A/N: Okay so this is my first fanfic so I don't know how well it's going to turn out, but here it goes. Oh and there's x's separating the scenes because the horizontal line wouldn't show up.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my story line and my characters Lilly and Casey.

Time Warp: 1899 Edition

Chapter 1: Jack Kelly and a Place to Stay

"Casey!" I yelled as I felt a popcorn kernel hit my face.

"Lillith!" my best friend screamed back at me mockingly. I smiled at how she used my full name for once. My name's Lillith but people just call me Lilly. My best friend is Casey who is the one repeatedly attacking me with popcorn at the moment while I'm trying to watch my, well, our favorite movie of all time; Newsies! My parents were out of town for two weeks so I had the house to myself and invited Casey over. It was the middle of August so we didn't have to worry about school or anything.

"Casey stop! I'm trying to enjoy Spot Conlon!" I screamed while brushing a pile of popcorn off of me.

"Psh, Spot's no where near as good as my Cowboy." She said smirking.

"Yeah, yeah keep tellin' yourself that." I said while watching King of New York. Then a thought hit me. "Why is Spot only seen dancing once? And it's not even really like dancing dancing, it's just like hand gestures. But he looked awesome doing those hand gestures!" I said, blushing at my rambling. I did that sometimes.

"Jack dances." Casey said with a smirk on her face.

"Of course he does." I muttered while thinking 'Does Spot Conlon know how to dance?' Well, if I ever find a way into the Newsies world, I'll make it my life goal to teach him to dance, no matter how stubborn he is about it. But sadly that will most likely never happen. I sighed, running my hands through my dark brown hair while thinking about the whole thing.

Suddenly, Jack appeared on the screen and Casey dove towards it, expecting to hug the TV, but instead she went right through the screen. No, she didn't break it, I mean she actually went through the TV, like the screen ate her.

"Casey!" I screamed in shock. I was about to begin crying. I didn't know what had happened but it scared me and I was worried about Casey. I inched towards the now blank screen and reached my hand out to poke it, but instead my finger went straight through the screen. I shrieked in fear and excitement and thought whether or not to go through it. Sure there's a chance of me floating through a separate dimension for the rest of my life but my friend had just jumped through it and I wasn't about to leave her by herself. So, mustering up all the courage I had, I leaped into the screen with my eyes shut tight and landed on something hard with a thud. I opened my eyes and realized I was laying face first in dirt. I stood up and brushed my clothes off and was astonished. I had on completely different clothing.

My curly brown hair was tied back in a bun with a black newsboy cap on my head. My body was clothed with a red and black flannel collared shirt along with black dress pants with oh, what's this? Red suspenders! That just made my day. Now, to find my friend.

"Oof!" I yelped out as I fell to the ground by an unknown force.

"Hey girl!" I heard Casey yell as I helped myself up. "Aren't you excited?!" she asked jumping around. I looked at my surroundings with shock, amazement, fright, and happiness. We were in 1899 New York! "Lilly?" I heard Casey ask.

My mind didn't know what to think so instead my brain made me mutter out "Er, uh ,ugh!" before I passed out.

Xxx

"Is she alright?" I heard a male voice ask as I came to.

"I dunno., she looks really bad, like a ghost or somethin'" I heard another voice say.

"Ugh." I groaned.

"Oh my gosh Lilly!" I felt a pair of arms wrap around me in a tight hug and I gasped for air.

"Casey! Can't breathe!" I gasped out.

"Oh my gosh! Sorry!" she shrieked.

"It's alright." I laughed and then looked around the room at three male faces staring at us. "Um, Case, where are we?" I asked getting bit weirded out with all of the familiar looking newsboys – wait. Newsboys? "Oh my gosh! We're in 1899 New York?!" I screamed.

Casey couldn't hide her own excitement as she screamed "Yes!" We hopped up screaming and started dancing like extremely crazy people in a circle. We stopped when we noticed the stares we were getting.

"Actually it's the year 1900. You's goils alright in the head there?" a familiar voice asked.

"Um, yeah Jack we're fi-" I froze in mid sentence. I was talking to Jack Kelly! Francis! 'Okay Lilly, play it cool.'

"Fine." I squeaked out, Casey looking like she wanted to explode with laughter.

Jack didn't even try to hide the smile on his face as he said 'Well good cuz we don't want nobody to be hoit or nothin'. Specially two lovely goils such as yaselves."

Well, I knew Casey was falling for the Jack Kelly charm by the way her face was completely scarlette. Jack knew it too. "So, what do you two lovely ladies call yaselves?" he asked.

I cleared my throat and regained composure and said "Lillith Perkane, but please just call me Lilly."

"Nice to meetcha Lilly. Obviously you know who I am, but how?" he asked.

"Um, I'll explain later, that is, if you let us stay." I said, hoping he would say yes.

"Hm, well foist we gotta see how well ya are at sellin' papes, then I'll see what I can do." He said, and then walked over to Casey, who was completely frozen stiff.

"And who is this lovely lady here?" Jack said, taking Casey's hand and kissing it. "Surely an angel."

Casey was frozen solid, pieces of her blonde hair poking out from her own newsboy cap. I had to elbow her in the stomach in order to make her speak. "Oh! Uh, er, Casey Sanders, at your service." She said , her voice shaking.

Jack smiled at her and then released her hand, walking over the small group of recognizable boys. "So, do I need to introduce these boys heah, or do you's know them already too?" he asked, throwing his arms around Mush's and Kid Blink's shoulders.

"Nope we're all good with names." I said smiling.

"Well good, that means we can all get to sellin' papes fasta." He said while leading the clan towards the door. The whole lot of us crowded down the stairs and out of the building to the outside world.

"Now, the foist thing you's gotta know about sellin' papes is that-"

Casey cut him off saying "Headlines don't sell papes, newsies sell papes."

I looked over at Jack's face and wanted to laugh. He looked like he was just dumped by a girl, eyes bugged out and expression in shock. "How'd you know that? You's said you weren't from around heah. Now I ain't in school, but I'm pretty surah New York is the only home of newsies. Now you wanna tell me where you's are from?" he demanded.

"Ugh. Okay, um, well you wanna sit down somewhere cuz it's a bit of a story." I said and he nodded, guiding everyone towards Tibby's.

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So after me and Casey explained our long and 'exciting' story, and Jack and the crew finally believed us, we were on our way towards the lodge house seeing as it was getting late. Man how time flies. "Stay out here and I'll go ask if you's can stay heah for a while, or until you's figure out how to get back home." Jack said and then walked inside of the lodge house.

"Hey Case. Not to rain on this parade but, how are we getting home?" I asked.

"I dunno Lilly, but for now let's just enjoy this. For all we know it could be a dream." Casey replied.

Releasing the tension, I pinched her arm and she yelped in pain. I laughed and said "Well your in pain so it's no dream, but your right. We need to enjoy this while we can."

"Yupyup!" she said, both of us turning towards the opening door. Jack walked out and sat in between us on the stoop and put his arms around each of our shoulders. I could see Casey blushing. "Well goils, it'll be a pleasah havin' you's stay ova." He said smiling. Both me and Casey squealed and hugged him in thanks. He laughed and returned the hugs for a moment, Casey holding onto him for longer than necessary, and then released us, guiding us inside and up the stairs towards an unfamiliar old looking, tattered door. Before opening it he turned to us and began to explain.

"Well this is the room we newsies used to live in before our current room was cleared out. Thanks to me, you's goils get to sleep heah. Although I gotta warn ya, some of the guys around heah ain't as nice as me and the boys, so watch yaselves and be careful. If you's need anything I'm right across the hall. Night goils." He walked off into the room across the hall, noisy chatter of the guys could be heard. As Jack shut his room door, Casey and I opened ours and walked inside.

The room looked old with lots of bunk beds sprawled out across the room. The walls were a pale white and some of the paint was chipping off. The room was dimly lit and dusty. "So which bunk bed should we claim as ours?" Casey asked.

"Well they're all such great choices." I said sarcastically.

Casey laughed and plopped herself on a bottom bunk near the window.

"I guess I'll take the top bunk then." I said while taking off my clothes to reveal a black tank top with grey sweat shorts underneath, and then climbed on the bunk above her and lied down. I was surprised there wasn't a cloud of dust when my head plopped on the pillow. The blanket smelled musky though but we could deal. I heard Casey settle under her covers as I shut my eyes.

"Lilly?" she asked.

The room was dark so I didn't bother to lean over the bunk to look at her. "Yeah?" I asked, gazing out the window. I could have sworn I saw shadowy figures hopping roofs. 'Yeah right like Spot would be in Manhattan." I thought.

"Do you think we're stuck here during the movie or like, it's just them living normal lives?" Casey asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Well Jack did say it was 1900." I said while still staring out the window.

"True." She yawned. "At least I get to sell papes with Jack Kelly tomorrow."

"True." I laughed. "Hey, I wonder what happened with Sarah."

"I don't care personally." Casey said smugly.

"Well I do." I said while laughing.

"Well you can ask him tomorrow then." She said, the mattress squeaking from her rolling over.

"Well, I will then. Goodnight Casey." I said and tore my eyes away from the window and rolled over.

"Night Lilly." Casey said, and then we both drifted off to sleep.

A/N: Okay, so yea that was pretty short but I'll try harder once I get reviews!!! =)

-Mel