A/N: okay chapter five here…thanks to my friend Britt who made me put this up! Hope you all like!
Disclaimer: No I do not own newsies, nor do I own Artemis she belongs to xLittlexItalyx nor do I own Spades, she belongs to my friend Britt (xXhoity toityXx)
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Spot looked around the room at the other Newsies that where getting ready to go out for a new day of selling. He slowly got out of his bed, still able to feel the beer in his body from the other night, and made his way over to the wash room. He walked up to the sink and splashed cold water on his face and looked at himself in the mirror.
He frowned at his reflection. He no longer had those glowing blue eyes or that smile that could light up a room. His eyes had changed to a blue/grey swirled color that seemed as though they where piercing through your body whenever he looked at you. Most of the time his smile was faded into a frown or a very serious look, but there where those tiny moments, when he thought about Sammy, that he was able to smile.
Sammy stood in the wash room getting ready to sell the morning edition. "Hey Spot!" She yelled excitedly as he walked up next to her to wash his face.
"Hey sweetheart," Spot replied. "How are things going this morning?" He asked wondering why she was so happy so early in the morning. She was never really a morning person and usually didn't like to be talked to.
"Well aside from the fact that it's too early for even the sun to be fully up," she smiled at Spot and he laughed, "things are going pretty good."
Spot raised an eyebrow at her. "Pretty good. Things are never pretty good with you this early. What's going on with you?"
Sammy laughed. "Nothing's going on. I'm just happy" She gave Spot a kiss on the cheek and walked into the stall to get changed. "Oh and by the way Shadow wants you to meet him and the docks before you go out to sell." She yelled through the door.
Spot waited for her to be finished and then they left to get there papers together. "Why does he want me to meet him there? Won't he be at the distribution office?"
"No he left early today. Said he had some business to take care of." She shrugged her shoulders and glanced towards Spot.
"Okay. You gonna come with me? Then we can go sell together."
"Yeah sure."
They got to the distribution office and each ordered fifty papes, then they headed off to meet Shadow at the docks. As they got closer and closer Sammy's smile kept getting bigger and bigger. Spot looked over at her and shook his head.
"What are you up to?" He asked stopping short.
After noticing that he stopped she turned around, "I'm not up to anything." She said innocently.
Spot walked so that there faces where inches apart. "Yeah sure your not," he said sarcastically. "Why do you have that look on your face?"
She moved closer to Spot, filling in the space between them and gave him a quick kiss. "Just happy to be with you." She grabbed his hand and they continued their walk to the docks.
"Hey Spot, thought you where never going to show up." Shadow smirked as he spit shook with Spot.
"How come you wanted to meet me here?" Spot asked casually.
"Well remember that bet we made the other day about who could sell more papers faster." Shadow looked over at Sammy and winked.
Spot started to get a little nervous. "What's going on?"
"Well you never did pay me my three cents. So I thought I should make it even." Shadow laughed.
"Make it even how? What are you two…?" Spot never finished his sentence before he was pushed into the freezing cold December water.
Shadow and Sammy stood on the docks laughing as Spot climbed out of the water. "Very funny guys. I would expect something like this from you." He said pointing to Shadow. "But I wouldn't expect this kind of thing from you!" He said turning to Sammy.
"Sorry but he said if I didn't go along with it that he would throw me in instead." Sammy smiled. "We wouldn't want that to happen!" She laughed as Spot walked up to her and gave her a hug so that she would get soaked as well.
A tiny smile grew on Spot's lips as he thought back to that day. "What are you up to man?" Shadow asked when Spot walked outside.
"Nothing much." He replied as they took off to the distribution center. "Hey Shadow, about last night, no hard feelings alright?"
"No man. We're alright!" Shadow smiled. He lit up a cigarette and then handed one to Spot.
When they got to the distribution center they saw two of the Manhattan newsies sitting by the gate. "Wonder what there doing here." Shadow said to Spot as they walked up to the gate.
"Hey guys," Spot said as he passed by and went to get his papers. Once him and Shadow got their papers they walked back out to see the two newsies. "So what are you two doing here?" He asked.
"Well Artemis wanted to come and see how everyone down here was doing since she hasn't seen you all in a while." Race said.
"I can talk for myself Race." Artemis said flipping one of her mid-length chocolate brown braids off her shoulder. "How are you doing Spot?" She asked.
"I'm doing okay I guess." He gave a slight smile. "I think I'm just gonna go sell now. I'll see ya guys later." He said turning and leaving.
"I think I'm gonna go talk to him." Artemis said. "Maybe he'll listen to me or something." She mumbled as she walked off after Spot.
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"Hey Spot wait up!" She yelled as she ran after the boy.
Spot turned around and waited for her to catch up. "What are you doing?" He asked.
"I just thought maybe I could come sell with you." She replied rolling her red checkered sleeves up to her elbows. "Ya know, maybe we can talk."
"Yeah sure I guess." Spot replied starting to walk off again. "So um what are we planning on talking about?"
"Well what do you want to talk about?" She replied. "It's a nice day out today isn't it?"
"Yeah," Spot sighed. "Why don't you just say what you're here to say so we can get this over with!" Spot said starting to get mad.
She stared at him her Honey brown eyes becoming big and her smile fading slightly. "I'm just trying to help." She said so softly that he could barely hear her. She bit her lip showing Spot that she was nervous.
Spot sighed and shook his head. "I didn't mean to yell at you." He said. "It's just that everyone always wants to talk about it. I mean no one even asks they just start up a conversation and expect me to join."
"Yeah I know how you feel." She replied still biting her lip and looking down at her feet. "Everyone has been on my back too, and Rambler's. It does get annoying, but I thought that was why we could talk. Ya know, we both are going through the same thing."
"Yeah, you were really close with her right?" He asked.
"Yeah me and Spades, but I can't talk to her a lot cause she lives in Bronx. I have Blink there but he doesn't talk much."
"Yeah I know what you mean." He said. They walked in silence, both in their own thoughts, until they got Spot's selling spot.
Artemis sat on the bench while Spot sold his papers. Though they where not talking it helped just to be near someone who knew how you felt, and knew what you where going through.
"Can I tell you something?" Spot asked when he had finished selling his papes.
"Yeah go ahead."
"Well last night I had this dream," Spot looked around to make sure they where alone and lowered his voice to a whisper. "And in it I found out who killed her. And it was Mush, so I went out looking for him and then killed him." Artemis's eyes where growing bigger with every word he said. "But then this voice came from the shadows and it said it wasn't him that killed her. What do you think it means?"
Artemis looked around them and then looked into Spot's eyes. "You don't really think Mush did it do ya? I mean come on Spot it's Mush for god sakes!" She replied.
"No I don't think it was him. I just want to know what you think of the dream, why would I be having it?"
"I don't know. Maybe cause if you ever do find out who it is you will kill him." She replied. "Race told me you got drunk last night, could have been from that." She laughed and shrugged her shoulders.
"Yeah I guess your right." Spot laughed.
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"Hey Shadow, Race!" Spades, one of the Bronx girls, yelled as she ran up to the two boys. "What are you two up to?"
Shadow laughed when he saw her boyfriend, Snitch, far behind her looking very tired and very pissed. "What'd you do to Snitch?" Shadow asked pointing to the boy.
"Probably made him run all the way from Manhattan." Race joked when he saw Snitch.
"No I went to see him this morning and asked him to come here with me." Spades replied when she finally reached the two boys. "He said no, so I took his hat." She said showing them the hat and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know why he looks so mad." Race and Shadow just looked at each other and shook their heads. Spades was a great person to hang around with, but sometimes she just didn't have a clue.
"Hey Snitch." Shadow laughed as he finally reached them. "How's everything going man? You look a little tired, what's wrong?" He laughed and patted Snitch on the back.
"Yeah you're so funny," Snitch replied grabbing his hat from his girlfriend. "I just wanted my hat and she made me run, RUN all the way here."
Spades just smiled and gave him a quick kiss. "It didn't kill you." She laughed. "Actually I came here to see if Artemis was here, Rambler told me she came here this morning."
"Yeah she went with Spot." Race replied.
"Oh well I just wanted to give her, her hat back." Spades replied taking the grey cap out of her back pocket. "Do you think you can give it to her?"
Race took the hat from her. "Yeah sure thing."
"Oh and is everyone coming to your lodge from poker again tomorrow." Spades asked Shadow.
"Yeah, you two gonna come?"
"Yeah of course. Right Snitch?" He looked at her with an I-don't-want-to-go kind of look. "Don't worry he'll be there." She grinned and then grabbed her boyfriend's arm and headed back toward Manhattan.
The two Brooklyn boys could only laugh as she led Snitch away from them. "I'm telling ya man that girl is out of her fucking mind." Shadow said as he watched her walk away. "One of these days she's gonna get them both in a lot of trouble!" Race nodded his head in agreement.