Hello and welcome to my very first fanfic! Well, the first one I've ever decided to show anyone, anyway. Like it says in the description, this is just a bunch of things from one-word prompts from a big list I made. Most of these will probably be pretty short, because most things I write are. Anyway, enjoy, and please read the notes at the bottom!

Objective: not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased

Jack Kelly doesn't look at things objectively.

There's this thought experiment, or moral dilemma, that Davey's heard before – it's really quite interesting. It goes like this: imagine there is a trolley that is heading towards a split in the tracks, and you are the one in charge of changing them. Right now, it's traveling towards a pair of people who have no time to move out of the way. However, you can make the decision to pull the lever that switches the tracks, sending the trolley down a path where only one person stands. What do you do?

It's easy, right? Two lives take priority over one; everybody you ask will make the same choice.

The second question is where it gets interesting.

You're in the same scenario, but this time, the single person that stands on the second path is someone you care about. A friend, a family member – someone you love.

What do you do?

Here, people pause. Do they do the noble thing, or the selfish one? Many will tell you that they would sacrifice a loved one, but there's no way to know if they're telling the truth. Maybe they do believe they would. Really, though, everything changes in the heat of the moment; the only way to find out what choice you would make is to live through the situation.

But Davey has a feeling Jack would let two strangers meet their doom. Jack doesn't let his emotions rule his life, but they definitely affect him. According to the other newsies, the disappearing act he pulled during the strike was something of a regular occurrence; Buttons even said that once, he been gone long enough for everyone to seriously wonder whether he'd abandoned them for Santa Fe.

But he hasn't.

That's the thing. Jack hasn't left the newsies, the odd collection of people that make up a sort of family. Instead, Jack has stolen clothes and food for those boys and girls, continued to steal clothes and food even after being caught and locked up in the Refuge multiple times. He's made sure everyone has a place to sleep, he's brought kids from dirty alleyways and rotting rooftops to the lodging house, he's made sure no one who messes with his boys ever gets away with it. Davey has seen what Jack's love looks like and drawn the conclusion that no, he would not sacrifice someone he loved for the lives of two, three, hell, who knows how many people.

However, he cannot say Jack would make the selfish choice.

Can one really fault a person for sparing someone not because they don't want to lose them, but because they know that person's story, their habits, what they're most afraid of, what they value, and all the other things that make them who they are? Can Davey really resent Jack for leaving that lever where it is not for his own sake, but for that of the person standing on the tracks?

No. It makes him feel guilty, and part of him wishes he could, but no, he could not. Even if they don't always live by correct logical morality, maybe people like Jack aren't bad, not really.

Jack Kelly doesn't look at things objectively, and that's what makes him amazing.

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