Family Tree

Chapter eight, Family tree

Disclaimer: I do not own Artemis Fowl. Eoin Colfer does.

A/N: This is the final chapter as I have decided not to upload an epilogue. I have started writing a prequel: This is the start of the rest of my life. The first few chapters should be up soon. I am going to write a sequel but not for a while as I don't have a plot.

Holly and Troubles hotel suite, Cominetto

Holly awoke early, their hotel suite was still swaithed in darkness. She sat up and then she felt it. The baby, her baby. She started elbowing Trouble frantically.

"Trouble!" she hissed, grimacing with the pain. "Trouble wake up."

Trouble opened his eyes. When he heard the urgency in Holly's voice he too, sat up.

"Holly, Holly are you Ok? Is it the baby?" Trouble asked, just about managing to stay calm.

Holly nodded. "This is it, it's coming!"

Trouble climbed out of bed, he dialled 888 (A/N: the fairy version of 999 or 911 depending on where you live.) and requested an ambulance. He helped Holly out of bed and wrapped her in her dressing gown. By the time he'd dressed in the clothes he had worn the night before, the ambulance had arrived.

Cominetto Hospital, maternity ward.

Much to Trouble's annoyance the nurses made him wait outside the delivery room while Holly was giving birth. They said that it was a complicated procedure and all he could do was get in the way. Charming, he thought. After all, the baby was his as well. He sat on a hard chair with his back to the wall, waiting and wishing. Meanwhile in the delivery room Holly was exhausted. She lay still cradling her new baby in her arms. She heard a door open and Troubles voice.

"Holly is it a boy or a girl?" He asked coming and sitting on the edge of the bed.

Holly grinned, "A girl." she gave her to Trouble to hold.

Trouble cooed over the baby in his arms. Holly rolled her eyes. Trouble was more motherly than she was.

"What are we going to call her?" asked Trouble, smiling at Holly.

Holly thought for a minute, "What about Amber, because of her golden red tufts of hair?"

Trouble smiled again, "That's perfect. Ok, Amber it is."

It was visiting hours at the Cominetto hospital. Commander Root had made a special trip from Police Plaza to Cominetto to see the new baby.

"She's wonderful," said the commander, it was the most emotional thing Holly had ever heard him say. "What have you called her?"

"Amber." Holly replied.

The commander peered at baby Amber. "I think she's definitely got your eyes, and that determined look of yours. But I can see Trouble reflected in her face."

Holly grinned and was about to say something when the commander produced a gift-wrapped present from a bag.

"Congratulations. It's for you and Trouble."

Holly thanked him. "Do I have to wait for Trouble to get back?"

Before the commander could answer her, the door opened and Trouble walked in.

"Talk of the devil!" Holly laughed, cuddling Amber close.

Trouble kissed Holly and stroked Amber's tuft of hair.

"Good afternoon sir." he greeted the commander.

Trouble and Holly then proceeded in opening their present while the commander held Amber.

Holly tore off the last piece of paper, revealing a CD rom disk labelled, Create Your Own Family Tree.

The commander explained, "Now you will be able to record all the family additions of the future!"

A/N: Ok, it's all over. If you want more read this is the start of the rest of my life, which is the prequel to this fic. I have only written a few chapters of that though. I am going to write a sequel possibly named Changes.