Disclaimer: I dun own Arty or Holly…or anything for that matter…except ya know…my insanity, I'm pretty sure the deed to that is under my mattress.
A/N: Ok…so my reviewers said to go for it, so I'm going for it. If ya don't like it…snuff it, I'm prepared for the worse from this one, just no tomatoes…I'm allergic. This is the first of three chapters I think it'll be three, yea three...most likely...blah
Rain Drops for Tears
ch.1: The Rain Starts to Fall
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock. On and on, just tick, tock, tick, tock. The clock's hands moved slowly around its lifeless face, the sands of time slipping through their fingers.
"This….is useless. I'm out." Mulch Diggums stretched and got up, leaving through the door of the Short and Diggums P.I. business.
He left with good reason too. The biz had tanked, and wasting the days away hungry and bored just wasn't appealing. Lucky Mulch had somewhere to go though, he could go back to crime, build up his cash, get an apartment, and he'd be all good. However his partner wasn't nearly as lucky.
Ex- LEP captain Holly Short had no family, no job and no where to go. Her home had become the P.I. business, she slept on the same couch that her would be clients sat on. But…she never had any clients. At least having Mulch for company had made dealing with her failing business livable…but now he was gone too. She didn't blame him, never would, she blamed herself. Holly couldn't go back to the LEP she knew that, her father figure was dead and she just refused to give in and work for Sool.
'But what do I do now?' That's the question she was always asking herself. Holly's stomach growled all the time, she couldn't find another job…no one would hire an ex- LEPrecon jock, especially with her record of…going against orders. Money…well that had become a foreign substance to Holly and she wouldn't ask for help. Too stubborn.
Holly refused to contact Foaly, or Trouble, or even Chix, she just wouldn't admit that she'd messed up. And she certainly wasn't going to ask Fowl for help. So that must be where the story really starts, with Holly's new job. God help her.
"Even the strongest lose their way sometimes."