i was stalking your hamliza tags and do you remember when you answered the ask about the mafia au where the schuylers are mafia and ham is an annoying lawyer?? it sounded so interesting and i realise that you've tons of other projects happening at the moment but i was just wondering did you have any hc's on it?
Ooh, yes, I remember! I’m sure I can rustle up a few head canons :)
I think the reason Eliza is so attracted to Alex is because of his conviction and his insistence on doing what’s right. He’s been bullied and intimidated by people who looked down on him all his life and he’s just done with it, he doesn’t care if the biggest organised crime family in the city comes after him, he’s sticking to what he thinks is right. Eliza’s so used to people being terrified of her because of her surname, of not having a real connection with anyone. But Alex isn’t like that, he treats her no differently. He treats her like a person. And that’s what she loves.
It takes them a while to admit to themselves that what they’re doing os actually dating, not meeting up to try and get Alex to accept bribes from her father so he won’t mess up their rigged cases any more. All the meeting up in nice coffee shops, in the park, in the museum, at the cinema, places that are 100% date spots. Eventually, it’s Alex who puts his foot down and is like ‘Eliza, are we together?” and she finds herself saying yes, even though she knows the danger it puts him in.
They start dating officially, if in secret, before they have sex. Otherwise it would have felt that Eliza was just screwing him to get what she wanted and she’d never do that. She genuinely loves this strange guy, she’s like crazily in love with him. So the first time they sleep together its genuinely quite romantic, Alex taking her back to his place, more than a little embarrassed that its small and cluttered and surely a million worlds away from the grand places she’s used to in high society. But Eliza loves it. Its so homey and well loved, she feels more at home there than she ever has in her father’s mansion. Soon, she’s spending every night there, with Alex.
Sex with Alex is like nothing Eliza’s ever had before. He’s not just good, he does things just for her, just to make her feel nice and doesn’t expect anything in return. She’s used to guys from her father’s network or other families, guys with heads bloated on their own self importance and, as a result, awful in bed. After the first time with Alex, she will just not let him go for hours and hours.
Alex gives Eliza a present one day and he’s blushing and apologising and admitting that, yeah, he knows this is probably so naff compared to the extravagance she’s used to, he’s not sure why he even bothered but it made him think of her…And when Eliza opens it, it’s this pendant with a beautiful flower encased in resin, the flower she happened to casually mention one time was her favourite and of course Alex remembered. That necklace means more to her than any diamonds or gold she’s ever had.
Eliza’s sisters of course know what’s going on, Angelica sees them out on a date and they try and convince her to drop this before it gets out of control, they’re just worried about her, about what their father might to if he finds out she’s fallen for one of their biggest antagonists. But they can see how happy Eliza is at the same time, its a hard situation for them.
Things go south, in short. Philip Schuyler can tell something is up with his middle daughter, his best spy. She’s had to lie to him so many times about where she was at night or on an evening, why she didn’t sleep in her apartment, why she missed appointments. And then she gets pregnant. Eliza wants to keep the baby, Alex is overjoyed if a little terrified and they make plans to run away together, with her sisters’ help. But the night, her parents find the sonogram scan and plane tickets in her bedroom and the tickets are under Alexander Hamilton’s name.
Schuyler sends people after Alex, assuming he’s knocked up Eliza, that he’s kidnapping her, that he’s done awful things, never once guessing that they’re in a relationship. So when Eliza goes to Alex’s apartment, she finds a bloodied and beaten Alex tied to a chair and her father pointing a gun at his face.
She is horrified, puts herself between Alex and her father, explaining everything in a desperate rush. Philip is furious, of course, not believing it at first. But he sees the way Eliza is fully ready to let him shoot her to defend Alex and he relents. He lets them leave together, warning her that this does mean she can never come back, they’d be in too much danger.
So Alex and Eliza start their new life together and Happily Ever After
