Newsies Short Stories

Spot and Jack- Soft Spot

Trigger Warning- Self harm (sorry guys)

Spot acts hard on the outside. Everyone's scared of him, no one questions him. No one sees his real side. No one other than Jack Kelly. He sees the soft Spot, the damaged Spot.

Jack came every so often but he didn't like leaving Race is charge so Spot often came to Manhattan. Jack was concerned when he hadn't seen Spot in a few days. If he was ill he'd send his second in command over, itey or zig.

"Race I'm leaving you in charge while I go over to Brooklyn." Jack said. He walked over to Crutchie "you are really" he whispered to Crutchie.

Jack walked over to Brooklyn quite quickly. Before he even walked in the door he could hear Spot and the Brooklyn boys playing poker. He could also hear Spot telling the younger ones to go to bed.

Jack walked in and everyone went silent. Spot pointed up the room, he didn't look himself. He looked sleep deprived. Jack followed him into his separate room. Spot faced a corner, he didn't even look at Jack.

"Where have youse been?" Jack asked.

"Why do Youse care?" Spot asked still not looking.

"Because...because Ise love youse Spot Conlon." Jack said. He heard Spot start to cry.

Jack walked over and hugged him. Spot turned around and buried his head into his chest. This is when Jack noticed bloody tissues in the corner. Did he have a nose bleed? Or?

"Spot, what's with the tissues?" Jack asked. Spot just cried more.

"Look, Ise was just getting stressed. It's was an accident." Spot said still crying.

Jack pushed him out of the hug so he could see his face. This was the Spot he knew. The soft Spot.

"When we've spoken let me look at them and clean them" Spot nodded.

"Ise try my best not to do it again."

"Ise know you will Spot" Jack kissed the top of his head and hugged him tight. "It's all going to be okay"

A/N- I will write a nice cute story for Jack and Spot once I get an idea. I'm sorry for putting this babies through sad times.