Authors Rant: thanks to everyone who reviewed and added this to their favorites. I apologize for the delay but I was at my grandma's house for five days where my two brothers were monopolizing the computer to play Runescape, and when I got back home I had to help clean the house for Thanksgiving. Apparently "Thanksgiving" means "all those under 21 become slaves" in adult speak. I'll try to update as often as I can. SWEARING BEGINS IN THIS CHAPTER!

I own Rose, that's it.

Chapter 4: Artemis takes a walk and Jeremy writes a letter

"Rose, please be reasonable!" Artemis pleaded.

Rose's smile widened. "I think this is very reasonable Arty. I could make you do much worse, like walk around in your boxers-"

"I would prefer my boxers to this!" Artemis interrupted. Rose merely continued as if he hadn't spoken.

"Or perhaps naked." She mused. Artemis paled at the thought.

"Fine." He grumbled walking towards her bathroom to change. When Artemis came back out Rose was sitting in her arm chair checking the camcorder. She looked up when he entered the room and could barely control her laughter. Artemis Fowl II was standing in front of her in nothing but a grass skirt and coconut bra, his face a bright red. She then hit the record button on the camera and pointed it at herself.

"Artemis lost a bet and now has to walk around in this..." she then turned the camera on Artemis' still blushing form. "Lead the way Arty." she said gesturing toward the door.

Artemis walked to the door, placed his hand on the doorknob, took a deep breath, and opened it stepping outside. He began to make his way down the path from Rose's dorm to the side walk that led around the girl's dorms. Within seconds numerous students-some male, but mostly female-were staring at Artemis. After the initial shock wore off everyone watching began to talk and laugh amongst themselves. He strode down the sidewalk face red, and head held high, completely aware of the sounds of cat calls, whistles and Rose's slight laughter behind him. Now Artemis was not embarrassed by his body, in fact he was proud of it. His time spent training with Butler had given him a very well muscled body along with a perfect six pack, no, it was this ridiculous costume Artemis had to wear that embarrassed him. Artemis looked over his shoulder and was shocked to find a large number of girls with dreamy looks on their faces following him and Rose. To his dismay he wasn't even ¼ of the way around the dorms. This was going to be a long walk.

Twenty minutes later Artemis was rounding the last corner of his embarrassing walk and could see Rose's dorm a head. He quickened his pace a bit and finally arrived at the end of his mortification only to find the door to Rose's dorm locked. He turned to Rose and saw she was opening her mailbox and pulling out several letters with one hand while still recording him with the other.

"Rose," he said "Can you please open the door?" Rose then walked over to him, produced a key from her pocket and unlocked the door for Artemis. As soon as it opened Artemis darted inside and into the bathroom to change. From inside the bathroom he could hear Rose laughing, as well as various sounds that suggested Rose was up to something. When he was once again fully clothed he took a few minutes to fix his hair, check his clothing and over all compose himself after what was without a doubt the most embarrassing event of his life. When he emerged from Rose's bathroom rose was sitting in her arm chair with her laptop. He walked over to her and held out his hand.

"I want that video." He stated evenly.

"Alright." Rose replied with a smile handing him a CD case with a silver CD inside.

"How do I know this is not a blank CD?" Artemis asked. She wordlessly took the CD from him and inserted it into her laptop's CD drive. A moment later a window appeared and sure enough it was Artemis walking in his embarrassing little outfit. She then ejected the CD, put it back in its case and handed it back to him, but Artemis wasn't fooled.

"I want the other copies as well Rose." He said. She smiled at him again.

"You don't miss a thing do you?" she asked amused. "But sadly I'm going to have to say…no."

"Then I'll hack into your computer and destroy them." He stated with a smirk.

"Brilliant plan Arty, except that there are six copies." She stated with her own smug smile. :"the first is on my laptop, the second you hold in your hand, the third is on my phone-"

"I can find that as well." he interrupted his smirk growing.

"And the other three are here." She said holding up three CD cases each containing a silver CD.

"You work fast." He acknowledged. "Now give me those CD's Rose." He said taking a step forward. She smiled.

"You want 'em? Come and get them." She then moved quickly into her room and over to her dresser where Artemis saw her shove the CD's into the back of her underwear drawer. Artemis stood rooted to the spot.

"Damn." He murmured.

Rose merely smiled and walked over to her desk where she had left her mail. Rose had told Artemis that instead of spending money on long distance calls, her and her family wrote letters to each other once a week with the occasional call. She then began to flip through the letter muttering to herself.

"Mom, dad, and the twins, Jackson and Alice," Artemis recognized these two as Rose's older brother and his wife. "Grandma and Grandpa, and…" Rose froze when she got to the fourth letter, staring at it in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Artemis asked.

"I don't recognize this address, but it's from someone in Tehachapi." She told him, her eyes then widened. "It can't be." She murmured. "There is absolutely no way he could find me."

"Who?' Artemis asked with concern as he walked over to his friend, who had already opened the letter and was reading it.

"Jeremy Hawthorn." She said with a scowl.

Realization dawned on Artemis. Rose had once told him all about Jeremy Hawthorn. Rose had started dating him towards the end of their sophomore year at her old high school, and he treated her like dirt. In the middle of their junior year Rose had found out he was cheating on her with a girl who hated Rose, and Rose wasn't exactly fond of her either. The day Rose found out she broke up with him and he stayed with the other girl. When she ended their relationship Rose realized how horrible he was and cut all contact with him. Until now it would seem.

Artemis watched as Rose's eyes scanned the paper, the look on her face quickly changing from confusion to rage. As she read she occasionally muttered something under her breath. She was gripping the paper so tightly he was positive it was either going to rip from the strain it was under, or catch fire from the way Rose was glaring at it. After a minute or so Rose looked up from the letter shaking with rage.

"MY FAULT?" she shouted slamming the letter onto her desk fuming. She then began to pace the room, shouting making wild gestures with her arms.

"That no good son of a Bitch! How dare he-! And he thinks-! After how he treated-!" she then stopped her pacing and raised her left hand to her right shoulder letting out one final shout. "Andrew and Richard!"

Artemis had a fairly good idea of what was going on now, but what did Rose's twin little brothers have to do with anything?

A/N: Hmmmm? I wonder what was in that letter. And why is she so mad? We're picking up a bit of speed now. Reviews would be awesome! :)