A/N: Well, has it been too long? Or not? If it has I'm really sorry, in my English Languages lesson we've been looking at books like Frankenstein, Man, English people back then spoke really weirdly, it took me like, forever to realise that when the guy who was in Petersburg said 'I am far north of London' was in Russia! WTF? I mean 'Far north of London'? Where? Scotland? Oh no my dear friend, I'm in Russia! Then say 'Hey, I'm in Petersburg, you know, that place in Russia?' This language would be so much more easier to understand if we didn't talk like morons and we learned modern English that English people actually speak, rather than how the did speak

While I'm rambling I would like to say thanks you to all of my reviewers! You can all have chocolate chip cookies! And Ducky-sama, you may have a macodamia nut cookie if you so wish!

Anyway, lets get going!

Warning & Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne, or the book Frankenstein, but I do own Artemis (Or Arty, that's easier to say. Who's Arty? You'll see), and this is rated for a reason...lots and lots of colourful language!

Ahhh, the humour may leave for a while, we're getting a bit dramatic, and no sign of romance...I'll get there eventually...Promise


(O Me Frikin' God! My Page breaks are back!)

Hitomi

Well, if that wasn't what you call embarrassing, then I don't know what is.

You know? I think Van might be getting a little jealous. He seemed it, especially when he saw how informally Dilandau and I refer to each other. He even tried to stop him from calling me by my name. Bloody hell, I can pick who I want to be my friend.

He better not be clingy like this for a long time, 'cause I couldn't fucking handle that!

But anyways, what's this got to do with what's going on? Well, let me see, recap people...Dilandau has just found out that Van's my boyfriend. I don't think I actually told him that. Because, from what I gathered, they aren't exactly the best of friends. But, they're just gonna have to live with it, aren't they?

"Hitomi, Artemis was looking for you earlier, she said she wanted to talk to you about something"

Did Dilandau's face just screw itself up in disgust? Well it did look as if he knew her, the way he was following her earlier. They must have had a bad meeting, after all, their are both in the music business, battle of the bands? Haha.

"Really? Where is she?"

"Where else? She's socializing"

Point taken, Artemis spends her time with the biggest group of people at a party. If the biggest group of people at a party have no idea who she is, then she makes herself known.

I'm sorry, did I say biggest group of people? Add onto the end: Where the ratio of Male:Female is biased on the male side.

Most of her friends are guys. Her band is made up of guys. And her list of ex-boyfriends stretches out for miles.

You have to feel sorry for her, Artemis is so nice, and yet all the guys take advantage of her, and then try to say that she was cheating on them! Artemis would only cheat on someone when Hell freezes over. Period. Better go find her.

I left the boys to their idle chatter with a warning; I will disown them if they do anything embarrassing.


Sure enough I found her at the buffet table, surrounded by more than a few guys. It was kind of a nice scene, Artemis prefers Guy Company to Girl Company just because it's more relaxed, and non-bitchy. But she seems to be oblivious to the guys who are ogling her.

She waved the men off, saying she'd talk to them later and turned, greeted me with a kind, whole smile, "Hey Hitomi! I guess Van finally remembered to tell you I wanted to chat"

I returned the smile and hugged her warmly "Yeah he did, but I don't really want to know how long it took him to remember. So what did you want to talk about, Arty?"

She laughed lightly at the mention of her child nickname.

"Nothing specific, I thought we could catch up, that's all"

She flicked her auburn hair over one shoulder, looking up at me with almond eyes, she is rather petit, but I do have to say, it really makes her look well-endowed...

"Sounds fun, we could go out with the guys, do you have a guy on the side?"

I said that last part rather quietly, well I can't exactly ask her to double date if she hasn't got a guy to date, can I? Man, from her expression, I don't think she does have one. Ooops.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to"

She shook her head, "Its not that I don't want to, it's that I happen to be single at this moment in time, but we could go out as a group, do you have anyone else you want to invite?"

Hmm, I could invite the Slayers, I think Van and Dilandau need to get along slightly more, and maybe a night out is what they need to make it work...Besides, I love Arty, but it gets a bit...well, I don't know how to explain it, but when you know her like I do, you pick up things, like, to a stranger, it looks like she's airy and slightly aloof, if you are a friend, she's a bit more bubbly, and she seems to be paying attention to what you are saying, but not at the same time.

But when you know her well, you see that while she's looking away, her body language points out that she's concentrating on everything you say, and she asks just the right questions so within a short amount of time, she knows maybe even more about yourself than you do. That's why you need Arty in either small doses or a big group...Maybe we will need the Slayers..

"Hey, I'm friends with the DragonSlayers, they are good for a laugh, want to invite them for a couple of drinks?" I asked her, cursing myself for sounding too hopeful.

"You do? That's so cool! But aren't they a big group of singers? We'd be totally out numbered!"

I thought she preferred guy company, but when I pointed this out, she hesitated, for less than a second "Yeah, but I want to spend some time with you, so I thought a smaller group would be better, we could have us two gals and two guys! Sound okay?"

Ahhhhh Dilandau can tag along, is it just me, or did her eyes just light up in a...mischievous way? I'll never know with dear Artemis. "So its settled, you ask the guys and get back to me okay? I can see the guys are waiting for me to get back to them. Kiss, kiss, Hitomi. Hey, that sounds weird for me!"

With that she turned on her heel, hair spilling over her and she casually walked back over to the awaiting men.

How in hell does she do that?


Hey, People, I know where this story is going, but I need some fun stuff to fill in the gaps, any ideas would be appreciated and I'll do my best to get them all in, now matter how random (I give random ideas out, the last one I asked for was to involve a kiwi (cause i had one for lunch) and Paper aeroplanes ('Cause they were being thrown at me)) So anything people ANYTHING!

Heh, sorry this chapter took soooooooo long for me to get out.

I hope I haven't lost any readers..