Never-surrender | Tengen & Charlie - Tumblr Posts

When taking the bounty hunter on into his practice, he expected him to be a bit chaotic, but not this much. Only so many accidents could happen before the city or someone else came down on his practice. And he knew plenty of people who would want Thieves Gambit shut down. And he couldn't deny the little satisfaction he got when Tengen grimaced.

Rolling his eyes, Charlie removed the gauze and inspected the wound now that it was clean. "Well, it doesn't look too deep. The bleeding looks like its stopping. You'll live." Then he meticulously began to bandage the man up. "Tengen, you really need to be more careful. We can't have you getting more injuries than bounties caught." Finishing his work, he put his hand on his shoulder. "If not for the business at least think about your wives. What would they do without you?"

Taking a moment to reign in his anger, he took a deep breath before making his way over to the bounty hunter. “You know Tengen, this is a fucking office.” Sitting in front of him, his practiced hands began to bandage the other. “Professional. Not an emergency room or somewhere to patch up your wounds. If it was bad you should’ve called. I would’ve come to you.” Then soaking a gauze with an antiseptic, then pressed it against the wound. “Now, what the bloody hell happened?”

Shaking his head he began to clean after the bounty hunter. He remembered all too well the days he was ready, itching, for a fight. Now a days he just hoped for an evening alone with his wife. “Clean this up and make sure you get that checked out later today by an actual doctor. Don’t want it to get infected.” He could tell the man was deflecting maybe trouble with the wives, but that was none of his business.

Deciding that maybe this was the right time to tell him what he had been ruminating for a while he dragged a chair to sit in front of him. “Tengen, we have to talk about something.” Running a hand through his hair, he sighed wondering if he might be making a mistake. “ I need you to shape up because I’m thinking about taking Anna and Orion on a family vacation. A get away for a while, and with Elizabeth gone, I’d leave you in charge of this office, but I can’t do that if you’re running around like this.”

It wasn't as if Tengen chose to get injured as often as he was, it just simply happened to him, and while he couldn't control how people reacted, he did understand what Charlie was saying, no matter how peeved it made him to admit that Charlie was right.

"You're acting like I can control how other people act when I go and grab them," he grumbles even still like a petulant child, lowering his shirt once Charlie was done tending to him. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were worried about me, boss," Tengen teases, grinning over to him in an effort to change the topic and avoid the conversation about his wives