Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Artemis Fowl characters. I chose to use them in my fan fiction story with no copy writes to me but all to Eion Colfer.
6 months after Artemis Fowl had been admitted to the Argon Clinic with Atlantis Complex.
Holly woke up with a pounding in her head that came in fours. She rolled off her bed to answer the phone that had woken me up.
"Hello?" she said sweeping back the hair that had fallen in front of her face.
"Holly? That you?" Holly recognized Troubles voice and raised an eyebrow while looking at my moon-o-meter that marked it was 6 forty two.
"No trouble it's the girl that snuck into Holly's' apartment and answered her phone to talk to some LEP officer, of course it's me! And for Fronds sake trouble! Why so early?" Holly counted her words on her fingers, and then said "seriously!" marking off to 33 instead of 32.
Holly could practically feel him wince over the phone. "Sorry Holly, but did you forget that today we're supposed to be going to the police plaza at eight thirty for a meeting with the ambassador of Atlantis"
"D'arvit." Holly breathed, apparently loud enough for Trouble to hear, because then he started giggling. At first it was innocent but then he started laughing comically. Holly started giggling right along side him until he giggled out "Ashley!"
Holly's laughter halted. Troubles' started to fade as he didn't hear Holly giggling anymore. As he stopped laughing he coughed uncomfortably, as if that would cover the at least minute and a half laughing spree
"I'll meet you outside Foalys office in an hour" Holly said her voice tinged with jealousy and venom.
"Wait Holls! It was just-". Holly had cut him short by hanging up the phone with a satisfying *click*
"Well wasn't that just so fun?" Holly said to herself smiling as she turned on her shower. It was one of Foalys' inventions. It didn't exactly 'spray' the water. There were holes all around the rectangular prism even on the transparent door that would spray mist. The ceiling pores were much more powerful than the others. Foaly had once explained to her that it would save water, because for each inch on a regular mud man shower the newer version (named the jinx machinx. Holly had gotten Foaly mad once, because she made fun of the name, and then tried convincing him to call it by a real name like. Um. Machine?) would give four times as much effectiveness on using the water. This was because the mist was split again and again so much that it would cover you fully in more time with less water.
Holly stepped over into the next room and then into her bedroom. She walked into her closet and ripped one of her uniforms out of the near zero gravity chamber. Sure the thing was expensive, but when holly was using hangers, she would have to go buy a set of thirty each month because she would yank down her uniforms and the hangers would snap.
Holly lazily walked back into the bathroom. She yawned at the mere thought of being up at six forty in the morning. On a usual work day she would come in at about nine a.m., so she would normally wake up at around eight.
Holly placed her uniform on her sink, and stepped into the shower.
About twenty minutes later Holly stepped out and wrapped herself in her dark green LEP towel. She dried off and put on her LEP suit on. She strapped back on her moon-o-meter even though it was waterproof to up to 150 meters below sea level.
She checked the time and saw she still had about twenty minutes till she had to head out but decided to leave and go get coffee. Two to be exact. That would be a good way to keep Trouble from talking.
She grabbed her keys and started running down the street. She hated how everyone was always just walking, so she ran everywhere. Very affective.
She hit the police district 'Sea Bucks'. it always amused Holly how fairies tried to adapt to humans and there habits and names and, well the list could go on.
Holly stepped into the retro coffee shop and stepped up to the counter. It was surprisingly slow that day. Behind the counter was a young elf. Ninety maybe. The equivalent to about twenty four in human years. He had dark brown hair and sharp gray eyes. He has wearing black jeans and a green polo. He stood there with his elbows on the counter twirling his thumbs, ever so nonchalantly.
As Holly walked up to the counter, the young man stood upright quickly his gray eyes trying to refocus from his day dreaming.
"Uh. Hi, how may I help today?" The young elf said as he reached in his chest pocket searching around nervously for his pen, with his notepad in hand.
Holly smiled at how fidgety this young man was. It reminded her of Artemis on one of his bad, yet comical days. "Just two Hawaiian bean coffees' please. Large." Holly sighed "I'll need a large miracle to get through this meeting and come out alive" Holly said to herself.
"anything else for you miss?" the young man asked.
"No thanks, nothing else." She winced then added "Sir".
The young elf scurried away to fetch Hollys' order, while Holly started tapping the desk in counts of fives, as he did so.
Holly stepped up on to her tip toes and read the elf's name tag as it read "Ray". She smiled at the name. It was trust worthy. Yet then again so was Artemis. Her smile vanished as the tiny thought on a small piece of paper started un-folding, and getting larger, until it was a billboard up in the middle of Haven.
She was snapped back into reality as the waiter said:
"That will be fifteen copper pieces please miss, uh," he paused, tilted his head, and then said "Holly"
Holly slipped the coins on the table as she muttered "Highway robbery".
Ray heard her, looked down at his tablet, then said "Oh, sorry, I must've counted wrong. I meant seven."
The young elf, Ray, pushed back eight coins to Holly. Holly choked back a hysterical laugh, for the young elf didn't even realize she was wearing her LEP uniform. Finally she broke, and started to giggle.
"May I ask what is so funny?" Ray asked.
"Oh nothing." Holly said as she took her coffees' and turned around. She flipped her hair over one shoulder as she walked off, revealing her LEP logo. She smirked as she knew the young mans eyes, must've just widened.
Once Holly got to the police station, Holly went to Foalys' office, making sure to hide the coffee behind a stack of papers before she entered, because she knew that Foaly would freak if he knew he didn't get any.
"Hey Foaly" Holly said
"Hey Holls" he replied
Holly saw that Foaly was working on a new pair of wings. She propped herself up and sat on the corner of his desk. She chewed on her ring finger nail as she said:
"So when am I gonna be able to fly those?"
"When they don't fly another elf into an uptown condo wall"
"Well why? That sounds rather fun if you ask me. Falling twenty feet down to land on a pixie passing bye. Exciting!" Holly laughed at her sarcasm
"So you read the report huh?"
"A little. But what I'm really here to ask is where my meeting is scheduled at." Holly re-counted then said "Yeah, where?"
Foaly noticed the counting, but let it slide. He figured it was from being around Artemis so much, and his counting.
"Oh it's in conference room 7-26" he said eyeing her suspiciously
"Oh woopdey" holly said sounding more like herself "seven flights of stairs to climb, yea!"
"Yeah, well, you better get moving if you wanna make it in time, you've got five minutes to climb!"
"Thanks Foaly, see you later!"
As Holly charged out the door, she ran into Trouble, nearly spilling the coffee.
Without saying a word, she shoved a coffee onto Troubles chest, then sprinted off towards the stairwell with hers.
She beat Trouble up the stair well by at least a good minute or so. She waited outside the conference room leaning up against the door. As Trouble came up the stairs gasping for air, Holly asked sarcastically:
"Have fun with Ashley this morning?"
Trouble tried to respond but just spluttered. Holly rolled her eyes and walked into the conference room with her head held high. She sat down at the second chair from the front. When Trouble finally found his breath, he sat down to the left of her, next to the ambassador who was sitting at the head of the table.
"Holly, listen-"
"Would you just shut up! The meeting is starting!"
All through out the meeting holly tapped the table in counts of fives, switching fingers each time, going down her hand.
Almost five minutes after the meeting had run overtime the meeting was over, Holly started getting dizzy. To take her mind off of it, Holly started counting the people around the table. Yet when Holly found that it landed as forty-four Holly yelled out :
"Four!"
Just after, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted. Just before she hit the floor, Trouble caught the young elf. He propped Holly up into his arms, looked at the nearest commander, and asked:
" For fronds sake, Need me to take her down to the clinic?". Troubles voice was anxious, since he wasn't used to not knowing what was going on.
"That'd be nice", the commander said nodding his head slowly.
"I'll bring you the report later commander."
With that he kicked the swinging metal door open and walked out. He walked down two and a half flights of stairs before Holly came to her senses and said:
"Would you put me down already?" She rubbed her eyes lazily.
"Holly, I don't know about that, you freaked out in the meeting, then passed out."
"D'arvit, Trouble! For Fronds sake! Put me down! Now!" she said starting to kick and punch at his arms and chest, each blow more powerful than the last.
"Fine!" Trouble said in surrender yet still laughing a bit. He raised his arms above his head.
Holly brushed herself off, smirking the whole time. Yet Trouble was already facing her on the fourth step. As Holly took her first step down the step, her knee gave out, and she fell into Troubles arms, unconscious again.
He propped her up again over his shoulder.
"Frond, I hope she doesn't have Atlantis Compl-" he wiped the thought from his mind, not wanting to even mention the possibility
