New York Rebellion
By: PrinceOfNewYork
Chapter 10: Ya Quick Ain't Cha?
Summary: When faced with power, the little people have been known to commonly back down. But when one person has an idea, and has the power to get everyone involved great things can happen. How will giants fair when the little people fight as one?
Disclaimer: A lot of these are original newsies, created by yours truly. However, several are from the movie as well. If you don't know which ones those are, go watch the movie, or simply ask me.
A/N: This is the sequel to my first shot at a Newsie fic, but Prince is my main character, and my absolute favorite as well. Besides, I couldn't just end my first story where I did without having a sequel, that wouldn't be fair at all. So, thank you in advance to all who read this!
I did borrow the characters of Rylet, and Frankie from a fellow author of mine: Oberon O'Neil who has an account on this site under that name, and is also known as Jester. So, if you're interested in this character go to her for info, and thanks to her for loaning him to me!
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The boys were up again the next morning, and back at the Distribution Apparatus rejoined by Dave, Les, and also Jack, who had slept at Dave's that night, after the near encounter with Snyder. The destruction of the morning was sufficient, and lost not time getting right to work destroying papers. The usual resistance was formed, a few workers, if they were up to it, the Delancey's, until they were beaten, and chased back behind the counter. The only casualties of the affair were a few signs made the previous night, which simply got left behind.
After they finished the destruction of the morning edition without major event, they started making plans for the rest of their day. They decided that the… "Ambastards" would need to go back to the other areas of New York. Except for Queens and Brooklyn. Prince and Spot would simply go home and alert the others of the current happenings, and the rally that was scheduled for that night. Though they didn't imagine it would be too hard to convince any of them, especially Brooklyn and Queens, so they decided to simply take the afternoon off, and attempt to stay out of trouble.
Those who were staying behind decided that they'd try to play a full game of baseball again. Some of the Queens and Brooklyn boys wanted to join in, to which Prince and Spot didn't object. So the boys were added to the teams to make them even and fair while Spot and a couple boys went back to Brooklyn to deliver the news of the rally. It seemed that Prince would have some time to herself, if she wanted it, which she most defiantly did. She knew that they would have plenty of time to get to Queens, and convincing Avalanche, and all the other boys to come would most certainly be a simple task. She saw no point to hurry, and with all of the boys outside, she decided this was a great time to relax.
Prince made sure that every last one of them was outside before she snuck up the stairs and into the bathroom, picking up a clean towel on her way. She made her way to the washroom and started to draw herself a bath. She looked around the cupboards, and found some soap and shampoo. She sat them by the tub, and went over to the window.
The boys seemed content, and no windows were broken… yet. She smiled down at them a little before she left the window sill deserted again. No one knew she was inside, except for Wit who promised to keep an eye on the door, and warn her should there be a potential issue.
Prince made her way back over to the tub and kept her clothes close by, just incase. She was glad to be able to physically and metaphorically let her hair down, if just for a few minutes. She got into the tub and relished in the slightly warm water for a moment before she laid herself down in the water, and started to hum to herself. While her hair and ears were under water there was a knock at the door. Apparently Wit had missed someone going in the front door. However, between the humming and the water muffling the sounds in the room she didn't hear it. Another knock came but she didn't hear it either. She surfaced long enough to put the shampoo in her hair, then closed her eyes, and went under once more.
The person at the door knocked once again, after her ears were under water. The knocker then opened the door and peeked inside. "Hello?" a boy with dark hair and clear blue eyes peered in the door.
"Prince?" he said again. He slowly walked towards the tub, and why not? Nothing he hasn't seen before, or so he thought. Besides, you lose a lot of shyness living in a lodging house with one or two rooms made for all the lodgers to live in, and very little privacy. So, the boy saw no problems doing this.
"Ummm…are you Prince?" the boy asked. Prince heard him, since he was right beside the tub, and her eyes shot hopen. Though she didn't understand what he said.
She wondered how he didn't notice, and she looked down and saw that the top of the tub had a thin layer of soap bubbles, hiding her body. She was trapped. She lifted her head, just enough to get her ears out to hear him, and keep her hair hidden in the water. "Come again?" she asked in a deep voice.
"You're Prince, right?" She nodded slowly. "I'm Rylet! Frankie probably told you about me. Said he would. Anyway, I really appreciate ya givin' me a place to stay for a bit. Ya won't have any problems, swear it."
"Rylet was it?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, Rylet… ummm… can we continue this later? I wanna finish up here… ya know?"
"Oh! Right! Um, sorry! I'll go then! Thanks, again," Rylet said and then disappeared out the door.
Prince heaved a sigh of relief and let her muscles relax. Though she knew she had better get out, and meet this guy properly. She pulled herself so she was standing in the water. She made her way out of the tub, and took hold of her towel.
"Oh, and Prince?"
Prince jumped and shouted loudly out of surprise as Rylet reentered the room. But Rylet was able to see enough before she could pull the towel around herself. So much for her secret. And all Rylet could do was stand and stare in awe.
"What?!?" she said loudly and angrily in her normal pitch. Even if he had missed her figure, her hair was a dead give away.'
"You're… you're a… a…"
"A girl?! Ya quick ain't cha?"
"I'm sor-"
"Sorry, I know," she rolled her eyes."
"But I mean… you… you were… wow, you're good," he said rather impressed with her ability to keep such a secret a secret.
"Gee, thanks," she said sarcastically.
"I mean… wow, it's just-"
"Rylet! I hate ta do this to ya, but… can we continue this when I'm… oh… dressed?" Right now she still had the towel wrapped around her shoulders.
"Oh! God! Yeah! I'm sorry! I'll wait… out here," he said instantly looking away and feeling very embarrassed all of a sudden. He looked away, waved sort of, and then left even faster than he had before.
Prince rolled her eyes and sighed at the young boy's silliness. She then started to get dressed, drying her hair the best she could.
A few minutes later she opened the door, and found Rylet sitting on the top stair. When he heard her coming he stood up and smiled at her apologetically. He opened his mouth to speak, but she beat him to it.
"Hold on," she said in a low pitch once again, just incase any others were still around. "Before ya say anything don't apologize again." Rylet closed his mouth. Prince put her voice at a quieter volume, and spoke in normal pitch once more. "And ta answer ya questions right off… Yes, the Queens boys know. No, no one outside of Queens has any idea. My past is none of your concern. I dress and act like a boy mostly because people respect them more. Only the owner of the Queens lodging house knows I'm a girl, and no other adults. Any other questions?"
Rylet thought about it, he wanted to be sure, and he was still a bit speechless both from the shock, and the overwhelming amount of information. "Can I tell anyone else?" he asked. He knew the answer, but wanted to be sure.
"No, if they are not from Queens, do not discuss this with them. Watch when ya talk about it too. Better yet, don't talk about it at all. I'll tell the boys you know, so if they approach you, don't worry."
"One more question. Don't cha wanna be a girl?"
Prince had to think about that for a moment. Her only answer was, "For me, it's not an option." Not the best answer, but it was all he was going to get out of her.
Prince then decided she needed a topic change. "Look, I gotta go to Queens. You wanna come along? Grab ya stuff, get settled, find a bunk or somethin'? I mean Wit's comin' along too."
He nodded. "Sure, not really much for baseball anyway." Rylet went to the bunk room and grabbed anything that he had with him, put it in a bag, then he and Prince headed towards the door.
"Alright, then all we gotta do is get Wit, and we'll get goin'." She tucked a loose piece of hair up in her hat, and went down the stairs.
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Ah! I'm sorry for the late update. Due to the busy weekend, and some other things that happened I haven't even been on the computer since Saturday. However, the next update will be here on friday, I hope. I can't promise it I suppose, but I will try to get it up as close to Friday as I can. So I will... hopefully, see you all on Friday! Oh, if you ahve a second, drop a review in. Thanks in advance. Later!