Queen of New York-Newsies Fanfiction

Chapter Ten

The newsies sit in Tibby's. Denton enters. They greet him.

"Why didn't the Sun print the story?" David asked.

"Because it never happened."

"What do you mean it never happened? You were there!" Annabeth said angrily.

"You wrote it!" Race and KidBlink adds on.

"It's not in the papers, it never happened. The owners decreed
it not be in the papers, therefore... I came to tell you fellas good bye."

"What happened? Did you get fired or something?" David asked.

"No, I got reassigned back to my old job as the Sun's ace war correspondent. They want me to leave right away. The owner thinks I should only cover the really important stories. Wish me luck fellas. At least half of what I wish for you. They don't always fire. I would be black balled from every paper in the country. I'm a newspaper man. I have to have a paper to write for. This is the story I wrote about the rally. I want you to read it at least. This should cover it."

Denton pays the waiter and leaves. David crumples the story up and throws it on a table.

"We get Jack out of the Refuge tonight. From now on, we trust no one but the newsies." David said, as Annabeth cheers from besides him.

The newsies get up and leave. Les uses Denton's article to wrap his unfinished hot dog in.

That night, David, Annabeth, Les, Mush, Kid Blink, Racetrack and Boots sneak into the Refuge's gates. Kid Blink had a rope.

"That's the window where we saw Crutchy." David whispered.

They are about to move when they see Snyder leading Jack into a carriage.

"It's Jack!" Les whispered yelled. Making David and Annabeth clamp their hands on his mouth pulling him towards the two.

"Where they takin' him Dave?" Mush whispered.

"Only one way to find out. I'll meet you guys at the square. Racetrack, Annabeth, watch him." David said, giving Annabeth a look that says 'I'm serious. Stay here.' She nods her head at both the look and what he told the two to do.

David hides in the back of the carriage, which goes to Pulitzer's house. Seitz is waiting outside for them.

Jack leaves. As he is being taken outside, Snyder lets go of him for one second.

"Jack! Come on! Come on!" David called out.

Jack slides down the railing and jumps over it. He and David take off.

David and Jack run into an alley. Jack slows down.

"Come on! Keep running!"

"You shouldn't have done this, Dave. They could put you in jail."

"I don't care."

"Come here. What about your family? What happened to them if you go in jail. You don't know nothing about jail. Now, thanks for what you done, but you get out of here."

"I don't understand."

"I don't understand either, but just get outta here!"

"No!"

"Go!"

David turns slowly and walks away. Jack leans against a wall. Suddenly, he's leaning against a wall in the Refuge.

"Santa Fe
My old friend
I can't spend my whole life hidin'
You're the only light that's guidin' me today." Jack sings, before him and Crutchy begin to talk.

Back at the Lodging house, Annabeth sat on the roof, with a lantern for light.

"Will you keep a candle burnin'
Will you help me find my way?
You're my chance to break free
And who knows when my next one will be." She sang, her voice slightly breaking. 

"Santa Fe.
Wait for me." Both Kelly siblings sang, with Jack looking out of the Refuge window, and Annabeth ending it, blowing out her lantern, heading back inside the house.