Disclaimer: Again I don't own the characters. If I did I wouldn't be sitting writing fan fiction surrounded by brats I mean my siblings.

Quotes from the book are in italics anything else is what I have written. Meaning that things in italics also belong to Eoin Colfer.

Some things from the books are not in italics only direct quotes are I may do some summarizing for parts. But those again do not belong to me.

(An: Sorry it took so long but out of all the books the second is my least favorite and I have a feeling it is going to be the hardest to write.)

Warnings: I changed the rating so Root and Holly are getting a bit more cuddly. Wait a second Root… cuddling? Oh those sound so wrong in the same sentence.

Chapter two: Book two.

"Holly, honey." Root said with a pathetic whine in his voice that would have made even Foaly proud.

"Come on Julius or we will be late for work."

" I don't want to get up" Root whined and shortly afterward hide under the blanket. Captain Holly Short was having a hard time getting her lover out of bed. After last nights activities that resulted from another reminder of Holly's kidnap. The two of them always snuck and got together after the got a reminder of that awful event where they thought they had lost each other. And after these nights he would be nearly impossible to get out of bed for work.

"Julius we don't have time for this today. GET OUT OF BED YOU LAZY BUM.

"You know if you loved me you would…" He never finished his sentence because Holly being a very fiery tempered elf had decided this had gone on long enough and had proceeded to dump very cold water on her lover.

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Holly sighed yet again. She wished she had let Julius have his way and the two of them for once take a day off. But no she had to go and prove that she was still a reliable officer and of course she was stuck on dead-end duty because they didn't trust her in the field anymore. The only reason she wasn't at home watering her ferns was because commander Root and threatened to turn in his own badge if she were suspended. She was a little afraid the would be found out when he did that but they just thought he was protecting one of his officers and they were right Julius would have protected any of his officers if they had been in a situation that Holly herself had gotten into and had handled it as well as she had. She was stuck in a cham pod , and suckered to the rock face overlooking a pressure-elevator chute. Dead-end duty. Because of smuggling and stuff the LEP now had a perfect excuse for the officers that had made mistakes or were just in the bad-books. This was somewhere out of the public eye but they still had someone doing the job. holly was saddled with Chix Verbal for a pod mate. Like most sprites, Chix believed himself God's green-skinned gift to females, and spent more time trying to impress Holly than doing his job.

"Lookin' good tonight, Captain," Was Chix's pick-up line that night. And Holly felt revolted as if she would ever cheat on Julius, but of course he didn't know that and if people know she was involved they would wonder with who. No it was better if people believed she was dating and married to her job. So to keep him from getting curious and poking his nose in places it didn't belong but so he hopefully got the idea, said "Concentrate, Private. We could be up to our necks in a firefight at any second."

"I doubt it, Captain. This place is quiet as the grave. I love assignments like this. Nice' n' easy. Just cruisin'."

Holly surveyed the scene below. Verbil was right. The once thriving suburb had become a ghost town with the chute's closure to the public. Only the occasional foraging troll stumbled past their pods. When trolls began staking out territory in an area, you knew it was deserted.

"It's jus' you an' me, Cap'. And the night still young."

"Stow it, Verbil. Keep your mind on the job. Or isn't private a low enough rank for you?" In truth Holly felt ready to throw up she just wanted to go home curl up on the couch with Julius and watch television or read. Not be stuck here with a spirit that thought he was the gods gift to women. She decided to send him to do a fly by when she saw grey beings moving. Grey was dead something was wrong. "On your guard, Private Verbil. We have possible hostiles." Then something happened that made Holly pale. If Foaly admitted to the possibility, of someone beating his system then it was almost definitely true. She cut the centaur off, switching her attention back to Private Verbil. "Chix! Get out of there. Pull up! Pull up!" The sprite was far too busy trying to impress his pretty captain to realize the seriousness of his situation. "Relax, Holly. I'm a sprite. Nobody can hit a sprite."

That was when a projectile erupted through a chute window, blowing a fist-sized hole in Verbil's wing.

"Code 14, repeat code 14. Fairy down. Fairy down. We are under fire. E37. Send warlock medics and backup." She needed to get to him soon. Sprite's didn't have the magic to heal. Warts they could heal but gaping wounds were beyond them.

" I'm patching you through to the commander," said Foaly's voice in her ear. "Stand by."

Commander Root's gravelly tones, that she loved, barked across the airwaves. He did not sound in the best of moods. No surprises there. She had woken up in a very annoying manner.

"Captain Short. I want you to hold your position until backup gets there."

He thought he would die with her response she was going to go in there anyway to save another officer, he hated her being in the force knowing she was in danger everyday. Only Holly could get into danger on a stake-out mission things just seem to go wrong when Holly was around. He sighed over the speakers it sounded like a rush of static. He didn't want her out there he wanted her safe in Police plaza or in the ship he didn't want her rushing out in the middle of a fire fight to save a fellow officer. But he had to he didn't want Holly in trouble for refusing to follow a command from a commander so he said, "Okay, Holly. But stay low. I don't want to lose any of my people today." Both knew what he had wanted to say but couldn't for fear of being over heard. Foaly of course knew of their relationship but no one else did. He had wanted to say I don't want to lose you but he couldn't so he said as close as he could. Holly got to Chix and continued with the fire fight that almost killed her. Julius got very red in the face he was furious that she had risked her life yet again when it wasn't needed. From the look on his face they were going to get into it later, which was fine for Holly she loved how the made up later. It almost caused her to smile while he was yelling at her. Almost. His face lost some of his anger and softened up when she gave her theory it was Artemis Fowl who was behind this. Not that anyone but Holly and maybe Foaly noticed. He didn't like thinking about going up against Fowl again but he knew Holly needed support not that anyone besides Julius knew but she was truly still shaken up from that, she might not have been physically hurt by Fowl or any of his company but she had been put under a lot of mental stress during the kidnapping and all the shit that had come with it since she was now under a investigation to make sure she did as much as she could and that it wasn't fault of hers that had caused the kidnapping and junk like that.

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An: I've decided to break the books up a little more so each book will be divided up into different chapters. Please review.