Disclaimer: I wish I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-
"What is THAT doing here?"
Hannah, the maid/cook blushed lightly from her position knelt down next to the cardboard box. She picked up the ball of fur inside as she stood.
"I found him outside in the cold," she began, cradling the animal close to her chest. "Just so sad and hungry. I couldn't turn him away."
"Get it out of my house," Vlad ordered, giving her a Look of anger. Hannah replied with a Look of have pity on me.
"Oh Mr. Masters, please!" she begged. "He's just a baby, you can't just put him outside, it's raining! He'll catch his death!"
Vlad was going to protest when Hannah held the puppy out so that they were nose to nose. Vlad's eyes stared coldly at the puppy, who gazed back with enchanting, adorable bright brown eyes. It's tiny tongue gently licked his nose, and Vlad's expression softened.
'Oh butternuts! It's...It's...adorable! NO! It'll shed, crap and drool everywhere! But...Hannah's right...I can't put a face like that into the streets...I have to get rid of it though. I'll think of something.'
"Fine. Keep it in here until I can find a home for it. You're cleaning up after it and feeding it," he snapped. Hannah put the puppy back in the box before hugging her boss happily. He tensed up, but shrugged it off and left.
"NO! NO! OUT OF MY LAB, SHOO!" Vlad shrieked when he noticed the puppy sniffing for a place to hike his leg. The dog barked at the sound of his voice and ran to him, knocking over a shelf when it slipped and rammed into a table. "HANNAH!"
The young maid/cook quickly rushed down and picked up the puppy.
"Oh you poor baby, you got all sorts of nasty chemicals on you, you silly boy," she talked to it in a baby voice as she rushed the puppy upstairs.
"Don't give me that look, you brought it on yourself with that scene in the lab," Hannah scolded the puppy when it gave her The Eyes while she rubbed his back with some of Vlad's shampoo. Hopefully, he wouldn't notice.
"I thought...I thought I just had a...oh cheese logs! HANNAH GET THIS MUTT!" Vlad yelled when he noticed the dog was snacking on his sandwich. Hannah quickly got him.
Vlad growled at the puppy when it attempted to jump onto his bed. It took the small puppy four tries to wiggle its way onto Vlad's tall bed. It immediately circled and snuggled against Vlad's back.
"Oh no you don't!" he hissed. The puppy turned its head to look at him and gave him The Eyes. Vlad's eye twitched for a moment. Maddie the cat was calmly sleeping on her cat post. "Oh chocolate rasberries! Fine! One night only!"
The dog laid his head back down and sighed deeply.
"HANNAH!"
The young maid/cook came running at her boss's scream. Vlad was angrily holding a chewed shoe.
"Oh Mr. Masters, I'm so sorry!" she apologized upon seeing the nice shoe with dozens of tiny bite marks.
"Shhh!" he told her. She looked confused, so he added in a whisper, "I think he meant for it to be a surprise, because it HID IT UNDER MY DESK!"
Hannah winced.
"That mutt is gone! He's eaten chemicals, he's eaten my food, he's eaten my shoes, he's eaten everything then crapped or threw it back up all over my house!" he yelled. "He's out!"
Vlad glanced at the caller ID on the phone as it rang.
"And I know just what to do with him."
Danny sighed and plopped onto his couch, closing his eyes. Rough day, and for once, it wasn't because of fighting ghosts. His sixteenth birthday was today. It was mostly spent hanging out with Tucker and Sam, before his family took him out for a celebration and showered him with Sweet Sixteen gifts.
He groaned as the doorbell rang. He didn't want to get it.
Luckily, he didn't have to because his mom let the person in.
"Oh, Vlad! We weren't expecting you. Ohhh, who's this little guy?"
Danny pretended that Vlad didn't exist as he dozed on his couch.
"Hello dear. I just came to drop off a birthday present for Daniel."
"Oh, he's napping on the couch like most lazy teens do."
Danny heard Vlad's footsteps, but picked pretending to still be napping. That is until a weight was put on his chest. The weight moved around and a wet nose pressed against his cheek before sniffing his ears and an eager lick to his face. Danny opened his eyes and shot up into a sitting position, making the puppy on his chest fall into a heap on his legs. The puppy immediately jumped up, using its front paws to rest on Danny's stomach and claw at his shirt.
"What kind of dog is it?" Danny asked, scratching that puppy's back. He picked the puppy up so that he could lick his new owner's face.
"Yorkshire Terror," Vlad replied as he stepped back into the kitchen. "It's your problem now."
"Tell him," Danny told the puppy in baby-talk. The puppy tilted its head. "Tell him you're not a problem, tell him that you're a big, strong wolf."
The puppy barked as if to agree.
"You're a little killer, aren't you?" he asked, still in baby-talk. "Hm...do you wanna be called Guilastes?"
The dog sneezed before giving a short 'Ruff!' and rapidly scratching at his arm. Danny laughed and pulled the puppy into a hug, which he squirmed out of and howled.
"You do?" he asked, amused when the dog howled and barked again in agreement before spinning in circles. "How about Gui for short?"
The dog jumped against Danny, his head smacking into his stomach which caused him to fall backwards onto the couch and wiggled to stand upright.
"Danny, who are you, OH-MY-GOD!" Jazz shrieked and immediately scooped up the tiny puppy. The puppy fit in the palms of her hands put together. "You are just the most adorable thing in the world!"
The puppy licked her nose, making her giggle and snuggle it. Gui began to wiggle in her hands, so she put him on the floor. Jazz and Danny shifted to sit on the floor, watching Gui sniff the floor and roll around.
"Vlad gave him to me for my birthday," Danny explained, scratching the puppy behind his tiny ears. "He's a little killer, aren't you Gui? Show Jazz how tough you are!"
The puppy immediately let out a small squeakish sound before charging at Jazz's sandals that were neatly placed beside the door. Letting out a fierce growl, he slowly dragged one of the sandals a good three inches before letting go to prance back over to them. Jazz reached out her hand to pet him, but he fell face first into the floor then scrambled under the couch.
While Danny coaxed Gui out from under the couch, Jazz took a picture of the tiny puppy hiding under the couch with her cell phone to text his picture to everybody. Eventually Danny just put his arm under the couch and pulled him out before dumping him onto the couch. The puppy curled up into a ball onto Danny's abandoned jacket and sighed heavily. Jazz cooed over it more.
Best birthday present EVER! Danny thought cheerfully.