Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of the Newsies, the songs, or the plot line in anyway. Anything or anyone that you recognize from the movie belongs to the movie. I am not claiming ownership in any way, shape, or form. I'm just a girl who loves the movie and wants to write about it.

Chapter 7

Hannah

Trignifty's Point of View

The sun came streaming through the window, breaking into my dreams. I sat up and looked around me, stunned. I was in a large room filled with bunk beds. Then it all came back to me, the arena, being pulled into New York City 1900, selling papes with Mush, the argument at the newsboys lodging house, and then coming here.

"Hey! Get up! Everyone up!" One of the older girls called, "Up! Up! Up!" I tried to remember what her name was; I think she had said that it was Katie. She was the leader of the Manhattan newsgirls, with Pippa "second in command". "Rise and shine! Time to get up! Get up now!" She yelled again. Soon the room was full of about 40 groggy girls getting ready for the day, getting dressed, brushing teeth, and braiding hair. Then one girl started whistling, another started singing and soon we were all singing and dancing, probably making total fools of ourselves, but having a heck of a good time doing it.

We got to the distribution center about the same time as the rest of the newsies. I found Mush in the crowd and he grinned at me.

"Hey Trig!" he called

"Hi Mush!" I said running over, "do you mind if Seagull sells with us?"

"Not at all"

"Great," I said hugging him. We bought our papers and headed out into New York City, carryin' the banner.

"Um, I was wondering, if um, you could take me to Brooklyn," ventured Seagull, about an hour after we started selling.

"Brooklyn? You wanna go to Brooklyn?" asked Mush, shock obvious in his voice.

"Yup, you gotta problem with that?"

"Spot Conlon's territory?" asked Mush, as if trying to clarify.

"Yes! How many times to I need to say it?" exclaimed Seagull.

"It's just that…well, Spot's a bit…um dangerous ya know? And Brooklyn ain't the friendliest part of New York either," replied Mush.

"I know that, that's exactly what everyone has been telling me," said Sea, obviously frustrated.

"Why don't 'cha ask Jack or Pippa or Katie?" asked Mush, "I mean, the three of 'em are actually friends with Spot, he actually taught Pippa how to fight."

"Well, I wouldn't be able to find them now," she replied, "please Mush?" Sea was now using the 'big-puppy-dog-eyes' technique and it seemed to work.

"A'right, fine, I'll take you to Brooklyn, but, why do you wanna go there anyway?"

Sea shrugged "curiosity."

About an hour later we arrived at the docks. Seagull was practically hyperventilating by now. Suddenly she saw Spot and squealed, then took off running down the dock, slipped on a wet patch and fell flat on her face. I ran over to help her up.

"Who's the clumsy one now?" I said grinning evilly.

"Oh shut up."

Now the three of us, Seagull, Mush, and I were surrounded by the Brooklyn newsies. "Make way! Make way!" We heard him before we saw him. Then we looked up and saw Spot standing in front of us. Man, he's even shorter in real life than he looks in the movie. He looked at Sea and me for a minute then turned to Mush. "So Mush, how's it rollin'?"

Mush shrugged, "pretty good."

"And what brings you to Brooklyn?"

Mush nodded to Seagull "That goil there, the one that fell, wanted to come, she said her reason was 'curiosity'" sarcasm was a little too obvious in his voice.

"Well there ain't much here," said Spot, turning to Sea, "except boats, docks, and the smell of fish."

Sea shrugged "so?"

"So, there's no reason for you to come 'ere" said Spot.

See crossed her arms "I go where I want to and this is where I want to go."

Spot turned back to Mush "and I'm supposed to be stuck with 'er until she's satisfied her 'curiosity'?"

"That's about the size of it" said Mush shrugging, "but actually, you'll only be stuck with 'er until tonight."

Spot stood lost in thought but then turned back to Sea, "a'right, you can stay 'ere but just for today, and today only."

Seagull squealed, jumped up, and hugged him. The expression on Spot's face was priceless, something between total shock and a look that said "do I really need to spend the rest of my day with her?!?"

I turned to Mush, "let's get outta here before he changes his mind." He nodded and we left in a hurry. We hadn't got far when we heard the sounds of a fight.

Mush groaned "will it never end?" but then he took off in the direction that the sounds were coming from, we arrived at an alley and looked in, it was 3 older boys taking down a younger…girl? Sheesh, how horrible! "Trig, don't get into this," warned Mush. He pulled out a slingshot and took careful aim. The stone flew and hit one of the boys square in the eye; another pebble hit another right on the nose (literally) and after several more stones the three boys went sprinting out of the alley as fast as their legs could take them.

"I thought only the Brooklyn newsies used slingshots," I said, as Mush let the last pebble fly.

"They used to be the only ones but more and more newsies have been using 'em." We ran over to help the girl up, she looked to be about my age, maybe a little older, with brown hair, hazel eyes, and an altogether "hardened" appearance. "Was the Delancy's botherin' you?" asked Mush as she brushed herself off.

"What did it look like?" She shot back, obviously angry, "of course they were!"

"Wow, anger management issues" I muttered, Mush heard me and grinned.

"Sure, sure, ok, who was the other one?"

"Richard Erickson" said the girl promptly.

"Hmm, you seem to know a lot, I didn't even know who he was" said Mush thoughtfully, "anyway, you got a name?"

"Hannah, and yours?"

"I'm Mush, she's Trignifty, or Trig," said Mush nodding to me. "So why was the Delancy's botherin' you?" he asked.

She shrugged, "I don't rightly know, probably tryin' to knock me off the map before I can do anythin' horrible to 'em, ya know?"

"No, I don't know," I said, "what do you mean by that?"

"They killed my brother, I want to give them what they deserve" answered Hannah calmly.

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