Interrupted- part 2
A guestasked for a oneshot ofa sequel to Ch1969 "Interrupted" where the Charming's meet Neal's friends that put him to stealing the TV. They don't make a good first impression.
Neal had kept his head down since the incident with the TV. He'd apologised to the person he had stolen from and had been mowing their lawn ever Saturday morning for a few weeks now, as well as going round to their house on a Wednesday afternoon to give the kitchen a good clean. He had even used some of his money from his paper round to pay for his parents to have another dinner. They could tell he was truly repentant, so no further action was needed.
Snow and Charming had even been told by Neal that he had stopped hanging out with the guys that had convinced him to steal. That they were extremely relieved about. When they were out for a stroll around the park and saw the gang of boys they understood to be Neal's old friends, they were even more relieved.
The group were not the sort of young men they wanted Neal hanging around with. They spent the late evening in the playpark with their hoods drawn up and mysterious items in their pockets that would probably be used for some form of vandalism Snow frowned at the group of boys. In their land, they would probably have been scooped up by the likes of George or the Evil Queen and turned into dark knights. In this land, they took out their anger and boredom on the community around them.
"Should I say something?" Charming asked Snow. Snow nodded.
"Why don't you ask them if they want a job? Why don't you ask them to look after the animals at the shelter?" She suggested, surrounding Charming. Snow shrugged. "They need a chance; we can give them one." Charming smiled, kissing the side of Snow's head before going off to speak to the boys. Sure, they might not take the Charming's up on their offer, but they had to give the boys a chance. Or else who would?
