Last time.

"Angel you okay?" Jack says, gently helping me up.

"Yeah, Im fine Jack, just a little sore" I say wincing, he sighs and just brings me into his arms. I smile as I hug him back taking in his smell of paper, ink and tobacco.

"What you couldn't stay away" David says

"Well I guess I cant be something I aint." Jack says wrapping an arm around me waist to keep me up.

"What a Scab?" David says sarcastic like.

"No, Smart" Jack says smartly back. I end up laughing at them.

Now

The three of us end up at Davys house so I can get cleaned up again.

"How do you get yourself into these situations?" Sarah says as I lay on the bed.

"Honestly" I say with a wince "I haven't the slightest idea. It just happens"

She just laughs a little at me and I give her a smile. Sarah and I have become, dare I say friends. Gasp I know right, you're thinking how on earth can you be friends with her? Well she's really not that bad. I promise.

After Sarah finishes cleaning me up I slip my shirt back on over the bandage as Jack walks back in and sits down on the bed with me. He takes my hand in his and weaves our figures together. I smile lightly.

"So Denton wrote an article about us, it's really good We are going to talk to him about it if you want to come, If not I understand" he says giving my hand a squeeze.

"You know what, lets go" I say with a smile, he grins and grabs my hand helping me up onto my feet.

Denton's apartment

Jack, Davy, Less and I walk up to his door, Jack knocks on the door shooting me a look. On the way over we both read the story that Denton wrote about the Newsies and sweat shop kids.

"Did you mean what you wrote here? 'Bout all these sweat shop kids listening to me?" Jack says as soon as Denton opens the door. Always right to the point.

"I don't write anything I don't mean. Come on in. I'm just packing a few things." Denton says as the four of us walk in. I look around the apartment in a longing way. Its something that I've always longed for.

"So, yes, I mean it. The city thrives on child labor. A lot of people
make money that way. They're terrified that the newsies strike will spread." Denton says

I sigh as I look at everything again blocking out the conversation between everyone at the moment. Everything is about to change, I can just feel it in my heart something big is coming. Then David says something that snaps me out of my day dream

"Yeah, but our man Denton has something more important
to do. He's going to be an ace war correspondent, right Denton?" David says looking at Denton. I look at him then back to Jack a bit confused. He smiles a little at us.

"Alright where do we start?" Denton says. We all give a big smile knowing something is going to change.

"Alright, we gotta move fast. Now, we'll need the newsies to circulate." Jack says sitting at the table. We all sit down on.

"Not just Newsies from Manhattan though we are gonna need them from all over the place." I say lightly.

"There's something else that we need. We need a printing press." Denton says a little down.

"Just so happens I know a guy with a printing press" Jack says with a smirk. We all look at him a bit confused.

We all take Less home for the night knowing that none of us will be sleeping tonight. Jack then takes me hand and leads us to the World building.

"This is your bright idea?" I whisper to Jack he just gives me a big grin.

"Well this is it" Jack whispers we all look at him as he uncovers Planten press, wow that's old.

"Alright! A Platen press. Looks like old man Pulitzer never threw anything away." Denton says I laugh lightly knowing it's a good thing for us.

"Is it going to work?" David asks

"It better. We have a deadline." Denton says and we all start working on the press. I grin as Jack walks over to me and rests his head on my shoulder,

"We are going to be making a difference Angel" he says

"I know" I say turning and lightly kissing his lips.

A few hours later we are finished with all the papers that we had to make. Jack lightly lifts me out of the window where David helps me up. We all head back to the lodging house and hand all the papers out so everyone can get them out. I end up heading out with Mush. The whole rest of the day we give papers to everyone. Later we all meet at the Horace Greeley statue.

I stand there watching all he boys talking, laughing some playing around but everyone has a worried expression on their face. Its something to be expected from a day like today. Suddenly a huge group of people come up in front of us. It looks like everyone from the whole state is here!

I watch as Jack and David walk into the world to go talk to Pulitzer, I give a huge sigh knowing this could go either way for us.

"SPOT!" I yell as soon as I see him. He grins running to me and as soon as he catches me he picks me up and spins me around. I laugh as he sets me down.

"Angel it's gonna change something big is going down!" He says excitingly.

"What's taking them so long?" I'm now starting to freak out a little after about an hour of no news, Mush comes up behind me.

"It's not something that's gonna be like bing bang boom Angel" he says with a roll of his eyes. Suddenly the gates open and David and Jack come rolling out. Jack walks up to Less and whispers something in his ear, then picks him up and puts him on his shoulders.

"We beat 'em!" Jack yells, we all yell in celebration of the fact that we won. Everyone's jumping around hugging each other, in all the commotion I get separated from Jack and everyone else but I don't even notice. I'm just so excited that we beat them and end up celebrating with everyone else. But then the noise from the people stop and I see the Warden with Crutchy, only the Warden is in cuffs. I try to get through the crowed to get a better look but I'm unsuccessful. I than hear a loud cheer from where the Warden is making me realize that they just arrested him.

I push through the crowd to the side and climb up on a bench that's there to get a better look. I give a sad smile as I see Jack climb into the Governors carriage, knowing he's off to the train yard. He says good bye to everyone but looks around suddenly realizing something. His eyes then catch mine and I lift my hand up to him as if to say goodbye. A hurt look passes over his face but also a look of understanding. New York is my home its where my family is where my life is. He understands that it seems.

"Angel!" I hear my brother yell as he runs towards me. I grin as I jump into his arms and he spins me around.

"Mush we did it!" I say as he puts me down.

"I know I cant believe we did it." He says with a huge smile.

"Hey Angel you okay?" Race asks lightly knowing that I was supposed to go with Jack but missed the carriage.

"Ill be okay Race." I say giving him a light smile. "Sides don't we have work to do?" I say running up to the distribution center, I hear them all laugh behind me.

I run up to where I'm right behind David.

"A hundred papes" He says slamming down the money.

"Wo alright Davy!" My brother yells slapping him on the shoulder. A few more of the Newsies get their papes before I do, that's when I hear the screams and the cheers. I watch as the carriage Jack was in comes back into the square with him still riding in it. Davy walks down to meet it as I stand up and watch from the back as I have been doing the last few days.

"Thanks for the advice, Governor. Like you said, I still got things to do. Besides, I got family here" Jack says as he looks at the Newsies then right at me.

"So, how's the headline today?" Jack says walking up to Davy

"Headlines don't sell papes, newsies sell papes." Davy says smartly back at him. I smile as I make my way down to where they are at. I watch for a minute as they do a spit shake I also see Sarah making her way over to us as well. I make it to the boys before she does though. Jack takes one look at me and grabs me by the waist and brings me toward him so that our bodies are molded together. I grin up at him as he molds our lips together perfectly. We brake away as we hear everyone cheering and making cat calls but he rests his forehead against mine.

"I love you Angel, I couldn't leave without you" He says looking directly into my eyes. I give a big smile

"I love you too Jack" I whisper molding our lips back together my hands going to his chest as his go around my waist. We brake apart again as I hear my brother fake throwing up. I laugh at him as well as everyone else. I look out over at everyone and see the faces of the people I've come to love as a family looking back at me. Then I look up at the man whose arm is around my waist and see him looking at me with pure love in his eyes.

I'm finally home where I'm meant to be.

Well its finally done. Im so happy just to be done with this. I know the last chapter isnt good. But i kind of lost my muse for this story. So Ending time!

:)