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+The Past Revealed+
As the cars pulled up to the museum Jamila smiled and knew she was only a couple of yards away from her book and millions of good roads ahead for her. She pulled the girl out of Imhotep's arms so he good get out and as she had noticed in the car, he had been actually nice to the child and she had asked why and all he said was, "I like kids they are innocent and don't ever know what's happening around them I wish I was one again." She sighed at that comment because she really didn't care about being a kid because her childhood sucked. She would always have the same routine daily and never got to do anything knew unless her parents did. She never even got to be herself since they always changed her looks to make her look more like them until she was sixteen and finally told everyone she was adopted which made people really resent her parents.
She walked toward the museum with the child called Beth in her hands. As the girl looked up and saw the museum she smiled and clapped her hands yelling, "Yay the museum." Jamila looked at the child with disgust and then said, "Kid I think those O'Connell's really rotted your mind the whole time you lived with them."
"Getting attached aren't we," Anck-Su-Namun said from beside her smiling.
"No I intend to kill the child and leave her for the O'Connell's," She said sticking up her nose as if she had smelled something bad.
"Oh well I just thought you liked the kid because of the way you're treating her. If it was really the old you from the past you would have made the kid walk instead of holding her," her mother said.
"Yeah well we don't have enough time because the O'Connell's will probably come early and I don't want to be here we they get here," Jamila said lying. She knew she was getting attached to the kid. To tell you the truth she loved kids sometimes. She had often babysat little kids when she was trying to earn money as a teenager. She loved everything about kids but she never wanted to have one since it would probably hold her down.
She walked through the museums door and saw a couple of people staring at her and every soldier and person behind her. She sneered and then said, "Get out all of you know or I'll set them on you." Everyone rushed out including the people who owned and kept to the place. She guessed they were going to the cops to ask what was going on and why there were soldiers from another country in their building. She didn't really care she was here for one thing and one thing only and that was her book of curses. She handed the child over to a nearby soldier's arm who was a bit surprised. She walked towards the room with a plate over it that said, 'Ancient Egypt' and walked in. She walked down one aisle looking from side to side in deep thought. When she went down the other aisle she had luck that time. There it was in a glass case and on a perch and she only smirked when she saw it. At that time she didn't care what happened when she smashed the glass case. Thank the lord nothing went off or at least yet. She reached her hands in and grabbed the book and immediately a flashback came.
------------Flashback------------
There sat a young woman at a desk copying something down as she dabbed her quill into the ink. When she was done she looked down at her creation with a smile. She picked up the book and blew on the last page she had written to dry it. When she finally found it dry she closed the book and then set it on a cover and wrapped it up sticking it into a wall with the brick missing. As she did she noticed a rather large object but not as big as the book. She put the huge brick back in just in time as her father walked in.
"Jamila I came to talk to you," he said in Egyptian.
"Yes," Jamila replied in Egyptian also.
"I've been talking with a couple of suitors for you and one I think you might like. I'm sorry to say this Jamila but you are coming of age and your mother and I thought it best you marry off before you hit the age of 21 since by then you wouldn't even care if there was a man around," Seti said as he walked in and sat on her bed.
"But father I don't want to marry it sounds so weird and besides I'm only fifteen to me that is to young and besides I be worthless as a wife you know how I'm a fighter not a sit at home girl. I deserve a life as a warrior not a woman," Jamila argued with him.
"You are a woman and you will be a wife to the man that I will choose for you whether you like it or not young lady," Seti said arguing back.
"I hope the gods tear you soul apart when you die," Jamila had said to Seti before he slapped her across the face sending her to the floor holding her face not crying not cringing in fear. She just sat there with the anger and rage building inside of her but she only smirked as she knew what her mother was doing probably right about now and now was time to help her mother put the plan into action.
"You know I hope Anck-Su-Namun tells you of her affair soon and if you don't believe me on that you should go check it out now down in the temple where the priests are," Seti stared at her in shock and she knew it, he had fallen for her trap and soon he would be dead and she could leave this horrible place. He left quickly and a while later she heard a scream of help from her sisters room knowing fully well what she had seen and then she heard the yells that Imhotep yelled at her mother and then her mothers last words as she killed herself and then and only then did Jamila's face cringe knowing full well that it was going to be very hard to bring her mother back.
-------End of Flashback-------
Jamila smirked as she opened the book to the last page and saw the last words she had put on there just minutes before Seti had walked in on her as she had finished putting it up. She closed the book and looked around the room again spotting it immediately. She walked over and smashed that case in as well and pulled it out. Looking at it she finally knew what it was it was her journal that had been hidden in that crevice and she had died with it as well. She picked it up and stuffed it into the bag and then turned to look at her mother who was smirking and talking to the child who was now in Imhotep's arms.
"We don't need the child now," Jamila said but yet now she felt bad for the child but she sucked it all up because she had known this was going to happen in the end. Besides she only needed the three O'Connells for this not the four. She was about to walk away when she heard a sound, something falling from up above. She looked up and she had just seen a glimpse of something moving and she smirked, 'just in time' she thought as she took out one of her guns. She heard all the others do the same behind her. She pulled the girl over to her and held the gun toward her head and now was when she cringed away.
"I guess you understood me O'Connells when I said I wouldn't hurt your daughter if you didn't show up but I guess you broke your promise which makes it officially that I can to," She held the gun closer to the girls head and started to act like she was going to pull the trigger when she saw Eve walk out and scream, "NO."
"And why not you broke your promise," Jamila said with one of her evil smiles.
"Please don't do it, Beth is not the one you want dead," Eve said as she walked forward on the balcony.
"No she isn't is she but neither are you or your son. I rather have the real threats gone and you know of whom I am speaking of," Jamila said.
"I also know they are hidden behind those to pillars on each side of you while your son his trying to get us from behind," Jamila said as half the soldiers turned to find a boy hide behind a pillar.
"How did you…" but before she could finish Jamila shrugged and said, "I learned special attack tactics when I was young by my step grandfather who fought in the war once."
"Now you can tell your husband and that old windbag Ardeth to get out from behind those pillars or I will kill your son and daughter and oh believe me that will be a lot worse than your husband and friend," Jamila said looking at the woman's worry on her face.
"Fine," and with that the two men came out of their hiding spots.
"Now aren't you two the perfect target practices for me," Jamila said right as she noticed something from behind her. It was the sound on dynamite being lit. Who in their right mind would do that, and with that she turned around to see Jabari with the most terrified look on his face as Alex threw the dynamite stick at his feet and then Jabari kicked it over to a pillar which blew up the moment it went off and then the whole place began to fall. She thought how stupid that fool was for doing this and yet how smart he was. Now they could get away without the others noticing. She had forgotten about the child until she looked over to see the small girl with her thumb in her mouth standing in a spot where a pillar was going to collapse any second. Jamila took action in this and ran toward her and jumped at her and pushed her out of the way of the pillar. She laid on top of the small girl while groaning from the pain in her side. She looked down and noticed how it had scraped on a spear that had fallen. She cursed herself for it as she watched the blood stain her cloths and stomach. She got up and pulled the girl up while holding her side and limping over to a guard. She had just now realized that she had also sprained her ankle and it hurt really badly. She turned her head looking into the blue eyes of a boy her age only a few feet from her as she ran. He looked at her in amazement but yet she didn't know why. A soldier quickly took the child from her as another helped her get out of there.
The soldier helped her into the car in the back with her mother who looked at her with satisfaction and with sorrow for some reason. Jamila held her bleeding side as the car drove away.
--------Back inside the Museum--------
Alex was running out of the building with Ardeth ahead of him and his father beside him. His mother was already in the lobby waving frantically for them to hurry which they did. When they made in out of the building they were very relieved but yet frightened as they saw the building collapse. His mother only put her head into her hands and wept knowing well enough that it would take them forever to get Beth back. Rick took a hold of Eve and held her against his chest while rubbing his hand on her head trying to calm her while shushing her. Ardeth only stared at the building with no emotion over his face but yet Alex he had now the curiosity of a cat now knowing full well that that girl Jamila had saved his sister and had got her self hurt in the process of doing so. He now had somewhat respect for her but not much still.
"This is going to take longer than I thought. This girl was a little smarter than I imagined she was," Ardeth said looking down at the ground.
"A little lets try a lot, she had the guts enough to come into my home and take my daughter as a threat and then to threaten us with her. Oh yeah she's very smart, no she's dumb by doing that because now I'll really make sure I'll hit her next time I shoot," Rick said with a very angry voice.
"But dad she actually saved Beth, I think she was really bluffing besides she got hurt saving Beth in the process and when she walked away she looked proud of it a bit," Alex said.
"Yeah whatever Alex just face the fact that she is as crooked as a cobra," Rick said.
"You know actually that is her nickname," Ardeth said.
"Or at least was along time ago during ancient Egyptian times," Ardeth said adding to his first comment.
"Yeah whatever," Rick said as he still cradle Eve in his arms. Alex only stared at the ruins knowing very well that this was going to be one long adventure and a very emotional one at that. He watched as Jonathan pulled up with the car he had been guarding and they all got in and went back to the house to call Izzy.
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