This is my first Mummy fanfic, so go easy on me. I would like to know what you honestly think
though.
Forever May Not Be Long Enough
For as long
as Evelyn could remember, her brother Jonathan was always the clown of the
family. Even as their parents would
take them along on their archaeological excursions, Evelyn would be enthralled
at the opportunity to be among the places of the past, Jonathan would be
forever trying to scare the heck out of her.
She had to hand it to him that he could always make her see the humorous
in the morbid. He was the living among
the dead, forever interjecting his well-spoken opinion or wise cracks on the
issues at hand.
One day,
when she was only twelve years old, her father had taken them into the Egyptian
Museum of Antiquities. This had not
been the first, nor was it the last time that Evelyn would find herself in the
museum. She had taken a book off of one
of the shelves in the library, in which she was thoroughly absorbed, as her
father and Jonathan went God-knows-where into the behind-the-scenes structure
of the museum. Though she was extremely
bookish and would more-than-likely be a librarian or an author when she grew
up, she soon tired of turning pages and took the book and shelved it as the
curator had taught her. Suddenly she
paused and listened… A thumping sound came from behind the bookshelf behind
her. She spun around in time enough to
dodge several books that slid off the shelf thudded at her feet. She stared at the place from which they
came, dumbfounded. She quickly stooped
down and gathered the books in her arms.
As she was doing this, two more books fell from their positions, one
nearly hitting her head, the other skimming the back of her left leg. She reeled back in shock.
"Hey! That hurt!"
She exclaimed. A moan permeated
through the bookshelf, causing Evelyn to drop the books that she had been
carrying and flee wide-eyed out of the library. She ran right smack into Jonathan. He reached forward and snagged hold of her arm as she careened
by.
"Evy! I say, what's the hurry?" Jonathan was clearly struggling to keep a
straight face while eyeing Evelyn's pallid face, but Evelyn paid it no mind
because she was too busy trying to pry herself from his steady grasp. Evelyn didn't want to answer him, but after
looking into his face, which had changed to be creased with worry lines, she
spoke up.
"Just
received a bit of a fright." Evelyn
finally said. After taking a second or
two to calm her nerves, she composed herself, straightened her shirt and the
brown and tan, Egyptian print skirt that was a little too big for her as it was
their mother's, and took a step away from her brother. "It was nothing, really." Evelyn walked over to a nearby torch stand
and took the torch.
"Nothing? Books practically throwing themselves down
off their shelves at you are nothing?"
Jonathan asked as he followed her into the ancient artifact section of
the museum. Evelyn turned on him, her
face flushed red.
"Oh." She glared at her reflection in a display
case, not wanting to even glance at her prankster brother. The torch cast a flickering, eerie glow over
her childish, heart-shaped face.
"Where's Dad?" She abruptly
changed the topic, not wanting to let Jonathan have the opportunity to laugh at
her tendency to be a bit flighty. But
then again, he knew it all-to-well as he had scared her out of her wits on more
than one occasion.
"He's
downstairs talking to the curator." Jonathan
explained, watching both his and Evelyn's reflections in the display case. Then his eyes drifted past the reflections
and settled on the gold bangles that were housed within the case. He didn't see Evelyn light the torch next to
him with her own and walk away towards the mummy display.
"I say,
Evy. You are the easiest person to
scare."
"Mmm hmm."
Came Evelyn's answer. She was busy
looking at the mummy of a pharaoh.
Suddenly Evelyn's torch, that she had set down next to where she was
standing flickered and died. Evelyn let
out a scream as someone grabbed her from behind…
Forever May Not Be Long Enough
By: SparkleAnne