Here is chapter 5 and I am pleased to announce that this story will change a little bit, cause I have a great idea but I shall not reveal it just yet...
Thanks to my beta lilyrosexd for reading this and telling me that it made sense

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, Artemis Fowl and any of their characters, settings, blah blah blah etc.... and yes I know this is my shortest chapter yet, but I didn't want to draw it out and it is necessary and anyway just read it...


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Mistakes

The Doctor retired to the library to read the books. Artemis, Holly and Foaly were in the theatre room, watching 'Doctor Who'. He didn't want to watch it with them, it was so difficult to relive the pain and guilt and keep himself composed. He wanted to watch it, but on his own, with no one there to see his mask fail, to see his true emotions showing on his face. Of course they know, he thought. He knew they weren't stupid; he'd even go so far to say that Foaly and Artemis were genii.

In under half an hour, he'd finished all six of them: the first adventure when Artemis discovered the fairy race and kidnapped Holly, the second when he stopped Opal Koboi and the Goblin Revolution, and rescued his father, the third with the C Cube and Jon Spiro, the fourth when Julius Root died and they stopped Opal Koboi again, the fifth with the demons and the time tunnel and the sixth with the two Opal Koboi's and the time paradox. He left the books on a table, and sauntered down to the theatre. He pushed open the double doors, and began walking down the stairs between the rows of seats to where Artemis, Foaly and Holly were sitting at the front.

He made a mistake. He looked at the screen…and stopped. He didn't stop because Rose was on the screen, he didn't stop because she was crying as well, he stopped as he remembered the adventure, probably the most painful one he could have walked in on. The Battle of Canary Wharf. There she was, banging her palms on the white wall on the Ghost Floor; make-up smearing and dripping, mixed with tears, her eyes red, her voice cracking as she yelled. Here was the footage he had never seen, though he had imagined it well enough. Even fooled himself thinking that he could just hear her on the other side of the wall, but it wasn't the other side. It was a different universe. And she was stuck there. The footage changed, though the music continued. And he was thrown, just that little bit more by it. Because it was perfect for the moment, capturing the alienness, the guilt the grief and the pain. It was haunting as he watched himself approach the wall, and place his palm on it, and his face, and it was like a dream, watching himself, reliving one of his worst moments in his whole life.

The others hadn't even noticed he was there, mesmerized by the scene before them, and feeling ten times worse knowing it was real. So he turned around before they realised he was there and asked questions. He walked straight back up the stairs, not pausing, not turning, until he reached the door, and made his second mistake, by looking back, and seeing Rose's tear-stained face, seeming to be looking straight at him.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, looking straight into her eyes, before turning on his heel and leaving the theatre.


Artemis, Holly and Foaly found him in the kitchen. He wasn't eating, or doing anything for that matter, just staring at one of the blank walls, a frown etched on his forehead. Artemis sat down opposite him and spoke,
"Are they all true?" he asked.
The Doctor just swallowed and nodded.
"Have you read all the books?" Artemis questioned.
Again the Doctor nodded.
"They're all true," Artemis informed him
The Doctor still said nothing, not trusting himself to speak. He avoided the memories of Rose in his brain by thinking about Artemis and the fairies, and all the adventures they had gone on. They're not stupid, he thought, they know what's wrong, A thought from earlier came back to him. Genii…, he thought to himselfand the plan he hadn't even realised was in his brain, broke to the surface, like a dolphin jumping from the water, It might just work…, He wouldn't get his hopes up though...not yet.


I think Artemis is a little OOC at the end, but I can do nothing about it, so oh well! and yes i'm sorry that chapter is so sad, lilyrose got annoyed at the sadness of it, but I think that it's rather true and real and valid so it really matters that its in there, and yes I know I need a good cliffe and there will be a LOT near the climax of this story, so you will just have to be patient and wait, and I would like to thank anyone who is still reading this horrible scribble of mine, the next chapter shall be up either tomorrow (Sunday) or otherwise next weekend, WHICH IS THE END OF TERM 1 FOR ME so I shall get a lot more chapters done in the holidays and maybe even finish this fanfiction, but i'm going away for Easter so that will slow me down a bit (not on writing but on updating) and now I need to shut up and let you have a life. Review please!

and no sneak preview unless I write the next chapter now...hmmm....nah but I will write you a sneak preview but not the actual chapter

A Bit Unlikely Sneak Preview

They all stared at him.
Foaly swallowed,
"Doctor…I'm sorry, but…" Foaly bit his lip, "It's impossible…" he finished, shaking his head.
But the Doctor knew.
"Not impossible, just a bit unlikely! So...will you help me?"