[artemis and holly au!]
The Fowl family has a lot of control over Dublin, and Ireland in general but not for the reason many think.
Yes, Artemis Fowl Senior is greatly intelligent and his eldest son is smarter, but they only rose to power due to how long they have resided there. Over centuries, the Fowl family has lived there, slowly attaining power and tight grip onto the country to get what they want in the end.
No, it's not gold or money, it's not even the cliché "rule-the-world" power. They wanted it so they could acquire blood, human blood to be exact. The Fowl family was vampires, ancient, pureblooded vampires-- actually the last of their kind-- and they need much more blood than normal vampires. Taking control over the country was rather easy, due to Artemis Senior's natural, criminal mind. But they only truly succeeded because of Artemis Fowl the II.
Now, though, Artemis Fowl is in his Fledging stage, where his thirst is increased extremely high as his body is developing. It is rather important he gets enough blood, or his body may not develop like it is supposed to. This isn't a difficult task with his butler, Dom, helping get a new HC-- or better know as "Human Cattle"-- every few days or so. Everything is well and fine with this process, until on day a certain girl shows him a side he never sees from humans.
Her aggressiveness and lack of fear to talk back to him is the reason he is curious in the first place, but all of her emotions and how she acts is the growing reason. Soon enough, this curiousness grows into a hungry desire to know more about this girl. Artemis doesn't hesitate to try to know everything he can about her, as a way to quench this desire. But little does Artemis know that this leads to a train reaction of strange emotions that the young vampire has not experienced yet before in his lifetime...