This one's longer, I think. Hope you all like it! Reviews would be nice (hint, hint ^^)
Holly burst into Foaly's tech room without knocking. The centaur, who had been leaning over something, jumped and whinnied in surprise, knocking whatever he had been working on to the ground.
"Keep your tail on Foaly," Holly said, picking up the little piece of circuit board of whatever it was.
Foaly snatched the circuit board back grumpily. "Don't you know how to knock?"
Holly ignored him. "I saw Fowl," she stated.
Foaly almost dropped the circuit board again. "Artemis Fowl? Why?"
Holly lost her composure, tears breaking out of their wall again. "Foaly, I had too! I miss him so much! I can't possibly keep staying away from him. I know I'm not really supposed to see him, but I can't help it!"
Foaly sighed and put down his circuit board. He hugged Holly. "I know. I couldn't imagine never seeing Cabelline. I know that it hurts you."
"I don't know what to do Foaly! He told me that I have to decide between him and the LEP and he's right. I can't keep doing this to him. Or to Finn."
"Finn's the kid, right?"
Holly nodded and wiped one of her cheeks. "Which reminds me. He is the 'magical' kid."
Foaly's eyes widened. "Whoa, back up there. Did you say 'magical'?"
"Yes. Artemis said that he has pointed ears and can use magic."
"Did you actually see this yourself?" Foaly asked suspiciously.
"Artemis didn't lie," Holly said undoubtedly. "He wouldn't lie to me."
"He lied to you once before," Foaly pointed out.
"That was years ago!" exclaimed Holly, refusing to believe that Artemis would have lied to her again.
"He may have just said that to make it seem as though you had to come back." Foaly saw how it hurt Holly, but he had to say it. The Mud Man had lied in the past, and for all they knew, he could have been lying when he told Holly he wouldn't lie to her anymore.
Holly's face was even more downcast now than it had been minutes before, if that was possible. She walked over to the other side of the room, staring blankly at the wall. Did Artemis lie again? She had thought it was all in their past, but now…
Suddenly she had an idea. She whipped her head around to face Foaly.
"Do you still have cameras hooked up to Fowl Manor?"
Foaly nodded. "Yes, but they haven't been in use to years now, ever since Artemis was deduced not to be a threat to the people anymore."
"Can you bring them back?" Holly asked.
"Can I make an LEP officer fly?" Foaly responded, turning to his computers, his fingers clicking over the old school keyboard that he still preferred over his patented virtual keyboard.
"This will only take a moment…" Foaly muttered, concentrating on the computer screen.
Before long, images of different parts of Fowl Manor flickered onto the giant plasma screens around the room. Holly saw Artemis running down the stairs in one screen and Finn and Juliet lying on the floor laughing in the other. A vase lay shattered between them. Artemis must have heard the crash and went running to see if Finn was hurt.
Holly and Foaly watched as Artemis bent over his son, inspecting him for injuries. Moments later, they began cleaning up the glass.
Holly had kept her eyes on Artemis until the cameras transmitted a small yelp underground into the small tech room. She whipped her head over to where Finn was on the screen.
The boy sat on the floor, a piece of glass protruding from his hand. Artemis crawled over and Holly heard him clearly.
"Finn, I want you to do something for Daddy."
Holly felt like crying as she watched how careful Artemis was with Finn. But she blinked in surprise at the next thing Artemis said.
"I'm going to pull this out and I want you to concentrate really hard on your hand getting better really quickly."
Artemis actually did believe that Finn had magic. She stared at the screen in wonder as blue sparks wound up Finn's arm, sealing up the wound. She had seen enough.
She glared at Foaly who was still staring at the screen, a look of unbelief on his face.
"I told you he wasn't lying!"
"Fascinating," Foaly muttered. "I was wrong."
"Well that's a first," Holly said sarcastically. "Do you believe me now?"
Foaly nodded and switched off the cameras. "You do realize that if anyone in the Lower Elements finds out about this, they are going to be expected to do something about it."