#jeffayette

Anything for a fellow Lafferson shipper!

Thomas and Lafayette actually got together because they hooked up in France

That’s not what they tell other people though

It was romantic and wonderful is what they tell people

Lafayette cannot cook at all. All he can make is French toast.

Thomas is an expert but it embarrasses him so he doesn’t cook for other people.

Lafayette is super romantic and is always giving Thomas gifts and compliments

Thomas won’t tell Lafayette that he appreciates acts of kindness more

When Lafayette finds out he’s super sorry and does his best to cater more to that love language.

Thomas knows that Lafayette appreciates compliments more and is constantly making up new nicknames for him.

They don’t do PDA. No thank you.

Forehead 👏 kisses

Thomas is slightly taller than Lafayette, like, only one inch taller but he always calls him shorty.

Lafayette gets payback and wears really thick heeled boots so he’s taller.

Soft boys.

(I love the blackout idea!)

“Thomas!” Lafayette calls out, fumbling around in the closet. “Where are the candles? I cannot-” He winces when he hears the sound of Thomas running into something, a myriad of curses echoing down the hallway. “Thomas?”

“Fucking wall!” Thomas snarls, his voice sounding closer. “Fucking storm with its wind! Fucking everything, what the fuck!”

“Calm down, ma chère. You will give yourself a nosebleed.” 

“Wouldn’t be surprised,” Thomas mumbles, and Lafayette can feel him standing behind him, and then a gentle hand is resting on his back, alerting him to his presence. “A nosebleed would make this disaster of a date night complete. Nothing like me having a nosebleed in the pitch black to really just-”

“The candles, Thomas,” Lafayette remind him gently, smiling when he hears Thomas huff out a frustrated breath. He gets so flustered so easily. “I cannot remember where we put them. We used them for dinner last month, I think. But after that?”

“I don’t know,” Thomas groans, and then he’s nudging Lafayette aside, the sounds of him scrambling blindly in the closet filling the air. “Bathroom?” Thomas suggests a few moments later. “I use them in there when I take baths sometimes.”

“Adorable,” Lafayette purrs, laughing when Thomas’s elbow nudges him in the ribs. “You are so pampered.”

“You pamper me,” Thomas shoots back, but Lafayette thinks he can hear a smile in his voice. “You bought me those candles.”

“So I did,” Lafayette agrees gently, reaching out to find Thomas’s hand so he can lead them both away from the closet and further down the hall, his free hand running along the wall until he feels the bathroom door under his palms. “Ah! Perfect. I will look.”

“Any luck?” Thomas calls out seconds later, and Lafayette just hums sadly in response, finding nothing. “Fuck. Now what?”

“We check downstairs?”

“I’m not trying to go down the stairs in complete darkness, Laf.”

“Then we must suffer,” Lafayette says seriously, smiling when he can practically hear Thomas roll his eyes.

“Such the drama queen,” Thomas murmurs, and Lafayette can just see the outline of him in the dark. His hands find Lafayette’s face, fingers smoothing over his cheeks as he traces his features. “My drama queen.” His thumb runs over Lafayette’s mouth, making him shiver.

Lafayette hums again, leaning into the touch and parting his lips, sighing happily when Thomas kisses him. It’s slow and soft, but Lafayette feels his skin warm up all the same. “Maybe we do not need the candles,” Lafayette whispers when he pulls away.

“Maybe not,” Thomas agrees, laughing quietly against Lafayette’s lips. He kisses him again, deeper this time with a hint of tongues sliding against each other. “Definitely not,” Thomas corrects seconds later, dipping down to press a kiss to Lafayette’s neck. 

((I’m going to try make this one short, because this isn’t a massive idea, just a little thing that popped into my head that I wanted to share with you)) So, let’s move this whole thing from college to a flower shop AU. Despite the personalities of the two, I imagine Thomas being the one to own a flower shop on a busy corner of New-York, a little family business that has been around for decades. He would be one of the two or three employees, taking care of the place himself most of the time, and gently singing to the flowers before opening and after closing the store. And I would imagine Gilbert being one of the few usuals, to be the one to come window shopping often, and to bulk-buy potted plants every few months because he loves to be surrounded by fresh air and pretty flowers, and see the handsome man at the register chuckle every time he sees him eyeing bouquets outside the window. Half his friends think it’s an obsession and that maybe Gil needs to stop spending money on plants, but no one can deny the fact that visiting the Frenchman’s apartment is a very nice change from the stuffy city air, and often come by for an hour breather, spending time with Gilbert and relaxing in the clean atmosphere of his home. I also imagine Gilbert being a stress plant shopper, so on terribly bad days that actually affect his usual bounciness, he would visit the flower store straight after work. Since those days are really rare, Thomas always picks up on them, considering that Gilbert not only looks absolutely tired when buying the plants, but he also buys them completely out of his regular schedule. So, when one of those days rolls around, Thomas finally decides to ask about it, casually dropping the “long day?” conversation started when scanning the six small cacti that Gil brought to the till. He nods, kind of surprised that this guy cared to notice. Not having anyone to talk his stress out with, Gilbert kind of, breaks, quietly telling Thomas about his horrible day at work. And Thomas listens, nodding along and occasionally offering soothing squeezes on Gil’s arm. After that, Thomas starts asking about the Frenchman’s day every other time he comes round, then every second time, then Gilbert makes appearances in the flower shop every day after work, and they spend the afternoons talking to each other until Thomas has to lock up. Gilbert finds Tom’s slightly cocky and self-assured attitude endearing, and Thomas loves the light and the energy that Gil brings into his store every time he walks through the door. And Thomas ends up asking Gil out to grab a coffee sometime, and Gil agrees immediately. Before they know it, they walk each other home most nights after the closing of the shop, and go on dates every other weekend. And just, are cute together (((I said this was going to be short, but it accidentally turned out almost as long as the other ones, sorry)))

So I just woke up, and immediately thought of another idea for their ship: at first, after their kiss (or any other awkward meeting situation could be applied to this), Lafayette and Thomas don’t talk to each other for weeks. They don’t tell their friends who don’t remember anything, because suddenly, they realize how much the other comes up in conversation. Alexander is always talking smack about Thomas, saying how much of an arrogant ass he is. John would occasionally pitch in and say how much he wants to fight Thomas. And many other awful things that you can imagine Alexander would say about Thomas, because he probably did. Even Hercules is not completely neutral with the guy. Lafayette’s friends despise Thomas, so even thought Lafayette does not share the feeling with his gang, it would blow out of proportion if he had told them about their kiss. Thomas, on the other hand, only ever hears fantastic things about Laf when he occasionally comes up in conversation. How he is a French interpreter and how he almost skipped an entire class the other day to help a transfer student settle in. How he climbed and fell from a tree, successfully rescuing a cat that had infiltrated campus, and spraining his ankle. And many other sweet things that you can imagine Laf doing. And Thomas knows just how much Laf’s friends dislike him, so he tries to brush off the building fascination with the Frenchman, because he doesn’t want to make it hard on the both of them. But since Laf is a v determined person, he decides to find Thomas to talk about it, skipping out on yet another Friday night with his friends getting drunk, and that goes about as well as you’d imagine. Thomas ends up punching Laf or something because he absolutely freaked out and wanted to give Laf a reason to hate him just as much as John and Alexander did. ((Nervous Thomas doing stupid things with kinda good intentions is my aesthetic)) (((sorry if this is too long)))

Omg. I can see Thomas just blurting out that he doesn’t like Laf instead of, you know, punching him lol. Or maybe he just shoves Lafayette for getting too close cause he’s freaking out over his feelings.

But I would also love the idea of Thomas trying to hang out with Laf and his friends, despite knowing that Laf’s friends really don’t like him. Like Thomas just sitting down with them and everyone staring at him and he’s super nervous but dammit he wants to hang out with Laf, so he sticks it out. And yeah, Laf’s friends would probably pull Laf aside and be like, what are you doing? Why is Thomas hanging out with us? We hate him.

THEN Laf gets mad at his friends and yells at them for being rude, and starts to not hang out with them as much, instead he hangs out with Thomas and James a lot.

((I’m going to start numbering the submissions ‘cause I am getting lost on how many parts there are to this lmao)) branching off from the latest one, imagine if Lup rambling at the speed of light while Tom just stands there with his hands secured on Theo’s ankles as she begins playing with his poofy hair and occasionally mumbling about how it reminds her of a cloud. He is frozen with shock and awe, this guy with the French accent quickly becoming more gorgeous by the second and Tom wonders why the heck he’s still talking to him. He hears himself say that it’s no big deal and gives Laf a shy smile. And then Laf is apologising for like another minute and saying how he really didn’t mean to inconvenience anyone and he’s sorry that Theo is a bit of a troublemaker. And Tom is trying to convince him that it’s fine, and Theo is slowly starting to get kinda bored, so she starts making small plaits in Tom’s hair with her tongue sticking out in concentration. After Laf finally calms down, he reaches to take Theo off of Thomas, but she slaps his hands away, saying that she wants to be as tall as Gills and that Mr. Thomas is super nice and has a funny accent that she likes. Once again, Laf is apologising, but Tom cuts him off by asking where they were going, and convinces that he’s alright with walking the two to the library, because he’s already late to meet his friend so he might as well embrace it. So Laf gives him a look through which he tries to convey just how thankful he is, and they start walking and fall into a small chat. They exchange names and what they study, and Theo exclaims that Gills is from France and he kind of smells of croissants and vanilla and coffee all the time, and Laf gets embarrassed because he knows it’s a 110% true, but Tom chuckles with the biggest grin, and Laf is like THIS MAN IS AMAZING AND I LOVE HIS LAUGH AND GOD I BET HE ALREADY HAS SOMEONE. But then Thomas asks if Theo is his daughter and Laf dissolves into a fit of giggles, like oh nononono she’s my friend’s kid I just sometimes pick her up from nursery and now Tom is the one who is embarrassed, but Laf reassures him that’s it’s fine, and they laugh through the awkwardness.

But then the worst happens: Alexander Hamilton himself appears out of the deepest reaches of hell, saying how he sensed Jefferson’s salt from a mile away, and the two start bickering, and Laf realizes that OH NO THIS IS THE THOMAS JEFFERSON THAT ALEXANDRE IS ALWAYS TALKING SHIT ABOUT BUT MON AMI YOU NEVER TOLD ME HE WAS FUNNY AND NICE AND JUST WOW (((I could literally write about these two for hours and plan to draw them two being cute together, if you want to see it?? I just love them so much)))

((Okay, so, I’m loving this so much, because you’re like one of my favourite writers, and you’re responding to my dumb ideas so quickly and it makes me so happy. Thank you for making my day amazing)) Or, imagine if instead of keeping it to himself, Thomas starts rambling to James (and maybe Aaron) about what happened, and how he doesn’t know what to do, and how he has just been freaking out about meeting this very charming and amazing man. And James goes all relationship advisor mode and tells Thomas to just go speak to Lafayette, but Thomas accidentally yells at James because Laf is friends with Alexander and John and Herc and none of them like him and he’s too nervous to do it since the four are almost always inseparable! And it would be super awkward because it was just one kiss or whatever and it probably didn’t matter to Laf at all and what if Thomas gets rejected?? And would it even be rejection?? They haven’t even talked to each other before this whole thing happened! So James just sits Thomas down and tries to calm him down, quietly telling him to do what feels right to Thomas, and just being a super supportive roommate, because their friendship is the most precious. And while Thomas builds up the courage to go find Laf and speak to him about it, Lafayette is casually bombarding the Schuyler sisters and Aaron with questions about Jefferson. Eliza, Peggy and Aaron are happy to provide, while Angelica occasionally teases Laf about it. And Laf is suddenly very fascinated by the man, despite how much shit Alexander talks about him on weekly basis, and how much John would totally fight him. And just *flails arms* Laf, like the romantic Frenchman that he is, decides to send roses or something to Thomas one day, one by one arriving at random times during the day. In classes, during lunch, randomly lying in front of his room, in the library, and Thomas is so astounded. And just, WOW, this guy knows how to charm the socks off of anyone. (((This is slowly becoming my favourite ship. Halp)))

Your ideas are really good!!! I love that you’re sending them to me :)

This.is.so.cute

Okay, I don’t know if you have already thought of this, or if someone else has sent this to you, but here is what I had on my mind for the past day or so: TJeff and Laf falling in love between classes and tirelessly studying days in a row. Just, imagine the two meeting awkwardly because of their overlapping friends groups and the gang’s habits of getting into trouble. Imagine Alex, John, Herc, James and Aaron accidentally getting absolutely hammered at the end of a semester, and Thomas and Laf were their only other friends who were not drunk off their asses. And somehow they get the two to play spin the bottle or something, despite the fact that there was literally not a single girl in the room, and John and Aaron always claimed to be as straight as you can get. Surprise, surprise, who ends up kissing who? Laf and Thomas, under their drunk friends’ peer pressure, of course. And then it just shoots off from there. I know it’s not a popular ship, if it is one at all, but just imagine Tom being nervous and dorky around Laf, and Laf being cutesy and radiating charm. Just, Jeffayette. ((Take my kidney as a sacrifice for this idea))