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Drowning In My Own Tears(TheodosiaxPhilip one-shot

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"You can't catch me!" I shouted, running as my best friend, Philip Hamilton chased after me in a game of tag. "Oh yes I can!" He had just turned nine, and he decided he was going to be a poet, i liked that about him, he was brave and courageous, yet he was soft, too. When he caught up to me, he asked me to sit down, I complied and sat in the soft grass. "I want to tell you the poem I wrote to tell my dad when he comes home," he said earnestly, I smiled and waited to hear him recite his first work. "My name is Philip, I am a poet, and I wrote this poem just to show it. And I just turned nine, you can write rhymes but you can't write mine. I practice French and play piano with my mother, I have a sister but I want a little brother. My Daddy's trying to start America's bank. In deluxe trois quatre cinq!" I clapped for him. "How long did it take?" I asked. "Not too long, I thought of it today, but that's not all I wanted to show you." "Whatever else would you want to show me?" I asked, confused. "This," and with that he kissed my cheek and I giggled, blushing at his touch. 

I think back to that day, the day we both decided we may like each other a little more than before. Standing here, on the bow of this ship, I would give anything to be nine again, back as a child, when I was still free, when Philip was still here... Tears were running down my face. That was twenty years ago... and still I can not forget my first love. I am married now, to a man named Joseph Alston, but it was not a marriage I was entirely for. Sure, I loved him, but not as much as I did Philip. I still remember the look on his face when he died, he was helpless, and my pain was unimaginable. We had been courting for a few years before his duel, and were speaking of marriage, but now, now that he is no longer alive, I may be married, but not to him, not to my sweet Philip. Here on this ship, the Patriot, I remember those moments, as the ship sinks, and we go below the water, I don't even struggle. I just drown in my own tears.
Hey, all you Hamilfans! I have decided this is the best ship ever (other than Lams), so I wrote this. Oh yeah, this is Theodosia at 29, in the moment of her death, yes, I did research to figure out how old she was, who she was married to, how she died, and what boat she was on! Aren't they so sad they're adorable?

Theodosia and Philip (c) Lin-Manuel Miranda/American History
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