The wait is over. I'm really sorry for my long hiatus, but I'm back to writing now. Don't worry I haven't abandoned this story! I have just been really busy, with two auditions in the past week (cross your fingers for call backs!), dance, and the holidays, and I've been feeling rather uninspired, so I decided to take a break. This chapter is really short and that's because I'm posting the next chapter immediately after, but I wanted this one to end a certain way. You'll see. Anyways, thanks to AllysaBarnaba for her wonderful review that made me finish writing these chapters.

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Katherine awoke to bright sunlight shining through the window. She looked around frantically for a moment wondering how she had gotten to be laying on the windowsill. Suddenly the events of the previous night came flooding back to her. Jack had never shown up. She looked at the crumpled drawing in her hand. Something had happened to him. She just knew it somewhere deep inside of her that there was something wrong, and she most certainly was not going to sit around when Jack could be in trouble. She couldn't shake the feeling that her father was behind this.

Katherine stood up carefully, rubbing her neck, which was extremely sore from sleeping on the windowsill and made her way over to the bathroom. In the bright light, she could see the faint gray smudges under her eyes. Her hair could be described as just short of chaos and her skirt and blouse were horrible wrinkled. She sighed splashing some water on her face and attempting to run a brush through her hair. Finally satisfied enough with her appearance she went into the bedroom to change.

She decided she would head to the lodging house. If Jack wasn't there, the boys at least might know where he was.

Katherine knocked on the door to the lodging house again impatiently. What was taking so long? Finally she heard footsteps and the clicking of someone unlatching a lock. Race swung open the door. His eyes got wide, and he proceeded to slam the door in her face.

"Race!" she yelled, pushing on the door that Race was now barricading shut. "What the heck, let me in!" she called out with one final push. The door flew open and Race stumbled backwards.

"Damn it," he muttered rubbing his shoulder, and turning to face her with a cheerfully forced smile "Hi ya Katherine, whatcha doing here?"

"Where's Jack?" she replied, trying to peer into the room behind him.

"Umm…" Race looked around nervously "He's busy, um, this ain't a good time come back later, um, okay bye!" He moved to slam the door but Katherine was quicker.

"I'll find him myself." She said pushing past Race and making her way into the room full of bewildered faces of newsies.

"Where's Jack?"

They all stared at her looking utterly terrified.

"Look, I know he's here, just tell me where he is!" she was practically screaming at this point.

Finally, Romeo shakily pointed towards the stairs to the roof. Race gave him a death stare and proceeded to chase after Katherine who was already making her way up the stairs.

"Look Katherine, this really isn't a good idea…please Katherine, stop!"

Katherine reached the top of the stairs and gasped.

Major cliffhanger I know. Lucky for you I will be posting the next chapter in oh 3 seconds.