Morning light shined into the bunk room, signaling it was time to wake up.

"Slip! Slip!" a small boy screamed.

"Yeah Snapper?" Slip Redwood smiled, ruffling the small boys hair.

"You won't believe the dream I just had—" The small boy began to ramble, drawing a smile from Slip's lips.

"Slip! Slip!" Sparkles cried, dissolving under his thin blanket. "I had a bad dream."

"What happened?" Slip gently uncovered the boy from bellow his sheets.

"You were on this— this battlefield and— and someone— someone—"

"Shhh. It's okay." The fifteen-year-old rubbed comforting circles on the younger boy's back.

"No! Someone— someone tried to kill you!" Sparkles's eyes were wide with fear.

"I'm not dead, am I?" Slip softly smiled, stroking his head.

"N— no! But— but youse— you were... there— there was blood and—" The ten-year-old looked down at his hands, as if seeing something else that wasn't there.

"Shhh." Slip hushed him. "It's okay."

"D*mn, how're you so good with children?" Hyper huffed stubbornly, crossing his arms.

Snapper gasped dramatically. "Slip! Hyper just cursed!"

Hyper let out an even more dramatic breathe of air. "Snapper! You've betrayed me!"

"And you wonder why none of them come to you." Books rolled his eyes and slapped Hyper's bicep. [so hyper is buff i see i sEE-] [beta.exe has broke like mcdonalds ice cream machine] (WOW) (EIJDJWOSIWJDW) (GREAT, NOW I JUST LAUGHED DURING CLASS) (THANKS BETA) [tHaTs mA jOb] [mAkIn pEoPlE lAuGh SiNcE 1899] (wow) (...) (were you even alive in 1899?) [mAyBe iM a TuCk] [aNd I nEvEr DiE] (lE gAsp) (the McDonalds machine hits different now that Hypers name is Hyper McDonalds) (yOU BROKE HIS ICE CREAM MACHINE BETA! NOW HIS BUSINESS WILL NEVAH TAKE OFF!) [NOOOOO]

"Nah, no one trusts him," Sling laughed, as Archer (Clint bARRRRRRRR) nodded his head.

"Hey!"

"You would think that being on this earth for 17 years you be mature." Rowan shook his head climbed down from his bed.

"I'm right here ya know!" Hyper spread his arms out.

"I can see." Slip chuckled, stepping towards the older boy but slipping on someone's cap and hitting the floor.

"HAHAHA—" Hyper broke out laughing until Slip glared at him. He cleared his throat. "I mean, Slip? Are you okay?" [WHY IS THIS ME] (lololol) his face was serious for a moment before a grin inevitably made it's way. Everything from there went down hill. Hyper bursted out laughing. "Sorry— sorry— it's just— your name— Slip— you get it— hahahaha— slip!"

Slip glared.

He rushed over to help her up but Slip just swatted his hand away.

"I'm fine," She huffed, then assessed the room.

Half of the boys were still asleep.

"WAKE UP!" Slip yelled, slapping a few of them with a pillow.

Then Ace tumbled down from his top bunk. [RIP-] [i mean uh] [ace you good] (HDHHCDJJDJ)

"I'M UP!" Laces screeched, sitting straight up and smashing his head into the bunk above his.

Slip sighed.

This was going to be a long day.

~~~~~~📰~~~~~~

"Good morning." Speed sighed dramatically.

"Morning," Mouse quietly said back.

"Morning!" Slip slung an arm around the two newsies.

"Morning Slip." Poet smiled a small smile.

Slip normally made her rounds saying hi to everyone in the lodging house.

"Morning Hype." Slip grabbed a tooth brush.

"Morning Slip," Hyper yawned out.

"BOOKS!" Rowan yelled, stomping into the bathroom.

"ROWAN!" Books emerged.

"Where is it?" Rowan grumpily crossed his arms. [ASDFGHJKL] [HE CROSSED HIS ATMS?] [ATMS WEREN'T EVEN INVENTED YET] (oH) (WAIT!) (T H A T S N O T W H A T I M E A N T-) [ITS FRICKIN 1 8 9 9 GET W THE PROGRAM izZy] (iM sOrRy)

"Where is what?" Books smiled innocently.

"My toothbrush." Rowan said slowly, as if talking to a child.

"I don't know." Books shrugged, before going back to whatever he was doing.

"I KNOW YOU HAVE IT!" Rowan grabbed Books's shoulders and shook him roughly, as if that would solve his problems.

"I— don't— AH have— it—" Books said in between shakes.

"Yes ya do!" Rowan glared, but stopped shaking him nonetheless.

"Tell 'em to shut up," Hyper grumbled, toothpaste in his mouth. He sounded more like 'Teh 'm t shuh' uhp." (Pronounced: (teh mm tt shuh up) [izzy you do realize that the dashes are used to separate syllables-] (....) (it's not my fault my brain flew off to Santa Fe) [like people don't go "sHhH uHh"]

"Yeah yeah yeah." Slip huffed after spitting out her toothpaste.

"Slip!" Snapper ran in.

"Yeah Snaps?" She ruffled the small boy's hair.

"Rowan and Books are fighting again." His eyes filled with worry.

"It's okay." Slip kneeled down to his level. "I know."

"I don't like it when they fight." Snapper whimpered. "It's scary. I don't want them to break up."

But they're not together, Slip thought. She shook her head and stroked Snapper's hair. "Just go help Ace and Sparkles get ready. You know they need help." (future editing Izzy here! the couple lines are so cringe, curtesy of beta ofc,  but the fact i published this chap without noticing is ✨gold✨ so im keeping them)

"I know." Snapper crossed his arms. "Ace is like my little brother!"

"You bet." Slip smiled.

Snapper grinned a toothy grin before running off.

Sighing, Slip stood up.

"Time to deal with the idiots."

~~~~~~📰~~~~~~

"Idiots!" Slip yelled over the two fighting.

"IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU'RE IRRESPONSIBLE!"

"WELL IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT I'M IRRESPONSIBLE."

Silence.

"Wait a minute-"

"Hah! Youse such a losah."

"I'm not a losah! Youse a losah!"

"Never mind! Youse right! I'm a losah."

"Hah!"

"But youse a flobberworm!"

"I'm a- what?"

Slip put her hands in her head.

Her right hand man (child) was a losah, and his best friend is a flobberworm.

(This is totally not based on my arguments with Beta) (t o t a l l y) (n o t) [izzy is the flobberworm] (I-) (yeah...)

"Both of ya's shut up!" Slip silenced them.

Both of their heads snapped up to her.

"Now, you's gonna do us all a favor and hug it out." Slip crossed her arms. "Or we're bringing back the get-along-shirt."

Both of their faces paled dramatically.

No one wins with the get-along-shirt...

~~~~~~📰~~~~~~

After more painful arguing, people falling over, and other crazy stuff, we all made it it the door.

"Wait! I forgot my slingshot—" Sling began before Slip cut him off.

"Too late!" And with that, she pushed them all out the door.

Just as they made it down to the church, the nuns walked out with trays full of cold coffee. [*insert ben cooks beautiful vibrato here*] [cURDLEDDDD COFFEEEEEEEE] [CONCREEETTE DONUTS SPRIIIINKLED W MOLD]

"Thank ya sista," Hyper said, and tipped his hat before chugging the coffee down.

"I'm sorry 'bout 'im," Slip apologized, grabbing a cup for herself.

"Can I have coffee?" Sparkle asked, a bright shine shone in his eyes. [AWW] Slip crouched down to the 8 year olds level.

"Depends, do youse want to be like-" Slip pointed to the goofballs behind her. "-those idiots all day?" Sparkle quickly shook his head. "Then I advise against it."

Slip looked at the clock tower.

"A'right newsies of Queens, let's get a move on!" Everyone groaned, and chugged the rest of their coffee before handing the cups back to the nuns. "Thank ya sisters." Slip smiled. ("Newsies of Queens" just doesn't have the same ring as "nEwsiEs oF nEw yOrK" {eYO!})

"Not a problem Anastasia." Slip smiled softly. It had been a while since she had heard her real name.

"Say hi to Manhattan for me."

"As always."

~~~~~~📰~~~~~~

When they finally got to Queens' circulation center, the headline was just about to go up.

"Please no more trolley strike!" Speed begged, crossing his fingers.

The new headline went up. Boy did Speed jinx them.

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