(continuation again of the werewolf Henry and Dmitri and Hubert as his parents prompt I sent in lol I really like where the story is going)
"E-Ellie! What are you doing?!"
"What? You said I could sign your cast!"
"Yeah, emphasis on SIGN. Not draw!"
Charles and Ellie's playful bickering filled the jewelry shop as the red headed woman vandalized poor Charles' arm cast. Henry looked on from behind the register, carefully organising some jewelry. "You 2 won't stop flirting huh?" The werewolf joked suddenly, tail swishing in amusement as the 2 swivelled their heads to look at him, dumbfounded.
"We are NOT flirting!" Ellie shouted in both anger and embarrassment, face beat red and, if it weren't for the counter protecting Henry, she probably would have hit him across the head. Alas, she couldn't reach... Charles looked away, equally red and stuttering out an "D-Don't be stupid..."
The sound of the front door opening and hitting against the rather loud and annoying bell rang out and got the 3's attention. Henry straightened, expecting it to be more customers, however, the sight of his Father and his dad made him relax.
"Papa? Dad? What are you 2 doing here?" He asked, rather curious as to why Dmitri had come all the way to the place he worked and why Hubert was out of the hospital. Wasn't he not discharged until next week?
"Well, I'm on my lunch break and Hubert wanted to see where you worked."
"Dad!" Charles happily called out and slowly hobbled over to his dad, who was comfortably seated in a wheelchair. "Charles, my boy, use your crutches! Their purpose is to help you walk!" Hubert scolded with a smile and Charles rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"But... Their so clunky and hard to use! I'm doing perfectly fine hopping around."
Hubert shook his head, chuckling.
"Actually dad, why are you out of the hospital? You aren't suppose to be out until next week right?" Henry asked, making his way out from behind the counter and towards everyone else. Dmitri huffed and spoke for Hubert, who was smiling sheepishly. "Yes, you are correct. He WAS suppose to stay in the hospital for atleast another week, but the stubborn old bastard said 'He didn't need it'."
"T-That's because I don't! I'm fine. I promise." Hubert defended himself but Dmitri still glared at him with a look of "Yeah right."
A phone beep interrupted Dmitri's silent scolding and Charles pulled out his phone. "Aww man.. sorry guys but I gotta go. Some new stock needs to be picked up." The pilot chuckled and Ellie huffed. "Jeez, your more busy than Henry's father sometimes."
"That's not true!" Charles and Dmitri shouted at the same time and everyone laughed. "I'll be back tomorrow morning, I promise Els." Charles turned and, though annoyed at the idea of using them, grabbed his crutches and made his way out of the store.
"Well my lunch break is finished anyway. Want me to drop you off at my house Hubert?." Dmitri asked and Hubert nodded, before leaving though, Hubert looked at Ellie. "Can you make sure Charles gets to his Helicopter safely? If your not busy with anything that is."
"Sure! Henry, you ok to cover for me for a little bit?" Henry nodded and Ellie, Dmitri and Hubert left.
Henry sighed. It had only been 20 minutes or so but he was starting to get bored already. There hadn't been any customers for a while and Ellie wasn't back yet, so he was expecting it to be another dead day. That was until the front door pushed open and the familiar ringing of the store bell rang out. Was Ellie back?
Henry's ears perked up and he looked up to see 2 rather fancy individuals. Well, they looked fancy, with the suits and hats they were wearing.
"Good evening sir! I was wondering if you could fix a gold chain necklace for me. If, you can that is." A brown haired man with a mustache spoke. Gesturing to a rather expensive looking gold chain necklace in his hand that had a golden dollar sign dangling from it.
Despite the very pretty looking necklace, something else had captured Henry's attention. It was the taller man right beside the other. He was wearing a cowboy themed fit with a cowboy type hat as well. Red hair and mustache standing out in the white store.
However, it was the red tail swishing behind the man that Henry was staring at. Another werewolf?! Someone that wasn't himself or Dmitri?!
Henry could feel his tail wagging in excitement. "Um- Yes I can.. fix that for you."
From the looks of the necklace, one of the faux diamonds had popped out and the loop that the chain would go through had a chunk broken off and the gold chain had some loose bits all around, clearly a sign that this necklace was used alot.
Thankfully for Henry, these were easy work to fix, first grabbing some small tweezers and went to work placing the gem back before securing it back in.
As Henry checked on the rest of the gems to make sure they were fasten in correctly, the fancy brown hair man spoke as the red headed werewolf sat down in a nearby chair.
"You don't see alot of werewolves in public down in America or Europe, alot of people there don't take kind to those that look different."
Henry replied as he started working on repairing the chain itself "Yeah, my Dad sent me up here to live with my Papa when I was little because he feared people might hurt me." Henry kept quiet on the other reason, just trying to keep positive for the customers. "So you two just passing through?"
The brown hair man chuckle "We are actually looking for a nice town for me and my son to settle in at. It would be nice to not have people judge Right for him being a werewolf."
Henry's tail wagged abit more as he finished up fixing the chain and giving it a good look over before going to fix the loop of the necklace. Ellie had snuck back and saw Henry talking with the customer.
"This small town is really nice, but there is a maximum security prison and correctional facility nearby so occasionally you can hear loud alarms from here. The next town over is really nice as well and a great hospital for both humans and werewolves."
The red headed werewolf decided to speak up after remaining quiet for so long "You seem like a nice fellow, not like the others we have ran into that have... harden their hearts. What is your name anyways."
Henry felt his face blush at the sound of the werewolf's voice, something the brown hair customer and Ellie noticed.
"My... my name is Henry... um Henry Petrov. And you must be Right, right?"
The red headed werewolf snorted with how cute and fluster the other werewolf was "That's correct, full name is Rightwise Manfred Copperbottom, but I like Right better. And my dad over there is Reginald Copperbottom."
Reginald was now the one being sheepish, completely forgetting to introduce himself to Henry.
Henry had since put away his tools and gave the necklace a good polish as they made their way to the cash register so Reginald could pay for all the repairs.
After handing Henry the money, Reginald smiled as he put on his necklace "This feels like the day I... bought the thing. This necklace has so many memories attached to it and I am glad you were able to repair it."
Right stood up with his own tail slightly wagging now at looking at Henry "Hopefully we can see ya around, Henry."
After Right and Reginald left, Henry found himself blushing as he took stock like usual, standard store protocol, with Ellie finally speaking up.
Henry stood straight up with a shock, quickly turning around to see Ellie giggling.
"I mean... I just... he was so..."
Ellie just smiled as she got behind the register, just happy to see Henry perking up after so many months.