'Sweet Sixteen'

Disclaimed.

Characters, settings, locations, and some ideas [copywrited to]

(c) Eoin Colfer.

Story by: Lilly Black.

Warning: Books 1, 2, & 3 spoilers.

Mary-sues might come into play.

Chapter Two

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Haven:

Holly Short sat down on the curb outside Spud's Spud Emporium and glared down where the LEP headquarters stood. She sighed and turned, standing suddenly, hearing a familure voice in her ear. The voice was one she hadn't heard in two years.

"Who's Holly Short?" it whispered. She took off her helmet and looked at it funny, then put it back on. Hearing things, she had to be... But it seemed so real...

"Captian Short!" Said a voice in her ear, this time Foaly's. Holly could have sworn the Centaur made her jump a foot and a half.

"Yes Foaly, what is it?" She responded, trying not to sound so shaken.

"Did you just hear that..?"

"Hear what Foaly?" She had a feeling she was lieing through her teeth.

"Oh..." was all she heard on the other end. Nothing from the centaur more did come. He sounded almost hurt.

"Foaly..?"

"Yeah?"

"Did you hear it too?" She sounded like she was going to cry.

"You mean our mudboy friend? Yeah, I did..." He too, sounded sad.

Holly turned off her comunications link and ran to the LEP building, up the stairs, into the building, up more stairs and came to knock on Foaly's door.

The sarchastic centaur was reactivating a file and an observation link on an old computer that was oviously from abouve ground. It was Artemis's old computer that he had left many a year ago. Normally Foaly would disasemble such things, but he had left this computer in tact for no ovious reason. Upon hearing the desprate knock on the door he opened it.

"What took you so long?" He said with only the slightest bit of sarchasm, giveing Holly entrance quickly and locking the door behind her.