Being a sixteen year old, blonde, blue-eyed girl in a city with a thriving slave trade wasn't the best of circumstances for Lillian. And it gave Rick heart palpations (or so he said). But being a sixteen year old girl with a sharp-shooter brother who made sure she knew how to fire a gun, throw a knife, and fight in your basic street brawl…well, it still wasn't the best of circumstances, but it was significantly better.
Which is why, as the leader of this particular street gang of Cairo stalked up to Lillian and Rick, practically growling in anger (Lillian had given him a bloody nose when she objected to her abduction), the two siblings were relatively calm.
After all, it was two to six. Easy odds.
They were in the wrong section of a city for a gunfight, but Lillian slipped the first of four knives out of her boots (she had one more tucked in her hair, and three up her sleeves, plus one against the small of her back), and Rick raised up his fists (he preferred a good ole brawl to a knife fight). Seeing this, their attacker paused for a second, before looking back at his five goons and grinning again.
His mistake.
Rick gave one solid punch across the jaw and the man feel down like a ton of bricks. At twenty-two, Rick had perfected his one-punch knockout (at least, as much as it was going to get), and he went for the next thug. Meanwhile, his sister had dodged a grab from anther assailant, only to take his arm and use it to twist around him before sticking the hilt of her knife right against her attacker's kidney.
He was moaning on the floor in seconds.
Continuing with her momentum, she pivoted so her back was towards her second target, before elbowing him sharply in the gut; the man's reaction was to immediately wrap his arms around his torso, which was just fine by Lillian. She pivoted again to slash her knife across his face, causing him to back up, moaning in agony with his face buried in his hands, before she sent a solid kick to his gut again, causing him to crash into the alley wall.
Rick was having a fistfight with two of the goons and so Lillian settled her eyes on the final man standing. He pulled out his own knife, giving her a feral grin. Lillian held still as he charged at her, remembering vaguely Rick explaining the rules of Chicken when they were younger.
When his knife was inches away, Lillian took a quick sidestep and let the goon impale himself on her own knife.
If he was lucky, nothing terribly important was damaged.
If he wasn't, Lillian couldn't be brought to care that one less slaver was on the streets.
Rick finished his fight with one final punch to a chin, causing the final man to kneel on the ground, crying out of what was evidently a broken jaw.
The two siblings exchanged a look and ran out of the alley, getting as far from the fight scene as they could. It was doubtful anyone would arrest them in Cairo, but Lillian insisted it was better to be safe than sorry when it came to things like that.
"I can't believe that worked," Lillian told her brother after the door was shut. Haytham had been sent to track where the Carnahan siblings were going to make sure nothing was said to the police. Just in case.
"I know. Five hundred pounds! That's a pretty good start to things. We can get out of Egypt with that much- all the way to Australia if we wanted to!"
"We could," his sister replied, nose scrunched up in thought. "Or we could get to Morocco and head back to the States."
"The possibilities are endless," he brother agreed, throwing an arm around her shoulders and giving her a little shake, causing some water droplets from his hair to fall on her.
"Ok- first things first, though, we're giving you a haircut. And you need to shave."
Rick gave a cheeky grin, "You're the boss, boss."
His sister just rolled her eyes and sat him down on a stool, grabbing the scissors.
"Rick- what are you really thinking about Hamunaptra?"
The man sighed, "I don't want to go back there," he said, shaking his head before his sister slapped him for moving, "But we need the cash and a way to get out of Cairo fast."
"I just- there's something out there."
He just sighed, "I know."
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