Disclaimer: Last time I checked the Artemis Fowl books (which I do at least twice a day) my name was not on the cover.
Chapter Five
The next morning at an unFrondly hour Juliet went to wake up the others. She woke up her brother first announcing that it was snowing. Butler got up and woke Mulch and Foaly. Then he went to wake Artemis while Juliet went to wake Holly. They met back in the hallway a few minutes later.
"Holly wasn't in her bed."
"Neither was Artemis." They both looked at each other. Then Mulch and Foaly came along.
"Where are the love birds?" asked Mulch. Both Butlers shrugged their shoulders.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's find them" said Foaly. So they searched all the main rooms in the house. None of them thought to look in the guest rooms so for the time being Artemis and Holly remained hidden. Finally while Butler was checking outside Juliet came running out.
"Dom! Dom!" she yelled. Butler came to meet her, "I found them, curled up together on a couch in one of the spare guest rooms." Butler raised his eyebrows.
"But there is more," continued Juliet, "Holly's in a green dress and Artemis is wearing a blue silk shirt and jeans, jeansDom!" Butler stopped and looked at her.
"Artemis is wearing jeans?" he asked his excited sister.
"Yes and they are black guy's skinny jeans. He looks bad" said Juliet. Butler laughed.
"One time he acted as my son Alfonse to get somewhere and I got him into the pair of baggy jeans that you chose for him, I told him while he was grumbling that you would say that he looked bad." Juliet laughed along with him.
"But I didn't wake them up instead I set up a camera to see what they did," said Juliet. Butler didn't look happy about this.
"I'm not happy about this," said Butler "I want to leave him alone. But I suppose you can't take the camera out now." He sighed. Juliet grinned at him then they went inside for breakfast.
The four of them were halfway through breakfast when Artemis and Holly came down still wearing the clothes from the night before. Juliet acted surprised to see them
"We couldn't find you two. Where were you?" she asked. Artemis and Holly ignored the question sitting down to eat.
"Why Arty, are you wearing jeans?" asked Juliet pretending to be shocked. Artemis glared at Holly.
"Someone made me wear them," he said staring pointedly at Holly.
"You said yourself that they were comfortable," she pointed out.
"Yeah, I suppose they're alright," replied Artemis. Juliet then pretended to notice Holly's dress.
"Holly did Arty force you into a dress?" she asked. Holly shook her head.
"No, I decided to wear it myself," she said. They sat in silence for the rest of breakfast then Juliet spoke again.
"I think that we should have a snowball fight," she announced. She was received by groans from Mulch.
"Dwarves don't like extreme temperatures," he said. Juliet rolled her eyes.
"That is why you where a jacket, hat, scarf and mittens Mulch," she said. Mulch still didn't look comfortable and he looked even less so dressed in one of the twins' snow suits. Artemis was also reluctant until Holly asked him to, then he agreed because he would do anything for her. So Artemis in a white shirt, blue spotted tie, black skinny jeans and a white matching snow suit was forced to play in the snow. (N/A: I don't know much about snow outfits as I live in Auckland, NZ where it doesn't snow.) Juliet decided to change the teams around a bit so she and Holly were one team, Butler and Artemis were another and the last team was Foaly and Mulch. Artemis and Holly were disappointed not to be in the same team but they didn't want to point that out to the others so they kept quiet.
Butler and Artemis worked well as a team Artemis was the strategic side while Butler was the physical. But that didn't stop Artemis from chasing after Holly a snow ball in his hand. Holly ran from him firing snow balls behind her. She stopped to pick up some more snow when Artemis hit her in the back of the head. By this time everyone was silently watching their fight wondering if they would show any affection for one another.
Holly hit Artemis in the face so he quickly hit her in the stomach. Holly came closer slowly while his back was turned. She jumped on his back in a piggy back position. Artemis was pushed to the ground with the unexpected weight and Holly ended up in top of Artemis again her face close to his. Unfortunately for them Holly didn't check to see whether anyone was watching. She just kissed him there and then in the snow. Artemis kissed her back neither realising that all the others were watching them. Finally they broke apart. Artemis had a very smug look on his face which was wiped off when Foaly wolf whistled. Both jumped to their feet pink with embarrassment. They were surprised to find the others grinning, no shocked looks what so ever. Suddenly it dawned on Artemis.
"You knew?" he asked. Juliet came forward and shook the bewildered boy's hand.
"Congratulations!" she started "yeah we knew we were going to try and bring you together but our hopes were crushed when you snogged when you were meant to be decorating."
"Well some one was spying and using someone else's laptop while they were meant to be decorating. Well at least is means we don't have to break it to you anymore," said Artemis. Holly smiled at him, clasping her hand in his. Butler was smiling, Juliet was smirking, Mulch was pretending to throw up and Foaly was looking worried.
"I'm sorry to crush your dreams like this guys but the council won't allow an interspecies relationship and what about the age difference and size?" he said. Holly and Artemis looked at each other the same worried expressions etched across their faces. Then Holly's changed to determination.
"I don't care what the council says I will come and live up here if I have to though I probably will anyway, and as for the size and age difference what happened to the thing you were working on. Weren't you making a pill to turn a human into an elf?" she asked. Foaly nodded.
"I just haven't tried it out yet but it worked on the simulator," he said. Artemis was looking between the centaur and his girlfriend wondering if it was indeed possible for him to turn into an elf and what his parents would say.
"I don't know if my parents would let me, I'm only fifteen and their eldest son after all." Foaly nodded in agreement.
"And Holly what about the fact that in human years you are about twenty?" Holly looked ashamed of herself. Artemis quickly put his arm round her, a very un-Artemis-like gesture. So Holly appreciated it.
"Well the truth is that I never went back to my normal age after the time tunnel. I am about five years younger in human years, which is about twenty years younger in fairy years," she said looking at her feet. Artemis looked at her fondly.
"Well for that we are thankful," he said, "now where were we? Ah that's right," he picked up a snowball and threw it at the smug looking centaur.
"That's for upsetting my girlfriend!" he yelled running for his life. Holly looked shocked for a few seconds realising what Artemis said then Mulch hit her in the arm knocking her out of the day dream. She responded quickly throwing one hard into the dwarf's stomach throwing him backwards. Holly laughed bending over double at the dwarf's expression. Artemis crept up behind her throwing one into the back of her head. Holly turned around holding a massive snowball.
"You my dear friend have just made a huge mistake," she said dumping her load on top of him. Artemis yelped as the snow pushed him down. When he finally got out of the snow Holly had disappeared along with the others. He pulled himself upright, looking around for a sign of them. He saw footprints in the snow and followed them to the front door. He put his ear to it to hear Juliet talking.
"That was quite a lot of snow you dumped on Arty, Holly," she said. The next voice was male.
"Do you think he will be alright getting out of it himself?" asked Butler. He was met by mumbles of 'yes' and 'probably'. Artemis then decided to get his own back and hid behind a tree near the place where Holly had dumped snow on him. He then changed his mind and took off his jacket and buried it under the mass of snow. He ran behind the tree. He heard the voices of Butler and Holly who were obviously the only ones that were worried about his safety. He couldn't see what they were doing but he could hear them talk.
"He's still in here I can see his jacket," Holly said urgently. This was followed by a lot of scraping from Butler. Artemis then heard the gasps that meant that they had found his jacket.
"What where has he gone?" asked Holly.
"I don't know but I have a feeling that he is planning an…"
"AMBUSH!" yelled Artemis throwing snowballs at his friends. Butler ducked while Holly blocked using her arms. Butler surged forward towards his principle picking him up and putting him over his right shoulder. Holly laughed at the sight of her boyfriend being picked up by the giant Eurasian and rolled in the snow laughing. Artemis wasn't too happy about being picked up so he struggled in the man's arms.
"OK what do you want Butler?" He asked in a bored tone. Butler put on the vampire smirk that Artemis was famous for.
"I want to know what you were doing last night," he said. Artemis stopped struggling.
