Disclaimer: I only own Jacque short no one else sobs Eoin Colfer owns the rest of them.
CHAPTER 2: Preparations for a party
It was Saturday morning and Foaly had booked a shuttle seat for Holly at 2'oclock in terminal E1, Tara. Though she was no longer an officer Foaly still did the odd favor for her like booking the shuttles' getting visas and that all important concoction and antidote that would make her human or at least look it she would still have her powers. It was 4 hours before the shuttle and she still hadn't chosen what to wear. She was sat on the floor with a massive heap of cloths next to her. "I can't wear that it isn't formal enough, holy frond that is too formal, I'll never find anything in time".
Then when she looked up she saw it, the dress she would wear she remembered her cousin Jacque Short ,who is up in France, gave it to her as he is up there the people safe and posing as a mud man. He got it from one of the shops in the terminals with all the French mud man designs in it. So far she had never worn it as she didn't like the fact it showed of too much skin. It is a red dress (the red really matched well with her hair) sprinkled with glitter that had the same sparkle that she had in her eyes that night (though she didn't notice her eyes sparkling). It had a diamond cut out of the top of the dress that showed cleavage and it also had diamonds cut out of the middle that showed her waist. She still thought it showed too much skin but it looked alright anyway even if it did come up above the knee.
She put her dress in a bag to keep it wrinkle free. Then she put a knife in her boots and a mini neutrino 200 (one of Foaly's new inventions) in a holster around her thigh which would be just covered up by her dress, she brushed her hair (it wasn't formal so it didn't need to be up), packed in some shoes and set off for Foaly's office with everything so she could check all her shuttle plans with him.
It was 12'oclock when she arrived at the op's booth (Well it did take her 1 and ½ hours to get a dress picked out and then another ½ hour to get to the op's booth). She was being very careful to make sure Sool didn't see her. She opened the door to the op's booth carefully making sure it didn't slam as she closed it again so she wouldn't get another lecture on how expensive and valuable those doors were. His lectures were highly boring. He gave her her visa, her ticket and the potion with the vial of antidote as well. He gave her a run through of what she should have with her " potion and antidote" "Yep" "outfit and shoes" "yep" "running hot" "yep" "Multitude of weapons in all shapes and sizes" she gave him an evil stare "…. What? Remember what happened 3 or 4 years ago you can't be too careful alright so have you got some weapons" "A mini gun and a knife" "good you're all set". She set off going to the shuttle port, Foaly's remark going through her head repeatedly.