Notes: Okay so yeah, chapter three. For those of you that didn't guess the Lovelace thing and for those who didn't feel like googling it Richard Lovelace wrote a very famous poem 'To Althea, from Prison' while he was in jail for petitioning to have the clergy act 1640 annulled. There really is no significance behind the name to the character I just was bored and looking for a good name and the idea amused me.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. I don't own Artemis, the other characters from the books, I don't own this chair I'm sitting in, I don't own the computer I am typing this on. I simply own an over active imagination and a huge love for this book series. Now on to the story!

The second Artemis set eyes on Althea Lovelace it was obvious that she was no threat to Fairy Kind. She stood at a locker, her face inches away from the door, putting on eyeliner while a guy leaned against the locker next to hers, holding his phone. Althea was trying to figure out what happened to her post the night before.

"So Facebook deleted my post before anyone could read it… can they do that?" She asked, trying her hardest to not poke her eye out with the pencil.

"I think so, if someone reports it or something." Kevin answered, not looking up from his phone. Althea paused, looking thoughtful.

"There wasn't anything reportable in my post I don't think." Actually she was relieved that it had been deleted, because as she thought about it, the more insane it sounded. She had to have just stumbled upon some crazies… but that cube thing, she'd seen the tiny woman pull the papers out of thin air, she had seen the crazy symbols on the papers and she had heard the guy talk about magic. That was the part that made her realize she was going crazy. They had to have been playing; maybe she'd had the papers already. Regardless she still had the pictures and she had gone over them a million times that night and planned on doing it again tonight.

"Excuse me, that's my locker." Althea turned to find a blonde guy looking at Kevin. The guy looked vaguely familiar and for half a second she panicked, looking at the guy's eyes, they were both blue… the guy from yesterday had heterochromia or something because he had two different colored eyes. She still couldn't settle the nervous feeling in her stomach as Kevin got up and moved to the other side of her locker.

"New kid." Kevin shrugged. The guy looked over at him.

"Alexander." He introduced, his blue eyes settling on Althea, looking her up and down, assessing her. She frowned and closed her locker.

"Whatever. I'm going to class I'll see you at lunch Kev." She said, giving the guy one last look before walking off. Artemis just smirked and turned to put his book in the locker, he hadn't gotten his school books yet, so he didn't have any other books to put in. He closed the locker and turned, walking in the direction Althea had gone.

"Holly can you hear me?" He muttered about a second later he heard Holly's voice saying.

"Roger that Alexander."

"Don't call me that." He ordered, he did not like the name Alexander. It hadn't been his choice though as Foaly had been the one to set up all his fake information.

"You're lucky he didn't name you Maynard or something equally horrible." Holly reasoned in his ear.

"He's lucky I didn't-"

"Stop talking to yourself, you have class." Holly interrupted. Artemis grumbled but pushed open the door to the History classroom and looked around. He found Althea sitting on her desk, chatting away with a young woman with short blonde hair and bright pink eye shadow. He used the small button camera to take a picture of the girl as he had with Kevin earlier. He wanted as much information as he could get about all the people, just in case. He heard Holly's voice in his ear as he walked over to sit by Althea.

"The first guy was Kevin McDonald, he's seventeen, captain of the rugby team, straight A's, a few misdemeanors on his record but nothing suspicious." She took a breath and Artemis could hear the clacking of the computer keys. "The girl is Delilah Veritas. She's sixteen, nothing really to say about her, no school activities, no job, average grades." Artemis thought about that as he sat down in the seat.

The teacher walked in, his coat and hat still on. He put them on the coat rack by the door as he did that everyone went to sit, Althea did a double take when she noticed Artemis next to her. She looked at him suspiciously before turning back to the front of the room. The teacher was reading through the roster.

"Lawrence? Lovelace?"

"Ai." Althea spoke up, pulling a notebook out of her bag. She opened it and started doodling.

"Malone?"

"Here." Artemis replied, his eyes on Althea's drawing. For someone who spoke like an uneducated mess and wore rainbow eye shadow she sure did some dark drawings. She had drawn a boy voodoo doll in tattered rags lying out with a hag standing over it, an evil sneer on her face as she held a big pin to stick in its eye. Artemis was sure a psychologist would have a field day with that drawing.

'She's left handed' he noted.

"Yeah you didn't see that when she was doing her eyeliner?" Holly asked. He jumped, he wasn't aware the small device behind his ear could read his mind as well as his voice. "Foaly's brainchild." Was all she offered in explanation. She'd let Foaly worry about explaining it in detail later. Artemis mentally smacked himself for not noticing. He took the opportunity to take in the rest of her. She had long brown hair, falling down past her shoulder blade. She had bright green eyes both were currently looking down at the page as she used her ink pen to fill in the blank places in her drawing. Her nails were painted midnight blue except for the pinkies, which were pained green. She had a rainbow of eye shadow across her eyelids, but that and the eyeliner seemed to be the only make up she wore. She chewed a piece of gum, strawberry by the smell of it, and she chewed it a bit like a cow with cud.

She had a necklace around her neck but Artemis couldn't tell what it was because the charm at the end dipped down into her slightly unbuttoned top, revealing the slightest bit of-

"Keep your head in the game Fowl!" Holly snapped. Right, she wore the school uniform, a blue button up shirt and a plaid skirt, but she also had black shredded tights on, which he was sure wasn't part of the dress code, as well as the green converse she had on. However looking around the room it became very obvious that the term dress code was very loose in this school. He saw everything from brightly colored leggings to fishnets. The guys had their pants in a verity of unflattering sizes. He made a face and turned back to Althea, who had turned to a fresh page in her notebook and was doodling something new. He watched with interest as she placed the pen against the paper and began to work.

"Mr. Malone?" Artemis looked up at the teacher.

"Yes?"

"Care to at least pretend like you're paying attention?" Artemis' jaw clenched, yeah he was going to hate it here, but it was just until he could get those pictures from Althea then he could go back to plotting and stealing paintings.

Endnotes: Anyone that can tell me what Song inspired Althea's drawing of the doll and the hag gets mental cookies. Hint: It's by one of the artist in my 'At the Moment' thing in my profile.