A/N: Morning everybody, I'm back just like I said I would be. A good turn out for the first chapter, nice to see that plenty of you are enjoying the conecpt. I don't plan on the story being longer than 20 chapters but we will see what happens, with the outline I have made up the opening scenes of the movie don't even start until chapter 5. LOLS.
Anonymous Noob the 2nd- After so long I have finally delivered on my promise to you, and I must say I'm only a couple of chapters in and I am already having a blast writing this. As for any lemons, not for this story. I thought about it at first but decided against it after some thought, don't worry it is a Hiccstird story afterall.
Httydastrid4ever- Glad you enjoyed the first chapter and hope to see you through out the story. I'm shooting for one chapter a week so Updates will be regular.
YouYou098- Thank you, the whole process was amazing. I can't say that I have seen anything like this done either, and I have been around for a few years and read lots of stories. It is fun and the idea was given to me by Anonymous Noob the 2nd a couple years ago, glad you are enjoying the story.
CB73- BS-Detector! That is funny, but even among the same type of people Henry finds the same problems as school, though there is a bit of fresh air with a certian someone's reaction. His sarcasm though seems to already be leaking off on people and maybe that is his way to friendship, possibly more.
PhoenixFury- Thank you, the wedding was freaking amazing. Glad you like the new story.
Great turn out for the first chapter. Here we get to see Henry interact with the cast and meets some interesting people. Should be fun. Be sure to leave a review, as you can see I read them all and they mean the world to me.
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(Friday, October 5th, 2018)
Henry and Steven had touched down in Hollywood the day before and found a hotel to stay the night in. They had used the time to make their way down Sunset Boulevard and into Sunset Studios to find the new company DragonWorks. It had taken some time as the building wasn't as big and noticeable as other companies, but they had found it toward the end of the day and made note of some landmarks to find it again tomorrow. Back in their room Steven was looking up the company to see what there was to know about it.
"What are you looking at Dad?" Henry asked as he came out of the bathroom.
"Just trying to see what I can find out about DragonWorks." Steven responded, looking up from his laptop.
"Oh, and what have you found out?" Henry asked, now curious himself.
"Nothing, Max wasn't kidding when he said they were new. They have a website, but it is really barebones, just a mission statement, where they are located, and that they are filming a movie." Steven replied as he frowned trying to concentrate.
"Well I wouldn't worry too much about it dad, I'm sure everything will be explained tomorrow." Henry reassured his dad.
"Aye, I'm sure it will be. You know me though, like to know who we are working with is all." Steven replied as he closed his laptop.
Henry chuckled at his dad's comment but knew it to be true. His dad went into full Sherlock Holmes mode, when it came to working for a new company. Not to say that the companies were bad, his dad just liked to know about them, and could get a little nosy at times. Henry laid down not thinking anything more about it, it was just a way his dad looked out for him and he loved it. Closing his eyes Henry fell asleep waiting for the morning to come and his new career to kick off.
(Saturday, October 6th, 2018)
The meeting was set to start at 9am and Steven and Henry were walking through the gates to Sunset Studios. Showing their badges to the guards, they both walked between the stages and buildings until the familiar shape of DragonWorks Studio came into view. Smiling they walked through the doors and found a reception desk with a worker sitting behind it frantically answering calls through the small earpiece they wore.
"Umm, excuse us? We have a meeting at 9." Henry tentatively asked.
His dad had told him on the ride over that he was going to back off a bit and let Henry take the lead once they got to the Studio. Henry smiled, but was a bit nervous still, he was glad for the trust and responsibility but didn't want to mess it up.
"Who are you?" The woman behind the desk asked quickly before looking back at her computer.
"Steven and Henry Haddock. A guy named Max came to our house early this we…" Henry started.
"Down the hall second door on the left." The woman said quickly cutting Henry off.
Henry closed his mouth as to not look as shocked as he was. He nodded in thanks, not that the woman noticed, and made his way down the hall. Once they were a comfortable distance away from the desk Steven burst out laughing. Henry blushed and scrunched his shoulders to try and hide his embarrassment.
"Thanks for the warning their dad." He mumbled out.
"Oh son, there wasn't a thing I could have said that would have prepared you for that. Don't feel bad though, most reception workers are like that, if they miss a call it could mean that their company doesn't get the project and they lose money." Steven comforted his son with a pat on the shoulder that nearly sent his son to floor.
"Easy dad, don't need to get hurt before they have me doing stunts." Henry said rubbing his shoulders.
"Right sorry son." Steven replied as he rubbed the back of his head, chuckling at the comment.
"Well here we are, I wonder if we are the first ones here." Henry pondered as he looked down at his watch.
It was 8:30am so they still had some time before the meeting was supposed to officially start. Pushing the doors open Henry noticed that there were not the first ones in the room. He noticed two siblings that appeared to be twins sitting at the far end of long table, looking around with a mischievous glint in their eyes and snickering back and forth to each other, a large boy sitting about half way down the table and reading a book, and finally a girl sitting close to the head of the table, head leaning on her hand with a bored look in her eyes.
"Hey dad, why don't these other kids have agents." Henry asked as he looked around seeing that there were no other adults in the room.
"Well I'm certain they all have agents but if this meeting is as informal as I think it is, they might have just flown straight to the set. I think this is just kind of a meet and greet." Steven offered.
Henry shrugged and made his way to the other side of the table opposite the girl with the bored look on her face. As he sat down the girl looked up and gave a slight frown before looking back at the table, Henry's brow furrowed in confusion but didn't want to think too much of it. Looking around and seeing nobody interacting with one another Henry was struck with an idea.
"Hey dad, any idea who these other kids are?" Henry asked.
Steven in fact did know who most of these other kids were but wanted to see his son make some friends, so he decided to play dumb and see what Henry would do.
"Can't say that I do son." He said as he looked around the room.
"Alright, well I'll be back then, gonna go introduce myself and see if I can't get everyone talking to each other." Henry said as he stood up.
Steven nodded and jumped on the inside, hopefully this could be the first step in his son making some friends.
Henry made his way over to the large boy who was sitting half down the table. The boy was still engrossed in his book and didn't notice Henry walking up to him. Henry tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention and the boy proceeded to nearly jump out of his skin and tossed his book in the air. Henry placed his hands up to try and apologize and to calm the boy down.
"I'm sorry, didn't mean to scare you." Henry stated once the boy had seemingly calmed down.
"Please don't do that again. I don't know if my heart could take it." The boy said as he dramatically placed a hand on his chest.
Towards the end of the table to two siblings, who Henry was now certain were twins as he couldn't tell either one apart, were laughing at the larger boy's reaction. The boy in question turned beet red and tried to hide his face in his hands. Henry feeling bad decided to try and comfort the boy.
"I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to scare you, I was just coming over to introduce myself. Can I start over?" Henry offered, sticking his hand out and smiling softly.
The large boy looked over to him and slowly stuck out his own hand, offering a smile of his own.
"My name is Finnick. Finnick Ingerman." The boy said as he shook Henry's hand.
"Henry, Henry Haddock." Henry offered in return.
Finnick's eyes widened and he pulled back his hand in shock. His eyes started to dart around the room, and he started to shake like a leaf. Henry looked confused and didn't know what to do.
"Umm, are you okay?" Henry asked cautiously.
"Y-Y-Y-Your Henry Haddock." Finnick whispered out.
"Yeah, that is my name." Henry replied, very confused as to what was going on now.
"HENRY HADDOCK!" two voices suddenly shouted.
Henry looked up and saw the twins knocking over chairs as they scrambled over to where he was. Henry started to back up, worried look on his face. It was just like school all over again. One of the twins jumped over Finnick and landed in front of Henry, grabbed his hand and knelt down on one knee.
"My Liege" A male voice said regally.
Henry looked around, worried, confused, and totally out of his element. His dad though was just smiling and giving him the thumbs up, the girl though was now glaring a hole through him. Henry wasn't able to spend any time thinking about that however as his other hand was yanked from his side and he saw the other twin down on a knee.
"Your Highness." A female voice came out.
"Okay, what the hell is going on?" Henry finally asked.
"You are Henry Haddock, you're like super famous among teen actors." Finnick finally said, regaining his ability to speak.
"I'm not that famous." Henry tried to deflect.
"Yeah you are, if you weren't how do we all know your name and you have no idea who we are?" The male twin asked.
Henry went to answer but stopped himself as he couldn't offer any response. He looked down to see that both twins still had both of his hands in their grasp.
"Can I have my hands back?" Henry asked.
"Why do you need them?" The boy asked.
"We can be your hands if you want." The girl followed up.
"No that won't be necessary." Henry responded, though it appeared to go unheard.
"Why would he want a girl to be his hands?" The boy asked, slightly disgusted.
"Well why would he want a boy to be his hands!?" The girl shouted back.
"He is already a boy, so it makes since he would want a boy as his hands!" The boy shouted back.
"Do I get a say in any of this?" Henry drawled out, realizing that this was out of his control.
The twins eventually let go and started to wrestle around with one another. Pulling at each other's hair, clawing, and biting each other. Finnick looked uncomfortable and tried to look anywhere but at the twins and Henry took the chance to back away. Introductions with the twins could wait for another time. He made his way to the other side of the table where the lone girl was sitting. Hoping that this intro would go better, Henry took a deep breath and approached the girl.
"Well that was something." Henry stated trying to break the ice.
"I hope you don't expect me to lose my mind over you." The girl replied, her voice was irritated and her reply short.
"I would prefer it if you wouldn't. I have no idea why they did that." Henry laughed out nervously.
"In case you didn't hear those two shout it out, my name is Henry Haddock." Henry introduced himself and stuck out his hand and offering a smile.
The girl looked over at him and glared at his hand and turned back to look at the chaos across the table. Henry deflated and started to take his hand back when he felt a strong grip squeeze his hand, he looked down and saw that the girl had grasped his hand, though it felt like she was trying to rip it off.
"Audrey, Audrey Hofferson." The girl replied curtly.
She released his hand, which had started to turn red, and placed her cheek back on it and stared ahead. Henry shook his hand trying to regain some of the feeling back in it while smiling nervously.
"Uh, nice to meet you." He said awkwardly.
Just as he was about to try and get Audrey to warm up to him, the doors burst open and a stocky boy barged in and jumped up on the table.
"Bask in my greatness losers and know that I will bring this movie to the top!" He shouted.
The outburst had gotten everyone's attention and even managed to get the twins to stop wrestling with it each other. The twins got and with bored looks in their eyes asked what everyone was thinking.
"Uhhh, who are you?" They asked simultaneously.
The boy in question went red with anger and started to sputter but quickly regained himself.
"Please, I'm the most famous person in this room!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah no, Henry Haddock over there is the most famous person in the room." The female twin pointed to Henry.
Henry just waved at the boy, who had jumped off the table and made his way over and stuck a finger in Henry's chest.
"Listen here fishbone, I'm…" The boy started but soon laid eyes on Audrey and stopped his tirade.
"Well hello there gorgeous." The boy said, flirtatiously.
Audrey again looked over to the boys, bored expression on her face and turned back uninterested. The boy shoved Henry aside and made his way over to Audrey.
"You know, we could share a trailer and go over our scripts together." He said trying and failing to get her attention.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I'm good." Audrey drawled out.
"Come on babe, you don't know what you are missing." The boy tried again.
"Can't miss it too much then, and don't call me babe." Audrey said, her voice gaining some bite to it.
Henry laughed at the comment which drew the ire of the boy in question.
"Do you have any idea who I am?!" The boy growled at Henry.
"Can't say that I do, my name is Henry though." Henry replied sarcastically.
He noticed that Audrey smiled ever so slightly at his sarcasm which caused Henry to smile in return. The boy however just got angrier. He went to shove Henry when the doors opened and in walked Max with a briefcase and laid it down on the table. He quickly opened it and started to place huge stacks of paper, each one labeled with a name on the table, and plane tickets on top of them.
"Good to see you all are getting to know each other, now unfortunately the meeting will have to be cut short as I was just informed that plane will be leaving at noon and we need to get to the airport. So, when I call your name come grab your scripts and tickets and head outside to the limo." Max announced.
As the names were called, Henry found out that the twins names were Rachel and Thomas, and the loud obnoxious kid was named Simon. Henry grabbed his script and tickets and handed the extra ones to his dad, who due to his size had to sit upfront with the driver. The ride was long but when they pulled up outside of LAX international, they were hurried through security and boarded a private plane that DragonWorks had waiting for them. It was long before the plane was taxied out onto the run and in the air. The flight would last almost 18 hours and it left Henry wondering that if only an hour with his cast members at the studio headquarters was that interesting what would the next 18 hours and filming an entire movie be like.
A/N: This is could be the best plane ride ever, or the plane ride from hell. Which do you all think it will be? Be sure to leave a review, I love reading them. See you next week!