Chapter 11

"Kylie… you'se ain't goin' back dere, eveh.  I'll take care of ya, just like I did wit BB.  Ya can become a newsie just like me and BB.  We'll be a family again."  Spot told her. 

"But… what if Daddy comes after me?" Kylie sniffled.

"Did 'e come afteh BB?"  Spot questioned.

"No… 'e didn't know where she was, so 'e just 'it me instead…" Kylie sniffled pulling up her sleeve to that Spot could see her bruise.

"DAT'S IT!  DAT BASTARD IS GONNA PAY!"  Spot's eyes turned stone cold and he got up from the table.

"Spot?  What's goin' on?" Kid Blink asked, since he had some idea, since he had been eaves dropping. 

"Blink… watch dem.  I'se 'ill be back lateh.  Take 'em back ta da lodgin' house if it gets to late."  Spot said not even looking at Kid Blink, but just staring straight ahead.  He walked out the door.

"Kyle… I mean Spot?" Kylie called after him with concern.

"Don't worry Miss… Spot can 'andle 'imself.  'E's real good at fightin'.  Neveh lost dat I know of.  Dat's how 'e became so famous.  Dat and 'e controls Brooklyn, who are the toughest of all da New Yoik newsies." Blink told her.

"What's you'se name again?" Kylie asked him.

"Kid Blink… but most people eidder call me Kid or Blink."  He told her.

"I'm Kylie…" She told him and stuck out her hand.  He spit in his then shook hers.  She stared at him with disgust.

"Sorry… it's a newsies ting." Blink blushed.

Across town Spot angrily stalked towards his childhood home.  He checked to make sure he had marbles.  He then rolled up his sleeves and knocked on the door.  A man answered the door.  He was tall and pudgy and had an angry look on his face.

"Hi, I'se betchu don't remembeh me." Spot told him.

"No I don't." The man fumed and started to close the door.  Spot stopped the door with one motion of his hand.

"I'se you'se son."  He said then punched the man in the eye.  The man stumbled backwards.  Spot then followed him into the house.  He then took his slingshot and shot the man in the side of the head. 

"I tought you'se was dead." The man cried out in pain.

"You'se tought wrong.  Dis is for Kylie… and Vivien… and Mom… and finally for me."  Spot said as he struck him with his cane.  The man fell to the floor.  Spot kept hitting him.  Finally he noticed that the man wasn't breathing anymore.  He hit him one last time and then muttered, "You'll neveh hoit anyone eveh again."  Spot then went back and collected Kylie's things and then the picture of him and Kylie with their mother.  It was the one time in their lives that they had had enough money to do something like that.  Then their father lost him job and started drinking, and lost all of their money at the racetracks.  A few weeks later he had killed their mother.  That's when Spot left. 

Back at Tibby's Kid Blink talked with Kylie and then took her and BB back to the boarding house.

"So how old are ya?" Kylie asked him.

"Seventeen.  How 'bout you?" Blink asked.

"Seventeen." She replied looking towards her feet.

"And you'se Spots' sisteh?" Blink asked, giving her an odd look.

"Yeah… why?" Kylie asked suspiciously.

"Well… it's just dat… well ya look like Spot, but ya definitely don't act like 'im." Blink told her.

"Is dat good or bad?" Kylie questioned with a small smile on her lips.

"Good… if ya were like Spot I don't tink I would like ya as much as I do." Kid Blink told her with a smile.  Kylie got a very shy look on her face and turned away. 

"Mommy… where is Daddy?" BB asked waking up.

"I'm not sure Vivien… and don't call 'im Daddy… call 'im Spot." Kylie told her daughter.

"But 'e told me ta call 'im Daddy!" She protested.

"Well I'm your mother and I said not to, so don't." Kylie lectured.

"Fine, but I'm tellin' Dad… Spot when I see 'im!" BB said stubbornly.  Kid Blink started to laugh.

"Oh… 'ere we are." Blink told them.

"Dis is where ya live?" Kylie said looking around as they walked inside.

"Yep.  Dis is where all da Manhattan newsies live.  Spot lives in one like dis but in Brooklyn.  Plus 'e also 'as 'is own room." Blink told her.

"Why does 'e get 'is own room?" Kylie asked.  Blink looked at her with amusement.

"Cuz… 'e's Spot Conlon, da most famous newsie in all of New Yoik.  'E 'as connections, plus no one wants ta cross 'im." Kid Blink explained.

"Oh…" Kylie exclaimed.  "I neveh woulda expected Kyle ta be so famous.  Course I ain't seen 'im in six yeahs."

"Kyle?" Blink asked in an amused voice.

"Oh no!  Don't tell 'im I'se told ya!  'E'd neveh forgive me!" Kylie begged.

"I won't." Kid Blink promised. 'I wouldn't want ya ta feel any pain.' Blink thought to himself.