Escapes:
Chapter II: Capture:
Disclaimer: NOT MINE!!
O.K. I heard from a few people that they don't like the monitors on Artemis, and one person who did like it. Well, let's just say that Holly still doesn't go THAT far to trusting Artemis. It's not Council approved, though I have no doubt they would approve.
And for those who would like more Holly and Underground, skip this chapter. You won't be happy here because there's only one scene with her in it. Also, Artemis+ Holly anti-fans, stay away from here if you still want betrayal between complete enemies.
And tell me if 3 acorns mean commander!
Now, on with the fic!!
Lower Elements: Muttering obscenities under her breath, Commander Holly Short fumed and stewed over the latest news about Artemis Fowl. The once-great threat to the People had sworn, as much as a crook can, that he was no longer to be counted as a menace.
Holly would've greatly liked to believe him, concerning the episode with the gold coin and all, which was actually a coin-cam she had stolen from Foaly a long time ago, which had put him in a bad mood for quite a while. Apparently, that was one of the many memoirs of the technology he had beaten Opal Koboi to discover while in college.
But, Holly's mind snapped back to the matter at hand. Artemis was coming down. To the Lower Elements. In Holly's inevitably logical mind, Artemis plus Butler plus the LEP plus her new station added up to trouble. He had sent her down two classes before, and there was no guarantee that he wouldn't do it again, by accident or not. She had worked hard to get here!
He does have a spark of decency, though. Her brain had the nerve to remind her. You said so yourself. "Yeah? Well, that was because.. because.." She stuttered to a stop. Holly never stuttered. She didn't know why she had said that. But she would have done for anyone else who needed reminding that they weren't completely evil "D'Arvit"s.
Artemis was nothing special to her. Meant nothing to her. He was nothing special at all.
Fowl Mansion: Artemis sneaked through the cold mansion, when the heat was normally turned off, to conserve energy, and tiptoed especially quietly through his parents' wing, though he thought he could hear moans of elation. Sickening behavior. He thought irritably. And I thought I said to have all strains of madness removed from my mother. Well, it was her choice whether she wanted that sort of thing or not.
He returned his full mind to the task ahead. As a fact, Artemis did not like sneaking. He preferred to stay comfortably established in his leather- made office chair, and let his contacts and underlings do the sneaking. But doing that was no help in this case. He couldn't be transported by computer. Hmmm.. Interesting idea. He'd have to study that.
For the third time, he talked to himself. Relax, he said inwardly, You're wearing an LEP vibration suit. No one can see you. Pull the gargoyle's tongue, grab the pearl inside its mouth, and slide the pearl back in the hole in the back of the statue before you leave.
But there was something wrong, even though he was two steps away from the statue. He felt calm, unshaken and was freezing. That was it. He wasn't vibrating. He cursed himself, using words Butler had been so careful to try to omit from his charge's vocabulary. He was supposed to be a genius! Geniuses noticed this sort of thing. He stepped back a pace to head back to his room, to call it off, and figure out why it wasn't working.
Then, it happened. He was vibrating again. Step forwards, no vibration. He squinted in the dark at a little machine hanging on the wall he hadn't noticed before, because it looked like all the other experimental gadgets that his father had worked to create, and hung them up in his elation. They did nothing, so Artemis had never paid attention to them. But this time he did.
He leaned towards it, studying it carefully, omitting no details. And Artemis finally noticed. Boxed radiation. He breathed in awe. Even Foaly didn't have radiation contained in a box to uncover the vibration and the invisibility. He reached out to take the box..
And that's when the lights came on. Artemis heard the "click" of the switch, and then he was squinting into brightness.
"Why, hello, Arty." A sarcastic voice broke into the silence that Artemis had just grown accustomed to. Behind him stood a hurt and confused Angeline and, for reasons Artemis didn't want to know, was dressed in a nightgown of pink teddy bears. And one more person. "Timmy". His triumphant father.
Chapter II: Capture:
Disclaimer: NOT MINE!!
O.K. I heard from a few people that they don't like the monitors on Artemis, and one person who did like it. Well, let's just say that Holly still doesn't go THAT far to trusting Artemis. It's not Council approved, though I have no doubt they would approve.
And for those who would like more Holly and Underground, skip this chapter. You won't be happy here because there's only one scene with her in it. Also, Artemis+ Holly anti-fans, stay away from here if you still want betrayal between complete enemies.
And tell me if 3 acorns mean commander!
Now, on with the fic!!
Lower Elements: Muttering obscenities under her breath, Commander Holly Short fumed and stewed over the latest news about Artemis Fowl. The once-great threat to the People had sworn, as much as a crook can, that he was no longer to be counted as a menace.
Holly would've greatly liked to believe him, concerning the episode with the gold coin and all, which was actually a coin-cam she had stolen from Foaly a long time ago, which had put him in a bad mood for quite a while. Apparently, that was one of the many memoirs of the technology he had beaten Opal Koboi to discover while in college.
But, Holly's mind snapped back to the matter at hand. Artemis was coming down. To the Lower Elements. In Holly's inevitably logical mind, Artemis plus Butler plus the LEP plus her new station added up to trouble. He had sent her down two classes before, and there was no guarantee that he wouldn't do it again, by accident or not. She had worked hard to get here!
He does have a spark of decency, though. Her brain had the nerve to remind her. You said so yourself. "Yeah? Well, that was because.. because.." She stuttered to a stop. Holly never stuttered. She didn't know why she had said that. But she would have done for anyone else who needed reminding that they weren't completely evil "D'Arvit"s.
Artemis was nothing special to her. Meant nothing to her. He was nothing special at all.
Fowl Mansion: Artemis sneaked through the cold mansion, when the heat was normally turned off, to conserve energy, and tiptoed especially quietly through his parents' wing, though he thought he could hear moans of elation. Sickening behavior. He thought irritably. And I thought I said to have all strains of madness removed from my mother. Well, it was her choice whether she wanted that sort of thing or not.
He returned his full mind to the task ahead. As a fact, Artemis did not like sneaking. He preferred to stay comfortably established in his leather- made office chair, and let his contacts and underlings do the sneaking. But doing that was no help in this case. He couldn't be transported by computer. Hmmm.. Interesting idea. He'd have to study that.
For the third time, he talked to himself. Relax, he said inwardly, You're wearing an LEP vibration suit. No one can see you. Pull the gargoyle's tongue, grab the pearl inside its mouth, and slide the pearl back in the hole in the back of the statue before you leave.
But there was something wrong, even though he was two steps away from the statue. He felt calm, unshaken and was freezing. That was it. He wasn't vibrating. He cursed himself, using words Butler had been so careful to try to omit from his charge's vocabulary. He was supposed to be a genius! Geniuses noticed this sort of thing. He stepped back a pace to head back to his room, to call it off, and figure out why it wasn't working.
Then, it happened. He was vibrating again. Step forwards, no vibration. He squinted in the dark at a little machine hanging on the wall he hadn't noticed before, because it looked like all the other experimental gadgets that his father had worked to create, and hung them up in his elation. They did nothing, so Artemis had never paid attention to them. But this time he did.
He leaned towards it, studying it carefully, omitting no details. And Artemis finally noticed. Boxed radiation. He breathed in awe. Even Foaly didn't have radiation contained in a box to uncover the vibration and the invisibility. He reached out to take the box..
And that's when the lights came on. Artemis heard the "click" of the switch, and then he was squinting into brightness.
"Why, hello, Arty." A sarcastic voice broke into the silence that Artemis had just grown accustomed to. Behind him stood a hurt and confused Angeline and, for reasons Artemis didn't want to know, was dressed in a nightgown of pink teddy bears. And one more person. "Timmy". His triumphant father.