Double Post woah! This one is an AU. During my hiatus I discovered a new musical! Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Its a musical based off of a bit of the book War and Peace. This chapter is Peggy as Natasha Rostova (Natasha is young, she loves Andrey with all her heart). Lafayette is Andrey/Andrei Bolkonsky. The lyrics are from "No One Else" which is a song from the musical if you wanna give it a listen!

Disclamier: I do not own Hamilton, Great Comet, or War and Peace. I also haven't read War and Peace yet.

Peggy stepped out onto the balcony, cold night air blowing through her brown curls. It was always colder now. Yes, it was Moscow in the middle of winter, but it was colder without him.

Her love.

First time I heard your voice

Moonlight burst into the room

He was tall. Taller than anyone she'd ever seen. No, that wasn't true. She knew a much taller person. This man was quite handsome, with his thick curls pulled back into a ponytail. He spoke fluent French, as did most people did. Yet it was different. It sounded better coming from him. It sounded like it was for her. And standing in a room full of people all listening to the same voice….well it had to mean something.

And I catch my breath and I laugh and blush

And I hear guitars

You are so good for me

He had asked her to dance. She accepted and his smile felt like the world. The entire world and the sun and the moon and the stars made themselves home in her heart. He was hers. He was going to be hers. He had to be hers. And he was.

Oh the moon

Oh the snow in the moonlight

They walked together, through the snow. They talked for hours. She talked about her life and her family and the kinds of things she liked. He talked about his friends and places he wants to go and did not fail to mention she was betrothed to him. To Marquis de Lafayette, son of a prince, the new love of her life.

And your childlike eyes and your distant smile

I'll never be this happy again

That was then. Before he went off to the war and left her alone to meet his awful, awful, family. They didn't like her very much. They thought she was too vain and fashionable and despised how much she loved him. She loved him a lot. So very much.

We were angels once, Don't you remember?

Peggy hummed to herself looking at the glittering moon shining on the roofs of the houses.

This winter sky,

How can anyone sleep?

There was never such a night before

I feel like putting my arms 'round my knees

And squeezing tight as possible

And flying away

Like this

She could almost see him. There in his uniform, smiling his smile, waiting for her below the balcony. He'd take her by the arms and hold them out and tip her head back so she could see what birds see. It was a bit odd, but it made her laugh. It made him laugh too. His laugh was very rare; it was music to her ears.

You and I

And No one Else

Peggy sighed and pulled away from the balcony.

"Maybe he'll come today," she whispered, "Maybe he came already. And he's sitting in the drawing room. And I simply forgot."

She nodded to herself and went back inside.