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What does that leave? Just us. by Spottycat
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)
07 Sep 2025
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David heard a soft laugh coming from his companion. “You know Mouth? You ain’t that bad a person to hang around with. I wouldn’t mind doing it more often once this strike business is done with.”
This time David simply smiled. “Thanks Spot. You’re not too bad either,” He decided to test the waters a bit. “For someone as short as you”
“Watch it.”
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So, this is my first fanfic and English is not my native language. If there are any mistakes, please call me out on them.
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My Dear Kelly by DCbutinamrev
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992), Newsies - All Media Types
08 Jul 2025
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As World War II slowly approaches, David Jacobs comes across the woman who ruined his reputation and his love life. But as his time comes to an end, in order to let go of his past, Jacobs intends to burn the letters his husband wrote him during their youth. Yet, with this woman in his house, he couldn't bring himself to it. Preserving every moment of Kelly's life, Jacobs--the last of the Manhattan Newsies--relives through an era he never told anyone. Not even to his husband. Now, as this woman enters Kelly's studio, she surrenders a pair of keys to that particular studio and walks away. Leaving David Jacobs alone and cold once again. With only minutes waiting, David Jacobs becomes the center of Kelly's life. With a candle in front of him, Jacobs is willing to do anything to preserve his husband's legacy. Even if it meant to forgive the unforgivable.
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OR a retelling of Newsies but make it Javey but with more drama, romance, and toss in a little politics in there
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as if you just woke up by cardamy
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
29 Dec 2024
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It’s the summer after graduating high school, and Jack and Davey are both nineteen.
Apartment hunting together is going well, except for Davey’s big fat crush on his soon-to-be roommate.
That is not going well.
So Davey makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to trace those three words on Jack’s back late at night to….sort of confess his feelings. Jack just won’t know. After all, Jack’s asleep, right?
Right?
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Quarter to Two by musthavebeenthewind
Fandoms: Newsies (1992), Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
13 Nov 2024
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David Jacobs is not being courted by a girl via quarters, no matter what Jack Kelly has to say about it.
When David starts earning quarters as a newsies, Jack is fine with that. Kinda. Sorta. When David earns quarter as a newsies from a girl, Jack is less fine with it. For...some reason.
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in which quarters are never just quarters, to David's confusion and Jack's chagrinfeaturing: Jack feeling jealous without having a name for his feelings, David being generally confused but not backing down, and Les showing up for the purposes of being adorable on cue
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I'll Leave My Window Open by Kelcey_Rider
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992), Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)
17 Oct 2024
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Davey glances at his open window, the cool and wet autumn air filling into his room now that it's long past sundown. He knows it’s a foolish hope, but he’s secretly wishing Jack might finally come by his fire escape to answer his letter.
Or: Davey confesses to Jack through a letter a few months after the strikes and Davey anxiously stews as he waits for Jack’s response.
Song fic for Come In With The Rain by Taylor Swift
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- Part 1 of Kel's song fics
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“What’s wrong, Davey?”
Jack’s voice was surprisingly gentle. He approached his friend slowly and took a seat beside him, mirroring his cross-legged position.
“Nothing,” Davey replied quickly.
“You wouldn’t be up here in the middle of the night if nothing was wrong, Dave.”
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Davey and Jack have a late night talk about Davey returning to school.
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- Part 1 of Never Planned
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Sequel to "Prayer of a Delancey" that replaces “Ch 5 — Headcanons"
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- Part 3 of World of Delancey
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i'd say see you later if i thought i'd see you later, and i'd tell you that i loved you if i did by Mango_Cult
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)
29 Oct 2023
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He could only glare at him, but lessened the pressure he was putting on Jack’s face. He held his hand tenderly, wiping the blood off of his bruised knuckles, and kissing each one of them. “Jack, you have got to stop getting into other people’s fights. I could have held my own.”
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Or, Jack gets into a fight, and they have a little talk.Written for Whumptober 2023 day 28 || "You'll have to go through me."
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“Hang on,” Jack says, hand chasing Davey’s, which then falls uselessly to his side. The crease between his eyebrows has now become more prominent. “Davey, what are you talkin’ about?”
“You’re—you’re breaking up with me, aren’t you?” Davey whispers, just loud enough to be heard.
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Davey fears the worst when Jack says he wants to 'talk.'
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In our hearts a hopeful song by Somanywords for we_are_inevitable
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
30 Jul 2023
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Jack has all the freedom and none of the security. And Davey is jealous.
Learning to throw a punch won’t fix this. Becoming a writer won’t fix this. This is Davey’s, his whole life. Familial expectations, familial duties. Jack doesn’t change a thing.
So, Davey packs it away. Boxes it up tight, ships it to the North Pole, and lets it go. He tries to enjoy this, his friend over for dinner, everyone happy and smiling. He succeeds, he thinks.
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take me, my heart and my soul (pick me apart and look inside) by we_are_inevitable
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)
29 May 2023
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Once Mayer is cleared to go back to work, though, nights like those are few and far between.
As promised, as soon as their father finds a new job that will be easier on his health, Les and David are back in the classroom, learning literature and arithmetic as though their summer hadn’t been taken over by the strike. David had considered it a miracle, and Les had dreaded it since the start, but school was in session and David finally had structure back in his life.
That was what was missing, right? Structure. A clear plan. No roadblocks, no mishaps— a guidebook to the rest of his life, one he had made up when he was far too young to worry about such things.
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- Part 15 of tumblr drabbles!
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"I thought we was square."
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We've Always Been These People by FabuMazX
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)
26 Feb 2022
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the Yellowjackets au that nobody asked for.
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The Lions are at the top of their game. They're flying out to go to Nationals and prove themselves champions.
The plane going down was not part of the game plan. Nor was getting stranded in the wilderness with only each other, no sign of rescue and winter coming on fast.
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all the times davey didnt care and the time he finally did by Catoukin
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)
15 Feb 2022
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David Jacobs comes from a well off family and a life of education. He doesn’t care for the newsboys on the corners, waving their papers and shouting headlines like their lives depend on it. Doesn’t care for the alleys he’s passed where those boys are in fights. Beating each other and spitting vulgar swears and slurs in each other’s faces. He doesn’t care!
But life doesn’t care either.
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- Part 6 of Newsies Oneshots
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To Seize the Day by C-chan (1001paperboxes) for aanje
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
12 Nov 2021
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David's journey of being a newsie, from the day he decided to join the work force to the day he went back to school.
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FBI AU - David is an NBCI Agent tasked with finding information about a gang called the Newsies, and more specifically, their leader, Jack Kelly. David is certain he's on the right side of the law, but after an incident with Warden Snyder, David finds he must work with the infamous Jack Kelly to right some wrongs. Will they succeed? Or will the collision between Jack and David's worlds lead to nothing but destruction? With so much at stake, they're all gonna need a little hope.
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AU - David is cursed to look like everyone’s ideal person or what they find to be most beautiful. Jack only meant to draw a harmless picture of his friend - just his friend… right?
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“Wow, hello, you’re really handsome.”
“Luck of the Irish, I guess.”
“David, you’re Polish.”
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The Sunsets Are Prettier In Santa Fe by Kionnacopia
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
12 Feb 2021
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First, it was his leg. He already couldn’t use it to support himself, but it was only a matter of time before he couldn’t feel it at all. Katherine quietly paid to have him get it amputated. It was hard for him—and for all of us, to see him go through it—but we knew it needed to be done. We’d heard of things like this happening across the pond, where one day it’s a leg, the next day it’s an arm, and eventually…
We didn’t want it to happen to him. We had to stop it from spreading as soon as we could. He understood. We’d take care of him, all of us.
But there’s no need to worry for Crutchie, we thought. He’s a tough kid; whatever this is, he’ll beat it.
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You’re the Headline on My Paper Heart by AlannaofRoses
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
17 Sep 2020
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David Jacobs had always heard falling in love was like falling asleep – slowly and then all at once. Figures Jack Kelly would make himself the exception to that rule too.
Or the canon rewrite that wouldn't stop bugging me where David Jacobs is terribly in love with Jack Kelly, but it takes a strike, a betrayal, and a reunion to get him to confront his feelings.
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- Part 1 of Breaking News: I Love You
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The Manhattan Newsboy Pack tries to prepare for the upcoming alliance with Brooklyn, as Davey tries to fit into his role as Omega.
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- Part 3 of Newsies Pack Dynamics AU