Newsies Oneshots
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Glass Rainbows by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
24 Sep 2021
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"Jack Kelly’s world is as black as the sky above him. From the rooftop, he looks like the tiniest splodge of colour on the canvas of ink. This is how his days end, always the same, always dreaming of a new life somewhere pink and red and green as he gazes at the stars. He has the best life he has in a long time - in ever even - but he always feels there’s something missing."
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Jack gradually falls in love with Davey.
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- Part 1 of Newsies Oneshots
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Paper Hearts by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
26 Sep 2021
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"Jack Kelly doesn’t need to search for his happy ending, or even his dream come true. He could walk right down the middle of the dual carriageway if he wanted to, and nothing would hurt him, and nothing would change. Because his perfect life is here, in the form of Davey Jacobs."
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Jack ruins his life in 7 days.
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- Part 2 of Newsies Oneshots
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Silk Roses by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
28 Sep 2021
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"Jack intends to deliver those flowers and get the confession over with, but he ends up leaving them there until the petals go brown and one by one all fall off."
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Jack tries again and again to ask Davey out.
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- Part 3 of Newsies Oneshots
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Poison Souls by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
29 Sep 2021
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"He feels like doesn’t know Davey anymore. Ironic, really, for that thought to spiral into this - considering that he knows nothing about this woman other than the fact she writes for the newspapers, isn’t a virgin, and is someone that he doesn’t love."
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Jack and Davey's relationship is complicated.
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- Part 4 of Newsies Oneshots
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Patchwork Memories by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
30 Sep 2021
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"Laughter rippling through the night air, the smell of sweaty bodies fading, music vibrating through the walls of the pub, Jack and Davey tumble out the back door so fast that their faces press against the concrete beneath them. They’d been unbelievably lucky that everyone inside was way too wasted to notice the two of them dancing together; getting beaten up would be a not at all unfamiliar, but unfortunate way to end a date."
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Cute moments in Jack and Davey's relationship
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- Part 5 of Newsies Oneshots
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Perfect Strangers by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
02 Oct 2021
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"Davey doesn’t know all that much about Jack, but it’s enough to know he loves him."
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Things Davey finds out about Jack.
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- Part 6 of Newsies Oneshots
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Wakin' Up Don't Mean You're Free by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
03 Oct 2021
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"But no one comes. No one ever comes for Jack Kelly. Not his mother, who died and left him in that house as a baby. Not his father, who pushed him to the brink and sent him running when he was just a kid. Not even his boys - because he’s the leader, why would he need their help? Why would anyone ever think he needed it?"
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Jack still doesn't understand how Davey loves him.
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- Part 7 of Newsies Oneshots
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Snap Out Of It, Jack by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
04 Oct 2021
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"He just wants this to end. He wants things to be okay again. He knows there has to be a way, there has to be a solution. Jack just needs help, Jack needs time, Jack needs space."
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Davey doesn't know how Jack can just stand there and watch him cry.
(Loosely based on the song "See I'm Smiling" from The Last Five Years)
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- Part 8 of Newsies Oneshots
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Laptop Boy and The Southside Slut by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
23 Feb 2022
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Jack doesn't want to work at Southside Coffee. He only does it for the money.
Then he humiliates himself flirting with the cute boy with the laptop, and finds himself in a mess.
(It's actually way fluffier than it sounds-)
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- Part 9 of Newsies Oneshots
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Or Am I Losing My Mind? by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
10 Jan 2022
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The slow and painful journey towards Jack discovering his gender.
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- Part 10 of Newsies Oneshots
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You And You And Nothing But You by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
12 Jan 2022
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Crutchie and Keela go on a first date.
(A oneshot based on my fic "Plumber & Love Ink". Can be read as a standalone, although I don't really recommend that.)
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- Part 11 of Newsies Oneshots
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So That's What They Call A Family by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
13 Mar 2022
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Stormy's bad luck seems endless, and all she wants is a family. She hopes the newsies can give her that.
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- Part 12 of Newsies Oneshots
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Like Acid Rain They'd Fall by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
25 Jun 2023
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It captures his panic and the spirals he falls down into a pit that never ends. Like skydiving without a parachute or sailing without an oar, spinning out of control in a frenzy of disjointed, shallow breaths and fingers that scratch and scrape at the disgusting weights on his chest. Somehow, this painting shows all of it, like someone else has been in his mind and turned the wasteland into something inspiring.
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- Part 13 of Newsies Oneshots
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You'll Notice The World Below Has Gone To Hell by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
10 Jul 2022
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But Jack Kelly is different. She knows how cliché that sounds, what a hopeless old sap she has become, but she genuinely, honestly believes with all her spirit that he is like nothing she has ever come across before. He is determined and persistent and his morals may even be stronger than her own. The way he handles the other boys is nothing short of inspiring; the perfectly placed care and compassion mixed with the tough love and fierce banter. He knows his way around the feelings of everyone in the lodging house like the back of his hand.
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- Part 14 of Newsies Oneshots
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Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
10 Jul 2022
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He wakes up. He sells papers. He visits Medda. He sees Davey. He doesn’t remember how he used to enjoy this life, how he could ever find it in him to smile and brag. Charisma is something that only rich men can afford, and happiness is something only fools can summon. Finding joy in a life as damned as this would make him the biggest fool alive.
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- Part 15 of Newsies Oneshots
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Only When One's Left Behind Does It Get Sad by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
21 Jul 2022
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The buildings are two-dimensional, little towers he’s painted with these same bruised fingers. He's always accepted them, believed everything about the world he’s been tricked into thinking is real, but when he looks closer, there is nothing inside those windows but a yellow spot of paint attempting to coldly imitate life and give some half-hearted illusion of existence.
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- Part 16 of Newsies Oneshots
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That's Not My Name by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
05 Nov 2022
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I wish I could be one of you, I wish I could be you.
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- Part 17 of Newsies Oneshots
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And It's Beginning To Snow by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
24 Dec 2022
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The winter this year is one of loneliness. The chill is one that bites at his fingertips and turns them a bright, blushing pink. They’re the only part of him that changes colour, that stray from the papery white of the sky and the clouds that seem omnipresent.
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- Part 18 of Newsies Oneshots
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Do I Have To Say The Words? by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
26 Dec 2022
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But it doesn’t take a genius to notice these coincidences, these messy little imperfections that keep him awake at night, asking question after question and replaying days like they’re rolls of tape. Davey would call them oxymorons, but to Jack they’re just confusions.
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- Part 19 of Newsies Oneshots
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Boys by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
14 Apr 2023
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The less Davey sees, the better. If Jack stops hiding, he’ll be repulsed by the girl that he’s been tricked into loving. Davey thinks he’s okay with Jack, that he knows what he’s gotten into, but he hasn’t seen it all. He hasn’t seen with his own eyes the gruesome, hideous pieces that no boy should have, that separate Jack from everyone else.
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- Part 20 of Newsies Oneshots