I had some spare time, so I figured I would continue this…
Disclaimer: Do you have to do a disclaimer in every chapter? Well just in case you do, and just in case you were wondering, I do not own Artemis Fowl.
Oh, and beware, if you haven't read TTP then there's a slight spoiler in this. But seriously, who hasn't?
Holly tried to glare at him, but when she realized that she would have done the same thing, she smiled.
"Good one." She said, her voice melting the snow with sarcasm. He shrugged again and walked back into the warmth of his study. As she followed suit, he asked a question that had been lingering in his mind since he had read her note.
"How long are you here for?" Settling himself on one of the chairs, he turned to face her.
"I dunno. It's my holiday vacation, and I was just completing the Ritual, so I thought, why not visit my favourite Mudmen?" She smirked.
"Point well taken, however I am unaware of where Butler is at the moment, perhaps making dinner." He replied more to himself than Holly. "Would you care to join us?"
Holly bit her lip. "Artemis you know I'd love to but, your family…" She let the sentence drift.
Artemis only put up his hand though to disregard her statement. "My father decided a few days ago that he wanted to take the twins present shopping, and is in London for two more days, and as we discussed earlier, my mother-"
"Already knows." Holly finished for him.
Artemis only nodded his agreement, suddenly taking an interest in the floorboards. That had started a fight. Holly had been furious, but when Artemis had finally gotten her to calm down and explained the situation, she had accepted it. They had made up, but Artemis still felt bad about the whole thing.
Holly lifted his chin with her hand, and smiled at him. "I'll stay, but Butler better be making vegetarian."
"Oh, yes. I'll just tell him to cancel the Christmas feast with the duck, turkey, chicken, pork, caviar-"
"I get the point, thank you." Holly cut him off again, holding a hand up to stop him, and the other on her stomach, which was trying to get over all of the animals that would be killed for dinner.
"Just making sure," Artemis smiled. "But I do need to go notify Butler that you are here. And to change the menu." He added.
Holly only nodded her response. As Artemis walked to the door, he turned back to face her.
"Holly?"
"Yes?"
"Try not to break anything."
She smiled. "I'll try, but I'm not making any promises."
"That's good enough for me. I should be about ten minutes, entertain yourself until then."
As he walked out of view, Holly instantly studied the area. There was a long couch and two arm chairs in one corner of the room, which happened to be the one she had been occupying earlier. The walls were covered in book shelves, and at the other end of the room, a large desk sat. She walked over to it, and looked at all of the sheets of paper.
One caught her eye, and she pulled it out of the folder that it was poking out of. It was a sketch, beautifully drawn of an acorn, two eyes in the center. She looked back at the desk and saw a picture of Artemis, then of her. She picked them up. Artemis looked cold and dark in his, but Holly's looked bright and cheerful. Then she realized that the drawing had been of their switched eyes, only instead of capturing just Artemis or just Holly's personality, the artist had captured both. That artist was Artemis. Holly suddenly felt like she shouldn't have been looking through his desk. She went to sit back on the couch but on the way, she saw a book that interested her, not only because she had never read it before, but because it was beyond her what Artemis would be doing with a picture book in his study…
A/N: Oh, cliffie! Sorry about that, I couldn't help myself. ;) I don't really like this one as much as chapter one. My muse is slowly dying. And I don't really know where that sketch thing came from. I guess just fluff, whatever. I'll try to update when I can. Reviews?
