A/N - Not too sure where this came from, but I thought at least one person might like it so I wrote it and here it is. POV changes throughout, though hopefully not as often as in the first story.

Artemis's mother has become herself again, in case you read this and are asking. Don't ask why, though.

NOTE: Make sure (if you haven't already) to read "I'm Flying Away" by yours truly, as this is its sequel.

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Thoughts

Flashback

POV Change

Artemis's POV

Once again I saw the flickering of something in the corner of my eye, and once again I tried, and failed, to ignore it. I turned to look directly at it, but as always it wasn't there.

I was in my study on the internet, surfing for sites on the strange flickering I had been experiencing, since my mind had failed to come to a conclusion; a first.

Someone knocked at the door; I shut the screen down. No need for Mother, Butler or Juliet to know what I was up to just yet. "Come in."

Butler entered and shut the door. He looked around casually enough, but I noticed him pause then turn to look at the exact spot I had seen the flickering earlier. Interesting.

"What is it, Butler? I am very busy at the moment."

Butler glanced at the computer screen and noticed its black color, and that it was turned on. "Artemis, I don't want to interrupt you, but I have to ask you something."

I sighed. So much for subtly. I opened by mouth to tell Butler that his question would have to wait when I saw the flickering again, but this time in a different location. I waited a moment then turned to look directly at it; as usual it vanished. Butler had turned to look at the same place a moment before I did.

I sighed. "So you have noticed this oddity as well, Butler?"

"Yes I have. And so has Juliet. I don't think that your mother - Mrs. Fowl has yet. At least not that Juliet or I have noticed. You don't think…"

"That the fairies are behind it?" I finished. "I don't see why they would bother. Technically neither of us won since the captain killed herself. And on top of that it would have to be a fairy without magic, since I forbad any of them to enter here while I am still alive." I tried to ignore the guilty twinge in my stomach, something that always accompanied any memories associated with that day. "On the other hand they might want to keep an eye on us, to make sure we don't try anything again." I looked directly at the last spot I had seen the distortion. "And if they are, I wish they would stop it; I have no plans or desires of hurting the People."

LATER…

Still Artemis's POV

It was almost dinnertime. With a sigh I shut down the computer. I had turned up practically nothing on my searches. Most of the sites with references to flickering in the corner of the eyes either said it was a medical problem with the eyes, or supernatural, neither of which was possible. I hadn't noticed the flickering since around noon, which was relief. Having to keep breaking my concentration to keep glancing in on direction or another at whatever it was.

As I ascended the oak staircase, my mother was waiting at the bottom. She smiled up at me. "Arty dear, I never knew you had a girlfriend. Why didn't you tell me?"

I stopped dead. Girlfriend? But I didn't have any friends, girls or boys. "What girlfriend, Mother?" I asked, hiding the confusion I was feeling.

"She was sitting in the Drawing Room this afternoon. I figured she was here to see you, and I told her you were busy with a project but I would go and tell you that she was here, but she declined and left." Mother cocked her head at me. "She looked so sad the entire time I saw her. You weren't supposed to somewhere with her and got so wrapped up in your project that you forgot, did you?"

I frowned; could this be a relapse of Mother's madness? About three days after my last… encounter with the fairy people Mother had come downstairs with Juliet, completely normal. Or so I had thought. "I don't have a girlfriend, Mother. I don't have any friends."

"Oh Arty, don't play that game with me; your father tried it with his own parents and it didn't work. She's very pretty, if a bit small for her age. Nice nut-brown skin, though she ought to let her auburn hair grow out a bit, it's rather short, and those hazel eyes are just gorgeous!" Mother winked up at me when she saw the stunned look on my face that I had tried and failed to hide. "There, you see? I'm not mad at you; it's about time you make some friends." She left for the dining room.

As soon as Mother had given me a description of who she thought was my girlfriend, I felt my chest constrict. Painfully. Butler, who had been standing at the base of the stairs, raised his eyebrows slightly at me. He had come to the same instant conclusions as I had.

The description was exactly like what the late Captain Holly Short had looked like.

A/N - Well, there you guys go. This was just a test chapter… If no one likes it, I'll discontinue it. Review if you want me to keep this thing going!

- New Moon Werewolf