This is the drabble plot I have wanted to start for a long time. It is purely A/H and A LOT of fluff! I hope you enjoy it as much as I had writing this chapter!
P.S: The twist in this is explained a little bit in the story. It's actually given away! Can you find it before the story ends?
Hint: Takes place AFTER TLG
Holly paced her bedroom as she went over what was going down in her head. That traitor of a centaur! I do not need time off, and yet he forced Trouble to give me a vacation! Wait until I see him again…
Holly finally sighed and sat down after what must have been two hours of pacing. She groaned and fell back onto her bed, looking up at the ceiling.
"Hello." A soft voice came from behind her.
The elf shot up. Looking back she saw a figure sitting on the other side of the bed and jumped, falling down onto the floor. However, she did see who the figure was before falling on her butt. "Artemis? What are you doing here?"
The man chuckled, going to where Holly was and helping her up from the floor. "Foaly called and told me you were on vacation. He told me he gave me a visa to come down here and then hung up." Artemis shrugged, "Might as well spend it with you, right?"
"Uh...Yeah, I guess." Holly looked around, fixing her short red hair. "How long do you plan on staying?"
"Well, that depends." Artemis went over to a dresser on the other side of the room, picking up the photographs that stood there.
"On what…" Holly prodded, looking at Artemis suspiciously from where she stood before on the other side of the room.
Artemis smirked, looking up from the pictures to look at Holly with a mischievous glint in his eyes. "However long it takes for you to throw me out."
Holly looked at him, she liked it when he smirked, his lips moving in a twisted fashion that captured the elf into a trance. His eyes, one ice blue and the other a golden green, Holly felt as though irony was set as those eyes melted her when he looked at her. She looked away, trying to focus her thoughts onto something else...anything else.
"What would give me an actual reason to throw you out?" She asked, looking at a plant that stood to the left of her.
Artemis thought this over for a minute. "Well, I could take you hostage again, ever think about that?"
Holly just scoffed, "Yeah, sure Artemis."
The genius quirked an eyebrow, "You don't believe I could." Not a question, a statement.
Holly looked at him, "Artemis, that was a long time ago. You've changed, you're a better person."
Artemis looked down suddenly, and shook his head sadly, "I'm not so sure about that."
"What do you mean?"
He ran a hand through his combed, black, hair, looking away for a minute. When Artemis looked back at Holly, the elf took a step back. His eyes were stone cold, and his smirk nasty. He took a step forward, and Holly took a step back again. However, Holly could see something else in his eyes, she couldn't positively identify it, but she thought she could catch a glimpse of...guilt?
Ok thats not as good-looking as the other one, she thought as she took another step back when he took one forward. Holly's back hit the wall behind her as she looked up with wide eyes. "A-Artemis?" She stuttered uncertainly.
His only reply was to let his smirk grow wider as he towered over the small elf. His head almost hit the ceiling, but didn't quite as he stood tall, looking down at Holly. He knelt down, now only a little taller than the elf in front of him as he stared at her evilly.
Holly looked up at him cautiously, "What's going on, Artemis?" She whispered in the dead silence of her house.
"You say that I've changed, but have I really? I can still be that heartless 12 year old boy if I wanted to." The smirk now gone, replaced with a small unclear frown. His eyes glued onto his friend's face as he tried to pinpoint what was going through her mind.
Holly shook her head, "You've changed, Artemis. You have…"
Artemis got up and went to the other side of the room again, looking at himself in the mirror sadly. "I have hurt so many people, Holly. Including you...I just don't know how you can stand me anymore."
"Artemis-"
The genius sighed and before Holly could get another word out, he spoke again. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be here, I'll leave." He started to exit the room solemnly.
Holly, who had regained her senses again, jumped up. She stood on her bed so she was only a little bit shorter than Artemis. "Artemis Fowl! Get back here!"
Artemis turned around, confused. "Holly, it's fine. I'll just go and visit Foaly. It's-"
"Get over here." She demanded. "Don't make me mesmer you."
The genius sighed, but nonetheless he walked back to Holly. Now standing in front of her, he raised an eyebrow and ask, "What?"
Holly looked at her friend. "What brought this up? Questioning your morality like this?"
Artemis looked down, "I first came here to see how I could scare you, but as soon as I questioned myself and turned on you...that look in your eyes…" He trailed off, still looking down.
"What look?"
"The same look of fear in your eyes from the first day I met you." Artemis explained, looking up at Holly was sad, wide, eyes. "Holly, I have kidnapped, cheated, lied, and hurt you...I don't know how you can still stand to even look at me anymore."
"Artemis, you have also saved my life more times than I can count." Holly countered, looking into the young man's eyes. "That has to make a difference."
"I have done too greatly to you. I would have to save you at least a hundred more times to make a dent on even repaying you on everything you have done for me. "
Holly put her hands on the worried man's shoulders, looking him straight in the eye. "Artemis." She started, her voice as serious as when she was on duty. "You don't need to repay me. You are a great person and an even better friend. True, we had a rocky start...but you ARE a different person now."
Artemis shook his head, his shoulders sagging as he looked down to the carpeted floor. "I am still not so sure, Holly."
Holly took a deep breath, "Artemis. It has been almost over a decade. When we first met...well…" She thought about something for a minute. "When we first met, you were a cold, heartless, twelve year old boy. I couldn't even stand to look at that boy for a minute, much less what I'm about to do now, so…" She took another deep breath and closed her eyes. Artemis looked at her, confused for a minute, before she pressed her lips to his, sending thunderbolts of electricity down his body.
It only lasted for a second as Holly leaned back, hands still on his shoulders as she looked into her friend's mismatched eyes. "So, you have changed, Artemis. I hated that little boy ten years ago, but now you are a different person. Now you have become a man that I can trust with my life…" She paused, thinking about what she was saying, "and love with all my heart."
Artemis's eyes, once foggy and unclear, went back and focused on the elf's words as he said, "Love?"
Holly smiled and nodded her head sheepishly, looking away for a moment before returning her gaze back to him. "Yes, and I have for a long time now, Artemis…" She paused, rethinking what she said and looking into Artemis's eyes once again. "I-I'm sorry...I shouldn't have said that." She quickly apologized, taking her hands off of his shoulders and turning around. However, before she could move too far away, Artemis grabbed her waist, spinning her around to face him and pulling the elf in close.
"You love me?" He breathed softly into Holly's ear. She was so shocked from his sudden movements that she didn't try to pull away, she didn't do or say anything for a minute. She just stood there, leaning against him as he held her close.
Soon, she returned to her senses and tried to pull away from him, to no avail. He kept his hold on her and asked again, "Do you love me?"
Holly stopped her weak struggles in his grip, instead just leaning back so she could see his face as she whispered breathlessly, "Yes."
Artemis smiled at her, his eyes twinkling merrily in the dim lights of her room. "I love you too...I suppose that's the only thing that has kept me from asking all of these years, knowing that I loved you too much to let anything hurt you."
Holly's eyes widened, He loves me too. She thought. But before she could say anything, he bent down and kissed her. She gasped, not suspecting he would do that, before kissing him back and wrapping her arms around his neck.
Artemis's arms pulled her in closer as he continued to kiss the elf in his arms. She moaned and of opening her mouth, his tongue darted through her lips and entwined with hers. The man picked her up, moving so he didn't break the kiss as he lay her down on the bed, him following suit as he lay next to her. Or sit next to, as he let his feet stay on the floor, his hands on either side of her as he leaned over her.
Finally, after what seemed like eternity, Artemis broke the kiss and leaned up, extending his arms so he didn't smother the elf. They stared into each other's eyes for a moment, until Holly's phone rang.
Holly turned her head to glare at the ringing phone on her nightstand. However before she could move to answer it, she was jolted into awareness.
Holly bolted upright, her legs still dangling from the side of her bed as she looked around the room frantically. She was alone, Artemis no longer there. However, her phone was ringing.
It was all a dream. She thought, But it felt so real. She shook her head and went over to the still-ringing phone, the one that had snapped her from her realistic dream. Picking up the phone, the elf yawned and rubbed her eyes sleepily, "Yes."
"Hello, Holly. Have a nice nap?" a very familiar voice rang out from the other end of the phone,
Suddenly, the elf was so awake, it was as though she had just down 3 pots of sim-coffee. "How did you know that, Artemis?" Maybe I wasn't dreaming…
"You...yawned?" Artemis stated, confused. "Are you ok, Holly?"
"Uh, y-yea." She stuttered. The elf shook her head, forcing her mind to stay on track. "So, what did you call for?"
Artemis paused, and for a minute, Holly actually thought that he knew what she had dreamed of. He was Artemis Fowl, the only person that Holly knew who knew everything about everything. However, she released a breath she didn't know she was even holding as she heard his voice again. "Foaly told me your situation about your 'break.' He gave me a visa and practically invited me himself to stay over your place. I was just calling to see if he ran it by you first."
Holly growled internally, of course that centaur didn't tell her. Traitor. She thought again as she sighed into the phone. "To be honest, Artemis: He didn't. But I think that its a great idea."
"Really Holly, it is fine if you don't want me to-"
"Don't be ridiculous," Holly interrupted. She smirked, remembering her dream and contemplating if she got it for a reason. "Besides...I've been meaning to tell you something."
Did you get the clue? It was Artemis's eyes! After TLG, both of his eyes were blue, not mismatched. Come on, be honest, did anybody get that? Anyway, that signaled that it was a dream, not real.
So, I will take requests. So any A/H plots in the rate of a one-shot that you can think of, no matter how twisted, I will take on the challenge. However, they HAVE to be A/H! I will try to bring out your fantasies as best as I can!
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