A/N: I'm back!!! Ok you know the drill. I don't own anything or anyone except Doctor Heather, Skyler Koboi and random no-names.

Chapter 2: Presumed Dead

Artemis disconnected the call laughing. Imagine worrying about what your mother will say when you haven't even told your husband. Artemis found this extremely funny. A knock at the door jerked him out of his thoughts.

"Come in." He said smiling.

Butler and Juliet came in looking around.

"Was that you laughing, Artemis?" Butler asked.

"Yes." Artemis said. "Why?"

"You never laugh, Artemis." Juliet pointed out. "And if you do it's probably a joke no one else will get."

"This one I'm sure you'd get." Artemis said.

Juliet had gotten her memories back a while ago so she'd get what he'd tell them.

"Holly's pregnant and she's more worried about telling her mother than Trouble." Artemis smiled waiting for the replies to his statement.

Juliet's eyes grew so wide, they looked like they were going to pop out of her head. Butler was to composed to do that but he looked surprised nonetheless.

"Holly's what?" Juliet asked.

"Holly's pregnant." Artemis said enjoying the looks on the Butlers' faces.

Juliet exploded.

"That's great!" She yelled. "Can I call her, to congratulate her?"

Artemis nodded but said, "I guess you can, but wait a while. After all Holly will probably be telling Trouble right now."

Juliet nodded and left the room singing, "A baby fairy! A baby fairy!"

Artemis winced and was happy that his parents had gone to Rome after all what would they say of they heard Juliet yelling about baby fairies? Artemis looked at his bodyguard.

Butler smiled. "I think I should go. I left food on the stove. Oh and when Juliet calls Holly let me know. I'd like to congratulate her too."

The manservant left the room. Artemis turned back to his computer, which was what he was doing before Holly had called him. He allowed himself one last smile before submerging himself in his experiments.

Foaly was sitting in the Ops Booth with Mulch Diggums, Doodah Day, No1, and Qwan when he saw something very strange. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. The strange picture stayed the same. Holly Kelp was skipping up the hallway. Not only would this be strange ordinarily but now? How could she skip at a time like this?

"Is that Holly skipping? How can she skip at a time like this?" Mulch asked.

Foaly would have responded except Holly knocked on the Ops Booth door. He buzzed her in. Holly came into the room smiling brightly.

"You guys are never going to believe this." She said. "I'm..."

She stopped as she saw that everyone had gloomy faces.

"What's going on?" She asked, her smile fading. Foaly looked at her.

"You mean you didn't get my message?"

"What message?" Holly asked.

"I left a message at your house telling you to come to the Ops Booth."

"I've been at the doctor's office." Holly said.

"Well we wanted you to know that, well... You know that Trouble had a Recon mission this morning?"

Holly nodded fear creeping into her heart.

"Well an hour after he went to the surface I tried to contact him and I couldn't. I tried an hour after that and nothing. So I checked his lifelines and..."

"And?" Holly whispered.

"I'm sorry Holly. They're flat. All of them."

Holly sat down in a chair that Qwan had slid behind her.

"This can't be happening." She muttered tears forming in her eyes.

"Have you tried everything?" Holly asked trying to keep the tears from spilling.

Foaly nodded. "Yes. We've tried everything we can think of. I'm sorry Holly. He's go..."

"Don't say that." Holly said. "And you haven't tried everything. What about Artemis? Can we bring him down here?"

Foaly would have responded with, "We've tried everything, nothing else we can do," except for the fact that 2 tears fell down the LEP Major's face.

"Sure." Foaly said softly and turned to the computer to contact Artemis.

Holly couldn't hold back anymore. She broke down, her face in her hands sobbing. Doodah, Mulch, No1 and Qwan looked at each other helplessly. After all what could they do? Say sorry that your husband's dead?

2 minutes later Artemis's face appeared on screen.

"Now really, I like helping you all but being interrupted every half hour is..." The prodigy stopped as he saw Holly. Just a half hour ago she had been smiling now her face was tearstained and she was crying.

"Holly, what happened?" Artemis asked gently.

"Trouble...he...he."

Holly couldn't get the words out so No1 helped her out.

"Trouble disappeared while on a Recon mission. His lifeline things are flat and Foaly can't get a trace on him."

Artemis looked at Holly. She was looking at him.

"If you like I can come down with Butler and Juliet." Artemis offered.

Foaly nodded. "I think that might be best." Then he whispered something that only Artemis could hear. "If just to comfort Holly and nothing else."

Artemis nodded. "When will a shuttle be ready to bring us down?"

Foaly looked at the clock. "Be at Tara in 30 minutes. There'll be a shuttle waiting for you."

Artemis nodded again and disconnected the call. Foaly turned around to try and comfort his crying friend.

Artemis grabbed a jacket from his closet and ran out of his room. Butler and Juliet were in the kitchen happily talking about the 'fairy baby' when Artemis ran in. Juliet looked at him.

"First you're laughing and now you're running? What's up with you?"

Butler motioned for her to stop. Artemis looked sad.

"Grab a few things." Artemis said. "We're going to Haven. Trouble disappeared on a Recon mission. He's presumed dead."

Juliet gasped and sprang up. She ran out of the room to go pack a couple things. Being a bodyguard had taught her to act first, ask questions later.

Butler looked at Artemis. "If he's dead than what can we do?"

Artemis looked gravely at the manservant. "Remember both Holly and I were thought to be dead, but we obviously weren't. There's always a chance."

Butler nodded and went to get his car keys.

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