Color Him Wonderful- Larry AU

IV.

Louis sighed as yet it was another few days without any news, the first week the police kept calling because of sightings but there was not enough evidence to pursue them on foot because the dog may not even be Dolly.

"Mr. Lou you said that if I kept up with doing my homework that Harry and Dolly would come, but I have a problem," Emma frowned up at her teacher.

"And what would that problem be Em?" He asked, not understanding what was the matter.

"I don't understand the homework and my mummy doesn't know how to do fractions."

Louis smiled as he led her over to a table while the others were making some paintings to take home for their parents. "Don't worry Em, I can give you some extra help. Now what don't you understand?"

Emma went to tell Louis how she understood one part, but then when she went to go try to do the second step that's where she couldn't figure it out. Louis listened to her and then stopped her when she said something wrong. He showed her an example of how to do it and then watched her as she tried it herself. He watched her do a few more before he smiled at her when she was catching along pretty well.

"If you hand this in tomorrow I won't mark it down for being late since you were honest with me."

Emma smiled wide. "Thank you Mr. Lou."

"Of course, now why don't you go paint something for Harry and Dolly and I'll bring it home for him tonight. How does that sound?" Emma didn't even answer Louis as she went to drop her folder on her desk and then went over to paint something with all her concentration.

Louis went back over to the others and smiled at their paintings, helped clean up some of the students who couldn't or just needed the extra help, and placed the paintings on the drying rack while they had nap time. People would think that Louis was treating them like children, but he always said that putting in a movie while some took a nap and the others watched in awe is a great way to end the day. It was either a documentary on someone they learned about that week or movie that the students had to figure out what the message was, and most of the time they got it on the first try when it took Louis a few times to figure it out. He knew the students were smarter than what most people give them credit for and he just wanted to show them that they are capable of doing what others can.

Meanwhile, Harry was growing bored of being cooped up in the house, and he needed to go somewhere. He knew Louis would get out of work in an hour so if he got lost all he would have to do is ping his phone to find him. He put on his glasses and grabbed his walking stick, frowning as he wished he just had Dolly with him, after three weeks without her he was still so sad that someone would do this.

He walked the familiar streets toward the dog park, and was happy that there were people to help him if the walk signs weren't on. A lady actually grabbed him by his jacket before he walked into a busy street, "Woah there honey, have to be careful. Don't you have a seeing eye dog? I've seen you before."

Harry frowned at the woman before he spoke. "I did have her, someone stole her."

The lady frowned. "Wait, you're Harry Styles, the famous painter?"

Harry nodded. "Yeah, that's me, you've probably seen the news about it, right?"

"It's so sad that there are people around in this world that would do such a thing." Harry could basically see her sorrow from just she way she spoke. "I don't have anything planned for the rest of the day, why don't I be your guide today?"

"You don't have to."

"I want to, think of it as a pay it forward type thing, I'm doing it because I care."

Harry almost cried right there, but he accepted her offer as they continued to walk. He even decided to walk to a different part that he's never been too when something stopped him. "Wait, did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" The lady, who Harry found out that he name was Ellie, tried to figure out what he was referring to.

"You don't hear that whimpering sound?"

Ellie listened around before her eyes widened, "It's coming from the sewer drain!" She led Harry over to it and she looked down, her eyes widened again. "Holy shit, there's a whole bunch of dogs down there! We need to call the cops now!"

Harry then heard a familiar whimper, "Dolly! My baby, don't worry we'll save you and your friends!" He heard a happy bark from just one of the dogs, and made him smile.

Within 10 minutes, the police were there with city trucks to get the dogs out of the sewer drain along with people who had their dogs missing.

Harry immediately called Louis who was on his way home. "Fuck Lou, they've found her meet me at the corner of Reed and Lake street! You can't miss us there's a big crowd of police, they've found all the missing dogs."

Louis didn't even get a reply out before he was almost speeding down to get to him. He parked his car as close as he could and when he got there he was crying with all the owners being reunited with their beloved dogs. He found Harry was on the ground with Dolly shaking in his arms, he just kneeled down and took them both into his arms as they cried happy tears.

Ellie watching from the side and snapped photos of the two of them, smiling to herself as she knew she helped more than anyone could ever repay her. The police came over to her and got her statement and then reporters were interviewing everyone.

The police had a vet called and had all the dogs go there to make sure they are with their proper owners, even though dog owners know how to tell apart their dogs.

Harry smiled as he finally had Dolly home with him and Louis, all he knew was that he was never going to let her leave his side, ever.