I don't own the Newsies (I only own Ryan/Jester, Linda/Sunshine, Skunk, Mouth, and a few others I can't think of now

Ch 1- A little bit of Train Station Trouble



Jack wondered what Spot Colon's daughter would be like. He'd heard stories from former Newsies and they said he was a tough guy, one to be respected if he was your friend and one to be feared if he was your enemy. He whistled a little tune as he walked down the streets of New York City, saying hi to his friends, other Newsies, that were working that day. Ryan was lucky, his Dad, the infamous Jack Kelly, the Manhattan leader, retired from being a Newsie and now the owner of Tibby's. His uncle David worked there as well. So Ryan could afford to take the day off when he wanted and run errands for Cowboy. As he neared the train station he heard rather than saw the commotion and went to check it out. A girl about 5'3" shoved her fist into the boy in front of her, who was at least 6'3". Another boy, equally as big, grabbed her in a bear hug from behind. A string of curses came out of the girls mouth so fast that he could barely understand them. As the first boy recovered from the punch she gave him, Ryan could see that it was Jack and Jake, the twin terrors of the kids of New York. Ryan was the only one they were afraid of (he'd had to teach them that the hard way). Jack noticed him coming first and put the girl down. He looked suddenly nervous.

"Hiya, Ryan" he said, massaging his knee where the girl had just hit it.

"I told you to leave people alone. Do I have to teach you two another lesson?" hen asked as he helped the girl to her feet. To his utter surprise she launched herself at the biggest one, and tackled him to the ground. She punched him in the face and started rummaging around in his coat pockets. She grabbed something out of his inner pocket and smiled. She got off of him and turned to face Ryan. He just looked at her stupidly. He had never seen a girl do that before,it was obvious that she didn't need anybody's help. He shook himself out of his stupor and put out his hand

"The name's Ryan, Ryan Kelly"

"Nice to meet ya'. I'm Linda Colon" she replied, shaking his hand. He smiled and looked at her face. There was a nice shiner coming up on her left eye. He put his hand under her chin and tilted her head up. She instinctively pushed his hand away.

"You are most definitely Spot Colon's daughter, at least from what I've heard." She replied, liking her more and more.

"Cocky, good looking, patriarchal. You are Jack Kelly's son, from what I hear," she answered, smirking.

"Why were you tanglin' with the Twins anyway?

"The ox stole my money. I wanted to get it back. Plus they were making me an offer I had to refuse." She said, putting her change purse back into her pocket.

"I expect you want to get to the lodging house, or if your hungry we can go to my dad's restaurant to eat."

"I'm starving. I haven't had anything to eat since lunch yesterday." With that they each grabbed one of her bags and made their way down the street to Tibby's.