(re)LIVE

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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:

Zephyr Zucchini: My mistake, but I just had to her in. hhahaha

Midori Blue: Thanks. It's a great place to join back in, the plot is picking up speed

QueenofBookworms: Thanks for your enthusiasm at the manga D I'll try, I don't know, because the story is heading to a more serious direction now

5oclock.autumn: Changed that. Thanks so much for that heads up

Ashe: Thanks for being such a loyal reviewer!

Mocha Crab: You really think my writing is sophisticated? Aww… thanks so much!

Eicklehart: Thanks so much for having trust in me, but I really didn't understand the comment about artemis and ame, do you think that ame is all too wrong for him or because artemis has been too mean to her? Please explain, hahaha , I didn't get it.. sorry XD

Falcondreamer90: Updating now!

Starlight: Thanks, to have hat chapter read over again, that's really nice, one of the nicest comments a writer to get.

Musafreen: Um, thank you?

Fanxforever: Arigatou-gozaimasu! I'm so happy you like it!

Family

A wave of confusion spread across the room.

"Ju...liet?" Ame's voice sounded small, she looked shocked, puzzled, then, suddenly with realization, she yelled out, "What the HELL are we standing here for? Let's GO!"

Getting over the initial horror, Artemis snapped himself from his almost coma like state, in which he thought over the various possibilities. The Japanese girl was tugging on him angrily, tears brimming in her eyes. Holly was already down the hall, being the battle veteran she was, she could react quicker.

"Why are you crying?" he could hear himself ask under his breath.

The question sounded ridiculous as soon as it left his mouth. She was ready to slap him, "What are you doing? Are you suddenly stupid, Artemis? Juliet's gone!"

That was when it finally hit the boy, this situation was not a "what if," but a definite circumstance. Grabbing the girl's hand, they sprinted towards Juliet's room.

The red haired elf and Butler were already working out the details of the scene. Nothing was touched, the bed looked unruffled, sitting prominent in the center. There was no sign of forced entry whatsoever, only a single, perfectly round hole in middle of the main window.

The genius dropped her hand. Walking over to the window, he reached over and traced the hole with the tip of his index finger.

"Clean cut, no sign of forced entry, not big enough for an average sized human to get through…" he mused to himself.

Ame was wiping away frustrated tears, scooting backwards onto the bed, before hearing a soft metal-like noise. Her heel had hit something hidden under the bed.

The other three looked at her, then at the foot of the bed, she looked under, and gave a gasp of surprise before pulling out an oblong green object.

Holly ran over quickly, taking the bullet-like thing from her hands, "Hold it, this might be dangerous."

Artemis felt it was strangely familiar, before remembering, "Blue bomb. It looks like a blue bomb, except it's green."

"But that's impossible," the younger girl spoke up, "Holly said that you locked Opal away."

"That's true, but she escaped once, you never know about a second time." He answered.

Holly shook her head, "That's not possible, Vinyaya is the one looking after her right now, in the section eight crime center, we have nothing strange to report, and Opal is still stark mad."

They became silent again, mostly Artemis reconfiguring his analysis, while Holly seemed to be setting some communications up.

The elf then spoke into a hidden speaker, "See that, Foaly?" she pulled the green missile up to the camera in her helmet.

"Nice and clear." The centaur replied.

She then pulled out a scalpel like tool and gently scrapped the object's surface, before putting it on a scanner on her wrist, "sending a sample over to you."

As the scanner whirred to life, the younger girl looked at the boy. His face was creased, an unidentifiable expression on his face. A look of anger… and… what?

The older female broke the tense silence, "Artemis, you should go back to your office and start scanning latest reports for anything strange, Ame, you go with him while I wait for Foaly's report."

"But-" Ame replied, "It's there anything I can do? I feel so hopeless, there must be something that I can do…"

A hardened expression appeared on Holly's face, before turning around, staring at the scanner. What could she tell her? Even though Ame is a hybrid, it's not like she knows how to use any of the technology that her other half knows. It isn't clear what her motives are either, if she had any. But the point is, no one can trust her just yet.

Without a word, Artemis walked out of the room.

"Hey-" the girl called out to him.

He turned around, the look in his eyes told her to follow. Uncertain, she did, her footsteps falling in to the same time as his.

The red head sighed, who was this girl really? All they knew was she was obviously not normal…

The same girl was sitting on Artemis' bed, clearly sulking as the boy busied himself. Her arms were folded across her chest, leaning against the wall.

Artemis could feel a distinct laser glare burrowing itself closer and closer to his precious brain. Without turning around, he answered her gaze, "What?"

"There is seriously… nothing I can do… at all." Her voice was low, angry.

A familiar vein appeared on his forehead. It was not the time or place to sulk about petty things. Juliet was missing, he had no time to deal with her childish heroism.

He decided to tell her just that: "It is not the time or place to sulk about petty things. Juliet is missing, I have no time to deal with your childish heroism."

Like a pulled trigger, she snapped, revealing a bomb. Marching over to him, Ame slammed her hands down onto his desk. The angry girl leaned closer, their eyes locked, "I'm not being petty!" she retorted, "Juliet is missing, Juliet is my friend! Why wouldn't I be worried about her? Why wouldn't I want to try to help her?"

Before he could open his mouth to even reason with her, she answered her own question, "I'm worthless to you, aren't I? Disposable. You didn't want me to even get involved with me. I'm just a road block that you have to get over."

As soon as the words left her mouth, she realized her horrifying mistake.

"You are worthless."

Artemis leaned back into his chair, seemingly at peace with his answer. She stopped short, her gaze faltered. Tears began to leak from her closed eyes.

"What am I supposed to say to you?" his voice was quiet, "Your whining is appreciated? I love that you're taking my needed time? They way you are acting now… makes you worthless."

He pointed at her, convicting the girl of her crime, "You are being a coward, Ame."

"I'm not," She interrupted, "I'm just trying to-"

"-Give yourself an excuse. You are being weak. Hiding behind your own excuses. There, just now you tried to cover yourself up in one."

The boy got up from his chair, standing at his full height he was at least a head taller than her, "I thought you were loud and fearless, that you covered yourself up in a weak shield that made you seem innocent, but now as I see you more, I see that this…'you' is another shield."

His eyes were hard gems set into a cold marble face. Ame held her breath, afraid of what he would say next, anticipating it.

"Who are you?"

The more he tried to understand her motive, the farther he fell in, until he realized he was surrounded. The equation became larger, longer, filling up the space where his safe, predictable life used to be. He let in a wild card that kept revealing more and more sides.

Artemis sighed, "Leave for now."

The question he had just asked was still ringing in her ears, a far off voice told her to leave.

So she did.

"Artemis!" Holy burst in, a paper in her hands.

As soon as he heard his name, he turned around, "Holly? Has Foaly discovered the origin of the green object already?"

The look in her eyes told him that she was afraid, a look he didn't see often, "No, but we found this taped on the bottom of her night stand. Butler thinks they're coordinates."

He took the slip of paper from her hands, long lines of seemingly gibberish covered the entire page neatly, in the center X and Y coordinates.

"It seems so…" he questioned thoughtfully.

The doorbell rang, Holly turned to the noise. The genius got up, signaling that he would get it.

As he walked down the stairway, the doorbell began to ring more frantically, and then came banging on the door.

He opened it swiftly, hoping to end the noise. At the sight of the person before him, a vein pulsed, "You." Was all he said.

Ame scrunched up her nose, "You yourself, Bastard."

Deciding to ignore the insult, he answered, "What caused you to return so quickly?"

"It's not like-" she tried to explain herself, "-like I wanted to come back, but my dad's allergic to cats, and-"

Something was rubbing up on Artemis' leg, he looked down to see an adorable black and grey striped kitten.

The vein seemed to grow larger, "You came back… because you found a stray cat."

The Japanese girl crossed her arms, "I couldn't leave it out on the street! I mean, look at the cute kitty!"

She bent over to pat the small creature on the head, in which the creature responded quite happily.

The boy sighed, "Do whatever you want, but that cat is probably going to run away come morning."

"No way!" she yelled angrily, "I'll get him stay!"

Picking the kitten up, she marched angrily into his house, which… didn't quite feel like his own home anymore.

Upstairs, he wearily explained the situation to the elf as the younger girl looked around in the kitchen suitable for cats to eat.

Holly frowned, "But Artemis… You can tell by the way it walks… it's going to die by tomorrow morning. You should've told her…"

Artemis looked at the mysterious note, then at the screen, before replying, "I know."

She looked puzzled as he continued speaking, "It's just… it seems like she has found who she is again."

"…huh?"

Something was shaking the genius, harder, harder still. He cracked his eyes open to look at the clock and groaned inwardly, he had slept for only three hours.

"Artemis…" a pleading voice called.

His mind barely registered it as the voice of Ame. He rolled over and rubbed his eyes before looking at her again.

"Neko-chan died…" she finally said.

At first he didn't understand what she meant, then it clicked. The black and grey kitten. He must have passed away. The girl wasn't crying, simply sitting at the foot of his bed, looking thoughtful.

"I'm…sorry…?" the words came out awkward and meaningless.

In the dim light her eyes seemed to flash as she looked at him, "I was just going to the bathroom so I checked up on him… and he was already gone…but I knew that he was going to die really soon though."

Artemis was truly surprised, "You did? Then it was ridiculous to take him in, why did you still do that then?"

"That kitty… probably was born then left alone, and tried to survive as long as it could alone. I just felt... like he deserved to have a sort of family, a home to be safe in when he passes away." She looked sheepish as she explained, "It's sort of stupid, don't you think? You probably do though…"

Something connected, like he had been searching for it the longest time. The finally missing piece to the equation.

"You aren't… a coward" the genius struggled out, "I was… I was… wro-"

How could three words like that seem to lodge in his throat?

She leaned backwards and smiled, "Nah, you weren't. We're all cowards. Afraid of the uncertainties that come in life. Nobody wants to have anything like Juliet… going missing happen. It's an uncertain jump off a cliff."

Ame yawned and stretched, "Ah… Jeez am I tired, sorry for waking ya up, See ya tomorrow, more like a few hours from now."

She got up and walked to the door. Before closing it, she waved frantically at him, smiling widely, "Good night!"

He smiled lightly, her crazy antics had already returned.

"Good night."

So… what do you think? Sorry I had to get all dramatic here and there, I had to fill in some of the spaces.

I also felt like Artemis really had to have a good talk with Ame, you know? …Maybe not, but I just felt like they needed it, because later on there won't be really any room for any of that. Stayed tuned, next chapter will have another cliffhanger!

Thank you for reading, and as always, PLEASE REVIEW!