On Thursday morning both boys were up early, they loved watching all the people moving about on the streets below, some were trying to sell their goods to people walking by. "It's a really busy city," Johnny said. "I'm so looking forward to going back to the museum. Why are they called mummies when there are men inside them?" he asked Danny.

"It's because they are mummified remains shortened to mummies," Danny explained.

"They should call the male ones daddies," Johnny said. "Do you think one will come alive and chase Jack round the museum? Member the one in the film, it took the man's eyes. Gross."

"Yes, a mummy wouldn't have to do that, they get buried with all their organs in jars. The only bit they didn't keep was the brain. They just scooped it out with long hooks and threw it in the bin."

"Daniel O'Neill!" Rose said from behind him. "We've not eaten yet."

"Don't think they'll give you mummy brains, they'll be too old now," he answered cheekily.

"They ate brains in one of the Indiana Jones films, member."

"Yes, they were all squidgy like jelly."

"If you two don't stop it you won't be going to the museum," John said.



"But Grandpa what I said was true they did scoop…"

"Enough, they maybe did but we don't need to discuss it now. Go get dressed and waken up your dad."

"Yes," they both said. Unfortunately Rose missed the evil gleam in Danny's eyes.

Ten minutes later they heard a yell and then a thud. The two boys ran out of Jack's bedroom," It was just a joke daddy," Danny said diving behind Rose.

Johnny hid behind John," We didn't mean for you to fall over. Honest Uncle Jack."

Jack came out of his room covered in white toilet paper. Rose and John tried not to laugh. "What were you thinking?" he asked them stalking towards Danny.

"We just thought you'd make a good mummy. Grandma said the other day I should have a mummy as well as a daddy," Danny giggled. Jack had white paper sticking everywhere. They hadn't meant to trip him up with the paper but he'd gotten up so quickly he'd fallen over.

Jack glared at them both. "This is not funny."

"You obviously haven't looked in the mirror this morning son," John said not able to contain his laughter any longer. "Did you cut yourself shaving?"



Rose started to laugh as well," It was just a prank," she said. Both boys relaxed when they saw their grandparents laughing.

"Well don't blame me when they play a trick on you," he stomped off into the bathroom.

"Think you two better keep well away from Jack today after that prank. He'll get his own back."

"We never thought about that. Jack can be real mean when he wants to be and he says paybacks a b.." Danny saw his grandparents look as he nearly said the last word of that phrase. "Oops! Well he does."

"Jonathan O'Neill," Rose said going after Jack," what have you been saying in front of Danny? You need to remember to watch what you say. I don't want him repeating things like that at home. What will people think?"

Danny sniggered. That was twice he had gotten Jack this morning. What a great start to the day.

However he was not pleased when he got to the museum. "Danny, I'm giving you one warning, you wander away and I'll put this child lead on you." He lifted it out of his pocket and showed it to Danny.

"You can't, that's for babies," Danny said horrified. "Grandma, tell him." He turned round with pleading eyes to look at his Grandma." Please."

"Sorry Danny but I agree with him."



Danny stomped into the museum in front of him muttering under his breath about bossy Colonels and over protective grandma's. Johnny came up beside him. "We'd best just stay beside them, Grandpa's got one for me as well."

"It's so unfair, Johnny. They're just spoiling our whole day."

"Come on," Jack said.

Danny and Johnny both wanted to see the area that dealt with mummies and their tombs. They looked at the elaborate masks that had been made for the pharaohs when they died. The boys weren't that impressed by the mummies, although Danny did look very carefully at one of the sarcophagi that were housed there. "Jack," he called, "That sarcophagus used to belong to Ra. It's got his name written in Goa'uld. He must have left it behind when he left Earth."

"At least it's not working." Danny read the information," I don't remember this being here the last time I was here."

A man behind him said," It's a new exhibit, it was found in one of the basement vaults, been there for years. We found that jar there as well." He pointed to a jar in an exhibit case.

"Jack that's another of the jars." He went over to read the inscription, "This one has Hapy written on it."

"Doesn't look very happy to me," Jack quipped.



"So not funny Jack. Hapy was a very important god to the Egyptians, he brought the flood every year. It carried the silt from the river and made the land more prosperous."

"Your son is very knowledgeable," one of the tourist guides said.

"Yes, he likes reading about the mummies." He pulled Danny away. "I'm going to phone Hammond and see if we can get hold of those 2 jars. Last thing we need are more Goa'uld wandering the planet. Stay with Rose and John." He went outside to phone.

Danny really wanted to go off and look at more artifacts but there was no way he was going to put that lead thing on his wrist, that would be too embarrassing. He stayed beside John and Rose talking to Johnny. When Jack came back he ruffled Danny's hair, "Good boy." Danny beamed.

"See I can do as I'm told. You always used to say there was more chance of the monkeys keeping their b in cold weather than me not wandering off," Danny said loud enough for Rose to hear.

"Jonathan O'Neill, I can see I'm going to have to take you in hand about the way you speak in front of Danny. You're still not too big to get your mouth washed out with soap," his mother said. Danny smiled, he'd found a way to get back at Jack and there was nothing he could do about it.

Sneaky little brat Jack thought. Danny went to open his mouth again and Jack clamped a hand over it. "Don't you dare," he said at his ear. "I managed to speak to General Hammond about the jars. He's already been in contact with The Pentagon about it. They're going to get one of their people to request that some of the artifacts be brought over to America. It means we'll be able to get access to them."

Daniel would have liked to have spent all day there but Jack could see he was getting tired. However when he tried to get him to leave and get something to eat he became very whiney, a sure sign that he either needed to eat or sleep. Rose said," Danny I know you like visiting here but Johnny is getting hungry, we need to find a restaurant to eat. Do you think you could ask and see if the receptionist could recommend one." Danny almost skipped over to the desk.

"Very clever mum," Jack said.

"Well it always worked with you."

Danny came back," Ali says there is one just over the road, it's very popular. It serves European and Egyptian food."

"Thank you. Let's go then. I don't know about you but I could eat a horse," John said.

"Might get camel but I don't think they do horse," Danny said.

"Yuk," Johnny said. "You're kidding right?"

"Nope, camel meat is nice. A bit tough if it's not cooked properly."

"Think they might have a McDonald's around here?" Jack asked.

"Jack, you're supposed to eat different kinds of food on holiday. I want to try haggis, neeps and tatties when we're in Scotland."

"All I want to try is a good Scotch," Jack said.

"I don't wanna eat camel, Grandma," Johnny said.

"You're not going to, let's go and look at the menu and see what they've got." She glared at Jack and Danny, "And no more talk about camels cooked or otherwise. Understand?" They both nodded.

They walked over to the restaurant. "There's nothing wrong with eating camel, I'm sure we've eaten worse off world," Danny said.

"Let's keep on Grandma's good side, I'm already in enough trouble with her because of you."

"Me?" Danny said innocently. "What did I do?"

Jack cuffed the back of his head, grabbed him and lifted him up.

They had a lovely meal at the restaurant, Johnny was very careful about what he asked for. They asked for Tabouli Chicken Casserole which sounded very nice. Danny thought about asking for sheep's eyes to eat but he thought he'd already pushed Rose enough today with the cooked camel and he really wanted to have Egyptian chocolate cake with cinnamon whipped cream for dessert. By the time they were finished eating both boys were nearly asleep. They took a taxi back to the hotel and put them to bed. "Think they're going to need a nap before we eat with Professor Marek," John said.

"Why don't you two go out and I'll stay with the boys," Rose said.

"You sure mum?"

"Go on I can handle two 6 year olds." Jack and John left to have a walk.

An hour later Danny woke up, he came through to the living room," Where's daddy?"

"He went for a walk with Grandpa, he'll be back soon. Why don't you finish off your postcards while we wait for them to come back."

"Okay." He sat up at the table and got his pen. There was a knock at the door. Rose went to answer it.

"My god, what do you want?" Danny heard her say as he jumped down and ran into his room. He kept the door slightly open and watched two men push Rose into a seat.

"Where are they?" one of them asked.

"I don't know who you want," she said.

"The man and the boy, Daniel Jackson, we want him. Now where is he?"

"He went out with his father, they won't be back for a long time," her voice quavered.

"You're lying. Where is he?"

Danny ran to the bedroom and gently shook Johnny. He covered his mouth and told him there were bad men next door and they had to hide. Danny put him in the closet and shut the door. He gave him his mobile phone and told him to press 1 and he would get Jack. He was to tell him what was happening but he was not to come out the closet no matter what he heard. Danny took a deep breath and went out. "I'm here," he said.

"No Danny," Rose shouted. "Run."

"It's okay, they won't hurt me." He turned to the men," I'll come with you just don't hurt my Grandma." Danny suspected they were NID men and had been waiting for a time when he was not with Jack.

"Call the police and we'll hurt the boy," one of them shouted as they left the room carrying Danny.

TBC