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Post by Artemis Fowl on Feb 18, 2007 22:21:01 GMT -5
Artemis Fowl is sitting in the dark of his study, face glued to the bright flashing plasma screens. He is on Yahoo, checking his mail to see if he has any emails from Holly or any of the other fairies down there. He then clicks on an email that encloses a virus, it said that it was from his affiliate from New Zealand. He then clicks it and his entire computer blows.
"Argggg! My precious computer! Soiled! But I know someone who has a special computer. Butler we must contact Foaly."
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Post by Foaly on Feb 18, 2007 23:07:02 GMT -5
At this hour, Foaly is in his stall bed, sound asleep with one of his computers whirring quietly on a nightstand beside him. The centaur is sleeping with his legs folded up under his body and his upper half rests on a customized shelf with a soft pillow. He also sports a horseshoe print stocking cap on his head and is cozy and warm under a blanket decorated with wild mustang silhouettes. He's also cuddling a little stuffed unicorn. Ah, the secret life of LEP's technical consultant.
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Post by Artemis Fowl on Feb 19, 2007 20:44:25 GMT -5
Artemis then pulls up his Gnome IM page, and puts himself on microphone. Contacting Foaly.
"Foaly! Foaly! Wake up! I need to tell you something, it's very important and...you sleep with a unicorn toy?"
Artemis' vampire like features appear in a webcam.
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Post by Foaly on Feb 19, 2007 20:53:50 GMT -5
"Huh? What?" Foaly snorts himself awake and fumbles around for his glasses, "Fowl? What do you want at this hour? We centaurs need our beauty rest, you know."
He blinks and quickly stuffs the unicorn out of sight under his blanket, then sits on top of it for good measure. How embarrassing! He knows he will probably never hear the end of this one.
"Uh...unicorn toy? What unicorn toy?" he asks innocently, "I don't know about any unicorn toy."
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Post by Artemis Fowl on Feb 19, 2007 22:07:12 GMT -5
"And you suck your thumb! Too bad I don't have my video camera. Anyway I've got an emergancy! My computer got busted! I need a new one. Do you have one that I can have? Oh and if you don't give me one, I'll tell everyone that you sleep with a stuffed unicorn toy!"
Artemis smiles his trademark vampire smile, he loves to blackmail people. Just about as much as he liked baffling the shrinks at Saint Bartlebye's School for Young Gentlemen.
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Post by Foaly on Feb 19, 2007 22:17:03 GMT -5
"Sorry, Mud Boy. I don't sell my technology...or loan it...or give it away," Foaly grumbles, "However, I probably can fix your stoneage piece of Mud Man junk. Holly was planning a visit to your place. She can pick up your computer and bring it back here, I can fix it, and send it back."
His eyes widen as Artemis threatens to tell everyone about his snuggly baby unicorn toy. Checking the lines to make sure it's only a private discussion between himself and Artemis, he drops his voice to a low mutter.
"If you tell anyone about that, Fowl," he hisses, "I'll see you mind-wiped so clean, your IQ will be in the toilet."
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Post by Artemis Fowl on Feb 19, 2007 22:31:32 GMT -5
"Fine, I won't. But don't come sobbing at me if the world needs saving."
Artemis glares at Foaly, with his pasty little smile.
"I'll get it ready for Holly to pick up."
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Post by Foaly on Feb 20, 2007 1:44:53 GMT -5
"That'll work," Foaly yawns, cracking his spine, "Now would the rude little Mud Boy mind if the exhausted, unappreciated centaur went back to sleep, hmm?"
He glares right back, but he's not smiling. In fact, Foaly's expression looks pretty sour and who could blame him? After all, it's 3am his time!
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 21, 2007 21:13:35 GMT -5
Elsewhere in Police Plaza, Grub is wandering around, looking for Captain Short. Of course, being on the nightshift again, he is a bit more cowardly than usual. It's really no surprise that Trouble Kelp's little brother is admittedly scared of the dark.
"Captain Short?" he calls softly, not sure if she is on duty tonight, "Captain Short? Are you here? I have a message for you."
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 21, 2007 22:06:10 GMT -5
Holly was sound asleep, having a strange dream. She dreamed that she defeated ten trolls, and was given the medal of honor. The Commander was about to award her with the medal until Grub woke her up.
"D'arvit! You know I hate it when you do that, Grub! What is the assignment?"
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 22, 2007 0:18:55 GMT -5
Grub jumps, startled as Holly swears. He cringes and backs away a step or two, obviously afraid she might be in a bad enough mood to wail on him. When she doesn't, he straightens and offers a shaky salute.
"Sorry to disturb you, Captain. A message from the Ops Booth," he answers, "It's not exactly an official mission. If it were me, I'd call it an errand of sorts. Foaly agreed to fix the Fowl kid's computer and he volunteered you to go topside to pick it up."
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 22, 2007 20:34:40 GMT -5
Holly sat up and looked Grub in the eye.
"Grub, wait until morning, I'm not going to get that Mud Boy's computer. He can just buy a new one."
Holly pulls the comforter over her head to block out Grub's little whining ways.
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 22, 2007 21:16:04 GMT -5
"But Mommy--I mean...Foaly said," Grub replies, poking Holly in the shoulder, "I think he's paranoid that the Mud Boy is going to get his pastey Mud Boy mitts on our technology. He didn't exactly say it like that. That's just my opinion, but I'm pretty sure that's the reason."
After having the audacity to poke the lump under the blanket, Grub backs away a few steps, just out of Holly's reach so she can't hurt him--not without getting out of bed anyway.
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 22, 2007 22:36:28 GMT -5
"Tell Foaly to wait until tomorrow. I'll be up by then. Oh and Grub, can you get me a glass of water?"
Holly rolls back over and covers her head with her pillow so no one can disturb her again.
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 22, 2007 23:35:38 GMT -5
Grub blinks and recoils, making a face at Holly's request. It doesn't really bother him much, but he hasn't griped about anything all night and this particular request seems like the perfect thing to gripe about.
"Oh, of course," he replies sarcastically, fetching the water and placing it on her nightstand, "Is there anything else you would like me to do? Steam-clean your carpet? Pick up your dry cleaning, maybe?"
He knows he's treading thin ice with this rarely displayed sarcasm. He usually reserves this sort of talk for his brother, but he has been up all night and his tolerence has been worn thin since about three hours ago. Needless to say, he's thrown caution to the wind to a degree.
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