Okay this took a while but I'm finished with it. Hey don't blame me! I was sending myself emails of this chapter (long story) and well it kinda deleted (another long story) so I had to rewrite the whole thing again. But anyway here goes...


PS: It might not be confusing once you read through the whole thing. But the beginning happens after the event at the end. And then it will flash back to the beginning where the sequence starts in order. You'll see ;b
Disclaimer: I don't own it, depressing huh?

Amnesia

Chapter 7


"Oh no you di-in't!" Ivy said to herself looking through the half way tinted glass surrounding the Ops. Booth. Her eyes where glued to the monitor that hung on the opposite wall inside the small booth. This blew everything bad out of the water for this job for her. Ivy had been seriously thinking over firing herself for the past few days, over the commander's yelling and the disability for the LEP men to gossip, her new job was driving her crazy.

Literally, she even had squeezed the sand out of her stress doll. Ivy thought that one over...no, she had done that to dump the dry sand into the burger that she was supposed to be fetching for the commander at the moment. But this was far better than a peeved boss, Ivy fanned her face rapidly still looking at the picture on the screen.

Swiftness was the key; it wouldn't be soon before that pony whatshisface finds he has a nosy little spy looking at his monitor. Ivy threw down her superior's soiled lunch down taking out her mobile phone hastily. It was an old phone on a temporary 'borrow' from Grub Kelp but it did offer a few, out of date, but necessary options for her such as the camera and text messaging. Ivy pulled out the small phone pointing the fish eye lens at the picture on the monitor of the Ops. Booth. The phone clicked, Ivy smiled nastily punching the picture text button. Once finished with the final text she sent it to a reliable source in the girls' locker room, Lili Frond. Ivy snapped the phone shut, this should get out very quickly.


Holly flew between the moon and the manicured grass of the rich. Opening her visor she drunk in the sweet smell of the surface but she was careful to lower her head to the gales of wind that where cutting over her. Stars twinkled as the moon threw a pale look to the land below her. She couldn't believe that she had forgotten all of this, how a little bump on the head had affected her in such a way. Holly looked onto the land thrown before her; it ducked and twisted at fast rates while she darted through the sky. Holly increased her altitude surveying the land below her while memories appeared in her mind of her first visits to the surface and the various missions that had ended so...unexpectedly.

The land seemed to never end before her; the feeling reminded her the first times that she visited the surface. She had felt the same way, looking out to the horizon and thinking that the earth would be smaller. It still had surprised her that it was so large. Foaly buzzed in her ear, shattering the peaceful tranquility.

"Holly that was rude of you to cut me off in the middle of my words, do you have any idea how hard it is to-"Holly sighed turning down the volume in her helmet, if she couldn't shut the centaur up she could tune him out. If anything happened she could turn the volume up again.

Holly fiddled with the controls on her helmet while seeing a yellow taxi approaching the manor. It was standard procedure to scan anything for threats around the Fowl residence. But luckily she had remembered the basic controls of her suit and helmet, but the more complicated ones slipped beyond her reach. And they seemed to refuse to come rushing back to her at a clicking moment in her life. The memories where becoming more stubborn and harder to reach, she was running out of time and she could barely even recall pictures of the first eighty years of her life. Her childhood would dissolve before her eyes if she didn't hurry to find it. Finding the button she conducted the scan, just a driver and the young millionaire sitting in the back seat. Holly opened the thrusters in her wings escalating her speed until the land below her zipped into quick blurs. She closed her visor to face the wind once more.

"Foaly what do you think of a millionaire approaching his own house in a cab?" She asked once she turned up the volume. Holly could hear the typing of keys in her ear as Foaly looked over the heat scan. After several moments he finally spoke up.

"I don't know, do a rescan because Butler should certainly be there with him. But I doubt it, my technologies are never wrong." After some difficulty Holly managed to rescan the car and much to her annoyance she had been right the first time. Speeding over the yellow dot traveling across the paved road she could see movement ahead of her.

The manor gates began to creak open by the secret motion sensor gears that where hidden behind the rock outline of the walls surrounding the manor. Holly gritted her teeth flying through the small opening of the metal gates; her wings barely touched the sides yet still not sending a single spark in the air. Holly smiled as her figure curved upward surveying the area around her with expert eyes.

"That wasn't necessary you know." Foaly said annoyingly in her ear, Holly sighed. Of course she knew that, but she needed a little fun on this stressful night. To feel the wind between her teeth when her visor was open and to shake off the stale air in her lungs as if it where the first time to be above ground. Holly perched on a statue of a dark gargoyle sitting on the top ledge of the manor, and began fumbling with her controls until she magnified her vision through the visor. All the land ahead of her jumped into her view as if she where standing next to the heir. Then she noticed how the cab didn't pull through the gates.

Strange, most of the wealthy just let their drivers pull up to their doors. Holly cocked her head trying to get a better look of the young genius that was getting out of the door. Artemis Fowl mastermind, behind my abduction, the one who forgot the People. Said the voice almost immediately, but Holly didn't care about it for the moment, she had a creeping feeling that she was being watched. Holly crouched low to the gargoyle's back trying to minimize her picture from afar.

The young boy slammed the car door with a tissue around his fingers, Artemis hated low wage transportation. It was so gross, and the drivers never paid you any attention it was a pay, go, stop, and get out, relationship. The cars where cramp and smelly also, Artemis brushed off his suit trying to rid the expensive Armani of the smell of old molded leather, corn chips, and twizzlers. If the Fowl Bentley wasn't in the mechanics he would be riding in the plush interior of a high class businessman, not the low wage middle class vehicles.

Artemis walked down the cobbled drive that led to the great doors of his house. How a person's life could change so quickly. Artemis remembered the image of twisting metal and the licking flames at his feet. How had he survived through such a crash? The event happened about two weeks ago but the scene haunted his dreams every reoccurring night. His bodyguard in a near death in an attempt to save him. And for some off the wall reason he felt as if this had happened before. Butler laying in packets of ice and the smell of fish in his nostrils. Artemis scowled, that wasn't true; his memories held no indication of such an event. But it was becoming amazingly obvious that something was afoot since the finding of the mirrored contacts in his eyes.

Artemis looked to the sky, a thing that he seldom had done before. The stars twinkled magically above his head as if they where watching the Earth, overlooking it, judging all of existence. Whether it be good or bad, Artemis kicked a spare stone hearing the empty clatter against the pressed rocks in the ground. He was alone, his parents where on a vacation almost two contents away in Paris. And it was the time to plan dastardly deeds behind their backs.

But Artemis' mind flashed back to the scene of twisting metal of the remains of the Fowl Bentley while the semi truck dug into its side, tossing it over and over until it veered off of the bridge they had been crossing. Water was engulfing him next ripping the breath out of his lungs with every second. And the giant hand of his bodyguard taking him from his seat pulling him to safety. Artemis could picture the blurry image of his bodyguard's determined face. Once the image presented itself in his mind he shook his head trying to discard the opposing memories. Butler was now in the best hospital available to the world and Artemis knew their services well. He would live Artemis was certain of it but his new conscious was nagging at him that it was his fault. And no one would've been hurt if they weren't on a journey back from stealing a precious painting from a museum.

"What do you think about this Foaly?" Holly asked watching the slow progress of Artemis down to his house. Foaly clicked the computer keys in her ear once again Holly sighed irritated, how could she put up with that before? When the clicking ceased Foaly paused only to double check his analysis. Holly activated her wings once more with some difficulty, but in the end she managed to get into the air. Holly pushed off the eroding rock hovering in the air above the mansion and looking into the heir's worried face. She remembered Artemis Fowl, although many of his schemes where still a blur in her mind. But she did recognize the devious character he was, and yet she felt as if she should go down and embrace him with the loving care of a close friend but another part of her just wanted to punch him. The worry in his face affected her dearly; she was his friend, his only friend.

"What's bothering you Artemis?" She whispered to herself entranced with the boy's face. he was so familiar and she knew if she could only reach him then all her memories would fill in the holes of the more important matters for the recent days. But that was impossible she had a direct order not to come close to the human. Holly thought it over, perhaps Foaly could help. But he would never admit to something like that, the centaur might be smug but he wasn't stupid. Holly smiled; she could use Foaly's only blind spot: his pride.

"This suit is so nice, better than I remembered." Holly said into her mike a little louder than necessary. Foaly perked up smiling like he deserved an award.

"Yes they are, I designed them by hand and nobody gives me any credit." Holly rolled her eyes perhaps you give yourself enough credit for all of us she thought but aloud she said:

"I can't imagine why not? What is included into it?" Holly said prying deeper than ever into his weak spot Foaly smiled on her visor and began to rattle off all that his 'marvelous' suits had in them. Holly plastered a fake smile on her face and noted down any sign that could help her through this situation but she would have to hurry or Artemis would disappear through his double doors of the manor and be lost to her forever.

"-there's also the hologram that could help if you where surrounded around humans-" Foaly said oblivious to her frantic scheme, Holly smiled and began padding her suit. perhaps she could find it before the centaur noticed the strange position she was in over Artemis. Unfortunately he noticed.

"Wait, I see what you're doing! Holly don't do it, it's only asking for trouble." Holly didn't listen to him. She needed to get her memories back no matter what it took, she didn't want to go through her life stumbling blindly at every corner that she should recognize.

"I need my memories Foaly, and plus you can cut and chop the taping...right?" Foaly knew he could and soon would be doing just that but he still didn't like it. It was risky and if anyone found out then she might be out of a job. But Foaly could see the determined look in her eye and he knew that Holly was not going to be turned from her intentions. Foaly gave her the directions to the hologram and before Holly knew it she was pummeling towards the ground with her wings covered by the hologram. Holly hit the grassy turf underneath a large tree with a loud thud and a series of unprofessional swear words.

"Sorry, forgot that little bit of information." Foaly said in her helmet, Holly could see Artemis rushing towards the noise he heard through the leafy slits of the bushes she was sprawled in.

"Little bit of info?" Holly hissed into the mike before hastily taking off the helmet and shoving it into the dirt below the bushes. But unfortunately for her she hadn't completely covered the camera lens.

"What's going on over here?" Artemis asked scanning the rustling bushes. Holly looked down on herself she looked totally different her hair was longer and she seemed to be wearing human clothes. Reassuring herself that she wouldn't be recognized, and her job wasn't on the line, and that no one would find out about this, and that the human that was looking for her wasn't going to see through the sham. She got up facing the deep blue eyes of Artemis Fowl the second.


Ivy smacked the bland color door of Trouble's small office a lot more loudly than necessary. After several moments of loud banging that was disturbing all the personnel in a twenty feet range, the door slid back revealing a very worried looking Trouble. Ivy smiled at his distraught face her grin had a touch of nastiness in it.

"Hello friend." The last word she muttered was stretched tightly between her teeth as if it pained her to say it. Trouble ran a had through his hair nervously, he shouldn't of acted so carefree over that mission with Holly. She had no idea what she was getting into and she trusted him over the level of seriousness of the situation. The truth was that he always worried over her well being day and night. She would never find out all that he thought of her. And now he had Ivy at his doorstep smiling her wicked smile. That wasn't good; it fact was never good to see her actually.

"What is it?" He said still half-way noticing that she was even there. Ivy scowled, she was the center of attention especially bad attention, and when her throne was wiped away she didn't like it one bit.

"Well..." She said stretching out the word while fingering the phone in front of her face. Selecting the picture she wanted she held it to her friend's face. Trouble sighed pushing the phone a suitable distance away from his nose. And looked into the phone's glossy surface. The picture that was frozen onto the small screen was not entirely true, it was a lucky shot where Holly was closer to Artemis' face when she had shifted her weight once she had been helped out of her position from the tangled bushes, but what was worse than that, the two looked as if in a seductive conversation together from the position. But Trouble had no idea of the true event. He felt his stomach tie into a knot and he could've sworn he had suppressed a quart of vomit as his heart dissolved in his stomach.

"What are you gonna' do?" Ivy asked almost eager to hear the answer. Trouble looked to the ground with hurt eyes what could he do? He looked at the picture again, noting the glint in Holly's eyes while looking at the mud boy with such wonder and curiosity. It broke him. Trouble felt his heat pummel into his stomach further, he would have given anything for her to look at him like that.

"I don't know." He muttered still looking at the deceitful picture.


OH plot twister! ;D Short chapter (2900 somewhat words) I know but I couldn't make it any longer without combining the next chappie into it. Annoying I know. And I'm terribly sorry I can't put your generous reviews down (because it's 6:00AM over here and I'm really tired –yawn-) so I'll just say: Thank you spirochick39, foreverforgetful, refloc, (I have fishing nets) Nelarun, Kelitzo, and last but not least waterdragon719 Thanks for reading everyone!

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