One Last Time //Lams//University AU//Part 1

Chapter 41

March 16 2018
Tuesday

John POV
It's 5:50, I get up and get dressed. Alexander is sitting at the counter drinking coffee, he looks up at me as I enter the living room. "John? Why are you dressed? School doesn't start for another two hours." he says looking at me confused.

"I need to be somewhere. I'll be back as soon as I can." I say walking to the door, "John?!" Alex calls to me right before I open it. I ignore him and leave. I get into my car and drive uptown.

There's this really secluded park that rarely has any people and there are definitely no people there at 6:15 in the morning. I get there with five minutes to spare so I just stand and wait around. Soon after, Lee shows up. He's wearing an outfit so shady he looks like he'd get arrested for drug dealing by just walking down the street.

"Thought you'd chicken." he says walking towards me, "Never." I reply. He pulls out a gun from underneath his jacket and holds it out to me, I look at him like he's crazy, "Are you fucking kidding me?! You're insane!" I yell, "We're dueling." he says moving forward. "You can't just pull a gun on someone! It's 2018 not 1778!" I yell again.

"Well then, Jefferson gets away with rape." Lee says putting the gun back into his jacket. "Wait! Fine." I say, he smirks and hands me the gun. "We start by facing away from each other, we take ten paces and turn around and fire the gun, got it?" he asks, "I know how to duel." I say coldly.

He pulls his own out and we stand back to back. If he thinks I'm going to actually try and shoot him, he's an idiot. But I'm not gonna let him shoot me either, that would be stupid.

We start to walk forward as we count to ten.

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I aim my gun to the sky.

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In one swift moment I turn around and dodge to the left. He fires his gun and I drop to the floor clutching my arm in pain, blood soaks through the sleeve of me hoodie. "H-How are you still alive!" Lee yells at me in shock. "Because I dodged you idiot!" I yell back, I throw the gun at him.

I hear sirens from not so far away and Lee runs off disappearing. I struggle a bit as I stand up, I see flashing lights in the distance and cop cars come around the corner. They stop in front of the park and a few officers come running out, guns in hand.

"Hey! Put your hands where I can see them!" the one yells, I roll my eyes annoyed and hold up my hands to the best of my ability. They lower their guns once they see the blood on my hand. "Call for a medic!" the one yells. Not too long after a ambulance arrives and helps me with my arm.

What really sucks is that it's my right arm. I'm right handed and we're writing exams this week. I'm gonna need to get someone to write them for me...

After about ten minutes of the paramedics trying to get the blood to stop I hear someone call my name, "John!" I look up and see Alexander running towards me, "Alexand-" he grabs me by the collar of my shirt and kisses me, I kiss back hesitantly. "Fuck you." he whispers, "Alexander-" "Shut up you idiot!".

He kisses me again and I feel his tears fall onto my face. "I hate you." he says with his head on my chest, "I love you too." I say kissing the top of his head.

The paramedics bandage my arm and put it into a sling. A policeman walks up to me, "Excuse me sir, do you know who shot you and where they went?" he asks, I needed to answer quick. I can't tell him who because I'd be at fault for accepting the duel if they found him. I also don't know where he went so I can't say that either.

"No. I didn't see who it was or where they went." I say, he nods and walks away. Alexander pulls me up, "I know you probably wanna go home but we have exams to write." I say, "You're talking to me..." he says quietly, tears fill his eyes once again. I pull him into a hug, "Alexander, I would never stop talking to you! You needed space from me, I wasn't the right person to be giving you comfort."

He hugs me gently, "You're always going to be the right person to give me comfort. No matter what situation I'm in. You're my knight in shining armor and you're always going to be the one who I need to rescue me." he says, I kiss him gently.

"Wait, how did you get here?" I ask confused, that's when I see the entire group standing a few feet away, "Hi!" Peggy says, I look at them unamused and they walk over to us. "How the fuck did you get shot? WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE?!" Angie asks.

"Shh! I'll explain later." I say quietly trying to avoid the police. "Why are you even here?" I ask, "Alexander called the moment you left." Eliza says, "Good thing too." Lafayette adds.

We walk back to the cars, "We need to get to school. We have exams to write." Angie says, "Wait, how are you going to write yours?" Herc asks remembering I'm right handed. "The real reason we have teachers is so that they can write for us when we ingure our arms." I say and they laugh.

I get into the back seat of the car with Alex and Angie gets into the driver's seat, "Thank you." Alex says, I look at him confused, "For what?" I ask, "For giving me space. You were doing the right thing, I know that. I'm just... Abnormal." he says, I place my hand on his thigh, "We're all different. I like all your abnormalities." I say, he kisses me and we drive back to the school.