Never Fear, Brooklyn is Here

Ch. 7

As we walked home, I still thought about what Jack had said. Would he really kill Mush if he hurt me? But Mush would never hurt me. I hardly knew him and he seems like the kind of guy that would take care of someone he loved. I whipped my head around because I thought I herd something.

"What was dat?" I asked Spot.

"Nothin'" Spot replied when I herd it again. It sounded like someone running. When all of the sudden someone grabbed me around the waist and ran with me into the nearest alley. Spot turned around and saw that I wasn't there so he looked into the alley where 'they' had put me. I looked up at Spot who looked up at 'them'.

"What do ya want wit her?" Spot asked.

"What do ya think?" Oscar asked.

Spot ran back to the lodging house to get Mush and the other guys, while Oscar and Morris looked at me with a hit of hatred in their eyes.

"What do ya want wit me?" I asked.

"We herd dat ya was goina come live here. We don't like it dat some stupid ass goil is comin' in our area if we can't have her." Morris replied, "So we'se goin' to fix it so no man can have ya." I stood up ready to defend myself when I realized that Oscar was nowhere to be seen. I turned around and Oscar hit me in the stomach. I keeled over in pain. I never hurt so badly in my life. I got up and hit Oscar in the jaw, when Morris came and kicked me in the back, causing me to fall to the ground. Then they both kicked me.

"Not so pretty now are we little miss Brooklyn!" They both yelled at me. I screamed in pain when I thought all hope was lost, I picked up my bruised face to see Mush, Jack, and Spot run into the alley. They soaked them good. I backed into the corner and watched them punch 'them', worse than what they did to me.

"Catwalk! Are ya alright?" Mush asked.

"I'm not sure. I hurt everywhere." I cried to him. Mush then gingerly picked me up and carefully carried me back to the Lodging House, which was 3 blocks away. I moaned as he sped up to try to get me back before I lost too much blood.

"Your gonna be alright, I promise." Mush whispered to me.

"If ya say I will, then I think I will." I quietly tell him. He smiled at me and I knew I was safe.

"Catwalk, what happened?" Jack asked me. I replied him with a moan I didn't even want to relive the moment. I rested my head on Mush's shoulder as we finished the journey to the Lodging House.

"Kloppman! Catwalk's down!" Jack yelled as we walked into the main room.

"What happened?" Kloppman asked.

"We were walkin' back to Brooklyn when we ran into da Delancey brothers and dey soaked her." Spot told him.

"She might have a couple of broken bones or maybe a cracked rib." Kloppman said. Mush still looked worried.

"Will she be alright?" Mush asked.

"Of course,"

Mush carried me to an empty bed and gingerly laid me on it. I looked up at him and smiled to tell him I'd be ok. "I won't leave your side." He told me.

"But ya have ta sell papes," I softly told him.

"I won't leave your side." He repeated. I didn't want him to leave, but I wanted him to go make a living so he could eat and live in the Lodging House. He looked at me as if wanting to say: Don't make me leave.

"Kloppman," I moan, as the old man comes at my call, "Mush, has to stay." He nodded his head as I drifted off to a dreamless sleep.

MadmButterfly713: I'm sorry about forgetting to mention about Flight. BTW I can make Spot's eyes any color I want!