Pickpocket Stories

After years of thievery, Jack Dawkins has finally built a quiet life in the small town of Port Victoria, working as one of the town's surgeons. But the streets he left behind are never far away. When Jack's old father figure, Fagin, arrives unexpectedly, Jack takes him in as his convicted servant, keeping him close and his mouth shut. Jack has worked too hard to build his new life to let the past ruin it now. Lady Clara Fox, the middle sister of Belle and Fanny Fox, is the daughter often forgotten. With Lady Jane's attention fixed on Belle and desperate to marry her off, and Fanny desperately trying to find love herself, Clara is left to fade quietly into the background. Clara shares the same interest in medicine as her sister, though on a much smaller scale. She has no desire to become the first female surgeon like Belle. All she wants is to help. But for the past few months, Clara has been experiencing strange and painful episodes. Prof believes it to be an ulcer, yet after her own research through every one of Belle's medical books, Clara fears something far worse, an aortic aneurysm. After weeks of trying every remedy she can find, nothing helps. In every book she reads, the ending is always the same. Death. Unwilling to waste what little time she may have left, Clara begins secretly helping the less fortunate people of Port Victoria. These are the ones turned away from the hospital, or too poor and sick to reach it. She even ventures as far as the Devil's Elbow. With none of her family aware of her condition or her whereabouts, Clara spends her days helping those who need it most. Until one tragic and hectic day changes everything. After performing a surgery never before attempted in her own home with two thieves among those helping, Clara suffers another violent episode. This time Jack Dawkins is there to help her. But Clara already knows his secret. And instead of thanking him, she blackmails him in return for her silence.

Genevieve, Evie, Alden. James, Bucky, Barnes. Steven, Steve, Rogers. Three very different people, but inseparable friends. For as long as he could remember, Bucky had a crush on Evie, but she didn't seem to notice. Until she did. But will it be too late for the pair in the midst of war and tragedy? "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky [Tuesday uploads] *I don't own Marvel. All credit goes to Stan Lee and the creators. I only own Evie.*

When a mysterious girl manages to steal from Natasha Romanoff and escape unnoticed, the avengers set out to track her down. But why is this girl living on the streets and how has she survived so long?

A short story about an orphaned Irish girl's journey to America on the Titanic.

D.C. in 1931 is lopsided. As the rich get richer, the poor barely manage to survive. Living on the streets with no family and barely enough change to buy her next meal, Alice Winters has taken to picking the pockets of the wealthy in order to restore some balance. When she picks the pocket of Charles Cartwright, the affluent son of a well known senator and his socialite wife, she believes she found the perfect target for a bigger score. Charlie is an artist, confined to work in the privacy of his bedroom. Art, as his parents have said, is no way to make a living. But after a chance encounter with a beautiful thief on a street corner, he’s even more drawn to his canvas. The artist claims the thief as his muse and the lines that separate the two smudge. Perhaps, there is something more valuable than wealth. Canvas - noun. A piece of cloth prepared for use as the surface for an oil painting; “The only color on the whole canvas was a small red circle.” - verb. To consider a subject in great detail in order to discover essential features or meaning; “She circled the block, canvassing the building to find the perfect opportunity to slip between the cracks of the crowd.”

I steal from the poor. For survival. To help my family and I. I don't have a choice. But to live on like this. To live the life of stealing.

Corbi has probably got to be the most successful pickpocket of all time. She may live on the streets of Pendulum, a city in 2150, but she has survived for eleven years just by picking pockets. Just like everyone else in the world, Corbi has secrets. Secrets that can either keep her alive, or kill her.

Based around the Victorian Period WARNING: Abuse

Kayla and Ashton have been robbing cities for almost 2 years. Finally, they make it to Texas. But when Kayla gets caught, Ashton leaves her, taking her goods. Will Kayla realize what a big mistake she has made? ♤♧♤ [a/n: stopped writing this, sorry] [A/N: what the fuck even is the steaming pile of shite? I wrote this like 5 years ago, read at your own risk, its cringy af. Sorry.]

Purple hair, Brown eyes, and a ring. Katarina, a girl with purple hair and a catchy smile, loses her ring while out in the city. Alexander, a boy with light brown hair and heart warming brown eyes, was out on a night to pickpocket,

A family of four became a family of five, when a kid intrigued the Forger family. Although she was obviously sketchy, they gave her a chance and became a Forger. But they had their ups and downs before she officially became Ada Forger. But she's scared of letting her new parents know about her secret past and her job she's done since the age of six. Disclaimer: I'm not fluent in any of the languages that my OC will speak during the story, so if you speak any of the languages and it's spelled/said wrong, I used google translate - I'm sorry! I know the app is inaccurate sometimes/most of the time, but I want this character to understand and speak different languages, so spare me on this. Thanks!

A rich girl named Isobel hates her life.. Will it get better? Who knows.. or maybe Scorpia does

A story following a pickpocket who lands in a world of corruption after he unintentionally steals an incredibly important document. "How was he supposed to know? What could have possibly warned him of the consequences of that one leather wallet? That rich-looking man in expensive clothing seemed like the rest of them. Pompous bastards who could afford a new wallet if their former one happened to disappear, bastards who could buy the entire world, bastards who had. He had no way of knowing that this one particular bastard happened to keep important and 'oh-so-top-secret' bits of paper in his wallet, he threw the damn thing in the bin as soon as he had the money. It was nothing to him but a scrap of paper, a scrap of paper he couldn't even read. That particular scrap of paper happened to hold a list of the most powerful men in government, men who also happened to be involved in one of the biggest scandals in history. He was just downright unlucky. He'd been dragged from his soggy cardboard box, baggy clothes and all only to be chucked into a dimly lit cell that smelled strangely like a mixture of bodily fluids. God knows how long he'd been there. He was just a kid, a scared 15-year-old pickpocket. At first, they'd only asked him where the wallet was, after that, they just got angrier with every "I don't bloody know" he gave. The questioning turned to intimidation which eventually turned into a forced agreement and the very rare piece of stale bread. He steals for them now, not wallets or watches, documents, crisp white paper that cut his fingers. Paper printed with government logos and dark lines of ink." Basically some spys adopts this kid. Reluctant father figures everywhere.

All the short stories of the series 'The Kid In Blue' all make sense, as the Avengers try to work out who freed Ember from HYDRA, and what they can do to help this mysterious person who is known to most as the Kid In Blue. Meanwhile, under the pressure of the Avengers hunting them, the true kid in blue reveals themselves. But are they really who they seem to be, or is there more to them? Because surely they can't be a kid?! Right? And why would a kid be out helping HYDRAs experiments when they have no reason to?

Skyler is back. After a whole year of recovering from that one night in 2012, she's ready to get back out there and make some noise. Her friends and family have spread out from inside her boundaries, and it's time for her to gather them back up again in order to find something that was taken from her that one fateful day. As she travels across the country, she finds new allies. Maybe even a few new emotions that have never been seen from her before. The drama begins once more, peace retreating into the shadows. She's set on finding more help for her search, and is determined to get what she wants. Can she find what she's so desperately looking for? Or is it time for Skyler to face the truth? Could it be that she's just been leading a wild goose chase after something that's not even there to chase?

Ellya has always had to take care of herself. To trust no one else with her life or anything else. A child of the streets she learnt how to survive. In the city of Callenos, the Alliance of the Assassins steals children from the streets and trains them to be killers. One night Ellya is snatched in the darkness and taken to be broken, to be moulded into a murderer. With nothing but her wits and a sharp mind she faces a new set of challenges as the dawn breaks.

Mason, the Mafia Boss, found a need for a girl, someone to call his. So, he discovers Enceladus, a young girl who was just taken from the circus. However, Enceladus is scarred, the circus was an upsetting place and when Mason kidnaps her, she thinks for the worst. Will Mason convince her that love does exist?

Shrugg is a gang member of the Penny Dreadfuls, a child gang back in the late 1800's. They are all abandoned or orphans, working for the Professor, Dorthea Sprockett, and Bethesda Nightspoil, at their pawnshop. If they come "home" empty handed, they aren't given food or a place to sleep. When the Professor brings a new kid in, all havoc breaks loose. Will they be able to hold it together, or is there greater evil at work here? [ON EXTENSIVE HOLD. SORRY!]

As Ruth and her older sister Marie begin to dwindle down on the last of their money reserves, Ruth searches for ways to get some cash in order to keep their apartment. When an auction featuring priceless works of art roles into New Orleans, Ruth finds the opportunity she has been looking for to save both her sister and self. Finding that pickpocketing doesn't quite pay all the bills, she starts to plan the heist of a lifetime. At the same time a new boy comes crashing into Ruth's life (literally), challenging her to juggle both her home life, the crush she is harboring, as well as her thieving ways. Learning that Ethan might just be the person she has been looking for, Ruth's life soon becomes inexplicably complicated.

In the dark and dangerous world of Cititzen Street lives Emmik, a happy little boy. But his happiness does not last long. When Emmik loses his grandmother he is felt all alone. In his search for company - and out of pure survival instinct- he joins a group of homeless children To surivie, Emmik has to steal and fight and learn whom he can trusted, because betrayal and selfishness are a daily occurence in the life of a homeless boy. Will Emmik find a way out of his misery? A story set in the universe of CITIZEN STREET written by @Sphkrd.