In the throneroom

After Lord Hamilton got on his feet, he went to his side of the room. The rest of his clan and the Schuyler clan stood before the king. The room was silent awaiting for the king to respond.

"What do I owe this sudden gathering to?" King Henry asked.

"The results of the research on the birth dates of our final candidate have been released," Lord Stanely -who appeared to be from Lord Philip's side- spoke up.

"Is there any problem?" King Henry's questions continued.

"Mere formality as this selection might be, apppointing someone who could bring great harm to the royal family is admissible," Lord Stanely continued. King Henry blinked from shock, and so did the members of the Nepalese household.

"Bring great harm?! Are you referring to Alexander Hamilton?! Spare us from such vilipending contempt!" another lord from a house - supporting the Chatilot household leader- shouted.

"It's nothing Your Excellency should get involved in!" Lord Stanely shouted back.

"Bring great harm to the royal family? What are you implying?" King Henry yelled, leaning forward to the audience.

"Confronting the birth dates of Princess Angelica and Alexander Hamilton produced rather ominous results," Lord Stanely confirmed. This silenced the entire room and the king himself, even Lord Schuyler. They were surprised that there would be ominous results to making conjugal ties for the princess and the son of the Hamilton clan.

Outside the throneroom, a servant was carrying a tray of parchments. His hand was quivering because of the results that have been put. He was scared to show this to the king. Time was ticking, and it felt like time was rushing him.

"And what could these ominous results possibly be?!" King Henry shouted, furious to where the lord was getting at.

Ambassador Adams gestured one of the servants to enter with parchments on his tray. The servant handed down the tray to the other. The other servant brought the tray to the king, and the king took a look at the results. After a while, his hands started to quiver. His eyes having the look of a horrified man.

Lord after lord, they looked at each other, wondering what could have been written there. Lord Hamilton kept looking at the king's reaction to the paper in silence. The servant said, "It brings me great distress to tell my king, but these conjugal ties would ravage the royal family like flames smoldering a forest..."

"Ravage the royal family?!"

"Yes, Sire..."

The king shut the parchments and looked at the nervous servant. "So if Alexander Hamilton is the flames, the princess would be a tree who would be smoldered in flames? (a metaphor)"

"That is indeed the case," the servant confirmed with a quivering voice and tears forming in his eyes.

"So who would be the next victim?!" the king asked the servant. The servant stood quiet, trembling and scared to say it.

"Speak at once!" Lord Stanely shouted at him across the room, glaring daggers at him. The servant shut his eyes, afraid to speak the words.

"It would....be your son, the prince of England...."

This mortified the king, Lord Hamilton, Schuyler, Stanely and other lords.

"How dare you subject us to such insulting deviltries?!" a lord from the Hamilton side shouted at the servant who looked like he was going to cry.

"Is that nothing but the truth?"

"H-How could I dare inveigle you with mendacious claims?" the servant said.

"Sire, your humple servant has spoken his opinion. Any union which would endanger the lives of the princess and the prince...should be repudiated without hesitation!" Lord Stanely suggested.

"No, Sire. I do not believe you should let a mere observation becloud your judgement," an ambassador on Hamilton's side argued.

"Are you questioning the validity of his earnest research?" Lord Stanley questioned.

"You! Are you prepared to stake your life on those claims?" the ambassador told the servant.

"Not even a blade ponted at my fate could change what is written in the stars," the servant spoke with dignity, still having tears in his eyes.

"Ambassador Adams, is he telling the truth?...........Are the results of his research truyly legitimate?!" the king asked. Many people lifted their heads and faced Adams direction.

"They are, Sire..."

The king was aghast by his answer.

"Moved by suspicion, I questioned his colleagues at the Cambridge University, but they could only confirm his findings."

"Sire, we cannot let such ominous foreboding endanger our royal family. Therefore, I propose Alexander Hamilton's dismissal, so that we can select a more befitting candidate," Lord Stanely proposed.

"No sire! No matter how much significance thoe results might have, Alexander Hamilton's credentials are a testament of his father's" an ambasador from Hamilton's side said but was cut off by Lord Philip.

"Can you cope with the consequences, should this union truly bring harm to the prince as predicted? "Sire, how do you plan to deal with Alexander Hamilton?" Lord Philip asked the ambassador, while he was looking at Lord Hamilton who did the same. In response, the ambassadors didn't speak.

The king put some thought to their discussion and his followers' arguments. He closed his eyes to think about it while his followers waited for his response patiently.

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"crucial delibreation of this kind of requires the utmost prudence, so any decision on whether to dismiss Alexander Hamilton will be taken through this selection. Summon the candidates!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" his royal ambassador said. Just as he was about to follow his orders, another ambassador ran towards him and whispered in his ear. The royal ambassador felt horrified by the news he shared.

"What's the matter?" the king asked in urgency.

"Sire! Alexander Hamilton was apprehended by order of the inspector general!"

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"Let go! Let me go!"

Alexander was held by the arms by the knights. He struggled and asked what the reason for this was. Much to his surprise, he saw a brothel lady who seemed familiar. She grinned a cunning smile.

It was Maria. 

Then Alexander was dragged. He then was taken before the leader of the knights.

"Are you Alexander Hamilton, the princess' lecturer?"

"Have you ever been to a brothel in the Princess' company? We have a testimony claiming you engaged in lascivious demeaner with her! We have irrefutable evidence proving your vile misconduct, so confess at once!"

Alexander was shocked. The brothel lady must've told him but with wrong ideas. What he knew was that the woman he brought wasn't the princess at all! She wasn't the real princess.

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Outside the study hall

When class was over, Eliza and Peggy held hands as they exited the study hall. They both noticed some of their classmates rushing towards somewhere. Out of curiosity, Peggy went to them.

"Where are you guys going?"

"Someone's being taken in for questioning!"

"Who?!" Peggy asked.

"We'll have to find out.

When all the people came before the trial, Eliza was feeling down and didn't listen to what others are saying, until she heard the words that made her realize that this could be her doing for not telling him the truth.

"Luring the princess outside the palace to do that...Has he no shame?" said her classmate. Eliza looked up at the person who said that.

"Wait....Isn't that Alexander Hamilton?"

Eliza's shocked eyes looked at the direction she was pointing from across the hall. She found Alexander tied with a rope and dragged by knights. Eliza's heart was broken. Alexander was looking down while he was being dragged until he entered the hallway on their way to court room. He looked back up to the right to start looking. But his face became pale when he found Eliza, dressed in her own royal attires that looked nothing like that of a princess.

Their eyes made eye contact, and he was still in shock to see her not in a handmaiden dress. He has finally found her, and yet he was dragged. Eliza looked down to the ground, ashamed of herself and left the group. Eliza rushed to the princess' quarters as fast as her feet could take her.

"Please wait!" Alexander told the knights to look Eliza with a closer look, but found her missing. The knights found him crazy like other criminals, so they forced him to walk with them and took him by the arm. His hands were tied.

When he was forced to enter the court, he saw many Nepaleses' from Lord Hamilton's side, Chatilots from Lord Schuylers' side, and the royal ambassadors of the king. With his presence present, they all faced him. The judges faced him with cold eyes. Alexander was put down to his knees while being tied.

The king was present and sat on his seat. He gestured everyone to sit. He glared at the son of Lord Hamilton with shame.

"Is the report from the inspector general true? Did you truly entice the princess outside the palace..................and together engaged in such lascivious misdeeds?!" the king angrily exclaimed to Alexander who looked up.

"I did not."

"Are you claiming innocence? You never lured the princess outside?"

"It was not Her Highness!" Alexander spoke the truth.

"If it wasn't Her Highness, did you do it with another woman?" one of the judges asked. As much as he wanted to speak the truth, he recalls Eunice pleading him not to expose for something awful could happen to Eliza.

"We never engaged in any lascivious act," Alexander spoke.

"Does that imply you did meet the princess outside the palace?" another judge spoke.

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At the princess' quarters

"I cannot let you," Eunice said to Eliza.

"I must see her, NOW!" Eliza said, desperate to save Alexander.

"Her Highness is feeling upset, Lady Elizabeth!"

"Must I spill it out?! Because we hid the truth, Alexander is being questioned in trial! Now let me in!" Eliza commanded. Eliza rushed into the princess' chambers and curtsided before her cousin who was fixing her hair and was upset to see her.

"I thought I told you no to step foot inside the palace?!" Angelica exclaimed.

"It's Ale- Hamilton! He's being questioned!"

This caught Angelica's attention.

"Angelica, he is being unfairly accused because of me. Should we not prove his innocence?" Eliza pleaded with Angelica. She felt tears coming down her face. By this poor sight, Angelica sneered.

"Allow me to join the questioning," Eliza asked, desperate to save Alexander from the trouble she caused upon him. Angelica scoffed at the thought of her, the daughter of Lord Schuyler, doing such act.

"What difference could your presence make? Will you admit to everyone that you impersonated me?"

"If it can only help him survive, I will," Eliza spoke from the heart. She was willing to do anything to save him from being banished, beheaded, or worse... Angelica almost grit her teeth, grew jealous of Eliza for thinking of saving him before she could think of it.

"If anyone can save or condemn him to his demise, I am the one!" Angelica claimed to be his savior at the trial. She left her chambers and went on her way to the questioning.

"Your Grace! Where are you going! What are you trying to accomplish?!" Eunice asked her, but she didn't respond and kept walking. Eunice allowed herself no choice but to follow her.

Eliza was left behind in the garden, pacing back and forth, hoping for him to be saved.

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When she reached the trial, the last thing she heard from one of the ambassadors was asking the king to have him beheaded. She stepped forward and spoke," He has commited no such crimes!" Everyone followed the direction of that voice and saw the princess of England coming her way through the court.

"I have something to tell you, Father, regarding Hamilton," the princess said.

"I met him outside the palace. However....I left the palace of my own volition, it was never as a result of any allure," she continued.

"Are you disgracing yourself to defend him?!" her father asked her.

"Father! I merely wanted to escape from the constraints of a life in the palace. And all he did was reproach me for such heedless demeanor, even going as far as rescuding me from a dire predicament. Father, I never did anything to disgrace the royal family of England. If you wish to punish me for being so immature for escaping the palace, I shall gleefully accept it all. However, ....," Angelica said. He trailed off when she looked at Lord Philip, the man who she hated with all her being for putting the pressure on her own father.

"...any other disgusting insinuation levied against me shall not be tolerated!"

"Can we truly believe your testimony?" Lord Stanely spoke lazily and with disbelief.

"Are you perchance suspecting otherwise? If such is the case, I encourage you to question me as well!" Angelica threatened.

"My daughter, take your leave!" the king ordered.

"Father..."

"Must you continue to bring shame upon me? Is this a place you can violate at will?! Take your leave and reflect on your conduct," King Henry VI yelled at her for being so immature at such a sacred place as the palace of England. Angelica stayed quiet and looked down. Angelica showed frustration on her face. Alexander looked at the frustrated princess.

Angelica obliged eventually with tears in her eyes and left the court. She glared daggers at Lord Schuyler and left without a word.

"Never again shall this issue be mentioned. We shall further deliberate in the morrow," the king finalized and left his seat and the throneroom.

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At the princess' quarters...

Angelica depressed of her own defeat entered her chambers. Eunice followed her, but was dragged by Eliza from behind.

When Eliza reached the gardens with Eunice, she let go of her hand and was devastated and impatient to hear the news.

"How did it go? What happened to him?" Eliza asked. Eunice looked down in shame.

"His execution might be inevitable..." Eunice said.

"Did he not confess that the princess was not whom he met?" Eliza was surprised because Alexander could've exposed the truth because all that's happened would help defend Alexander from this unfair fate.

"He never mentioned you to the very end. When he came looking for you, I did tel lhim that if they found you guilty of impersonating her, you'd suffer the consequences. I wonder if he didn't talk because of that. . . " Eunice cried ashamed of herself. She gave the daughter her deepest apologies and left.

Eliza stoppedd her.

"Eunice, I have a favor to ask you."

Nightime

Eliza arrived at the dungeon. She turned around and saw that the coast was clear. She was waiting for Eunice to do her favor. Then a guard came out and so did Eunice. Eunice came to Eliza with news.

"You must hasten. The warden is an old acquaintance of mine, so he will let you in for a moment," Euince said.

"Thank you for your time," Eliza, relieved to be given the chance to face her problems, she took and held Eunice's hand in hers. Eunice smiled in response. The warden then led Eliza through the dungeon. It was a dark room, and Eliza felt bad for Alexander having to cope with the dark.

She passed every jail and found Alexander sitting down.

Alexander looked up slowly, found the dress to be familliar and looked straight up at Eliza's face. While looking at her face to face, he got on his feet and walked towards Eliza but was stopped by the bars that separated them. Not much to Eliza's surprise, Alexander didn't seem happy after all the trouble he went through.

"Were you injured?" Eliza asked, concerned for his well being. Alexander avoided her eye contact when the reality that he learned was real.

"In the morrow, confess that I was the one you met. It is the only way you will survive," Eliza pleaded him to at least say "yes". She put him in this mess, and she knew that it was right for her to be punished, not the man who was lied to.

"How could you show your face here...How much longer must you torment me this way?" Alexander asked her stone-faced. Eliza knew that he must be angry and confused, she looked down shamefully.

"Please, confess the truth!" Eliza stubbornly asked him. She didn't want to stop until she hears that he will.

"So that you can perish in my stead?" he asked her. Eliza shook her head.

"I will be fine. I intended to tell you before..." Eliza responded, trying to reassure him. Alexander was ready to hear who she was.

"I actually am-"

Then the urgency of an unfamiliar voice cut her off: "Lord Schuyler!"

Eliza sharply turned, and her eyes widened and her mouth open wide with disbelief. Alexander followed where her eyes were looking and looked back at Eliza, wondering what her relationship with him was. Eliza remained so speechless.

Eliza couldn't believe her eyes. Her father was here this whole time?!