Hello! This is my first Newsies fanfic.So I was thinking and I highly doubt Jack would call his mother 'mother' and decided he would call her 'ma' instead xD. I OWN NOTHING, IF I DID JACK AND DAVID WOULD KISS BECAUSE REASONS.
Two year old Anna giggled as ten year old Francis spun her around in the air.
"More! More!" She squealed, Francis chuckled and kissed her chubby cheeks.
"That's enough for now." He murmured, she snuggled close to him.
"I wuv you." She whispered, placing her hands on his cheeks and kissed his nose.
He smiled and kissed the top of her hair, her short blonde curls tickled his lips.
"Jacky. It's time for her nap." His mother said tiredly. Francis, or Jack as his mother and sister called him, nodded and got up. Anna pouted, and crossed her small arms.
Francis gave his younger sister to his mother, and went outside for a bit while his sister fell asleep.
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When Jack meets David and Les seven years later he is instantly jealous.
That night he cries himself to sleep, he would never admit to anyone, not even to himself.
A month before Anna was supposed to turn three, a fever went around the city.
She didn't make it that week.
Les is about the same age as Anna would be. The relationship between Les and David is about the same as it would with Anna and Jack, at least that's what Jack likes to think.
One day Les isn't with David.
"Where's Les?" Jack asks.
"He's got a bit of a fever." David replies. Jack pales and wipes his mouth nervously.
"He's gonna be alright, right?" Jack questions, a slight tremble in his voice.
"He'll be alright, he was outside last night in the cold for too long. Mother and Sarah are taking care of him." David explains. Jack is still pale and his breathing uneasy.
"Thats... good."
"What's wrong?" David wonders, Jack covered his face with his hands, crying.
David instantly is concerned, he places a hand on Jack's shoulder.
"Jack what's wrong? Les is fine, he-"
"It's ain't Les." Jack chokes out, ashamed at himself for being weak. "My sister got a fever, she died."
David's eyes widen.
"Jack, you never told me you had a sister." David says. Jack takes a shuddering breath and sniffs.
"She would be around the same age as Les. Her name was Anna and she had blonde hair and the prettiest blue eyes in all of New York. Ma was sick a lot and I took care of Anna." Jack smiles slightly at the memory.
David bit his lip.
Tears pool in Jack's eyes and he wiped them away with the back of his hand.
"I held her when she died. She didn't want Ma, she wanted me." His hands were trembling at the memory.
David tried to imagine loosing Les or Sarah, he shuddered at the thought.
"Anyways, I shouldn't be such a wimp about it, ya'know. It happened a long time ago. I probably deserved-"
"Don't say that." David snaps. Jack looks up in surprise. "You didn't deserve that. No one deserves anything like that." David says fiercely.
Jack looks off at nothing, clearly thinking.
"I guess you're right." Jack murmurs, David smiles slightly and pats his friend on the back.
"I always am." David smirks. "And Les will get better." He adds. Jack smiles and they both look to the setting sun on the horizon.