"Gilbert, can you get Alexander for dinner please?" Martha asks as she sets a plate on the table, a small smile on her face. Lafayette nods and rises, maneuvering his way to the stairs and walking up them with a sly grin on his face as he approaches the door. He grabs the handle and swings it open rather forcefully.
"Time to eat petit lion!" He yells, watching with a smirk when he sees Alexander jump, his puffy and red eyes wide. He's shaking, and his knees are pulled close to his chest. He's shaking and sobbing softly, tears in his dark eyes. He's breathing shallowly and rapidly, and Lafayette feels his heart break seeing his foster brother crying like that.
Alexander openly sobs, and Lafayette realizes that the other is trying to calm himself down. He rushes over to him and sits next to him, wrapping an arm around him and pulling him close to himself. The immigrant wraps his arms around Lafayette and buries his face in his shoulder. He allows himself to sob, barely registering the hand rubbing his back.
"It will be okay, Alexander." Lafayette says softly using a gentle tone when speaking to the three. He just sobs and responds. Lafayette is unable to make it out, but he's fairly sure that the other said something along the lines of 'no it won't.' "Of course it will, petit lion. I know you're upset now, but I promise that things will get better. You have me, Martha and George to help you." He says gently.
Alexander sniffles and nods silently, holding onto the Frenchman as if his life depended on it. Lafayette smiles gently and holds onto him, his hand rubbing his back gently and comfortingly. The smaller of the two slowly begins to calm down, his tears and sobs lessening over time. His grip loosens, and he slowly lets go if Lafayette.
"If you don't mind me asking, what happened?" He asks after a moment.
Alexander is silent for a moment, staring down at his hands. He takes a deep breath before meeting Lafayette's eyes again. "Thomas and I broke up." He said, his voice broken.
Lafayette is silent for a moment, staring at the other with a surprised look. He thinks of his own soulmate, Hercules. They've never even spoken about potentially leaving each other, they haven't argued much either. He couldn't imagine the pain that Alexander is going through right now after breaking up with his soulmate.
"I'm sorry," was all Lafayette could manage. Alexander just shakes his head and stands up, stretching a bit.
"Don't be, it isn't your fault. Besides, it was mutual, it just hurts," he manages to say. He rubs his eyes with the back of his hand to stop the tears before slowly making his way to the door. "Come on. Martha is probably wondering if we are still alive."
Lafayette is silent for a moment but he nods and follows the other down the stairs, allowing himself to sit. He takes some food and starts to eat, partially ignoring the conversation in favour of focusing on his own relationship with Hercules. They argued and they have their issues, but they have never spoken about breaking up. It never crossed their minds. They are soulmates. They are meant to be. And now, he sits here, his foster brother and his friend Alexander sitting next to him. His friend that just went through a break up with his soulmate. It's something that Lafayette is unable to comprehend.
Alexander's eyes are red, along with his nose. He's staring at his plate as he tells Martha and George about what happened. Martha immediately expresses concern and tells him he can talk to her if he feels the need to, and offers to take him shopping to distract him. As expected, the other politely refuses and starts to eat the little food on his plate.
Lafayette finds himself wishing that he could help the other, and he wishes he could relate to Alexander and help him through the massive amount of pain he's undoubtedly dealing with right now. He can only name one other person that could even comprehend what Alexander is dealing with, and it's best if that John doesn't get involved with this, at least not now.
His second thought is to call Hercules, his own soulmate, who may have some advice and could possibly help. Then he immediately scrapped the idea when he realized that would result in Hercules becoming the mother and insisting on staying a few nights to make sure that Alexander is okay while simultaneously doing nothing to make the situation better.
And his third is to do research and try to help Alexander himself. Deciding that this is the lesser of three evils, he quickly eats dinner and runs upstairs, doing research on how to help someone through a break up. Many of the advice had him cringing and he forces himself to ignore a lot of it. Most of it suggested telling the person that they still have their soulmate, and maybe they should stop dating until they found their soulmate. For very obvious reasons, this wouldn't work for Alexander.
Some of it was reasonable, like being there for the person and trying to distract them, maybe finding out what they need or want and getting it for them. It was a reasonable piece of advice, one that he decides to run with. He has a determined look as he grabs his wallet. He runs downstairs and quickly tells Martha that he's going out before leaving the house.
Once he gets to the grocery store, he starts to grab whatever junk food he knows that Alex enjoys along with one of those TY stuffed animals at the store. He rushes back home and silently checks the other's room before setting the food down in an organized manner in the window seat, along with the stuffed animal. He silently leaves the room and heads to his own, determined to make the other as happy as he can in the moment.