Right, so my mam dug through her remaining law books and found a book on advocacy from 2002, which I suppose still stands. It's only advocacy, not law.

So, this is pretty much like an English court, but my memory is a bit iffy. But that can be how it is different, I suppose.

Characters may seem to have buggered off somewhere else. Sorry, I want this chapter to get this story back into a correct story line. Sorry this whole story is patchy. This part is something that really needs to be fixed.

I've talked enough. Let's see how well I can do this.

"Everyone please be seated. May the prosecutor (Person who has brought the case to court); Mr Artemis Fowl II, please state his case."

Artemis rose from his seat, the only person now on eye level with that almost comical looking fairy in silks and wig. He tried not to find it funny. They had the species' upper hand, after all. Him laughing to cover nerves would do nothing to help Alexander, but then again, who was he? Artemis Fowl the Second. He'd done his research. He practically owned this courtroom.

That was more like it.

"I have brought to court, the defendant (Person in the wrong); Mr Felix Johnson on account of what I believe to be an unnecessary removal of my son under both his fairy rights and human ones. The defendant believes this to be untrue, Your Honour, and has agreed to take the matter into court on his claim that the removal was necessary for the safety of the fairy race.

I am also prosecuting against one of the People who runs the facility at which he has held my son at for the past six months. I believe this facility to be, not only unlawful in fairy law, but also a dangerous organisation if not registered and government run."

"Please state the name of this 'facility,' Mr Fowl." Said the judge.

"I apologise Your Honour. There is not one that I am aware of, though it has been recorded; I have never come across a company name in any of these."

"Thank you, Mr Fowl, please continue to state your case."

"The facts are, as it stands, that my son, Alexander Sylvian Fowl has been removed from mine and his mother's care, forcefully, without a fair discussion, by the Lower Elements Police Misuse of Magic Department. It is said that his removal to an underground facility would benefit the whole of the fairy race, and his removal was imminent. Also, the sterilisation on my entire family was brought up as a necessity. I believe all of these actions to be unnecessarily cruel, especially the abrupt removal of my young son, Your Honour."

"How old is your son, Mr Fowl?"

"He is now two years old, Your Honour."

"He was eighteen months old when removed from your care?"

"Yes Your Honour."

"Please continue."

"Alexander was taken into the People's care when he apparently breached some kind of unwritten contract regarding his magical abilities."

"Mister Fowl, I have been informed that your son is not part fairy. Is this true?"

"Yes Your Honour."

"Please explain how he can house magic of any sort, Mr Fowl."

"Your Honour, I believe him to be one of the first magical humans for thousands of years."

There was a stillness following Artemis' claim that froze the air in his lungs and fed on his nerves.

"That is not possible, Mister Fowl, I hope you realise that the humans lost their magic by an ancient warlock cast spell as they were too greedy and violent a race to be trusted with such power. Do you understand your claim?"

"Yes, Your Honour."

"Then please explain to me why you believe this to be true."

Artemis was pretty confident that his facts were correct. There was no reason that they shouldn't be. And there was no reason why he couldn't win this case.

"I am aware of the history of magical humans, both the fairy and the human history, and I do not believe that Alexander is an exception to this spell, or longstanding law, as it has become. I have a scientific and logical explanation for his power.

Twenty-three years ago, when I came back through the time stream, my atoms mixed with those of the People around me, and I was able to siphon off some of their magical atoms into my own DNA make up. This is a catalogued fact. Though I spent my little magic over the next few months, my DNA had changed to that of a being able to house magic, though I cannot use the ritual and collect magic of my own.

Alexander never had magic, but always had the possibility to house magic, though we did not know this. The People were aware of this, though never mentioned it. At the time when Alexander became a magical being, he was seriously ill with the human disease meningitis. Miss Holly Shot attempted to heal him, but her magic was violently rejected. My daughter came to the conclusion that this may be because he was magical in a different way, and had, what the People call 'magical potential.'"

"And how, Mr Fowl, did your daughter, who I believe would have been eight years old at the time, work this out, bearing in mind that she is not supposed to know of the people at all. I won't bring up how Holly Short managed to get an above ground pass and perform magic herself in front of a room full of humans."

"My daughter is extremely clever, Your Honour."

"Please do not speak on behalf of your daughter. Miss Samantha Fowl, please stand."

Samantha glanced at her mother and father. She had sussed out what was probably going to happen as soon as her father brought her into it, and knew that it would benefit everyone if she simply told the truth.

"Miss Fowl," the judge addressed Samantha in a gentler manner than he had him, Artemis noted. Not that he minded. "How did you become aware of the rules of magical potential?"

"I hacked into Mr Foaly the Centaur's Section Eight database and searched through Section Eight until I came across the file on my father's trip through the time stream." She said truthfully.

The judge was a little surprised, but didn't show it.

"Someone had written a theory on my father's magical make up being genetic. I didn't really think about it again until Alexander showed the same reaction to fairy magic as the half-breeds and thought that magical potential could be it."

"Thank you Miss Fowl, you may sit down."

Artemis knew that Samantha had incriminated herself, possibly Foaly, that he'd incriminated Holly and himself, but wasn't really concerned. If it was anything like a normal court, the jury would only make decisions based on what the defendant had been brought to court for.

"Please continue Mr Fowl."

"Thank you Your Honour. Alexander is not a fairy, and by normal standards, would not be ruled by fairy law, however given the circumstances that his care is currently with that of the People, he is bound by their law. The rest of my family, however, are not, and therefore, I do not believe that the request of the sterilisation of my line of the Fowl family can be legally carried out, even though it has been brought to light as being a danger to the People.

Your Honour, I do not actively go out of my way to endanger the People, and that much is commonly known. Alexander is a two year old who needs to be in the company of his family, and not stored away underground as if he is some kind of mistake.

Of course, I also question the legality of the facility which he has been in the care of while below ground. I believe it dangerous – in fact, I know it to be dangerous, that such a place is running itself unsupervised. This should be something monitored by the LEP at the very least, in my opinion. When the equiptment and knowledge at hand there has the potential to be misused, it enevitably will be. I say this as a genius and a parent. If something can go wrong, and no effort is made to prevent it, it inevitably will do so. That is all for now Your Honour."

"Very well, Mister Fowl. May I now hear from the defendant, Mister Felix Johnson."

Artemis sat, not without a sense of utter relief, though he didn't show it in his body language or on his face. On the other side of the room, Felix Johnson stood, not quite reaching Artemis' impressive height, but in the presence of so many diminutive people, to seem of the same kind was more of a positive attribute than seeming like a threat, as Artemis may have been taken as, simply from the impression of his height alone.

He doesn't have a leg to stand on, thought Artemis as the fairy composed himself. All of my claims outlaw his claims in any fair human or fairy court. And this seems a perfectly fair court.

In fact, Artemis was surprised that nobody in the courtroom had yet made a comment about his difference in race. It was new, and very much welcome.

"I, Felix Johnson, have been summoned as the persecutor by Artemis Fowl the Second, not only to defend my own case, but that of the company that he has criminalised and also the fairy race in general."

Oh, so he's trying on the 'for the good of our race' route, Artemis noted, smiling humourlessly. It was a cheesy, overused tactic, but it was cheesy and over used because unfortunately, it almost always worked.

Then a member of the jury interrupted the speech to ask the question on everybody in the room's lips.

"I wonder if you can then shed some light on the name of this 'company' which has been nameless up until now?"

Felix smiled. "In fact, I can. The organisation is called Waterton Half-Breed Research. It's registered legally under the Protection of Cross-Species Half Fairy and Magical Anomalies Act."

"Then why is it that no one seems to know the name of this facility?"

Felix fidgeted. "Well, half breeds and cross-species breeding are illegal. The public are never shown any footage or reports of these things happening. We, meaning I, on behalf of the child protection service, feel the need to keep this kind of company from the eyes of the general public."

The judge and jury looked a little sceptical, but decided to let it go, and continued on another route.

"Mister Fowl brought up the subject of Alexander being a magical human. What can you tell us about that?"

Felix raised his eyebrows. "As far as I know, that is very true, but I'm not an expert on that. I do have with me one of the workers at Waterton who is involved in the case of Alexander Fowl, if you'd wish to speak with him about the matter?"

The judge nodded.

The sprite sat down, and in his place stood a surprisingly handsome and very legal looking elf.

"What is your name and what can you tell us about the afore mentioned subject of Alexander Fowl's 'magic.'" Asked the Judge, eyeing the fairy intently.

"Henry Frulean. Alexander's case is a strange one. By all means, he is entitled to his rights as a human, and must not be mistaken for a human-fairy half breed. He has strong magical potential, unlike Artemis, who had a weak magical potential compared to his son, and so magic made him ill when he used it. Alexander however, unlike an ordinary human, is incomplete, so to speak, without magic. Magic is not an addition in other words. He is, by every definition, a magical human."

"Very well, sit," ordered the judge. Felix stood again.

"Please continue, Mr Johnson."

"Alexander Fowl was not to be removed from his family, except for the circumstances in which he posed a danger to the fairy race. We are, and the government and as Waterton, are not out to get Mr Fowl or Alexander. These circumstances were met in a car crash in which Fowl's eldest son broke his nose, and Alexander decided to heal him, in front of three other humans."

"Can we hear from Domovoi Fowl for a formal conformation of this incident, as Artemis Fowl was not there at the time?"

Domovoi glanced to the people on either side of him before shakily standing. "Y-yes Your Honour."

"Did the situation that Mr Johnson previously mentioned happen as he explained?"

"Yes Your Honour."

"Who was in the car with you at the time?"

"Mark and Matthew Hays, myself, Samantha and Alexander."

"Okay, so we can rule out Samantha, Alexander and you. Who was driving the car?" asked the judge.

"Mark Hays." Domovoi replied. He felt like he was digging his brother a really big hole here, but carried on with the truth.

"What relation to you is he?"

"He's my Mother's partner, Your Honour," he said, feeling his own words stab at his heart. God, he wished that man wasn't around, but he also pitied him. It was by no fault of Mark's that he was disliked by the Fowl children.

"And Matthew Hays is his son, I'd guess."

"Yes, Your Honour."

"How old was he at the time?"

"I think he was seven Your Honour."

Artemis nodded from where he sat in conformation."

"Thank you, Domovoi, you may sit back down." He turned back to Felix.

"Why is it that Mark and Matthew Hays weren't simply mind wiped and the matter left at that?"

"Well there are long term and a short term reasons to that," Felix started in his defence. "In the long term, Alexander had proved for the first time that he was consciously able to do magic when he pleased to and this would pose a constant future threat. In the short term, they crashed on the motorway, and were surrounded by hundreds of people, most of which could have saw, and then continued on, making them impossible to track down."

"Your last comment holds no reason." Stated another member of the jury. "Even if you had simply mind-wiped Mark and Matthew, they would still have gotten away, and as for your first statement, it seems unfair. Fairy children are trusted to not show their magic in front of humans. I don't see why this self-same trust cannot be extended to Alexander."

"W-well, you have to take into account, as I said earlier, and Henry backed me up on this, Alexander is a human. I don't know if we can extend that same-"

Artemis stood sharply. "I object to the comment Mr Johnson was about to make."

"Mister Fowl, please sit back down-"

"No," countered the Judge. "Let him talk."

Artemis nodded in gratitude and continued. "That is not only unfair, its racist. Saying that my son is not as trustworthy or intelligent as a fairy child is an unfounded accusation. Alexander is an intelligent and obedient boy, and every human in this room is as equal mentally as every fairy here."

"I have to say, I agree with Fowl on this one. Both of your defences are illogical and unfounded." Said the judge. Samantha smiled at her father. Decoded, the judge had basically said that he sided with Artemis.

"In short, I believe Mr Artemis Fowl to have more legal ground on this case. I see no reason why his son cannot be returned to him, and that we simply trust Mr Fowl and Ms Paradizo to make sure that Alexander never uses his magic in public unless the situation holds no other alternative. I would like to split this case. At another date, I wish the case of Waterton Half-Breed research to go under the scrutiny of a magistrates court. I have no penalty to anybody in the room, however, other than that Mr Felix Johnson is demoted in his work with the fairy government for the reasons afore accused by Mr Artemis Fowl. Case dismissed."

*Collapses.* You have no idea how hard this was to write. I hope it wasn't too boring. This isn't the end, Sylvian will come up, and then, on to part three, which is considerably more exciting, I promise!

Anyway, I hope that sorted out any confusion caused by my crappy writing of this part.

Please, please, review. I would really appreciate feedback on this chapter. Also, this one is as close to my original chapter length, so yay!

~BS