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Her Own Place

This is mostly just me writing some Katherine appreciation but yeah there’s some newsbians in here too. :)

Tw: a hint of internalized homophobia fueled by period-typical homophobia.

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It was the day they won the strike, and just a few hours after that euphoric rush of victory, Katherine Pulitzer packed her bags and left her father’s house to find her own place, and no amount of pleading from either of her parents would make her stay.

She still had a contract to be a reporter for the World, signed that morning, but in anything other than a professional setting, Katherine would be happy to never either of them again.

Was she worried about that contract getting terminated in an attempt to get her to move back in? A little. But as Darcy so eloquently pointed out when she arrived at her friend’s house, every news desk in the city wanted the reporter who wrote the Newsies Banner writing for them. If Joseph Pulitzer tried to fire her, Katherine Plumber would find other work.

And if all else failed, she, Darcy, and Bill would open their own paper. They knew where to find inside information on what headlines sold the best, after all, and every newsie in the city would be happy to circulate their paper.

And there was the fact that Spot Conlon had offered to send some guys to rough up her father if he was stupid enough to actually fire her. While Katherine would honestly like to see that, she declined.

Just like she declined when Darcy asked her to stay, because while he was a good friend, she needed to find her own place. Not just in a home, but in the world.

She’d only come to Darcy because she needed time to find a women’s boarding house, and as soon as she found one in a part of the Upper Eastside that Jack deemed ‘not shifty,’ she was gone, living on her own for the first time in her life.

She was the youngest woman there, at 18. The other women seemed to find her a bit out of place, this young reporter with no husband and no contact with her father.

And most of them really didn’t like Jack, who always brought along spare papers when he visited and tried to sell to them, ‘just being efficient.’

Jack was probably also most of the reason they didn’t like Katherine, but she didn’t tell him that. Let them stare. It wasn’t as if she and Jack were doing anything improper, courting the way plenty of young people did.

Courting Jack was fun, in a way that got Katherine’s heart pumping and reminded her she was alive. It wasn’t much, given that she was now living on the only kind of reduced reporter salary a woman could make and Jack was making only a few dollars a week, but it was theirs, and it was exciting.

And Katherine didn’t love him.

She didn’t know when she realized it, but once she did, she couldn’t stop thinking about it.

The realization was probably helped along by how she and Jack fought. A lot.

They fought about where to go for an evening stroll, whether Kath should help pay for medicine when half the boys were down with the flu, whether Jack should walk her home when it was dark outside...

They weren’t exactly an ideal couple, though they were healthier than some Katherine had seen. She hadn’t missed how one of the women who lived in her boarding house always came back from visits to her family with bruises.

But she and Jack were two bonfires, and they always just goaded each other into burning higher and higher until they were boiling and scorching and scalding everything and Crutchie was yelling at them to take the fight outside.

Maybe a blaze was what was needed to get things done during the strike, but in peacetime, it was nothing but destructive. It was exciting, but it caused pain for everyone involved.

It was about when she realized that that Katherine realized that she didn’t love Jack.

She didn’t know if she ever had. Did she get a rush when she kissed him because she was excited by him or because she was excited by doing something her father and society wouldn’t approve of? Did she hold his hand in public so people would know she was his or just so other boys wouldn’t flirt with her for once? Did she enjoy letting him sleep over just to cuddle or because of the look on her stuffy old landlady’s face in the morning?

The fact that she didn’t know wasn’t fair. It wasn’t fair to her, staying with someone she didn’t love, but more than that, it wasn’t fair to Jack. Once Kath realized that, she felt guilty for ever leading him on that much, knowing she had only set him up for hurt.

So Katherine broke up with Jack, and she told him why, and she knew that he was only pretending he was fine, but she also knew that it was for the best. For both of them.

And to her pleasant surprise, breaking up with Jack didn’t mean she lost the friends she’d made through him, though they were none too pleased that Kath had hurt him. But Specs listened to her reasoning and told her she did the right thing. Albert still came to her for advice or to share some gossip. Les and Race still invited her to play poker like nothing had happened.

And Jack forgave her, eventually. He picked himself up and healed and found someone else. Davey was much better for for him than Kath was, and he was also a friend of hers, so she was happy that both of them were happy.

Kath was definitely glad that just because she and Jack weren’t together anymore didn’t mean she was alone. She had friends besides just Bill and Darcy, now, in Jack and his boys and girls. Those valiant, fearless kids who didn’t care where she came from, only that she was on their side.

“Run along to your children, then,” Kath’s father sneered when she refused yet another attempt to reconcile, knowing that he would never change.

Well, if those children were Kath’s, she was theirs. Their reporter, their friend, their king of New York, whatever. They were a family, and Kath was now part of that family. The newsies believed in her the way her blood family never had, anyway.

Her father saw it as Katherine choosing them over him. It wasn’t. It was choosing her over him, because he would never stop underestimating her and the newsies had learned not to.

That wasn’t to say that Kath needed them the way he thought she did. She didn’t need anyone. She’d clawed her way to the reporter position she had now on her own will and determination. She’d had to believe in herself, because no one else did. No one was opening any doors for her, so she kicked them down herself.

Kath didn’t need them. She didn’t need anyone. But like Miss Medda told her, they were nice to have, anyway.

Medda was uniquely qualified to understand Kath’s position, having gotten her theater from the money her oil brought, but kept it because of her own talent. Hell, she’d had it more difficult than Kath had, but still was willing to give advice to a young woman who was, to some extent, following in footsteps that looked like hers.

Medda gave good advice, on balancing friendships with ambition. Someone would always say that Kath’s success was all because of the newsies, and none of it was through any skill of her own, but it was her choice whether to hold her head high and keep doing what she knew she was good at or believe it when other people said she was worthless.

It was her choice whether to push away the people she loved so everyone could see she wasn’t leaning on them or to keep them close despite the people who assumed they were the ones holding her up instead of her standing on her own among them.

It was true that Kath and Medda had very different experiences, given that they came from two different industries and two different races. But they got along because they were both successful women who no one had wanted to see succeed, and the only people who did have faith in them happened to be an energetic family of newsies.

Well, that wasn’t strictly true. Not for Kath, at least, and she was lucky for that fact.

Bryan Denton was a world-class reporter, and though he worked for the Sun, he helped Kath out when she needed to get a story published and editors were hesitant to listen to her.

“It’d be a shame to watch good writing go to waste,” he said, and it didn’t matter to him that Kath was a woman or that she worked for a rival paper. And it didn’t matter to him that Jack came from nowhere when Denton asked for drawings to go with his stories or that Davey was a poor Jewish boy when he gave him for advice on possibly becoming a writer, too.

Kath liked Denton. They worked together on stories whenever there was a story that couldn’t be covered by just one person. He became... not a father to her, but an uncle, maybe. Not a mentor, because Kath didn’t need one, but someone to believe in her and help her get her writing where it needed to be when she couldn’t kick down the doors in her way fast enough.

It was Denton who suggested the story that would change Kath’s life for the second time. A piece on the working women of the city, which he didn’t feel qualified to write, himself.

Considering Kath’s experience was very different from most, she had to rely on interviews to write off of. But most of the women at her boarding house didn’t speak to her and the few girl newsies could only provide their own experiences and Kath wanted a range. She did interview the girl newsies, along with Medda and a couple of her showgirls, but she still needed more perspectives.

That was when she remembered that Davey had a sister, didn’t he? And she worked in a factory before joining her brothers selling newspapers.

Kath had seen Davey’s sister a few times, in passing, but she’d never really spent time with her until she sat her down for an interview and...

Sarah Jacobs. Witty, smart, funny Sarah Jacobs. The other newsies called her... honestly, Kath wasn’t sure if the nickname was ‘Saz’ or ‘Sass,’ but it hardly mattered. Like Jack and Davey, her nickname was more optional than the others.

Sarah was the most amazing person Kath had ever met, and by the end of that interview, her face was flushed and her heart was pounding and goddammit these were all the things she had never felt for Jack.

These were all the things that she wasn’t supposed to feel for another woman, and Kath was absolutely screwed.

She wasn’t blind. Besides just Jack sneaking around with Davey, she knew damn well why Race went to Brooklyn so much and why Blink and Mush disappeared from time to time. She could see how Smalls and Sniper blushed when they held hands, the two 13-year-olds badly hiding their little puppy love.

But that was them. That was other people. It was one thing when your friends were queer and it was another when you realized you might be, too.

Trusting no one but her oldest friend to confide in, Darcy, surprisingly, wasn’t very surprised.

“I’ve known since we were kids, Katherine,” he told her, “Or, I suspected. All the other girls our age started looking at boys around 12 or 13 and you didn’t.”

When Kath responded that she didn’t recall seeing Darcy look at girls at that age, either, he blushed and told her a secret, and it almost made Kath want to laugh, how three of the biggest newspaper heads in the city had no idea their kids were queer.

Of course, having someone who knew who she fancied didn’t help Kath much, seeing as how she was almost certain Sarah didn’t even like women. Sarah was, by pretty much everyone’s definition, a good Jewish girl. She didn’t exactly seem the type.

That was, until Mrs. Jacobs found out Kath was planning on spending Hanukkah alone, and insisted she come over for at least a few of the nights, for one of which Jack was there, too, and spent a significant amount of it giggling in a corner with Les, clearly both in on some kind of conspiracy.

For that, Davey was fairly exasperated with him, but when the conspiracy came to light, Sarah didn’t seem to have any issue with it when she accidentally wound up kissing Kath.

That was Les’s fault for pushing her, but Kath wasn’t sure why until she saw the blush on the other woman’s face, and realized that in some not-so-innocent, twisted way, the boy had been trying to help his sister.

That kiss naturally caused a lot of thoughts, and no amount of talking with Darcy could fix it because for the first time in her life Kath could remember, something might actually be going her way.

She’d had to fight for everything she had in her life. For her position as a reporter, for her friends, to even have a life of her own and not be someone’s trophy wife. And now, cut off from her father’s fortune for daring to defy him, she fought for every story she got to put food on the table and pay her own rent.

Kath had clawed her way uphill through walls built by men who didn’t want her to reach the top and kicked down locked doors that wouldn’t let her in and the fact that Sarah might actually be easy didn’t make any sense.

It didn’t seem right, that Kath might get something she wanted without fighting so hard she barely won to get it. She’d fought for everything else around her in this little place she’d carved out for herself in life, so why should this be any different?

It took a talk with Jack, a talk with Davey, and a talk with a very annoyed Les, but after sorting through everything, Kath figured out that yes, she did want this, and yes, she could have it if she just let Sarah know that she wanted to try out being together.

And after only a few months... they weren’t trying anymore. They were everything the fairytales said love was supposed to be.

It was the day Jack moved out of the Lodging House, over a year after the strike, and Kath saw how Davey was moving in with him as everyone who couldn’t know the real reason assumed it was for financial reasons.

That very same day, she decided to ask Sarah to move in with her.

That very same day, only a few hours later, Sarah said yes, and Kath Plumber decided that she had found a place for herself in the world she liked to call home.

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5 Main Types of Plumbing Pipes Used in Homes

Whether hiring a plumber or taking on a do-it-yourself plumbing project, the experience can be confusing because of the choice of several types of plumbing pipes. Eventually, pipes' uses tend to blend together. Which type of pipe should be used for water supply, drainage, sewer, and even for the exterior? The answer is not as clear as it may have been in the past when the main pipes of choice were galvanized steel or cast-iron.

PEX Pipe

PEX, or cross-linked polyethylene, pipe is one of the newest and most popular pipes to hit the plumbing market. PEX is used only to supply water. PEX is a pipe that is rigid enough to withstand the pressures of water supply but flexible enough to weave throughout walls, ceilings, basements, and crawlspaces. PEX has truly delivered water-supply plumbing into the hands of do-it-yourselfers and professional plumbers.

Pros

Color-coded red for hot water and blue for cold water

Highly flexible, with 90-degree curves possible

Attaches with push-fit plumbing fittings, among other types

Inexpensive

Able to join with copper pipe

Cuts easily

Cons

Long-term capabilities untested

May leak with push-fit plumbing fittings

Cannot be recycled

PVC Pipe

PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, pipe is a drain or vent line type of plumbing pipe. PVC initially gained popularity because it was lighter and easier to work with than traditional galvanized steel pipe. PVC pipe is moderately easy to install and requires little more than a hacksaw and a miter box to cut. PVC glues together with solvents.

Pros

Diameters clearly marked on the white surface of the pipe

Inexpensive and can be used for long runs such as for irrigation

Easier to work with than steel or copper

Cons

The pipe cannot be unjoined and must be cut

Glued pipes can be prone to leaking

Degrades in sunlight

Rigid Copper Pipe

Rigid copper is often used for water supply lines within the home. Rigid copper is easily cut with a hacksaw or with a special copper tube cutter. The connection is a different matter, as it requires a practiced hand to solder copper pipe together. Rigid copper pipe is great for water supply because it does not come with any health risks.

Pros

Though it is called rigid, this pipe can be slightly bent

Handles heat well

Stands up against intense pressures

Easy to recycle and waste copper pipe even has monetary value

Cons

Difficult for do-it-yourselfers to work with due to soldered connections

Expensive

Develops pinhole leaks

Inside of pipe may eventually corrode and impede water flow

ABS Pipe

ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) pipe is mainly used as a vent and drain line. ABS pipe looks very much like PVC pipe, except that it is black and slightly softer.

Pros

Stronger than PVC pipes

Good for underground exterior use

Works well in cold temperatures

Cons

Often not permitted by building code

Warps and deforms at certain temperatures

Flexible Copper Pipe

Flexible copper pipe or tubing is used for final runs to water heaters, refrigerators, and some sinks. Flexible copper is used only for short runs and can be cut with ease with a hacksaw. It can be bent to fit around corners.

Pros

Fits in tight, unusually shaped areas

High heat tolerance

Cons

Expensive

Thin and prone to breaking

Galvanized Steel Pipe and Cast Iron

Two additional types of pipe are sometimes found in older homes and are infrequently installed, especially by do-it-yourselfers: steel and cast iron pipe.

Galvanized steel pipe was used for decades for drainage, water supply, gas supply, and any number of other purposes. While galvanized steel pipe is still around (particularly for gas supply) it is far less used and is never used for water supply in new construction or remodel projects. Each end of the pipe is threaded, and individual pipes are screwed into each other with connecting joints.

Cast iron pipe was often used for sewer and other drainage purposes. Cast iron pipe is still found in many homes. Cast iron pipe is viable until the point that it rusts completely through. Cast iron is very heavy and difficult to cut. Retrofits tend to replace cast iron pipe with rigid plastic pipes such as ABS.

Pros

Galvanized steel pipe has the advantage of being extremely strong.

Cons

Galvanized steel pipe eventually corrodes and blocks water flow.

Some galvanized steel pipe may pass lead into the water supply.

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