Flip ~ A Spot Conlon Fanfic

Chapter 10: Jack

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"Judge E.A Monohan presiding." Someone said as the judge sat down in his chair.

"Are any of you represented by counsel?" Monohan asked us, the Newsies that were at court.

"What's a counsel?" one of the boys asked.

"No. Good, good. That'll move things along considerably." Monohan said as I rolled my eyes.

"Flip." Race said as everyone looked at me.

"What? I'm not a lawyer!" I exclaimed the boys all groaned.

"Your Honor, I object." Spot called out.

"On what grounds?" Monohan asked him, sighing. 

"On the ground of Brooklyn, your Honor." Spot told him as the boys started to laugh as I covered my mouth, stifling a laugh as Monohan banged his gavel.

"Hey, Flip, what does it mean to be represented by counsel?" Blink asked me.

"We're not represented by counsel, meaning we don't have a lawyer defending us." I told him as he just nodded.

"I fine each of you $5 or two weeks' confinement in the House of Refuge." Monohan told all of us as we looked at him in disbelief.

"Woah, woah. Hey. Hey, we ain't got five bucks. We don't even got 5 cents." I told the judge as the boys all agreed.

"Hey, your Honor, how 'bout I roll for it. Double or nutin'." Race joked as we all laughed again.

"All right, move along, move along." The Monohan told us.

"You're Honor, I'll pay the fines. All of them." I heard Denton say as I turned around, seeing him walk through the closed gate. "Come on." He said as David squeezed through as well. 

"Hey, fellas, you all right?" David asked as he ran to us.

"Hey, David." I said to him.

"How's the face?" he asked me and Skittery. 

"It's seen better days." I joked as we all chuckled. 

"Where's Jack?" David asked us.

"Look, we gotta meet at the restaurant. Everybody. We have to talk." Denton told us as Monohan banged his gavel again.

"Pay the clerk. Move it along." Monohan told Denton as I saw Jack walking in handcuffed with a bull behind him.

"Hey, fellas." Jack said as we all looked at him.

"Hey, Cowboy, nice shiner." I said, smirking as we all greeted him.

"Pay the clerk. Move it along." Monohan told Denton, banging his gavel again.

"Jack's fine." Race said as we were all escorted out of the courtroom.

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We were all sitting in the diner and I was sitting next to Spot, the two of us trying to find the article of the rally in the papes. "I've looked over the entire pape twice. I don't see anything about the rally." I said to Spot as he took the pape from me. 

"It's in here somewhere. I mean, Denton wrote it." Spot said to me. 

"Denton!" someone exclaimed as we looked up, seeing him walk in.