Finally I have another chapter ready to read, sorry my postings have been few and far between, but don't worry I plan to keep writing for the foreseeable future. So thanks again for reading and reviewing, and a big thanks to Crystal for the Foaly spelling mistake, that was much appreciated. So without further ado here's the 3rd Chapter enjoy. NH
For Holly the week leading up to her Holiday it had been none stop working, the Commander seemed to be giving her more paperwork that was needed of a Captain, which made her a little bit disgruntled, she was never one for doing paperwork or shall we say copious amounts of the stuff. She was more of an action girl that wanted field assignments, but this day she was stuck behind a desk just finishing off the last of her paperwork that was allocated for her that day. With a heavy sigh and a mutter of, "Thank Frond for that." She dumped the last of her filed in the completed section of her desk. Standing up and stretching till a few bones cracked in her body, with an elongated sigh she packed up all her things logged off on the system and headed to sign out for the day.
Once again when she was walking past Troubles office he was coming out of it. This time he looked tired, by the looks of it the Commander was truly done in with the amount of paperwork that he needed to do, which in all fairness didn't surprise her one little bit, the amount of paperwork that the commander had to do was insane, and well when she said paperwork, nothing was ever done on paper these days, it was all done over computers and stored on databases that Foaly designed and improved constantly. If that database went down everything the LEP had put on would be lost maybe forever. Thankfully he was a genius who was also paranoid, so it was encrypted with the latest defences, so no one was worried that would ever happen in this age.
Anyways Holly thought it would be a good thing that she would try to chat to the Commander to see if that would cheer him up, it was worth a try after all, he was still her friend and friends try to cheer one another up if they were looking down. So, with a smile and a cheerful voice she spoke to the commander saying, "Hello Trouble, you happy that the day is over as well?"
The Commander who was lost in thought was suddenly brought back to reality when he heard Holy's voice, with a smile he nodded to her and said, "you have no idea Holly, this week's been an utter disaster for paperwork, in all fairness I wish I had a week off to recuperate. But as we all know that will never happen." He ended that with a big sigh and a smile.
Seeing that her rather brief chat so far had not produced any good results and it also looked like the Commander didn't really want to chat at this moment in time, so she decided to go visit Foaly before she went on her holiday. She then realised that she hadn't spoke to the Centaur for that week and felt quite bad for it as well. So, with a wave she spoke to the Commander saying, "Sir I'm off to speak with Foaly before I sign off for the week, so good luck Trouble and I shall see you next week, unless something urgent comes up and ill be only a call away, I'll take my communicator with me as per standard procedure." With a nod and a handshake Trouble replied, "Ok Holly, be careful though just because you'll be staying with him for the weekend doesn't mean anything can go wrong, but if anything major comes up I'll call you straight away."
So, with another smile and a nod Holly walked off to the Ops Booth where she knew Foaly would be working away with some random project to better the people. But when she arrived at Foaly's Lab she could see that he was watching a human film. This was her time to shine, time to scare him out of his skin. Although her plan in theory would have worked quite well but this was Foaly we are talking about, nothing really goes according to plan when you're trying to scare him, unless you're out on Recon and your lines go flat, that's when you see him become scared. So as Holy slowly approached the Booths door, it slid open and Foaly turned around to see her, obviously
he knew what she was trying to do and with a smug grin not much like Artemis' and remarked, "So I have not seen you all week and then you try to scare my when I can clearly see you from the other end of the office. You seriously have to try harder next time Short!"
With an eye roll she replied sarcastically, "Well if someone wasn't so bloody paranoid all the time maybe someone could actually put the drop on you for once and knock you from that throne of cockiness huh, or is that just going to be impossible?"
"Oh har-har Captain, another one of your wise remarks again, I would have thought that after all the times you've nearly been fired or killed would have knocked all that out of you Holly but alas I don't think that will ever happen at all. But I highly doubt you're just here to try and scare me Short, do you need anything from me at all?"
Holly looked at Foaly with a quizzical look and thought to herself, "You should know what I'm here for, or are you just going make me say it." Holly was right on both counts because one of the many screens in Foaly's Booth was the equipment list filed out for Holly's weekend trip away and he also just wanted to see what Holly's face would look like when she said that she was going to stay at Artemis' house for the weekend. He had a suspicion that Holly secretly have feelings for Artemis and was trying to tell if his suspicions were correct. With a huff and a little snap Holly replies, "Well fine you win, I'm here to get my kit sorted out for the weekend trip over to Artemis' alright? obviously you should know this, but you wanted me to say it for myself to see what kind of reaction I would give you. Am I Correct?" She said the last sentence pronouncing every syllable just to get her point across of being annoyed, and it worked.
With a chuckle to himself Foaly submitted, Holly gave nothing away in terms of feelings apart from annoyance towards him. Quickly swivelling his chair around he brought up the equipment list that Holly needed for the over ground stay. "Alrighty, one equipment list for Holly Short, lets see what we have here, you're getting a Neutrino 3000, a commutator that has a direct link to me and the Commander when you need to check in and we can call you if the need arises. Hmmmmm you also have one of the new suits I designed as well, almost the same specs as the Shimmer suit you wore in Section 8, but my budget isn't as big as it was then so this is the best you got. Even so it has top of the line wings that are integrated into the suit itself, these babies are whisper silent and produce zero emissions in the slightest, also I have a direct feed from both your helmet and suit itself, so it will be a double reading. So, if there is a problem with the suit, I still get readouts from the helmet, and the helmet will give me footage if that ever happens, so no funny business with Artemis okay?"
Holly was shocked at the last statement Foaly gave her, no funny business, what did he take her for seesh. But she waved it off as Foaly being Foaly, his jibs were different to most others, they ended up being more irritating and obnoxious than funny, but you get used to them eventually, well sometimes that is. Taking the joke on the chin Holly laughed and slapped him on the arm with a little more vigour than was needed. With a sharp 'Ow' and a rub on his upper arm he waved her away to go get kitted out and with one remark left he turned and shouted to her, "Now try not to enjoy yourself too much okay Holly, and no funny business with the mud boy okay!" Turning towards Foley, Holly gave him the biggest death stare she could muster with the meaning, say that again one more time and see what happens'. Getting the message Foaly quickly became silent, there's only so much you can push Holly before she gets really annoyed, and today was not one of those days to see what she was capable of.