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Post by capn on Dec 30, 2006 0:21:41 GMT -5
"Yeah, 'course. Call me Cap'n." She held out her hand to him.
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Post by Jack Kelly on Dec 30, 2006 15:11:46 GMT -5
Jack spit in his hand and shook hers. "Jack. 'Cowboy' to some around here. I'm the 'Hattan leader." He nodded towards his lodging house. "So...you gonna stay?"
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Post by capn on Dec 30, 2006 23:00:11 GMT -5
Cap'n wasnt sure what to say, remembering how her recent experience with the Brooklyn newsies wasnt a very pleasant one. "I suppose so...I aint tresspassing or anything am i?"
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Post by Jack Kelly on Dec 31, 2006 16:31:00 GMT -5
Jack raised an eyebrow. "Nah...why wouldja ask that?" He smiled. "Pretty much everyone is welcome here...we don't descriminate against no one."
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Post by capn on Dec 31, 2006 22:33:22 GMT -5
Cap'n smiled a bit, "Thanks." She brushed the string of beads dangling from underneath her cap to the side, hoping things would turn out better here.
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Post by Daisy O'Connor on Jan 4, 2007 13:19:10 GMT -5
[new day]
Daisy eyed the front steps of the building, checking the sign over the door one more time. If everything that her sister had told her in the one letter Hands had sent since disappearing from the childhood Irish home two years ago...then she was here. Daisy had no idea how Hands would react to seeing her, or if she was even staying here. But she had to start somewhere. She'd walked all the way from Brooklyn and she wasn't going to turn around now. Taking a deep breath she started up the steps.
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Post by Racetrack Higgins on Jan 4, 2007 23:10:22 GMT -5
Racetrack shoved the door open, nearling knocking over an unfamiliar girl. "Woah, sorry bout that," he said, then moving to hold the door for her. "You headed in?"
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Post by Daisy O'Connor on Jan 4, 2007 23:14:15 GMT -5
Daisy eyed the young man who had come barreling out the front door and nearly sent her toppling down the steps. "I'm thinking about it." She paused for a moment, considering him again. "Do you live here?"
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Post by Racetrack Higgins on Jan 4, 2007 23:17:48 GMT -5
"Shore do," he said, pulling out a cigarette and letting the door close. Lighting it up he cocked his head slightly. "You lookin' ta sell papes?"
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Post by Daisy O'Connor on Jan 4, 2007 23:20:26 GMT -5
"No!" She replied quickly. "I mean, I already have a job. I work at McGinty's Pub... in Brooklyn?" Daisy explained, looking towards the door and then shrugging to herself slightly, sinking down onto the front steps a few feet away from the young man. "I'm looking for someone."
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Post by Racetrack Higgins on Jan 4, 2007 23:25:40 GMT -5
Slightly annoyed at her reaction to his livelihood, he shrugged. "Yeah, I've hoid of it," he said in reference to the pub. Hearing her last question he took a long drag on his cigarette, raising an eyebrow. "Oh yeah? An' who might that be?"
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Post by Daisy O'Connor on Jan 4, 2007 23:28:45 GMT -5
She could tell by the way he shifted that he'd been annoyed at her response. Lovely. She'd made him mad and hadn't even been trying. Noticing he was still watching her she smiled at him hopefully. "My sister. We called her Hands."
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Post by Racetrack Higgins on Jan 4, 2007 23:32:33 GMT -5
Glancing in the air he thought for a moment, lightly puffing at his cigarette. "Nah, no one 'round heah goes by dat name, you sure you got the right lodgin' house?"
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Post by Daisy O'Connor on Jan 4, 2007 23:37:09 GMT -5
Daisy's face fell. "No...no I'm not sure." She saw him looking at her doubtfully and felt she owed him an explanation. "My sister ran away two years ago...from Ireland. She wrote me she was in New York. I know a lot of runaways end up as selling papes so I thought I would check., I'm just trying to find her. I need to tell her..." Daisy drifted, realizing that she was about to let the stranger in on far too much information. "I need to tell her something."
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Post by hands on Jan 5, 2007 9:41:53 GMT -5
At that precise moment, Hands exited the lodging house. At the reactions of the girls upstairs, she figured that waiting was the best thing to do at this time.
When she did notice them, she froze.
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thanks admin!
