I went upstairs to change my dress into my white one that had a brown belt around the stomach. I went back down and Jack was talking to Medda and she smiled hugging him.
"Thanks Medda" he nodded looking at me as I held out his jacket, "You're jokin right?" He asked.
"Yeah…" I smiled throwing it the trash, "You looked horrible in it" I smirked running my fingers through his hair and he smiled, "Here" I hand him the paper Sarah showed me last night.
"What's this a love letter?" he joked.
"No" I laughed slightly looking at David and Les, "It's Denton's article about the rally" I told him, "You both need to read this" I told David and him.
Jack sat down on the steps and David sat beside him as they started reading and David looked at me surprised and Jack's look followed.
"I tink we needs to visit Denton before he disappears" Jack stood up and took my hand.
We walked in a rush to Denton's place Jack had taken off all the grey suit pieces except the pants and suspenders and he still had the strip shirt on but it was buttoned loosely and he had his sleeves rolled up his forearms slightly.
"I'm sorry about everythin I said to yas" Jack told David as we walked, "I was stupid and blinded and I didn't want anythin to happens to yas" he looked at David.
"Bang up job" I scoffed and he frowned but I grabbed his hand in reassurance.
"I know yous was fooling Jack" Les smiled and I laughed rubbing his head.
"Next time tell me what's going on… and I'll decide if I want to stay or not" David turned to a tall brick building and we walked inside heading up the dark wooden stairs we stopped at the second floor and head down a tan hallway stopping at the second tall black door on our right and Jack knocked.
The door opened,
"Did you mean what you wrote here? Bout all these sweat shop kids listenin to me?" Jack asked holding of up paper.
"I don't write anything I don't mean. Well, Come on in. I'm just packing a few things" Denton sighed.
We entered and David stopped looking at Denton before grabbing the door and closing it behind him.
"So, yes, I meant it. The city thrives on child labor. A lot of people make money that way. They're terrified that the newsies strike will spread" Denton shrugged.
"Well there's not really much chance of that as long as they gots the power" Jack shrugged.
"Sometimes, all it takes is a voice. Then one for becomes a hundred, then a thousand. Unless it's silenced" I told Jack.
"Why can't we spread the strike? Have another big rally and get the word out to all the sweat shop kids? Why not?" Jack shrugged.
"What are we going to do? Print and ad in the newspaper?" David asked.
"No… we'll do better than that" I smiled looking at Jack.
"We'll make our own paper" Jack nodded, "We tell'em they gotta join us. Isn't that a good idea?" Jack looked at Denton.
"Yea it is. But what do we know about printing a newspaper?" David asked.
"Nothing but our man Denton…"
"Yea, but our man Denton has something more important to do, He's going to be an ace war correspondent, right Denton?" David sneered.
We all looked at him and he smirked at their plan,
"Alright, where do we start?" Denton asked sitting at a table and we joined him.
"Alright, wes gotta move fast, Now, we'll need the newsies to circulate"
"There's something else that we need. We need a printing press" Denton sighed.
"Just so happens I know a guy widh a printing press" Jack looked at me and I smiled.
"Glad Papa's useful for something" I stood up.
"David run to the boarding house tell the newsies to get the word out to the other newsies we are meeting at the back of the circulation building where we are going to start the biggest rally The World has ever seen" Jack told him and David got up, "Meet us back at the circulation building" Jack told him and he nodded leaving.
"Come on lets get moving" Jack stated.
"Les" I called and he came over and we walked to the circulation building with Denton, where David was waiting and we walked inside the back door and downstairs to the old dusty basement of the building.
"You've been living here?" I asked him.
"Shh. They're right above us. Weasel catches us here, we're all in the slammer" Jack grabbed my hand as I walked down the steps.
Jack turned on the light and set the lantern down, Jack grabbed a sheet and pulled it off and I smiled.
"Alright, A Platen press. Looks like old man Pulitzer never threw anything away" Denton nodded in approval.
I smiled rubbing Jack's arm as he pushed his sleeves up past his elbows.
"Is it going to work?" David asked.
"It better. We have a deadline" Denton patted David's shoulder and they went to work on putting the words onto paper.
"Write it down boys…" I told him patting his back and looking at Jack as he started to set up the press.
"Les" I picked him up off a pile of papers and carried him to bed covering him up.
Jack smiled at me and I walked over to him helping him set up the press,
"This is the story you wanted to write, well tonight is the night that you can" Denton smiled
"Just get this done and by dawn't early light you can finish the fight you began" Jack sweated fixing the press.
I pulled Jack's red neck tie off his bed as well as his normal shirt and he smirked taking off the striped shirt and putting on his normal plain dirty white shirt and I put the red tie around his neck and tied it loosely kissing his cheek before he went back to work.
"This time we're in it to stay" David nodded
"Think about seizing the day" I added.
"Think of that train as she rolls into old Santa Fe Tell her I'm on my way" Jack dreamed.
Denton and David got hard to work on the paper.
I wrapped my arms around his waist and laid my head on his shoulder and he smirked wiping the sweat off and I kissed his cheek as he continued to work hard printing paper after paper.
"Come here…Darlin'" Jack pulled me and I took his place pushing the pedal and laying the paper down and doing it over and over while he gather the ones he did already and put them in piles to tie up.
"Go ahead tie them up" Jack swidched me again and I grabbed the twine and started tying up the thousands of papers into bundles and Jack brought over the last bundle as David woke Les and there was a quiet tap on the window.
"See old man Pulitzer snug in his bed, He don't care if we're dead or alive, Three satin pillows are under his head, While we're begging for bread to survive, Joe, if you're still counting sheep, Wake up and read 'em and weep, you've got your thugs, Widh their sticks and their slugs, Yeah, but we got a promise to keep, Once and for all, Something tells me the tide will be turning, Once and for all, There's a fire inside me that wont stop burning, Now that the choices are clear, Now that tomorrow is here, Watch how the mighty will fall, For once and for all!" I handed Jack pile after pile of papers as he handed them to the Newsies.
"It's awful nice of Mister Pulitzer to let us use his press" Denton stated crawling out the window.
"Yeah I just hope I get to thank him some day" Jack smirked helping me up and out the window.