the voice. "This is the first I'm hearing of this. When did-" "You weren't at the wedding. You were still...not talking to Amelia." "...Oh."