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Artemis opened his eyes when Chix left the room. He waited about five more minutes to make sure he left the hospital as well. Artemis grinned as he pulled off the ring and became his normal self again. He headed out the back door of the hospital where Juliet and Butler were waiting for him.
Chapter 23: Aftermath
To get through the shuttle ports, Artemis switched the ring so that he could match Chix Verbil. Then he requested a a private shuttle (Do I know how shuttles work…. No. I just think about a bus or plane) for the mud people to get to Tara. The sprites working there took one look at Butler and gave it to them. Once inside Artemis took controls. Juliet was looking at him like she just walked into a death trap. But she shook it off; Artemis could do anything, even if he was the most uncoordinated guy in the whole universe. Surely if he put his mind into it he could get them to the surface.
Two hours later Artemis, Juliet, Butler, and Holly were all back at the manor. Unharmed thank goodness. As Artemis instructed, Butler laid Holly down in a bed in one of the guest bedrooms.
When Artemis' mother was sick, she had a heart monitor to make sure her heart didn't get too fast that it would explode. Artemis remembered putting it in the attic immediately after Holly healed her. He brought it down to monitor Holly's heart.
Butler left a while after everything was set up, but Artemis stayed. He could barely look at her. Now that she was here, he could think clearly. She took that shot for him. It wasn't fair; she didn't deserve it, especially after everything she had just been through. If she didn't make it, he would go crazy.
No, he knew that she would wake up. He just knew. She had to.
He just sat there, staring at her for what seemed like minutes, but it must have been hours. Butler and Juliet soon came in, worried about the young man.
"Artemis, you can't just stay in here forever." Butler said.
"Yeah, isn't there a jewel or priceless artifact you should be planning to risk our lives over by now?" Juliet interjected.
Artemis just shook his head sadly at that. He didn't want to sit at a computer all day, hacking Foaly's files or breaking down a complex structure of the economic tower of a government.
He never thought he'd ever think that.
But then again, he never thought he would see Holly like this.
The only thing he wanted right now was for Holly open her eyes, to move, to say his name.
He wished on everything he ever had, had ever worked for, that she hadn't taken that shot for him.
Butler and Juliet left soon after, Juliet muttering something about him having to come out to eat eventually.
Artemis shut the door behind them, and went back to sit beside Holly. And for the first time in Artemis' life, he cried like a little kid.
He sobbed for for everything he had ever done to people.
Weeped for all the pain he had ever given to Holly.
After a while, Artemis couldn't cry anymore. He concluded that staying with Holly like this was extremely harmful to his emotional and mental health. He left to go to his study.
He was glad he didn't pass Butler or Juliet in the hallway, for his red rimmed eyes and puffed sheeks would have given him away immediately.
Once in his study, he composed himself. Making it unrecognizable he had ever shed a single tear. And once he sat at his desk, Butler came into the room saying only two words.
"Trouble's here."
Artemis got out of the chair like he had been there a while, and went to the door to greet his certainly unwelcomed guests.
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