A New Day [Hamilton AU]

Chapter 6

*Alex POV*
"I can't believe it's already been a month since we started school. It seems like it's only been a few days since I first got here." I looked at John, since we were the first people to sit down at the lunch table. It was a few minutes before anyone made their way to the table. Aaron, Angie, Eliza, and Peggy all walked over together. Peggy set down her food and whispered something to John. "Uh, hold on, I'll be right back." They both disappeared around a corner.

*John POV*
"What's up? Oh um, pronouns?" Peggy pulled out the yellow necklace from underneath her shirt. "Fem. Anyway, I was thinking about telling everyone tomorrow since it's Saturday, but I was wondering if I could tell them at your place?" She gave a hopeful smile. "Of course, whatever you're most comfortable with. I'm sure Alex won't mind." She hugged me, "Thank you John. I'm scared if I do it at my place, my dad might be home and might hear it." I hugged the short girl back, "Anything for you, Pegs."

We walked back to the table. Alex looked like he was a little lost while everyone else talked. I sat back down and he smiled at me. "Do you mind if Peggy makes an announcement to everybody at our place tomorrow?"
"Um, not really. Is it important?"
"Kind of. I mean, it's important to her and I'm sure everyone will find it important as well."
"Yeah go ahead, I don't mind."
"Thanks."

Just as we all started to get up to leave, someone ran into Alex and I, knocking all our trash onto us. "YO! LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING DUDE" I yelled at them as they continued to walk away. Wait. I knew whose poofy hair that was. Thomas Jefferson. "THOMAS?" I ran up to him, trying to stop him. "Hey! When the fuck did you get here?" He kept walking away like I was invisible. "Hey dickhead!" As soon as I said that he turned around, towering over me. "John, what the fuck do you want?" I took a step back and straightened my back. "You could've at least said sorry for pushing this trash all over us."
"Why should I say sorry to some faggots who belong in the trash anyway. How about you go back to your boyfriend and leave me alone, gayboy." I looked back as Eliza was trying to help clean up the mess on Alex's shirt. Alex looked up in anger when he said 'fags'. He started to stomp over towards us, looking like he was about to explode. "Welcome to the present, where everyone should be accepted for who they are. Would you like to join us, or keep your homophobic and bigoted thoughts and be a dick to everyone who isn't you." I looked at Alex, shocked at this sudden outburst. I tried to hold him back from getting closer to Thomas. "Alex no, don't start a fight with him."
"What did you say to me, little fag?"
"Fuck you, that's what I said."
Alex broke free of my grasp and marched up to Thomas. Thomas was at least two feet taller than him. Thomas looked furious. I tried to pull Alex back, but then Thomas punched him right in the face and Alex fell backwards. Thankfully, I caught him, preventing him from hitting his head on the ground. Thomas turned back around and continued to walk in the opposite direction. Everyone else raced over to Alex. Alex was knocked unconscious. "OH MY GOD" Peggy screamed and was frantically trying to walk Alex up. "Peggy, it's alright, he's just been knocked out." Eliza was trying to comfort her, while Angelica was trying to look at his face to see where he got hit. "Herc and I can take him home. You need to get to class, John" Lafayette nodded at Herc, and they tried to pick up his small body. They picked him up pretty easily since he weighed so little.

I made my way to my last class, World History. I had to tell the professor that Alex won't be in class due to the argument that had happened. I walked into the class, and the first person I saw was Thomas sitting down next to James. He looked pretty pissed. I went up to him. "Since when are you in this class?" He turned and looked at me, "Since the beginning of the semester. Today was my first day back."
"Back from where?"
"Uh, France."
James looked a little disappointed at Thomas. I'm guessing Thomas told him what happened and James didn't agree with him. I know him and Alex were pretty good friends now, since they had most classes together and James was the only other person Alex talked about. "Whatever."

I waited until Professor Washington walked in. I walked up to him. "Mr. Washington?"
"Yes, Mr. Laurens?"
"Oh, uh, Alex will not be in class today. Thomas and him got into an argument and Thomas knocked him out. Our friends took him back to his dorm until he wakes up."
"Alright. I'll have a little chat with Thomas after class about that."
"No, you don't need to-"
"John. I'll take care of it."
"Oh. Thanks."

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I was walking back to my dorm. Hopefully Alex was awake by now.
I opened the door, and I saw Laf and Herc talking on the couch. They both turned around when they heard the door open. "He isn't awake yet?"
"Unfortunately no. He should be waking soon though." Lafayette got up and walked over to Alex. He looked at him, and crouched down. "Se sentir mieux mon ami"
A/N It means "Feel better my friend"

Herc whispered to me, "He's really worried about Alex, we all are, but he's especially worried."
I looked at Laf. I felt bad. Him and Alex had been getting really close lately. Hopefully Alex wakes up soon.
"Well, we should get back to our room. Right Laf?" Herc raised an eyebrow to Laf. "Um, can I stay here until Alex wakes up? I just want to make sure he's alright." He looked at me, asking for permission. "Yeah, that's fine with me."

Herc went back to his room alone. Laf sat down on the couch, while I was reading in the armchair next to him.

"John?"
"Hm?"
"Can we talk about something?"
"Sure," I put the bookmark in my book and set it down, "what's up?"
"Ive been wondering about something.."
"What is it?"
"I think.. I think I like Hercules."
"You mean, like like him?"
He nodded his head.
"And you're scared he doesnt feel the same way?"
"I'm scared that if I say anything, he will no longer want to be my friend. I don't want to ruin our friendship."
"I can assure you that he won't leave you. You mean too much to him for a little thing like that to ruin the strong bond you guys already have. If anything, I say to give it a shot. If he says yes, then it's a win, and if he says no, things will just to back to the way they were before."
"But isn't he straight? I never heard him mention anything about liking guys."
"Herc is pretty dang gay. He told me when I came out to him. He was glad he wasn't the only one."
"Oh. Well that's some good news."
A quick silence fell between us, when Laf jumped up and ran towards the bedroom.
"Alexander! How are you feeling?"
I turned around to see Alex standing in the doorway, Laf hugging him.
"I'm fine. My face hurts though."
I got up and pulled an icepack out of the freezer. "You're face is starting to swell so here, this will cause the swelling to go down." I gave him a hug, "Glad to have you back, buddy."

Laf made sure Alex was okay, and then went back to his own room.

Alex and I were both reading. He put his book down and called my name. "John," I looked up from my book. "About what Thomas was talking about earlier, are you actually gay? If you don't want to answer you don't have to."
"No, I'm fine with it. I'm actually bisexual. I came out to everyone last year. Thomas knows about it because for two months I dated this guy, Samuel Seabury, he cheated on me with this other guy, George King. Samuel hangs out with Thomas, so of course Thomas knew about it. Dating him was a big mistake."
I looked back at Alex and his eyes were wide. "I'm sorry for asking, I didn't know"
"Its okay. I'm totally okay talking about it.
"I- I'm bisexual too."
"That's great. Pretty soon our whole group will just be a bunch of gays."
We both laughed, and then went back to reading.

A/N How are you guys liking the story?
All the fun stuff will be happening soon!

I can barely type bc I have fake nails on and its impossible to type with them on, but I'm too stubborn to take them off.