He doesn't want to do this. He'd already done it once before and it hadn't ended well, but he has to do it. He has to do it for Katherine, for his son, for himself. He can still feel the way Peters body had shook with sobs the night before, he swore to himself he wasn't gonna let that happen again. Jacks breathing is shallow as he makes his way up to the police desk, a dainty lady with thinning grey hair is seated behind the desk. The lady watches with narrowed eyes as he approaches.

"Can I help you?" She asks sounding very bored.

"Um, yea I'd like to visit with a prisoner here..." Jack said, the words sounded strange coming from him.

"Prisoner name?" She asked looking at him through her glasses.

"Jack Kelly."

"Follow Officer Sipes." The lady says and gestures to the man standing behind her chair. The guard is silent as he leads Jack through a series of dark hallways, the air is misty and cold and it gives Jack a sense of dread. They pass jail cell after jail cell which were mostly filled with prisoners in faded orange jumpsuits. Jack kept his head down as they passed the cells, he wasn't too keen on making small talk with any more prisoners then he had to. They turned into a particularly gloomy hall way that was painfully familiar to Jack, he'd been down this hallway before. They stopped in front of cell 457 the guard stepped forward and slapped the bars which made a loud echo down the hall.

"Kelly! Get up, you have a visitor!" The guard barked into the cell. Jack felt his heartbeat accelerate as he caught a glimpse of the man lying down on a bunk in the far corner, unlike most of the other cells this man was alone. The shady man lifted his head up and blinked a few times at Jack before his face broke into a sickening smile. He barked a laugh and sat up.

"Well, well. Look at who it is, can that really be my Jack-y boy?" The man asked. He had a long unshaven beard and a gruffly face, his eyes were dark and sunken. His black hair was shaggy and streaked with gray, he smelt almost as bad as he looked. His orange jumpsuit was more faded than any Jack had seen, it was stained and smelt like it hadn't been washed in a week. "How long has it been now? 12 years?" The man asked and pushed himself to his feet and limped his way to the bars. "Step a little closer, let me get a good look at ya my boy." Jack clenched his jaw and tentatively stepped into the light, he was careful not to be in his reach, he knew exactly what thoes hands were capable of. He'd once had bruises to prove it. "I'm must say Jack, you grew up nicely." The man said looking Jack up and down.

"You missed it all." Jack said darkly not able to help himself.

"What could I do? It's a little hard to watch your boy grow up behind bars." The man said and clutched the rusty bars. "But I guess there wasn't much to miss, got yourself thrown into jail didn't you, got arrested for what was it again? Food? Clothing?" Jack glared at the man, he could clearly remember getting arrested. In fact it had been just after the last time he had visited his father in this awful place, he'd been 14 at the time, he'd left there vowing to himself to never let any one of his boys who got arrested end up like his father. So he'd left the jail and headed straight for the Market, he got caught before he could get the food to the boys.

"I didn't do it for myself." Jack said his voice low. The man chuckled at Jack.

"Didn't do it for yourself? Perhaps you did it to make a point? To prove you are in fact a lot like myself?" He asked.

"I am nothing like you." Jack said glaring at the dirty man. The man tiled his head to the side a bit as if he were thinking hard.

"Is that so?" He said and tapped his unshaven chin. "It seems to me we are in fact quite the same."

"If you haven't noticed dad, your the one with his sorry ass in jail, not me!" Jack snapped.

"That is true. But you've served your time, didn't finish it in fact. You also got your self involved with that little strike a few years back am I right?" He asked, Jack nodded slowly. His father laughed a cold, cruel laugh that sent shivers down Jacks spine. "Well I'll be dammed, herd you started the whole thing." He slapped the cold bar and it echoed down the hall. "I ain't ever been more proud of you then when I herd you'd beat that sorry ole' Pulitzer!" He laughed again, Jack just stared blankly at the man. He should have felt good that his father was proud of him but he wasn't, he felt empty and cold. "Then what happened to you? Oh yea, you hooked up with Joe's daughter and got her pregnant didn't you?"

"How did you-" Jack started to ask but his father cut him off.

"Oh please we ain't cut completely off from the world down here, these guards keep us updated on the lasted gossip, am I right Russell?" He asked the guard that stood a few feet away. The guard didn't even blink. He turned back to Jack. "Anyway, so you got little miss Pulitzer knocked-up and decided to hop that train to Santa Fe leaving her all alone. I can't believe you listened to thoes story's I used to tell you about that place."

"Joe put me on that train!" Jack shouted at his father. "I didn't want to go!" The man scoffed.

"Sure son, then you decided to come back to your little girlfriend to find out you got a kid. How old would he be know let's see... nine? Yes, now wasn't that the age you were when I was put in this hell hole?"

"Yes" Jack spit at him, "You left me."

"Just like you left your kid. Tell me Jack, how do you not have more children? Oh don't look at me like that If your anything like me -which you are- then you've screwed around with a lot more girls that just that pretty rich one." He said leering at Jack. Jack didn't respond. "That's what I thought. You may not want to admit it Jack but we are a lot alike. The only thing different is you still got your girl, I lost mine when you came into this world! Do me a favor son, when you go home tonight find Peter and thank him for not taking Katherine's life." That was it, Jack snapped. His hands shot through the bars and he clutched the front of his jumpsuit and yanked him up against the bars.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES?!?" He shouted his face inches from his fathers. There was a brief flash of fear in the mans dull eyes but it was soon replaced with an easy smile that Jack loathed with his hole body.

"She's the daughter of the riches man in New York, do you really think I don't read the papers? It ain't hard to miss when the people are talking. They was sayin' things like you got a hold of that pretty face then let er' go the second you got under her skirts." He said easily as if Jack was still 10 feet away. Jack glared at his father so hard the fear in the mans eyes returned briefly.

"She is more than a pretty face!" He snapped.

"Aww, you love her." His father said with sickening mushiness.

"Damn right I do!" Jack spit, his fathers face looked surprised at his words. "I am not perfect." Jack said slowly, he clutched the mans jumpsuit tighter "but I sure as hell ain't nothin' like you! I swear on my mothers grave that I will be a better father than youse could even dream of being! How dare you say we are alike, I will not end up like you!" Jack shouted at him and shoved him out of his grasp. With another glare Jack turned on his heel and headed off back down the corridor.

"You come back here Jack!" His father shouted. "You coward come back! You think you can save the world but you can't! Your a fool Jack Kelly! Don't you think your better than me cause' your not! You were born on the streets and you'll die on the streets!" His shouts didn't phase Jack as he rounded the corner, he kept shouting but his voice was growing faint and meaningless. Jack would be 1,000x the father he'd been. Jack wouldn't end up like his father, and Peter wasn't gonna end up like Jack, he'd be even better, he'd make sure of it. And Katherine, oh Katherine, his sweet Ace, she wasn't gonna end up like Jacks mother either. She wasn't gonna have a good for nothing husband, no, Katherine was gonna have the man she deserved. He'd make sure of it, if it was the last thing he did.

AUTHORS NOTE: ONE chapter left! Sense it took me forever to post the last chapter I decided to be nice and give you guys this one! Go me! Hahaha. I saw Newsies last night! It was so freaking amazing! I got a T-Shirt and every thing! (Yay!) comment and tell me what you think! I own noting! Thx