Around noon the next day newsies began straggling in. Lucky was ready for them with bunks and bandages. With every new face she was searching, not finding Spot she would try to get any information she could but it was sketchy at best. Kristie came over and began to help her by tending to Blink who had a broken rib and a pair of black eyes. Mush and Hades came in together, supporting each other. Hades had a large head injury and Mush was limping on what seemed to be a twisted ankle. Thankfully all of the newsboys were slowly coming back, all of them injured of course but confident they had been victorious. Finally, Jack Kelly arrived.

            Lucky ran towards him. "Jack what happened?" she asked anxiously.

            He sat down exhausted, his shirt was drenched in sweat and blood though it was not his own. "We've beaten them." He said tiredly. "All the Brooklyn newsies that made it stayed behind to make sure they held on to it. But we caught Stuart so I think we have solved the problem."

            "So Spot stayed behind?" she said bandaging a cut on his arm.

            "Lucky…Haley we don't know where Spot is." Jack said softly.

            She looked at him quickly. "What do you mean you don't…" but she was interrupted by a commotion coming up the stairs.

            Two Brooklyn newsies came in holding a very wet Stuart. He struggled to break free but they held him firmly. "Here he is Kelly." One of the newsies said handling him roughly.

            Stuart looked up at Jack and laughed harshly. "Bet you never thought I would cause this much trouble? Did you Cowboy?"

            Jack turned to Lucky ignoring Stuart's comments. "He was the last one to see Spot." He said frowning.

            "Oh Hello Lucky." He smiled. "How ya been? Mister Creeton misses you."

            A disgusted shiver ran through Lucky as she stared at Stuart and came to a full understanding of what he had done to her. "Where's Spot?" she asked walking towards him slowly.

            "Hmmmmm, the last time I saw him he was floating towards the bottom of the river." Stuart smirked. "I think he might be dead." He began laughing sardonically.

            Lucky reached out quickly and slapped him hard. "Shut Up!" Tears were in her eyes and as she looked up she almost fell over.

 There on the stairs was cockroach holding Spot's cane. "One of the fellas said they found it in the river." He sniffed.

Lucky walked towards him quickly and picked him up in a hug. She knew, just as he did that only death could take the cane from the mighty leader's grip. Lucky took the cane from cockroach and walked slowly towards the fire escape. She stopped right in front of the window. "I never want to see that man again." A cold voice came out of her that no one recognized.

"Haley." Jack said starting to come after her.

"Leave me in peace Jack Kelly…Just leave me." She began to climb up the fire escape toward the roof.

Lucky sat on the roof looking at the bridge for what seemed like an eternity. No matter how long I wait, she thought, he will still be gone. She buried her head in her hands and let out a low moan. Tears poured down her face and it felt like a hole had opened inside of her. She wondered why she had let him go and why she hadn't told him how much she loved him but rational thought told her it was too late for that. A small part of her wanted to keep hoping but that part was very small and she didn't trust it. She knew it would drive her mad questioning but a part of her didn't care. Lucky turned when she heard footsteps on the stairs and her heart leapt up thinking it was Spot.

Hades came walking up the stairs with tears in her eyes. "Hey kid." She said and her voice trembled.

"I thought…" Lucky felt new tears fall. "I thought you might be him…but you couldn't be could you?"
            Hades moved to sit next to her. "I know. I'm going to miss him too. We all are."
            "Hades I loved him." She whispered. "He never knew"

Hades sighed. "I'm sure he knew…" she frowned because inside she wasn't so sure and inside she hurt because of the unfairness of it all. They loved each other. They had the real thing and they never knew it, she thought and suddenly she wanted to be near Mush. "Come down stairs huh?"

Lucky looked at her for a moment as if she didn't even see her. Her eyes were blank with despair. She nodded slowly and helplessly. Weakly Lucky stood up and clinging to the rail she made her way back into the bunkroom. She looked from face to face and as her gaze fell to Jack Kelly. He shivered. He had never seen Lucky Peterson this helpless and it was scaring him. She walked towards Stuart who was still being held hostage. Her voice shook with contempt, "What did you do to him?"

Stuart looked at her smiling. "Do you want to know the dirty details?"

"Lucky no!" Kristie said from where she stood next to Blink.

"I want to know what happened." She said through gritted teeth.

"I distracted him with the story of our time together in Boston." He smiled and Lucky flinched slightly. "I stabbed him while he wasn't looking and we both went into the river. I was the only one able to come back up."

Lucky's hands flexed and reflexed with rage. "Why isn't he out of here yet Kelly?" she yelled. "I want him out of here now!"

"We gotta figure out what to do with him." Jack said quietly. "We can't let him cause anymore trouble around here."

Lucky nodded. "Fine…then I'm outta here." She walked towards the door.

"Lucky!" Roach ran towards her and clutched at her skirt. "Lucky take me with you." He said through tears.

She looked down at the small frightened little boy clutching at her and she wanted to help him, but as his gaze met hers she found herself remembering Spot and the pain came back tenfold. "No Roach not this time." She pulled him off of her skirt and walked towards Medda's. She walked into Irving Hall and sat on the stage. Her tears fell onto the stage floor and she heard Medda call her name from somewhere very far away, somewhere without the blinding pain. She tried to raise her head but Lucky's strength had run out and now she didn't know what to do.

All right how's this chapter? Bad good let me know. I'm thinking about a rewrite for it…I don't know just let me know!! Review pleaseeeee! Oh and I don't own Newsies all the other character rights have been mentioned previously…yadda yadda!

Lucky aka Darlin'