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THE SAD THOUGHTS

Race takes Finch to brooklyn after the strike to try and show him that he don't need to be scared.

Finch is wary but slowly relaxes watching them play cards.

Eventually it gets late and he falls asleep. And slowly the others do too.

Finch starts having a night terror after everything that had happened. His screams fill the brooklyn lodging pure panic in them, waking some of the brooklyners. Mack tried to shake him only to be met with a whimpers and pleading. "I'll be good please no more." Her blood freezes. She looks for Racetack who had blearily opened his eyes. The boy listens looking sad...this this had happened before then.

Stray was rubbing her eyes, frowning and her voice gentle. "Hey you're okay ain't no one hurting you here."

Finch twisted, trying to escape a phantom demon, trembling hard.

Spot looked at Race they seemed to share a silent conversation and spot moved forward.

"Finch Finch open your eyes for me," Spot said.

Finch tensed doing so only to come face to face with Spot. Of all the nights... He tried to make himself smaller.

"Sorry."

"Nah....yous need milk or something to get back to sleep?"

"No ill be fine. "

"Hey uh...Wes all got things we'd rather forget." Mack fumbled to say something that would help the boy. Clearly he had issues to work out with Spot though she dudnt think they'd met before? She'd have to get the deets later from Race.

Finch let out this sad half laugh half sob.

"I'll-"

"Yous ain't fine quit trying to paint some sunny picture. That Jackie boys job. " Stray cut him off. The boy looked gutted, and Racetrack didn't look much better.

So they were caught off guard too. Nice to know they weren't the only ones having a hard time forgetting.

"Sorry look uh this this about the other day or..."

"Nah," Race answered.

Stray shared a look with Mack and Lucky.

"Yeah...yous looked rough."

"Well they beat us into the ground," Races voice was colder.

"I couldnt just-" Spot started.

"I know! It's why I let Jackie volunteer himsself. "

"Race..."

"They hit Romeo and Splasher in them heads. I get why you didn't wanna run headfirst into nothing. But no one else would say yes either until yous gave the okay."

Splint softened. "How bad was it?"

"...bad. they brought the bulls and thugs."

"You didn't tell me that," Spot accused.

"Ain't our faces proof enough?" Race said sarcastically.

"Thugs like the ones for them trolley workers?"

"I told Jack they'd bust up our bones," finch said quietly.

Spot sighed.

"And jack thought he knew what was right?"

"How bout always."

Spot rolled their eyes. "Yeah sounds like cowboy....if your nightmare wasn't bout the clusterfuck of a fight what it be about?"

"... snyder. It's stupid he locked up now."

"But he wasn't."

"Crutchie called for me. I I wanted to go back but they wouldn't let me."

"Yous woulda never got him Finch. We'd just have had two a you in there.it it good you didn't I knows you wanted to help.."

"Did ya see him before they took snyder away? They hurt him. He like me now."

Race sighed. "First off, there only one you. I know they hurt him I ain't stupid...I saw. I think it helped having snyder arrested."

"..yeah. but it...he.. it don't solve it.i want it to but he still there in my fucking head"

"I know. I...how can I help?"

"I dont want no one looking at me as broken."

"Yous jokin? you're a goshdamn survivor. Everyone in Brooklyn know he bad news... we had a few newsies come back changed after stints there." Spot told him.

"I um can't do small spaces no more."

Scope connected the dots. "He a bastard snd I hope he rot."

She held her hand out and finch spat in his own shaking hers.

"Yous one of us."

"I ain't tough enough to be brooklyn." finch brushed off.

"I says you is. Yous ours now."

Race looked amused. Finch wad confused but not entirely against the turn if events.

oh my darling

finch being plagued by guilt about not going back for crutchie and hearing his voice yelling for his help on repeat is so :( him blaming himself even though he knows logically that romeo was right and there was nothing he could have done

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