Now Holy being the energetic female elf that she is, after hearing the news that she could stay at Artemis' house for the weekend the only words anyone could use to describe her was beyond ecstatic. Jumping up and down and clapping her hands just like a human child on Christmas getting their favourite toy. But after a few minutes of jumping around she finally calmed down. With an elongated sigh she slumped back onto her bed and just smiled and started to lose herself in daydreams of Artemis and her adventures.

But no sooner than theses daydreams started they were cut abruptly by the sound of her alarm, brining her back to reality and making her remember that she actually had a job to go to and if she didn't hurry up she would make herself late again...

'Darrvit' she muttered under her breath rushing around to get changed into her LEP uniform, 'why do I always leave things to the last moment, it's been happening too many times the month.' With one last check to make sure she had everything for the day she sprinted out of the house and so began another day at the office.

About half an hour later Holly burst through the doors of the LEP Headquarters, without a sideways glance at the many elf's, pixies and goblins that were at the front desk with whatever complaints they had this time. Usually about mundane things about freeing their innocent baby boys from whatever crime they have committed. Thankfully holly was in here LEP- Recon gear and she just set her visor down and ignored everything that was going on around her. Looking at the time again she just realised that she was already 5 minutes late. Once again Captain Holly Short was going to get a chewing off Commander Trouble for tardiness.

While all his was happening Foley and the Commander were in the briefing room and if you saw the commanders face it would possibly remind you of the former Commanders 'beetroot' expression. As Foley saw Trouble's face he remembered how Julius face would go almost the same colour over because of the same Captain, laughing quietly to himself which caught him a death stair from Trouble, seeing this he quickly zipped up and took on a stern looking face for when Holly walked through the door.

Just as Holly was walking through the door Trouble bellowed at her, "Where the hell have you been Short!" Taken aback at the inevitable but still surprising tone Holy blurted out without taking a break "sorry Commander traffic was a nightmare again and the front desks crowded near to the doors as well Sir." Knowing that was a lame and pathetic excuse but at least she thought that telling the truth should be better than looking down at her boots and saying nothing.

Now Commander Trouble seeing Holly in this way took slight pity on her relinquished the stern look on his face and moved on with the morning briefing that he had to do, which in this day noting serious was being reported except the Goblins still attacking people when they go off the beaten track, mostly tourists or people who are newly living in the City of Haven, but still it was a problem that needed to be dealt with. So, no over ground Recon missions today, maybe Holly's career had finally quietened down since Opal Koboi had petered out of existence a couple years ago Stopped by her and a Mud Boy by the name of Artemis Fowl. But still Holly's tardiness had gotten her a shift patrolling the streets of haven; rookies work. She was utterly livid over this call of action from the commander. But being the Police Officer, she was and more out of fear of what could happen if she talked back to her Superior Officer. It also didn't help that Internal Affairs were still breathing down her neck about every little detail that she does now, even though she helped save the wold too many times to count now; you would think that they would give her a break now yet again nope.

Finally, after what seemed to be week of patrolling the streets her shift had finally came up, it had been a very long boring day for her, and unfortunately, she had the pleasant company of one Corporal Grubb, who for most of the shift complained. Which as you all remember isn't hard to understand, halfway through the shift he stubbed his toe on a slight raised bit of pavement which had been warn after years and years of wear and tear, she would hear this from him for the remainder of their shift. But for the most part her shift went by without a shift, mostly tourists getting lost and in need of their way back.

After what seemed like an age the time finally came for Captain Short to finish her shift. Looking at the time and noticing it was roughly ten minutes left of her sift she started her walk from Downtown Haven back up to Police Plaza. When she walked through the double doors she gave a sigh of relief and continued up towards the locker rooms, thankfully the main reception wasn't as crowded as it was that morning, so no interruptions to keep her from clocking out later than expected. But still behind the viewing of the public eye it was still as busy as ever, rookies running around trying to get their last bits of paper worked signed by their superior officers and desk jockeys typing away either starting new reports of just finishing off. When she walked through Recon to sign out for the day Commander Trouble was waiting for her, seeing this she gave herself a heavy sigh and hoped that he would not have any more assignments to do. But thankfully for her Trouble was just finishing off himself as he was locking up the Commanders office. Walking past he nodded to her and politely said good work, for whatever reason that was, the only time he had seen her was this morning. But keeping the pleasantries she said, "Thank you sir."

Keeping the small talk, the Commander continued, "It's not long till your week off Captain, and I've noticed you have a weekend Visa pass to the surface. The only reason you would go there is to visit the Mud Boy, am I correct? "

Looking quite astonished and a little bit angry at Trouble, Holly blurted out, "Well Sir, with all due respect yes I am going up to see Artemis, and I wish you would call him by his name Sir, he has save our race and the planet multiple times and is know as a friend to The People. But like you said its only going to be for a couple of days, and it's not only Artemis I was going to see, it was Butler and the rest of them." After realising what she had just said to her commanding officer, started apologising profusely because she would know that Trouble could revoke her Pass as easy as a Dwarf escaping the LEP.

Whatever Trouble was half expecting some form of outburst from Holly, so he took this on the chin. Of course he knew that Artemis was a friend of the people, he was just being mean and the fact that he did not like Artemis very much, mostly because Holly was closer to Artemis than to him. Trouble in the past had taken Holly on a couple of dates, none of which ended well. Mostly for starting to argue and get thrown out of establishments. After the second one Holly swore to Trouble that she would never go on a date with him ever again, but still he thought he had some form of claim to her like in the olden days.

Taking a deep breath and rubbing his forehead with his knuckles and spoke calmly, "I don't appreciate that tone of voice from you Captain Short, and I know that Artemis is a friend of the people but I cannot fully trust him yet because of his whole species as a whole," the Commander drew another long breath and continued, " Also if you didn't forget I can suspend your surface visa as quickly as Foley can eat a carrot."

This was as Holly had feared, she went too far with the Commander. Not a good thing if you knew what was good for you. He was beginning to have the same characteristics as good old Julius Root. Fortunately for Holly, Trouble was only making empty threats, he had no grounds to stand on for denying her visa. The Council and her Commanding Officer knew where she was staying, and Artemis was a good friend with The People as well, no there was no worry at all. After a little while of pure silence from both Officers Trouble apologised for his behaviour and said that he wouldn't deny her surface visa. But one final comment before the Commander went off home was that, "But I expect you to work your ass off for the next week before you go on your holiday Captain!" With a smile on her face she turned around and saluted to the Commander and replied stoutly, "Yes Sir! Understood."