A/N-so yesterday I have no school. . . cause it rained. . . oooook. I think our school board is on crack or something. I mean really! So, while I was enjoying my rainy day off I wrote chapter fourteen too and that makes me happy! And in history we're starting the industrial revolution. I think I'm gonna ask my teacher if we can learn about the newsie strike, and possibly watch newsies. . . hehehe. Anywho, here's the next chapter!(wow, I'm on chapter thirteen! This kicks ass!)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: IL PUGNO NERO

Aurora woke up, still in Reffy's arms, surprised she hadn't been awaken by Spot. Ever so gently she tried to pull herself out of Reffy's grip but had no such luck.

"Wha?" he asked groggily as he began to stir.

"Nothin" she replied, almost in a gentle manner. "It's just me."

"Oh" a smile crept over Reffy's lips before he opened his eyes. "Well den, good mornin."

"Mornin" Aurora stifled a yawn and then stood up.

"Wheah ah you'se goin?" Reffy asked, also standing up. "We have ta sell."

"Do we gotta?" Aurora whined, looking through her pillow case.

"Of coise we gotta."

"I don feel like sellin taday."

"Well it's da only way ta live" he explained bluntly. "We don have much of a choice.

"I got some money" Aurora said after pulling some clothes out of the pillow case along with a brown leather wallet that clearly wasn't hers. "We'll be fine if we don sell taday" Reffy's jaw dropped and Aurora shrugged. "I'll be back" she departed for the washroom, leaning Reffy still standing in shock.

Aurora emerged about ten minutes later, in different clothes and her hair pulled off her face, into a messy bun.

"Wheah ah we'se goin?" Reffy asked as he followed Aurora out of the warehouse, into the bright morning light.

"Who knows."

"Not one foah plans, ah we?"

"I'm a thief" Aurora pointed out, turning right down a street. "I nevah plan things. I take life as it comes" Reffy nodded, still a little dazed.

"What have I gotten myself inta?" he muttered and Aurora rolled her eyes.

"I'm not as bad as I seem" she said, patting him lightly on the hand.

"I shoah hope so" he joked with a slight laugh. They continued walking for some time, in a part of Brooklyn that Reffy was a complete stranger to but Aurora was obviously quite familiar with.

"Black Fist's territory" Aurora explained, noticing the lost look on Reffy's face.

"Black. . . Black Fist?" he stammered out, almost in fear. Black Fist was one of the more well known and feared street gangs in Brooklyn and it was common knowledge to stay clear of them unless in was unavoidable, or you were one of them.

"Yeah" Aurora shrugged like it was no big deal. "Stay wit me. Dey know me heah, I got free passage in theah territory."

"Ah you'se on of dem?"

"No" Aurora said a bit too quickly, turning on Reffy. "And don't you'se evah say anythin stupid like dat again" Reffy nodded hesitantly, getting the feeling that she wasn't completely telling the truth.

"Bandit" a voice hissed from the shadows of an alley. Aurora stopped, and Reffy did too. Two surprisingly bright blue eyes were visible in the darkness and Aurora sighed.

"Whadda ya want?" she spat.

"We gotta talk" a small boy, not yet twelve, stepped out of the shadows. His face was covered with soot as was his sandy blonde hair, which didn't look so blonde at the moment, and his tattered clothes were also covered. He eyed Reffy. "Alone."

"'Scuse me" she said to Reffy before stepping into the alley with the boy. "What Loot?"

"I was jus talking ta Spring" he began.

"And. . ." Aurora prompted impatiently.

"She told me some interesting stuff" even in the darkness of the alley, Loot could see Aurora raise an eyebrow and he carried on. "Seems dat last night she met up wit some guy named Spot Conlon."

"She what?!?" Aurora exclaimed.

"Yeah, you hoid of him?"

"Yeah" Aurora nodded. "I have."

"Alright" Loot went on with his story, not noticing, or ignoring the rage growing in Aurora. "She said he kissed her, and dat theah was some othah stuff that happened too."

"I'm gonna kill him!" she growled fiercely, the volume of her voice rising. "How dare he touch her! What an asshole! Vado strappare fuori dai suoi capelli e nutre il suo cuore ai cani!" she began in Italian before Loot put a dirty hand lightly on her arm.

"Hang on" he said, cutting her off. "Lemme finish. He kissed her BACK, cause she kissed him foist."

"But why?" Aurora questioned, still enraged.

"I dunno" he shrugged. "She wouldn't say. All she did saw was ta ask you'se/ you'd know."

"Ask me what."

"Y'know, I didn't completely catch what she said" Loot said in an obnoxiously taunting manner causing Aurora to slam him up against the sooty wall of the alley.

"Ya do too know ya lil shit" she growled in his face angrily. "And yoah not gonna play any of yoah lil games wit me."

"Bandit" he choked out. "I don think Fist would like it very much if it got back ta him dat you'd been abusin me."

"When Fist's got a problem, he can come ta me about it" Aurora said forcefully. "Right now, ya need ta tell me EXACTLY what Spring told ya, or else Fist'll have ta pry yoah body from dis wall."

"Ok ok" he relented. "I'll tell, jus let go of me" Aurora took her hands off of Loot and stepped away from him. He stepped away from the wall, brushing his shirt off for no reason.

"Well. . ." Aurora prompted, getting very impatient.

"All I caught was 'bet' and 'Bandit'" he admitted, but it was enough for Aurora.

"I'M GONNA KILL HER!" Aurora screamed in rage. "I'M GONNA KILL HIM! I'M GONNA KILL DEM BOTH!!" Aurora stormed out of the alley and faced a very shocked Reffy, who had just heard her screaming in rage. Without a word she grabbed his hand and began to drag him in the direction of the bridge.

"Wha. . .?" he stuttered as he was dragged. "Wheah ah we goin?"

"We'ah goin ta Manhattan" she growled.

Loot stepped out of the alley, his clothes a bit dirtier than when he first entered, watching Aurora storm off, a smile plastered on his sooty face.

"Fist would shoah pay big bucks ta see her dis angry" he muttered to himself, a light going of in his head as he began to scheme before running off in the other direction, feeling awfully proud of himself.

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Translations-

The title of this chapter is "The Black Fist" and what Aurora screams is "I'm going to rip out his hair and feed his heart to the dogs!"

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