Hamilton one-shots

Nervous Tick - (Alexander x Reader)

 Words: 593 

 AU: Modern 

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Alexander loved you dearly. He loved everything about you. Your Y/H/C hair, your Y/E/C eyes and the freckles that were dusted across your cheeks. He loved your smile and your laugh. He loved the way you got so into the music that you listened to that you would forget about your surroundings and sing your heart out. He loved your kind heart and you adventurous ways.

He loved every single little thing about you except for your nervous tick. He knew that you couldn’t help it, but it still annoyed him to no end.

Whenever you were nervous, you bounce your leg and pop your knuckles. You tried to stop, but sometimes it was an involuntary thing. You couldn’t stop yourself sometimes.

This was particularly annoying to Alexander when he was trying to work one day. He was sitting on the couch typing away on his laptop. You were sitting on the other end of the couch trying to work on one of your many essays.

You didn’t even realize you were bouncing your leg and popping your knuckles. You didn’t realize until Alexander spoke up.

“Y/N, please stop,” He asked.

You were confused at first, but then understood what he was talking about. You stopped bouncing your leg and popping your knuckles. A few minutes went by in silence before you starting all over again.

Alexander puffed out a sigh, “Y/N.”

“What?” You asked not stopping and not looking up from your laptop.

“You’re doing it again, that thing we talked about the irritates me that you said you would stop doing,” Alexander informed you,

“Oh. Sorry,” You replied.

You couldn’t help that you were bouncing your leg. It was something you did when you were nervous. You were stressed beyond belief and that in turn made you nervous. The two of you worked in silence for almost an hour.

All of a sudden, Alex sighed and moved his laptop to the coffee table then turned to face you.

“Okay, I get that you bounce your leg when you’re nervous, but my god, I didn’t think you bounced it that much,” Alex explained.

You looked up at him. You didn’t even realize you had started bouncing your leg again. After a few beats of silence, you spoke up, “I’m really sorry, Alex. I’ll move into the other room to work so I’m not bothering you.”

You placed your laptop on the coffee table and started to get up when you felt Alexander’s hand rest on your arm.

“No, you don’t have to leave,” He said.

“You and I both need to work and I can’t go ten minutes without annoying you by bouncing my leg. I’ll go and work in the other room as to not distract you from your work,” You stated, continuing to get up.

Before you could get up fully, Alexander pulled you back to the couch. He got up on his knees and made his way over to you.

“What do you say, we take a little break from working. We could both use it,” He said making his way over to you.

“I think that would be a fabulous idea,” you answered leaning back as Alex straddled your waist.

He was now hovering over you, leaning with his forearms on either side of your head. Smiling down at you, he said, “you’re so damn beautiful.”

“I, uh, thanks?” you replied, flustered. His compliments always made you blush.

Alexander didn’t say anything else. All he did was lean down and kiss you.