Quiet Backstage: A Series of Lippa Oneshots

The Best Eliza and Alexander We Can Be

Hi, Lovies! I'm not back completely, but this is to kill some time in a physical therapist's waiting room, so enjoy! Xx. ❤

Pippa sighed as she walked into rehearsal for that day. "What's wrong, Pip?" Jasmine asked.

"You look exhausted." Daveed added as he walked past this conversation. "You doing alright?"

"Yeah, fine. Just tired." Pippa shook it off and went on her way to set her belongings down in the corner. Jasmine sighed and followed Pippa to the corner she was headed towards.

"What is going on?" Jasmine asked once more.

"Nothing, nothing, I'm just tired. I said that." Pippa kept her gaze down. She quickly turned around when her phone vibrated. Pippa checked her phone and sat it back down with another sigh. "I'll be right back." Pippa left the studios and Jasmine worridly turned to Renèe.

"Where'd Pippa go?" Renèe asked.

"I don't know. She looks completely off to start with, then she got a text from someone, and ran off." Jasmine explained.

"I'll go find her." Renèe nodded, leaving the studio. She ventured down to the only place you could really run off to in these studios. "Pippa? Sweetheart, are you in there?" Renèe knocked on the locked bathroom door.

Renèe frowned as she heard sniffling from the other side of the door. "No." A weak and cracked voice called out.

"Pippa?" Renèe asked once more. "Can you please let me in?" She got no answer.

"What's going on here?" A voice asked. Renèe turned around to see none other than the show's creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

"Oh, Pippa is sad about something, and she won't let anyone in there."

Lin frowned. He knocked on the door as well. "Pip?" He asked.

"This is the girl's bathroom." Pippa said just loudly enough.

Lin chuckled dryly and sighed, looking at the sign beside the door. Family restroom. "Love, don't even say that. Can you let me in please?"

"Fine." Pippa grumbled and unlocked the door. "Only because we have rehearsals in two minutes." She said before opening the door all the way.

"Rehearsals don't start until I say they start." Lin half smiled. "Now, he backed Pippa back into the bathroom behind them. He closed the door as Pippa sunk back down to the floor. "What's wrong, Pippa?" Lin asked. "Talk to me."

"Nothing's wrong. I just got nervous." Pippa lied.

"No, Pip. This isn't just "nervous". What's happened?" Lin sat down against the adjacent wall from Pippa.

Pippa sighed and lifted her head. "Steven's just stressed, it's fine, I'll be resolved soon, I promise, it'll--"

"Wait, what'd Steven say? Or do?" Lin questioned.

"He just, he just snapped at me, and he left. He said he was staying the night at a friend's house, or something." Pippa rolled her eyes and looked back down.

"What'd he get mad for?"

"He just...he's been really weird since we he saw our rehearsal kisses last Tuesday." Pippa admitted. She'd been bottling all this up, and it did feel good to tell someone about it.

"Ah, the whole stage kiss thing, hmm?" Lin frowned again.

"Yeah, and I argued back that he's made out with girls on stage before, and this is just one or two kisses, but it's still the same." She looked at her hands. "And maybe if I didn't yell back, he'd still be here." She mumbled.

"Hey, hey, no. Do not say that. No, you're just doing your job. It's in your blocks and your role to kiss me, so I mean, it's just like any other line you have to say." Lin explained.

"Exactly." Pippa agreed.

"Now, come here." Lin stood up and stood Pippa up as well. He enveloped her into a hug. "We're going to go be the best Eliza and Alexander we can be, okay?"

"Okay. Thank you, Lin."

"Of course. Of course."

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A/N: Just something short and sweet. Hope you enjoyed! Xx. ❤