Muffins

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"Would you like a muffin?" Eliza asked, pulling out a fresh batch. The group was sitting around the table with glasses of water. Eliza came over and sat next to Peggy, pulling her sister's robe closer together.

"Yum, yes!" Lauren's said, reaching for one. He ate it delicately, taking time to pull away the wrapper.

"So, what's the story?" Hercules wondered, slapping John on the back.

"Well, I'm back in New York."

"Pas de Merdes," Lafayette swore, rolling his eyes. Lauren's picked a blueberry off his muffin and tried to subtly put it in his pocket.

"Yeah, we gathered that."

"Okay, well, I was studying the turtles, right." Everyone nodded. "And I go into the lab because they tell me that I have to run some kind of test, and then I come in, and this poor little turtle is sitting in a cage. A cage."

"The audacity!" Peggy interjected sarcastically, and Alexander shushed her.

"Wait, Peggy, it gets worse. So I go in, and I'm sketching it, and the guys goes, he goes, 'Why aren't you doing the test?' And I say, 'What test?' And he goes , 'The medicine tests.' So then I go, 'Excuse me.' Now I won't bore you with the details, but he wanted me to test these like, nail hardeners that help people with a keratin deficiency. He wanted me to test things! On those poor animals! So what do I do? I take the turtle, and run. The next day I got an email that I had to evacuate the premises on account of 'stolen property'. So yeah."

"What happened to the turtle?" Eliza asked, the only one truly invested.

"Well-" John reached down and pulled a long-nosed, ugly turtle.

"Oh my god, John." Alex put his face in his hands. John laughed.

"So how are you guys?" He asked, grabbing another muffin.

"Good, not much has changed, except that Hercules and Peggy are now together, or at least they're having sex, and Marq and Eliza are... dating?" Angelica answered, acting like no one was there.

"Oh, like you're so innocent. How many times have you fu-"

"Peggy!" Eliza protested, covering her heart with her hand.

"-cked Jefferson since the start of school?" Peggy finished, smiling sarcastically.

"Shut up!" Angelica exclaimed.

"Oh, it's not like it's subtle." Peggy gestured at her eldest sister, who was parked on Jefferson. Angelica made a face at her.

"Speaking of school-"

"We weren't talking about school," Hercules protested, cutting Alex off.

"-Well, now we are. How's law school going, Angelica?"

"Fine, but my professor was trying to tell me that it was okay when this one guy like, ruined the class copy of the Federalist Papers. Spilled coffee all over them. Idiot. So I spent an entire hour telling him exactly what he did wrong, why it was wrong, and why he should be expelled and possibly killed." Angelica took a sip of her water.

"You're going to make a great lawyer, babe," Jefferson praised, playing with her hair. He leaned down and whispered something in her ear and she blushed scarlet.

"So can I still have my old room, or did Burr take it?" Lauren's asked, throwing a weird look at Angelica and Jefferson.

"Well, Burr is sleeping in it right now, but he stays with Theo most nights. When he isn't, you could room with me," Alex said, more as a question than a statement. Eliza smiled into her hand.

"Okay. Maybe we should ah, take my stuff back now?"

"Oh, for sure. Thanks for the muffins, Eliza," Alex departed, already standing up. "Good luck on your relationship, Angelic- Uh, where did they go?"

"Probably upstairs. It was a lot easier to freely wander the house when they were just drunkenly hooking up because it was less random. It's been, what, not even a day, and they've already stripped each other at a party, drunkenly hooked up in the dining room, and kept everyone up for half the night," Eliza sighed. Marq, seeing she was stressed, stood up and rubbed her shoulders.

"Yeah." Alex looked down in exasperation, and then smiled and grabbed one of Laurens' bags, "Well, that seems like a you problem. Toodle-loo!" And then he was gone.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going to take a nap, and would Marq like to join me?" Eliza smiled sweetly and stood up. As they retreated up the stairs, Peggy looked over at Hercules.

"Do you think Alex ever sent that text to John?" They locked eyes and stood up simultaneously. The room froze for a second, and then was filled with the sound of two people lunging for the door. 

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Sorry it's so short, loves. More is on the way, I promise! 

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