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    Newsies AU: Manhattan Boarding School by

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

    16 Oct 2025

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    Jack and the other Newsies leave the Refuge, an orphanage with an abusive history, to enroll in a local boarding school in Manhattan. There, Jack meets a boy named Davey, whom he develops romantic feelings for, though he doubts the boy likes him back. Davey develops a crush on Jack, too, but is also unsure if the feeling is mutual. At the Manhattan Boarding School, the Newsies face all sorts of new challenges ranging from self-discovery to blooming romance to the typical struggles of academic life. Some trouble arises when the boys meet the Delancey brothers, the biggest bullies at the school. Witness the Newsies' progress through love, conflict, and curricular life.
    Sorry i suck at summaries. Jack x Davey boarding school fic with some violence basically <3

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    I’m writing this at 3AM by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992), Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), Newsies - All Media Types  

    16 Aug 2025

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    A collection of Jack’s letters to Davey after he moves to Santa Fe. Trigger warnings for suicide later in the story.

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    7/?
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    26
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  3. 4

    All Of Us Are Hurting. Because of you. by ,

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), Newsies - All Media Types  

    14 Sep 2025

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    Jack scabbed.

    He left.

    Now Race and Davey are in charge, and they both don't know what to do when they're both hurting.

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    3/3
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    40
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  4. 3

    Ambivalence of the Heart by

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types  

    07 Dec 2025

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    David is the perfect son, ask any of his teachers. He's got the perfect life planned out, go to college, marry a nice Jewish girl, and settle down with some kids. But when he moves to a new school, he realizes his crush for Jack Kelly, and all that crumbles. Try as he might, he can't deny his feelings, and the tension they make.
    Jack has it all, he is the star quarterback and could get any girl he wants. But when he meets the new kids, he realizes it's not any girl he wants. Struggling with his foster life and new emotions, he starts to slip form his pedestal.
    When the school field trip puts them together together is a room, tensions are high all week. But right before they leave, a massive snow storm hits, trapping them inside.

    Aka: David is gay, but is religious and can't stand Jack. Jack is Bi and got a crap life he can't escape from, on top of loathing David and crushing on him. They get stuck in a hotel for a couple of days and maybe work it out.

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    3/?
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    20
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    and the sun still sets the same by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)  

    29 Sep 2025

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    “I get out of class at 5:30 on Wednesday,” David says, looking at the planner section of his notebook. “Do you wanna meet at 6 in the library, then? Figure everything out?”

    Jack nods. “Yeah, sure. We can, uh, maybe bring some ideas. For the debate, or whatever.”

    “Or whatever,” David repeats, giving Jack an unimpressed look. His head tilts just slightly to the left, and Jack watches David’s gaze look him up and down, like he’s sizing him up. Like he’s looking for his next meal, and Jack is the sorry piece of shit in his way. “Text me. I’ll see you on Wednesday.”

    ---

    Jack and David live in different worlds. Frat parties and gay bars, chapter meetings and drag queens, beer pong and passenger-seat weed- they're a match doomed to fail, and they're waiting for the wreckage.

    But maybe they're more similar than they seem. Maybe they just need some time to figure it out.

    Maybe it comes down to decisions and choices, masks and veils, and how to straddle the line between them.

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    6/?
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    Whirlwinds by

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types  

    02 Dec 2025

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    Since the strike, life has been a whirlwind for Racetrack Higgins, Spot Conlon, and David Jacobs. There is love. There is family and friends.

    There is Life.

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    Chapters:
    17/?
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    12
    Kudos:
    45
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    6
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    513

  7. 9

    The Test of Unconditional Love by

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

    20 Jun 2020

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    As he sat down, the boy looked over at him with those blue eyes Jack was mesmerised by.
    “Hi…who are you?”
    Jack held out a hand and smiled at the boy. “Name’s Jack Kelly, you?”
    “David Jacobs.”

     

    Jack Kelly hasn't had the easiest life, but entering his last year of highschool he feels hopeful it could be okay. When he meets David Jacobs, everything feels right. But the year holds lots of twists and turns for both of them, and they both need to learn to work together if they want to get through this.

    TW: self-harm, homophobia, mentioned abuse, anxiety and depression

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    30/30
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    157
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    I saw you in a movie I heard it in a song by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

    23 Apr 2024

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    Davey takes his nephew on an outing one summer day in Manhattan, turns his back for one minute, and a stranger is pulling the kid out of the river. But it’s okay, right? His nephew is fine, and what Sarah doesn’t know won’t hurt her. After all, what are the odds that he’ll ever meet the stranger again? It’s New York City. Anything could happen.

    And anything does.

    Maybe there are red strings of fate threading through the universe. Maybe some things are always meant to happen, it’s only a matter of time.

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    89
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    one shot ain't worth a bad mugshot by

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types  

    20 Aug 2023

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    Les begins to drift off, the grief and anger of the day leaving his body to form a heavy, numbing blanket of exhaustion over his mind and body. The quiet tones and David and Sarah are white noise to Les’s sleep, and he’s not quite sure why they sound so hushed, so angry, so secretive, but he’s not going to give it much thought right now.

    “You can’t just shoot people, Dave, that’s not how this works.”

    Or, he wasn’t until right then.

    (Let it be known that Les Jacobs is far from stupid, and that there are quite a few things that the newsies don’t know about the Jacobs family.)

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    Frozen fingers by

    Fandoms: Newsies (1992), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types  

    16 Sep 2025

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    Jack trecks through the snow to deliver something very special to Davey.

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    Espy rainflowers by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), Newsies (1992)  

    12 Jan 2025

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    Jack has taken everything from him.

    The sea rages around them, but for the first time this evening Jack looks at him. Not the mess of a crowd that grumbles and storms away, not the failed collection of their most important allies, not the money in his hand or a horribly disappointed Medda Larkin. Jack looks at David and for just a moment David sees regret on his face. Or maybe he just wants to see that, he can’t say anymore.

    It’s at that moment that Jack feels his heart break.
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    OR: A confession between two strike leaders succeeding the betrayal of Jack's show at the rally. (What should have happened before Once And For All.) David forgave Jack way too quick and was way too happy when printing the papers, so this is what should have happened between them!

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    who you are, who i am, everything that entails by for we_are_inevitable

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

    16 Jan 2025

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    The thought slapped him across the face, totally out of nowhere. Jack wasn’t really doing anything special— he was just reclined in David’s bed with his dinner on his lap, and he had a few chip crumbs on his thighs. He didn’t look any prettier than usual. He was just being Jack, staring off at the posters on the adjacent wall, probably thinking about the color composition or some artsy thing like that.

    And David was in love with him.

    With Jack. David was in love with Jack Kelly, and maybe he’d been in love with Jack Kelly for years and was just now realizing it, because of a stupid plate of quesadillas and the stupid way Jack said ‘made sure it was kosher, too’ because Jack cared about him and remembered the little things and holy shit, David was so fucking in love.

    (written for newsies fic exchange 2024-2025!)

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    Soon Your Friends Are More Like Family by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types  

    11 Feb 2021

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    "Racetrack Higgins likes what he's got. It's certainly not a castle but the Lodging House is a bed and food. He gets to spend most days at the races selling papes and watching the horses. He has Jack and Crutchie and the rest of the ’Hattan boys as family and he's got a Brooklyn boy, too, for back up when he needs it. The strike comes around and it fires him up even when it scares him.

    So yeah, Race knows how he feels about the strike. It's what the strike brought along with it- or rather, who- that he's not as sure about. Race doesn't blame Davey for the strike but that doesn't mean he likes him."

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    In the year and a half after the strike, a lot changes. An exploration of Race's feelings towards Davey as Race gradually takes over Jack's responsibilities at the lodging house.

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    ain't it a fine life? by

    Fandom: Newsies, Newsies (1992), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken

    04 Dec 2019

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    A bronx tale by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992), Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)  

    02 Feb 2025

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    Jack needs new boots. This is what he thinks as a puddle of water seeps out of them with each step into the Bronx lodging house. He bought these ones two years ago and now they just barely fit his feet. He must have had one last growth spurt in the past years since he saved up to buy them.

    Considering how rough this past winter was, they had definitely withered more. The steel toe cap lifted up from the sole every time he took a step.

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    Jack Kelly devotes so much time taking care of the other newsies, he forgets to take care of himself; his stubbornness leads him to an alley were some angry Bronx newsies jump him.

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    Being Impulsive by

    Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992)  

    30 Oct 2024

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    David Jacobs was not a particularly impulsive individual. He'd had the same best friend since the third grade (Jack Kelly), been in love with said best friend since freshman year, and was perfectly happy with pining silently until the day he died, so long as things remained the same. Senior year rolled around, and the aforementioned best friend got a girlfriend. New relationships toss David and Jack's relationship into turmoil, and David finds that the consequences of acting before thinking can be unfortunately extreme.

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    1,695

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    Reunion by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)  

    28 Jan 2023

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    “What did they do to my boy?” Esther asked quietly, raising a gentle hand to touch David’s cheek.

    ~~~

    David gets sent to The Refuge instead of Crutchie.

    Inspired by a fic by tellthosewithpowersafeintheirtower

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    267
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    bluestars and crimson by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), Newsies (1992)  

    28 Dec 2024

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    It was an illness that could've been avoided easily, if David would've just guarded his heart more closely. Still, he found himself hacking up the contents of his aching lungs in an uncomfortably cramped alleyway with thoughts of Jack Kelly clouding his head, and he realized that there really wasn't any coming back from this. He'd made a mistake and his life was totally and completely ruined over a boy who'd never spare him a second glance.

    It was almost laughable, how much David loved Jack. He was a pathetic mess over the boy, with tiny blue flower petals stuck to his lips and chin, and visions of deep brown eyes swimming through his mind. David was lovelorn. Really and truly lovesick.

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    257
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    One Of Ours. by

    Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)  

    27 Oct 2020

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    It was an unfortunate series of events that moved the Jacobs family from Ohio to New York, but it came with a pay rise for Mayer, a new job for Esther, and a new school for their three children. All three had been struggling at their previous school, bullied for being Jewish, and Esther had high hopes that they would get on better in a state with many more Jewish people around.

    Davey and Sarah were fifteen, Les was twelve and unknown to their parents, they were all relieved to be moving to New York- or, back to New York, considering they all had memories of living there before. Sarah called it her past life, Davey just called them memories, without giving it a name that had such huge connotations as Sarah’s did. Les didn’t call it anything, because he was twelve and not yet fully aware of the fact that it set them apart from everyone else.

    “It’s called ‘The World’,” Esther was explaining to Sarah as Davey came down the stairs. He still wasn’t used to having a house with two floors, or a room to himself, despite it having been nearly a week since they had moved in.

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    5,007
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    1/1
    Comments:
    15
    Kudos:
    179
    Bookmarks:
    14
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    1,579

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    bluestars and crimson by

    Fandom: Newsies (1992), Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017)

    31 Aug 2025

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