AN: hello everyone! So I decided to post the next chapter early! Hope you all enjoy it and I noticed I forgot my disclaimer in the last chapter so yeah… oops! Anyhoos, thank you so much to the people who put my story on alert or favorited it! It really means a lot to me. I can honestly say that the first email I got saying someone had favorited it had be jumping around my apartment with joy! Please review!

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Alexia raced to the prison as quickly as she could, ignoring the whistles and cat calls that followed behind her. She hadn't had time to change from her dance outfit to her usual breeches and blouse.

It didn't take very long for her to be in front of the prison glaring at one of the guards with her hands on her hips.

"What's a pretty girl like you doing here?" the guard leered at her.

"I need to talk to the warden." She almost snapped. She had already lost her patience with the man.

"You're the second pretty lady who's wanted to see him."

Alexia groaned as the idiot guard gave her his best version of a charming smile. Behind him Alexia could see them leading a man to the gallows. She couldn't quite make out his face but something in her gut twisted.

"Could you at least take me to his office?" Alexia growled at the guard.

"No. He's busy." The guard retorted. Alexia watched as the man on the gallows dropped making Alexia go pale.

Throwing her hands into the air like she gave up she started to leave before turning around and dashing past the guard.

"Hey!" the guard shouted but Alexia didn't slow down. She had to find Rick.

Minutes passed as she raced around the prison, her coin belt jingling happily in the gloomy place.

As she rounded yet another corner she heard a woman's voice.

"Now Mr. O'Connell, how do we get to Hamunaptra?"

Alexia hesitantly rounded the corner. How many O'Connells could there be in Ciaro? She stopped paying any attention to the conversation going on between the three people in front of her.

Her eyes roamed over the man who was obviously the same man that had just been hung.

"Rick?" she asked quickly interrupting the conversation.

Rick O'Connell glanced in the direction his name had been called before doing a double take.

"Alex?" he asked in a shocked voice.

Alexia nodded as she walked up to him and gave him a hug.

"Ugh! You stink!" she half cried half laughed as she released her friend.

"Yeah well I've been worse." He shrugged.

Before Alexia could respond, the woman standing beside her coughed causing them to turn towards her.

"Excuse me. I don't mean to be rude but I am in the middle of…"

Alexia quickly cut the woman off.

"Look lady. I just found out today that my buddy here was in jail about to be hung. I get here and he's already starting to do a dead man's jog and you wanna pick a fight over who was having a conversation with him first?" she roared in a cold voice.

The woman looked slightly shocked. The man behind her, equally shocked.

"Alex. Relax. This lady here just saved my life." Rick half muttered half told Alexia.

Alexia turned to properly study the woman and man. The woman was taller than her by an inch or two with black curly hair. She looked rather exotic while the man behind her looked, well in Alexia's eyes like a typical Britain.

"You saved him? Why?" Alexia questioned. They didn't look like the type that would normally employ someone like Rick.

"Because he knows the way to Hamunaptra." The woman stated.

Alexia turned to glare at Rick.

"You told her how to get to the City of the Dead!"

"No actually he's going to take us." The man beside Rick's savior said.

Alexia turned her glare to the man. "And who is us exactly?" she said coolly.

"Ah, I'm Jonathon and this is my baby sister Evy."

"Hmm. And he's" she said slowly pointing her finger at Rick, "is taking you?"

"Yes." The woman, Evy, said.

Alexia held up her finger. "Just a moment please." She said quickly turning around to point at Rick.

"You're taking them to Hamunaptra! Are you insane? Wait don't answer that! That place is so dangerous! Not to mention the trip there!"

Rick gave Alexia a sly look before glancing at Evy and Jonathon.

"It is very dangerous." He muttered.

"I know!" Alexia practically screamed.

"And there is no one better than you to be a bodyguard." He continued.

"Exactly!"

"So it would be in their best interest to have you come along."

"Like they could survive without me!"

"Which is exactly why you are coming along."

"Precisely!"

"Perfect. It's settled then." Rick said with a smug smile wrapping his arm around Alexia's shoulders and turning her to the amused faces of Evy and Jonathon.

"What? Rick! No!" Alexia stuttered wondering how he had just turned this conversation around and talked her into going on one of his ridicously dangerous trips, again.

Rick just smiled. This was going to get interesting.

AN: sooo here's the next chapter and a little bit longer than the last one too. I think it gives everyone a good idea the kind of relationship Alexia and Rick have. Again please review! Love ya all!