Author's Note: SO, you like my OC? I knew you would! So, this chapter is mostly about Opal, maybe, so enjoy the Opalness.

I'm on vacation this entire week. I will write on my downtime, but I won't update as often. I hope to get at least every one of my stories updated this week though. Not all on the same day, but to get them all updated. But this story is the most important, so this one is getting updated first, as always.

Disclaimer: I do not, REPEAT, do NOT, own Artemis Fowl. :-)

Chapter Nine

The Hospital Opal's POV

I woke up and couldn't remember much of what had happened today. I knew I was here to examine Trouble, but why was I checked into the hospital? And why did my shoulder hurt?

I propped myself up on my right elbow, and rubbed my left shoulder gently. I looked around the room and saw that I was hooked up to the standard stuff. The heart monitor and a single drip, making sure that my body had enough fluids.

Then the door opened and Artemis Fowl walked into the room. I don't remember him being here.

"Hello Opal. How are you feeling?"

"Um, fine, I guess." I answered as I watched him walk across the room to the heart monitor, checking my heart rate. "Um, why am I here?"

"Well, you were originally here to see what's wrong with Trouble, but then you fainted."

"Do you know why I fainted?"

"Yes."

"Then why did I faint?" I asked getting irritated.

"Well, I should really have No1 explain it to you. I'm not really sure what happened anyway." Then he walked toward the door.

Are any of my questions going to get answered?

LEP interrogation room Third Person POV

"So," Holly began. "Why don't we start off with what you did in the first place."

"We already know what I did. I shoplifted at the same store for the past six years, big whoop." Venus retorted.

Holly sighed. "I know that. But you did it for six years. You know how long you could be in jail for; about twenty, thirty, maybe forty years. Plus you'll get a fine to pay for all the technology you stole."

Venus ran a hand through her brown hair and sighed. Then she rubbed her arms to warm herself up. It was cold in here. The LEP had taken her jacket away, and now she was just left in her tank top and her boot cut jeans.

"Tell me, I'm curious. Why do you steal? You have a great father, don't you? And he is on the Council. You should have the life."

Venus almost broke down in tears at the moment. She didn't have the life; in fact, she didn't have a life at all. She didn't have great parents, her mother was dead, and her father hadn't talked to her since she was a couple months old. He hated her. That's why he left her mother.

After her father had left, Venus and her mother had lived on the streets. Her mother wasn't able to get a job, so she had been forced to other alternatives. When Venus had turned four, her mother had passed away because of disease. Venus had lived off of the little money her mother had left her. But when she ran out, she had to think of other way to get cash. And shoplifting was the only other way.

"I don't have 'the life'." Venus said, tears forming in her eyes. "My father left when I was only a couple months old. My mom and I lived on the streets, and when she died I had no other way to support myself. I didn't have a choice." Venus wiped her tears away. Holly looked shocked. And how was she supposed to know that? The LEP didn't have an updated file. Even if Holly was the only one who knew Venus the most, she didn't know that her father had left her. She knew her mother was dead, just didn't know that Venus had been living on the streets. She had thought that Venus had been living with her father; because Venus never mentioned her father at her first interrogation. The Council was just kinda watching the entire thing and he just pointed out that Venus was his daughter; but didn't mention anything else.

Holly kinda felt sorry for her. But what she did was wrong. But with the kind of life Venus had, she didn't deserve to go to jail. Maybe she could compromise.

"Venus I…I didn't know. I'm so sorry. Maybe I could…" Holly stopped. What could she do?

"What? There's nothing you could do. I'm going to jail. I rather do that then spend my life on the streets." Venus looked away and wiped her eyes again. Tears still fell down her face, some landing on her jeans.

Holly thought for a second. What could she do to stop Venus from going to jail? She had to do something, something to keep this young girl from not living. Got it!

"I have an idea. I would need the Council's approval, but I think I can keep you from getting out of jail."

Venus turned her head to face Holly. "What could you do?"

"Well, you're fast, smart, and strong. And the LEP could always use another officer."

The Hospital Third Person POV

No1 walked down the hall. Artemis had told him that Opal had woken up, so he told Artemis to keep an eye on Trouble.

While No1 was walking, he was trying to think of ways he could explain this all to Opal. He also needed to know more about her. For example: if she knew who and why the Enthraller would enthrall her.

When he finally made it to her door, he had everything planned out and ready. He walked in.

"Hello Opal. Artemis told me that you were really confused. I'm here to make sense of things." No1 said as he walked into the room and sat down in one on the chairs.

"Ah, yeah, I'm really confused."

"Okay then. But first, I'm going to need to know more about you before I can really explain things.

Opal sighed. "What do you need to know?"

"Just tell me what you remember from the past six years."

"Um, I remember Briar Cudgeon. I remember when I met him. He was interested in taking out the LEP for doing whatever they did to him. He wanted me to help because I was a genius. I remember saying no, but then he did something. It was weird at first because I didn't know what was happening. All he did was put his hand on my shoulder, and then touched it with his thumb. I remember all these bad things."

No1 was writing all of this down as she said it. Cudgeon had enthralled Opal. He was dead now. That's part of the reason Opal might've passed out.

"Go on."

"Then I remember when I was in my self induced coma. I remember this planning. I was planning to take over the world. But there's something else. I remember one of the LEP officers, ah, what's his name? Ark Sool! Yes, he used to call me after I got out of my coma. I remember meeting him. He did the exact same thing that Cudgeon did. He touched me one time, and my plans changed. Ark Sool wanted me to kill innocent officers."

"Did he have a pacific plan?"

"Yes he did. He told me that he wanted me to kill Julius Root so he could become commander. And he also wanted me to make it look like it was Captain Short's fault. He wanted to get rid of both of them. I don't really remember much after that."

"Do you remember anything from your past?"

"I remember the kids at school used to practice Enthrallment. One of the kids asked me if I would help him with his school project. I said yes; little did I know it was just a trap. When he enthralled me, he told me to take over my father's business. He wanted me to do that because my father took over his father's company." Opal sighed. She had always felt so guilty for doing all that stuff and because her she under someone else's control, she wasn't sure if it was entirely her fault. But after a while, the enthrallment had caused her to be the way she was before.

"Well, that explains a lot." No1 said as he wrote down a couple more things. "Now, it's my turn to talk."

A/N: This took a couple days to write. Its kinda one of the slow chapters. That's what I personally thought of this chapter. But if you guys think differently, then write a review! I wanna see what you think! Oh, and by the way, I had this chapter done for two days, I just didn't have Wi-Fi, so, yea, I couldn't post. Hope you like it though!