I changed into new clothes and sighed I am playing poker with Spot..great..i put my hair into the hat and lit a smoke as I walked down the stairs thinking things through..i like spot..its just a crush..i think..i hope so anyway..

I sighed and looked around and combed through my hair French braiding it and putting my cap on my head and shook my head at maple and Fire. They were complaining about silver…again…

"she seriously needs to stop being so bossy…" Maple said shaking her head sadly as we were in the kitchen and I made some dinner again and I was fixing another soup with chicken and some veggies in there with a little bit of spices and coffee was made again.

"I know she doesn't do anytin.." Fire said looking steamed her eyes were hard and angry as I just stood there and let it cook.

"give it about 10 minutes and then it will be done" I said dumping the ingredients into the big slightly rusted pot. The kitchen was old and cracked but it was useful and the dishes were fine so I don't see any reason for it to be changed quite yet.

"okay..tanks again dere Cannon" Maple said with a grin and she shook her head a bit at me making me raise an eyebrow. "look we would prefer you ta silveh any day..just don't tell 'er I said dat.." she said sighing and I laughed a bit and saw wolf there looking at me annoyed.

"come ere cannon.." he said and fire raised an eyebrow as I walked over and he smirked down at me. "we still need ta tell spot" he said raising an eyebrow I shook my head looking at him scratch his cheek in nervousness and his eyes were slightly shifty making me realize he was incredibly nervous about talking to spot about this.

"I have ta go to da pokeh game…I am telling him about my run in wid sunshine.." I said nervously looking at my feet and he sighed a bit patting my head in a way that made me feel short, and young. Which I guess I was I mean..seriously…I am still young and green here.

"good luck" he said laughing and walking away I glowered at his retreating back an was going to retort about my poker expertise when I felt a hand on my shoulder and a warm breath tickling my ear and a deep voice behind me.

"ready cannon?"spot asked I could feel the grin and the intense stare at me as I nodded my head at him and sighed nervously thinking about what I was doing. "alright so heahs da ting" he said sternly as we walked outside and wolf and maple behind us. "we are meetin jack Kelly, david, and racetrack in hatten, they are the hightest rankin hatten newsies..kelly I the leadeh…david is his brains pretty much though Kelly does have a lot of brains, racetrack is the pokeh king..and he has a good head on his shoulders as kellys second..david is his third.." he said rambling on and on about stuff I already knew.

"so why are we going to hatten?" I asked curiously looking at spot and he shook his head at me amused.

"Kelly owes me a favor.." he said shrugging and I looked at him weird noticing silver wasn't around and i stopped lighting up a smoke and letting the smoke blow around my face in the slightly chilly wind.

"wheres silveh?...shouldnt she be heah?" I asked curiously and he looked at me amused right now like I was the most fascinating person in the world right now which I guess I was with being so new and all. He sighed and looked troubled as he looked out over the Brooklyn bridge it definitely was a nice sight watching the sun set slowly over the tall buildings.

Its not one you don't really get to see much of in the 21st century..and come to think of it..i was starting to forget a lot of things from the 21st century like my mind was being rewired for this era..ill have to ask ghost spot about it if he has the balls to see me in my dreams again.

"umm cannon?" spot was waving his hand in front of my face and I mentally face palmed I really need to stop spacing out from now on..it was getting ridiculous..i need to plan tonight whatever it takes.

"sorry I was deep in thought" I said stopping myself from saying spacing since they don't know about space or anything yet really.

"its fine come on were here" he said with a sigh I grinned and walked inside it was the same rickety lodging house as Brooklyn but it had a nicer feeling to it. At Brooklyn you have cold, eager to fight, suspicious yet safe feeling to it..here in hatten it was more open, homier, and softer with an edge to it.

"HEYA SPOTTY!" a boy with a cabbie cap, plaid vest, white button up and black slacks said with curly brown hair he seemed Italian but pale. He has a cigar hanging from his mouth making me grin he seemed cheeky, smart, and fun to be around it oozed off of him easily.

"heya race wheres jacky boy and the walking mouth?" spot asked I looked at race and kept my face amused which I actually was but also nervous.

"umm dere upstairs in jacks room head on up…whose dat?" racetrack asked stopping spot and me from going upstairs. My head was low and I slowly looked up at him leveling my gaze on him and spot chuckled a bit.

"dis..is cannon.." Spot said looking at me amused and racetrack raised his eyebrow and nodded trusting spot..wow…who know he has such influence everywhere?

"nice ta meet ya" he said spitting into his hand I did the same shaking it with a grin and racetrack looked me up and down.

"likewise.." I said smirking and looking him up and down..he was attractive gotta give him that and he winked and spot growled a bit under his breath.

"lets go we have business and poker." Spot said annoyance and anger in his voice I looked up at him and his eyes were cold and filled with a weird emotion..huh..

"ill win again..but lets go jacky boy is possibly getting antsy" Race said nodding and I nodded and started to walk up when spot grabbed my arm tightly making me wince.

"keep your head outta da clouds cannon" he hissed and I looked at him jerking my arm out of his grip and started to walk up the stairs my boots clicking and the stairs squeaking as we went up. I looked at the peeling wallpaper and the dusty stairs and walls. It was different to say the least..

I walked past a room where a lot of girls were and they all looked at me and nodded I nodded back with a smile making them grin and chatter to themselves and then they saw spot gaping like fishes out of water.

I winked and continued on following race down to jacks room it was cluttered and a table was in the center with a pack of cards on the table unopened. I looked at it closely and the seam wasn't opened which is a good sign and I stood behind spot my head down.

"DIs must be cannon.." a chipper voice said and I looked up and spot took my cap off shocking me a bit and I kept my face blank looking at spot with a raised eyebrow.

"yes dis is her..and she has information for us.." Spot said blankly I looked around and wolf was leaning against the wall casually and he smiled a slow smile nodding his head at me gesturing for me to take my hair down..i sighed and acted normal like wolf thought I should.

"nice ta meet ya Jack..ive heard a lot about ya" I said grinning and looking around the room casually he raised a curious eyebrow..i should be an actress.

"really?..good tings I hope" he said smiling and his eyes glittered amusement and race kept his head low but I saw his smile and spot watched me and the room closely…suspiciously.

"of coise.." I said my new accent thickening in amusement I walked around and acting like it was natural took my hair down looking around running my fingers through it. I knew it smelled really good from the lotion Maple let me borrow.

I looked over at the boys and they both grinned at me cheekily and I snuck a glance at wolf he was grinning ear from ear. Spot on the other hand was glowering at me angrily with a weird emotion in his eyes.

"so…whose ready ta play pokeh?" I asked and all the boys sat around the table and wolf shuffled the cards and started to deal them out and I looked at everyone keeping my coy smile on my face…why was I even doing that?...its not like I think race or Jack are attractive or anything and spot is too prickly for my liking. Ill have to think that over later…

I looked at my cards and tried to figure out what to do…I kept the smile on my face as I looked at the cards..

"so..Cannon…what exactly happened?" Jack asked with a frown fussing with his cards we had things in the pot already I put a few coins in along with smokes and spot did the same along with jack and race.

"well..earlier.." I said putting two cards down and tapped the table twice and wolf passed me two new cards I internally jumped for joy I have a full house! "I heard something in the alley…after I was done selling all of my papes.." I said looking around at everyone and saw spot had a tiny smirk on his face. "I went to check it out and it was sunshine.." I said and I watched as jack put his cards down along with everyone else. "he grabbed me and put a knife to my neck asking me to spy on him…" I said putting my cards down and everyone groaned. "I said no…I didn't want to and got angry and I had to fight off his goons.." I said and they all looked at me weird "he hinted there was another spy in Brooklyn working for him." I said and wolf gave me a look to tell spot and I bit my lip shaking my head no.

"tell him or I will!" wolf said sternly and spot narrowed his eyes not looking to happy right now.

"I followed silver…she is working for sunshine and is bedding him as well..she wants to get back at you for cheating on her or something along those lines.." I said looking down and spot slammed his hand on the table. "she wants to use me since I am new to help out with their plans to get spots territory.." I said softly and spot looked at me and got up punching the wall and I jumped shutting my eyes scared out of my mind right now…Damn it wolf..