Chapter two... yaaaaaaayyyy... like it? review! don't like it? REVIEW ANY WAY AND TELL ME WHY ( i appreciate criticism, but don't try to start a flame war with me, fighting fire with more fire only makes the one who started it get burned.)

Disclaimer (because i failed to put this up last time) If i owned Artemis fowl, why would i write this as a mere fan fiction? i would publish this and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Holly stood in the door way for another moment, before asking. "Well, are you going to invite me in?"

Artemis nodded, and said "Sure, come in." He gestured for her to enter, and quickly closed the door behind her, A blue aura nearly slammed into the door as he shut it. "Holly, I thought you didn't need to be invited in."

She grinned and said "Isn't it common courtesy to ask to be let into someone's home?"

Artemis smiled a little. "Indeed."

Juliet grabbed Holly up in a big hug. "I missed you!"

Holly could only gasp for air.

"Um, I do believe you are suffocating our dear friend." Artemis said a little too quietly, his expression nothing but amusement, maybe a hint of concern that Juliet was actually going to make Holly pass out.

Juliet quickly put her down, apologizing with "Sorry, I thought recon agents were supposed to be tougher than that." It didn't sound very genuine though.

Holly Resisted the urge to show her the results of years of LEP combat training, mostly because, after Juliet finished laughing, she would wipe the floor with her.

Artemis stood in silent amusement, and hoped Holly wouldn't take her anger out for that incident on him for the week. There was a short moment of silence before he said. "So, this seems like it was a visit planned behind my back, how did you clear it with my parents? And how under the world did you manage that look?"

Holly pretended to ponder his sentence and asked "Would you like me to order in importance, alphabetical order, or the order you asked them?" Oh how she loved to torture the genius in his moments of confusion, which were often these days.

He gritted his teeth. "Please, just answer them, it is two simple questions, or are the answers to complex for your vocabulary?"

She proceeded to answer in gnomish, one of the few things Artemis did remember from his past. "Well, Nº1 has become very talented with magic, with a bit of instruction from the two more experienced warlocks he could cast a glamour on me to appear human, and it even feels real incase a human other than your selves touch me, and your parents thought an 'old friend' would help you remember, I made up a story about how those times when your father couldn't account for what you were up too, like every time you your somewhere that they couldn't find you, or you didn't come with a swelled wallet from say, stealing a valuable artwork."

Juliet quickly spoke up "Um, I can't really speak gnomish, fill me in?"

Artemis let her suffer in ignorance of what they were saying as he responded, also in gnomish. "I don't think I need to tell you or them that I don't remember those incidents."

Juliet sighed and waited for them to finish.

"Well Arty, I sure do, and your parents are hoping that I'll cause a recall."

Arty, his mother Angeline called him that when she saw him again for the first time. He thought briefly to the few events he did remember. "Sorry, you're still not ringing a bell." He was still a rather excellent liar.

It actually pained him too see the color change in Holly's magic, from a happy blue, to a darker purple, even gray around the edges. She hid her hurt well. "Well, I'm sure you will remember after spending a day or two with me." He wasn't going to dash her hopes further by mentioning the 'failed' attempts to jog his memory over the many months she visited him, and even the first time she spoke to him, even if he did remember more than he let on even then.

Finally Artemis switched back to English. "Okay, so what exactly do my parents think you are to me?"

Holly would have blushed, in fact she did, but it might have shown in her face if she had a lighter skin tone. "Oh, well they think we were… close before you died." Her magic flowing around her said it all, almost a bright pink now, even if the purple and gray still floated around in there.

"Are you sure you are okay Holly?"

She grinned "That is the question I'm supposed to be asking you."

Juliet clapped her hands together "Okay, with the family away for now, I should probably cook something, after all they wont be back until eight in the afternoon at the earliest."

Holly asked after "Do they always stay away this late?"

"Ya, they are having private lessons for Myles and Beckett, but Myles is the one usually ending up teaching everyone something new."

Holly laughed a little "You may have competition Artemis."

He responded with "I am not really interested in the family business any more if that's what you mean."

Juliet chose this moment to strategically exit the room as Holly looked away with a bit of guilt in her eyes. "Sorry."

He put on a smile and tried to cheer up. "Its fine really, I wouldn't be any good at anything legal in my past life, and I certainly wouldn't do well at either now."

"That isn't going to make her feel better Artemis, tell her what you remember." Go away Orion.

She gave a half nod, "well, what are we going to do until your parents come back?"

He shrugged. "What do normal teenagers do with out parents around?"

She grinned. "First off, if you're going by human years, you are the only teenager here Artemis, and second, half of the things teenagers do without parents are illegal, and immoral." She quickly walked back outside, and picked up a blue bag. "Instead, lets just watch a movie to pass the time; I never really got to meet your parents in person."

"Movies, sure, I don't see how we can cause trouble with those." Artemis gestured to living room décor. "But we don't have a Television set in here, so lets try a computer upstairs." He didn't know why he was going along with this, and considered asking what movies they were, and why they were even watching them, but, he supposed it was easier this way.

He could see Holly out of the corner of his eye. She looked pretty happy at the moment. "See? She really does like you, you know, haven't you noticed the signs?" Orion, this isn't your business. "Come on, think about how the mere fact you seem to not remember hurts her so bad, I don't expect you to show her right away, but if you don't do it this week, you may never get a chance again, she might give up, and go with, a Commander Trouble perhaps." Artemis gritted his teeth. Leave me alone, you give me a headache.

"Are you alright?" Artemis shook himself out of the mental conversation. They were standing outside his old study.

"Sorry, I was thinking," he opened the door, revealing that the room, for the most part was untouched. "Let us take a look at the movie shall we?" he lightly grabbed her elbow and nudged her to come in.

Her magic around where he was touching her swirled in a quick elaborate pattern. "Right." She followed him inside, as he took the DVD from Holly, took it out of it's case, and he then realized he still had to power up the computer.

"Forgetting something Artemis?"

With an exasperated sigh, he took the several minutes necessary to power up the computer, and let it run its self diagnostics. A few passwords later, all supplied by Orion, and Artemis finally was able to put it in the DVD drive. "There, now what are we watching again?"

Holly raised an eyebrow. "You didn't check the whole time you were putting it in?"

He took a quick glance at the case now. He didn't even bother to read it. "Sorry, I guess I wasn't really interested in it."

She laughed, and went to go grab a chair from a corner of the room. "Well neither am I, but it takes up a little time and gives us a chance to catch up right?"

Artemis grinned, and pulled his own chair aside so holly could be closer to the computer and see the movie, even if neither of them was really going to watch it.

So there was a bit of small with the opening credits, as the movie went farther along though, mostly the two went quiet. Artemis wasn't interested in the movie, but instead on the glowing figure on the balcony railing. Holly wasn't really interested in the movie either, but it felt like it just wasn't a good time to seriously talk to him about anything, specifically the time they were in an alternate dimension and when they traveled in time. There were a few things she left out in the original story, as there was a nosy centaur standing near them.

Under his breath, acting like he was trying not to interrupt the movie, he asked "So do you know any one named June?"

"Who?" she was never a good liar, but here she didn't skip a beat. Clearly she knew less than he did about her presence here. "Oh, I think she is a recruit for the retrieval section, she completed the academy courses about a month ago, she scored a record for just about every combat situation you can think of." She frowned and asked. "How do you know her?"

He shrugged and muttered. "Some files I took off Foaly's computer." Holly raised her eyebrow, and tried to hide her excitement, if he still remembered how to d something as complex as hacking into a fairy tech geniuses' computer, there was almost no doubt he would remember other things soon. Maybe even that time they traveled back to get the lemur… But she only said "Well that's illegal you know, I could get you arrested for that. It was said with a playful punch in the arm, and a fake wince from Artemis.

He laughed a little, and started thinking of a way to get June out of the area. It wouldn't really affect anything, but her presence, especially presence unnoticed by his friends, was very annoying. But she wasn't in a position that could be really changed at all.

"Maybe I can help with this?" That is probably a very bad idea Orion. "Oh come on, what is the worst that could happen from me scaring her off?" A satellite could be knocked out of orbit and hit the manor, destroying all life within a one hundred mile radius. "Now you and me both know this is impossible." I thought it was a hypothetical question for the worst possible scenario. "Fine, have it your way."

The room seemed a little colder after that, and Holly clearly noticed. "Can we turn up the heat a bit? Or maybe get a blanket or something?"

Artemis laughed, and being the nice guy he was, did both. He also closed the blinds on his way past the window. "There," after he returned with the blanket. "Happy?"

"Very." The movie was about over now. And Artemis never checked what time it was. He was actually kind of hungry.

"Want to see if Juliet finished lunch?"

Holly nodded, and since even with the heat on, the manor was still freezing, decided that if she didn't want to have a case of hypothermia, or at the least not get a cold, took the blanket with her. Even with it on she still shivered. "Are you trying to turn this place into a freezer Artemis?"

He frowned and looked at the temperatures again. It said it was nearly eighty, but even to him it felt cold. "How odd." Orion, if this is your doing stop, we do not need a frozen elf in the manor.

"Don't look at me friend, if it is my fault I am not trying to cause it, perhaps a result of the enormous power we share? Tensions between those holders of it would result in, unusual events would it not?" Indeed.

Holly stood in the doorway. "Come on, maybe it will be warmer in another part of the house." Her lips were almost turning blue now.

Artemis quickly followed her, but the cold followed them as well. It seemed to cover the whole manor; however it could also just cover the two of them.

They quickly made it to the dining room, which was set up as a lunch for three. Holly could hear Juliet humming in the kitchen, which was some distance away, while Artemis could only hear the grandfather clock in the room ticking away.

"Well," said Artemis, fighting the urge to rub his arms "How much longer do you think she will be cooking.?"

Holly just sat and shivered in the blanket. "-E-evles d-d-don't like the c-c-old."

Artemis looked hurriedly around, but other than more thermostats, could not see a way to make sure she didn't freeze.

"Well there is one way, give her a nice big hug! I'm sure that will warm here right up, in more ways then one." He stopped talking with an amused chuckle.

Artemis mentally glared at Orion, but he was right. "Okay, Holly, since I would rather not have you freeze here," He awkwardly put his arms under the blanket and wrapped them around her shoulders.

Even if she really didn't want him to hug her, she wouldn't have been able to stop him. She was practically frozen in place. But the spots where he touched her, the warmth just lept back. It didn't make sense, but Holly didn't care at the moment, she just didn't want to freeze.

She shot to him and wrapped her arms around his chest for a moment, and in seconds the icy cold was gone. "Thanks," she said after a long two minutes. "I don't know how, but that really helped."

Artemis let go to take a look at her to see if she was actually better now, and Holly did a bit more reluctantly "Strange." He was still shivering though,

"Perhaps an effect of the magic?" Orion put in, "I am not really sure why though; perhaps your greater amount of magic helped her, but not yourself?" That makes no sense Orion, I can't use my powers yet, and I am still unable to produce the smallest spark. I agree magic is the cause of this phenomenon, but it can't be my own. "How can you be so sure? Did a certain warlock not say that as powerful magic, while maturing causes disturbances of magnitudes proportional to the power?" well he did not say that last part. "True, but it was implied."

"Earth to Artemis." said holly, waving her hand around his face. He still wasn't used to her human form, from the few times he saw her, and what little he could remember...

"Artemis is not here right now; please leave a message after the beep."

Holly looked like she was going to have a heart attack. "Artemis making a joke? Surely this is a sign of the apocalypse!" She laughed, not at the joke, but the concept of Artemis making one.

Artemis sighed, and, still cold, but not quite freezing, sat in a chain and waited for her to finish. It took many minutes to calm down. "You done?"

She nodded. And for a minute she did look like she was done. Then she said. "Please excuse me for a moment." With one finger held up. She quickly walked into an adjacent room, and then, her laughter could be heard through nearly all the manor, even with out elfin ears. Artemis felt eyes on the back of his head, and turned to see an LEP operative, who wholly believed she was invisible to the naked eye..

As much fun as it would be to expose the private (no sex pun intended here, really) again, he would then have to explain how. OF course he could think of a number of inventions to see past a fairy shield, one of which was an iris cam similar to fairy technology, but was a simple high speed camera, that while recording at a speed much faster than the human eye, showed a stop motion footage of a frame at the particular time every tenth of a second, basically a paused video like the first time he discovered the fairies attacking his lawn. Of course he went by what butler told him of that incident; it was not one of the things he actually remembered.

Actually, Artemis thought to himself, that was a very good idea, perhaps I should attempt that rather soon. "I doubt the fairies would fail to take notice Artemis, they would think you are planning something against them building a fairy specific device like that."

True, but it could always be explained away or merely kept hidden. In fact why didn't I make one of those before? "You did actually, but you never had an opportunity to use it, and now it is locked in a room that cannot be opened, a room that holds your will if I am not mistaken." Perhaps another time then.

Holly finally came back after nearly suffocating from her own laughter, and Juliet came into the dining room, clearly abut to go onto the stairs to get them, but as she saw them in there she needlessly called "Lunch is ready!" With that they started eating.

Of course this could have been longer, but... eh, I got bored and wanted to publish it, and when i get bored i can't continue a story or it will suck, for an example please see me latest chapter of my first fanfic :P