Hello everyone! I'm back again.

So if you read DB and care enough to read the author's notes, this would be the massive story I'm excited to undertake now. (DB will be huge too most likely, so don't worry.)

Now, before everyone starts yelling at me for "stealing ideas" or whatever, let me be clear: Yes, this IS a spinoff of Kellycat77's Forget Me Not. Yes, I DO have her permission. If you don't believe me, message her. Or me. I can show you skeptics the messages. :P I know I was gone for a while, so you all may not remember, but we ARE coauthors. We have a joint account and everything. (I wouldn't recommend checking it out until we do some MAJOR editing though. It has been a few years since we touched any of that.)

So yeah. Just getting that out of the way.

Anyway! Super excited for this story. It will be slightly similar to hers in spots (or so she tells me - I haven't read hers yet simply so I don't accidentally lean too much towards it). Feel free to shout at me when it happens, but like I said. We all know. We're all on the same page here.

Now, without further ado... enjoy the story!

2 years post-mindwipe

"Artemis Fowl is dead."

For a moment, the words fell on deaf ears. She was shocked at the news; shocked, appalled, and disbelieving. "What?"

"He's dead, Holly," her godfather repeated. He studied her frozen face carefully before going on, unsure of her reaction. "The courts have declared him legally dead, and frankly I agree. He's gone."

The words still haunted her to this day. Artemis Fowl, dead? It seemed impossible. He'd cheated death before, after all. But this time even she had had to admit that things looked grimmer than they ever had before.

Two years ago, the LEP had mindwiped 14 year old Artemis Fowl of all his People related memories. As a result, he had reverted to his colder, criminal persona. They'd watched him, of course, carefully at first; but in time it became apparent he had no renewed interest in them, so they had returned to only monitoring him routinely.

It seemed stupid, in retrospect, for her to not realize that the worse he got the more likely it was someone would try to kill him. Eventually, someone did, and they very nearly succeeded. If Butler wasn't the great bodyguard that he was, they would have both been dead. As it was they both still ended up in the hospital for days.

It took all her self-restraint to not fly up there and heal the both of them. The only thing that held her back was that Root said no. As much as she didn't like it, she understood why - it was an unnecessary danger to her and the People. So she didn't go.

She regretted that decision greatly now. Because after 5 days in the hospital, Artemis Fowl disappeared.

It seemed totally unfeasible that a 16 year old human with mortal injuries could have just walked out of the hospital. It seemed even more unlikely that someone had managed to abduct him. But either way, it didn't matter. The human had been attached to a dozen different machines. Taking him out of them, let alone out of the hospital, was certainly a death sentence.

She had to face it. Artemis Fowl was gone.

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6 years post-mindwipe

Four years later, there was still no sign of the human. No sightings on the surface, no unusual spikes in activity, nothing to indicate the human might still be alive at all… Until one day, when the one elf who wanted him back the most took a vital surface mission. A mission that changed everything.

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6 years post-mindwipe, 4 years post-disappearance of Artemis Fowl, in the sky above Chicago

Sometimes, Holly Short really hated Recon missions.

All she had wanted to do was go above ground to refill and visit her favorite family of humans, but no - Julius refused to give her a visa unless she did a recon mission first. In general, this would have been fine, so she agreed… but that was before she knew what the mission was. He wanted her to travel all the way to America and back, and to the smoggy, disgusting business area of Chicago no less.

Needless to say, she wasn't very happy. All she wanted to to do was get this mission over with, and get out of this pollution-filled area and back to Ireland. She couldn't wait to get to Fowl Manor and spend the rest of the weekend relaxing with the Fowls.

Holly was a frequent visitor at the manor these days, going up to visit whenever she could. Since the disappearance and supposed death of Artemis Fowl, truth be told, she had been doing her best to visit at least once a month.

Of course, when Artemis had disappeared, the Fowls had no idea about the People, and Butler and Juliet still had no memories of them. But, after the disappearance of Artemis, Root had allowed Holly to go and scope out the manor one last time, just in case it was one of Artemis's famously clever plans and they were falling for the ruse as hard as whoever the intended target was.

As it turned out, they weren't. There was no sign of the teen whatsoever. However, by that point, Butler was back in action, and he apparently still had an armed alarm on Artemis's window. So she got busted by the bodyguard. But that sight of him and the Fowls more miserable than she was was just too much.

She told them everything, and, by some miracle, in light of the recent circumstances, Root had let it go. She still had a badge, and they still had all their knowledge and memories. After all, the Fowls without Artemis were hardly a threat.

"Holly," a voice snapped in her ear, very suddenly pushing all her daydreams from her mind. "Would you pay attention? You're supposed to be surveilling Fission Chips."

Holly rolled her eyes, knowing her godfather couldn't see her. "Foaly, honestly. There's nothing to survey. Spiro is locked up tight and the company is totally legit now."

"I understand, Holly, but it's protocol. The Council wants surveillance, we do it." She could almost hear him rolling his eyes too. "Just at least pretend to watch the computer. Another hour and you can get your things and be on your way."

"On my way to check on Spiro," Holly grumbled. "Which is also a waste of time and resources."

"Hey, I told you it would be easier to do it before, but you didn't listen to me." He crunched a carrot loudly in the background.

She frowned as her own stomach rumbled a little at the sound. Root had stuck this on her at the last minute and now she hadn't eaten for hours. She wished again that she was already at Fowl Manor - which she would have been by now if it wasn't for this stupid mission. The only comfort was that checking on Spiro wouldn't take near as long as this. All she had to do was ascertain the man was still gibbering in his cell, then she could go.

"Eh. It's the quickest thing. Easier to do it on the way back." Holly sighed and leaned back, her hands pressing into the concrete of the roof. "Not much longer now…"

"Nope. Just sit tight." She heard more crunching and clicking in the background of her helmet feed and sighed again, trying to block it out and focus on the screen.

The next hour passed in a blur. The mission was almost entirely pointless and a huge waste of time. There was never anything that could be the slightest cause of alarm; like she'd told Foaly, the company was completely legitimate now, separate from Spiro. Not a single person or object of any potential interest crossed her screen.

Finally, her time was up. She stood up, stretched once, and started to shut down the surveillance equipment.

"See, that wasn't too bad," Foaly commented in her ear.

Holly sighed, packing everything away and straightening. "I suppose not. Just long and boring."

"Well, the next part is quick and easy. Check the bug in Spiro's cell, take the equipment to the drop point, and be on your way."

"Will do."

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The hospital Spiro was being kept in until he regained his senses was, thankfully, not too far from his company. Flying there took less than an hour. The drop point, on the other hand, was farther away. The LEP tried to keep as many ports active as possible, but in more remote cities and locations where there was less chances of discovery. That meant she had to fly all the way to a city on the far outskirts of the state to drop off her equipment and get a shuttle back to Ireland.

It took her less than fifteen minutes to get into the hospital, check on Spiro, make sure Foaly's bug was still active and hidden, and get out. The former business man was - as expected - still locked up and gibbering what appeared to be nonsense in his cell. (It wasn't all nonsense, of course, but no one else knew that.) Then she was on her way to drop off the equipment and head out to Fowl Manor.

She was flying low - shielded, of course - taking in the sights of the cities below her. Humans were such barbarians, on a wide scale, but some of them weren't so bad. And some of the things they could create were just… amazing. Some of them were terrible - like the factories, disposal plants, things like that - but some of the wonders they had created were majestic and beautiful.

The city she was flying over now was very suburban. It was still largely untouched by human poison. There was trees, lots of them, and thick lush forests everywhere. The settlements were clustered into one area, forming a huge city, but once one went out several blocks out of the heart of it, all signs of humans grew more and more scarce, and sporadic at best.

In the heart of one of the surrounding forests was a shuttle port. This was where Holly was supposed to go to drop off her equipment and head back to Ireland.

The area was perfect because it was a smaller, rural city on the outskirts of a larger, more urban one. The LEP loved to set up their ports in places like this, although the reasons were totally unbeknownst to her. She just did her job and didn't argue.

Holly flew low into the woods, unshielding as she got close to the shuttle port. It was small and currently only manned by one person; it was very rarely used and there had never been any incidents here, so security was kept very minimal. The fairy currently stationed there now was a sprite. She had no idea who it was, but she wasn't interested enough to ask at the moment; she just wanted to drop off her things and be on her way.

Unfortunately, she never got that far.

About 200 yards from the shuttle port, Holly had dropped low enough she was skimming along under the treeline, slowly starting to descend the further she got. Then she saw something that made her stop mid-flight, swing up onto a tree branch, and quickly shield again.

It was a human.

What was a human doing all the way out here? The town was - she consulted the GPS in her helmet briefly - 13 miles away! How did he even get here? He couldn't have walked that far, surely. It would have taken hours.

She flew slightly lower, studying the human. He looked as though he had probably ran most of it - he was breathing slightly hard, but not excessively. He was stopped currently, leaning against a tree with his eyes closed. He had one headphone hanging out of his ear, but whatever he was listening to couldn't have been that loud or she would have heard it. He looked fit, and slim, and the longer she studied him the more he looked vaguely familiar.

She set her bag with all her equipment in the tree, then flew away from it, a few feet nearer to him for a closer look.

Raven hair… fair skin, but not excessively pale… slim, fit, tall, but not lanky…

And then, as if sensing the movement, the human's eyes shot open. His eyes were bright, blue, brilliant, shining with intelligence.

Holly gasped and threw herself backwards, shocked. She knew those eyes. Artemis Fowl's eyes.

But yet… it wasn't possible… was it? He was dead. He'd been dead for a long time. And what would he be doing all the way out here? This wasn't Ireland. If she'd ever thought there was a chance of finding the supposed-to-be-dead heir somewhere, it would have been in Ireland, or somewhere in Europe at furthest. Not America.

Of course, if it was him, it would explain a lot. They would never have guessed that he would have left Ireland, and it would explain him being here, of all places. Residual memories might have drawn him to somewhere fairy-related, like this shuttleport. But he obviously had never approached close enough to the shuttle port to get caught, so he was either just drawn to it unconsciously, or, if he knew, smart enough not to get too close, which wasn't hard to believe either. He was genius, after all.

At the sound of her gasp, he straightened and pulled out the earbud, pocketing it without looking as he scanned around for the source of the sound. "Hello?" he called cautiously.

Holly silently floated back a few feet, holding her breath. Her heart fluttered in her chest when his eyes skimmed over her several times, never resting but almost always hesitating in her direction. He had been able to pinpoint her direction from the gasp, but not an exact location. When did he learn to do that?

"I heard you gasp. I know someone is there. Come out and I won't hurt you." He took a step forward, in her direction, and she ghosted back a few feet again. Logically, he couldn't get her, but that didn't calm her racing heart. Logically, he shouldn't be alive; it seemed nothing was impossible.

Artemis took several more steps forward, slowly, his senses clearly on high alert. Holly held her breath as he continued to approach. He walked past her, but he was only a few feet away. If he could see her, she would still be within his arm's reach. She didn't let down her guard.

The human stopped in place, glancing around. He pivoted slightly, moving closer to her, stopping so close that if she had twitched she was sure he could have seen or heard it. She could feel his body heat radiating off of him. Quickly, she ran a scan on his vitals. While her blood pressure was elevated and her heart was racing, he seemed to be completely calm. It was eerie, and a bit scary, if she was being totally honest with herself. How could he possibly not be reacting? The way he acted, as if his senses were all on high alert, as if he could catch the exhale of her breath even when she wasn't breathing, did not add up with the way his body was reading. He had the heightened awareness of someone having an adrenaline rush with none of the symptoms of the adrenaline.

Suddenly, he turned fully towards her. His hand came up and grabbed her leg, just above the ankle. His hand wrapped completely around it as he pulled her down, smashing her back-first against the ground. The wings cracked and whirred as they died. A gear that had cracked through it cut into her back.

Holly had never expected him to catch her, let alone be this strong if he did. It was Artemis Fowl. Before, he couldn't even support a fairy Neutrino, let alone lift her out of the air and slam her against the ground with enough strength to knock her wits out of her and damage her wings.

She couldn't help the yelp that escaped her when he grabbed her, but by then it was too late anyway. He slammed her against the ground, and she felt the wings crunch under her. At least one gear cut through the set completely and buried itself in her back. She cried out, her shield dropping as her magic automatically diverted to heal her back.

Seeing stars from slamming her head on the ground also, it took her a valuable second to regain her senses and shake her head clear. By that time, Artemis already had her small body pinned with his own and was pulling something out of his pocket. Her vision cleared just in time for her to see what it was: a needle and a syringe with some kind of red liquid in it.

Her eyes widened. "Artemis," she pleaded. She struggled against him, but his grip was too strong for her to escape.

He paused, just briefly, his eyes widening slightly when she said his name. Then he seemed to shake it off, sticking it in her neck anyway and pushing the plunger in.

In seconds, her consciousness was fading. She struggled to hold her eyes open, but it was a losing battle - and one that she was losing fast.

Her eyes fell closed and her body went limp beneath him. The last thing she heard was his exasperated mutter of, "Why can't I ever get a vacation?" before the drug took her under and everything faded to black.

That was a bit of an info dump, I know, but I felt like the intro was too short to leave on it's own. So! Like? Intrigued? Please let review and let me know what you think! :)