#kat city spies

[fishyupmywishy]

fic idea: current media interest of choice runs into the city spies mid mission (no matter how unlikely it is to happen)

I actually started writing something like this a few days ago

[random-fandom-chaos]

(Monty would be Caretaker and another would be Whumpee)

KK YOU THREE WONDERFUL PEOPLE.

HEAR ME OUT A CITY SPIES FIC WITH MOTHER (there’s so many Whump ideas that show…mother. help the poor boy-)

AFTER HE GOT RESCUED BY CAIRO, HE CRIED BUT AFTER THAT HE WAS QUIET, TO ALL THE KIDS. ALL. EVEN MONTY, AND TRU. UNTILL MONTY GETS CONCERNED…HE JUST MUMBLES IT AND NOW SHES TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HE THOUGHT HE DID WRONG. WHAT HE BLAMED HIMSELF FOR.

I HAVE SO MUCH MOTIVATION AND EXCITEMENT RN

@needlesandnilbogs

@afunky-jester

@littengamer909

A whumpee who won't speak or communicate in any way after their rescue, and Caretaker doesn't know why. A few days/weeks in, and suddenly Whumpee whispers "I'm sorry."

They don't speak or look at Caretaker after that, those two words were all they said. Caretaker is left to try and figure out what is going on in Whumpee's mind.

[shades-potions-n-baseball]

HIII

Mother looks exactly like trust (silly)

that also im

Throwing city spies in your blog now :3

-One of the most known Mother fanatics in the whole community

like who? anyways yes I accept the city spies I love these silly guys!

also unrelated hc: kat is autistic and rio got adhd tho I feel like it’s basically canon

mother is so silly I love the bi british man trope!

[yourtwistedlies]

NEW CITY SPIES BOOK COMING OUT FEBRUARY 6TH 2024 AHHH ITS CALLED MISSION MANHATTAN I LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT.

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[random-fandom-chaos]

INTRO POST??

Y’all I feel like I should honestly have one I never made one LMFAOOO (idk how to make one-)

Anyways! Hi! This is me! @random-fandom-chaos

and welcome to my blog! I want to write fanfics and one shots but I’m never asked sadly :,( so I will update that and REALLY hope people ask- (I’ll give it a month but honestly I kinda gave up cause no one asked two people have and that made me haupi) But yeah!

I’m a MINOR!!! (Call me Roi, Vin, or Chaos (mainly Roi)

YES. Two people use my blog but mostly the MINOR is online so please don’t ask me weird questions if your like idk 44- I’m not a teenager yet- but I’m mature enough to know what many things are.

KAI! Is 22 she is an adult! She manages the ADULT stuff. Though they don’t live with me so they are rarely Online sadly-

But anyways!

Me (Roi) is always welcome to nicknames and rambles of fandoms or asks for oneshots! I’m really happy to be here!

Side blogs run my me and @/Afunky_Jester: @ask-mother-city-spies

check out my friends blogs! (If u mess with them I will bite ur kneecaps off) :

@hammyham-o-o

@celestialweedo

@luminarycomet

@kat-scribbles

@harvest-is-tired

@jadelemonadee

@thea-lynn

@afunky-jester

@tea-bruv

@crumpet-doodles

@afunky-jester

@glorious-owl

@achickennamedcheese

@needlesandnilbogs

@librarian-computer

@valenmakesthings

@stellrsjay

@magic-sch00lbus-dr0p0ut

@artistwithnopurpose

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Online parents [my mom’s] and sibling :

Parents:

@scally-wiggles716

@countingthestarsthings

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separate parents:

@dinosaurthecaliforniagirlanon

another seperate parent:

@crumpet-doodles

and another:

@apollo-is-somthing

and another (I have a lot of parents)

@livingwrite-andrepeat

siblings:

@jack-o-moon-askblog

@im-jesus

IRL friends:

@vincent-charlie

@i-v0mit-rainb0w

@himikoslovrr

REALLY REALLY CLOSE ONLINE FRIENDS (pls don’t be offended if ur not on the list, ur still close friends but I’ve talked to these wonderful people a lot:)

@crumpet-doodles

@afunky-jester

@hammyham-o-o

@celestialweedo

@stellrsjay

@needlesandnilbogs

@fishyupmywishy

@artistwithnopurpose

@magic-sch00lbus-dr0p0ut

@heretoreadheadcanons

Here’s the ONE SHOT post and I WILL be updating it!

https://www.tumblr.com/a-corrupted-light-improv/773316006028443648/please-see-this?source=share Also extra:

SIDE BLOGS!!!

@ask-mother-city-spies

@city-spies-incorrect-quotes

@ask-the-cryptography-genius

@el-salvador-america-central

@a-corrupted-light-improv

[random-fandom-chaos]

OMG I LOVE THIS ACTUALLY THANK YOU SO MUCH/srs

hi friend!!! …

I just wanted to say hi I do this to people I care about

hi! special bonus trick or treat for the holiday: Rio and Monty and treats

———

"Rio Gibbs-Montgomery! Fingers out of my bowls!"

Rio laughed, swiping his finger around the rim of the pan of fudge for a second time.

Monty brandished her spatula like a sword. "Out, I said, out! Out of my kitchen!"

[ask-mother-city-spies]

I do actually have a question. Since Kat, Brooklyn, Paris, and Rio don't speak English as a first language, do they ever speak it to hide things from Mother or if they're sick or upset? Has Mother made an attempt to learn, like, Nepali or Portuguese?

(I’m not sure if you’re asking this to mods, or him but I’ll also answer! Yes, he’s totally tried to do that, and I know he’d have a translator opened at all times on his phone to know what they’re saying. Anyways here’s his response:)

“Well, Yes! I often try to learn the language, they’re very much confusing. And those kids are very much smart, they try to hide things like sickness, or sadness from me and Monty. That won’t happen, I will always be their father and I will always care for them! I will find a way to understand them and I’ve learned a few simple words in Spanish and Portuguese, French too, Nepali is the most confusing for me. Thank you for the question!”

He smiles, a sincere one at that. He really does care.

(Anyways I’m gonna tag you so you can see the answer if you ask more question lmk if you don’t wanna be tagged: @shadyflowerdonut also yaya City spies fan)

[city-spies-confessions]

Yo yo! (Mod pls share ur opinion)

But honestly, am I a BIG fan of Mother? Yes. Does this mean what I’m going to say it bias? No.

but we got a Brooklyn Centered book (book 1) Sydney centered book (book 2) Paris centered book (book 3) and Book 4 is about Kat book 5 is about Rio

I Don’t doubt the next book might be about Cairo or Annie. But if James ponti decides to extend the series (he said he hopes to make at least 7 books at least that’s why I’ve heard) since book 6 might be Cairo (or not since we saw how Cairo was found, and we had some of book 5 mixed in with centering him and the other for Rio) Or Annie (if she decides to join) but if not.

hear me out.

James Ponti should make a Mother centered one of Monty

Even if they’re such a parental figure character we don’t really have much information. It would be cool on having one of those flashback chapters talking about how they were recruited. Going back to where they grew up. It would be so heartwarming.

I hope for a Mother centered book, how his world is, maybe angst too

Monty would explore more on who her parents where as she grew up her hobbies, and maybe angst too

But If Ponti makes the next book about Cairo and if Annie joins [book 6] (maybe) book 7 is about her (maybe idk how much he’s gonna write for the series since he’s such a good author and focusing mainly on his other series, but really this is just an opinion of mine) if [Ponti] does do this then if he writes more book 8 and 9 could be Mother and Monty centered! Maybe as a bonus book 10 (could be the last book if he writes) could be about clementine!

Thank you for reading I’m sorry for all the words I’ve had this in my head for two months and I got back into my city spies grind—

That'd be very cool, but I doubt it since city spies is already a bit different from his other books since it's third person, plus it's middle grade and most of those books stay in the main perspectives of children.

[blisslight2005]

My Best TV Shows:

Spongebob Squarepants

The Loud House

The Casagrandes

The Sumrfs (series 1981 and series 2021)

The Powerpuff Girls

Looney tunes

Dexter's Laboratory

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

Phineas And Ferb

Hilda

Steven universe

Adventure time

Regular show

Boy girl dog cat mouse cheese

Magiki

The Patrick Star Show

Monster High

Ben 10 (original series)

Beavis And Butt-Head

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

Pucca

Harvey Girls Forever!

The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Trolls: TrollsTopia

Dora the Explorer

Rock, Paper, Scissors, (nickelodeon series tv cartoon)

And Family Guy

Honorable Mentions: Teen Titans Go! (Naturel), My Life As A Teenage Robot, The Fairly Oddparents, Rugrats, All Grown Up, Rocket Power, The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F Puppy, ICarly, Victorious, Sam And Cat, Henry Danger, The Adventures Of Kid Danger, The Amanda Show, Kenan And Kel, Big Time Rush, The Naked Brothers Band, It's Pony! Ollie's Pack, Bunsen Is A Beast, Harvey Beaks, Teen Titans, Kikoumba, Pokemon, Annoying Orange, Animaniacs, The Looney Tunes Show, Mighty Magiswords, Milo Murphy's Law, Star Vs. The Force Of Evil, Gravity Falls, Ducktales, House Of Mouse, The Replacements, Recess, American Dad, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Bob's Burgers, Bless The Harts, Duncanville, Beavis & Butt-Head, The Masked Singer, King Of The Hill, Rick And Morty, Robot Chicken, Minecraft: Story Mode, The Mr. Peabody And Sherman Show, 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, The Adventures Of The Puss In Boots, Trolls: The Beat Goes On! DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders, Home: Adventures Of Tip & Oh, Glitch Techs, Disenchantment, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, The Boss Baby: Back In Business, Trollhunters, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Pac-Man And The Ghostly Adventures, Sonic X, Sonic Underground, Sonic Boom, Power Rangers, Totally Spies, Strawberry Shortcake (special 1980s,series 2003,Bitty Berry Adventures), Teen Titans, Courage the Cowardly Dog And South Park

My Worst TV Shows:

Kid Vs. Kat

Caillou

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Gabby's Dollhouse

Miracle Star

Mickey And The Roadster Racers

Mickey Mouse Mixed Up Adventures

Sanjay And Craig

Happy Tree Friends

The Really Loud House

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

Peppa Pig

Dora (2024)

Baby Shark's Big Show!

And CocoMelon

Dishonorable Mentions: Oishi High School Battle, Kiddyzuzaa Land, Barney, Dora the Explorer, Block 13, The Problem Solverz, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome! The Samsonadzes, Ryan's Mystery Playdate, Hero Elementary, The Book Of Pooh, Sesame Street, Sofia The First, Sunny Bunnies, PJ Masks, Franny's Feet, Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty, WordGirl, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Doc McStuffins, The Powerpuff Girls For 2016, Robocar Poli, Winx Club, Doki, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, Glitter Force, Miraculous: Tales Of Lady Bug And Cat Noir, Super Why! Sunny Day, Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, Too Loud! Miracle Star, Dora And Friends: Into The City, Rob The Robot, Abby Hatcher, Allen Gregory, Strawberry Shortcake Berry in Big City And Teen Titans Go! (Naturel).

[zan233]

Spy School and City Spies just balance each other out so nicely. There’s the messed up family dynamic in Spy School, but then City Spies is just so sweet, even if there is the whole Clementine thing. There’s the total lack of romance in City Spies to make up for whatever that love triangle was in Spy School a few books ago. But then in both of them you wind up with a couple of adults and a lot of kids being spies and the two series feel so connected to each other. Because Catherine and Monty both like to bake, and Ben and Kat are both really good at math, even though sometimes their characters feel nothing alike.

Basically, Spy School and City Spies have turned into all one big thing in my mind. Whenever I try to talk to people about one, I usually wind up bringing up the other because they have just combined themselves for me.

[archangeltwins]

( new fic? new fic. takes place in 2014's 'Kite', which is based off the 1998 manga of the same name. no working title yet, but trigger warning for human trafficking and erotic slavery. also, typical canon violence, misogyny & sexism, drug use, drinking, et cetera. )

"Damn them all! Damn those lyin', greedy, perverted sons of bitches!"

Katerina, oft nicknamed "Kat", stumbled from an alleyway, clutching an alcohol bottle, the watery contents sloshing. Tasted like fermented dog piss, but did she ever need the edge. Her hands shook, her stomach ached more. She hadn't eaten in a week? Two weeks? 'Sides, gutter-rat wasn't real meat. Wasn't her fault she'd been given the runaround on her last taste of Amp. Needing more of the drug had driven her to desperation, much like the rest in the slums of the metropolis. Rounding a corner, she shoved aside those who got in her way, some making hushed remarks. A couple older boys heard the commotion, their roadside chat interrupted. The leader, she assumed, cast a glance over, ginger-haired and gold-toothed. His faux-fur coat adorned with colorful patches, a lit cigarette between his lips. "Looky looky here, fellas! Got ourselves a little lost dame! No tags, no name. Unclaimed merchandise." The rest of his gang snickered, some wolf-whistling at her. "And so, what's a pretty face like you doin' hangin' around a place like this? Hm?" From behind, his arm looped her shoulders, prying the nearly-empty from her grasp. Taking a last swig, he coughed when the drink hit the back of his throat. Tossing it to the sidewalk, his boot ground into the pieces with a sick crunch. Blue eyes flashed under matted brunette locks, hard as granite as his fingers slid the strap of her dress low on her arm. Treated like a piece of meat, an object, even in broad daylight. Naught but a product to buy and use. “I don' have to tell you nothin', asshole.” With a sudden, sharp twist, he was pinned, her palm giving him a rather messy pavement facial. He howled as bone snapped clean, nose broken and lip split. His cronies jumped back, startled like deer, then dragged her off. One put a knife up, the blade hovering a hair from her jugular. Their leader was then helped to his feet, bleeding from both nostrils. He spat gobs of it in her face, anger contorting his features. "Whores like you should just spread an' fuck us men anyways, no lip needed!" A harsh slap rang out, the hard strike reddening her cheek. Backhanded. The sting of an open cut met the grimy city air. A multitude of hands tore at her clothes, ripping her necklace. The bullet bounced on the concrete, sharp ping ringing out. She stuggled with her attackers as they swept her into the alleyway, lashing out between the red haze and heady intoxication. One of the cronies, a rather crook-nosed troublemaker, yelped when gunshots rang out.

"Think she's had an earful, mates. Time to leg it!"

Crawling into the building's shadow, Katerina nursed her swollen cheek while still half under. She visibly flinched when two figures in heavy button suits appeared, turning her face away. "Our lucky day, hm? You caught the boss' eye when you put out 'is lights." The first - a dark-skin man in orange - mused, kneeling to eye-level. Tilting her chin, he made out the stark print, dirtied skin sliced from the man's ring. The second growled in warning to those scuttling past, hefting his rifle to his shoulder. Broad, built like brick shithouses they were. "She's too thin. Big man said to leave the corner-whores. Let the Numbers get their fill of street-skank." Orange-wear mentioned. His partner rolled his eyes. "Nuh-uh. What boss wants, boss gets. You wanna end up like Jeppie? Frontal lobe skewered? Then grab 'er."

Two pairs of heavy hands graced her back and shoulders, side by side as they hustled her into an old junker that drove up. The motor clacking jumped around her brain, pushed unceremoniously into the backseat. Out the window Katerina spied silhouettes, thick smog coiling around their heads like crooked halos. The Collapse. The chaos that followed afterward made other worldly powers prime targets. Bombs, warfare in the roads. Bodies lining streets. Gutters full of blood. Police cracking down on half dozen gangs every week, tweaks trying to muscle their way into the ranks.

Crookedness and corruption reigning supreme. This residential district, among several, were owned by the Thornhills, their slang recognizable in speech. Cockney, east-end inspired. The figurehead having expatriated from London to what was left of states after the Fall. Their gang easily singled out by the way their dress was perfectly put-together, emulating the mob families of the roaring nineteen-twenties. To hear the term "taking a walk" became something to fear, leaving the police to tweeze brain matter from ceiling-tile.

Bastards, the lot of them. People. Other people. Bleary-eyed and zombie-like, shuffling in shadows of once great businesses that'd made the world go round. Trash overflowing from cans to the street, dumpsters set fire. Dogs fought over scraps of meat -- questionable enough. Children with emaciated frames peeking out from boarded windows.

Now the name of the game was sex and murder, for the right price. Those young enough to work without pay became a valuable commodity, a handful of wealthy, shadowy string-pullers looked to as subjugators and sellers.

[fishyupmywishy]

@needlesandnilbogs has gotten the Tumblr community for City Spies approved!

If anyone wants to join, whether you read the books and want a fandom to participate in or if you haven’t and simply want to see what City Spies is like, please DM them or me, or reblog this and put it in the notes.

It would be nice to have some more people to interact with about the fandom than just us lol

[sl-newsie]

Bold: Spot x Manhattan girl (Newsies/ West Side Mafia)

I luv my family. To me, family is everything. At foist, I was noth’n but a scrawny goil from ‘Hattan who thought she knew everyth’n. 

Boy was I wrong.

When I met Jack Kelly, everyth’n changed.

Kelly. The Jack Kelly! The leader of the Manhattan mafia and one of the most feared men on the Eastern Seaboard!

When he found me, he saw potential.

He taught me to punch, dodge, spy. Taught me to kick, fight, and lie. Now I’s got a reputation of my own, and all-a New York knows it. Even Riff’s gang-a Jets knows it.

Yeah, Riff. Riff Lorton. Leader of the West Side Jets gang. Bit of a bastard for my taste, consider’n he’s always arrang’n rumbles with the Sharks. 

But anyways…

Jack brought me into the Manhattan family and basically adopted me! Sarah, his wife, is not only my best friend but also my forcefully-adopted sister. I tell her anyth’n and everyth’n that goes on in my life, and she listens. She don’t tell nobody, and we’s have an unspoken understand’n.

Race, on the odda hand, is a different story. Anthony ‘Racetrack’ Higgins, is Jack’s 2nd in command. And I swear to God, I’m gonna kill him. Race not only takes every second-a my life to annoy me, but also picks at my every flaw.

“Yer face is too mean.”

“You punch like a goil!”

“I could do that bedda in my sleep!”

What can I say, he can be a huge pain-in-the-ass. 

Davey’s not so bad, though. David ‘Mouth’ Jacobs, 3rd in command and Jack’s poisonal consultant, is the string of sanity tie’n this family togedda. He met Jack through Sarah, his sister. His brodda Les Jacobs is Jack’s ward, and is friends with Baby John, the spy from the West Side. The Jacobs are a calm, but smart bunch. It’s never a dull moment when the Jacobs are mixed with the Manhattan chaos! Charlie ‘The Crutch’ Morris the accountant, Boots the messenger, Kid Blink and Mush Myers as security, spies Skittery and Snipeshooter, and Specs the scribe.

I luv my family.

And the rest is history.

But right now, Jack’s request’n my attendance.

“Kat! Office, now!”

I groan.

Race smirks. “Oooh, you’s in trouble!”

I smack him. “Shut it, Higgins!”

I enter the ‘Hattan meet’n room, a glorious work of interior design. The tall oak walls reach up to a dome ceiling, surrounded by bookshelves and chandeliers. A cop might think it’s a library, but we’s know bedda. Jack’s desk sits near the grand window overlook’n tha city.

“Come in, Kat. Come in.”

I cautiously waltz in, know’n all-too-well that Jack has a knack for use’n me to vent out his problems, but I don’t mind.

“You called, Cowboy?”

He nods, look’n away from tha window. “Got an errand for ya, in Brooklyn. You know Spot?”

Ugh. Spot ‘King’ Colon. The titled ‘King of Brooklyn’ who rules with an iron fist. I avoid that place like tha plague, and when I do go I neva have an urge to make friends. I thought I knew Spot once, before he left me to die in an alley after a disagreement. Heaven forbid I disagree with the infamous Spot Colon.

“Yeah, briefly. Why? What’d he do?”

Jack chuckles. “‘S not what he did, but what he’s gonna do. Supposedly some-a Brooklyn’s gang is organize’n a rumble with the Jets. Obviously Baby John told Les, who told Davey, who told me. And now I’m tell’n you.”

“Why? Whaddaya want me to do? You knows as good as I do that Riff ‘nd Spot are the most stubborn men in New York!”

“But they’ll listen to you.”

I scoff. “Why?”

“‘Cause you’s a goil. Sorry to say this, Kat, but there ain’t many goil members we got in our family. But that’s also an advantage. I know Spot. He’d neva hurt a goil, especially you. Riff, on the odda hand, will go into a rumble fists-a-fly’n. Once King sees there’s a goil member involved, he’ll hold off the rumble ‘til he speaks with you. Got it?”

I groan. “What’s the errand?”

“No objections? Good!” Jack stands up, walks ova, and hands me a simple envelope. “Deliver this.”

“That’s it?”

Jack’s gaze narrows. “Lose this, and don’t eva bother come’n back.”

I gulp. O-Ok.

“Sure thing, Cowboy. Do I go alone?”

Jack loosens up. “It’s for tha best. There’s safety in numbers, but if those gangs see half-a the ‘Hattan mob show up with you then there could be an all-out turf war. Go alone, stay discrete, stay safe.” He brings me in for a hug. “You know I’d neva make you do someth’n I thought was dangerous.”

“What about Tony?”

“He ‘nd Maria have been lay’n low. Too many disagreements go’n on, so I’s been make’n sure they’s safe.”

I nod. “Good. They’s a good couple. Hate to see ‘em get hurt.”

Jack makes a call and in no time a brand-spank’n new car rolls up to take me to Brooklyn. As I look out tha window, I notice how tha calm streets of ‘Hattan turn into a more serious atmosphere as we enter Brooklyn. It’s no secret that King keeps a thumb on crime in his territory- maybe a bit too much.

“Nearly there, Kat,” Mush calls from tha driver’s seat. “Sure hope everyth’n goes ok- hate to have to pick you up in a bodybag.”

I grunt. “Thanks for tha encouragement, Mushy.”

“Anytime!”

He drops me off at tha Brooklyn bridge, a well-known safe and off-limits territory for meetings. I recognize Bucky, Spot’s #2, who is wait'n for me.

“Hey, Bucky. How goes it?”

“Spot’s Hell-bent on a rumble. Whadda you think?”

“Fair enough. I’s just here to talk.”

“I guessed. Figure’d Cowboy would send you to break the ice. Spot’s never been tha same since you left.”

My eyes narrow. “I had my reasons.” 

Bucky holds up his hands. “I know, I know. But you should know that he still cares for ya, he really does. You’s the only one who can calm him down, and I just hope you’s not too late, ‘cause Riff’s already made contact.”

Oh. That complicates things. I was hope’n to reach Spot before tha rumble started, but I guess I gotta speed things up.

“Where?”

Bucky points to a nearby alley. “Plymouth Street. It’s wide-open and away from Pulitzer’s cops. But be careful- I’s heard that Detective Weasel’s been snoop’n around and try’n to land Spot in jail.”

I groan. “He’s woik’n with Krupke, ain’t he?”

“Accord’n to Katherine, yes.”

Oh, right. Katherine Pulitzer, the police chief’s daughter. She and Denton are our ins and outs of police activity, which can come in handy when you’re in a pinch.

“Got it. I’ll be careful, but right now I gotta stop a turf war.”

I head into the alley, and immediately hear:

“King! You ready to rumble?”

That must be Riff.

“Only if you’s ready to apologize, ya bastard!”

And that’s Spot.

I poke my head around the corner, and see that it’s equally divided: Brooklyn vs Jets. Riff has a cocky grin on his face, while Spot… looks more mad than I’ve ever seen him. At foist I think it’s just gonna start with Riff ‘nd Spot slug’n it out- then I see Riff’s switchblade.

Oh God.

“Let’s bounce, buddy boy!”

Riff advances, while Spot looks as if he could kill Riff then and there. But I won’t let that happen.

“Colon!” I bark, make’n my presence known.

Riff sees me, and starts laugh’n.

“Hey, King! It’s yer goil!”

Now all tha Jets is laugh’n, make’n faces and whistle’n at me.

When Spot hears me, he whips his head around and his eyes go wide- not by surprise, but with fear.

“Kat? Kat! Whaddya do’n? Get oudda here before ya get hurt!”

But I don’t. Instead, I sassy-walk up to tha 2 leaders and put a hand between ‘em.

“Sorry, boys, but I gots an appointment to see a certain someone named Spot Colon.” 

Riff grunts. “Really, doll, you’s crazy if you think you’s can just waltz in and interrupt a rumble-”

“Shut it, Lorton. Be glad that Cowboy’s sent me on good terms. Don’t forget that Tony owes him a favor. I know he’s got connections with Denton, who could pass on a few secrets to Krupke and have you sent away for life.”

Riff’s jaw tightens, but eventually he backs away.

“Next time I see you, King, you’s dead meat! That goes for yer goil too!”

Spot lunges at him, but me ‘nd Mouthpiece break tha two leaders apart.

I glare at him. “Last chance, Lorton. One call, and you’s Krupke’s problem!”

I take my chance and grab Spot’s tie, lead’n him back to the alley.

“Kat- it’s really you. I- I thought you was-”

“Dead? Lifeless? Sleep’n with tha fishes? Well you’s wrong then, weren’t ya?”

King frowns. “I’d heard rumors that you’d gone to ‘Hattan, that you’s Cowboy’s poison now.”

“That’s right. And he sent me to give you this, along with tha threat on my life if I didn’t deliver it.”

I hand him tha envelope, which he takes gingerly and opens it. It takes no more than 30 seconds for him to read it, and when he’s finished his face changes to a noivous, anxious expression.

“Kat, I- What I did, it- What I’m try’n to say is-”

“Forget it. I’s done my job, now I godda head back.” I turn to leave, but King softly grabs my wrist. A part of me nearly gives him a good shiner, but anodda part of me wants to hear him out.

“P-Please. Don’t leave. I luv you-”

I can’t believe this.

I chuckle darkly and shake my head. “No ya don’t.”

Spot ignores me. “Please, Kat. I luv you.”

“If you luv me, you wouldn’t’ve left me. Do you know how cliché you sound right now?”

I yank my hand away and strut towards tha bridge, but Spot keeps up.

“Kat, I miss you. I’s neva stopped think’n ‘bout what I did, and I wanna make it right. I thought you’s was just try’n to betray me, but-”

I pivot and cage Spot to tha wall, look’n him dead in the eye.

“But I was actually try’n to be nice? Try’n to care about you? Well too late, Spot. If life’s taught me anyth’n, it’s that I can only trust my family. My new family. Believe me, I sometimes wish I could get oudda this life and into one that doesn’t have goons ‘nd cops try’n to kill me every day. But life ain’t fair, so I godda woik with what I got.”

“You got me.”

Spot’s eyes are now swim’n with unshead tears, and it’s tha closest I’s eva seen tha King of Brooklyn cry. But still…

I hang my head and sigh.

“I thought I did. And then you left me there to die.”

Spot brings a hand up to caress my cheek.

“Kat, I-”

I shove Spot and step back away from his touch.

“Can it, Colon! You’s know very well what you did! Those Jets nearly beat me to death, and yet you didn’t wanna step on any toes, so ya just left me there! And ya still wonda why I don’t trust you-!”

Spot suddenly gets unnerved.

“Why do ya think I’s in a rumble against the Jets now?!”

“‘Cause you’s stubborn, that’s why!”

“No! It’s ‘cause I wanna do to them what they’s did to you.”

Wait- he- Really?

I just stare at him and lean against tha wall, try’n to piece things togedda.

“Y-You- I-”

Spot, see’n I’s calmed down, steps ova and gently places his hands on my shoulders. When I don’t flinch or try to escape, he wraps me up in a hug and rests his head on top of mine. And it’s in this moment that I can smell his cologne, tha smell of saltwater and woodsmoke. Every moment I’ve spent with Spot comes flooding back, and it makes me wanna melt into him and neva let go.

“Don’t leave me, Kat. I luv you. It took nearly lose’n you to make me realize that, but I wanna do whateva it takes to make you mine. Please-” His voice cracks, and when I lift my head up I see an unusual sight: Spot Colon is cry’n. “Please forgive me. I can’t live without you. I’ll never let anybody hurt you again for as long as I breathe. You’s tha most special, beautiful goil tha Maker ever created, and I want you to know that you’s the only person who can make me cry.”

I give a shy smile, and he chuckles a little while try’n to wipe away his tears.

“What did that note say?” I ask.

Spot tries to act casual. “’S noth’n, just a note-”

“Spot. What did it say?” I ask more directly.

Spot hesitates, then: “It said: ‘Break her heart, and I break you.’ Signed Jack Kelly.”

I stifle a laugh. “Typical Cowboy, Always the matchmaker.”

“Seriously, Kat. I-”

“Shh.” I hope a finger to his lips and his eyes go wide. “You’s got a reputation to uphold- ya can’t be seen cry’n with a goil! So straighten up and go do what you do best, Sean.”

At tha use of his real name, Spot looks as if he’s been born again.

“D-Does this mean you-?”

I lean in and merge my lips into his, wrap’n my arms around him and grasp’n his soft hair. Spot lets out what sounds like a gasp and a moan, and then pulls me impossibly closer to him. We stay like this for who knows how long, 2 old friends with no care in tha woild. Tha kiss becomes more heated and sloppy, and soon Spot’s hand is rub’n up and down my back- which makes me lean into him more. But we both need to breathe, and when we come apart for air Spot has a look of complete smittenness on his face.

“Yes, Sean. I forgive you. You know as well as anyone that I ain’t a good liar, so I’ll save tha trouble of try’n to hide my feel’ns for ya.” I kiss his forehead. “I miss you too, Spotty, even though ya drive me crazy sometimes.”

Spot hugs me again and kisses me ova and ova.

“Thank you, doll! I donno what to say-”

Beep! Beep!

I turn my head and see Mush drive’n up. Oh-oh.

“Well make it quick, ‘cause I don’t think Kelly’s gonna take to well to me mesh’n faces with a rival leader. Especially you.”

Spot smirks. “So… we’s got a secret luv, don’t we? I like tha sound-a that!”

He leans in to kiss down my neck, make’n me smile.

“By tha way, that’s a pretty bold move, make’n out with a rival gang member,” I smirk.

“You started it, not me,” Spot argues back with a cheeky smile. “But I’ll gladly finish it.”

Just before Mush drives up, Spot bends me back, cups my face, and kisses me deeply for tha whole woild to see- bold and unafraid.

“Whoo! Nice one, Spot!” Bucky calls from tha bridge.

“Wait ‘til Cowboy hears about this!” Mush groans from tha car.

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Known Facts About City Spies Book 6 and Beyond

collated at the Avid Reader bookstore event/signing in Davis, CA, on 6/23/24

On future books:

City Spies book 6 is finished and in the proofreading stage. It will probably be released in February 2025, he's allowed to share the title and cover as of this week.

City Spies 6 is called "London Calling" and the cover (which I briefly saw on his phone screen) is predominantly yellow and green

Robert is the protagonist and the Mother/Clementine/Robert/Annie larger plot will be completely resolved in book 6

There will be at least 8 total city spies books, likely 10

Sherlock society 1 is coming out in September

He's going to be on a two book a year release schedule -- February city spies and September Sherlock society

On research/past books/writing

he writes the first draft then goes to the places to research them

he talks to a lot of experts -- for city spies this includes a bookseller's husband who's ex-cia and planned the mission in forbidden city for him, for Sherlock society he got to go on a Miami marine patrol police boat

the city spies books work best with three cities they go to, boat being hostage in the first paragraph of golden gate is based on kid saying plot took ages to get to Big Thing in book 1 so now every book starts with a big thing happening. The middle city is the city of adventure and city alluded to in the title.

He did not get to physically go to Russia or China or Egypt but he did go to Venice after first draft of mission manhattan, went to every location in the book, then used pictures he took there

Washington he got a friend to show him the abandoned spots very unsafely, including embassy row and the empty Iranian embassy which fascinated him

He walked around Iranian embassy and the United Kingdom and Brazil embassies are actually across from it, the security didn't like him taking those pictures as much but it inspired him

If he could choose one song that best represents mission manhattan/city spies: We are family

when he writes a series he's trying to answer a single question and the books are all different variants on the answer. For city spies it's "what is a family"

he puts his life into the books, especially with a parent being missing and trying to find that connection

Middle grade advice: Write from the pain of when you're thirteen

"As a consumer of art we still believe in magic, but there is no magic […] we're faking the magic, it's just sweat. You forget what they're doing is sweat too."

he and his writing friends all feel like imposters. He talks to ppl who've won newberries and still feel like imposters and then they finally have little clicks that say maybe they can do this, like when his publisher said maybe he didn't need blurbs on his books anymore

Research is for accuracy and he hates being wrong and sometimes he hand waves but it gives him inspiration

real life is better than fiction

On Clementine, Mother, their kids:

book 6 resolves all the issues with clemmie and mother and the kids but not all the series's problems

"In the end as I wrote Clementine I wasn't sure how she was going to end up," he "wrestled writing her every time"

"Clementine is a puzzle" kat says, based on a thing a fan said

Good or bad, accidental or not, Clementine is the most interesting character bc you don't know what side she's on

On public libraries and independent bookstores:

About the nypl: "it's the most fascinating thing to me, this library. It's the Vatican of American books."

There aren't easy answers to the problem of cutting funding for libraries, there's a reason independent bookstores and libraries are valuable and it's bc this type of event matters and they have so many services

"Public libraries are one of the greatest things, as far as altruism, our society has ever created"

When it becomes an issue of books being banned it's not good, it's not okay

These are important issues and it's not simple but access to books written by "not just middle aged white guys like me" is really important

what gets lost is book recs and new authors

"the power we have in the exchange of ideas is valuable"

it's stuff that's been sitting there for a while and failed miserably and then gets popular, libraries and independent bookstores are part of that

TikTok is the single largest driving force in youth literature and it may not exist in a year

On the potential City Spies movie:

MGM studios bought the right to city spies film series before they were bought by Amazon

This happened because there's a Guatemalan woman who's the head of development at mgm, and she has twelve year old twin brothers who are reading city spies, she hears the story and says that sounds like a movie, reads the first page and is hooked, reached out and acquired the rights and then he heard nothing for ages

Amazon bought mgm and he thought it was done but they liked city spies, they hired a producer and then writers strike blocked any development but they now have a writer

He's staying out of the writing process, his background in film is making a lot of connections but also means he knows to stay out of it (though if he's asked he'd be enthusiastic to help)

he gets on set one day and gets two tickets to premiere

Movie in theaters not tv show

doesn't really believe it will happen yet because spy school was gonna be a movie then it wasn't

"I would wait to start worrying about following it till later", he doesn't talk about it really even to friends

MGM made an announcement to variety and so everyone found out

He and his wife hope it will happen (cause it's cutting down time till she can retire), she's his health insurance and it's why it seems a lot of writers end up married to teachers and have insurance through them

tagging @fishyupmywishy also

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City Spies: Mission Manhattan by James Ponti

City Spies: Mission Manhattan by James Ponti. Aladdin, 2024. 9781665932479  Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover, 420 pages Genre:  Action/Adventure What did you like about the book?  Sydney, Kat, Brooklyn, Cairo and Paris are up to their ears in espionage as they try to figure out what criminal organization is after Beatriz (Bea), the teen-leader of a…