Shock and Disbelief

The Very Clichéd Story by GinnyJake

Extended Summary: By some amazing twist of fate, 4 newsies end up in the driveway of disgruntled fanfic writer, Kate Harrison. Kate and her fellow writers must find a way to send them back through time and space back to the New York they know. In the process, the newsies teach Kate a lot about not being so cold hearted. This is not… I repeat not… a romance! *Shudders. * Shock and Disbelief features Spot, David, Racetrack, Kid Blink, and some actual people who don't realize that by writing them into this fic, I am also stealing their souls.

Prolouge

"What are you doing?" Kate asked the girl behind her.

"Shh…" Elisabeth said still staring at the computer screen, "I'm trying to read."

"Well stop it!" Kate pushed the shorter girl away from her desk, "I'm not done writing it." Elisabeth rolled her eyes and muttered something to the effect of, It was too cliched anyway.

"I heard that!" Kate paused as she realized something, "Why are you in my house?"

"I don't know, but I don't like your new fanfic. Your obession with Newsies is really coming out in you HP fics. Why don't you just write a Newsies fic?" Kate shrugged. "You can borrow my muse."

"I don't want your muse, Turtle. For one, I'm not too big on guys in metal suits or bounty hunters. Second of all, I don't write Star Wars fanfiction."

"Oh, that's right. Are we going to Mindy's or what?"

"We were going to Mindy's?"

"Tonight's the third progressive dinner attempt. It was your idea. It was also your idea to invite the guys this time."

"How many people are coming?" Kate asked, "She looked in the fridge for the fruit she was in charge of preparing. It was sitting all fancy-like in an orange bowl on the bottom shelf.

"Well there was 16 people, but 4 of the guys dropped out at the last minute. Mindy called me and told me to invite some people to replace them, but it was too short of notice for my home-school friends." Kate grabbed her cell phone and car keys from the hook on her wall and headed out the door.

When she was downstairs, she paused to look out one of the tall, skinny windows that framed the front door. She saw Beth standing out next to the blue Lumina she drove.

"Hey, Katie!" She motioned for Liz and Kate to come stand by her. She lowered her voice, "Not to scare you, Kate, but there are four very scurvy guys standing by your car."

"What is the deal with guys and cars?" Kate asked. "You know what, I'll go ask." Little did she know what she was getting into.

A/N: I know it's short. I meant it to be. I didn't want the newises in the prologue. R/R.