And. . .Chapter 2! ~pelted with fruit~ Hey! If you don't like my story you can leave. ~crowd rushes for exit, only cricket stays~ Well, looks like it's just you and me Crickey. ~cricket leaves~ Stupid cricket.
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"So, Artemis, care to share with the rest of us what that was all about?" Angeline Fowl asked her son from the back of their car.
"I beg your pardon? What, what was all about?" the young genius replied, managing to look genuinely confused.
"Don't you play dumb with me Atremis Fowl the second, it doesn't suit you!" Angeline admonished. "Do you have a crush on your father's nurse?"
From the front seat Juliet giggled. "Yeah, Arty, do you have a crush on the cute nurse?" She giggled louder.
"You just called someone of your sex 'cute.' Is there something you'd like to tell us?" Artemis asked mock-innocently. Juliet sputtered and went back to looking out the window.
"Artemis," Angeline said dangerously.
"Yes, mother," Aretmis answered sarcastically. "I'm madly in love with father's nurse. We have actually been secretly dating for a year and are planning a June wedding." (+yes, I stole the 'June wedding' thing from TLC, but I already said I don't own Artemis Fowl, so leave me alone+)
Juliet, who really had no intention of blocking out the conversation as she stared out the window, giggled once more. If you looked at Butler, you could barely see a small quirk of his lips.
"No need to get snippy about it," Angeline snapped. "I was just asking." She turned back to her romance novel as the car continued to their manor, leaving only Butler to notice the pink tinge on the young Fowl's cheeks.
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As soon as the Bentley pulled into the garage Artemis rushed up to his room without offering an excuse.
"He probably wants to read up on more things to make his psychiatrists quit," Juliet giggled.
My sister giggles too much, Butler thought as he followed his employer to his room. He stood to the side as the pale adolescent typed away at his computer. "OK, Butler, ask," Artemis sighed 10 minutes later.
"Do you like that nurse?" Butler asked, not needing Artemis to elaborate.
"Why should I not?" Artemis replied. Answering a question with a non-sarcastic question wasn't like Artemis; something was up.
"Artemis," Butler stated, using the same dangerous tone as Angeline Fowl. He'd snuck up on the twelve-year-old and noticed he'd run a search on Artemis Stone.
"What?" Artemis asked at Butler's raised eyebrow. "She's a thirteen-year-old super genius. Do you really think I wouldn't try to find out about her?" If Butler had hair, his eyebrows would have disappeared behind it. Artemis turned his swivel chair around to face his friend. "Butler, surely you're not seriously suggesting I'm infatuated with my father's nurse?" The manservant crossed his thick arms. Artemis darted his eyes to the computer screen for a brief moment before quickly saying, "Leave me alone," and turning back to his machine.
Butler almost snickered. "Barely twenty minutes with her and you're already corrupted. You almost sounded like a normal child there."
Artemis's eyes widened, but he showed no further signs of having heard the giant. "If all you're going to do is question me I would appreciate you leaving." The bodyguard stayed, if only to find out about the mysterious Artemis Stone.
"Well, what have we here?" Artemis muttered. "Interesting."
Butler was curious against his will. He strongly believed in the saying, 'Curiosity killed the cat.' Though with him it was more, 'Curiosity killed the bodyguard which killed the principal because, who cares about the cat?' He really wanted to know what his principal had found out. Artemis, of course, knew this, meaning, of course, he was saying nothing.
After a few minutes of letting Butler attempt to read over his shoulder, he finally began to summarize aloud. "Missy Stone is, as I told you, a super genius. She's already graduated college and has a doctor's degree. She's working on a Master on physics and music right now, an odd combination, and is one of the most sought after nurses in Europe and Asia. It appears she only takes the strange cases, such as unexplained viruses or mental problems."
Artemis glanced at his friend before turning back to the screen. "That would explain why she'd be flown in from Japan to be father's nurse. The fairy magic in his system made it so he'd be healthy, but in a coma."
Butler, already knowing about the coma, said nothing, but on the inside, he was analyzing what he'd just been told, however, all he could come up with was, Oh, God, there's another one.
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Yes, it's not much, but I'm stuck here! Need...more...input. I have two HP stories and a HP plot bunny that WON'T GO AWAY, (his name is Charlie), and I'm bad with Artemis's character. I haven't read all that many AF fanfics like I have with HP, so I'm oblivious to how other people take his character. Maybe I should've read more AF FFs before I began my own?
