Woah, they're back. The last time I posted was apparently January 1st. As you may have guessed, a lot has happened since then. Obviously, I am in a new fandom, Newsies a.k.a. one the greastest things ever. I will always love ASOUE(and NRDD) and I may write more about our favorite triplets again soon, but I am primarily gonna write for Newsies for awhile. Giant thanks to Ronnie (VeronicaWeasley) for introducing me to Newsies and writing the best piece of fanfiction out there We Are Newsies. I implore you to go read it, after this of course. I actually started a instagram account ( dylanquagmir) and this story is in celebration of 100 followers over there. Please go follow over there, especially if you want a sign that I'm alive more often that 7 fucking months. This started as a joke between the best group of people I've met, the Pringles(I'll put there account names in my bio at some point). Without further ado, may I present, Bojail.
With the strike now settled, many things had to change. Obviously, the price of papes was lowered. After seeing Jack's drawings, Roosevelt had the refuge shut down for good and Snyder arrested. He wasn't the only one.
After Roosevelt gave his famous "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground, you can do this" speech, he hired some investigators from out of state to look into who else needed to be arrested.
Ironically, the newsies were the first ones found guilty. Destruction of property and trespassing, to be specific.
"But mista, we's was just tryin' to get da fair payin," Finch complained, upon learning that they would either have to pay for the damage and trespassing fine, or work it off in community service.
"I'm terribly sorry. Despite," Roosevelt motioned with his hands as if to makes quotation marks, "'winning' the strike, you and the rest of the newsies need to face the consequences for your actions, just like Snyder."
"But none of us did anythin' close to as bad as the shit he did."
"Please watch your language. I am-we all are- fully aware of that. If you convinced any of the crimes that he did, you would be in the same situation as him, a jail cell for the next 28 years. Instead, you've just gotta drink water instead of seltzer for a bit, and you'll have it payed off in practically no time at all."
"Fine," he said in a way that made it quite clear that he was, infact, not fine at all with this.
Next up on the list were the Delancy brothers, Oscar and Moris. Both were convicted of child abuse for beating up the newsies. Each of them received 18 months in jail, and Pulitzer owed $100 for each of them. He was forced to pay the fine when they learned he hired them to do it. Wiesel's sentence was fairly similar to the Delancey's, the only real difference being the jail time, having been raised to 2 full years. Why, I'm not certain.
Actually, Pulitzer managed to come out pretty unscathed in the end, aside from the $300. He should have gotten 8 years for kidnapping Jack, but he managed to get that tacked on to Snyder's sentence, rather than his own.
The "bulls" pretty much disappeared after the fight. Jack was able to draw a few wanted posters for the cops, but nothing ever came of that.
At first, Snyder, Wiesel, the Delancey's, Pulitzer, and the newsies were the only ones punished. Roosevelt paid for the newsies treatments in the hospital. Turns out Les had broken his arm, Smalls had a broken rib, Finch had a sprained wrist, Specs' glasses were broken beyond repair, and Ro had lost a few teeth and had a broken nose. Romeo had sent in a letter to the investigators, but it had gotten delayed in the mail-with all the delivery boys just returning to work-and had gotten filed with the wrong case. Anyways, the newsies had well worked off their fines, in fact the delanceys were well over halfway through their sentence, before the letter was even discovered.
When Roosevelt learned that the trusted officers he had sent to break up the fight, had instead made it much worse, he was more than angry. One might even say that he was pissed off.
Immediately, he decided that any sentence that an office received, would be doubled. As it happened, most of the officers he sent did make an attempt to break up the fight. Actually, all of them, save for a certain officer named Robert Wright. On his way to the fight, Bob had been bribed by one of Pulitzer's staff, Seitz to be specific, to hurt the newsies as much as possible. And he succeeded, after talking with the injured newsies, all of whom described a 50ish year old man with a bushy brown mustache upon his blobfish-like face. Romeo also made sure to mention that he was not very pretty and quite mean. Finch just called him an asshole.
With four sentences of child abuse, two of which were children aged 14 or younger, our friend Bob earned himself a fine of $1200 and 18 years. Unable to pay his fine, he opted to pay it in time, with an extra year for every hundred. At the end of the day, Bob spent 27 years in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, before dying at the age of 83. If that isn't the definition of soulmates, I don't know what is.
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