This takes place directly after Artemis Fowl and The Lost Colony. For brief summary of said novel go here: en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ArtemisFowlandtheLostColony

You will not understand much, though I do explain some things, if you did not read every book for the series or at least the summaries. I'm writing this at 4 am right after I finished the book because this is when I had the inspiration. I hope you enjoy. Don't any one try to tell me Artemis wouldn't react as he does in this story because this is how "I" think he would have after all he's been though. I am no Eoin Colfer but it is my goal to try my best to imitate some of his style though I'll probably fail miserably. It'll still be good as far and fan fictions go though. Trust me, I'm a genius.

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His mismatched eyes darted the outer confines of his home rapidly, he took in every detail through the tinted windows of his limo as Butler pulled up the driveway. He felt a stranger here now. His mother, his father, his siblings? How strange. Siblings? He, Artemis Fowl, a boy genius doomed to be an only son for the rest of his life now had brothers at the age of fourteen, if you didn't count the time skip.

Strangely enough this thought made him happy. And as Butler parked the limo and did his regular bomb checks under the car he suddenly felt an unfamiliar twittering in his stomache. Oh it couldn't be. There was no way he, the young genius Artemis Fowl, the first human to discover fairies and successfully relieve them of their gold, the very mud boy who helped defeat the goblin army, capture the narcissistic technologically advanced Opal twice, overthrow a crazed fairy commander, defeat a corrupt business tycoon and even save a colony of fairies and transport them from another dimension and time, was... nervous?

Butler opened the door and Artemis stepped out of the limo. He felt and large hand on his shoulder and he met Butler's reassuring freshly shaven and cute face with his own half smile. Butler nodded his head and lead Artemis up the steps to the large doors that had been replaced so many years ago now after the troll attack that had nearly cost them their lives. Artemis was a different person now then he had been then.

He had friends, a lot of friends that he completely trusted. If he where to be asked who he respected now by the physiologist at St. Bartley's he wouldn't know where to begin. He also had a family, a complete one who cared for him, that same family had been suffering for three years with him gone. He wondered how their meeting would go. Could they really be the close family his parents wanted them to be?

Artemis no longer felt the urge to steal and as he walked through the large wooden doors he knew that he was ready. As soon as he opened the door he had been expecting to see his mother and father waiting for him at the base of the stairs. He mentally slapped himself for that foolish thought, he had not called ahead of time because of his cowardice. Of course they weren't expecting him.

Walking up the stairs he saw out the corner of Holly's hazel eye a little foot peeking from around the corner up the stairs. He walked right past them without looking, he just couldn't. To many emotions where churning in his stomache and he needed to see his parents.

"Who are you?" he turned around to meet two matching pairs of cold blues eyes looking at him as they had left their hiding place. A boy and a girl about two, he concluded it had to be them. They had matching black hair and where the exact same height. The girls hair was straight and limp at her shoulders and the boys was a regular bowl cut. Wearing matching white designer polo shirts and separate but still matching red and black plaid skirt and pants. They where definitely Fowl's. Eris, the female named after the goddess of discord and the male Loki, named after the the mythical being of mischief in Norse Mythology, as informed to him by Butler.

Artemis hoped their names weren't a prediction of what was to come of them.

His careful observation of them didn't go unnoticed but they simply continued staring at him with intelligent and condescending eyes.

"I am Artemis Fowl, I believe you are my brother and sister." he said in his regular business like tone. He couldn't help it, his nervousness was making him revert to his old ways.

"That isn't possible," said the girl as she crossed her arms in unison with her brother, "We don't have an older brother." finished the brother with the same smile that reminded Artemis so much of his old self that a shiver ran up his spine. So this is how it felt to be on the other end of that look. He must remind himself never to do such a thing again, unless of course it was absolutely necessary.

"I'm guessing Mother and Father never told you about me. I can see why they would do such a thing, it must have been to heart breaking for them they didn't want you two to feel the same. Though I reassure you both that you have a brother and that I am him." he said this as Butler came up behind him and gave them twins a nod. Artemis walked passed them to his parents room and knocked on the door. He saw the boy whisper something into the girls ear and heard her rushing off in the direction of the computer room where he had conducted the work for many of his past schemes.

His mother was the one who finally opened the door. The look on her face was one he burned into his head along with the goblin Abbot's when he had lost everything, but unlike the last face this one would haunt him forever. Her eyes looked at him with disbelief as if he where ghost who had come to haunt her in her waking moments. Her mouth was down cast and her face was of a mother who had lost hope in ever seeing her first born again.

"Hello mother." he whispered, his voice cracked and his mouth went dry. Her eyes widened and she immediately reached out and put her hands on his cheeks to make sure he wasn't an illusion. Trying to meet her blue eyes with his as she rubbed her thumbs against his pale face and then looked back deeply into his eyes and said in the same tone he had used, "It can't be you."

"It is, Butler has informed me that he has told you everything that occurred though I imagine you don't believe a word of it-"

"It can't be! It can't! I let go of all hope that I was ever going to see you again. I have aged, the twins have been born, you where gone for three years and yet you haven't aged a day!" She broke down falling to the floor and pulling his limp form down with her as she cradled his head and cried large crocodile tears down her beautiful porcelain cheeks that fell down his own cheeks and into his parted mouth.

Salty, was all he could think as he let his mother cry and weep as she hugged him tightly to her form and whispered in his ear, "I lied, I never gave up. I never gave up. I love you too much. I couldn't, no, wouldn't give up."

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I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

Making our way back from Mars
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this

A kid on the way
A family on my mind

The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy, Time to lose yourself

Within a morning star
15 I'm all right with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live
Half time goes by
Suddenly you're wise
Another blink of an eye

- 100 Year's by Five for Fighting