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The front door slammed, jolting Holly from her thoughts. She had been playing with Myles and Beckett until Artemis came home from school.

Holly had been visiting the Fowls on and off for a few days now, since she had met Artemis in the school. It was on and off because she still had her LEP duties, but Trouble pretty much let her do whatever she wanted. Holly suspected that this was because Trouble's feelings for her extended past friendship, but she paid it no mind. She didn't really care.

Remembering the first day Holly had seen him in over two years, she recalled how he had had a clean, thin chinstrap decorating his jaw and chin. Holly usually detested facial hair but she had strangely liked Artemis's. A lot.

As Holly visited over the course of almost a week, on and off, she almost chuckled as she thought of how Artemis's beard had changed over the last few days. It had gone from a thin chinstrap to clean-shaven, then to stubble, then once again the chinstrap. Holly wondered what he would be sporting today.

She looked up from Myles and Beckett's game, and was met with the sight of the young twins hanging all over Artemis as he tried to drop his backpack.

Yeah, Holly was surprised too that he had a backpack. No briefcase? Artemis had changed more than she thought. He was in jeans and a tee shirt again today. As he ruffled the twin's hair and tried to juggle them both at once, he looked over at Holly and smiled.

Holly smiled back. She was slightly confused though, as before he saw her he had been looking a little confused and seemed to be trying to get a grasp on something.

"Hey, Artemis," she said, waving and starting to get up. "What's u-…" she trailed off, catching sight of his face.

He looked at her strangely. "Is something blocking your throat?" He asked, concerned at the way she had stopped speaking so abruptly. Okay, he hadn't changed that much.

Holly swallowed, and choked down a laugh. "Uh, no. I'm just wondering what's up with your, um, beard situation."

Artemis was confused. "Beard situation?" He set the twins down, who ran off to play outside. He reached up and ran his hand over his jaw in what seemed like a contemplative fashion, but Holly really knew that he was feeling what was so very strange about his beard.

Holly, unable to take it anymore, burst into giggles. "Starting a new trend of sporadic facial hair?" She asked him teasingly. He stared at her for a second with his bright blue eyes boring into her own boring hazel ones, and he ran into the bathroom.

Holly's laughter followed him all the way to the bathroom. He leaned into the mirror, barely taking note of his defined, to die for cheekbones and great bone structure and focusing on the seemingly randomly-placed hair patches growing untamed along his cheeks, chin, jaw, and neck.

"Ah, damn," he muttered, rubbing his jaw and chin. He'd had no idea he looked so idiotic… no wonder Holly was laughing.

Deciding to not let Holly laugh at him any longer, he yelled from the bathroom, "I'm shaving so that's the last you'll ever see of my excellently placed beard."

She laughed, and then paused. "Shave it into a chinstrap again," she said after a few moments of silence. He looked at his reflection, wondering why his cheeks were suddenly pooling with red into a blush.

Why was he blushing? Oh, well, he thought, grabbing the razor and shaving cream.

Fifteen minutes later, he walked back into the living room where Holly was lounging on the couch. She sat up when she saw him, and grinned widely. Staring at his beard, she said, "When all else fails, Artemis, go with the chinstrap. There isn't any way you could go wrong with it." He chuckled and sat down next to her.

After a few moments of comfortable silence, Holly turned to him. He looked back, eyebrows raised questioningly.

"Why did you walk in the door with a confused face, like you were trying to figure out something?"

He looked away from her, turning his head away. Holly was confused.

When he finally looked back at her, his face was almost completely red. Holly thought the look was rather becoming on him and vaguely noted that it was probably the first time hw had ever seen him blush- excluding of course the, um, incident involving time travel.

"What's so embarrassing about being confused?" Holly asked dryly. "Most of us feel confusion on a daily basis."

He sighed. "It's not that I'm embarrassed about being confused… it's more confusion about something that happened at school."

Holly stared. "What could possibly happen at school that could make you confused?"

He sighed again. "Well, in senior year there is a thing called 'Senior Polls', in which people get voted, for instance, 'Most Likely to Succeed', or 'Cutest Couple', or 'Best Car'."

Holly nodded. "So, did you win one? Lemme guess- you won 'Smartest'?"

He blushed again and shook his head. "I won…" Holly made the 'keep going' gesture with her hand.

"I was voted 'Best Eyes'," Artemis blurted out, his cheeks going even darker. Holly's mouth dropped open.

"Artemis, that's awesome!" she said excitedly. Clearly, she wasn't the only one who had noticed that he had beautiful eyes (and beard). "And it's totally true too, your eyes are amazing." Once she said that, she immediately blushed insanely hard. That was not supposed to have slipped out.

Artemis gaped at her, then shut his mouth smartly. "Oh, thanks," he said steadily. "I was wondering if it had been a joke or a mistake."

Holly laughed. "I'm surprised you didn't win 'Best Looking'," She said. She literally almost slapped her forehead. Why don't you just go tell him that you have a massive crush on him, too?

He laughed, all traces of embarrassment seemingly gone. Holly didn't think that was fair, considering her face had settled at somewhere around three thousand degrees.

"They didn't have a 'Best Looking', but thanks for the compliments," he said, laughing softly. He stood up.

"I'm going to get a drink, you want one?" he asked, smiling coyly. He turned around before she could respond and started walking towards the kitchen.

Holly felt like she had whiplash. What had just happened? She decided to follow him into the kitchen to find out. When he turned around and grinned at her once more, she knew that she'd made the right decision.

Annnd, that's it! Hope you guys weren't disappointed with the extension. If I get any more inspirations, I'll extend it even father lol.

I unfortunately probably won't be able to write any more Arty one-shot for a while cuz track just started up again, so sorry! Hope you guys were satisfied with this one! :D

Please review! I'm off to see the Harry Potter movie! *spazzes out at the thought of seeing Remus Lupin and Draco Malfoy again* AHHHH!

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