Later into the afternoon as everyone got tired Evelyn let the workers have a break from digging to go sit in the shade. She was persistent, however, and stood her ground beside the cliff's face.

"Mum, shy don't you come have a sandwich?" Alex asked as he made his way to her.

"No, I'm fine, really. Go eat, I'll be there in a little bit." She shooed him off as she scratched at the surface with a shovel.

Alex gave up, turned around and left.

As Evie crouched and dug her husband slowly made his way to her. "Whatcha doing?" He asked with a smirk on his face.

"Go away." She tried with a smirk.

"You can't tell me what to do." He declared as he approached her.

"I can't dig when you're over here." She said giggling.

"Why not? Is it my rugged looks and my charm?" He asked.

"No, it's your, your…" She started but couldn't find the words. "Your appalling behaviour and your miss use of tools!" She shot out after a moment of thought.

"Oh, you'll have to do better then that." He informed her as he approached, arms open.

Just them they heard some commotion. He looked back to the men and saw them looking up, he turned around the and looked up the face of the cliff.

She turned and looked too, it was a loose bolder that was teetering over their heads, and just lost its grip.

"Evelyn!" Rick yelled, he pulled her up to her feet and pushed her against the cliff, he stood over her to protect her.

She heard and felt the rock smash the side of the cliff, and then nothing… "Rick?" She asked, "Are you alright?"

She opened her eyes and saw him looking down at her with a confused look on his face.

"Um, I'm fine." He just answered. She saw the trickle of crimson run down from his head.

"Oh dear, you were hit with rock. Come on, there's first aid equipment at the camp"

Evelyn and Rick were met with Alex and a couple individuals from the crew and Rick was guided to the tent. Evie looked on but couldn't quite get through the mob of helpers.

"Mum, why don't you go get the equipment and we'll bring dad back to the house?" Alex suggested.

"Alright" Evelyn responded in a daze, looking on to her husband.

"I'll leave Rashid for you."

"U-huh" She answered still looking over in his direction.

"Hey," her son approached her "I thought that keeping you away would help your nerves. Would you rather go with him?" Alex asked, catching his mother's attention.

"Oh, no, that's OK." She smiled gratefully. "I guess a little ride wouldn't hurt, but I'll get back as soon as possible, I just have to pack up my brushes."

With that Alex gave his mother a hug, then turned and walked away, Evelyn did the same, only in the other direction.

She rummaged through her tools as she worried about her husband. As she started to pack everything up, something caught her eyes, and for a moment it held her there. What was it? It was a flat surface in the rock cut, kind of inside a crevice about 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

Despite the circumstances, she grabbed a brush and walked up to it anyway. She began to brush it off, she read it line by line as the dirt and sand fell off.

'…and as the Waters ran through time, all of the Valley was flooded, all of the people killed, and as it was this year to be, it will be again. Every thousandth year the waters shall flood-'

She had leaned up against the rock and would have read more but her rock turned to nothing, and the nothing to air, she found herself falling…

Evenly screamed as the black cloak enclosed her and she fell into the abyss, then suddenly, she hit the bottom. When she got up she felt herself around the sandy dirt floor until she found a wall. She reached into her pockets with shaky arms and grabbed a match, without anything else to burn, she took off her hat, places it on the ground, and set it on fire.

The first task was to find some kindling, the hat would not burn forever, and escape was futile.

As she rummaged through the cave-like labyrinth she was startled by a sound, footfall on the floor, not her own. She slowly turned toward the noise, and let out an ear piercing scream.

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They got Rick back to the house the O'Connells owned just outside the valley. Alex had instructed the workers to lay Rick down in his bed, which they did, and let them off for the day, with pay.

"Dad?" he asked as he walked into his mum and dad's room.

"Yeah," Came a groggy voice from the bed, "What?"

"Are you alright?" Alex asked.

"Of course, now go away." He snapped.

Alex was confused, but in the end came to the conclusion that his father must have one hell of a head ache. "I'm going to find mum, she's on her way back from the dig, and I figure she may need some help." Alex informed his father as he left the room.

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Alex rode off on Niles, his mother's horse, he got all the way to siptah's tomb, and was very surprised because he thought she'd at least be on her way by now. He decided to turn around ahead back, in case he missed her.

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The young British woman made her way down the streets of Luxor, "I need a boat, we need to get across, into the Valley" she mumbled to her assistant who walked behind her. "Did you get that?" She turned around and asked the lady behind her.

"Yes yes, there's bound to be someone who will take you across the river, for a price." Patsy said.

"Alright" Ella agreed, "We need to get across there, I have patients who need tending to."

They came across the only house, or manor, by the looks of it, within a mile. "This must be it, there's no address." Ella walked up to the front door, just as someone came riding up.

"Oh, there you are!" Alex exclaimed as he saw his mother walk up to the front door. "Oh, you got a doctor? Nice to meet you." he said to Patsy as he opened the front door and let them in.

"How is he?" Ella asked, referring to he patient.

"Good, don't worry, I think he'll be OK, a little grumpy though," Alex laughed, " you can go up and see him, he might be sleeping again?"

"Um, where is he?" she asked.

"In bed." Alex answered, "Well, I have to go meet some people, if you don't mind. I'll go get the rest of your stuff as well, you left it at the site." Alex gave Ella a peck on the cheek and left.

"What was that for?" Patsy asked half amused.

"Um, I was short notice, I guess he's grateful." she answered, they found the staircase and headed up, Ella remembered seeing 'O'Connell residence' writing on the outside of the house. They finally found the room that Rick occupied and stepped in.

"Mr. O'Connell?" Ella asked as she approached the bed.

"What?" He asked, none too pleased, and very disoriented.

"Hello, my name's Ella, you can just call me Elle." She introduced, "And this is my assistant Patsy, we're going to take care of you. I heard you had quite a- um, actually to be honest, I don't know what happened to you. All I heard was that you got hit on the head." She admitted. "Can you tell me what happened to you Mr. O'Connell?" She asked.

"What? Oh, I don' t know, who are you?" He asked turning over and looking her straight in the eyes. "You look familiar." He said as he squinted.

"You don't know what happened to you?" She asked.

"No, why do you keep on asking?" He got a little annoyed and sat up.

"I think you should maybe lie down." Ella tried as she stepped in front of Rick.

"Move" He said.

"Mr. O'Connell, who don't you just lay back down." She tried coming to it gently.

"Why do you keep on calling me that?" He asked. "My name's Rick. Use it" He got up and pushed right past her and headed for the door.

"Patsy, close the door!" Ella called out, but it was too late, he was already out.

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"Quite!" the voice said in a deep tone, one not to argue or disobey the unknown, she closed her mouth. "Come with me." He said, as he turned down a side tunnel, Evelyn had to run to keep up with him.

"Where are we going?" she inquired innocently, the 'beast' turned around and gazed down at her, she still couldn't see who or what he was, he stood on hind legs, and had the build of a very tall very fit man, but she still couldn't see his face, it was shadowed from her perspective.

"You know, curiosity killed the cat" he simply stated, turned around and walked on..

"Alright," She said to herself.

"Nefertiri I suggest you stay quiet, you are trying your patience." He told her over his shoulder.

"You know you who I am…was! You know who I was?" She asked in disbelief.

"Of course, it's because of your father 's demise that my master was able to…never mind, you know too much already, and the more you know, the worse the punishment will be."