Author's Note: Here is chapter 2. I did not get any reviews last chapter, which discouraged me from posting this chapter. But then I finally started poking around my account and saw that my story got a lot of hits. That really got me excited to post this chapter for you guys who are reading this. However, I really, really would like at least one review or something from anyone, please. As you will read, I have decided to not have this chapter from Holly's point of view and for right now the story I believe is going to be from Trouble's point of view. And I do not own Trouble, Mulch, Foaly, Holly, Root, or the LEP or any LEP officers we know from the books.

When Trouble and Mulch got to the shuttle port, Trouble had found it easy to talk with Mulch. They had all ready talked about the normal things, and had talked about how Mulch's and Doodah Day's private investigations office had been running. When they got to the port, where the shuttle carrying Holly, Foaly and other LEP officers, would dock they realized that they still had some time before the shuttle would get back. They had walked in silence once they got the port and stood there in quiet before Mulch asked Trouble a question.

"When did you and Holly meet?" Mulch asked.

Trouble was caught off guard by this question. He had not thought about the first time that he met Holly recently. As he remembered, he turned to look at Mulch.

"We met when she was a recruit and I was in my final year at the academy," Trouble began.


It was a beautiful day, although every day was beautiful because the weather in Haven never changed, but none the less it was still a beautiful day. Trouble was walking up to the LEP training academy, it would be his final year there but all of his teachers at the end of last year said that Trouble was excelling very fast and was ahead of his peers in many areas, and because of this he could maybe graduate early if he kept it up. It was true, even the Commander of the LEP, Julius Root, had taken notice of him. Commander Root had written to him over the summer break and had said that he thought Trouble would be able to make a smooth transition to the LEP and that he would be a great and valuable addition to the LEP, when he graduated. Trouble had been so excited that he had received that letter from the Commander.

There was a crowd of people going into the academy, and thats when he first saw her. She was an elf with brown hair, which was in the style of a crew cut, and she was very pretty. Trouble did not recognize her, and assumed that she was a first year. She looked confused but also excited. He was contemplating on walking up to her and ask if she needed any help, when she had turned and saw him looking at her. She smiled at him and then turned away from him to walk up the steps with the rest of the people going into the academy. Trouble stood in the same spot for sometime, until his friend Ash Vein walked up to him.

"Hey man! How was your summer?" Ash asked.

"Hey Ash, and my summer was great." Trouble replied, as they walked up the steps and through the front doors to the academy.

"You seemed distracted back there, what happened?"

"Umm... that? That was nothing. I... just.. I just could not remember if I gave some money to Grub this morning for his lunch." Trouble lied.

Ash knew that Trouble was not telling the truth but he dropped the topic.

"So, were there any girls in your summer?"

Trouble sighed, he knew that Ash would bring up that up. There were several girls that he was involved with over the summer. Trouble was good looking and he knew it and used it to his benefit. Granted, not a lot of the girls stuck around. He stilled lived with his parents and his little brother Grub, but that did not stop him. He never brought a girl home, because he knew that most of the time it would be a one time thing. Once he got what he wanted, usually a blow job, if the girl did not like giving head then it was a hand job. But all of the girls wanted to have sex with him but only a few did. He was not as sex driven like most of the other guys in his class or his age for that matter but still he is a guy after all.

"Yeah, there were girls in my summer." Trouble replied.

"Did you get any? I did, plenty of times."

"Of course I did."

Trouble and Ash were walking to the assembly that happened at the beginning of each year. When they got to the assembly, there were already a lot of recruits there and more was still coming in but by now most of the people were at the assembly. Trouble and Ash found seats near their other friends and class mates down in front. The graduating class of that year had to sit in front on the right and on the left the first years had to sit in front.

Trouble easily found the female elf in the crowd that he was looking at earlier. She was sitting and talking with some of the other first years. There were not that many female recruits, then again there were not any females in the LEP and there were hardly any in the other classes. Usually there started out with a lot of females in the first years but they just dropped out after a full year or they dropped out during the first year. There was another female in the first year class, she had blonde hair and had on a lot of pink, she was also good looking and she was basically a carbon copy of the girls Trouble went for. She was surrounded by guys from every year.

"Damn, would you take a look at her," Ash said when he turned his head to see what Trouble was looking at, and he saw the blonde.

"Yea, she sure is a good looking," Trouble responded, however he was not looking at the blonde.

"Good looking? Trouble she is totally hot!" Ash said as he turned to their other friends to show them what they were talking about. Trouble just nodded his head, even though he knew that Ash was not paying him any attention. He continued looking at the brunette elf, and he then knew that he really needed to talk to her. The assembly was just about to begin and Trouble and his friends stopped talking but Trouble could not help himself and had to look at her again. However this time she was also looking at him and both turned away and turned their heads to look at the Commander of the LEP standing in front of them.

Commander Root started out by welcoming everyone back and welcomed the new first years as well. He kept it brief because he was not known for warm and fuzzy welcomes. He then got down to the first thing that had to be dealt with.

"As the returning recruits know we have a sort of big brother program here. Meaning that the first years are paired up with recruits of our graduating class. Since we have some females in our first years and none in the graduating class, we will being pairing up some of the females with males, if you could not already figure that out." Root stated.

"Now can we have all of the first years, come and stand in front here and we will start with the pairings," the first years did as they were told, quietly and Root began to talk again. "Good, now you all know what happens next," Root was now addressing the fourth years, "when your name is called stand up and go to the first year you have been assigned to."

The Commander started rattling off names of first years and names of fairies in Trouble's class. Trouble was getting worried because Root was almost done and he had not got to him yet. Ash was lucky, he had gotten the blonde elf that he was looking at earlier. All Trouble could do now was sit and wait for his name to be called.

"Holly Short and Trouble Kelp." Root then made a mental note that he should probably keep an eye on that particular pairing.

Trouble stood up, he saw the brunette elf looking at him. As he walked over to her, he looked her over. She was very pretty, she was about average height for an elf maybe just a little bit short, when Trouble thought of that it made him grin, she had a thin frame but she had great features. However she was almost the complete opposite of the blonde, he could tell that she was a tomboy and that she would be feisty and probably ignore his opinion altogether. He had no idea how right he would be.

"Hi, I am Trouble Kelp. Nice to meet you." Trouble extended his hand for a shake, and put on his smile that gets all the girls.

"Hi, I am Holly Short. And same here." Holly replied and shook his hand. She smiled back but Trouble did not see it because she was looking down at the floor blushing. She could not believe that she had gotten Trouble as a partner. She had heard about him earlier from some the other classmates of hers, like how good he was and that he was going to be graduating earlier and starting at the LEP right away. She also heard that he was a player, a charmer and a flirt. She did not mind though, because all the girls would be so jealous of her. And she did not know how right she was or what she was about to start.


Trouble finished the story, and had left out the parts that he thought Holly was pretty and the summer part. Mulch just nodded his head and they did not talk until the shuttle arrived, which was only about 5 minutes after Trouble's story ended.

The doors to the shuttle could not have opened fast enough. Trouble was so excited to see his friend for the first time in three first one to come off the shuttle was Foaly.

"Aww, Trouble. I did not know that you missed me that much that you had to come and see me right away." Foaly said sarcastically.

"Yea, you know me Foaly." Trouble replied.

Holly came out behind some techies of Foaly's. She was very excited to see both Mulch and Trouble.

"Trouble! Mulch! What are you guys doing here?" Holly asked, as she hugged Mulch.

"We came to see you of course!" Mulch said.

After the hug with Mulch ended, he walked out. He could sense that there was something more going on that Trouble was letting on to.

"I thought that the Commander was going to be waiting for me here." Holly said.

"Well look no further," Trouble replied as he showed Holly his acorns to prove it, "I have been Commander for sometime now."

"Wow Trouble. Congratulations!" Holly said as she and Trouble hugged. Trouble could not believe it, even after three yeas somehow Holly managed to smell some what decent.

"I cannot believe how much everything has changed in the three years I have been away." Holly said as she and Trouble ended the hug and started walking towards the exit.

"Nothing really has changed Holly."

"You are the Commander of the LEP now, almost everything has changed."

After walking in silence, Holly then had multiple thoughts pop into her head.

"D'arvit! I do not have a place to go. And I need a shower, and food."

Trouble laughed at her last part of her sentence.

"It is alright Holly, you can stay with me for now, until we find you another place. And you can take your shower there too. I know this great place we can go for food if you like."

"Thanks Trouble that would be great."

"Okay then, lets go."

So they made their way from the shuttle ports to the cafe that Trouble had been talking about for some food. Trouble could not help himself, he was so happy that Holly was back. He already knew that he needs to tell Holly about how he feels but after those long three years. He knows that he needs to tell her sooner rather then later.

Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed chapter 2, please review. I am trying to set up the plot to the title of the story. I hope you guys can see what I am trying to do.