A/N: I don't own anything in this fic but OCs and ideas. Hope you like it.
To be entirely honest, no one saw it coming. None of the gods expected Anubis to betray the laws in such a manner. He was the one who abided by most of the god's laws. But now, Ra had discovered his treason. And now an innocent life was to pay the ultimate price.
Anubis loved his daughter, his little Kebecht, with every breath in him. She was his pride and joy. He promised her someday she'd be a goddess, though her mother was mortal.
It was night now in the land of Egypt. Kebecht and her mother were safe, Anubis was with them now, and he wouldn't leave 'til much later in the morning, as was his plan. He was curled up to little Kebecht in his black jackal form, just so she could stay safe. Kebecht was, as said, his pride and joy. A little child, only six years old. She had her mother's looks, but her father's sharp eyes. She was beautiful to him, as was her mother, and he wasn't about ready to let anything happen to either of them.
But it wasn't to be. Ra sent Sekhmet, goddess of war, down to the house of Anubis's lover and release a demon of death upon them. His word was his way, and so the deed was done. Anubis, heartbroken and angry, confronted Ra about this. But it proved no good. He was the god's king and he wouldn't allow such treachery ever again. After that, Anubis hardened his heart to both mortals and gods.
Several centuries passed and the gods were seemingly forgotten. But they lived among man now, most without their animal headed disguises. Anubis was now working as a grave digger in a small American town near Death Valley. That set the stage for a new love story and was the prologue to another epic adventure.
He met Amy like that. She travelled far and long until finally her car broke down not too far away from Anubis's graveyard. Originally, she simply asked if they were any places for her to stay until she could get a mechanic to fix her car.
He told her that there was nothing nearby for miles. But also added that he was a decent mechanic and could fix her car for cheap and she could stay with him. Amy was grateful for this and so stayed with Anubis for a few months. She watched him work on her car and sometimes helped him with whatever she could. And, well, as these things happen, Anubis fell in love with Amy and Amy with Anubis. She didn't want to leave him when the time came. This devotion was too much for the death god and so he let her stay.
The two considered each other married, though no one bound their hands in marriage. They were close, really close, and it was only natural that eventually Amy would become pregnant with Anubis's child. This frightened him beyond all thought. He had no choice but to reveal his true identity to Amy, who was surprised that her husband was a god. But she was accepting of it, and even a little enthusiastic about it. And so for a time, they didn't have a care.
But tragedy once again knocked on the jackal god's door. Since there were no doctors or hospitals near their home, he could barely help his beloved with the hard labor of childbirth. She died shortly after having their daughter, whom he named Selena Marie, as was her mother's dying wish. He wanted to blame someone, anyone, for the death of his Amy, but there was no one. No one but himself. God, why did he have to live so far away from humans?!
For months while he took care of Selena he berated himself harshly. He had buried her in a special tomb he made for her, not exactly a pyramid but not a crypt like humans used today. Without her mother though, he knew this little gift wouldn't survive, no matter how much he loved her and tried to take care of her. He had no choice but to give her up to a mortal family. The hardest thing he had ever done in his entire life, and he hated it with every breath in him.
Selena somehow sensed her father's distress. She mourned with him in a sense when her mother died. And it almost seemed like she knew he was gone too when he left her on the doorstep of a pleasant, childless couple miles away from Death Valley. She cried for him, and he for her, but he couldn't go back. He could never see her again, and it broke his heart to know that.
For several years he spent away at his graveyard and the valley where he met his one true love and had his second child. He didn't respond to any of the other god's messages, not even his own mother's. Without Amy and Selena, he had nothing. In a way, he was nothing.
Many years he spent desolate in that desert. He sometimes had hope to see his little girl again, but other days that hope faded away and left him an empty shell. The past was repeating itself and his heart breaking all over again. Now it was beyond all repair and there was nothing that could be done to change his mind or thoughts. No one could save him now, and so the death god suffered alone. Miserably alone.
But things were about to turn around....
