Past Life Lessons (A Lams Fanfiction)

Epilogue: Seven Years Later

Alex and John sat in the Schuyler's coffee shop, because that's where all good things happened and both men could attest to that. Both of them had graduated from Columbia, John first and Alex the year after, the two men had worked extremely hard to pass all their classes.

Though Alex still continued to go above and beyond in everything that he did.

Alex had finally been able to meet Washington properly again, he had gone over with John for a 'family' dinner. Martha still doted on him as though he was a child but Alex wouldn't have it any other way.

Over the past seven years Alex had only gotten closer with the rev set. They were still all stuck on calling themselves that even though Jefferson had complained every single time one of them said it.

Six years felt like they flew by, Alex had just finished law school and was already trying his best to make a name for himself. He was still soft when it came to cases that involved kids because those had hit a little too close to home almost every time.

John was making a name for himself in the art world and had even had a few of his pieces set up in some pretty famous galleries. Alex couldn't be prouder of his boyfriend.

"So would you finally tell me what your mark is! I've been asking for years and somehow you've always been evading the question. You know mine."

John just rolled his eyes, "I know yours by accident."

Alex pouted and took another sip of his coffee. "It's still no fair."

"Fine."

Alex's eyes lit up and he almost spit out his coffee, "You're serious! All I had to do was pout some more and you would have shown me!" John chuckled. "Well tell me!!!" Alex shouted out.

"Well I'm not going to show you but I'll tell you," Alex's mind wandered a bit but he tried to remain focused on the conversation that was happening before him.

"It's a turtle on my hip."

If Alex wasn't surprised before then this caused a whole new level of amazement. "What."
John put his face in his hands, "I told you it was stupid but you didn't believe me."

"So....Is it like a specific turtle or just?"

"Its that stupid drawing that I did,"

Alex had to laugh at that one, who knew that one drawing that John did, out of the collection that he created, would become his mark. Alex tried to speak although he was still laughing pretty hard, "I mean it is, it is pretty funny though."

John just rolled his eyes again, "Laugh all you want."

The conversation continued for a few more minutes until Alex stood up, "I'm gonna head to the bathroom, I'll be back in a sec."

John knew that this was his chance, he glanced over at the counter where Peggy was standing and giving him a thumbs up. It was all going according to plan, well if you could even call it a plan.

John picked up Alex's coffee cup and placed a small object underneath it.

Now all he had to do was wait. That was easy.

But apparently it was not because when Alex came back all he did was talk, John still loved to hear Alex talk it didn't matter what it was about, but right now all he wanted was for Alex to take another sip of his coffee.

John was going to strangle his boyfriend if he didn't do it soon.

Then the moment came, Alex picked up the cup and saw a metallic glint from underneath it. He set his coffee down next to it and he couldn't believe what he saw.
A silver ring lay on the table in front of him, a few tiny diamonds inlaid throughout the band. He looked up to meet John's gaze who seemed very nervous.

"So?"

Alex picked up the ring, "Really?"

That's when John's heart sunk, he knew that it was a stupid idea and that he should have thought about it more but he found the ring and the perfect person to give it to. He couldn't stop himself.

Alex held the ring up to John, "You're going to ask me with a 'so', you're going to have to try a lot harder than that."

John let out a breath he didn't know he was holding, thank every god that it wasn't total rejection.

He plucked the ring from Alex's fingers and got down on one knee next to his chair.

"Alexander Hamilton. You are the most amazing wonderful person in the entire universe, probably even the multiverse. When I saw you for the first time my heart stopped because I couldn't believe that after all these years apart I finally found you again. I know that I'm an idiot, but I'm your idiot. Would you do me the honor of not only being your boyfriend but also my husband?"

Alex stood up and pulled John up with him, who was sort of confused at this point. "Well who could say no to that."

Both of them smiled like idiots as they met in the middle for a kiss.

Alex was looking forward to his future this time around, he had learned a lot from his past life lessons and he wasn't giving up this time.

A/N: I couldn't just not add in the fic title. I'm so proud of myself for actually continuing and finishing this story and I'm happy that all of you guys stuck around to read it. Without y'all this would have been quite boring. I hope you guys have an amazing day/evening/night where ever you are and I hope you all enjoyed Past Life Lessons :)