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A/N: thank you to everyone who reviewed and here is a new chapter. I'm really sorry, this chapter is mainly pointless talking and rambling. But we will get to the illegal wedding eventually. Review replies are at the end of the chapter. Anyway, enough of my ramblings.
Chapter Eight
'Bye sir,' she said as she left the room.
Holly's next port of call was a visit to Trouble. She walked into his office without knocking, luckily he had no visitors.
'Hey Holly, how is he?'
'You're going to be in charge for two weeks. I shouldn't tell you any more, it is his business if he wants to tell you.'
'True. What did you come here for?'
'To tell you that Root said I could have the rest of the day off. I'm not joking, he said you could ask him yourself.'
'So I could ask him right this minute?' asked Trouble grinning.
'Well not right now, he's in surgery, but you could still ask him.'
'It's all right I'll believe you. I'll see you when I get home, O.K.?'
'Sure, see you.'
With that Holly trudged out of her brother's office, through the streets of haven and back into her apartment.
Holly sat in her apartment and whiled away the time until Trouble would come. Not because she was worried about Julius, simply because she had nothing to do and did not yet feel like going to sleep.
She lost track of time just sitting there, and before she knew it Trouble was knocking on her door. She got up and let him in.
'So how was your first day as boss?'
'Great, but it is going to be a long two weeks, I don't know how Julius does it.'
'Neither do I.'
'You know, it's probably what caused him to get that stomach ulcer.'
'How do you know about that?'
'I went to see him. He seemed quite disappointed that you weren't with me.'
'Haha. I seriously doubt that.'
'I'm not kidding, he said to remind you to go and see him tomorrow.'
'I told him I was going.'
'Anyway, what did you do on your afternoon off?'
'Nothing.'
'Nothing! Holly, you're not that worried about him are you?'
'No I'm jut bored.'
'Are you sure you're O.K.?'
'I'm fine Trouble. I think I'll just go to bed.'
'All right, I'll see you in the morning, O.K.'
'Yea see you, can't have you being late now you're in control can we?' Holly grinned.
'Night Holly.' Trouble grinned too as he left Holly's apartment for his own.
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That morning the two elves left their apartment's early to visit Julius in the LEP hospital. Unfortunately for them Julius was asleep when they went to visit him. Neither of them could hang around, well Holly could, but she didn't want people thinking that just because she was Trouble's sister she was his favourite, despite the fact that that was most probably the case.
Holly grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a note to Julius.
Hi Commander, it's Holly. I came to see you like I said I would, but you were snoring. Anyway, I might not get to see you for a few days, but good luck for your recovery and it will be interesting to see back at work. I don't know why Trouble laughed when I wrote that. Anyway, see you soon.
From Holly.
She placed it on his beside table and walked from the room.
As soon as they were out of the room Trouble cracked, 'It will be interesting to see you back at work?' he managed to splutter out between laughs.
'Well I couldn't very well have said it would be good. He would have known I was lying.'
'True,' admitted Trouble, his laughter subsiding, 'and it will be interesting. We should probably get to work now.'
They split up and headed to their work areas.
Soon after, when Julius read Holly's note, he felt a pang that was nothing to do with his recent surgery. He had missed seeing Holly, and he probably wouldn't see her again 'till he was back at work. And she would find that "interesting", he didn't blame Kelp for laughing. But at least Holly didn't lie to him. That was something.
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The next few days passed in a blur for both Julius and Holly. Trouble had given Holly some more paperwork and nothing interesting had happened. It seemed that Commander Root had to be there for anything interesting to happen.
Finally it had been a week since Commander Root had gone into the LEP hospital, it was time for him to go home and rest for a week. Holly hadn't been to visit him again; this had made him very depressed. With a glum look on his face he packed his few belongings he had at the LEP hospital into a bag. He was just zipping up the bag when a knock sounded on the door.
'Can I come in Commander?' asked Holly from the doorway.
'Sure,' replied Julius, his face lighting up.
As the door began to open he quickly stifled his joy at Holly coming to visit him. It would not be good if she saw his joy.
A/N: it stops there because it does. Sorry it was quite pointless, and I hope that isn't classed as a cliff hanger. Sorry if it is.
Review Replies:
sergeantstan - Thanks. I think it says somewhere in the books he has an ulcer, I just made up the premature ageing thing. The cigars are the one thing that annoy me about Root, they really are. I do hate it when people don't review, but I'm not going to push it anymore. Thanks, I always look forward to them.
hidden and forgotten - Yep, only they all think he's 1500 years old. But he isn't. I don't think I've said how old he actually is yet have I? And for reviewing I thank you. I'm not going to say anything more about people not reviewing, no more pushing it.
potter-Dork - thanks. I still like Trouble, I'm not sure why, but I agree about the evil. True, I believe both pairings are possible, if written properly, but somehow I don't think that Arty/Holly, it is cross-species that is just wrong. Stupid technology… hmmm I suppose Foaly is a member of the People, but he still has four legs, not two. Thank you so much for the long review. I love to reply to reviewers, if they give their time I will give mine to reply to them. I've never seen anyone get rid of the cigars before, someone had two, they annoy me so much, I thought I would.
Stiggy's Slave (With Stiggy) - turnips, hehe, I'm never going to get over the turnips, they are so very original. I'm signing, where's the petition? BRING BACK JULIUS. Whoops, getting over-excited there. Yes, I'm thinking of changing that to pentennial, just so people don't get confused. It does say in the book that he has grey hair I think, I don't remember. Lovely, sticky stuff, just so very appetising.
-anon-anon-anon- - Aren't they just? So very cute. I'm not sure, I haven't actually bothered to count the pages, I have this whole story pre-written, I just add on review replies and authors notes each chapter. And edit anything I realise doesn't make sense. Thanks.
IamME13 - You reviewed! Thank you so much. I update every Friday night in New Zealand. But sometimes it doesn't show up on the site until Saturday morning, in New Zealand, remembering time difference. You're welcome. Thank you for reviewing.
Jakarutia - Thanks. And Holly and Julius can be a couple, at least in this story. Don't worry, nobody dies, I think. Here's the next chapter for you. Oh and by the way, your English is really good.
Tryptophan - I'm sure they could, they better be able to overcome any barriers, even "death" I'm still annoyed at Colfer for that. A chibi bird? Never heard of them. I only know about kiwi's takahe and moa. I have to ask you this, have you ever heard of the pronunciation of Whakatane? I find it funny when people don't believe how it is meant to be pronounced.
lalalalala - maybe, but I'm still going to update on Fridays, because then it more likely will show up by Saturday's.
RaevanDawn - Thanks. Can I join in the chase? I'll find a broken lampshade. Bad Colfer.
Mage Kitty - Yes, I thought about that when I put that. I'm serious considering going back and changing it, but I think pentennial looks odd. So it can stay and pentannual for now. I know a lot of people use it wrong. I only learnt what it meant when I looked it up in a dictionary when I wrote this story. The one problem with fanfiction is OOCness, but fanfiction is still good, very good, at least you get to see characters doing things that the authors would probably never make them do. That is true about Holly. I never thought of that. Thanks, and thank you for reviewing. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
lalalalala - true, thanks.
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Ok, thank you for reading everyone who read. More next Friday.