A/N: Well, I suspect I'll be awhile writing this, since I never get the computer! Right now it's 1:19 AM, and everyone but me is asleep. Mum almost burned down the house earlier, and I can't sleep... I'm just not tired. Lately I've been kinda spaz and paranoid... I keep feeling like I'm being stalked, and any random little thing will terrify me... Starting to worry I need a therapist or something, maybe a parapsychologist - I can't stop thinking that there's a ghostish presence stalking me. OK LET'S STOP SOUNDING LIKE A NUTJOB NOW!

Review-O-Clock!

Fiona: YES YOU ARE! Hey your idea? LOL... you mean my idea to be your idea. Hahaha. See ya tomorrow at scoutage! Woot! (edit: well... that was last week at scouts, but eh.)

devoted99: Innocence. Hehehehe... oh I just felt randomly evil and started picturing evil Foaly, and couldn't resist. He has a motive, trust me. Besides, you have to admit that to a certain extent, it fits his personality type... kinda... wow, I really sound like a psychologist's daughter now huh?

prometheus246: Ah, but hyperactive author notes are FUN! And some people seem to find me funny... Which I find funny... because I'm a loser...but seriously I'm to chicken to kill myself, I tried. Twice. (Thrice? Can't remember. Fucked up childhood.) So nah, I'm just a psycho. A POSEREMO psycho! (I totally pretend I'm so emo. And it's hot. You know you love it. Yes, I am laughing as I type. What a nerd I am.)

Shadow Dragon of Death: As I said, I'm going to avoid the twins and wait to see what Eoin makes them like (Since I don't wanna look like a total retard when the next books come out.) As for your other questions, Juliet -may- show up later, I'm not sure yet. And yes, Minerva is very much a Mary-Sue... And I hate Mary-Sues. God damn Colfer.

Rachelbuntaro: Better than the LC cliffhanger? LMAO

TeeHee: Woah! Three reviews! And also, the answers to your questions are here. I tried not to be cliché by using Opal as the villain. She's too generic. Heh.

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When Artemis Lost His Brain - And Now, To Ease The Cliffhanger.

"Yes, it's me. Surprised?" Foaly smirked. "You've both played right into my hands - you didn't even notice that Butler was mesmerised when he suggested the picnic - new technique I've been working on." He inspected his fingernails, a superior look plastered all over his face.

"Why are you doing this? I thought you were our friend!" Artemis cried. A genius he may have been, but all the emotions of puberty were still alive and well.

"Friend, schmiend. You never appreciated me. I was just the pony in the box, pushing buttons and making gadgets. Madame Garnet appreciates me for my talents, considerable as they are."

"Madame Garnet?" Fiona asked, as if she had always been part of the story.

"Oh, forgive me for not introducing her! This is Garnet Leaf, a senior partner in Leaf Technology Inc. I've been working there part-time for awhile, working with their techies and Book experts on this one prophecy. And we know that it can't be fulfilled."

"Wai oht?" Holly asked around her gag, glaring at Foaly as if he had betrayed her trust. Which he had, so it was inevitable.

"There are certain undesirable consequences for both worlds. We want to prevent those. Because the moment you say those... faintly disturbing, yet predictable words, Holly, humans will discover the People."

Holly forgot to protest. Her mouth was hanging open around the gag.

"Luckily, it will be handled well," Foaly continued. "but we will lose all our underground facilities, and the assistance of people like me to keep us hidden will no longer be necessary. Hundreds of skilled workers will lose their jobs. Likewise, human technologists are years behind us. They will all be useless as well, with the arrival of the new fairy technology."

"So you're doing this to protect yourself!" Artemis yelled.

"Not just myself. Please don't fret Arty boy, but you too would be affected... frankly, your intellect doesn't even begin to match up. You'll lose your famed 'high' IQ."

"I don't care! From what you've said, all you're doing is trying to keep the planet separated. If we go ahead, there will finally be peace! If not, then humans could find out another way, and ruin everything!"

"I'm protecting us. Our science can keep us hidden until it's safe to reveal ourselves. Not in the middle of bloody world war three!" Foaly cried, tossing his wine glass in Artemis' general direction, watching it smash into a thousand razor-sharp shards. Then he turned on his hoof and left, Garnet following him.

A short human boy, with black hair curling softly around his ears like Steven's (only Fiona will get this reference... he looks like Steven, only hotter. A squillion and three times hotter. :says nothing about how this compares to whatever degree of hotness Steven may or may not have: Let's just say this guy is hot and leave it there.) entered the room. Fiona assumed that he was a guard, because he looked around quickly, before closing the door.

Fiona sighed, turning back to her fellow captors. "So, Artemis, you're the genius. What do we do?"

"Hohe..." Holly mumbled. "I cankh bewee ih wah Fohee."

Artemis nodded. "We need a plan. It obviously won't work if you say it around the gag, Holly, Foaly will have checked. So our first order of business is to get that thing off you."

"Why do we need to?" Fiona asked, not caught up in the most recent plot. "What's the big deal with her saying something."

"That." Artemis stated, blushing slightly. "Is none of your business, obnoxious person. So. I'll try to find a weak spot where it can be broken."

Fiona glared at Artemis and bit back a comeback. Arguing was not what they needed now. Holly nodded and allowed Artemis to clumsily check her gag over, knocking painfully on it occasionally.

"I can't find anything we could break." Artemis sighed apologetically. "We really need to find enemies with lower IQs. All this constant outsmarting makes my head ache."

A/N: omg, I feel like I'm cheating you ending it there. Such a stupidly short chapter. I feel so mean. But that was such a cool line, I can't help it. Besides, it's 12 thirty AM and out of the past 3 and a bit days I've had eight hours sleep. I feel awesome.

OMG REVIEW OR I'LL SHOVE COTTON CANDY DOWN YOUR UNDERPANTS!