Is it over yet?
Can I open my eyes?
Is this as hard as it gets?
Is this what it feels like
To really cry?
Cry by Kelly Clarkson
~ AF ~
"Holly!" Artemis shouted through the crowd. "Don't go!"
She ran on, tears still streaming down her face. "I didn't mean it!" he yelled. She whirled around and continued walking, backwards.
"You know that's a lie, and I know it too." Holly said in a strangled voice. He couldn't hear her voice, but she knew he'd be able to read her lips.
"No!"
"NO!" Artemis shouted. He sat bolt upright as he woke from his nightmare of a memory. His fiancée rubbed her eyes, yawned and looked at him.
"Are you alright, Arty darling?" she asked sleepily.
"I'm fine, Minerva, perfectly fine," he whispered. But his haunted eyes told the truth.
"Artemis, I love you," she said seriously. He laughed.
"Holly, I don't think you really mean that. Truly, how long have we known each other? We're friends, Holly. Nothing can change that. Even if I loved you like that, which I don't, we could never be together. Anyways, who's heard of a fairy and human couple?" he said, laughing again.
She stared at him in shock. He'd taken her confession as a joke! She ran away from him and into the crowd at the Dublin airport.
"Holly!" Artemis shouted through the crowd. "Don't go!"
She ran on, tears still streaming down her face. "I didn't mean it!" he yelled. She whirled around and continued walking, backwards.
"You know that's a lie, and I know it too."
Holly suddenly shot up from her bed, screaming and crying. She cried for a good thirty minutes, and the racking sobs slowly turned into shudders. Her blankets were soaked with her tears. Holly wrenched off her covers.
"D'Arvit! Stupid Mud Man. No little fairy for him. He goes for glamorous genius. Minerva, not Holly," she muttered to herself. She shook her head to clear her thoughts.
"I HATE YOU, ARTEMIS. I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU. I hate you. I hate you." She started out yelling upward, but the last part was a whisper, her head still gazing up. Tears fell again, streaking her face. "I love you, Artemis."
Somewhere, above, in Fowl Manor, a mind was whirring. Artemis was trying to concentrate on different methods of falling asleep, from mental calculations to inventing. He suddenly stopped, however, when he thought he heard yelling and then the tinkling of crystal.
Holly was done crying. Almost. She looked at the floor, and her last tears fell. They somehow combined, creating an odd shape. A blue spark went with the tears, crystallizing it.
A tiny little heart shaped crystal shattered on the floor.
AN: Hi everybody. Thank you for reading and reviewing my first ever AF fic.