Jillian Holtzmann was a mystery to her fellow ghostbusters, not even Abby knew much about her, just the necessary stuff, they know she likes pringles and hates coffee, they know she is asthmatic, they know she likes loud music and that she is a reckless genius… but nothing else.
One thing Abby does know about Holtzmann is that she has multiple jobs at the same time, but oddly enough, she never talks about them unless she really has to (wich never really happened). For what Abby knows, the ghostbusters are Holtzmann´s hobby
The first time Abby, Patty and Erin ever heard about Holtzmann's multiple jobs was in a normal day at the firehouse.
Everything was going normal, Abby and Patty were at the table eating lunch and answering some comments on their latest ghost busting video, Erin was sitting at her desk writing an article and Holtzmann was on the second floor working at some new project
"Hear this one" Abby said snorting and pointed a finger to her computer screen
Erin looked up from her notebook, Patty never stopped looking at her pasta
"it says" Abby started, "that ghost is scary, it looks like my grandma's butt" at that point Patty looked up and said
"gross, i'm eating man, really? Did you have you say that?" Erin laughed aloud and was about to coment but was interrupted by the bell.
"that must be Kevin, he probably forgot his keys again" said Patty, still looking disgusted about the comment.
"i'll go" Erin said, standing up and walking straight to the door. She opened it but instead of kevin the person in front of her was the mailman, there was a "sky mail" themed truck parked in front of the fire house and the man had two packages in his hands
"good day" he said "i have a package for Abby Yates" Abby poked her head behind Erin
"oh, those must be the books i order, i wasn't expecting them this soon" she said with a big smile, pushing Erin aside so that she could sing the received paper. The mailman gave her the package and said
"and the other one is for... Jillian Holtzmann" Erin took the package in her hands, it was smaller than Abby's, but it looked like it could hold a medium sized book, Abby looked at the mailman and said
"thanks, i'll be signing received, she is up stairs" the guy nodded, not really caring, when everything was done and the guy left Abby and Erin returned to their shared space and sat at the table with Patty
"Holtz got a package should we go and give it to her?" Erin asked, Patty said no with her head and Abby said
"i don't think is a good idea, remember what happened last time"
One thing they did knew about Holtzmann was the fact that deconcentrating her could mean explosion, and that's exactly what happened last time.
"i didn't knew Holtzmann ordered something" Erin started, Abby was already ripping open her package when she said
"neither did i" Patty took the package from the table and said "Man, Holtzy can be weird sometimes, did the egyptians send this? Look at this writing, that's no normal" Abby looked up from her brand new books to look at Holtzmann's mail
"yeah, Patty is right, what language is that?" Erin, who was now on her feet and standing behind Patty said
"i don't know, looks like Russian, i think"
The only thing understandable in the package was the address, Holtzman's name and the radiation symbol on the top left corner. Abby was flipping the pages of one of her new books when she said
"well, whatever it is, is radioactive, so put that away from us!" Erin took the package and placed it on a work table Holtzmann had at their shared space.
"i didn't knew she speaks russian" Erin said as she returned to her computer to finish her article, Abby looked up from her book and said
"well, there a lot of things we don't know about her… thinking of it, i know pretty much a lot about you two, but nothing about Holzmann, she is a bit of a mystery" it was not surprising, Abby and Erin have known each other for many years and Patty was an open book she could talk hours about her childhood adventures and teen age years. Holtzmann was a different story, she hated talking about herself. she was a mystery to them
"i heard my name, What ya sayin about me bitches?" Holtzmann said walking downstairs, she made her way directly to the fridge to get a can of dr pepper
"that you got some weird radioactive shit on the mail" said Patty, turning back to her food and pointing to the table where the package was left, Holtzmann pushed up her glasses that were sliding off her nose because of the sweet on her face, she opened her soda and took a sip, then preceded to walk to the package, Abby's, Erin's and Patty's attention was now on Holtzmann (because even if no one said anything, they knew they all were dying to know what was on the package).
Holtzmann took the box and instantaneity ripped it open, not even reading the sender.
As Erin guessed, out of the package came a book and other things, like a letter, and a small white box. Holtzmann looked at the book smiling, then opened the letter and started reading it. Abby and Erin crossed looks as they saw the engineer reading the text that was completely in russian, she even chuckled at whatever was written in there.
"cool" Holtzmann said with a smile on her face, then she took that small white box
"Ok that's enough" Patty said out of nowhere, making Holtzmann ,Abby and Erin turn to her
"we are dying to know what's all that about" Holtzmann looked confused as her tree friends surrounded her with noods
"what? This?" Holtzmann said, pointing to the contents of the box
"yes" Abby answered "is so mysterious, is in russian and you seem to understand that very well, what is that?"
"Ught?" Holtzmann started like it was not important at all
"is a labor memory book from a job i started a few years ago" Abby took the book from the desk Holtzmann started opening the white box
The book was completely in russian, but by looking at the pictures Abby was able to understand what it was about
"You worked on the chernobyl power plant radiation contingency project" Holtz smiled and nodded, as she took a golden pin out of the box, then drank some more
"Holtzmann thats amazing, thats one of the most important projects of the last few years!" Erin said!
Holtzmann just smiled and said "yeah" putting on the pin on her shirt
Patty walked closer look at the pin, it had an image of a bolt , the power plant and some russian letters "and what exactly did you do there? You went there? I heard that shit is not safe" a chuckle came out of Holtz mouth, followed by a sentence
"hehe yeah, there some areas inside the reactor that can kill you in a just a few hours, that place is really cool"
Abby sat on a chair next to Holtzmann, to look at the pictures of the book
"Patty is right Holtz, what did you do?" Erin said, smiling at Holtzmann, the engineer took the book from Abby's hands, she started flipping the pages until she stopped in one pointing to a blueprint of a bolt
"this" she simply said, on the note under the photo it said something in russian and then Holtzmann's name
"a bolt? That's all? I thought you created a magnificent gigantic artifact that suck's radioactivity some how" patty said, clearly disappointed by Holtzmann's big mysterious job
Erin turned her gaze to Patty and said
"are you kidding me? That's a huge thing! When did you worked at this?" she said the last part looking at Holtzmann, who shrugged and said
"about two years ago, i think. An is actually bigger than you may think, really, those bolts are the size of a well feeded child"
An snorth came out of Abby's mouth as she found a very interesting photo in the book
"It's true, look at this picture" she said, pointing to a picture of Hotlzmann standing in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, holding on one of the bolts like it was a small child. Erin took the book from Abby to look at the picture
"Geez Holtzy, that's like, really cool,so you were the one who created the specialized bolt´s for the new sarcophagus? i read about their radiation proof sealing technology on a magazine and i thought they were genius, i had no idea it was you"
Holtzmann winked to her and smiled mischievously. Abby handed the book back to Holtzmann, who immediately threw it to a mountain of books that were in the corner of her workspace, then preceded to walk upstairs
"Holtz?" Abby said "What are you doing? that book is an important publication" Hotlzmann didn't turn to look at her, with one hand on her pocket, and the other carrying her soda she simply answered
"Ya, those other books are important two" and with that she disappeared from their view. Abby, Patty and Erin walked to the mountain of dust collecting books that had been carelessly thrown to the floor in that humid corner. To their surprise, they were all publications of Holtzmann´s work.
"Man, that woman is a genius" Patty said, walking back to the table, Abby and Erin followed
"Yeah, she is" Erin said with a smile
no matter how much time they spend with her…. Holtzmann was still a big mystery, and they loved her that way.