The Kidnapping

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~THE NEXT DAY~

Luna's P.O.V

It's 15:30, and I'm out walking in the streets after school, thinking that I had gotten away with stealing yet again. It felt a little better that we would survive for another month at least, but it didn't settle the swirling cloud of guilt that has made itself at home above my head. This was normal and would last about a week, if not longer. "

Maybe I shouldn't have done it.... but then what would have happened?" I say to myself, "Maybe THIS might have been avoided!" a menacing voice spoke up from the shadows. Whoever they were, they threw a sack over my head and carried me somewhere, "If you're thinking of screaming, think again. I have a dart gun that is fully loaded." I gulp, staying silent. I feel my hands being tied up with something that felt like Duct-Tape. The sack is taken off of my face and I take a deep breath. I open my eyes and see a big, bulky man and, next to him, none other than the Artemis Fowl himself. 

 I take another shaky breath. I am dead meat. Apparently, hacking his account angered him more than I anticipated. I am as good as dead. "Speak up then. Don't you have anything to say?" Artemis growled at me. I widen my eyes and shake my head. Nothing I could say could get me out of this situation. If anything, this made him even more enraged, but, to be honest, he was kind of cute. That didn't make me any less scared of him though, "So, it was you who hacked my account. Or did you get someone to do it for you?" I manage to stutter out a, "Me." he scoffs and motions at Butler to shoot a dart at me.

Artemis's P.O.V

Butler and I wait in the dark alleyways of the street. "Are you sure that she will pass this way?" I ask, "No Artemis, I am not sure that she will pass this way, you were the one who dragged us both here without a plan." Butler impatiently replies. I was starting to see what he meant.

It was just that seeing that picture of the girl had awakened something in me, something I didn't know that existed. Jealousy, maybe, but I've felt that before. It was like a rushing in my stomach, a pounding in my chest. I'll dismiss this as anxiety. I've felt that before but maybe it's a different kind of anxiety, because this girl was equal in my intellect and the only person that has ever met my intellectual status is my Father. And he is on my side. But, what if it isn't anxiety?

My thoughts fade as she walks past us, my 'anxiety' settled back in. "Maybe I shouldn't have done it.... But then what would have happened?" she wonders to herself. "Maybe THIS might have been avoided!" I spoke menacingly. Butler pulls a sack over her head. 

"If you're thinking of screaming, think again. I have a dart gun that's fully loaded." I hear a quiet gulp. Otherwise, she stays quiet. We carry her to the car. When we put her in the boot, Butler tapes her hands behind her back with Duct-Tape. Butler takes the sack off and she takes a deep breath. She looks at Butler, then at me. She takes a much longer look at me. I feel the 'anxiety' throbbing harder than ever, "Speak up then. Don't you have anything to say?" I snap at her. She widens her eyes and shakes her head at me, which makes the 'anxiety' feel worse. 

"So, it was you who hacked my account? Or did you get someone else to do it for you?" I snap at her, "Me." She trembles. I motion to Butler to shoot her. As he does, I feel a flash guilt run through me. I don't know why. We've done the same to Holly and I didn't feel guilt. I must be ill. We close the car boot and drive back to the plane.

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