Disclaimer crap: yep yep I own this poor excuse for a plot and a few characters but nothing that I stole from Eoin Colfer.
I dedicate this chapter to ArieiDelmonte and normal? because they both id the clues and they both get 20 points. Oh yeah, and I part way want to dedicate this to Fc Weeble cuz I luv the last statement of his review. Yeah, i'm weird, but when I read it I was like yay! Go for me!! You know I feel kind of playing favorites doing this whole dedicate thingie cuz I greatly appreciate everyone that reviews!
TIMMY'SARTY- lol. ok fine you win.
normal? – yep congratulation. Umm, actually the title undercover was just the first thing that popped into my head cuz I'm not very good with titles, it really doesn't have a whole lot to do with the story other than this quote from chappy 2/3 '"I got my memory back and I'm going undercover for the LEP, who considered me a big enough enemy to delete my entire memory of them, all in one day." Artemis said with a devious smile.' Yep. Actually that's still not all, but that's pretty good, talk to Ariei I think in between the two of you guys got them all.
ArieiDelmonte- oh, wah! I did? What of hers did I steal? Hey Megan I'm srry for whatever I stole. Whoa! Hey I just said, that Domovoi was going to need to supervise them, I never said that it was ment that way! See what u can do when ur not lazy though? Not me!! Oh thanx, ok I will be happy.
Fc Weeble – umm... looks around guiltily oops. Yeah I did. It actually said sumtin else there but then I went back and changed it when I read her review. Don't kill me lyra!!! Actually I think that she didn't like that too well, cuz if u noticed she didn't update for this chappy. Poor me. But thanx to all of my loyal fans. Hurray for u!! thanx!!! I luv that last comment, u just made my day!! 10 points to u!!! I luv u!!!
Cecile – ok I will. I promise to everybody just so they now that I will finish this story, even if it does take me forever. Btw u pple should write long reviews. I really don't are how random and off the wall they are.
u are my ONE and ONLY- thank u!! I know I'm a genius!!! jk. Thanx, I feel so special.
Well anyways here we go onto the great and glorious chapter where I reveal all!!! Srry it took me forever to update I kind of got distracted. (see the other penname I share with ArieiDelmonte and Lyra Tavington; The voices in our heads ) but I made up for it cuz this is my longest chapter yet. So u pple be happy!!
Chapter 6
Explanations
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"Artemis, are you making any progress towards the hacker's identity?" Foaly asked the morning after the alarm test. After a slight pause he continued on, "Whoever it was was on late last night. My alarm didn't go off since they never hacked in, or really even tried to. They were just probing, testing the security."
Danielle said she was on her computer," Artemis blurted, half to himself. The thought coming to him all at once.
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"Hi Danielle." Artemis smiled when Danielle opened the door.
"Hi," Danielle answered warily. She eyed Artemis, That is one of the fakest, cheesiest smiles I've ever seen.
"I want to apologize for Domovoi. He wanted to test your alertness at night."
"Well, I think I passed," Danielle laughed, "but I was already awake, so it doesn't matter."
"What were you doing up that late?" Artemis asked. Now we are getting to the point. No more beating around the bush.
Man, this kid really needs to work on his lying skills and keeping a poker face. I'm much more talented than him, Danielle laughed to herself, out loud she replied, "I was talking to my mom. She's in Victoria, British Columbia. You know in Canada, on Vancouver island." Danielle continued at the look on Artemis' face.
I know where that is! I was just expecting something else, like a poor attempt at a lie. "What is she doing there?" Artemis inquired.
Well, let's take this lie all the way and remove all doubt. "You're not going to let it rest until you get the truth are you? Danielle sighed.
Aha! Artemis paused for a second, What do I say to that and not look suspicious?
"Well, my mom's in a mental institution. That's where her mother grew up and lived. My grandma wanted her close by and my dad didn't dare risk anything by moving her when my grandma died. So..." Danielle's voice trailed off sadly.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Look what I did. I had the wrong person and now she's going to start crying.
"It's okay, it's not your fault. You'd think I'd be used to talking about it by now. She had her breakdown when I was five."
"Well, goodbye. I'd better be going, classes start soon."
On his way out he noticed that the computer was on, but the monitor had been turned off. He pressed the button. It won't be it, but I might as well do it for Foaly so he thinks I'm making some progress.
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"Artemis!" Foaly's voice sounded urgent, "Whose computer was that?"
"Danielle Maraca's."
"Your bodyguard?! Artemis, that was the computer."
Artemis wheeled around and entered Danielle's room again. He didn't even bother knocking.
"How did you hack into Foaly's system? How did you discover the People?" Artemis practically shouted as soon as he was in the room. "I want the truth, all of it, this time."
At that moment Domovoi and Holly burst through the door.
Busted, Danielle mentally kicked herself.
"All right," she sighed, "I'll start at the beginning."
"You'd better." Dom remarked.
"What a good place to start." Holly said sarcastically.
"The real truth?" Artemis asked.
Danielle nodded in response to all three. "First question how do I know about the people? Quite easily, I am one, kind of."
"Wh..."Artemis started to form a question.
"Don't interrupt, let me tell my story." Danielle cut him off. "My mother was an elf. She was above ground one bight when a drunk Mud Man crossed her path and raped her. Seeing as how she was a civilian aboveground only to complete the Ritual, which she had put off for far to long; she was unarmed, weaker, alone and completely void of any magic. I was the result of that night. My mother fled from the People in shame. She suffered from major depression and shortly after her suicide, I tracked down my father. I threatened to take the case of him rapping my mother to court. I conveniently left out the fact that the only witness, my mother, was dead. It worked, he gave me a significant amount of money. After that we got surprisingly close, or more, he thought he could confide in me and tell me anything, he never cared what I did. After his death, he left me everything, and he wasn't exactly destitute.
I'm if I might say so, pretty good with computers. I'm not a genius, like some people, but I had a decent computer, a foreknowledge of the people, and time on my hands. In the end I somehow ended up in Foaly's computer system. I would go through his files every night. I loved it, I was addicted, it was my only connection to my mother's people. Somewhere along the way I ran into the Artemis Fowl files, which highly interested me, by the way. It was round this time that I realized there was someone else rummaging through Foal's files and it wasn't Artemis. For a week or two we ignored each other. Then one night, he set off the alarm and left, leaving me trapped and Foaly fully aware of me." Danielle laughed, "That's why I was so reluctant to dance with you that one time, I was convinced that you had been sent by the People and were going to arrest me. Same with the bodyguard thing, I wasn't overjoyed to have to protect someone who was in the process of tracking me down, it left me no room to run."
There was a slight pause after Danielle finished her story, then, of course, everyone started asking questions at once.
"One at a time!" Danielle shouted over everyone else and the noise of the bell, which had decided to ring at that moment and add to the noise.
"Do you have any fairy traits, like magic?" Artemis asked, with a glint in his eye.
"Somewhat, but in a human sense. I'm short, in case you haven't noticed, legally I'm a midget. My ears are kind of pointy," Danielle answered tucking her hair behind her ear to prove her point, "But not like Holly's. Hmm, do I have magic, sadly no. However of course I do have the human version of it. I am very persuasive. Even for my short size, I can blend in fairly well. My wounds heal very quickly. I'm very good with languages, I can learn new ones quite easily. Oh and I age slower than humans but not as slow as fairies do."
"So how old are you?" Holly asked.
"31. Every couple years I have to go get new identity, because no one would ever believe my real age. I don't even look like the current age of 18 which I am pretending to be, due to my height."
"When did you get that tattoo?": Domovoi said, indicting toward Danielle's shoulder and the tattoo, which currently wasn't visible.
"23, so don't worry your record is safe."
"Is Danielle Maraca your real name?" Domovoi queried..
"Danielle is the name my mother gave me, however Maraca is a mix of my mother and father's last names."
"How did you father die?" Holly inquired, not bothering to hide her suspicion.
"According to the police, one night when he was drunk he fell off his balcony."
"According to the police? How about according to you?" Artemis mused.
"He wasn't a happy man, and he was used to a lot of alcohol. I believe his death was intended." Danielle answered, "According to me, suicide." She said the last part so plainly and emotionless.
"You don't seem to feel a lot of remorse towards his death." Butler said cautiously, afraid he might say something wrong.
"It was a long time ago, and I wasn't necessarily fond of him."
"Well, while I don't want to appear rude, but perhaps we should ask more important questions." Foaly blared through the device in Artemis' hand.
Holly snorted.
"Like what about this other person whom also hacked into my system."
Danielle sighed. "That's why I was on last night. He'd sent me an e-mail, spiked of course, bragging about getting me caught, I wanted to track him through your computer."
"Well, let's do that then!" Foaly said.
With that Danielle got up and walked over to her computer and turned the monitor on. She e-mailed Foaly the copy of the e-mail she had gotten. Fifteen minutes later and Foaly had tracked the person down, Danielle printed off the page.
"Currently known as Bruce Davit and living in the Caribbean, or specifically on the island of Saint Croix, near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands." Danielle threw the paper down on the floor so they all could see the paper and the information.
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Juliet came running outside as the Bentley drove up, "Domovoi, Artemis, you've got to hurray and see this!"
Dom and Artemis were intrigued and followed Juliet, as did Holly, under shield of course. Juliet led them to the nearest computer, and popped up a screen.
Artemis chuckled quietly to himself once he saw what it was, it was the disk of is diary he'd given Mulch. "So I suppose that good old Mulch is here somewhere?"
"In the kitchen, inhaling all of our carrots." Juliet responded.
That's when Holly unshielded, "So you did find way to eventually get past the mind wipe, using Mulch's help." she fired at Artemis, looking not very pleased.
Artemis laughed evilly and nodded, smirking at Holly.
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"Hello Mulch." Holly said as her, Artemis, Juliet and Domovoi entered the kitchen.
"Hello," Mulch gulped down another carrot, "So what's the occasion?"
"We're going to the Caribbean." Holly stated.
Hey, don't expect the next chapters to be near this long!! Tho there probably isn't going to be to many more. And it might take me a while to update now that school is starting. And u guys don't need to guess clues anymore now that all is revealed. But u still can review. Hint hint. Bye!!!
