2: My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.

Artemis had long since decided that this would be a bit difficult. He rested his chin against his knuckles, considering the options.

"But, Sir, how would I go about making all the ventilation ducts small enough so that…" Butler trailed off, unable to finish the sentence. 'So that an army of Tinker Bells couldn't get through?'

Butler was loyal, but there was no denying the truth. His master had always been at least a tad eccentric, and those tendencies seemed to have gotten more severe after Angeline's illness. At this point, the manservant was truly considering calling a few doctors. After all, how was he to know that Angeline's condition wasn't genetic?

Artemis seemed to have read his mind. "Butler," he said, with a hint of a warning in his deceivingly soft voice. "We've already been over this, haven't we?"

Butler drew a blank for a second. "Have we?" he stammered.

"We're moving ahead on the assumption that the fairy folk are real and that I am…?"

"…not a gibbering moron," Butler ended. He sighed, heavily. For a second, he was tempted to point out to the genius that 'when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.' But Butler was smarter than that.

"Metal bars over the air ducts," Artemis suddenly said, rather dismissively. Straightforward and time-saving.

Butler recognized his tone and left to do as he was told.

Artemis was sure that every point of entry into the Manor had been checked and warded. However, late that night when he went down to the wine cellar to mix his mother's sleeping pills into one of the bottles, a nagging, yet elusive alarm hit the back of his brain. He scanned the cellar, wondering what might have caused the feeling. However, seeing nothing remiss, he attributed it to stress and left the room, the wooden floor silent beneath his feet.


A/N

So that was chappie 1 of my random little oneshots. I started off with #2 of the Evil Overlord's List because #1 was... too difficult. Yeah. Anyway, some of these will be general, some angsty, some funny, some romantic - AH! (Now who said that?) - and some just plain wierd.

If you would like to Google the List, thumb through the reasons and find one funny enough to make a special request... Please, be my guest.

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