(Continuation of the werewolf Henry prompt where Hubert and Dmitri are divorced, Henry lives with Dmitri and doesn't trust Hubert etc.)
After the events of his visit, Dmitri and Henry treated Hubert's connection with them like it didn't exist. Henry ignored all the new letters from the Government that came clattering through their letterbox. Dmitri ignored all of Hubert's phones calls, with there being one time he answered and cussed the general out.
"How could you be so fucking stupid?! Doing that to your own son! He was so excited to see you Hubert and you just had to fuck it all up didn't you?!" He remembered shouting down the receiver as the General stuttered out apologises and begged to talk to Henry. How they could 'work this out' and how 'Henry wouldn't get hurt'. Dmitri hung up and never answered a call from Hubert again, always letting it go to voicemail until he eventually muted the number completely.
Henry was upset, obviously... He generally thought his Dad wanted to reconnect, with how sincere the letter he got before sounded. There was also the fact that Henry had only gotten to speak to Charles for about an hour, if barely that! He didn't get to know him at all... Only getting told that he was found as a baby and was now a brilliant Pilot. Henry still had so many questions, questions he knew wouldn't be able to leave his lips.
Not until his dad actually wanted to be his Dad, not some... General in the military that wanted Henry to help him with a criminal organisation... Now Henry was worrying about Charles and how he was raised...
A couple months past and things were looking up for Henry. He had gotten a new job at a jewelry shop down town and was very good friends with one of his co-workers, Ellie Rose. A short, snippy woman who was brutally honest at times and had a brilliant eye for Gems. She also didn't mind that Henry was a werewolf as, a great bonus to an already perfect friendship.
Dmitri and Grigori were having no problems with The wall which Henry was very thankful for. He knew very well just how brutal and violent the wall could get if you got into a bad situation.
Henry had also stopped recieving letters from Hubert, as they had stopped rather abruptly a couple of weeks ago. Dmitri had also told him that there were no more phones calls or text messages from the General either.
'Good.' Henry remembered thinking, 'He needs to understand that I won't drop like a hat if he needs something.. especially if he disguises it with an apology just to slap me in the face with the cold truth.'
He had told Ellie everything, she was sympathetic and had told Henry that 'if a parent treats their child like nothing but an employee, an asset to a plan or job all the time, that they weren't a parent at all.'
Henry had cried that day, hugging Ellie like his life depended on it. Even after almost 2 months, The whole situation still stung at Henry's heart like an irritated burn. He was just glad Ellie was here with him...
It was Henry's 29th Birthday, officially 3 months since the incident when Henry received a phone call from a Private Number. He was, at first, very confused. He didn't have a doctor's appointment or anything, especially over the phone, Dmitri would have told him if he did.
A thought flashed into Henry's mind, 'What if it's Dad?...' but that was impossible. Hubert didn't have Henry's number! Unless Dmitri had told him it but... His father wouldn't do that.
Henry's thumb hesitated over the green answer button, unsure of what to do. With a sudden increase in courage, he pressed the green button and readied himself. Whatever his dad or... Whoever this was wanted to say, better be good.
"Hello?" Henry spoke, voice firm and confident. "H-Henry?" A shaky, almost pained voice responded and Henry nearly dropped his phone. "Wh- Charles? Is that you?? H-How do you have my number?- Are you ok??"
"I'm- sshg-" A sudden intake a breath interrupted the pilot before he continued. "Kinda in a bad situation...I need your help.."
"H-How bad? Charles you sound in pain-" Henry was starting to freak out now but was desperately trying to act calm, both for his sake and Charles'. "Well..." Charles paused, the sound of sticks or... Leaves? Being moved around muffled the phone for a moment. "Me and... Dad were flying to.. to Canada to see you and... I don't know what happened! Something hit the propellor and the system shut down!-"
Charles was starting to hyperventilate before he took a deep breath in. "Henry my.. legs are stuck! I can't move! I tried calling out to dad but..." There was a pause.
"He.. he isn't moving Henry.."
Henry ran outside to see black smoke bellowing from a distance. Henry's heart was racing as he spoke up "Hang on Charles, I'm getting help now and will be there soon."
Henry then hung up the phone and ran back inside their house, grabbing the emergency first aid kits and a few blankets while dialing Grigori's number.
"Uncle Gri, we got a helicopter crash about a few miles from our house, it's... Dad and Charles that were inside. I'm running ahead to the crash site so you can have the med team track my phone for an accurate location. Tell Papa whenever you can, please."
Before Grigori could speak, Henry hung up the phone, making sure it was secured as he quickly ran out the front door, locking it behind him before getting on all fours and bolting it, adrenaline fueling Henry as he ran.
Henry kept running as the smell of smoke got closer, eventually seeing the helicopter wreckage nearby.
"H...Henry!" Charles gasped out, seeing his brother running. Henry let out a whine as he asked "Where is dad!" Charles pointed to where Galeforce was, a bad wound to the head and he wasn't moving.
Henry laid his father on his back and saw he wasn't breathing. Panic wanted to set in, but Henry quashed the feeling as he started chest compressions and rescue breaths on Galeforce, stopping ever so often to check to see if Galeforce was breathing and had a pulse.
Time felt like it slowed down for Henry, each round of CPR feeling more hopeless then the last. Sure Henry was mad at his father for seeing him as a tool, but he was still his father, and the thought of losing a parent was terrible.
Just then, Galeforce let out a gasp of air, coughing a couple of times as Henry felt tears in his eyes.
"D... Don't move too much dad... help is coming... just keep... keep breathing for me and Charles, ok?"
Galeforce just nodded his head as Henry turned him on his side. Henry then ran to Charles, seeing the large chunk of helicopter debris that had his brother pinned.
With the last of his adrenaline, Henry pushed the large metal off of Charles and dragged him away from the helicopter and near Galeforce.
"Holy crap Henry... you were amazing. And you even saved dad." Charles felt tears start to prick his eyes as Henry wrapped Charles and Galeforce in blankets before the werewolf himself collapsed on the ground from pure exhaustion, hearing several helicopters and various voices getting closer before he fully passed out.
Henry fluttered his eyes opened to see himself in a hospital bed and an iv of some kind in his arm.
Henry turned his head to see his papa sitting in a chair next to him.
"Good morning sleepy head." Dmitri gave Henry a smile as Henry sat up in the bed.
"Hubert and Charles are recovering just fine, Charles has a broken leg and fractured arm and had a mild concussion and Hubert had a head fracture, bruised ribs and several legs fractures. But the two are doing well, and it was thanks to you."
Henry let out a pained whine and saw that his hands were wrapped up in bandages. "How did I hurt my hand? I don't remember getting them cut."
"From what Charles told me, you were running on nothing but adrenaline and with moving the debris off from him, your hands were cut pretty deep from the sharp burning edges of the metal. You were too occupied keeping Charles and Hubert safe that you never noticed."
Henry let out a small embarrassed chuckle before asking his papa a question "Has Dad... explained why he and Charles were coming this way?"
Dmitri let out a sigh "Hubert can explain more, but he and Charles were coming over to your birthday to surprise you. Turns out that several Government troops gave Hubert hell for what he did to you and he actually thought about things. He even got yelled at by the former criminal organization's leader for his attitude after they reached a deal with the Government."
"So Hubert officially retired from the Government and was going to mend things up with us, with Charles transferring to become a helicopter pilot for the Wall. But American helicopters are just cheaply made and a defect happened, causing the crash to occur."
Henry's ears unconsciously perked up on hearing everything, with Dmitri ruffling his son's hair.
"Hubert still needs to prove himself to me and you, but his healing comes first. And so does your healing, my son."
Dmitri and Henry heard a knock on the door, Dmitri turning to see Ellie with Charles in a hospital wheelchair.
"Hope we aren't interrupting anything?" Ellie said, with Charles giving a wave.
Henry felt a smile form on his face as Dmitri spoke "Not at all, I'll leave you three to talk while I check in on Hubert."
Henry, Charles and Ellie talked for what seemed like hours while Dmitri found himself catching up with Hubert.
There was still a long ways to go to mend the wounds made, but a once broken family would slowly grow to be stronger then before.
