A/N: another chapter up! Yay! Ok thanks for the reviews amazing-moth and AthenaHunteress: you guys are great! This chapter is the last one that contains anything used in Smarts and Dodger…so it's gone completely independent! Yay, again!

Chapter Six

The next morning Cat woke up to the rattling of a can. She looked up and spotted the girl from the night before, the one they had met the first day. Both she and Mouse were suddenly awake and alert.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Cat asked, defensively.

"I'm just looking for a place to be alone," the girl said sullenly. "Hey, you're the girls Spot and Jack were talking about last night."

"They were talking about us?" Cat asked, already knowing the truth.

"Yeah, you guys are poaching on Spot's territory."

"Who's Spot?"

"He's the leader of the Brooklyn newsies."

"So, he's your boss?" Cat said trying to milk information out of the girl.

"No, I'm a Manhattan newsie. Jack is the leader of the Manhattan newsies," the girl explained.

"Well, then why are you here, if you don't live here?"

"Brooklyn hosted an all-night poker game. Everyone stays here afterwards and then gets up and goes selling in their own neighborhood. In fact I better go back down and see if the boys are ready to go. Do you guys want to come?"

"Uh, no, but can you do us a favor?" Cat asked bringing out her sugary sweet voice.

"Sure, what?"

"Don't tell anyone you saw us, okay?"

"Okay, but why?"

"Well, we don't want anyone to know we're here. Now you better hurry before those boys leave you behind," Cat jumped in to stop any more questions.

"Yeah I better go, bye."

"Bye," she said with a sigh. Then turning to her silent friend she added. "That was close. We better get out of here, before anyone else finds us."

With that the two of them hopped onto the fire escape and climbed down. They disappeared into the city.

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Later that afternoon they had just finished selling their afternoon papers when the newsie they had met their first day of selling came up. He was once again holding a large amount of papers.

"What do you want?" Cat asked with a sneer.

"I don't know what you girls did to or with Spot to get him to let you sell here, but it worked. Don't think it'll hold though. Spot gets tired of his girls pretty quick and then you'll have to go peddle wares elsewhere. Both your papes and your slightly more used ones as well," the boy said with a sneer.

Cat said two words that rhyme with pluck ewe and Mouse gave him the appropriate hand gesture. He glared at them and continued on his way.

Cat looked at Mouse and told her, "That's the first time I've been accused of having sex with someone I've never met, how about you?"

"Yep," Mouse replied.



A/N: okay that's the end of this chapter…now get out there and review…I live for reviews!

Another thing I want to know if you guys (aka my readers) want this fic to turn romantic…I'm not sure if it's leading in that direction or not, so tell me if you think there is room for romance in this fic…I want your input