(re)LIVE

TO ALL MY LOYAL READERS, I THANK YOU SO MUCH, I CAN'T EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE. My Hiatus was very VERY short-lived, you guys. A soon as I announced it, it was almost like Ame got angry at me, giving me a flood of ideas so I would HAVE to continue it. And there were also two reviews that really got me back on my feet, so thank you so much for the support!

Name: re(live)

Summary: Artemis lost his childhood to his disappearance of his father. Now, he is given a second chance, but there's a mysterious group after his blood. Will he ever regain his heart again? (Minerva does not exist, but LC happened. Without her. heh heh…)

Ages:

Artemis: 16

Ame:15

Holly: who knows?

Butler: yet again, who knows?

Disclaimer: I do not Artemis Fowl or any of its series. If it were up to me, Minerva would have never EVER happened. Or dies a painful death.

Reviews:

Ashe: Thank you so much for the reviews, trust me, this story will have MANY unexpected turns. Artemis falling for her? Hm… just remember, my story isn't centered on their relationship! It's just getting interesting…

MaritGT: Thank you, I try to keep it interesting, and I just wrote Artemis the way I thought he would be.

Christine Maquiavel: Thank you again, so much, for the support

Kiiamiia: Sorry, I hate describing clothes, I tried my best, because I hate it when people spend the whole chapter just describing clothes. I guess that was a bit sue-ish, heh heh. I also explain why Artemis puts up with her so much in this chapter. I guess Ame is a bit flawed… but in this chapter it's revealed that she's not really that flawed… I think… the plot is fast approaching, just hang on tight!

Zephyr Zucchini: My ever faithful friend, I love you lots, thank you for the encouragement.

(Un)Fortunate Circumstances

"Sir! Sir!"

"What now?"

"002 has just failed, and 001 has been discovered!"

"Hm… an interesting turn of events"

"Should we abort 002?"

"We'll see… for now, continue running both 001 and 002"


Ame looked with disbelief, then furrowed her black eyebrows, "A… Hybrid?"

Holly stepped towards the pair, although she was still in her childish dress, an air of importance was around her.

"Yes, you are most likely are half human, half the People." The elf tried to explain.

There was a sudden cry:

"Where'd Artemis go?"

Shrieks of panic from fangirls ensued, and the momentarily forgotten party was remembered.

Artemis rose to stand up, both girls looking at him. He looked at Holly, a look of trust in his eyes, while as he looked at Ame, a mixture of anger, confusion, and thoughtfulness surfaced.

The look hit the black haired girl square in the chest, she lowered her head. Looking down, she mused to herself about the absurdity of her reaction. He was never really a friend anyways, he was more like… a convenient person, that was just there. And no doubt he never thought of her as one either.

After what seemed like hours, when in reality actually a few seconds, the genius spoke quietly, under his breath.

"Ame, please remain with Holly until the party is over, and I trust you, Holly to keep her here."

Without another word he entered back into the main ballroom. The girl looked at the fiery woman beside her, "Holly? I thought you were…"

At the addressing of her name, she sat down with a sigh, "You thought wrong, sorry for lying to you, but it's a big-ass secret."

"You… aren't a kid?" she looked surprised, and obviously was.

There was really no way avoiding it, she'd feel horrible mesmering the other girl, thrown into such a strange circumstance. The biggest factor though, was the fact that Artemis would be furious, some could swear curiosity was the boy's weakness.

Making her decision, she turned and smiled at the younger, "No, actually I'm a LEP, Lower Elements Police… what I mean by lower elements, it means 'underground' were you- well, half of you belong."

Ame's face contorted into a shocked and doubting face, "I belong… underground?

The elf wanted to roll her eyes, this was going to be fun, trying to explain everything to her, "Well, long ago, my kind and Artemis' kind lived peacefully, until this huge fight broke out…"


"Bye Artemis! Call me!" The busty blonde girl winked at him while exiting the door.

He sighed with relief, the last and the most obnoxious guest had finally left. He turned his attention to the two females, still sitting together. Holly seemed like she was desperately trying to explain something to the other.

"I can… make people do whatever I want?" she asked for the fifth time.

Holly had hands on her hips, impatient, "Yes, yes, it's called Mesmer!"

As soon as Artemis arrived on the scene, Ame snapped around, eyes glowing, "HA! Maybe I can make the bastard do the can-can!"

"I wouldn't advise you to try…" His complexion turned paler than ever, the threat of a painful death loomed on face.

"Doesn't matter!" the officer interjected, "It's only used for the most important purposes!"

Looking at the younger girl carefully, "Seems to me you're a lot more comfortable now…" he mused.

An abrupt change happened on her face. From devious to a sad smile, "I'm just so happy," Ame said, swinging her feet back and forth, "That I'm normal to some extent. At least I'm not the only one."

"Actually, you're a hybrid, so yeah, you are the only one… that we've ever heard of." Holly pointed out.

Ame turned around, a pained look on her face, "Well gee, thanks a lot."

"Either way," Artemis interrupted, "I'm sorry Ame, but I don't quite trust you anymore-"

"-I know," she tried to smile at him, her voice was full of regret that her secret was revealed, "You could banish me or lock me up somewhere, it doesn't matter."

Slightly surprised by her submission, he continued, "I'll put you under twenty-four hour lockdown, with Holly to watch you. You should stay here."

He then walked away, planning to ask a servant to prepare a guest room. The elder woman looked at the other sadly, "I'm so sorry, Artemis seems irrational sometimes…"

The girl looked upwards at the ceiling, delicate patterns swirled into the central master piece which was the grand chandelier, the focus of the room, "No, I understand. Artemis has a reason to not trust me anymore… something unexpected happened, out of the equation he had been forming for awhile."

A questioning look appeared on Holly's face. The Japanese girl smiled.

"Me, I was unexpected."

She mentally traced the leaf designs, "I was out of the equation, and he feels he let me in too easily. Let him destroy his work. At first, he probably thought I was easy to take out, something that could be canceled out."

It was true, Holly agreed inside, sometimes she wondered if Artemis regret that he let things go out of the way he wanted them to go.

"But now, another X factor appeared, my secret has dropped into the equation now. He probably thinks it's gone completely out of control. His last shred of control, he thinks, is to lock me in, keep me under watch, so he can regain his shattered equation." Ame frowned, "I'm nothing more to him than just an annoying unknown number that needs to figured out and thrown away."

"That's not true," the elf tried to protest, but in the end, it seemed like she was trying to convince herself.

The more Holly tried to say that Artemis wouldn't regard Ame as only an "unknown number," the more she doubted herself. Who knew what Artemis thought most of the time? She almost snorted to herself. He always wanted control, and suddenly something outside fell into his world, and began morphing it into the way she wanted it to look like, without even really knowing. He must be trying so hard, to make sense of it.

It suddenly struck her, the reason why he seemed to be around her all the time, he was looking for a way to cancel her out, take her out of his equation.

What made her even more curious though, was how the girl suddenly gained so much insight. "How did you know…" she questioned aloud.

Almost dully, in a far off voice Ame replied, "Me? I guess… I think a lot more than people know… I seem kind and sweet on the outside, deeper in I'm clueless and an idiot, and really deep down, I guess I'm observant, I think when I need to… So… I must have been lying to Artemis all along too." She rested her elbow on the arm rest, balancing her head in the palm of her hand, "My life must be some sort of elaborate lie…"

The aura she was releasing was hard to ignore for a battle veteran like the LEP officer. She sounded almost dead, her voice nearly unfamiliar as it became calm, completely opposite of her normal loud and obnoxious tone. This girl… without knowing, was dangerous.

At the same moment Artemis reappeared, with a flat voice he announced the guest room in which Holly and Ame were to stay in was prepared, following with directions to the room.

Almost as soon as Artemis entered the party room, Ame's eyes flashed, her face became lively again. It was too quick, sending shivers down the elf's spine.

The Japanese girl walked boldly up to Artemis, a light slap on the back, "Took ya long enough." And nearly ran away, obviously excited to see the rest of the Fowl Mansion.


"Artemis…"

"Artemis…"

"Artemis-chan…" (-chan is used in Japanese as a term of endearment to smaller kids or other girls. So, obviously, this doesn't suit Artemis at all)

"Arty-chan! Hey! ARTY-CHAN!"

With his last shred of patience, "Arty-chan" turned around to look grudgingly at the girl who was calling out his name.

"What?" he almost snapped.

Ame made a devil like face, leaning closer she whispered out, "I'm… bored."

Holly stifled a snort in the background. Looking incredulous, Artemis sighed, "Go and watch a movie with Holly on the C-Cube then."

"Can't I go outside?"

"No."

"Oh come on! It's been like, two days! You're lucky my dad is so easy-going!"

"No."

"What about Holly with me! I want to go to a bookstore! I mean, a bookstore! You like bookstores too! Please let me go! Please please please please-"

"Fine, you can go! Just go quickly, you're giving me a worse headache than that Minerva girl, just go." He said, finally giving in.

She began cheering happily, before stopping suddenly, leaning in once again-

"Now what?" the vein on his head was threatening to pop from all the pulsing it was doing.

Making the sweet face she made to get out of "forgetting" to do assignments, she said sadly, "I don't have… money…"

Two veins where pulsing quite quickly now.

He slapped down a piece of paper, "You can use this much money…" writing down "10" on the paper.

Ame immediately began complaining, "Aw, ten pounds? That's not anything!"

The genius quickly wrote down two more zeros, shoving the piece pf paper in her hands along with a credit card.

"Wow! A thousand pounds! Thanks so much!" her smile was evilly happy, finally getting what she wanted.

Walking out of Artemis' office as Holly came back in, camo cloak in hand, Ame turned to looked at him momentarily.

"Hey Artemis? Do you have a problem with blood pressure? Those veins look like they're gonna pop-"

"-Go"

"Jeez, sor-rie, I worry for once-"

The door was closed abruptly in her face.


The bang of the door being flung open announced her return.

"I'm back! And Holly's safe and sound!"

Artemis' eyebrow twitched upwards as she entered the room, bags and bags full of books. Holly's head was looking intently down into the pages of a manga, chuckling to herself once in awhile.

Ame threw his credit card back at him, and began dumped out the books, a gleeful look on her face.

"Hey mud boy," the red head smiled almost maliciously, "You gotta read Death Note, this Light guy is as full of himself as you! And I never thought that would happen."

The Japanese girl chimed in, "I know I know! As much as the bastard himself! Oh, and don't worry, I never went over your budget."

The poor boy sat back down, he could feel another migraine coming on as Holly asked for the third Death Note volume in the background.

He had found nothing out of the usual about Ame, just as Holly had. When questioning the girl a few hours ago, (for the seventh time) again she answered she had no idea, that all she knew was they moved plenty of times, and the only time her mother showed any sign of knowing about her "power" was the time her mom slapped her in the face.

Her father was even less interesting, a small business owner with some branches in Japan.

The only thing that struck as peculiar was her brother, Kazuki Shiku, killed in a mysterious accident along with his mother. The same thing reappeared again and again, mother's body was found, but not the child. Again and again Ame's father's face was on newspapers, pleading for results on the case, but in the end, nothing. Police were baffled, they had caught the child sitting normally in the back of the car through stoplight cameras, but at the scene, he was nowhere to be found. The impact was so great on the car, it was totaled instantly, if the child was in the car at the time, he would have been killed as quickly as his mother. They decided that since Kazuki was improperly buckled in his car seat, he was torn to pieces on impact, but then, they would have found at least parts of him.

In the end the police dropped the case, grief stricken, the remainder of Ame's family moved to Ireland, and this is how it ended up.

His gaze shifted from the computer towards her face. She was blissfully happy, pointing something out to Holly excitedly, nearly poking a hole through the pages.

Their eyes met suddenly, and unlike normal circumstances, where the eyes of two heroes of the story meet, and "sparks fly," her eyes dimmed into almost nothing, a dead expression on her face. The fire that was normally in her eyes was gone completely, leaving an empty shell of herself.

It was only a millionth of a second, leaving no time to analyze. Right after, the glow returned, and she offered him the first book. He refused, only strengthening her efforts.

In between an epic battle of wills, Butler burst in the office, eyes wide with such panic that no one, not even his master himself, had ever seen before.

Attempting to keep his voice without fear, Artemis asked coolly, "What happened, Butler?"

"Juliet…" He muttered quietly, "Juliet's gone."


OOHH!!! Hows THAT for a cliffhanger? The plot is unfolding! Thank you for reading, please REVIEW, and see you next chapter!