We all know Crutchie was sent to The Refuge. This is the story of what happened there, written through letters.
Trigger Warnings: young character death, abuse, imprisonment, referenced suicide, thoughts of suicide, neglect, mild cursing. I will post specific chapter warnings, the first one is clean but the rest of them not so much.
This is another story I wrote for my Creative Writing class, I'll be posting the chapters (letters) weekly.
Newsies and their characters do not belong to me, yada yada, please don't sue me
Ten years ago in 1889 there was a little girl at the age of 6 running away and her name was Emma. Emma ran away from her abusive parents and she ran into the infamous Jack Kelly. He was the leader of the Manhattan Newsies, he took Emma in with the boys in the lodging house. Emma soon became known as Tiger, the only Manhattan Girlsie. Jack took care of Tiger as if she was his own blood she was pretty much his sister and every Newsie knew this. Tiger used a special technique to sell her papers just like every other Newsie. Tiger was a flirt and known for it, it was how she sold her papes. Yes Tiger was a flirt but she swore to herself that she wouldn't get into a relationship especially with one of the Newsies but Racetrack Higgins her best friend took that as a challenge. They always flirted with each other but Racetrack wanted more, he wanted to be with her. With Tiger. His Tiger.