Hi. WOOHOO my first fic. Kinda crappy probably but aaah well. I only wrote it cos my internet mucked up and I had nothing else to do but type something. So I decided to start a fic of my own to post when my internets back up again. So here's the fic.... more to come. lol. I'll try and upsate soon cos I think i'll probable be really bored this weekend cos I have a big cold and cant be bothered to go out. lol. So urrr if you read this and you do like it *disbelieving gasps come from the crowds* then i'll update soon. One last thing before I post the actual fic: I'm only 13 ((14 in two weeks woohoo!!!)) so sorry about the spelling and grammar mistakes and about the uses of any immiture or childish words. lol Please R&R!!!!
Disclaimer: Probably heard this a billion times before from other people but----- I own nothing in this fic ((unless I post a new char later)). All the characters are officially Eoin Colfer's and I wouldn't have it any other way and so is Haven and Foaly's wonderful sarcasm.....
It was 5 years since the mind wipe. As much as Holly liked Artemis and the Butlers, and she did miss them all, she had had almost no time to think about them since the wipe. The goblins had risen up again- this time without the clever fairies helping them - and had been pushed back once more. It had been quite easy seeing as the goblins were idiots, but their numbers had been surprisingly large and it had taken some time. Now all there was to do at work was paperwork and the occasional case above ground when a mud-man claimed to have seen a goblin - some of them had gone above ground to reak havoc but luckily, their attempts had been tracked by LEP and they were stopped before any real damage was done - and was due a mind wipe.
Holly Short was currently sitting at her desk with her head on her arms dozing off. After a couple of years hunting goblins, paper work just didn't work very well for Holly. There was just so much of it, causing her to stay over-time to get through the huge stack of papers she found on her desk each morning. Sure, it was tiresome, but it had to be done. That was what had kept her going at first. Now she had partly given up from lack of rest and boredom. It was unlikely Root or anyone else important would notice. And it was just yesterday that Holly had caught a glimpse of Trouble Kelp snoring loudly on his desk. A sharp prod in the ribs had solved that. Holly grinned to herself and looked up just as her favourite Commander walked into the room. She quickly pretended to be absorbed with the thick wad of paper that had previously been her head rest, and pretended she hadn't noticed him. When he walked over to her desk, however, it was unavoidable. She looked up curiously and asked "Yessir?"
Root scowled and Holly saw his purple face was etched with impatience. Holly cocked her head sideways waiting for his answer. Eventually he cleared his throat and hesitated before saying gruffly "Short. We may have a situation on our hands here. I expect you to finish this pile of papers and be in the Ops Booth in 10 minutes. Understand?" Holly nodded and composed herself, not wanting the Commander to see her grin. Finally something other than papers! Root grunted as if unsatisfied with her answer before storming back out of the room. Looking down at the papers left over, Holly groaned. 10 minutes! She still had half the stack of papers to go! She raced through them as fast as possible, wondering what this "situation" could be.
20 minutes later, Holly pressed the intercom button outside the Ops Booth. Foaly's voice came through, thick with false pride "Wow Holly, I think you might just about be the only person able to make Julius's face steam in under 10 minutes. Congratula-" Foaly's voice was cut short by the Commander himself.
"SHORT! Get in here now!" The doors hissed open and Holly came face to face with an extremely angry, purple faced Root. He opened his mouth to go further into his lecture but Foaly cut in impatiently.
"Julius, I think it's high time I show you the situation. Unless of course you'd rather kill Holly first. It's not like were in a hurry or anything...." he trailed off significantly, the sarcasm heavy in his expression.
Root growled and snapped "That's Commander Root to you, unless you want a pay cut and a whallop up that hairy ass of yours before you can say 'Idiotic Donkey-boy' "
Foaly smirked and countered "That has quite possibly got to be one of the worst insults I have ever heard. But okay 'Commander Root'. Now down to business. Holly I asked our dear Commander to get you because I knew you would want to be one of the first to know what I am about to say."
Holly raised an eyebrow quizzically and Root muttered "Get on with it...." under his breath. Foaly whickered but turned to his computer screen typing in commands so quickly that Holly gave up trying to catch what it was he was writing.
Eventually he turned away from the screen and said "Now then. Using my brilliant brain - and many secret, very well hidden cameras - I have discovered something important. You see, when a person's mind is wiped, as you may already know - though judging by who you are-" he gave Root a significant glance. Root snarled and glared at Foaly who hurried quickly along "Anyway as I was saying, as you may know, the memories of a person who's mind has been wiped can be recovered if something that relates to the memory is unfolded to the person. Thus the memories return suddenly blahblahblah. It's all common LEP stuff, you should be up to date with it. Usually though, the memories that are wiped stay hidden except in very special circumstances where they either set up a plan to regain their memories before the wipe, or someone or something shows them something significant to the memory afterwards." By this time Holly and Root were extremely bored and weren't bothering to hide it. At least they understood this speech unlike some of his other technological ones. Foaly noticed the stares he was getting and hurriedly said "Back to the point. There have been only a few mind wipes that have involved someone actually using the first method to recover their memories and none so clever or original as this one I have discovered. You see, through my genius intellect and amazing mind, I-" He was cut short by Root.
"Foaly I don't give a damn about all your 'genius' ideas, all I care about is the point you have discovered not how you discovered it! Now are you telling me that someone has regained their memory by thinking of a plan to do so before we wiped them and that plan happened to get by our searches and questionings?" Foaly grinned
"Ah no no Julius that is where you are wrong. You see, you are right about everything except that they have not yet regained their memories. The person will soon recover them unless we stop that from happening. So I thought that is we-" He was cut off again. This time by Holly.
"Foaly. Shut up for a minute. Who the hell is the person? You guys keep referring to them as 'the person' or 'someone' but who are they actually?" She glanced at Root and seeing his blank expression knew that he didn't know either. She looked back at Foaly with a questioning gaze.
For once Foaly seemed to hesitate before speaking. He took a deep breath and said "A certain mud-boy - who is actually more like a mud-man now, if a young one. A mud-man that goes by the name of-"
"Artemis Fowl" Holly breathed and heard Root's sharp intake of breath next to her.
Thats it for now! R&R please! Although it's too late cos if your reading this line, the odds are you've already read the fic so theres no point in saying READ & Review lol. SO urrr please Review now that you've read it! I'm open to suggestions, critisism and well pretty much anything to help me and tell me how it is so far. By the way, I dont yet know where this fanfics going so if you've got any ideas i'm willing to take some up when I get stumped. Thanks and byeee! xx
Disclaimer: Probably heard this a billion times before from other people but----- I own nothing in this fic ((unless I post a new char later)). All the characters are officially Eoin Colfer's and I wouldn't have it any other way and so is Haven and Foaly's wonderful sarcasm.....
It was 5 years since the mind wipe. As much as Holly liked Artemis and the Butlers, and she did miss them all, she had had almost no time to think about them since the wipe. The goblins had risen up again- this time without the clever fairies helping them - and had been pushed back once more. It had been quite easy seeing as the goblins were idiots, but their numbers had been surprisingly large and it had taken some time. Now all there was to do at work was paperwork and the occasional case above ground when a mud-man claimed to have seen a goblin - some of them had gone above ground to reak havoc but luckily, their attempts had been tracked by LEP and they were stopped before any real damage was done - and was due a mind wipe.
Holly Short was currently sitting at her desk with her head on her arms dozing off. After a couple of years hunting goblins, paper work just didn't work very well for Holly. There was just so much of it, causing her to stay over-time to get through the huge stack of papers she found on her desk each morning. Sure, it was tiresome, but it had to be done. That was what had kept her going at first. Now she had partly given up from lack of rest and boredom. It was unlikely Root or anyone else important would notice. And it was just yesterday that Holly had caught a glimpse of Trouble Kelp snoring loudly on his desk. A sharp prod in the ribs had solved that. Holly grinned to herself and looked up just as her favourite Commander walked into the room. She quickly pretended to be absorbed with the thick wad of paper that had previously been her head rest, and pretended she hadn't noticed him. When he walked over to her desk, however, it was unavoidable. She looked up curiously and asked "Yessir?"
Root scowled and Holly saw his purple face was etched with impatience. Holly cocked her head sideways waiting for his answer. Eventually he cleared his throat and hesitated before saying gruffly "Short. We may have a situation on our hands here. I expect you to finish this pile of papers and be in the Ops Booth in 10 minutes. Understand?" Holly nodded and composed herself, not wanting the Commander to see her grin. Finally something other than papers! Root grunted as if unsatisfied with her answer before storming back out of the room. Looking down at the papers left over, Holly groaned. 10 minutes! She still had half the stack of papers to go! She raced through them as fast as possible, wondering what this "situation" could be.
20 minutes later, Holly pressed the intercom button outside the Ops Booth. Foaly's voice came through, thick with false pride "Wow Holly, I think you might just about be the only person able to make Julius's face steam in under 10 minutes. Congratula-" Foaly's voice was cut short by the Commander himself.
"SHORT! Get in here now!" The doors hissed open and Holly came face to face with an extremely angry, purple faced Root. He opened his mouth to go further into his lecture but Foaly cut in impatiently.
"Julius, I think it's high time I show you the situation. Unless of course you'd rather kill Holly first. It's not like were in a hurry or anything...." he trailed off significantly, the sarcasm heavy in his expression.
Root growled and snapped "That's Commander Root to you, unless you want a pay cut and a whallop up that hairy ass of yours before you can say 'Idiotic Donkey-boy' "
Foaly smirked and countered "That has quite possibly got to be one of the worst insults I have ever heard. But okay 'Commander Root'. Now down to business. Holly I asked our dear Commander to get you because I knew you would want to be one of the first to know what I am about to say."
Holly raised an eyebrow quizzically and Root muttered "Get on with it...." under his breath. Foaly whickered but turned to his computer screen typing in commands so quickly that Holly gave up trying to catch what it was he was writing.
Eventually he turned away from the screen and said "Now then. Using my brilliant brain - and many secret, very well hidden cameras - I have discovered something important. You see, when a person's mind is wiped, as you may already know - though judging by who you are-" he gave Root a significant glance. Root snarled and glared at Foaly who hurried quickly along "Anyway as I was saying, as you may know, the memories of a person who's mind has been wiped can be recovered if something that relates to the memory is unfolded to the person. Thus the memories return suddenly blahblahblah. It's all common LEP stuff, you should be up to date with it. Usually though, the memories that are wiped stay hidden except in very special circumstances where they either set up a plan to regain their memories before the wipe, or someone or something shows them something significant to the memory afterwards." By this time Holly and Root were extremely bored and weren't bothering to hide it. At least they understood this speech unlike some of his other technological ones. Foaly noticed the stares he was getting and hurriedly said "Back to the point. There have been only a few mind wipes that have involved someone actually using the first method to recover their memories and none so clever or original as this one I have discovered. You see, through my genius intellect and amazing mind, I-" He was cut short by Root.
"Foaly I don't give a damn about all your 'genius' ideas, all I care about is the point you have discovered not how you discovered it! Now are you telling me that someone has regained their memory by thinking of a plan to do so before we wiped them and that plan happened to get by our searches and questionings?" Foaly grinned
"Ah no no Julius that is where you are wrong. You see, you are right about everything except that they have not yet regained their memories. The person will soon recover them unless we stop that from happening. So I thought that is we-" He was cut off again. This time by Holly.
"Foaly. Shut up for a minute. Who the hell is the person? You guys keep referring to them as 'the person' or 'someone' but who are they actually?" She glanced at Root and seeing his blank expression knew that he didn't know either. She looked back at Foaly with a questioning gaze.
For once Foaly seemed to hesitate before speaking. He took a deep breath and said "A certain mud-boy - who is actually more like a mud-man now, if a young one. A mud-man that goes by the name of-"
"Artemis Fowl" Holly breathed and heard Root's sharp intake of breath next to her.
Thats it for now! R&R please! Although it's too late cos if your reading this line, the odds are you've already read the fic so theres no point in saying READ & Review lol. SO urrr please Review now that you've read it! I'm open to suggestions, critisism and well pretty much anything to help me and tell me how it is so far. By the way, I dont yet know where this fanfics going so if you've got any ideas i'm willing to take some up when I get stumped. Thanks and byeee! xx