Disclaimer- I don't own Newsies, Disney does so don't bother suing me.
This is the 2nd story in the Les series. I'm doing all these Les stories because there isn't enough Les fiction out there. Yes he does get into trouble again like in what a pest. Read that one first, this is the 2nd story. This one is all in Les' point of view.
"Yikes, I now know not to mess with Race's stuff anymore. If only I wasn't dumb enough to not put it away when I heard them coming. That would have saved me a lot of pain. I never thought that I would ever be spanked. Well Race certainly did. He knew it was my first time, why did he use a ruler? And of course my friends snipe shooter and Jack will be making fun of me... Oh well, I was stupid, I got punished and I deserve it. I dunno why but I feel like ticking David off gain. This time I'm not going to get caught though... at least I hope."
Les goes to Tibbys to come up with some mischievous thing he can do to David.
Back to Les
"Okay now I know what I'm going to do. I'm gonna write a letter saying I have run away. That will scare him. Oh wait I have to get my hat cause I take it everywhere and if I left it at home he'd know it was a prank."
Several hours later David arrives home from the lodging house where he and Les had been visiting the other newsies. Switch to David's POV
"Mom, come here fast you wont believe this! Les left a note saying he ran away!" Mrs. Jacobs tells him not to worry and to go get the other news boys to look for him.
The rest of this isn't in a POV
David, Jack, Race, and the rest go looking for Les. Race said that this was his fault. David asked why and Race said it was because he had spanked him. "I doubt it, he's got to be here somewhere." Replied David. Jack suggested they try Brooklyn because he might have gone to find Spot. Sure enough Les was there with Spot. Les screamed when he saw them. He tried to run but David shouted at Spot to grab him. Spot caught him and asked what this was all about. Dave explained it all to him.
Spot turned Les over to Dave. Les panicked and started to make excuses. "Dave, please, it was a joke, and I wasn't running away! I swear." David answered him "I don't give a damn, sure I believe you but that's the second time in 4 hours that you have gotten in trouble. Clearly when Race punished you, you didn't get the message. Lets go home!"
Back at the Jacobs residence.
David told his mother what happened. He told her about what happened earlier with Race. She agreed that he needed to be punished again. David said he didn't want to hurt his brother so he would have Jack deal with him. Les at this point was crying again. He begged for mercy from his mother and David. They didn't seem to care.
Back at the lodging house. No particular POV
"Hey Jack can you come here a second?" asked David. "Sure, whadya need me fa? "Well I don't want to punish Les myself, can you?" "uh... sure how should I? "I think an even worse beating is gonna be necessary." "Alright" Jack said. "I think a belting is what it's in order here." Les then chimed in "Please, don't hurt me, David why are you letting him? I don't wanna get beaten again!" Jack then dragged a crying Les into the washroom.
The next part here is a vivid description of Les' belting.
Jack picked him up and explained to him that he wouldn't be mad at him forever. Les resisted when Jack told him how to get in position. Jack called in Race and Skittery to hold him against the sink in the room. Les began to cry really hard. Race pulled Les' pants down causing him to cry harder. With that Jack began to belt him about 45 times. As each lick came down Les howled and yelled louder and louder. When Jack was finished Les' butt was redder than a British Red Coat's jacket. With that they let him go. Les cried for around two hours. Mrs. Jacobs, David, Jack, Race, and Skittery all came to tell him that they forgave him and said that maybe they were to hard on him. Les tearfully apologized and with that they all let it go.