Authors Note: I don't get many reviews on this one...but I figured it was just about time to update it. I'm kinda starting to get a little writers block on it. Oh and note...this chapter is going to be kind of graphic. This story is so emo...lol O.O I love emo as you can tell...all my stories haha.

Disclaimer: Don't own Newsies, never did...and the lyrics in this chapter belong entirely to Simple Plan The song is called, Untitled.

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Aelia O'Hession- Yes, Race is really feeling it. He's lost quite bit. Hope to see you post more soon! I miss your story!

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Chapter 22.

Casey came through the doors. She let in a breath of air The smell of papers came wafting toward her. She took off her coat as the warmness swept over her. (Yeah I know The Lodging house was never warm but I'm making it warm .) She looked over at the front desk and put a penny in the jar and wrote her name in the book. "Feels good to be writing in here again." She spoke. "Casey?" Came Kloppman's voice from behind the counter. Casey jumped. "Oh my god Kloppman!" Casey said holding her chest. "Don't duck behind the counter like that or I wont be selling the news...I'll be the news!" Casey laughed.

"Where've you been! Kloppman asked coming from behind the desk and giving her a big hug. "Working in a factory in New York City." Casey responded. "New York City!" Kloppman said surprised. "Yeah." Casey said with a shrug. "Things were getting so bad...I figured I had to go..." Casey said.

(They went over to the stairs to finish talking with cups of hot chocolate.)

"Racetrack missed you. Terribly." Kloppman said taking a sip of his hot chocolate.

"Really? I practically killed his sister...how could he forgive me?" Casey asked sighing.

"Now, don't you go blaming yourself for Rinoa's death...take it or leave it...but I say you should take it that she died by suicide. Not murder. I know Racetrack wont ever let it go...but he wasn't wild about losing the other thing he cared about." Kloppman said sternly.

Casey started playing with Rinoa's necklace which hung from her neck. She was about to reply but something dripped onto her arm. Something red was sliding down her arm. She looked up at the ceiling as another hit her on the cheek. Something was falling through the cracks in the cieling...something from the Lodging Room. "Kloppman...what's dripping?" Casey asked.

"Water from the snow?" Kloppman suggested but looked over at the red substance dripping onto Casey... "Oh my god Kloppman! It's blood!" She yelled as she and Kloppman got up abandoning their hot chocolate and ran up the stairs. They got into the doorway and already spotted the trouble. "MUSH!" Casey yelled and ran over to Mush laying in a pool of his own blood.

"Kloppman! Is he ok!" Casey yelled in panic. "He's cold..." Casey said tears falling into the blood on the floor.

I open my eyes...

"I'm getting a pulse...but it's low...very low...we have to get him to a hospital and quickly!" Kloppman yelled running to the phone in the hallway.

I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light...

(In history I don't know if the phone was invented before 1904...but It exists in the story. .)

Casey sat in the lodging room holding Mush's hand. "Mush please don't go the same route Rinoa did...I lost her and I can't lose someone else...Please Mush...hang on for me and the guys..." Casey cried.

I can't remember how...

A couple of men came through the doorway and put Mush on a stretcher. Casey cried and laid in Mush's blood. She looked at her hands covered with it and cried harder. "Mush please...please don't die...we need you."

I can't remember why...

"Hey Goil whatcha doin' in heah?" Came a voice from the doorway. Casey picked her head up off the ground and turned and saw Jack and the rest of the guys in the doorway.

I'm lying here tonight...

"Jack!" Casey cried and got up and wrapped her arms around Jack's waist.

At first he didn't recognize her but he lifted his hand to her chin and lifted her tear flowing and blood stricken face slightly "Casey..." He whispered.

And I can't stand the pain...

"What's holdin' up the movement heah Jack?" Came Race's voice. "A Goil?" Race asked raising an eyebrow. Casey's head was buried in Jack's chest as she sobbed into it.

And I can't make it go away...

"What's up with her? Is she your new goil frie--" Race was stopped as Casey let go of Jack. Racetrack couldn't believe his eyes. "Casey?" He said softly. Casey let more tears go and she ran and wrapped her arms around him. "Mush..." She could only manage to say.

No I can't stand the pain...

...In The Waiting Room.

After waiting an eternity the doctor came out to all the Newsboys in the room. "What's goin on?" Came all of their voices. Casey say wrapped in Racetrack's arms.

"He's dying..."

How could this happen to me...?

"Dying?" Blink spoke the word with all the sadness in the world. His best friend was dying.

I made my mistakes...

"How long does he have?" Jack asked not taking the news well either.

I've got no where to run...

"He could go at anytime he's lost over half of his blood." The doctor said shaking his head.

The night goes on...

"Is da situation hopeless or have ya done all ya bastad's could do? Blink asked near tears.

As I'm fading away...

"We've been giving him all the blood we can and we can hardly replace all the blood he lost." The doctor said.

I'm sick of this life...

Keep giving him blood! Save my best friend ya bastad!" Blink said starting to cry and get on the edge of voilent but Jack came and held Blink still.

Everybody's screaming...

When the doctor left Casey let go of Race and observed Blink. He wasn't taking this well at all. And she didn't blame him. She could blame anyone in the room for being as emotional and unreasonable as they were being. She didn't want to believe it either.

I try to make a sound but no one hears me...

Casey looked over at Race and started to say something but stopped.

I'm hanging by a thread...

"Case...why did you leave?" Came Racetrack's voice.

I wanna start this over again...

"I figured...with all the tragedy...I'd make it worse...I thought I could make the situation better. And it would all go back to when nothing was wrong." Casey said.

So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered...

"Well Case...you thought wrong. We would never want you to go. There was no reason you had to go." Race said.

And I can't explain what happened...

"I'm sorry Race...I thought it was all for the good. If I could take it back I would." Casey said sadly letting a tear fall.

And I can't erase the things that I've done...

"We all missed you...and Now Mush is dying...I wish I could go back to where everything was fine and we were all happy." Race said sobbing.

No I can't...

"Race, I love you...and I'm still here. You haven't lost everything." Casey reassured him.

How could this happen to me...?

"Yeah, but when you weren't...I had losteverything and had no reason to live." Race said wiping away a tear.

I made my mistakes...

"You have every reason to live...I love you so much Race." Casey said kissing him.

I've got no where to run...


Race returned the kiss.

The night goes on...

When they broke apart Race sighed. "I can't lose Mush too...my world's ending before my eyes..."

As I'm fading away...

"I know...I'm sick of feeling just pain..." Casey said.

I'm sick of this life...

The door opened and the doctor came out. "What's going on...how's Mush?" Blink asked tearfully. The doctor took his glasses off and cleaned them on his shirt and let in a breath of air.

I just wanna scream

"He's dead."

How could this happen to me...?

Casey woke with a ear splitting, heart wrenching scream. "Mush!" She yelled and started breathing heavily. She looked around and she pulled the switch to turn on the light. The light lit up her closet. She was shaking and had tears running down her face. "Maybe...going back tomorrow's not such a good idea." Casey said and laid back down shaking harder than ever.

------Lol, I bet you're all thinking, "Casey's such a bitch right now" huh? Lol. I wouldn't blame you. . Cuz I know I'm evil lol. Well please review!

-Casey