An Unwanted Reunion
by Spadey
DISCLAIMER:I dont know newsies. and i dont know any one that owns any of the rights to it. I am not part of Disney...too bad.I do own Duke and Griffin.
A/N:Please realize this takes place in the year 1905, six years after the strike. If you dont you'll be lost.
Chapter 1. Not So Friendly Fire
Slowly, the think black cloud tumbled into the room sighlently. Under the door and through the tiny cracks it squeezed its way in without making a noise. The smoke poured over the wooden floor and dissipated into the air making a grey haze. It twisted around the legs of the rickety bunks and over dozenes of slumbering bodies. It started to come in thinker and thinker, now compleatly aroudn the rim of the door. The smoke had claimed the dark bunkroom and accumulated thinker and thicker.
Giggles came form the fire escape as Griffin kissed his girlfriends nose again. He playfully grabbed the sash around her waste and she replyed with another giggle. She sifted her had through Griffin's curly brown locks as she stole a kiss.
Griffin grinned and kissed her again while taking a deep breath. His eyes flung open and he pulled away. The girl stared at him, confuffused.
"Whats the matter?" She asked watching him.
He put his finger over her mouth "Shh. Be quite for a minute.."He looked around rather uneasy and took a deep breath. "Smoke. do ya smell it?"
The young girl sniffed the air once. twice. She nodded and let go of him. "Yes.." Griffin ran over to the window that led into the bunkroom. The moonlight was dim and he fumbled a bit to find the latch. His fingers felt the cool metal peice and he flung the window up, and let out a caugh as a black cloud flew at his face. "Stay there." He crawled into the room caughing as he breathed the unpure air, the room was hazy, yet no one had woken up.
Griffin ran across teh room and pulled the hall door open. smoke poured in rabidly and he slammed it back shut. "FIRE! GET UP YA DUMB ASSES!" HE started to screem slapping peoples feet, shoving, punching, anything to get them up.
People sat un drowsy but with one wiff of the oder they sprang out of their beds in sheer panic screeming and pulliung on shoes, pants, gathering belongings and running to the fire escape lines windows. There was sheer panic as they all tryed to clamber out to safty. The littler boys were crying, the older ones cussing.
Slowly the boys made there way onto the fire escape. It was the fire escape they had used for everything but its actual purpose- until now. On the street they had assembled into a pathetic group, surrounded by curious neighbors, hobos, and other people of the night. They all watched horrifyed as the lodging house was engulfed in flames.
Some of the boys sat on the ground in awe as they watched there house fall down. A little boy in his undergarments started to cry histericaly calling out for his lucky hat he had left behind.
Griffin brushed the sweat from his forehead, he was overwhelmed. His girlfriend was doing all the crying for herself and him as he just looked around at the crowd that hat assembled to watch the flames.
"Griff.." Duke placed his hand on his friends shoulder. He was a tall rather stout boy topped off with blonde hair that poked out from under his derby and covered his eyes. Griffin turn his head and raised an eyebrow.
"Is everyone out?" Duke asked in a concerned tone.
Griffin eyed his friend, noticing now he was absent of a shirt and missing a boot. "Poor guy didnt get a damn chance ta get 'is clothin'.." Griffin thought before he spoke, "I dunno. Its impossible ta count wit out da ledger. We dunno how many hadden't come in for tanight.." Duke nodded and looked at all the newsies scattered about.
"I dont see one person I know was 'ere though.." Griffin turned around looking at Duke whos face had compleatly fallen into a horrifyed expression. "Wheres Kloppman...?"
Griffin gasped and started to search the crowed frantically. Duke frowned saddly at the lodging house and began siffting the crowd in hopes to hind his old friend Kloppman. The fire wagons arrived about the same time and began pumping water on to the building. The street was compleatly lit now from the flames which had now engulfed the second floor and were spreading to the neighboring building. The newsies started on, shivers climbing up their spines, as they watched their home crumble.
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A/N:dun dun dun suspense! anyways dont worry movie characters WILL show up in the next chapter