What Happened?

Disclaimer: I don't own Artemis Fowl

and I'm sorry if you start crying

Holly couldn't answer. She sobbed into Foaly's fur.

"I HAVE to know, Holly! Get a grip and tell me!" Foaly yelled and shook Holly.

Not a good move. She looked up, momentarily shocked. Then she lifted her hand and smacked him.

Holly sobbed even harder. She had lost two of her greatest friends. First Root, then Trouble, and now she hurt the only fairy that cared about her any more. She hated herself so much; her throat was too choked up to even say, "Sorry."

Holly hurled herself down on the street and bawled with frustration. Foaly sat down next to her and cried for the lost Major.

Ten minutes, they sat there, weeping. Then Holly looked up and dried her eyes. She sat there until her throat unclogged. She whispered, "If I tell you what happened, promise me you won't scream."

Foaly nodded. She told him. He screamed anyway.

Foaly ran to Police Plaza, swearing at Sool for everything. He barged into the Commander's office with Holly running in behind him. Sool quickly took his feet off his desk and stood. He looked angry.

"SHORT! YOUAREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR HERE UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY!" Sool bellowed.

Foaly answered clearly and calmly, "Trouble being shot and killed by a human gun classifies as an emergency, I think."

"WHAT!" Sool yelled.

Holly's eyes were still very red when Sool looked over at her. He gaped in horror. He had never seen Short this sad except for when Root died. Sool screamed. His best officer was dead. Now what?

Holly saw the look on Sool's face. She knew what he was thinking. "You don't care that Trouble's dead, do you? You only think of him as someone you can control and is now gone. You moron! You heartless freak! Trouble was killed by HUMAN machines. Don't you realize what this means? It's like The Opal Koboi Incident all over again," Holly whispered the last sentence and left.

Foaly ran out after her and got her a shuttle to the surface. Holly ran straight from the shuttle, blew past the security gnome, grabbed a pair of wings, shielded, and shot out onto the surface. She was aiming for Artemis Fowl's house. There was no other way to save the fairies. She also needed to tell him what happened. Holly wiped a few more tears away and connected her stolen LEP helmet.

Foaly was on the other end with a choked voice. "I'm sending you the coordinates to Fowl Manor, Holly."

"Don't bother." She had been there many times; she didn't need coordinates.

Holly flew for about an hour before she landed on the Fowl Manor porch. She rang the doorbell and waited. A small boy about the age of fifteen answered the door.

"Ah, Holly. Please, come in," Artemis Fowl Junior said and stepped aside. Holly flew in and unshielded.

Butler, Artemis' massive manservant waved to her and took of a bright pink apron. He blushed. "Bet," Butler muttered under his breath. Artemis laughed. You won't be laughing much longer, Holly thought, morbidly.

Butler noticed her glum face. He knew there was something wrong and the way she stared out into the distance made him wonder. "What happened?" he said suddenly. "What it Foaly or Trouble?" Butler leaped up.

Holly looked down again and whispered, "Trouble." Her eyes swelled with tears and she curled into a ball. She lay there looking pathetic for ten minutes. Artemis stared. He didn't cry. Butler looked down. Holly had told them everything. If only he had been there! Trouble still would have been alive.

Artemis stared out the window he noticed a slight haze in front of the window. He ducked. The bullet came ripping through the air, right over his head. Butler and Holly started when a vase shattered. Butler pulled Artemis and Holly out of the line of fire, but the shooter still had one second.

The bullet hit Artemis in the leg. He started shivering and screaming in pain. The haze had disappeared. Holly ran to the telephone and dialed emergency. By the time the ambulance had gotten there, Artemis had fallen asleep.

A paramedic took one look at Artemis and said, "He might never wake up. That's one deep coma."

Butler almost put him in a coma. He growled at the paramedic and the guy said, "But we'll try our best to wake him up." and ran to get a stretcher or get away from the growling manservant, Holly didn't know which.

After Holly had called emergency, she shielded and flew up to the second story landing and watched from there.

Artemis's hospital bills were paid by his private bank account after he had been transferred to the fanciest hospital. Butler bought Holly some baggy children's clothes and took her to the hospital. She stood by Artemis as Butler lifted the bed sheet to look at Artemis's shot leg. He was surprised to see the bullet out and the leg bandaged.

Holly just stared at him. Artemis was the second. She knew there was a connection between Trouble and Artemis. Both were shot by a fairy. Both of those were to kill him. Both of the victims were Holly's best friends. Who next?

It hit her. Foaly. "FOALY!" Holly shouted and ran out of the room. She got on the next shuttle to Haven and ran to Police Plaza, completely forgetting that she had wings strapped to her back.

"FOALY!" she screamed as she ran through the swinging doors. She was too late. He lay on the floor, his head wrapped in bandages and a circle of warlocks around him. Each of the warlocks seemed exhausted, but it did take a lot out of them to heal head wounds.

Holly walked up to Foaly and was glad to see he was breathing. "Sool," he whispered. Holly looked confused, but suddenly knew. How else could a murderer get away with this, but why?

Mulch was waiting for Holly outside Police Plaza and he took her home in a cab. Holly thanked him and walked up to her apartment. She unlocked the door and fell on her bed. What a day.

A/N: I must pause here. If you're crying already, don't bother reading on. I'm sorry, but I'm attempting a really serious story and reviews would be nice.

Still Chapter 2

Holly didn't realize she had fallen asleep until her phone rang. It was five in the morning. Holly groped for her phone and picked it up. "Hello?"

"Hello, this is Police Plaza. We are calling to inform you that Foaly wishes to see you. He is in room 519 of the local hospital. Thank you," a computerized voice said and hung up.

Holly dressed in her old LEP uniform. Her black suit hung limp around her and she realized how much weight she lost. (A/N: why are girls so obsessed about weight?) She took a pair of Wing Thrusters, a new brand of wings, and flew to the hospital.

She walked into Foaly's room and he laughed at the uniform. "You quit, remember."

"How could I not," Holly said. How could she when it was haunting her every night.

"What happened with the visit to Arty?" Foaly asked. Holly looked down. She whispered something under her breath, but he couldn't make sense of it.

"Coma," she whispered louder. Holly walked over to Foaly and hugged him.

"What happens now?" Foaly whispered.

A/N: I'm sorry it took mw so long to write this, but I have a life. It's a small one, but it's still a life. Reviews?