A/N: w0000 6th chappy? Whatever doesn't really matter it's the next one so there. Started off with a little filler since I skipped two months…no you crazy people I'm not going to mindlessly cover two months…that takes too much thought and mini plots I could use in other fics. It's sorta from Juliet's pov kinda, anyway, on with the fic. Remember your reviews make me write and release faster. :Loves bribery: ADDED TOO!

Fowl Manor, Approximately 2 month later

'Two months…wow that's a long time…well not really that long.' Juliet lay on the floor of a medium sized room, watching the huge T.V. with mild interest as she had already seen this match three times. She was rather preoccupied with thinking as she often did these days, about the odd changes Holly had caused in the occupants of Fowl Manor. 'She really has been a boost to me. Artemis had become so cold after that morning. But with Holly here…well she seems to have thawed out Master Fowl. He doesn't even make me call him Master Fowl anymore…its more like old times, before the morning we all woke up with headaches. Butler is more relaxed…not sure why, he just seems more at ease with Holly around, like he trusts her to protect Artemis.' She smiled slightly, relieved that her brother was a bit calmer, he was getting on in age and needed to slow down a tad. 'Artemis has changed the most…that's for sure. He's nicer; though he tries to hide it…he likes her. I can see it in his eyes when he looks at her.' Juliet snickered to herself, she'd been hoping for the past month that Holly and Artemis would get together, but they seemed too stubborn. 'Ah well…just seeing Artemis happy for the first time in ages is enough.' She rolled over onto her back watching the match upside down, still grinning in hopes that Holly would make a move, since god knows Artemis never would.

The weeks had passed quickly to Holly, but at least they were no longer boring. Most every day her and Artemis would work on acts or just in general on tricks. Holly knew eventually Artemis would take her along on an "act" but she had pushed the idea to the back of her mind. Still unsure if she'd really be able to go against all her training, and steal something.

They'd done a few shows together now, Holly playing assistant most of the time, but she did get to show him up occasionally. Annoying Artemis always put her in a good mood. Foiling his theft of a few watches and necklaces made her all warm and fuzzy inside. The way he scrunched up his nose when she did something particularly testing of his nerves, made her just want to faint. And his glares, no matter how evil, made her knees shake. Plus she'd formed a rather close bond with Artemis' white dove. She had been slightly shocked, and flattered to find that the bird shared her name, convinced it was Artemis' subconscious memory of her that gave him the name.

Holly had taught Artemis several little things to improve his already amazing skills, and she too had picked up on slight of hand, so as to conserve her magic a bit. She had been neglecting the ritual yet again and often found herself wiped after a magic session with Artemis. She was always trying to get him to end the session early so she wouldn't slip up and allow a blue spark to escape like during her demonstration. (She'd convinced herself that the spark was because she was tired, not because of him) Lucky he hadn't noticed that one.

"Juliet?" Holly's elfin head appeared at the door of Juliet's room.

"Yea?" Juliet didn't even bother to tear her eyes away from the grudge match she was watching on the huge T.V.

"Where's Artemis…have you seen him? I've looked all over and can't find that pasty-face mud…err…I mean…" Holly didn't get to finish her sentence as Juliet began to giggle and roll around on the floor, eyes watering.

"He…he….he's up in…the…in the study…third floor…" Juliet barely managed not to choke as she giggled out the words. Holly chuckled and left with a quick thanks. "Pasty…pasty-face." Juliet's giggles could be heard all the way up on the second floor.

Artemis' third floor study, 5:43pm

Holly's hooked nose poked into yet another room, relieved that this one was the study and not another empty, lonely bedroom. Artemis sat at a computer, his eyes glued to the screen, staring intently at the mass of random numbers and meaningless gibberish that was flashing on the screen. Holly rolled her hazel eyes as she silently snuck up behind him, trying to figure out what he was reading, but it was moving too fast for even fairy eyes to make sense of. Shrugging, Holly flung her arms around Artemis' neck and squealed an ear splitting hello. 'Oh how I do enjoy frustrating him!'

Artemis stiffened, his lightning fast fingers unmoving, some up ready to come down on another key, others depressing keys causing certain letters, numbers, and symbols to repeat themselves over and over again on the blue screen. His mouth formed inaudible words as his mind struggled to re-boot.

Holly grinned ear to ear, giggling slightly and letting go of him. "What's the matter Fowl? Cat got your tongue?" She put her face between Artemis' and the computer screen, giving him her best smug "I win" look.

Artemis Fowl blinked and shook his head, replacing the shocked, stupid look on his face with one of apathy. "No. And I should thank you not to surprise me like that; now I'll have to re-boot this whole system and reconfigure it…it'll take at least three hours." He glared at her in the most malicious way he could, but it had no effect, seeing as Holly merely stuck her tongue out at him.

"So what were you working on?" Holly asked without the slightest hint of really caring.

Artemis turned his attention away from the computer and spun around in his chair to face Holly, who had moved to a chair in the middle of the study. "None of your business, Miss Short." He stated sharply, getting up and taking a seat next to her. "Though now that your here I suppose I should tell you of tonight's show."

Holly tilted her head, looking at him, her brow furrowed. "What show?" In the pit of her stomach Holly knew what he meant, but part of her wouldn't believe it till she heard it said.

"We've been partners for the better part of two months now and I trust you enough to let you accompany me on a more interesting magic show then the ones you are accustomed to." He smiled wickedly and Holly couldn't suppress a shiver. "So, tonight you and I, along with Butler, will be taking a short trip to a private residence to relieve it of a priceless painting that is rightfully mine."

Holly just couldn't stop herself. "Rightfully yours? You think everything is rightfully yours! What gives you the right to steal someone else's painting!"

Through this outburst Artemis remained cool and collected his fingers steepled. "Are you quite finished?" He asked when Holly had huffed and crossed her arms over her chest. "Now as I was saying. This painting is rightfully mine, because, it was stolen a week ago from a museum in London..." Holly opened her mouth like she was going to say something but Artemis raised his voice slightly and cut across her. "That I bought. Therefore, the painting was technically stolen from me, and is rightfully mine to steal back."

Holly pursed her lips in agitation at his attitude but admittedly couldn't find a reason why it wasn't Artemis' right to steal back the painting. "Alright…so what's the plan?"

Over the next hour, Artemis laid down, in great detail, the plan for infiltrating the residence and taking the painting back. Making sure to quell her worries over not having an invitation to enter the house. Artemis had found a small loop hole in the fairy rule, being the smart guy he was. He said that because the room where the painting hangs, is technically an addition, and uninhabited except by dust and art work, it isn't technically not part of the house, but rather a mini museum that the owner attached to his place of residence. The only catch was that Holly could not enter the museum part through the house, but Artemis had already decided they weren't going in the front door. After thoroughly convincing Holly that his logic was correct, he told her what she would be doing to help. To her surprise Holly was granted the most important job of laying the vital mirror and snatching the piece of art. It appeared Artemis really did trust her a great deal. However, Holly felt a familiar ache in her heart at the fact that he seemed to trust her more now, then when he actually knew who she was. It seemed that lately Holly had been suffering from almost constant heart burn…anytime she thought about Artemis, or was around him, she felt some degree of heartache. Though she didn't know that Artemis suffered from a similar disability. Holly awoke odd feelings in him. Feelings of loss and confusion, but also feelings of completion. It was a strange phenomenon, which Artemis vowed to research after completing tonight's criminal act.

Fowl SUV, 9:00pm

Artemis looked over at Holly, a small smile itching to break onto his lips as her face was illuminated by the street lamps as they passed. She was holding his dove and speaking in whispers to it, her beautiful hazel eyes holding the highest respect for the gentle and intelligent creature. 'She really is very pretty…' he thought absently.

"Artemis, we're approaching the residence." Butler looked back at his pupil through the rearview mirror and caught him starring at Holly, he grinned slightly.

Artemis snapped from his daze with a cough and checked his pocket watch. On time as always. "Thank you Butler, you know the plan, drop me and Holly and park out of site."

"Yes sir."

Artemis once again looked over at Holly who had placed the dove on her shoulder and was watching him intently, waiting for her orders.

"Don't be nervous Holly, you'll do fine." He winked at her and opened his door, walking around to her side and letting her out. Holly gaped at him, and then glared daggers.

"I am not nervous."

"Suit yourself, but it helps, gets the adrenaline pumping."

Damn him…he'd done it again. Out-smarted her. Jerk.

They made their way up to the front door of the large, strike that, huge house, Holly cooed softly and Artemis shhh-ed her. "Pet her Holly…she'll calm down." Holly obeyed and soon the bird was snuggling serenely against her neck.

Finally after countless minutes of placing mirrors and moving things around with levitation and sending Holly (the dove) to fetch small objects and place them where necessary, Holly and Artemis had gotten in and found themselves in a vast, immaculate museum like room with art work all over the walls. Artemis didn't doubt that most, if not all of them, were stolen pieces and had to use a good deal of self control to keep from just stealing them all.

Holly was stiff as a board, being strapped to Artemis' stomach did that to you. They'd rigged up a complex pulley system to suspend them over the pressure sensitive floor and were now slowly lowering themselves closer to the prize. Artemis' face stayed stone cold and his body ridged, his cheeks a gentle pink. 'Thank the gods she can't see my face…' he thought as they reached the right height and he pulled out the final mirror, handing it down to Holly with sweaty palms. She took it carefully and positioned it so the cameras would be looking at a reflected, identical white wall. Fatal flaw of most museums.

Slowly, with clammy, shaking hands, Holly reached out and grasped the painting, careful not to touch anything but the frame. Artemis hissed in her ear that they needed to hurry, but that proved to be a bad idea. Alarmed by the hiss of warm air in her ear Holly jolted, knocking the mirror out of place so the camera eye saw them. Alarms blared and that caused the most catastrophic mishap, Holly dropped the painting.

Everything seemed to move in slow motion to Artemis, he saw the painting dropping to the ground, the alarms ringing in his ears. He heard Holly let out a panicked birdie screech and flutter out to the SUV…at least he hoped that's where she went. Then everything froze.

The painting hung in mid-air. The alarms had ceased to scream, everything but himself and Holly seemed to have stopped, even a fly hung, suspended a few inches from his hand.

He looked down to see Holly, her eyes starring at him, a great deal of concentration on her face, a bead of sweat slipped off her nose and froze as soon as it left her nut-brown skin. "What…?" Artemis was so confused; his head hurt and flashes of light…memories? were running through his head.

Holly looked at him with what appeared to be fear and determination in her eyes. "Get us out of here mud boy, don't just gawk."

'Mud boy?' Artemis' mind just wasn't working right now…he continued to stare open mouthed at Holly like he too was frozen.

"Artemis seriously! We can do the whole 'Oh my god she's a fairy' thing once we're safe in the car! You're a genius, Snap. Out. Of. It!" Holly yelled feeling the magic slowly drain from her already low supply. Freezing time wasn't easy for a single, non-warlock, fairy; it took a ton of magic…which because of her neglectful attitude toward the ritual, Holly, just didn't have.

Artemis' mind ticked a few more times uselessly before catching again and starting up. "Uhh…right!" He said for no real reason but to assure himself his brain was working. Artemis grabbed a hold of the main rope in the pulley system and tugged hard, thinking it too would be frozen, but finding that it wasn't. He hoisted them up and back onto the roof, running as fast as he could, grabbing mirrors and other assorted items they'd planted while getting in. 'No need to get caught through finger prints.' He thought, though he doubted any finger prints could be gotten from HIS items. Holly had passed out as soon as they were on the roof, the time stop no longer necessary. Her magic so depleted she wouldn't even be able to use the mesmer if need be; she hung limp, strapped to Artemis' chest. 'Lucky she still weighs almost nothing, no matter how tall she's gotten.'

Artemis, high on adrenaline, jumped off the roof and landed with what would be a bone crunching crash if it weren't for Butler catching him by the pulley vest and minimizing his impact. Artemis jumped into the SUV and Butler took off at well over the speed limit, driving in the total opposite direction of Fowl Manor. Better to take the long way.

Fowl Manor, Next day, noon

Holly Short lay asleep on Artemis' bed, sweat beading her abnormally pale skin. She'd been out for a good 24 hours and Artemis had not left her side, except to get fresh water and a new washcloth for her head. She hadn't stirred and Artemis hoped against hope she was just in a deep sleep to conserve any magic she may have left. He hadn't dared to move her yet for fear he may do more harm then good, and so had sent Juliet to fetch an acorn and a pot of fresh dirt; he'd given her the coordinates of the spot where he'd kidnapped Holly several years ago. As he sat by Holly's side Artemis had concentrated on remembering everything the fairies had made him forget.

With this new knowledge, or rather old knowledge back in its rightful place, Artemis had realized why Holly had been so talented with magic…it was real. She'd tricked him…the sneaky little… 'But she's amazing.' He could certainly forgive her for tricking him, after all, anyone who managed to trick Artemis Fowl was well worthy of his affections, or at the very least, respect, which Holly already had.

"Artemis?" Juliet's blonde hair and concerned face appeared at the door. Clutched in one hand was an acorn and in the other a pot with fresh from the Fowl garden soil.

"Come in Juliet, give me the acorn and set the pot on the bed here." He motioned to a spot between him and Holly and took the acorn cautiously. Juliet sat the pot down and stared at Holly. When her brother had returned the previous night he'd filled her in on what Artemis told him about Holly being a fairy. She remembered most everything now and was equally worried about her friend.

"Will she be ok Artemis?"

Artemis put the acorn gently into Holly's hand and closed her fingers around it. "I'm sure after she completes the ritual with my help she'll be fine Juliet." He said emotionlessly, his face unreadable. 'I'm sure…. I hope.' Holding Holly's hand softly in his own, Artemis pushed his fist deep into the soil of the pot and made Holly release the acorn. Pulling his hand out, Artemis watched with baited breath as tiny blue sparks danced up her arm and swarmed over her body.

Holly made an almost inaudible noise and scrunched up her face in discomfort. That was all Artemis needed, he let out a breath he'd been holding for what seemed like hours and let a genuine smile grace his features. "She's ok." He said to himself. Juliet was crying/laughing, on her knees and Butler had appeared at the door, a smile on his face too.

Holly cracked open an eye and Artemis' face swam into view, slightly fuzzy till she opened her other eye and let it adjust. She smirked only a little bit and spoke in a hoarse but humorous voice. "Stay back human. You don't know what you're dealing with."

A/N:titters: I like that ending to this chapter, I'm so sly. Next chapter coming sometime soon. Hope you enjoy this random dribble.