Disclaimer: Blah blah blah Artemis isn't mine blah blah Reece is.

Replies to reviews (since I found out the stupid bloody thing actually doesn't let my reply... muttermuttercursecurse)

Ms.RealMadrid and A Cup of Earl Grey: Look to the Author's Hype for answers to your questions.

camikaza: Can you believe that I still haven't seen it? Ehehe. XD

YonderTiger: Thanks, and I do speak some German. I know more German profanity than anything else though... Comes from living with German teenagers for two weeks... cough Anyways. XD That's a really good question. Maybe she will. That would make for an interesting encounter.

QuincePaste: Thanks, and that might just happen.

DANIEL: I like RO a lot. I'm planning on drawing some of my characters I like best on there. Sadly, I don't get much time to play it anymore.

Faustus Bailey: First of all, I really love the name Faustus. Just wanted to add that. And, I feel honoured that if you don't read much Artemis Fowl fanfics you still read mine.

Laelia: Yeah, that's why I made an OC for the pairing with Artemis. I know there's a ton of Artemis/Holly fics on here, but I just can't see that happening, and there's no way I could write that. I'm not up to cross-species-pairings as of yet. XD

Michael: Thanks very much for the many compliments.

divinedragon7: Haha, thanks! "One of the best Artemis stories you've read", huh... I feel all special now. lol

To all the other reviewers who reviewed and complimented me: Thank you very very much. I would love to compliment you individually, but I would take up half the page. That doesn't mean I skip over your reviews. I read each one and am thrilled to recieve them.

A word before you start reading: (Yeah, I know, more to read. It'll only take a second.)

This doesn't really have to do with the plotline of this story. (Me: Whoa there's a plot!) This is just a little ficlet I thought of during Pre-Calculus class. It's the night of when Artemis and Reece return to their apartment. The last chapter was during the day, this mini-chapter is that night. Okay?
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Artemis lunged awake, his nightmare slowly draining back into his subconscious. He gasped, breathing heavily. He was aware of many things at once, all of them uncomfortable. The sheets pooled around him felt like quicksand and the hair in his eyes felt like copper wire. He staggered out, bringing half his sheets with him. He kicked them off and walked to the bathroom in his silk pajama bottoms. The burst of light felt like a knife in his eyes. He turned on the faucet, filling a glass and gulping down the contents. He took several deep breaths. His nightmare had felt too real. He recalled a quote someone had once said to him: "How would you know you were ever asleep if you did not wake up?" His dream had been so real, if he had not woken up he would have been sure it was true.

They had been back in Canada. Roderick lunged at Reece, just as before. Unlike before, Mulch was nowhere to be found. Roderick slammed Reece into the walls and floor, as if she were a toy. She soon resembled a toy. A lifeless ragdoll. After the first few hits, she stopped making any noise. Roderick was having fun, though. He was still enraged at being found out, so he took out his agression on Reece, his new ragdoll personally given to him as a present by Artemis Fowl. All because Artemis wasn't forceful enough in making Reece stay on the shuttle. Artemis vowed he would never listen to Reece and Holly again, not noticing how odd that sounded. Artemis tried to run to her, to take on Roderick himself. He ran, but didn't get anywhere. It was as if he ran in place. He watched in horror as Roderick continued to batter Reece, while he could do nothing.

Artemis pulled a hand-towel off the stand and ran it under the water, scrubbing his face clean of sweat brought on by the nightmare. His eyes landed on the door across from him, the connecting door to Reece's bedroom. All thought of the towel forgotten, he reached for the doorknob and turned. The thing wouldn't open. He jiggled it, to no avail. Panic rose within him, easily come what with the nightmare occuring so recently. He yanked the doorknob, losing patience. Doors were made so people could open them, damn it. He swore in various languages in his head, swinging the doorknob all the way to the right and kneeing it, finally successful. He closed the door behind him and took a few steps closer to the bed. He almost had a heart attack when at first he thought there was no one occupying the bed.

"Reece?" Artemis could make out a human-sized lump in the bed and talked to it.

"What?"

"You're awake?" Artemis was surprised to get a reply.

"Apparently," Reece drawled.

"Move over." He wasn't going to let Roderick take her. The next morning, he would wonder in disbelief what had come over him, to think that a centaur being held in a cement jail cell miles beneath the Earth's crust could just magic himself into Reece's room.

"What!"

"Move over."

Reece lifted her head, scrutinizing him. She laid her head back down, getting comfortable. She rolled over. "You're tired, Artemis. Go to bed."

The dark-haired male was only too willing to oblige. He climbed in beside Reece.

"What the hell are you doing! Your bed, idiot!" She bolted upright, red to her ears. She was wearing only a nightshirt, for Christ's sake! She acted as casually as possibly, and cuffed him.

Artemis didn't reply, only snagged a pillow and moved himself closer to Reece. She was taking all the covers. He felt something cold and not at all flesh. He touched it again, and pulled it out from beneath the covers, staring at it in the almost nonexistant light.

"Why do you have a aluminum baseball bat in your bed?" He asked, rather calmly. The blonde was very odd... Maybe it was because she was blonde. Artemis hadn't known many blondes. Besides Juliet. And she was quite odd as well.

"Because someone who shall remain nameless was masquerading as a burglar by skulking around in the bathroom and messing with the door to my bedroom!" Reece snatched it from him and tossed it off the bed.

"I wasn't a burglar. I am not a burglar," he corrected himself.

"You were sure acting like one, practically breaking the door down trying to get in here." Reece grumbled.

He rolled his eyes and shrugged, too worn out for any more bickering. He laid down, planning on falling asleep promptly. His nightmare had exhausted him. She scuttled away from him, taking the covers with her. It proved to be her downfall. Artemis Fowl wanted to go to sleep, so therefore Artemis Fowl would go to sleep. He pinned her against the wall... and went to sleep. Reece, squeezed between the wall and a guy in her bed, picked a random side and rolled over. She didn't care what position she ended up in. Even if she ended up face to face with Artemis. She went to sleep with her cheek pillowed on Artemis's palm, carelessly laid on her pillow.

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knife in his eyes: Since your pupil is really just a hole in the iris, you could physically stick something in it. I think you would have to dilate the pupil a lot though, with those drops you sometimes get after you go to the optometrist. Then you could stick, like, a thin pencil in, or something. Well, not you as in you, because you might 'miss', to put it mildly, but you as in a surgeon could probably do it. But, even if a surgeon could do it, they could only do it on a cadaver. Want to know why? Because, if you stick something into your pupil, it damages the lens, which you definitley need intact and not punctured. The lens focuses light rays entering the eye to form an image on the retina.
Er, yeah. Just a little morbidity (made up word, most likely) to liven up your day.
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Author's Hype:

Okay, there were a couple reviews I got asking if there was going to be sexual scenes and when was I going to finally get to them. Here's the answer to that. When I started this fanfic, the whole point of it was to update on it. I had to update, and continue updating. The point of this fanfic was to make myself actually stick with something. Because all my other stories are about great ideas, but they never go anywhere because I drop 'em for a better idea I have. I actually thought I'd get to all the sexual scenes earlier, but it didn't turn out that way. And, if I get to them too soon and just end it there, then that takes away my goal of sticking with a story as long as possible.

There will be sexual scenes, but when they're appropriate. (Geez, don't see those two phrases together. "Sexual scenes" and "appropriate" rather than inappropriate in the same sentence. Haha.) What I mean is that I'm not going to toss in a sex scene now, because it would be completely OOC to do it so fast.

When the sex scenes do come, try not to kill me if they suck. I am fourteen. I have not had sex. That doesn't mean I don't know 'the nuts and bolts of sex', as my teacher last year so charmingly put it, because I do. Thank you older cousins and older friends and older ex-boyfriend so bloody much. XD

Whatever. Hoped you liked the chapter. Ja ne!