So! This is my birthday surprise for my lovely coauthor, CaptainS10. But beware! In the beginning, it will be very angsty! I was crying just writing it. But it will get better, I promise you.

Rating is going to go up, but it wont for a few chappies, so I thought I might get you guys hooked on it before you leave me because of the smut.

Song for this chapter...Make it Rain (Ed Sheeran). I post these for you guys to go and read them with these chapters! I try to make them match. This one is more for the sad melody than the lyrics. Others will be dead on.

This story takes place three years after TEC (the third book) and acts like the others do not happen.

Forget Me Not: Chapter 1

"Foaly, what in the name of Frond are we doing here?" Holly asked her friend as she sat next to him at the round table in the council room.

The usually large and spacious room seemed cramped and crowded as the entire LEP filed in. An emergency staff meeting had been called 15 minutes beforehand, but no one seemed to know what was going on or why the urgent meeting had been called in the first place.

"No idea," replied the centaur as he squirmed in the tight little seat. The chairs in the council room were specifically made for any creature but centaurs, which Foaly found a little racist. There had never been centaur council members. But then again, centaurs were probably too smart to become a narcissistic, political asshole

Holly slumped in her seat, feeling a little bit claustrophobic with all the people in the room. Everyone had at least one body part bumping into another's. The elf couldn't complain, however. She had a very large stack of boring paperwork on her desk at the moment that she was not eager to get back to.

Honestly...She thought. She took the job as Captain to get rid of all the desk work.

Foaly leaned closer to Holly, so he didn't need to shout over the other couple hundred people in the room for her to hear him. "I have a few new prototypes that I've been meaning to show you. With all the work you've been piling up, I've barely been able to see you at all."

The elf sighed. "I know, Foaly. But Root keeps giving me so much paperwork, I don't get to leave my office that often."

"I bet you miss all the missions you used to go on," Foaly snorted, "You haven't really been on one since—"

"Artemis Fowl," Holly quickly interjected, looking down. Even though it had been almost two years since they had mind-wiped the young genius, Holly always thought she had lost what could have been a great friendship, "I guess I just realized how dangerous going topside is."

Foaly frowned and cocked his head. "Well, that doesn't sound like you at all."

Holly sighed and bowed her own head. "I know. That's the thought that Root hopes he planted into my mind by now. He does have a point though, since the last time we were with Fowl and all that d'arvitting crap that happened."

The centaur quirked an eyebrow."You're still really upset about Fowl's mind-wipe, aren't you?"

Holly shrugged nonchalantly, "I just think that we wasted a perfectly good tool for the LEP. Fowl had been proven useful on more than one occasion."

"He had also been a nuisance on multiple occasions as well. Including your kidnapping."

Holly rolled her eyes and opened her mouth to retaliate at Foaly, but was interrupted when the entire room went dead quiet all of a sudden. Holly turned in her seat to pay attention like the others. That was after she filed away her argument with Foaly for later, of course.

Root stood at the platform that was placed at the end of the room. He looked over everyone with confidence and a prestigious look. But as he swept his eyes around the room, he never once looked at Holly. When she realized this, it only caused the elf to look closer at her Commander's expression. He might have looked brave and proud up on that podium, but his eyes lacked that. They contrasted with the rest of his body, a nervous look emanating from them. That, in turn, made Holly's stomach twist.

"Many of you are most likely wondering what we are all doing cramped in this tight space." He began, the Commander's voice empowering as ever. "Truth is, this is the biggest room in the LEP, and I decided for everyone to get here. That way, all of you would hear this from me and not spread rumors throughout the building like you usually do."

Holly scrunched her eyebrows, trying to find any other indicators from Root. AS people moved around, the elf caught a glimpse of his right hand. An unlit fungus cigar was held between two of his fingers as he nervously twirled it in his hand.

Julius Root never "twirled" anything in his hands. Holly narrowed her eyes at him, she knew something was wrong now.

"Many of you were working for the LEP a few years ago when Artemis Fowl was a problem for the LEP. Kidnapping one of our Captains in LEPrecon."

All eyes seemed to direct from Root to Holly. The elf slid down in her seat at the stares, her own eyes wide. Why was the Commander bringing this up now? It had been so long since then. Artemis Fowl was a thing of the past.

As whispers grew around the room, Holly spared a glance from the floor to look at Foaly. He looked just as confused as Holly and everyone else in the room. As the two gained eye contact, Foaly shrugged his shoulders. This had to be bad news if Foaly didn't even know what the hell Root was talking about.

The Commander let the rumor-filled murmurs persist for a few more moments before clearing his throat to quiet them down and continuing.

"For some time now, we have been monitoring Fowl's activities. A precaution that took place when he was mind wiped two years ago. Only I and a few members of the council knew about the surveillance."

Monitored? Holly thought. The only lows clearly stated that once a case was closed, the LEP had no business in those affairs again.

Root sighed and looked down, almost as if he was uncertain how he was going to say this next words.

He stayed like that for a minute before looking back up and licked his lips. "Artemis Fowl has been missing for a good bit of time now. Approximately 4 months from this day. Only the council and I have known about the Criminal Mastermind's mysterious disappearance. However, some new Intel that has proven absolutely true has forced me to call this meeting."

Holly was too numb to move, too stunned to do anything but look up at Root and cling on helplessly to every word.

"This morning, our forensics confirmed that a body the Irish police found two days ago is Artemis Fowl. Drowned at the shore of the Irish Sea."

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