11 Works by TheBarkeep
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among the roses green by TheBarkeep for tuppenny
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
15 Nov 2022
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Katherine Pulitzer can't seem to get anything right: she can't make up for the loss of her sister, Lucy, and her father doesn't approve of her fledgling reporting career. When her father sends her away to his country estate, Katherine is sure she'll be bored out of her mind. What she isn't prepared for is the strange pull she feels toward the land and the handsome boy who lives on it. With Jack Kelly, Katherine feels seen for the very first time. Little does Katherine know that Jack isn't necessarily hers for the taking. Based on the Ballad of Tam Lin.
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Take Me to the World by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
05 Apr 2022
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All that Jack Kelly wants is time and space to create, and what better place to escape to than the Metropolitan Museum of Art? But Jack doesn't expect to find a hidden society of people who've had the same idea, and he certainly doesn't expect the mysterious blue-eyed boy in their charge. Loosely based on Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose.
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for you are my fate, my sweet by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992)
09 Jan 2022
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When Frank Sullivan is released from prison, he expects his son to fall in line and join the family "business." But when Frank discovers that Jack's loyalties lie elsewhere, it ignites a chain of events that will challenge both Jack and David in ways they never imagined. A canon-era retelling of Cupid & Psyche with organized crime, excessive pining, and more obstacles than you can shake a stick at.
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of cowboys and princesses by TheBarkeep for Efstitt
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992)
23 Dec 2021
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"What's he like? Your pa?"
Don’t say too much about your father, Francis. We had to pull some strings to get you placed here, and you won’t be treated kindly if everyone knows about his indiscretions.
Jack didn’t know what an indiscretion was, but he knew he didn’t want to make things harder for himself.
“He’s a—a cowboy.”
“No kiddin’?” Charlie sounded excited. Jack was special, just like he was.
-- It's Jack's first day at the orphan asylum, and Crutchie is happy for the company.
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between this world and the next by TheBarkeep for tuppenny
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
20 Dec 2021
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Katherine had forgotten, of course. That it was Christmas Eve. But the first Christmas they were married, Jack had asked Katherine if they could go to the little stone church in his old neighborhood. My ma used to take me when I was little, and I—well, it’s like havin’ a piece of her. It’s hard on Christmas, y’know.
After a devastating loss, Jack and Katherine try to find solace on Christmas Eve.
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A Gentleman's Agreement by TheBarkeep for
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992)
08 Sep 2021
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“At least you won’t have to figure out what to wear.”
Which is true. Because David will be naked. In front of Jack’s life drawing class. For two hours.
David will be naked in front of Jack for two hours, and he will never be able to eat sour cream and onion chips again.
--or David loses a bet.
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When Dreams Do Show Me Thee by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992), Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
22 May 2021
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When Esther sends them out the door, with kisses and all her love, Jack can’t ignore the way he misses his own mother.
Jack does not, will not, cannot sit at the table with Mama. Mama does not, will not, cannot see his life with David. And even though Jack wishes he could ignore the ache that fact leaves in his chest, sometimes, he just can’t.
... Jack imagines what his mother would think of his life with David.
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- Part 2 of Jack: In Dreams
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Best Laid Plans by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
10 May 2021
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When Davey returns to school, he unexpectedly brings home an illness that shakes the Jacobs' family to its core. Jack wants to help his grieving friend, but he's fresh out of ideas. Enter Racetrack and world's worst--but most well-intentioned!--plan.
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I Dream of You, To Wake by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992)
04 Apr 2021
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And Snyder didn’t stop. He hit Davey again and again and again. Eventually, Davey went silent. His body crumpled at Jack’s feet. Snyder smiled.
Jack stood by, helpless. He opened his mouth to scream, but this time, there was no sound. There was no air. And it was so dark.
He’d known as soon as he woke, panting and covered in sweat, that he was going to take Pulitzer’s deal.
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- Part 1 of Jack: In Dreams
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In Defense of the Ocean by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992)
12 Feb 2021
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Davey does not want to go to the beach, and Jack can't understand why.
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To Lasso the Moon by TheBarkeep
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992)
03 Jan 2021
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Race should have known better than to bring up Joseph Pulitzer. Oh, yes, Pulitzer had offered Jack that cushy position as a political cartoonist; and, all right, he’d looked the other way when Jack and Katherine had started spending time together. But Pulitzer had drawn his line in the sand when Jack and Katherine announced their engagement. He did everything he could to stop the marriage; he threatened Jack’s job and Katherine’s trust fund and any connection to her family. Even though it broke his heart, Jack had tried to offer Katherine an out then. He didn’t want her to suffer or go without on his account. But Katherine had insisted her father was bluffing, and that even if he wasn’t, she’d rather face the world with Jack than remain beholden to Joseph Pulitzer.
Pulitzer hadn’t been bluffing.
...or, how Jack undervalues himself tremendously and has to learn the hard way that he does, in fact, matter. Nothing says Christmas like a good existential crisis!