*Third Person POV*

They took their last bows, their true last bows. Not just for the night but forever. Lin gave Pippas hand a small squeeze before taking centre stage.

Pippa was excited yet saddened, she was excited for the new things that were coming. She had an audition for a new musical soon, but the thought of leaving all these memories. To leave this theatre, it was sad, no bitter sweet, that's what it was.

"Hello, hello, hello." He greeted the audience with a smile. "Hamilton had been one of the best experiences of my life. I've met so many amazing people." He glanced at Pippa after saying that. "And Though I will move on to other projects I will never forget Hamilton, thank you all for being here, now please another round for this phenomenal cast!" The crowd erupted in to cheers.

Lin came back to Pippa as the entire cast bowed once more. "All those cheers are for you Pip." He whispered.

"No, they're for everyone." She whispered back softly.

"Well then how about." He started and moved forward, "can we get a round for our Sooperstar!" The crowd obligated and cheered louder.

"How about now?" He whispered to Pippa who replied by with a laugh.

"Oh look he's playing favourites now." Chris joked to which everyone erupted into laughter.

"Goodnight everyone!" Lin said as the cast made their way off the stage, his arm wrapped around Pippa shoulder and kissed the side of her head.

"I'm really going to miss this place." She said as they walked.

"Me too Pip, but you're going on to bigger better things." He told her smiling as he did.

"Maybe You are Lin, no you definitely are but I'll be lucky if I get another part."

"Don't say that, you'll blow away anyone who sees you preform." He told her.

-Time Skip-

Lin and Pippa were now in Lins bed cuddling. Pippa smiled as she gave Lin a small squeeze. They were both very ecstatic, they were moving her in his weekend before she would go to her audition on Tuesday.

Pippa was so excited she honestly wasn't sure if she'd be able to sleep tonight. The excitement of it all had her wired like the Christmas tree at Rockefeller centre.

"We should go to sleep." Pippa told Lin, even if she wasn't sure how easily she'd get to sleep, she knew they'd have to get up early tomorrow to start packing her apartment up. "We got to get up early to move you in." To which Pippa smiled.

"Yeah, lets go to sleep." Lin said faking a yawn, truthfully Lin wasn't sure he'd get to sleep either. But he was worried for an different reason.

Lin would smile as Pippa got comfortable and her eyes slowly fell closed, it seemed she was much more worn out than she thought she was. Lin however, he was still awake and didn't seeing that changing any time soon.

So after about half an hour of laying there with sleeping Pippa and playing with her hair mindlessly, he decided he could stay in bed any longer. He slowly pushed himself out of bed, making sure he didn't wake her up. He sighed as he went into the kitchen grabbing his keys to his apartment and the keys to Pippas apartment. Lin shook his head a bit as he thought back to a couple weeks prior when he'd gotten the phone call:

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"Pippa I know everything is kind of hectic right now, but I really... I would live for you to move in with me, you already live in the same building and it's a pain going back and forth and back and forth-" he rambled on.

"Lin." She interpreted.

"Yeah?" He asked nervously.

"Of course I would love to move in with you." She told him wrapping her arms around him.

"Oh, Thank god." He breathed in relief.

"Did you think I would say no?" She asked as she pulled away looking into his eyes.

"Maybe."

"How could I say no to this?" She asked and rolled his eyes playfully.

"Oh shush." He said shaking his head.

"Make me." She challenged with a small giggle.

"Maybe I will."

"Then do it." She said and with that their lips met in one short but very sweet kiss.

"I really do love you." He whispered.

"I really love you too." She whispered back.

That was how the day should have ended full stop, nothing more, nothing less. But it didn't, Pippa wanted to get celebratory ice cream from the market, so she went out to get it, leaving Lin home alone.

As he sat on the sofa flicking through the channels on the television mindlessly as he waited for her to come back, his phone lit up. It was Disney, so of course he answered it.

"Hello, Mr. Maranda?" The woman on the phone asked.

"This is he." Lin replied wondering what the call could be about, he'd already finished Moana so it couldn't be about that.

"I'm Tiffany Canfield, I'm one of the casting directors at Disney." She told him.

"Hello Tiffany, may I ask why you've called?" He asked.

"Yes of course, see we here at Disney are making a second Mary Poppins." She paused giving him time to react to this.

"Wow, I don't know how you'll pull that off, Mary Poppins is classic." Lin said more or less thinking out loud.

"Yes, we are aware of that Mr. Miranda."

"Please, call me Lin."

"Alright... Lin, we were hoping to cast you as Jack, he's more or less Berts counter part, you would have to come to London to film but it would be a great opportunity and we'd love to have you."

And before Lin could think about the fact he'd just asked his girlfriend to move in with him or the fact his ex-wife was pregnant, or the fact that leaving to film a Disney movie wouldn't exactly be the right thing to do he said: "I would love to."

"Great, we are ecstatic to hear that." She said. "You'll have to fly over in about three weeks, we'll pay for your accommodations and flight over, and look forward to working with you."

"Thank you and likewise."

"Have a good day Mr. Miranda- I mean Lin."

"You as well Tiffany, goodbye." He said before hanging up, which is when it hit him. "Shhhhit."

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He hadn't told Pippa, it's been two weeks and he hadn't told her. He felt horrible about but he had no clue how to and it wasn't like he could back out of doing a movie with Disney. The worst part was he only had a week left with her before he'd leave, and she had no clue.

He was so confused on so many levels, he put the keys in his pocket and made his way to Pippa apartment. Pippa for the last two weeks had been figuring out how she was going to organise and pack up everything in her apartment, she'd even drawn up plans of how everything would be packed.

So Lin decided to get his mind of everything by packing up her apartment. So he put in earbuds, played some music and got to work. He started packing all her clothes. Carefully putting everything in its place as Pippa would want it. Stopping when he got to her underwear drawer, 'would she get mad if I packed her lingerie, does she have that, is that even the right word to use right now...?' He though to himself as he started at the drawer unsure.

He at last came to a decision, 'I'm sure she won't, Plus we've had sex so nothing I haven't seen, right? Right.' He thought in agreement with himself.

He opened the drawer slowly taking out the first item and his eyes widen, 'or not....' He thought to himself, from there he decided to just pack everything in there as quickly as possible, not giving himself enough time to think too much about anything that was in there. Sure he was a sweet guy, but he was still a guy.

Once he'd packed all that away, he started on packing up sheets, blankets, pillows, pillow covers. He moved on after that to the various collection of old dvds that Pippa owned. Most of Lins movies that he owned were online but Pippa was old school like that, even if she was the younger one.

He looked around her room thinking to himself, 'Okay, DVD's- packed, clothes and such- packed, bedding- packed.' He thought checking off a mental list. 'I should pack up pictures and picture frames.'

As he continued to pack he had to push away thoughts that tried to intrude his mind. He knew he'd have to tell her, there was no way of not tell her but every time he thought about doing it, he chickened out. He knew she'd be hurt, or pissed, or both, either way he didn't want to hurt her.

'I am such an idiot' He thought as he started packing the photos into boxes. As each photo went in he felt like any picture with Pippa, she was staring at him. Like she knew and was giving him a stare down. He needed to tell her, it was eating him up inside, and wasn't as complicated as he was making it in his head but he couldn't seem to help himself. With every thought he had, he somehow found a way for it to seem even more complicated to himself.

He sighed as he finished packing up the photo box. And this is how he spent most of his night. Packing up all the boxes in Pippas apartment, until he got to dishes. He was on the floor starting to tape it up when he passed out, he couldn't help it, as much as he would have liked to believe he wasn't tired, he really really was.

-Time Skip-

When Pippa woke up the next morning her eyebrows furrowed as she noticed Lin not there in bed with her anymore. She got out of bed thinking that he'd be somewhere around his apartment.

"Lin!" She called as she walked around the house, "Lin?" She called again as she cheeked his office, then bathroom.

'Where is he?' She thought. 'Maybe.. my place?' She thought to herself, shrugging a bit as she grabbed keys and headed out. Maybe Lin decided to get an early start on packing or something, so she went down to her apartment.

"Lin?!" She called as she entered the apartment, which is when she heard a grumbly noise coming from the kitchen. "Lin...?" She questioned going into the kitchen where she found Lin slowly starting to wake from his spot on the floor.

"Surprise?" He mumbled looking up at her, obvious bags under his eyes.

"You look like you barely slept Lin." She told him feeling a bubble of worry form in her as she sat next to him.

"I just wanted to get you moved in as soon as possible." He told her and she smiled in response.

"I don't deserve you."

"Pip, I'm the one who doesn't deserve you." He told her and she chuckled shaking her head.

"Nope." She said simply pecking his lips. "Now you should get upstairs and take a nap."

"But I want get you all moved in-"

"I can move the boxes, you go sleep, you barely get sleep as it is." She said sternly.

"Okay, okay... I love you Pippa, so so much."

"I love you too Lin." She replied pressing her lips to his softly. "Now upstairs."

"Okay, Goodnight." He said with a small chuckle as he got up.

"Goodnight."

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Word Count: 1960

Wooooo! An update! I am so so sorry it took so long- it took me forever to write, I swear I've written and rewritten this chapter so many times it hurts my brain to think about it.

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