Hamilton Oneshots (2)

We Match (Hamgelica)

Requested by LewisMY

Angelica, aged twelve, skipped to the playground. Her sisters had to go to school but she didn't have to since she had gone to the dentist in the morning. Her parents didn't want to have to drive to the school so she got to play hooky and when she asked to go to the playground they agreed. She saw the playground and ran to it, jumping onto the swing since it was her favorite thing.

She kicked her legs back and forth with laughter, higher and higher she went, souring through the air with giggles. She threw her head back to make her view of the ground look weird as she soured through the air happily until her pink sandals flew off of her foot. Angelica embarrassingly lets herself slow down in order to safely hop off once the swing came to a stop.

She looked around until her eye caught her shoe on the other end of the empty playground so she ran over to put it on. However, once it was on she heard weird noises coming from an alleyway and followed the sound. When she saw what it was she ran towards it, she didn't know who or why but there were about five boys about her age hitting on another boy so she started screaming and screeching which scared them off.

Angelica made sure they were gone before running back to the boy on the ground and getting on her knees to look him over, "Alexander?" She almost immediately recognized him as a boy from her class and tilted his head upwards, was he knocked out? Angelica huffed and tried to drag him back to the playground, "So heavyyyy!" She whined.

"I can hear you..." Alex grunted and she squeaked, dropping him as she tripped over her feet and landed on her butt. He sat up and wiped some blood off of his nose with the back of his hand before he looked at her, "What're you doing here, Angie?"

Angelica looked at the park and quietly answered him, "I was just playing..." She got up and dusted her pink skirt off before pulling her knitted white sweater's sleeves, "You can join me if you want or you can sulk about being beat up. Your choice."

Alexander rolled his eyes but followed her back to the park where they soon began to make a game about pirates. Alex climbed the jungle gym and declared, "I am the pirate king!" Which made Angelica laugh, "What? You don't believe me?"

"No!" Angelica told him and climbed after him, "You look too much like a baby to be king so I'm the queen!" She told him and stood up shakily.

"What?" Alex crossed his arms and pouted, "But it's always a king, not a queen, it sounds weird if it's a queen instead of a king." He told her, trying to logic his way into being the king of the pirates.

"You're stupid," Angelica decided after hearing him out, "Besides you're the one with the busted up face, not me, so it makes sense for me to be in charge." She stuck her tongue out and fell onto her hands, holding the bars as she lost her balance on her feet.

Alex opened his mouth to argue again when an ominous voice spoke, "Are you two the brats that scared my baby brother half to death?" Angelica turned around to see one of the boys who was hurting Alexander hiding behind a big kid. She climbed off of the jungle gym while Alex stayed planted on it in fear, "I can't have kids hurting my little brother." He told her.

"Maybe he should've been nicer," Angelica told him with as much as sass as her preteen body could muster, "He was beating on my friend with four other guys so he deserved to be scared." She reasoned.

"My baby brother wouldn't do that," The big kid said and before Angelica knew it he had hit her really hard in the face before grabbing her hair and banging her head against the jungle gym over and over. She couldn't fight back well because she was so much younger and weaker than the boy doing this and she felt her eyes roll back like she was trying to see her brain before she closed them and let the sensation of pain be all she felt.

"Angelica! Angelica wake up!" She heard Alex's voice and opened her eyes to see the playground was empty and the sun looked like it was going to set, "You're awake!" She felt something on her nose and ran her hand over it, looking at her hand to see blood, "You idiot! You should've run away!"

"Oh shut up," Angelica sat up and smiled at him, unaware she had a chip in one of her front teeth from hitting the metal bars face first, "Now our noses match! It's fine!" The irony of her tooth being chipped was that she only went to the playground after a dentist appointment.

Alex crossed his arms, "You think it's fine because we match?" Alex asked quietly and looked away, trying to look like he didn't care, "You could've been really hurt. He was a really big kid and it looked really scary how he was beating you up after you closed your eyes. I was really scared for you." He said slowly.

Angelica smiled and kissed his cheek gently, watching his cheeks flare up, "Whoever climbs that is the pirate king or queen." She whispered and pointed to the other playset with the slides on it, "But don't go on the big tower thing's roof because you'll get stuck."

Soon, they counted down after Alex calmed down and raced to the highest point. Angelica got to the second highest before she noticed Alex climbing the tower when she went to tell him to stop it was too late, "I'm stuck!" He shouted, dangling on the roof.

Angelica laughed and rolled her eyes at his complete idiocy, "I told you that you would get stuck, you moron. Hang on while I call the fire department and take pictures." Alex whined about her doing those things but she did them both anyway.