[Right by where Jack's Doghouse used to be. The night sky is bright with stars and the moon a shining ball. Rain is pouring. Jack gets there, panting. He sees Katherine squeezed between two dumpsters. Hiding from the rain. She's looking at some papers.]
KATHERINE (Looking through the papers)
That was some rally...
JACK
How'd you get here?
KATHERINE
Specs showed me.
JACK (Irritated)
What? He say you could go through my stuff?
[Jack slides the papers towards him, crumpling them, and hiding them out of her view.]
KATHERINE (Concerned)
Those drawings... Those are drawings of the Pound, aren't they? Is this really what it's like in there? [She gets out of her shelter and grabs the drawings.] Three pups to a kennel, dirt everywhere and fleas..
JACK (Taking the drawings back again bitterly)
What? A little different from how we were raised?
KATHERINE (Still concerned)
Snyder told my father you were arrested stealing food and blankets. This is why, isn't it? You stole to feed those pups. I... I don't understand! [She starts to bark.] If you were willing to go to the Pound for those pups, how could you turn your back on them now?
JACK (Putting the drawings away)
I do not think you are one to talk about turnin' on folks!
KATHERINE (Persistently)
I never turned on you or anyone else.
JACK (Barking)
No, you didn't. You just double-crossed us to your father! YOUR FATHER!
KATHERINE
My father has eyes on every corner of this city. He doesn't need me spying for him. And I never lied. I just didn't tell you everything...
JACK
Oh, if you weren't so small, you'd be tryin' to talk with a paw in your mouth.
KATHERINE
I told you that I worked for The Sun and I did. I told you my professional name is Plumber and it is. You never asked my real one.
JACK (Barking)
I wouldn't think I had to unless I knew I was dealing with a backstabber!
KATHERINE (Furious)
Oh, and if I was a big dog, you'd be looking at me through one swollen eye.
JACK (Challenging Katherine coldly)
Yeah? Don't let that stop you. Huh? Give me your best shot!
[Katherine pushes Jack to the ground, ready to bite his eye. She freezes before she realizes what she's doing]
KATHERINE
I.. wait, I'm sorry Jack. [She backs away from him.] I didn't mean to do that...
[The young pups stare at each other for a while, their fur getting soaked with rain. Jack stays lying on the cold floor.]
KATHERINE (Quietly)
YOU ARE READING
Pupsies - a Pawtastic New Musical
Fanfiction(Cover by Bug, their links are in the book.) Pupsies, a musical about the poor pups of Bark York trying to make a living off of selling papes to humans. (A parody of Newsies, I do not own newsies or it's characters. This is just something fun i'm do...
