*****DISCLAIMER*****: I DON' OWN ANY OF THE NEWSIES YA KNOW FROM THE MOVIE, THE GIRLS AT THE BAR OWN THEMSELVES, I DO OWN SLICK, SLY, RAIDER, BLADE, AN' ANYONE ELSE YA DON' KNOW OR AREN'T TOLD OTHERWISE......ENJOY!!!

A/N: Ai'ght, here ya all go, the first of MANY chapters to be re-posted makes faces at FF.net …Enjoy

A New Beginning?

By: Slick o' Brooklyn aka Brooklyn Raider

Chapter 1- New Faces, New Places

"So....what Newsies da ya know?" Katz asked trying to sound offhand, as they continued into Brooklyn.

Slick smirked, she knew what Katz was really asking, 'which one's your boyfriend, an' what's it like living with them.' "Mainly the Manhattan ones." She figured it was best to leave Spot out of the conversation at the moment.

Katz laughed, "The goils'll definitely be all ova ya. Those boys tend ta be some of our best customers. Doll Face was with 'em for a couple a years, but then came ova here."

"Doll Face?"

"Yeah, see the newsies did give us all "Newsie Names" as dey call 'em" Katz laughed, "Doll Face is really Alexia, but don' worry you'll meet 'em all latea."

"So you don' want me ta use Slick because…?" Slick asked questioningly

"Cause I wanna make sure ya gotta real name, other wise it ain't likely Roger'll give ya a job, 'e likes ta make sure we ain't jus' street trash. 'Specially if ya a goil, which most of us are. So we only use da "Newsie Names" 'round each odda." Katz answered

"Oh." Sierra said in understanding. "So what's yer real name?"

"Katelin. Katelin Fallert. An' yer Sierra...? Katz trailed off waiting for Slick to answer

"Rylan. Sierra Rylan. It's my real name too, ya better feel privileged ta know it too." Slick said with a smart-ass smile.

"Oh I do." Katelin said her smile matching Sierra's. "Here we are." The two girls stopped outside a bar. It wasn't near as glitzy looking as Irving Hall, but Slick found she like the look of it just from the outside. "It ain't nothin' special, but it pays good an' we get a good crowd, 'specially when Alexia or onea the otha girls is performing."

"Performin'?" Slick asked, a waver in her usual steady voice.

"Jus' the talented ones." Katz reassured her with a smile. "Common, let's go in, my shifts about ta start pretty soon." Slick followed Katz into the building.

The inside deceived the outer look. It was dim, as most bars tend to be. A stage dominated the front section of the large room, with a bar located along the back, stools standing ready for customers, tables littered the rest of the room, most were empty this time of day, but a few held some patrons.

"Welcome ta Salvatore's." Katz said before heading down the five steps that lay between them and the main floor. "'Ey Roger!" She yelled.

There was a pause before a young man walked out of a door behind the bar. "What da ya want?" He paused seeing Katz, "Oh it's only you"

"Cute." Katz said sarcastically, he smirked.

But from her own personal stand point, Sierra thought that was the perfect word to describe the young man. He was tall, shaggy black hair spilled over his eyes, which she guessed were a shade of hazel, the thing that struck her was how young he was, her age she guessed, which would only make him about 17.

"I thought so." He said giving Katz a mocking smirk. She glared. His smirk dropped as he inspected Sierra. "Who's this Katz?"

At the word 'Katz' Slick made the fast assumption that this wasn't Roger. "This, Damien, is Sierra, a new friend of mine."

"Friend? Wow, I didn' know ya had any." Damien smarted back, earning anther glare from Katelin. "The name's Damien." He said walking over to shake Slick's hand.

Slick quickly checked the impulse to spit in her hand before she held it out, "Sierra." She hated the sound of herself using her real name; it just sounded off to her.

"Pleasure" Damien said. Slick was right, hazel eyes, gorgeous ones at that.

"Where's Roger?" Katz asked impatiently, while Slick was mentally chiding herself for the thoughts running through her head.

Damien turned his attention back to Katz, "I'll get 'im for ya, he's back talking ta the otha girls, or maybe it's jus' Alexia, I don' know." Katz just shook her head and ushered Damien off.

Slick watched his retreating back, and heard Katz start snickering behind her, "What?!"

"Don' 'What?!' me, I know exactly what's running through that brain a yers. 'E may be good looking, but under all that 'e's nothin but a pain in da ass that needs a good soakin' from yers truly." Slick laughed.

"Katz?"

Katz turned around at the sound of her name, coming in the door was a young tanned girl. Her shoulder length brown hair streaked with red highlights shining in the sunlight from the open door, ice blue eyes finished off her 5'3" complexion. "Heyya Emotions, how's it goin' girl?" the girl walked up and pulled Katz into a quick hug, before turning her curious eyes to Slick.

"Hey." Emotions greeted Slick.

Katz grinned, "Sierra this is Annabelle, known as Anna or Emotions. Anna this is Sierra also known as Slick."

Slick cringed at the sound of Slick, and hoped the girl wouldn't burst into questions about her already acquired "Newsie Name". She didn't but instead held her hand out with a big smile.

"Pleased ta meet ya Slick." Emotions said with a welcoming smile

Katz grinned, looking happy with herself, the look turned into a more serious one as Damien came walking up leading an older version of himself. "Hello Mr. Salvatore."

The man looked at Katelin with amusement in his eyes. "You never call me that Katelin."

She smiled, "Hey Roger."

"That's better. So who's this?" Roger asked looking at Slick with interested eyes.

"Uhm, this is Sierra Rylan, I was wonderin if you were in the need of more waitresses or stagehands or somethin'" Katz said quickly.

Roger studied Sierra, before smiling, "I'm sure we can work something out Sierra, my name's Roger Salvatore, I own this place, I'd prefer it if ya'd call me Roger, as you can see." He said, gesturing back to Katelin. Slick tried to smile through her nervousness. Roger laughed, "I don' believe everyone is coming tonight, so Katelin, jus' start her on waitressing with you, Alexia is performing, Anna? You wanna do an act tonight?"

Annabelle's eyes got huge, "Um............lemme think about it?" She asked.

Roger nodded. "When Hayley gets here send her into the back, I need to talk to her." Damien started snickering at the name of the hyper girll, but Emotions and Katz quickly backed up their absent friend with glares in his direction.

"Alright." Katz said, and motioned for Sierra to follow her, "I gotta show ya the ropes before the evening crowd gets 'ere."

A/N: Lets see if we can get my reviews back up to 200+ ok??? Cause I really miss them!! Hope you enjoyed…