Forgot the last several chapters that I do not own any of the Newsies all right go to Disney corporation and the amazing actors. Thanks for reading
I opened the door being it was later than the doorman usually stayed and I closed it behind us.
The house was father free on every level as we walked upstairs to my room and Jack was in awe of everything. He looked at my bed shocked and I laughed watching him smile as he walked into my bathroom and looked at it.
"This is amazin" he smiled.
"I guess" I shrugged taking off my shoes and placing them under my bed.
"You guess?" he looked at me like I was nuts.
"Jack, when you've lived here your whole life and done nothing but obey rules. This place is a prison" I sighed.
"Sounds like it but I've been there it ain't" he smirked sitting in my tub and I laughed.
"You can use it if you like" I told him.
"You're yankin me" he looked at me shocked.
"Jack what's mine is yours" I smirked as he stood up and pulled off his vest and shirt, "Jack I can pay your way to Santa Fe" I told him.
"I couldn't let you do that" he shook his head.
"Why not" I shrugged.
"Because it wouldn't feel right" he shrugged out of his suspenders and I sighed.
"Leave your clothes outside the door" I told him leaving the bathroom.
I walked down stairs,
"Maria" I called.
"Yes, Miss Pulitzer"
"Please I really do wish you would call me Danielle that's an order… but I am having a friend sleep over and he is leaving his washing, could you have it done by tomorrow please and don't tell my father about this, and please don't mention my father because I don't want him to know who I am"
"Yes Miss… I mean Danielle" she smiled.
"Oh, and Maria could you make sure we are up at 6:30 sharp tomorrow morning?" I asked before returning upstairs.
"Of course Danielle" she nodded and I walked back up to my room and Jack's clothes were waiting.
I grabbed them,
"Maria, could you fetch our guest something to sleep in?" I asked her.
"Of course Danielle"
"Thank you Maria you may go than" I told her.
"Thank you" she nodded taking Jack's clothes away and later returning with under shirt for Jack.
"Goodnight Maria" I smiled sliding my stockings off.
"Goodnight Miss" she bowed leaving.
"Jack" I knocked on the door, "I left something for you to change into when you are finished outside the door" I told him.
"Thanks" he called and I smiled changing out of my dress and sliding into my night gown.
When I was younger Papa had servants that would dress me but I stopped that as soon as I turned 10 because it wasn't alright exposing my body to them anymore. They brushed my hair and wash my body, it was just wrong.
I sat down at my vanity and brushed my hair out and washed up with a tub of water and soap before my bathroom door opened and I turned Jack came out in my father's under shirt and pants.
"You look relaxed" I smiled going back to brushing my hair.
"You look beautiful" Jack whispered in my ear and I smiled as he kissed the side of me head.
"I'm having Maria, my hand maid, wake us at 6:30 is that alright?" I asked him and he nodded running his fingers through his wet hair nervously.
I stood up and walked over to the bed,
"Shall we got to sleep?" I asked Jack sitting on the bed and he rubbed his neck nervously.
"Jack I'm not asking anything but to go to sleep" I told him and he nodded walking over and laying down on the large bed.
"Nice" he sighed his body relaxing into the bed.
"Kind of strange having someone else in my bed" I smirked sitting beside him and he rubbed my back.
"I thought you had friends?" he shrugged.
"My only friends are you and the udder Newsies" I smirked laying on my side looking at him.
"What if your pop comes home?" he asked.
"It will be a miracle if he actually checks on me" I shook my head looked at Jack.
I looked at Jack again and he smiled a big smile and I leaned over kissing him softly. I grabbed his face in my hands feeling his stubble already staring.
"Jack" I breathed pulling away and he stopped, "We…" I gasped a deep breathe, "We should get some sleep" I told him as he laid back on the bed again.
I got up and turned off the light before getting back in bed with Jack. He found my hand and grabbed it pulling me to his side. I laughed and laid my head on his chest wrapping my arms around his waist and wrapped his arm under my head and rested his hand on my shoulder and I smiled going to sleep feeling safe and comfortable.
"Miss Danielle" the curtains shot open and Jack jumped and held onto his arm.
"Thank you Maria" I smiled as she left, "Relax" I pushed Jack, "Its just my hand maid" I scoffed getting up.
"Hand maid?" Jack scoffed sitting up.
"Yeah, she takes care of everything I need" I shrugged going to the bathroom and washing my hair.
I came out and Jack was pulling on his vest and I smirked sliding on my shoes before tying my hair up with a light green bow. I had chosen a light green dress today that was the same flow and style. I had a white vest over the top of it buttoned down the front.
I grabbed Jack's rope where my blue ribbon was still tied and I wrapped it around my hand like I had seen Jack do so many times and I handed it to him and he smiled.
"We're late" Jack stated.
"So what since when does the day start with out you?" I asked him as we walked downstairs.
I grabbed a few things of fruit and Jack grabbed a pastry and I smirked.
"Good morning" I smiled at the butler and door man as Jack and I ran towards Newsie square.
"I can't run and eat" Jack stated.
"You were the one who said we were late" I laughed eating an apple.
"Like you said day don't start til I gets there" he smirked lighting a cigarette and puffing it.
He handed it to me and I smiled smoking it, "Thank you" I smirked handing it back to him.
We walked up to the gates of the World and everyone was in an up roar.
"What's going on?" Jack asked.
"They jacked up the price! Did you hear that Jack? 10 cents a hundred! It's bad enough we gotta eat what we don't sell now they jacked up the price" Kid Blink stated, "Can you beliede that?" he asked.
"This will bust me, I'm barely making a livin right now" Skittery sighed.
"I'll be back living on the streets" Boot shrugged.
"It just makes no sense. I mean all the money Pulitzer's makin, why would he gauge us?" Mush asked.
"Because he's tight wad" Racetrack jumped in and he was right my father was a tight wad, "That' why" Racetrack stated and everyone started to talk at once.
"Pipe down, it's just a gag" Jack told them.
They all started talking as Jack went up to Mr. Weasel.
"So why the Jack up Weasel" Jack asked.
"Why not?" Weasel licked his fat finger and stuck it out the gate in the air, "It's a nice day" he smiled and Jack walked away, "Why don't you ask Mr. Pulitzer?" Weasel called and I shook my head at him.
I had confronted Weasel and the DeLancey brothers when I started to hang out with the Newsies saying if they even blew my cover I would have them fired in a heart beat.
Weasel was a slime of a man never did like him. He always stared at me in a creepy way at dinner and his to cohorts Oscar and Morris DeLancey, I've been out with the both and they are just grabby and clawing to get into knickers and they were just horrible people.
"They can't do this to me Jack" Blink shook his head.
"They can do what ever they want it's their stinkin paper" Race mumbled and I hit his arm annoyed with is negativity.
Jack sighed and sat down on the steps beside Boots and he looked at Boots,
"It ain't fair. We got no rights at all" Boots told Jack and he looked at me and I shrugged.
"Come on, it's a rig-tech, they got all the marbles, okay" Race stated.
"Jack we got no choice so lets get our lousy papes while they still got some, huh" mush suggested.
"No, nobodies going anywhere" Jack stated and everyone started to argue with him, "They can't get away with this" Jack stated.
"Clear out, Clear out" Les came down the stairs towards Jack, "Give em some room, Give em some room" Les sat down beside Jack, "Let him think" he told them and I smirked at his braveness
Les stared at Jack and Blink hand him a smoke and everyone waited as he smoked.
"Jack, ya done think yet?" Race asked and Jack looked at him.
"Hey, Hey, Hey, World Employees only!" Weasel shouted out the window.
"Hey shut up!" everyone yelled at him including me.
"Well, listen one thing for sure, if we don't sell papes, then nobody sells papes nobody comes through those gates until they put the price back where it was" Jack stated.
"Like a strike?" David asked Jack like a joke.
"Yeah like a strike"
"Are you out of your mind?" Racetrack asked Jack.
"It's a brilliant idea" I defended Jack.
"Jack, I was joking we can't strike we don't have a union" David tried to stop him but once Jack had an idea in his head there was no stopping him one of my favorite things about him.
"Yea but if we go on strike we are a union... right" Jack asked.
"No we are just a bunch of angry kids with no money, maybe if we got every newsie in New York" David scoffed.
"Then we organize" Jack stood up and turned to the Newsies.
"Crutchy take up a collection" he ordered Crutchy.
"Swell" Crutchy smiled taking of his hat and holding it out for people to get money.
"Jack, this isn't something we should rush into" David told him.
"Alright let me think bout it" Jack rubbed his head as we walked to the statue in Newsie Square.
"Dave's right, Pulitzer and Hurst are nuddin but rich fellas, I mean they own this city, so you really think a bunch of street rats like us could make a difference? I mean the choice has gotta be yours! Are we just gonna take what they give us or are we gonna strike" Jack turned to them.
"Strike!" Les yelled and David grabbed his brother covering his mouth as to not encourage Jack farther.
"Yea!" Everyone agreed with Les.
"Jack keep talkin… tell us what to do" I told him and he nodded looking at David.
"Pulitzer and Hurst have to respect our rights" David told Jack.
"Alright... Hey listen! Pulitzer and Hurst have to respect rights of workin the boys of New York!" Jack stated.
Everyone cheered in agreement and Jack looked at David again.
"Tell them they can't treat us like we don't exist" David smiled.
"David it's an adventure" I whispered and he sighed nodding and getting into it.
Jack climbed up on the statue of Pulitzer,
"Pulitzer and Hurst they thing were nuffin, are we nuffin?" Jack asked.
"No" everyone replied.
"Pulitzer and Hearst, They think they got us, Do they got us?" Jack asked again.
"No!" everyone got into it as Jack stood on top of the statue base walking around it.
"We're a union now, The News Boy Union, we gotta start acting like a union" David stated finally getting into the idea of a strike.
"Even though we ain't got hats or badges, We're a union just by saying so, And the world will know!" Jack stated.
"What stops someone one else from selling our papes?" Boots asked.
"We'll talk wit them" Jack shrugged.
"Some of them don't hear so good" Racetrack pointed out.
"Well then we'll soak em'" Jack called catching a wood staff someone threw up to him.
"No we can't beat up people in the street, it'll give us a bad name" David told him worried and I shook my head reaching towards Jack and he grabbed my hand pulling me up on the statue with him.
"What's it gonna take to stop the wagons? Are we ready?" I called out this was my turn to get back at my father for controlling my life..
"Yeah!" the newsies called.
"No!" David added.
"What's it gonna take to stop the scabbers?, Can we do it?" Jack smiled walking around me and I sat up on the statue's lap so he could move around.
"Yeah!" they called.
"We'll do what we gotta do, Until we break the will of mighty Bill and Joe" he sang out he broke the stick he was holding.
"And the World will know, And the Journal too, Mister Hearst and Pulitzer, Have we got news for you, Now the world will hear, What we got to say, We been hawkin' headlines, But we're makin' 'em today, And our ranks will grow" everyone was getting into the idea.
"And we'll kick their rear" Crutchy added and we laughed.
"And the world will know, That we been here" the newsies cheered.
Jack jumped off and walked towards the gates before turning back to them.
"When the circulation bell starts ringin', Will we hear it?" Jack asked walking towards Pulitzer building and I stood on the platform watching him.
"No!" The newsies replied.
"What if the Delanceys come out swingin', Will we hear it?" I asked putting up my fists.
"No!" they called back to me.
"When you got a hundred voices singin', Who can hear a lousy whistle blow?, And the world will know, , That this ain't no game, That we got a ton of rotten fruit and perfect aim, So they gave their word, But it ain't worth beans, Now they're gonna see, What "stop the presses" really means, And the day has come, And the time is now, And the fear is gone."
"And our name is mud" Boots called.
"And the strike is on" Newsies stated.
"And I can't stand blood" Boots added.
"And the world will –"Newsies started.
"Pulitzer may own the World but he dont own us!" Jack smirked moving towards the headline board.
"Pulitzer may own the World but he don't own us!" They called back.
"Pulitzer may crack the whip but he won't whip us!" Jack called before starting to climb the ladder and I jumped off the statue watching him in awe.
"Pulitzer may crack the whip but he won't whip us!" they sang back.
"And the world will know And the world will learn, And the world will wonder how we made the tables turn, And the world will see, That we had to choose, That the things we do today will be tomorrow's news, And the old will fall, And the young stand tall, And the time is now, And the winds will blow, And our ranks will grow and grow and grow and so, The world will feel the fire, And finally know!" They called as Jack climbed the news board and wrote 'Strike' on the board and everyone cheered.
"Strike, Strike, Strike" everyone chanted.
I walked over to David who seemed kind of dazed and confused.
"Don't look so scared… it's the right thing to do" I smiled looking at Jack jumped off the ladder and I smiled looking at the guys jumping around and getting all excited.
Jack walked over to The World building and I cringed backing up as he talked because if the doors opened his security would recognize me immediately. I watched as Jack and David talked and Jack pointed a groups and they started leaving and Jack turned to David and grabbed Les and they went into the World.
I pushed through the guys quickly grabbing David,
"He can't go in there" I sighed shaking my head.
"Hey what's going on?" a man came up to us and I looked at him in his brown bowler hat, nice brown suit and tie. He had a sweet look about him like he was up for doing good.
"We are bringing our demands to Pulitzer" David told him.
"What demands?" he asked looking at me as I stood behind David.
"The Newsies demands, we are on strike" David told him.
"I'm with the New York Sun, Brian Denton, you seem like the kid in charge what's your name?" he asked David as he shook his hand.
"David? As in David and Goliath?" he asked and David laughed slightly, "Do you really think old man Pulitzer will listen" he asked.
"He has to" David shrugged and the doors to the World opened and Jack and Les were thrown into the streets.
"You tell Pulitzer he needs an appointment with me" Jack yelled at the security.
"Yeah" Les added.
"Jack" I stopped his insulting and cussing and he huffed, "You alright?" I asked them both and they nodded, "Jack Kelly this is Brian Denton he is with the New York Sun" I told him and he shook Denton's hand.
"I'd love to hear your story…"
"You buying?" Jack nodded toward Tibby's Diner.
"Yeah" he nodded and Jack pushed his hand through his hair and headed towards the Diner.
"Jack… I'll be right there wait for me before you leave?" I asked him.
"Yeah" he nodded touching his thumb to my chin and grabbing my chin in his hand softly and kissing my forehead.
"See ya" he smiled running over to the Restaurant.
I snuck quickly into the World building brushing past the security,
"Miss… you can"
"Shut it" I called back running up the stairs.
"You need an appointment" another man stopped me.
"I'm his daughter" I scoffed pushing his door open interrupting his meeting.
"You are being very rude"
"Shut up… why did you raise the prices?" I slammed my hand on his desk.
"Because we need the Money"
"The hell we do… put it back where the price belongs" I told him.
"Where did you hear that kind of"
"PUT THE PRICES BACK!" I yelled ignoring him.
"No" he growled.
"This is wrong and you are robbing the Newsies of their lives" I told him.
"Ah its that damned Newsie boy again…"
"Its about what' right and wrong" I told him, "We don't need the money, we don't even use half the house we have sell that move somewhere smaller and we'll have more money" I told him as calmly as possible.
"He has poisoned your brain you never cared before what I did"
"I was blind and never was directly involved before"
"Now you listen here young lady" he stood up, "You stop all this nonsense and go home right now and stop seeing the scum newsies if you do that I'll buy you"
"I don't want your blood money" I threw his papers off his desk, "I hate you" I shook my head turning to leave.
"Then find your own place to leave and your own means of money" he sat down unfazed.
"Fine, but this isn't over" I left slamming the door and running downstairs.
I ran down the steps and flew out the doors in a rage before running across the street and I stopped almost getting run over by a the newspaper truck and I gasped closing my eyes.