Mad Swan. "That is one hell of a mess."
Henry had only just gotten out of the building when he pulled out his phone and made the call, only waiting a few moments before he heard the other end pick up.
“I need an adult, can you come get me please?” He asked, scuffing his shoes on the gravel outside as the crashing from upstairs persisted.
“Is everything okay, are you hurt? What’s wrong?” The necessary adult on the other end asked, voice cracked and sleepy but sharpening with concern.
“Yeah, it’s fine. Mom and Grandpa are trying to assemble a bedroom set while Grandma is grading papers, and it’s getting kind of ridiculous. I can’t get any homework done here.” Henry muttered, wincing as he heard what he was certain was the tinkling of broken glass.
“Alright, ten minutes, and do me a favor, let your mother know you’re heading out this time.”
“Sure thing, i’ll brave the flying wrenches and see if I can make it back down to meet you.” Grumbling, Henry hung up and hastily shoved his phone back into his pocket, making his way back upstairs to let his family know.
“Mom? Grandpa? Hello?” He called, anxiously peeking through the doorway and tensing at the volleys of cursing and banging coming from the guest bedroom.
“Still here, kid!” Emma yelled, voice oddly muffled by what appeared to be nails between her lips, and a solid foot of oak headboard.
“I’m gonna go out for a bit to get some of my science homework done, is that okay? It’s getting loud in here, and I don’t want to get roped in.” He said honestly, ambling over to the doorway and staying just out of range.
He anxiously recalled the last time he’d been asked to help tackle furniture assembly as a bonding technique; they still hadn’t spackled the hole in the bathroom wall.
“Sure, just keep an eye on the time and call me if you’re- Why are you in my house?” Emma started, her statement ending in a snarl as Henry felt a presence behind him in the living room.
“Your Majesty, Princess Emma, i’m here to pick up your son. He and Grace are in study group together. Didn’t he tell you?” Jefferson said, and Henry could hear the smile in his voice.
Jefferson had all the charm of a badly socialized zoo animal, according to Emma but Henry just thought that they were too similar sometimes for her to like him, or maybe that she liked him too much and didn’t like that.
“He told me he was leaving to study, not that he was being kidnapped. Leave. Now.” Emma groused, crawling ungracefully out from behind the head board her father was struggling slightly to hold steady.
At this moment, Henry understood a little more why Jefferson was behind him, and not beside him; Emma looked like she’d throw something at the man and the air sizzled with the tension of a poorly managing magic user.
“Alright, come on kid. Grace is in the car, I wanted to see if you’d survived up here. This really is one hell of a mess you’ve got going on.” Jefferson rested a steady hand on Henry’s shoulder and they were both grinning now even as Emma bore down on them.
“I’m all good, Mom, Grandpa, i’ll be back by eight, and you can quiz me!” Henry piped up, backing toward the door as he now put Jefferson between himself and his mother.
As soon as Henry was out of the way, Jefferson gave a sweeping bow to a simmering Emma and dashed out the door just in time for the hiss and snap of purple lightning to see his coat tails over the threshold.
“As always, Highness, it’s a pleasure to see you, and if you’d like to come up and get Henry yourself, you know where I live. Now, kid, let’s hit the books, I don’t think the Laws of Thermodynamics teach themselves.”
Henry was laughing as they went down the stairs and only just caught the sound of his grandfather’s laughter as the door slammed.
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