Artemis, the F.B.I., and Me Rewriting the Course of History...

Well, over the past few weeks I've been thinking about Artemis' past and this one encounter with the F.B.I. he once had...I realized I could expand much more upon that premise and besides it's only logical that the F.B.I. would keep looking for somebody with that kind of power.



I'm going to try not to spoil anything that happens in the first book in this post. This new plot is in the fourth book, so it might confuse people a bit, but I'll keep it simple.



Artemis led a lot of different lives...and it's finally caught up with him <3

Over the 600 years he's been alive, he's had to dissapear every time someone's come close to discovering that he's not exactly normal. Especially when they look exactly the same no matter how old they get! So, about every 10 years or less (deppending on the circumstances) he's had to either leave town, fake his own death, or just vanish into thin air.

He was involved in every war that America has ever been in, and that includes even the revolutionary war. Now, nobody would realise this with all the changes in command all the time, yes? Of course. He signed up under different alias' anyways.

Once the age of technology encorached upon his ability to remain unknown, he had to be a lot more careful with where he went and how he handled people. For example...

He was at the Twin towers on 9/11, and actually was right near the impact of the first plane. The explosion shock wave broke all the windows and sent multiple people flying out through them- including Artemis. As they fell, he teleported them all safelyto the ground. Amatuer footage captured him doing this. He knew he was exposed, and he subsequently didn't try to hide his powers anymore. He teleported in and out of the collapsed buildings helping survivors to get out for over an hour. He never said anything. The public was in panic, and many of them thought he could be responsible for the attacks. He dissapeared after that hour. He became known as the infamous "9/11 Man", and nobody knew whether he was a hero or a villian. Many beleived him to be the product of a mass hallucenation due to lack of oxygen or perhaps a chemical used by terrorists. The F.B.I. got ahold of the footage and immediatley stopped all broadcasting of any footage or information about him. Soon people began to forget about the man and many simply labeled it as a hoax.

The F.B.I. had matched the footage from the 9/11 incedent to Artemis, but...

When they attempted to match the face to anyone in their records... They came up with at least 20 exact facial matches on thier computer system alone, spanning at least 50 years. AND THEY WERE QUITE CLEARLY THE SAME PERSON. Dumbfounded and realising that they were on to something insanely important, they searched though even more records from much longer ago, including all the military records they could get their hands on. He was an exact match to over a hundred different people.

They arrested him at his home as he was making preparations to dissapear again, and brought him into an interrogation cell. When his interrogater asked him what he was, he responded with a simple "I'm a witch.". Teleporting behind the examiners chair, he smoothly asked, "...And what are you going to do about that?" and vanished into thin air.

Four years later.

After dissapearing to avoid the mass hysteria of 9/11, Artemis moved to Denver, Colorado.

He found himself drunk one night, and used the alleyways to get home, not wanting to accidentilly expose himself due to his temporary lack of judgement. He had been drinking with a woman named Shelly Desmoine, and walking down the alleyways he heard what he thought was her screaming. He ran to where it came from and found her struggling against a man who was trying to rape her. Artemis fought him off, but he was so drunk that he thought he was back in medeival England, and to him Shelly was Myra, his true love. A neighbor had called the police, but when they arrived they though Artemis was the man assaulting her, because he was the only man at the scene of the crime. They handcuffed him, and, hallucenating that he was being dragged away from Myra by Veronian soldiers (yeah, he was just THAT drunk) He turned around and sliced all three of them completely in half with bolt of magick. The girl screamed and ran; and as the blood sprayed on his face, he was brought back to the present. Realising what he'd justdone, he sat in shock in the pool of blood until back up forces arrived and arrested him.

The cop car dash camera had caught it all.

He was brought to court, and explained everything. I mean, EVERYTHING; of course nobody beleived him and thought he was crazy, but the footage from the dash cam was enough to make them at least listen to and consider what he had to say. The F.B.I. realised who he was as the trial aired live on TV. Artemis was probably the first man in the history of the current judicial system to choose to represent himself. After the last of the opposing evidence was presented, he stood up and addressed the whole court on his own behalf. "I killed those men. I admit to that. But it was an accident." he turned to the deaseaced's families. "I am so very sorry for what's happened, and I wish there were a way to reverse it, but there's not. And I deserve to die for it, whether an accident or not. I know that. ...And I have no doubt in my mind that every one of you in this courtroom today will vote guilty. And I deserve it, I know...but you see, I promised something to someone once, and I cannot permit myself to leave this earth without fufilling it. And so, I cannot allow myself to die." Suddenly there was a flash of bright light where he had been, and he was gone. On the tv in the corner the funeral for the policemen killed was being broadcasted live. The moment he dissapeared from the courtroom, a man in an orange prisoners uniform appeared at the very end of the line of servicemen, who, unnoticing, gave the ceremonial final solute. The man saluted along with them, a quiet tear running down his cheek.

And every single person in that courtroom voted innnocent.