A/N: I am sooo sorry for that wait! I've been settling into college and everything's been so busy, but anyway, here it is, the conclusion to Aftermath. Enjoy!

As always, Eoin Colfer and the folks at Hyperion Disney own these characters, I only write fan-fiction for the fun of it not for the money of it.

One day, Artemis Fowl the Second wakes up in his four poster bed and fully understands where his life has taken him. Once upon a time a boy with no friends trying desperately to hold an already irreparable family together decided to heed the advice of his older self and kidnap a fairy for its gold.

Artemis knows who he was and who he has been and now as he tries to look at a future in a new world free of doubts and fears, he must decide who he must be. He had hunted the silky sifaka lemur, stolen and resold fairy technology on the black market, and kidnapped a fairy police woman for gold. But he had also stopped a manic pixie from ruling the world on multiple occasions, donated to charity, and saved the lives of those who had devoted their own lives to saving him. As it turned out the only treasure he ever found were the lasting relationships he made during each adventure. In another life Artemis would never except such a hokey metaphor as that. In possibly even another life he could. Now at the crossroads he must choose which life to take.

Outside his bedroom window is a view of a rural Irish landscape, now dotted with little farms and gardens. A few feet away Butler is walking to the dojo with Juliet- the twins in tow, ready for their lessons- and a faint glimmer of light is beginning to appear a few feet behind them. Only Beckett smiles and waves at the shifting lights.

Artemis closes his curtains and gets dressed so that when his friend comes in to his study and asks, "Are you sure you're up to parr with everything today, Mud Boy?" he will reply in the affirmative and thank her again for everything he has done for him. Then she will look at him strangely and ask what's up and he will state that he's changed. Holly will shrug and change the subject (although internally she will think it's pretty obvious that the boy has changed). And then they'll talk for a while- she'll gripe about work at the Lower Elements Police and he'll mention some fantastic invention he's trying to patent. If he's feeling up to it he will kiss her on the cheek. But that may be getting ahead of himself. He still needs to put his trousers on this morning.

Artemis Fowl the Second was once an extraordinary person who would never settle for anything even resembling "average". He still is an extraordinary person, but these days he is more than happy to settle for average than ever before.