A/N Okay, sorry about the wait. School just started as you know, and well, just started high school so it was really hard to find time to update. But finally, you are about to find out if Tiger says yes or no to Spot. I know you've just been dying to find out. Haha, little sarcasm there. Well here it goes.

Disclaimer. Haven't done one of these in a while. I don't own Newsies or any of the songs in this story, w.e. If I did, life would be amazing. Okay, on with the show.

"Spot…"I said shaking. I had to come to terms with the fact that even though Spot forgave me and wanted me now, we could never be together. Why? You ask. Well, last night Angel said something I kinda didn't want to mention until now.

"What is it Tiger?" Spot said impatiently. "What's wrong. You've spent the past two days trying to make me jealous and now I'm telling you that it worked and you're just going to tell me what? That you've changed your mind?"

"Spot, Angel told me how you two met. She told me everything." I said, Now it was my voice that was shaking.

Spot looked like he'd just seen a ghost. "What did she tell you?" He asked in a monotone.

"She told me about your parents. The ones who live less than an hour's walk from here. The ones you ran away from eight years ago, Nicholas."

He jumped at the mention of his real name. "Don't ever say that name again!" He yelled.

"Why, its your name isn't it? The one that's going to be on the marriage certificate, right next to Angel's name." I added the last part quietly, partly trying to convince myself that this was really happening and it wasn't all a dream.

"She told you?" He asked softly.

"HAVEN'T WE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THIS? YES SHE TOLD ME!" I couldn't help screaming at him, but the anger I had felt all of last night and this morning came boiling over the top. I had nearly broken a window last night when Angel told me. (I had flung my hairbrush at her and she ducked and it hit the wall behind her, missing the window by inches.)

"I'm…I…I'm sorry, that you had to find out like this." Was all he managed to say.

"What, where you planning on telling me? When? When you where laying dying in an ally after Angel's parents hire hit men to kill you? Because that's what Angel said her parents would do if you didn't go back and marry her." I finished and looked Spot hard in the eye. He swallowed hard.

"Tiger, this was all set up before I was born. Yes, I was rich but I hated it. My parents weren't like yours. My mother didn't spend time with me the way yours did and my father was never around. So when I was seven I ran. It was right after I met Angel. She was as annoying then as she is now and I hated her. Then, yesterday I saw her when I was taking a walk down by y old house. I was sure no one would recognize me but she did. I told her that I would go with her if she gave me one last night to spend with the newsies. I figured it would buy me enough time to work out a way to get out of it. If I ran again, this time further away where no one would find me again. I wanted to do it with you."

"Me?" I was fighting very hard to hold back tears.

"Yea you. So come on. Let's go. We can go away from here, and start over, together." He said tugging on my hand.

"Spot no. It doesn't matter where we go, they'll find us. And what about my brother? I came so far to find him and waited so long to meet him and I've barely had two weeks with him. I love you Spot but there's nothing we can do."

"Tiger, you're brother and Aqua can come with us if you want. Please, I can't marry her. She's not you." He was pleading with me and it made my attempts at holding back my tears pointless. They came spilling out and I just stood there crying like a baby. Spot put his arms around me and for a minute I felt like nothing could touch us. That if we stayed like this we really could be together. But, as always, reality hit me hard in the face and I became all too aware of the fact that this was it. This would probably be the last time I cold ever be with Spot. The last time I could ever be held in his arms. The last time I would ever kiss him.

I lifted my face up to look him in the eye, but before I could do anything I felt his lips brush gently against mine. I closed my eyes to let the moment sink in. I wanted this feeling to last forever. When we finally pulled apart I looked and saw his eyes shining with tears as well.

"This is it, isn't it?" He asked turning away. "Your not going to help me." He made it sound like I enjoyed torturing him.

"Spot, there is nothing I can do. If there was you know this wouldn't be it."

"I know. But it's not fair. For the first time in eight years, I'm helpless. For the first time in eight years I can't have the one thing I want the most."

TIGER

I am here to tell you we can never meet again
Simple really, isn't it, a word or two and then
A lifetime of not knowing where or how or why or when
You think of me or speak of me and wonder what befell
That someone you once loved so long ago so well

SPOT
Never wonder what I'll feel as living shuffles by
You don't have to ask me and I need not reply
Every moment of my life from now until I die
I will think or dream of you and fail to understand
How a perfect love can be confounded out of hand
Is it written in the stars
Are we paying for some crime
Is that all that we are good for
Just a stretch of mortal time
Or some God's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day

"Spot, you have to marry her. If you don't you'll die."

"Maybe I'd rather die than marry that princess."

"Don't say that, you know that's not true!" I said wrapping my arms around him again.

TIGER

Nothing can be altered, there is nothing to decide
No escape, no change of heart, nor anyplace to hide

SPOT
You are all I'll ever want, but this I am denied
Sometimes in my darkest thoughts, I wish I'd never learned

BOTH

What it is to be in love and have that love returned

TIGER

Is it written in the stars
Are we paying for some crime
Is that all that we are good for
Just a stretch of mortal time

BOTH
For some God's experiment
In which we have no say
In which we're given paradise
But only for a day

"Tiger I swear I'll figure out a way for us to be together. I love you, Emma."

"I love you too." I watched Spot turn on his heel and walk away, probably to go meet his parents for the first time in eight years. He didn't look back. I just hoped he'd be okay. "Nicholas," I whispered and I ran out of the ally, down the street and to the circulation office where I knew Angel would be.

A/N okay, so Its been a while and its still a short chapter but I wanted to update before I got busy again. There is a new chapter in the works right now and hopefully I'll write it tonight. You know, at midnight when I think better. Come on, I know you do it too! R and R please!