Chapter 6

Shiinmaru-dono: Hiya! I'm soooooooo happy that all your readers out there were kind enough to review! Makes me want to update faster than ever (my Plot Bunnies are dancing for joy!) Your votes are still needed (yes, I'm keeping a tally of them). The more you review, the more inspired Sho-dono and I are. #cracks whip at Sho-dono#

Sho-dono: #leaps up and takes whip away from Shiinmaru-dono# I'm tired of this damn whip! Anyway we do not own Artemis Fowl in any way shape or form. Let's see how much u like this thing eh? #starts cracking whip at Shiinmaru-dono#

Shiinmaru-dono: #wiggles eye brows# Very kinky; didn't know you liked it that way, Sho-dono. #starts molesting Sho-dono# We're busy now; so on with the fic!

(In background, "Stop, you pervert! I don't like you that way!" A cookie to anyone who can guess who said that. ;p)

WHAM!!

That was the sound that Artemis was hearing at the moment. He was weaving in and out of people, dodging big, red, rubber balls while searching for Liam. They had been separated early on in the game and Artemis wanted to know how Liam was fairing. (Some how he'd managed to remain in the game; Artemis had yet to figure out how.) Artemis spied some white hair in the crowed and ran towards it. When he got closer he saw that the flash of white was not Liam; it was another boy with white hair. Before Artemis could get a good look at him one of the balls came from the direction of the white haired boy and hit him hard in the side of the head, these were immediately followed by two others. Artemis fell to the ground stunned from pain and shock, there he lost conscious from the blows; the last thing he heard was Liam yelling for someone to call the nurse.

Artemis slowly gained consciousness of his surroundings; the first thing he noticed was how much his head hurt. Artemis heard voices arguing loudly outside the door; he recognized one voice as Liam's. Liam was shouting something about a boy throwing the balls at Artemis' head on purpose. "What's going on?" he slurred.

"Ah, Mr. Fowl I'm glad that you have finally woken up. Liam has been very worried." a young nurse said from the desk, "I have taken the liberty of calling your guardian already, he should be here in a few minutes."

"Where's Liam?" Artemis mumbled.

"He's outside the door, arguing with some sort of giant. I think…" the poor girl looked sort of exasperated. "Oh! My name's Kisara Incepre and…"

BAM!

CRASH!

The door flew across the room and hit the wall next to Kisara. Liam and Butler stormed into the room.

"Artemis! You're awake!" Liam cried when he noticed Artemis sitting up in bed.

"What happened?" asked Butler at the same time.

Neither of them had noticed Kisara who was slowly turning a rather interesting shade of purple. "OUT! OUT! OUT! OUT!! THIS BOY NEEDS REST! LEAVE! NOW!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Artemis mumbled something incoherent. "What was that, Mr. Fowl?" Kisara inquired.

"'Ant Liam to 'tay…" Artemis repeated in a slur. "Butler, get car, 'lease."

"Alright, Artemis," Butler replied. He turned his head towards Liam, "Don't hurt him or I can guarantee you'll wish you were dead." With that, Butler left the room to fetch the limo, still suspicious of Liam.

"Told you he didn't trust me." Liam said simply as he sat down in the chair beside Artemis' bed.

"Hm, right." Artemis mumbled. He was still really tired and it seemed that there was a beatnik playing bongos in his head.

"Hey," Liam said softly, "lift your head up." Artemis lifted is head and Liam slid himself underneath. "Lay your head back." Artemis noticed that his head now lay on Liam's lap with his hands massaging his (Artemis's) head. "Better, Artemis?" Liam's voice was gentle, soft and soothing.

"Yeah, that feels really nice," Artemis gave a soft moan of pleasure.

"I guess we'll have to cancel that study date this afternoon," Liam was still whispering.

"Why? I'm fine," trying to back that up, Artemis sat up quickly, too quickly. Artemis felt dizzy and laid backed down on Liam, who was chuckling quietly. "Maybe I'm not as well as I thought," Artemis admitted grudgingly. That was the moment that Butler decided to come back to tell Artemis that the car was waiting. Silence filled the room until…

"LIAM!!" Butler roared.

"I'm only trying to alleviate Artemis' headache. I'm not doing anything perverted or harmful," Artemis rolled to his side and buried his head in Liam's abdomen. "You, on the other hand, have just caused Artemis a great deal of pain by yelling," Liam was stroking Artemis' head and back, trying to alleviate the newly formed pain.

Butler couldn't believe what he was seeing. It couldn't be happening.

"Awww, they make such a cute couple! Don't they, Fan-Fan?" Kisara had finally recovered from her screaming fit and had her arm around Teach's waist. Both of them looked like they had just seen a box of absolutely adorable puppies.

Butler snapped his head towards the obviously gay couple to his right, "Wha? Artemis…Liam…a couple?" Poor Butler, now he had a headache; Artemis started gaping and Liam just snickered. Teach is gay??? And dating the school nurse??? I don't need this right now…Artemis thought before snuggling into Liam's abdomen again.

"Can I go home now?" Artemis asked. "And can I bring Liam with me?"

Butler's poor head snapped back to Artemis and Liam, "Why would you want him to come with you?" Butler was confused; he just couldn't figure out why Artemis wanted Liam with him. Could his charge actually be falling for this suspicious, strange, and possibly dangerous boy named Liam? Butler would've continued to contemplate this if there wasn't a loud noise coming from the hallway.

"LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAM!!!! Where are you, Liam?" a male voice called from the hallway. "There you are!" The boy had just entered the doorway; he had white hair like Liam but was shorter, more feminine. The boy was wearing a blue cheongsam with coiling dragons on the collar and sleeves; his hair was pulled back in a silk wrap and reached to his ankles. Artemis recognized the boy as the one who threw the balls at Artemis' head; for some reason, the boy terrified him to the core and Artemis clutched Liam tighter. The boy noticed this and growled much like a tiger. "Get away from Liam, weakling!" the boy yelled, causing Artemis to flinch and whimper.

Liam growled and the air around him seemed to crack, "Leave now, Rei Byakko. I know you're the one who nailed Artemis with the dodge balls. Leave, before you cause anymore damage." Liam seemed even more dangerous to Butler now, but hurting this Rei Byakko brat for hurting Artemis was so much more appealing at the moment.

Cracking his knuckles, Butler did his best to look menacing, and succeeded in scaring Rei into running out of the room at mach 5. Liam picked Artemis up bridal-style and walked towards the door. "Coming, Butler? I think we should leave before Rei musters up enough courage to return and attack; he's a seventh degree black belt and is not a nice person. Rei's had a crush on me since freshman year and anyone whom I get within hugging distance is immediately on Rei's Shit List of People Soon to Die." Butler nodded and stepped out of Liam's way. Liam just felt much more menacing now than he had three minutes ago.

When the trio had reached the car Artemis had fallen asleep again. Butler opened the back door and allowed Liam to get in with Artemis. He still did not agree with Liam coming with them but at that moment he had no power to threaten considering Liam looked about ready to murder someone. Butler just hoped that someone wasn't Artemis. They drove on in silence as Liam tried to awaken Artemis and Butler kept an eye on this and the road. After a few minutes Artemis awoke groggily and when he noticed whose lap he was laying on his face became beet red. Artemis would have made a small scene if not for his cell phone ringing.

"Yes, Holly?" Artemis mumbled when he answered the phone.

"Mud Boy! Where the fuck are you?" Holly screamed, Artemis yanked the phone away from his ear and flinched. Artemis would have responded if Liam hadn't snatched he phone from him.

"Care to tell me what you want with Artemis?" Liam was gritting his teeth and the air was crackling again.

"I'm trying to talk to Artemis about an important matter," Holly was getting very angry.

"That's nice but Artemis has a mild concussion from being hit in the head several times by a dodge ball. You're yelling is only making his headache worse; so please, call back in, oh, a day or two," Liam was using false sweetness in his voice. Holly shuddered and was suddenly glad that she was nowhere near the boy.

"Fine, I'll talk to him later once you tell me who the fuck you are," Holly was becoming exceedingly curious; she hadn't heard anyone so protective of Artemis other than Butler.

"The name's Liam Fianna Morgan. See ya!" Liam hung up and then turned the phone off. "You have the strangest friends, Artemis." Liam started massaging Artemis' head again.

"That would include you as well, Liam," Artemis was getting drowsy; he was having trouble keeping down the moans of pleasure and keeping his eyes open. Artemis lost the battle with sleep and surrendered to dream land.

"Yeah, I'm pretty strange, aren't I? I know you want to know about my past," Liam nuzzled Artemis' head, "maybe I'll tell you someday." Liam kissed Artemis' forehead before surrendering to dream land as well.

Shiinmaru-dono: Six chapters down! #looks at list and head drops onto desk# And only a billion to go. Okay, Sho-dono and I both suck at writing lemons, so anyone who has any suggestions should review. We require all the CC we can get. Please vote on your desired epilogue. The choices are displayed, once again, below:

1. A lemon (in concurrence with the story, i.e. no time warp)

2. An article about Artemis publicly advocating gay rights (four year time warp)

3. An article about Artemis getting married (four year time warp)

4. A wedding with a lemony honey moon (four year time warp)

Please vote! We need to know which one you want! Also, we're debating between having Rei Byakko violently rape Artemis or not; please vote for which on you would like to have. Thanks in advance. Shiinmaru-dono out! (Don't you dare steal my closing, Sho-dono.)

Sho-dono: Well, any way I'm sitting here in Spanish class listening to my teach talk about food so see yuz!