Egyptian Times Chapter One -
Haley Stood on her balcony looking over the desert in front of her, she watched as the slaves worked under the hot sun. She never thought it was fair that just because she was born to royalty that she should live like she did while others lived.
"Sister, why do you stand overlooking the world?" Her brother Lucas asked as he approached her.
"The world is an unfair think Lucas. Why should we be here and they be there?" She asked him.
"We were born to this life, it is our luck." he replied.
"Luck isn't enough." She stormed out of the room.
She hated to be here while the rest of the world waited for her. She decided to break the rules and escape to the outside world.
As she got to the outside doors her brother caught up to her.
"Where are you going Haley?"
"Lucas I want to go see a little bit of the outside world. You get to all the time, I want to once, please let me." She looked into his eyes and did her cute little face and he couldn't say no.
"I'll get the guards distracted." he replied and she thanked his with a hug.
He had the guards stand down and Haley left she got outside and walked down the steps. She didn't know where to go, she walked to the streets of the city.
She realized that she had no money and nothing to eat and hunger was getting to her. then it came to her, she had on a pile of gold jewelry.
She went to a stand selling fruit. "Can I trade you this for some of your fruit?" She held out a gold ring.
"yes m'am, that ring would get you two apples." he replied.
"OK." she held out her ring and the man grabbed her wrist he began to take off her bracelet. "Help!" She yelled as she tried to get her hand free. No one on the street even turned to help her. The man was starting to hurt her. "help!" She yelled again.
Just then a young man, probably about her age came up behind the man. "Let her go." he said in a commanding voice.
"She stole from me." he lied. "I was trying to get my pay."
The young man looked to Haley. She was outraged. "you liar." She yelled.
"You better not be telling a lie, if I find out you are I will cut your throat."
"Fine, lady, you can have the apples for free." he said, handing her the ring back.
The young man let him go and Haley walked off.
"Are you sure you're OK miss?" he asked.
"Yes now I am." She looked at him really for the first time. He really was one of the most handsome men she had ever seen.
"Well I hate it when men like that take advantage of girls who are vulnerable." he replied.
"I am not vulnerable. sir." She replied insulted.
"I know I know I didn't mean it like that. I just meant it that men like that try to take advantage of beautiful young girls who are all by themselves." he replied, she had gotten herself en-fixed in looking into his beautiful deep blue eyes.
"Oh." She replied weakly
"So why haven't I ever seen you before, I know most people around here and I don't think I would forget a girl with your natural beauty." he replied, he was a very good talker. he moved his hand to stroke the side of her face.
She didn't know what to say to that. she had become drawn to him. She never felt like this before. when he touched her she became weak at the knees, they buckled. he caught her just before she fell.
"Are you OK?" He asked.
"Yeah I think so," she replied, "That's never happened before."
He just smiled. "I'm Nathan."
"Haley." She replied. She still couldn't take her eyes off him.
"You're very beautiful Haley." Nathan said with a smile. he had never seen a girl who he had ever been so attracted to. He wanted to kiss her right there, but she looked like she might just die if he did.
Little did he know that she felt the same. They just stood there, the sun began to set.
"Come here." He said. "I want to show you sunset from my house."
He lead her to a bigger home, it was full of people, but one of the bigger ones of the street. he opened a curtain made out of ripped material.
She of course had seen other beautiful sunsets from her room, but she never had seen one that made her feel so happy.
After the sun set she realized that she had been out too late.
"I need to go." She said out of nowhere.
"Alright. I will take you home." he replied.
"No I can walk." She said, not wanting him to know where she was.
"No." he said, "I don't want you to have to go by yourself."
"Alright." She replied.
They walked to near the palace, "This is close enough." She said.
"Alright. can I see you again Haley?" he asked.
"I don't know." She replied.
"Please?" He asked.
"I really don't know, if I can get out again." She replied.
"Then can I have a kiss goodbye just in case I never see you again?" he asked.
She smiled but before she could say yes he had already pulled herself close to him and began to kiss her passionately.
She never felt like she had ever before. he broke free from her. "I know I just met you, but I've never felt like this for anyone before." He said.
"Me too." She said, her knees buckled again. He held her up again and pulled her into another kiss.
"Haley!" Yelled a voice behind her. It was Lucas.
"Luke." She replied horrified.
Nathan just stood there. "I'm sorry I didn't realize you were with someone." Nathan said coldly.
"He's my brother." She replied almost in tears.
"You cannot conduct yourself like this Haley." Lucas commanded. "I let you out of the palace for one day and you do this."
"The palace?" Nathan asked.
"She didn't tell you then? She is Haley, daughter of the pharaoh. And you have broken the law."
"Lucas no!" Haley yelled. "Don't turn him in. He didn't know."
"But you did." Lucas replied. "You get out of here." He yelled to Nathan, he didn't move. He looked at Haley who mouthed. 'go.' He left, not taking his eyes off of her.
"Sister, how could you conduct yourself like that?" Lucas asked.
"Lucas I wanted freedom. I got it for one day and I never meant to meet him, I never meant to fall in lo-"
"Don't finish that sentence." he yelled.
"But Lucas."
"No, I forbid you to see him again. If you do, then I will tell father."
"Lucas No!" Haley said.
"Yes, you cannot see him, it is forbidden." He replied.
She broke down and cried. Lucas knew that when his sister cried he always gave in to her. "Haley, you know I love you so much, and I just don't want you to get your heart broken."
"But I really really like him." She replied.
"I know I know." he replied pulling his crying sister into a hug.
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Nathan got back to his home, the princess? why did he have to fall for the her, but he had, and now what could he do?
He fell back onto his straw mattress, he would probably never see her again, her brother would do that for sure, besides, what could he give her, he had nothing and she was everything.
Chapter 2 -
Haley had spent the last week in her room looking out on the desert. A couple times she could have sworn she had seen Nathan working in the hot sun, but she never could be sure.
Nathan had gone by the palace tons of times since the day he had seen Haley, he wished he could see her again, but he knew her brother would definitely make sure he wouldn't.
Lucas had watched his sister melt into this depressive state for the last few days. he hadn't told their father because he would have her punished and he didn't want to have his sister hurt, but he hated to see her the way she was too. She never left her room and he figured that his father would soon notice.
Nathan was taking his normal walk that evening he walked up past the palace and he saw torches up in the windows, he wondered where Haley was at that exact moment. Mid thought he heard something behind him, he turned to see what it was, but when he turned he had something convering his face. He struggled to get free but he couldn't. He eventually gave up, her brother must have decided to have me killed He thought But she was worth it. he let whoever had his arms guide him, he felt some steps and he soon saw thin bits of light through the material over his eyes. He still had no idea where he was, nor where he was going.
he was stopped eventually he heard knocking. "Come to the door."
"No!" A muffled voice said.
"Yes." The first voice commanded again.
"Fine," the second muffled one said again.
Nathan heard a door open and the people hold him moved him forward then let go. Someone pulled the material off of him. He squinted his eyes a little then he realized he was face to face with Lucas, Haley's brother.
"You seem to be the only thing that can make her happy right now." he said as he turned to leave the room
Nathan turned around, there was Haley just as stunned as him.
They stood there in silence for a few minutes. Neither knew what to say.
"I've missed you." Haley finally said, it was a weak thing to say, but it worked, it broke the silence.
"Me too." He replied. He stepped closer to her.
She did the same. He pulled her into a kiss.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a princess?" he asked as he broke free from her.
"It would have changed everything. And besides half of those people in the marketplace would want me dead as the princess." She replied. "if you want to leave go ahead."
"Why would I want to leave?" he asked confused.
"Because if my father finds out, he will kill you." She replied.
"Then I guess I will die, because there is no way I'm leaving this spot." He said as he kissed her forehead.
She buried her head in his bare chest. "I think I've fallen in love with you." She said.
"And I know I've fallen in love with you." She looked up at his face again.
"I don't want to lose you." She said.
"Who ever said you would lose me?" He asked.
"Life." She replied.
"Well we met and they would have to kill me before I give up on you." he said with a laugh.
"that's not a laughing matter, it really could happen." She said.
"Well then we have to make the best of what we have now don't we." He gave her another kiss.
They became more and more consumed by the kiss. She pulled him back wards and they fell onto her bed made of feathers, him on top of her. He stopped.
"Don't." She said and she began to kiss him again.
Lucas was down the hall he heard voices outside. His father.
"Are you sure you don't understand why my daughter has not left her room in five days?" He asked his advisor's.
Lucas jumped up. "Father." He called.
"Yes my son. Ahh, you will know, why is your sister upset so much lately. Her attendants have told me that she hasn't even eaten much."
"I do not know father, let me talk to her."
"I am her father, and the Pharaoh. I will talk to her."
"She may be more comfortable talking to me, I am closer to her age, and we are very close father, please let me?"
He nodded. "Go ahead my son." he moved his hand to let him go through.
Lucas ran down to his sisters door. he knocked on it hard.
He didn't hear anything for a few seconds. "Coming." Came Haley's voice soon after.
She came to the door, she looked messy. "What is going on?" Lucas asked.
"Nothing Lucas." Haley replied.
"Well he needs to go, father will be in to talk to you soon."
Nathan immediately ran to the door. he gave Haley a kiss on the cheek. "Goodbye." he said as he ran out. Lucas looked at his body, he had his sisters busy decoration paint on him.
He eyed Haley. But walked into her room. "What are you going to tell father?"
"I will tell him that I am saddened because I want to have more freedom, you can leave te palace but I can't he will believe that."
"You just want freedom so you can see him." He said with a look in his eyes.
"What's wrong with that?" She asked.
"Well other than the fact that he is probably taking advantage of you." he pointed to her body.
"You have no idea what you are talking about Lucas." she was angry.
"Well i don't care about what you do behind closed doors, but remember, father will be in here in a few minutes, you may want to wash up."
She did. he left and her father came in a few minutes. She told him the thing about her wanted freedom. He stood up. "it has never been like this before, but the times are changing, so I will think about it." He leaned toward his daughter and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
She stood up and smiled. Everything was falling into place.
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Nathan stood outside the palace, he looked up to the balcony off of Haley's room. He wished she could just come with him be with him forever.
Chapter 3 Ancient Egypt -
"Lucas summon my daughter."
"You mean my sister." Lucas replied to his father.
"Yes, go."
Lucas went. He got to Haley's room. She had been in this state of happiness since the other night. Lucas hated to think about what they had done that night, so he put it in the back of his mind.
"Haley." he said as he got to her door. He heard her talking to someone inside.
He walked in, there was Haley talking to their father's advisiors daughters Brooke and Peyton.
"it was so, ah magical." She sighed.
"You know if you keep telling people about him you will get caught sister." Lucas said.
"Oh hi Lucas. Let me guess father wants me to go see him, alright I will."
He was a little stunned about the way she talked. She was halfway down the hall.
He turned to the other two girls.
"Hello." They said nicely. They bowed.
"You don't have to do that, I'm not the Pharoah." he replied.
"Yet." Brooke said and the two girls got up and began to walk out.
he stood there looking around his little sisters room. he wished of all ways that he could get her to not love this guy anymore. He knew she would have her heart broken. But she had never been this happy before.
"Lucas Lucas Lucas. He is going to let me take trips out of the palace. But they will be supervised but I can get away." She said happily "I'm going today!"
"Be careful Haley."
"I know I can take care of myself."
"OK."
She got all ready for her trip.
She met her father by the palace enterance. he had a whole group of people to go with her.
"Father?" She said upset. "This is worse than the palace.
"Well do you want to be stuck in the palace all the time?"
"Thank you father." She said. She bowed her head and left.
She walked the streets of the market all around her people bowed to her, she hated it, now she knew what Lucas hated.
She made her plan to sneak off when she saw Nathan. She smiled and he 'mouthed meet me here.'
She nodded. And after a few minutes she managed to sneak off ito a crowd.
"Where is the princess?" Asked one of the guards. They searched frantically for her.
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"Hello." Nathan said coming up behind her. "my princess."
She smiled. "My prince."
"No. not really."
"Well you are mine." She replied.
They walked off to his house.
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"Your highness, your daughter is missing." Said one of his advisors after being informed.
He was outraged. "What? my daughter? where did you lose her?"
"A crowd." he replied.
"We must find her. I will deal with all of you after we find my daughter. Lucas you come and help."
He nodded and took off, he wished he knew where to find this Nathan, then he could stop this from ending terribly.
They left the palace. They said they were going to search the entire city.
"I love you." Nathan said to Haley.
"I love you too." She replied back to him.
"Good." He said as he pulled her into another kiss.
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Haley's father insisted on Lucas coming with him. Lucas kept his eyes open.
"We must search all of the homes." He commanded.
He sent his men in all directions and he walked toward one end of the city, it was the even poorer end of the city.
They had gone through over ten homes.
They went to the door of a huge home with a lot of families living in it.
He searched each one. he got to one on the top floor, knocked on the door very hard.
"Go away." A voice called from the other side.
"I am the Pharoah I will not go away. I am looking for my daughter and you will let me in."
There was no sound on the other side of the door. he nodded to his guards to break the door down.
"Haley!" he yelled. "What has this man done to you?"
She stood there with nothing to say "Nothing Father, this is my choice."
"What?" He yelled.
"I chose this father."
"Well it isn't aloud. Arrest him." Her father yelled.
"Nathan run." Haley said. he had nowhere to go.
he ran to the window and jumped.
Haley screamed.
She ran to the window. looked down. Her father;s guards had caught him after he slip off when he got to the bottom. She cried and slid herself down the wall. Chapter 4 -
Haley jsut sat with herself up against the wall until her father's guards carrried her back to the palace.
"I am very disappointed in you my daughter. Why would you lie to me and sink to that level of people?"
"I met him when I snuck out of the palace a while ago." Haley replied.
"I am asshamed no daughter of mine will be with a slave."
"But I love him." She screamed. "get out of my room."
"No one will talk to me like that. I am leader of this country and no one will talk to the Pharoah like that." he commanded.
She wasn't afraid of her dad at all. "No." She paused. "I will talk to you like that. I am still your daughter."
He got very angry but then he saw more tears fill his young daughters eyes. He was just like Lucas he couldn't stand to see Haley cry, so he stormed out of the room.
She stayed in her room all night Lucas came up that evening.
"Haley. How are you doing?"
"How do you think I am doing Lucas?"
"Well I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but he is to be executed at dawn of Next sunday because it is a holiday this SUnday. I'm sorry let me help you." He reached out to hug her but she pulled away.
"Go away Lucas. I know it is a holiday this sunday. You can't help me, not unless you can save him before a week and a half. " She cried and he tried to come to comfort her again but she pushed him away.
He left.
Nathan was taken by force to the dungeons of the palace, the only thoughts going through his mind were of Haley. The times they had spent together. What trouble she was going to be in. How she would be after he was gone. he knew if she loved him even half as much as he loved her then she would be miserable for a long time.
he was thrown into a cell in the dungeon. he sat there for what seemed like hours. After a few hours the Pharoah himself came downstairs.
"You stand up." He commanded Nathan.
He obeyed.
"You are in love with my daughter are you not?" He asked.
"Yes sire I am." he replied confidently.
"You are beneath her." he said coldly.
"But I love her and she loves me." Nathan said his voice getting louder.
"And you make her happier than I have seen her for a long time, since her mother was alive, but I am bound by the law. Any royalty who becomes involved with a commoner will be punished my the commoners death. Yours will be the sunday after next. Goodbye." And he walked away.
Nathan smashed himself into the wall he broke down and the guards had to restrain him from hurting himself any more than that.
Aventually he calmed down and curled up into the corner .
Haley got no sleep that night or any otehr night since then. She tried every possible way to get him out of the prison making palns in her mind but all of them ended with her getting him killed in the end.
It was dawn of the sunday of Nathan's death. She got herself ready for the day, she wanted to look beautiful for Nathan this morning, she wanted to look strong.
She met with Lucas before the execution.
"Haley you don't want to be down there." He tried to convince her.
"I want to be where Nathan is, besides, I've seen people be executed before."
"But not a person you cared for." Lucas begged her not to go.
He failed, they got down to the grounds, their father was there already. A crowd was beginning to join them. Haley stood there completely still she tried so hard not to cry and until Nathan came out she had suceeded.
He was walked out with two of the palace guards. he saw Haley and he would give anything to see her with a face that wasn't this terrible.
Nathan was going to be beheaded as his death. Haley wanted to break down but she wanted Nathan to see her strong.
The executioner came on to the platform he had a huge sword in his hands.
Her father was standing up there next to them. Watching every move.
Nathan was forced into the position for them to kill him.
Haley began to breathe faster and heavier.
The sword was sharpened.
She stopped breathing altogether.
The executioner raised the sword.
Haley ran she jumped up onto the platform and covered Nathan.
"No Father." She yelled. "I won't let you do it."
"I am bound by the law Haley now move."
"No. I will not move. If you want to kill him I will die too. As will my child."
Silence entered the area there was no sound at all. Even Nathan was shocked.
"What?" her father asked.
"My child will die too." Haley said as strong as she could. "Don't kill him father. If anything, let me and him leave the country but don't kill him."
He stood there everyone waited for his decision "I have come to a decision........"
Chapter 5
"My decision is based on two things. First my daughter I am ashamed of you for sinking to this level."
"I have not done anything wrong father. Love is not wrong."
"Which is why I have chosen to let the two of you live. I can not tamper with what the gods have chosen. Let him go." he motioned to the guards to let Nathan free.
He stood up and hugged Haley. "I love you." he whispered.
"I love you too." Haley replied.
"I know." And he kissed her.
Everything from that moment on was a blur. In the end though, Haley and Nathan were back in her room.
nothing was said, they were happy just being in each other's arms.
Lucas interrupted and hour later.
"Haley?" he asked as he entered the room.
"Hello Lucas." She replied.
"Father summons to speak with Nathan."
"Alright?" Haley asked Nathan.
"Yes." he replied. He followed Lucas down to the main room.
Haley said up in her room she was happy. truly and completely happy.
Happiness is a powerful thing, it can come and go in an instant. it can stay for only seconds or it can last forever.
It wasn't lasting forever, not her happiness. She heard a yell from somewhere else in the palace.
She immediately thought of Nathan and ran as fast as she could to the main hall.
She found a confusing situation.
"Nathan," she screamed as she ran over to him. he was on the ground with her father's guards on top of him, the guard was dead. Nathan's body was lifeless. "what have you done?" She cried.
She looked to her father. He did not look satisfied. Next Haley looked to Lucas who was holding a sharp sword.
She cried her eyes out. What had happened.
"Haley." Lucas tried to comfort her.
"You killed him, you killed him Lucas you killed him. How could you."
"I did not kill him." He said calmly.
"Then what happened, why is he dead?" She said between sobs.
"Father had him summoned down here for him to be killed." Lucas began. "He had his strongest guard ambush him as he came in. But father didn't realize that just because he was his strongest guard doesn't mean he is the strongest in the land."
"You aren't making any sense Lucas." Haley replied still undeniably confused.
"I killed father's guard just as he was to kill Nathan. He fell to the floor on top of Nathan causing him to fall too."
"A fall should not kill him. What happened?"
"I don't know sister I don't know."
"Why did you do it father?" Haley screamed changing her focus from Lucas to her father. "Why would you want him dead?"
"He is not good enough for you." He yelled.
"No. he was right for me. You are not good enough for me. I deserve better than you." Haley screamed.
her father looked ashamed he dropped himself into his chair. "My child, you are right. I have taken away what should have been the most important thing in your life, your happiness."
"No you have not." Said a muffled voice in the room.
Haley turned to Nathan. He was moving. "Nathan." She exclaimed. Between her and Lucas they managed to get the body off of Nathan. "Are you alright?"
"I am now." He replied breathing heavily.
"So am I." She replied.
At the end of that month Haley and Nathan were wed. Haley's father who had begun to come back to reality about what was real and good destroyed the law of marrying within a different class. He also gave the entire east wing of the palace to Nathan and Haley after they were wed.
Haley gave birth to a healthy child months later. That happiness she thought she had had before doubled when their son was born.
A year later Lucas was wed to Brooke the advisor's daughter and he became Pharaoh ten years after that when their father died. Their father became an entirely different man after the birth of his grandson. He began his rein as a power hungry man who cared for Nothing but himself but by the end Dan had become a caring ruler who brought the country to the future.
Haley Stood on her balcony looking over the desert in front of her, she watched as the slaves worked under the hot sun. She never thought it was fair that just because she was born to royalty that she should live like she did while others lived.
"Sister, why do you stand overlooking the world?" Her brother Lucas asked as he approached her.
"The world is an unfair think Lucas. Why should we be here and they be there?" She asked him.
"We were born to this life, it is our luck." he replied.
"Luck isn't enough." She stormed out of the room.
She hated to be here while the rest of the world waited for her. She decided to break the rules and escape to the outside world.
As she got to the outside doors her brother caught up to her.
"Where are you going Haley?"
"Lucas I want to go see a little bit of the outside world. You get to all the time, I want to once, please let me." She looked into his eyes and did her cute little face and he couldn't say no.
"I'll get the guards distracted." he replied and she thanked his with a hug.
He had the guards stand down and Haley left she got outside and walked down the steps. She didn't know where to go, she walked to the streets of the city.
She realized that she had no money and nothing to eat and hunger was getting to her. then it came to her, she had on a pile of gold jewelry.
She went to a stand selling fruit. "Can I trade you this for some of your fruit?" She held out a gold ring.
"yes m'am, that ring would get you two apples." he replied.
"OK." she held out her ring and the man grabbed her wrist he began to take off her bracelet. "Help!" She yelled as she tried to get her hand free. No one on the street even turned to help her. The man was starting to hurt her. "help!" She yelled again.
Just then a young man, probably about her age came up behind the man. "Let her go." he said in a commanding voice.
"She stole from me." he lied. "I was trying to get my pay."
The young man looked to Haley. She was outraged. "you liar." She yelled.
"You better not be telling a lie, if I find out you are I will cut your throat."
"Fine, lady, you can have the apples for free." he said, handing her the ring back.
The young man let him go and Haley walked off.
"Are you sure you're OK miss?" he asked.
"Yes now I am." She looked at him really for the first time. He really was one of the most handsome men she had ever seen.
"Well I hate it when men like that take advantage of girls who are vulnerable." he replied.
"I am not vulnerable. sir." She replied insulted.
"I know I know I didn't mean it like that. I just meant it that men like that try to take advantage of beautiful young girls who are all by themselves." he replied, she had gotten herself en-fixed in looking into his beautiful deep blue eyes.
"Oh." She replied weakly
"So why haven't I ever seen you before, I know most people around here and I don't think I would forget a girl with your natural beauty." he replied, he was a very good talker. he moved his hand to stroke the side of her face.
She didn't know what to say to that. she had become drawn to him. She never felt like this before. when he touched her she became weak at the knees, they buckled. he caught her just before she fell.
"Are you OK?" He asked.
"Yeah I think so," she replied, "That's never happened before."
He just smiled. "I'm Nathan."
"Haley." She replied. She still couldn't take her eyes off him.
"You're very beautiful Haley." Nathan said with a smile. he had never seen a girl who he had ever been so attracted to. He wanted to kiss her right there, but she looked like she might just die if he did.
Little did he know that she felt the same. They just stood there, the sun began to set.
"Come here." He said. "I want to show you sunset from my house."
He lead her to a bigger home, it was full of people, but one of the bigger ones of the street. he opened a curtain made out of ripped material.
She of course had seen other beautiful sunsets from her room, but she never had seen one that made her feel so happy.
After the sun set she realized that she had been out too late.
"I need to go." She said out of nowhere.
"Alright. I will take you home." he replied.
"No I can walk." She said, not wanting him to know where she was.
"No." he said, "I don't want you to have to go by yourself."
"Alright." She replied.
They walked to near the palace, "This is close enough." She said.
"Alright. can I see you again Haley?" he asked.
"I don't know." She replied.
"Please?" He asked.
"I really don't know, if I can get out again." She replied.
"Then can I have a kiss goodbye just in case I never see you again?" he asked.
She smiled but before she could say yes he had already pulled herself close to him and began to kiss her passionately.
She never felt like she had ever before. he broke free from her. "I know I just met you, but I've never felt like this for anyone before." He said.
"Me too." She said, her knees buckled again. He held her up again and pulled her into another kiss.
"Haley!" Yelled a voice behind her. It was Lucas.
"Luke." She replied horrified.
Nathan just stood there. "I'm sorry I didn't realize you were with someone." Nathan said coldly.
"He's my brother." She replied almost in tears.
"You cannot conduct yourself like this Haley." Lucas commanded. "I let you out of the palace for one day and you do this."
"The palace?" Nathan asked.
"She didn't tell you then? She is Haley, daughter of the pharaoh. And you have broken the law."
"Lucas no!" Haley yelled. "Don't turn him in. He didn't know."
"But you did." Lucas replied. "You get out of here." He yelled to Nathan, he didn't move. He looked at Haley who mouthed. 'go.' He left, not taking his eyes off of her.
"Sister, how could you conduct yourself like that?" Lucas asked.
"Lucas I wanted freedom. I got it for one day and I never meant to meet him, I never meant to fall in lo-"
"Don't finish that sentence." he yelled.
"But Lucas."
"No, I forbid you to see him again. If you do, then I will tell father."
"Lucas No!" Haley said.
"Yes, you cannot see him, it is forbidden." He replied.
She broke down and cried. Lucas knew that when his sister cried he always gave in to her. "Haley, you know I love you so much, and I just don't want you to get your heart broken."
"But I really really like him." She replied.
"I know I know." he replied pulling his crying sister into a hug.
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Nathan got back to his home, the princess? why did he have to fall for the her, but he had, and now what could he do?
He fell back onto his straw mattress, he would probably never see her again, her brother would do that for sure, besides, what could he give her, he had nothing and she was everything.
Chapter 2 -
Haley had spent the last week in her room looking out on the desert. A couple times she could have sworn she had seen Nathan working in the hot sun, but she never could be sure.
Nathan had gone by the palace tons of times since the day he had seen Haley, he wished he could see her again, but he knew her brother would definitely make sure he wouldn't.
Lucas had watched his sister melt into this depressive state for the last few days. he hadn't told their father because he would have her punished and he didn't want to have his sister hurt, but he hated to see her the way she was too. She never left her room and he figured that his father would soon notice.
Nathan was taking his normal walk that evening he walked up past the palace and he saw torches up in the windows, he wondered where Haley was at that exact moment. Mid thought he heard something behind him, he turned to see what it was, but when he turned he had something convering his face. He struggled to get free but he couldn't. He eventually gave up, her brother must have decided to have me killed He thought But she was worth it. he let whoever had his arms guide him, he felt some steps and he soon saw thin bits of light through the material over his eyes. He still had no idea where he was, nor where he was going.
he was stopped eventually he heard knocking. "Come to the door."
"No!" A muffled voice said.
"Yes." The first voice commanded again.
"Fine," the second muffled one said again.
Nathan heard a door open and the people hold him moved him forward then let go. Someone pulled the material off of him. He squinted his eyes a little then he realized he was face to face with Lucas, Haley's brother.
"You seem to be the only thing that can make her happy right now." he said as he turned to leave the room
Nathan turned around, there was Haley just as stunned as him.
They stood there in silence for a few minutes. Neither knew what to say.
"I've missed you." Haley finally said, it was a weak thing to say, but it worked, it broke the silence.
"Me too." He replied. He stepped closer to her.
She did the same. He pulled her into a kiss.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a princess?" he asked as he broke free from her.
"It would have changed everything. And besides half of those people in the marketplace would want me dead as the princess." She replied. "if you want to leave go ahead."
"Why would I want to leave?" he asked confused.
"Because if my father finds out, he will kill you." She replied.
"Then I guess I will die, because there is no way I'm leaving this spot." He said as he kissed her forehead.
She buried her head in his bare chest. "I think I've fallen in love with you." She said.
"And I know I've fallen in love with you." She looked up at his face again.
"I don't want to lose you." She said.
"Who ever said you would lose me?" He asked.
"Life." She replied.
"Well we met and they would have to kill me before I give up on you." he said with a laugh.
"that's not a laughing matter, it really could happen." She said.
"Well then we have to make the best of what we have now don't we." He gave her another kiss.
They became more and more consumed by the kiss. She pulled him back wards and they fell onto her bed made of feathers, him on top of her. He stopped.
"Don't." She said and she began to kiss him again.
Lucas was down the hall he heard voices outside. His father.
"Are you sure you don't understand why my daughter has not left her room in five days?" He asked his advisor's.
Lucas jumped up. "Father." He called.
"Yes my son. Ahh, you will know, why is your sister upset so much lately. Her attendants have told me that she hasn't even eaten much."
"I do not know father, let me talk to her."
"I am her father, and the Pharaoh. I will talk to her."
"She may be more comfortable talking to me, I am closer to her age, and we are very close father, please let me?"
He nodded. "Go ahead my son." he moved his hand to let him go through.
Lucas ran down to his sisters door. he knocked on it hard.
He didn't hear anything for a few seconds. "Coming." Came Haley's voice soon after.
She came to the door, she looked messy. "What is going on?" Lucas asked.
"Nothing Lucas." Haley replied.
"Well he needs to go, father will be in to talk to you soon."
Nathan immediately ran to the door. he gave Haley a kiss on the cheek. "Goodbye." he said as he ran out. Lucas looked at his body, he had his sisters busy decoration paint on him.
He eyed Haley. But walked into her room. "What are you going to tell father?"
"I will tell him that I am saddened because I want to have more freedom, you can leave te palace but I can't he will believe that."
"You just want freedom so you can see him." He said with a look in his eyes.
"What's wrong with that?" She asked.
"Well other than the fact that he is probably taking advantage of you." he pointed to her body.
"You have no idea what you are talking about Lucas." she was angry.
"Well i don't care about what you do behind closed doors, but remember, father will be in here in a few minutes, you may want to wash up."
She did. he left and her father came in a few minutes. She told him the thing about her wanted freedom. He stood up. "it has never been like this before, but the times are changing, so I will think about it." He leaned toward his daughter and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
She stood up and smiled. Everything was falling into place.
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Nathan stood outside the palace, he looked up to the balcony off of Haley's room. He wished she could just come with him be with him forever.
Chapter 3 Ancient Egypt -
"Lucas summon my daughter."
"You mean my sister." Lucas replied to his father.
"Yes, go."
Lucas went. He got to Haley's room. She had been in this state of happiness since the other night. Lucas hated to think about what they had done that night, so he put it in the back of his mind.
"Haley." he said as he got to her door. He heard her talking to someone inside.
He walked in, there was Haley talking to their father's advisiors daughters Brooke and Peyton.
"it was so, ah magical." She sighed.
"You know if you keep telling people about him you will get caught sister." Lucas said.
"Oh hi Lucas. Let me guess father wants me to go see him, alright I will."
He was a little stunned about the way she talked. She was halfway down the hall.
He turned to the other two girls.
"Hello." They said nicely. They bowed.
"You don't have to do that, I'm not the Pharoah." he replied.
"Yet." Brooke said and the two girls got up and began to walk out.
he stood there looking around his little sisters room. he wished of all ways that he could get her to not love this guy anymore. He knew she would have her heart broken. But she had never been this happy before.
"Lucas Lucas Lucas. He is going to let me take trips out of the palace. But they will be supervised but I can get away." She said happily "I'm going today!"
"Be careful Haley."
"I know I can take care of myself."
"OK."
She got all ready for her trip.
She met her father by the palace enterance. he had a whole group of people to go with her.
"Father?" She said upset. "This is worse than the palace.
"Well do you want to be stuck in the palace all the time?"
"Thank you father." She said. She bowed her head and left.
She walked the streets of the market all around her people bowed to her, she hated it, now she knew what Lucas hated.
She made her plan to sneak off when she saw Nathan. She smiled and he 'mouthed meet me here.'
She nodded. And after a few minutes she managed to sneak off ito a crowd.
"Where is the princess?" Asked one of the guards. They searched frantically for her.
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"Hello." Nathan said coming up behind her. "my princess."
She smiled. "My prince."
"No. not really."
"Well you are mine." She replied.
They walked off to his house.
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"Your highness, your daughter is missing." Said one of his advisors after being informed.
He was outraged. "What? my daughter? where did you lose her?"
"A crowd." he replied.
"We must find her. I will deal with all of you after we find my daughter. Lucas you come and help."
He nodded and took off, he wished he knew where to find this Nathan, then he could stop this from ending terribly.
They left the palace. They said they were going to search the entire city.
"I love you." Nathan said to Haley.
"I love you too." She replied back to him.
"Good." He said as he pulled her into another kiss.
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Haley's father insisted on Lucas coming with him. Lucas kept his eyes open.
"We must search all of the homes." He commanded.
He sent his men in all directions and he walked toward one end of the city, it was the even poorer end of the city.
They had gone through over ten homes.
They went to the door of a huge home with a lot of families living in it.
He searched each one. he got to one on the top floor, knocked on the door very hard.
"Go away." A voice called from the other side.
"I am the Pharoah I will not go away. I am looking for my daughter and you will let me in."
There was no sound on the other side of the door. he nodded to his guards to break the door down.
"Haley!" he yelled. "What has this man done to you?"
She stood there with nothing to say "Nothing Father, this is my choice."
"What?" He yelled.
"I chose this father."
"Well it isn't aloud. Arrest him." Her father yelled.
"Nathan run." Haley said. he had nowhere to go.
he ran to the window and jumped.
Haley screamed.
She ran to the window. looked down. Her father;s guards had caught him after he slip off when he got to the bottom. She cried and slid herself down the wall. Chapter 4 -
Haley jsut sat with herself up against the wall until her father's guards carrried her back to the palace.
"I am very disappointed in you my daughter. Why would you lie to me and sink to that level of people?"
"I met him when I snuck out of the palace a while ago." Haley replied.
"I am asshamed no daughter of mine will be with a slave."
"But I love him." She screamed. "get out of my room."
"No one will talk to me like that. I am leader of this country and no one will talk to the Pharoah like that." he commanded.
She wasn't afraid of her dad at all. "No." She paused. "I will talk to you like that. I am still your daughter."
He got very angry but then he saw more tears fill his young daughters eyes. He was just like Lucas he couldn't stand to see Haley cry, so he stormed out of the room.
She stayed in her room all night Lucas came up that evening.
"Haley. How are you doing?"
"How do you think I am doing Lucas?"
"Well I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but he is to be executed at dawn of Next sunday because it is a holiday this SUnday. I'm sorry let me help you." He reached out to hug her but she pulled away.
"Go away Lucas. I know it is a holiday this sunday. You can't help me, not unless you can save him before a week and a half. " She cried and he tried to come to comfort her again but she pushed him away.
He left.
Nathan was taken by force to the dungeons of the palace, the only thoughts going through his mind were of Haley. The times they had spent together. What trouble she was going to be in. How she would be after he was gone. he knew if she loved him even half as much as he loved her then she would be miserable for a long time.
he was thrown into a cell in the dungeon. he sat there for what seemed like hours. After a few hours the Pharoah himself came downstairs.
"You stand up." He commanded Nathan.
He obeyed.
"You are in love with my daughter are you not?" He asked.
"Yes sire I am." he replied confidently.
"You are beneath her." he said coldly.
"But I love her and she loves me." Nathan said his voice getting louder.
"And you make her happier than I have seen her for a long time, since her mother was alive, but I am bound by the law. Any royalty who becomes involved with a commoner will be punished my the commoners death. Yours will be the sunday after next. Goodbye." And he walked away.
Nathan smashed himself into the wall he broke down and the guards had to restrain him from hurting himself any more than that.
Aventually he calmed down and curled up into the corner .
Haley got no sleep that night or any otehr night since then. She tried every possible way to get him out of the prison making palns in her mind but all of them ended with her getting him killed in the end.
It was dawn of the sunday of Nathan's death. She got herself ready for the day, she wanted to look beautiful for Nathan this morning, she wanted to look strong.
She met with Lucas before the execution.
"Haley you don't want to be down there." He tried to convince her.
"I want to be where Nathan is, besides, I've seen people be executed before."
"But not a person you cared for." Lucas begged her not to go.
He failed, they got down to the grounds, their father was there already. A crowd was beginning to join them. Haley stood there completely still she tried so hard not to cry and until Nathan came out she had suceeded.
He was walked out with two of the palace guards. he saw Haley and he would give anything to see her with a face that wasn't this terrible.
Nathan was going to be beheaded as his death. Haley wanted to break down but she wanted Nathan to see her strong.
The executioner came on to the platform he had a huge sword in his hands.
Her father was standing up there next to them. Watching every move.
Nathan was forced into the position for them to kill him.
Haley began to breathe faster and heavier.
The sword was sharpened.
She stopped breathing altogether.
The executioner raised the sword.
Haley ran she jumped up onto the platform and covered Nathan.
"No Father." She yelled. "I won't let you do it."
"I am bound by the law Haley now move."
"No. I will not move. If you want to kill him I will die too. As will my child."
Silence entered the area there was no sound at all. Even Nathan was shocked.
"What?" her father asked.
"My child will die too." Haley said as strong as she could. "Don't kill him father. If anything, let me and him leave the country but don't kill him."
He stood there everyone waited for his decision "I have come to a decision........"
Chapter 5
"My decision is based on two things. First my daughter I am ashamed of you for sinking to this level."
"I have not done anything wrong father. Love is not wrong."
"Which is why I have chosen to let the two of you live. I can not tamper with what the gods have chosen. Let him go." he motioned to the guards to let Nathan free.
He stood up and hugged Haley. "I love you." he whispered.
"I love you too." Haley replied.
"I know." And he kissed her.
Everything from that moment on was a blur. In the end though, Haley and Nathan were back in her room.
nothing was said, they were happy just being in each other's arms.
Lucas interrupted and hour later.
"Haley?" he asked as he entered the room.
"Hello Lucas." She replied.
"Father summons to speak with Nathan."
"Alright?" Haley asked Nathan.
"Yes." he replied. He followed Lucas down to the main room.
Haley said up in her room she was happy. truly and completely happy.
Happiness is a powerful thing, it can come and go in an instant. it can stay for only seconds or it can last forever.
It wasn't lasting forever, not her happiness. She heard a yell from somewhere else in the palace.
She immediately thought of Nathan and ran as fast as she could to the main hall.
She found a confusing situation.
"Nathan," she screamed as she ran over to him. he was on the ground with her father's guards on top of him, the guard was dead. Nathan's body was lifeless. "what have you done?" She cried.
She looked to her father. He did not look satisfied. Next Haley looked to Lucas who was holding a sharp sword.
She cried her eyes out. What had happened.
"Haley." Lucas tried to comfort her.
"You killed him, you killed him Lucas you killed him. How could you."
"I did not kill him." He said calmly.
"Then what happened, why is he dead?" She said between sobs.
"Father had him summoned down here for him to be killed." Lucas began. "He had his strongest guard ambush him as he came in. But father didn't realize that just because he was his strongest guard doesn't mean he is the strongest in the land."
"You aren't making any sense Lucas." Haley replied still undeniably confused.
"I killed father's guard just as he was to kill Nathan. He fell to the floor on top of Nathan causing him to fall too."
"A fall should not kill him. What happened?"
"I don't know sister I don't know."
"Why did you do it father?" Haley screamed changing her focus from Lucas to her father. "Why would you want him dead?"
"He is not good enough for you." He yelled.
"No. he was right for me. You are not good enough for me. I deserve better than you." Haley screamed.
her father looked ashamed he dropped himself into his chair. "My child, you are right. I have taken away what should have been the most important thing in your life, your happiness."
"No you have not." Said a muffled voice in the room.
Haley turned to Nathan. He was moving. "Nathan." She exclaimed. Between her and Lucas they managed to get the body off of Nathan. "Are you alright?"
"I am now." He replied breathing heavily.
"So am I." She replied.
At the end of that month Haley and Nathan were wed. Haley's father who had begun to come back to reality about what was real and good destroyed the law of marrying within a different class. He also gave the entire east wing of the palace to Nathan and Haley after they were wed.
Haley gave birth to a healthy child months later. That happiness she thought she had had before doubled when their son was born.
A year later Lucas was wed to Brooke the advisor's daughter and he became Pharaoh ten years after that when their father died. Their father became an entirely different man after the birth of his grandson. He began his rein as a power hungry man who cared for Nothing but himself but by the end Dan had become a caring ruler who brought the country to the future.