Sorry it took me so long to update. I was out all weekend long. This chapter isn't one of my best's but I still enjoyed it. I couldn't come up with anything to write for it so I decided to use this as the time to bring in one of my evil characters. Well I hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything from the Newsies movie. I wish I did, but I sadly don't. So I will just have to stick with my character, Hanna. Who belongs entirely to me.

Chapter thirteen

Me and Booker sat out on the dock for what seemed like hours before some of the newsies started returning from the morning sale. They starred at me strangely and I began to feel rather uncomfortable and wished I was back in the Lodging House with Racetrack and Spot. I just acted calm as we made our way back to the building. But before we reached the end of the dock I heard a snarling voice from behind me.

"Well, what do we have here?"

I turned around quickly and was starring at the chest of a kid about four inches taller than myself. He had dark black hair and hazel eyes that were boring holes into me. I never thought I would meet someone who scared me more than Spot did, but this kid topped the ladder. He had brown pants on and a blue checkered shirt that was two times to small. Feeling extremely frightened I backed up into another boy who was standing behind me.

"Aren't you a pretty little thing," Said the scary boy to his right as he began walking closer to me.

"Leave her alone, Blade!" Booker said sternly to the bigger kid, stepping in front of me. I thought it was very brave of John considering he was no match for the other boys.

"Why? Is she your girlfriend?"

"No," Booker replied but still remained standing between me and the kid.

"Well in that case, move out of the way." Blade said and with great ease shoved Booker off to the side. He grabbed my arms tightly and pulled me closer to him. His hands were digging into the bruises left from the night of the party and his breath smelled like rotten milk. I turned my head away when he began to talk and crinkled my nose in discussed.

"Your that girl Spots always complaining about," he said and a few of the boys nodded there heads. "Ya know, it's a bad idea to be walking around here all alone. Ya might just get hurt."

But I heard footsteps behind me and Blades grip loosened slightly. "She aint alone," It was Racetrack. Yet I was sad to see that Spot wasn't with him.

"So Race, I see this little goil here is one of your friends." He said nastily into my ear as he stood behind me.

"Yeah, so leave her alone!" Race replied and I seen the flash in his eyes that rarely appeared. Only when he was pushed to a certain limit.

"Oh yeah Higgins? Well what are ya gunna do to stop me?" Blade asked as he pulled me over closer to the edge of the dock.

"Just let her go Blade," Race said stepping closer to us. "I'm not gunna fight ya over dis. She ain't done nothing to ya."

"Well alright." Blade said as he let me go. But my blood began to run cold as I felt his hands on my back. " As you wish," Then I screamed as he shoved me forward and I fell off the side of the dock. I watched as the cold water engulfed me. Since my mouth was opened when I screamed I didn't have time to take a breath. But the thing that scared me the most was that I never learned how to swim. I kicked my feet and swung my arms frantically as I starred at the air above me. But no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get there.

My head broke the surface once for a second and I tried to breath in but the corset I was wearing was making it difficult. I could hear Race scream down my name but I couldn't respond. I guess Spot had come out of the lodging house to see what all of the commotion was about and arrived just in time to see Blade knock me into the river.

I began choking on the water that was filling my lungs and my head felt like it was caving in from the pressure. Soon I became extremely tired and couldn't kick anymore. So I just floated there for a few moments before someone jumped in and pulled me to the surface. I was only slightly conscious as he laid me on the dock. Yet I still had enough strength to roll over and I began coughing up river water. I had never been so happy to breath in all of my seventeen years.

When I rolled back over onto my back Racetrack was starring down into my eyes as he kneeled beside me. "Are you alright?" he asked urgently as he helped me sit up.

I couldn't talk just yet so I nodded my head. I glared up at Blade who was standing above me dripping in water. He had obviously been the one forced to jump in and save me. Then I looked over at Spot who was pacing back and forth, clenching his fist's.

Then he stopped and turned to Blade. His voice was dangerously low as he battled to control his anger. " Are you out of your mind?"

"No," was all he said.

"Ya just don't go snatchin up any person that walks around here and do what ya wan't ta them. Doll didn't do nuttin to deserve dat. Ya coulda killed er' or sumthin. Can't ya ever just think?" Spots eyes were ice cold and sent shivers down my spine as he starred daggers at the large boy in front of him. Even though he was far larger in size, Blade backed off slightly. He wouldn't dare stand up to Spot with the rest of the Brooklyn newsies around.

"What do ya care? Ya don't even like her." Blade retorted angrily.

" I care dat you think it's your right to say who is aloud to be here and who isn't. Hanna was here with Racetrack on important business from Manhattan and I don't appreciate you treatin my guest's like trash. So next time ya feel like exerting your frustrations on someone I suggest ya talk to me about it first. Got dat!" Blade clenched his teeth together tightly and kept his mouth shut as he nodded his head in agreement. I knew it must have killed him to keep quiet. But it was in his best interest if he did. "Now go somewhere and I don't wanna see ya around here till dark."

Blade turned his head and starred down at me. I starred back with a hidden rage boiling in my stomach. Then he turned around and walked into the streets of Brooklyn. Spot looked at him as he departed and then turned to me. To my surprise he reached out his hand to help me up. A warm feeling of contentment and gratitude lingered in my very skin as our hands touched and I got to my feet. "Thanks," I mumbled quietly because my lungs still burned from lack of air.

"Sorry about him. Blade isn't the most friendly of characters." Spot said as he shook his head and laughed. His eyes were less cold as he starred at me. The anger was gone and he was back to being plain old Spot.

"It's fine," I choked out. I shivered and wrapped my arms around my chest as the wind began to blow cold air up from the banks of the river.

"I think its best if we get back ta Manhattan. Before Jack sends out some boys ta come lookin for us. He expected us back an hours ago." Racetrack said and he put his hand on my back and led me forward.

Spot nodded his head, "Yeah I guess ya right. Tell Jackyboy we need ta get togetha sometime to discuss certain things. Oh and Dollface, da next time ya stop by I'll make sure dat your treated decently. We all aint as bad as ya think."

I just shrugged my shoulders, "That's if there is a next time."

Some of the boys around us just laughed and shook there heads. "Aw, come on. Ya can't let Blade scare ya off."

"I'm not scared of him! Is that what you think?" I asked as I looked around and a few boys nodded.

"I just don't feel like dealing with a bunch of self-centered arrogant fools who think its funny to throw me in a freezing cold river whenever they feel like it!" I yelled angrily. "Ever since I stepped foot into this god forsaken neighborhood there has been nothing but trouble for me."

"The only thing I'm afraid of is the fact that if it wasn't Blade, it would have been any one of you." All of the boys stopped smiling and starred at me. "Because you think the same exact way as he does. That I'm just some hoity toity rich girl who doesn't know the first thing about living on the streets. Well you know what! YOUR RIGHT! But at least I have the satisfaction to say that I tried. I can be proud to know that I gave you people a chance, that I gave this life a chance. Now can any of you say the same thing?" I looked around and all of the young men just starred at the ground but no one answered.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. So there's your answer Spot. The day I come back, is the day they learn some manners. Which by the looks of it, is never going to happen!" With that I turned around and stormed out of Brooklyn. Leaving the newsies disoriented and confused, but thinking about what I had said.

We made it back to the lodging house around a half an hour later. Race tried to talk to me the entire way but I ignored him. "I don't want to talk about it," was all I would say.

But when we were a block from my temporary home, Racetrack grabbed my left wrist to stop me. "Would ya just hold on a second?"
I turned and starred at him questioningly. "Why can't you just leave it alone?" I said. Race just shook his head and gave me the same stern look that I always receive from Jack.

"Because ya gotta know that ya can't keep doing that. Its not good ta upset Spot all da time. Especially now when he aint in da best of moods." Race replied as he let my wrist go.

"Do you think I care what Spot thinks, what any of them think!" Race just laughed.

" I know ya don't care what he thinks. But you have to work on keeping ya mouth shut every once in awhile." I frowned and lowered my head to the ground. When I looked back up at him my green eyes were brimming with tears.

"I can't keep living like this Race. I can't keep pretending like everything is fine when its not. I tried, I really did but no matter how much I keep my mouth shut trouble seems to find me anyway. Because its not me, its everyone else's close-minded opinions of what my life is like that brought me to this point. I can do what you want. Keep my mouth shut and never speak again but ya know what? I can't change the world Race." When I said this a single tear slid down my cheek but I wiped it away quickly. Yet that was all that came because I no longer had any tears to cry or received any satisfaction from it. I turned around and walked into the building that no longer looked comfortable to me. These were the moments when I missed my parents the most.

I walked up the wooden stairs and into the bunk room with Race not far behind. All of the boys starred at my soaking wet appearance and some of them laughed but most of them just starred. I think it was the far away daze in my eyes that disturbed them the most. I wasn't angry or upset, I was just lost. All of the happiness in my eyes seemed to have disappeared and was replaced with hopelessness. I walked past them and into my room. Shutting the door quietly behind me. I took off my wet clothes and changed into something more comfortable. Then I sat down on the edge of my bed and starred out my window. For hours I sat there until finally I became to tired and laid down to sleep.

Thank you to:

Padfootismyhero- Hey! I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter. I know this one wasn't that good but I had to write something for it. So it was kinda just like a filler chapter. But I did bring in an important character. I can't exactly tell you who Hanna is going to end up with. Then there wouldn't be any fun in reading it if you already know how it's going to end. I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks for being a constant reviewer.

NadaZimri- Hey, that's so cool that your birthday is so close to mine. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Lol yeah if only all of us had two guys who adored us. Wouldn't the world be so perfect. Well considering that would only happen in my dreams I think I will stick to just writing about it in a story. Well I hope to hear from you soon.

Splashey- Hey, its ok that you didn't review till later, really. I don't expect everyone to review every single chapter. Although that would make me extremely happy. Well I'm glad you liked this chapter. Yeah I like Bookers character also. He's like the complete opposite of Spot. That's why I put him in there. Like Spots wild and sort of dangerous. Booker is calm and reserved. Which one she will choose in the end, I do not know. Ok well I do, but I'm not gunna tell you. You will just have to read and see.

Lena-Jade- I'm glad you liked the chapter and I hope you enjoy this one also.

Luv ya lots,

BlackWiltedRose