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To the person/s who didn't like the ending of the last chapter, uh... Did you read the summary and authors notes? SLASH. If you didn't know what that meant, I apologise. I'll clear it up now. If a fic contains slash, it contains more-than-friendly interaction between two characters of the same sex. There. Now.. gets on with it
"What the hell are you doing?" Alex shouted, pulling open the door immediately.
"Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that? Just walk out into the open!" Artemis replied, rolling his eyes.
The woman who had been standing in the corridor looked quite shocked the two emerging from the doorway. For a second she stared at them and they stared back, and then her eyes widened and she dashed off in the direction they had been headed.
Artemis glanced around.
"We have two or three minutes to get out of here now, and this time you're not going to do something stupid," he said.
"ME?" Alex looked furious. "I'm not the one who- who-"
"Will you just be quiet for a moment?" Artemis replied, closing his eyes. He didn't want to begin thinking about what he had just happened. He didn't have the time. Or sanity. He didn't think he'd ever done something so stupid or spontaneous.
"We'll have to take our chances the way we intended," he decided.
"If you think I'm going to help you now-"
"Go!"
They ran. An alarm bell sounded somewhere. It was all very standard. Until they ran into several armed guards around a corner. They were hoisted into the air momentarily and then pinned on the floor.
Alex attempted to lash out, kicking and struggling.
"You're making a mistake!" he yelled.
"Give it up, Alex. You've been caught," Artemis said casually.
"You shut up!" he could almost see the other boy smirking.
"Alex?" Mrs Jones had arrived. She stood in front of them, looking slightly confused.
A guard explained the situation to her, every word she was told her expression becoming more and more serious.
"I have to say, I couldn't have expected such a simple task to turn out this way…"
Alex said nothing.
"Stand up. Both of you,"
The guards pulled them to their feet.
"Take them to my office. They can wait for me there,"
She turned to leave.
"And guard the door,"
They were sat down in the same leather arm chairs Alex had been in only three quarters of an hour ago. The room looked exactly the same as it had before with the exception of Artemis.
Alex kicked the desk angrily.
"This is your fault," he said.
"If it makes you feel any better," Artemis replied.
It annoyed Alex even more to see he didn't look even slightly bothered with the situation.
"What was that about?"
"What?" Artemis asked.
"That… back there,"
Silence.
"You were about to do something incredibly stupid. I had to stop you," Artemis explained.
"It didn't work though, did it?"
"Admittedly, no…"
More silence.
Mrs Jones walked in and they looked up. She made straight for her desk and sat down behind it. For a moment it seemed she didn't know what to say, she surveyed them both closely for several minutes before opening her mouth.
"I'm not going to ask you why you did it".
"Are you going to ask me what I did?" Alex asked.
"I think we're clear about that already. A decision needs to be made now,"
What could they do? This wasn't school. He didn't exactly work for MI6. When he thought about it, how could they even prove he'd done anything wrong?
"Attempting to free a prisoner is a crime, Alex, surely you knew that?" Mrs Jones continued.
"I didn't attempt anything!"
"I will not argue. Mr Fowl, do you have anything to say?"
"Only that perhaps your security system needs to be re-evaluated?" Artemis said, smirking once again.
Mrs Jones pretended not to hear him.
"I have nothing more to say to either of you. You'll be escorted to your new premises shortly".
Uh… ok well that was weird. Tell me what you think anyway.