Annie looked around finding the place familiar to her. It was when she looked past Ardeth that she knew why. Ardeth thought Annie was staring at him and was about to ask when Annie ran past him.
"Annie old girl?" Jonathan called following her with Ardeth and Rick.
Annie ran inside the building and up the stairs reaching the door of her apartment.
"Wait we ended up at your place?" Rick asked as he entered shutting the door behind him.
"Looks like it." Annie answered going to a trunk and opening it. "If we're going to find that car we might aswell be prepared." Annie explained pulling out a blanket that covered a bag.
Annie handed the bag to Ardeth and then scurried to a closet opening it up and taking another bag. She walked to her kitchen table and dumped the bag she was holding before taking the one Ardeth and put it on the table also.
"What you got in there Ann?" Rick asked but fell silent when she opened them to reveal weapons of all sorts. "Wow this is a side of you I never knew."
"There are a few things you don't know about me Rick." Annie answered taking out a shotgun and loading it.
"By Jove where did you get all these?" Jonathan asked holding up a pair of Sai daggers.
"I haven't exactly been staying in Cairo all this time. At one point I was hired as a medic and cook for a part to excavate the Thebe ruins. The archeologists let me keep the Sai daggers as payment." Annie explained handing the shotgun to Ardeth and then taking some pistols for Rick.
"Do you know how to use them?" Ardeth asked this time.
"I'm afraid not. I had planned on selling them to the museum but they turned them down so since then I've been stuck with them." Annie answered.
Annie gave each man some weapons before they set out to find Jonathan's car. As they walked down the empty streets a fog made it hard to see into the distance. Annie held her shotgun tightly as she walked with Ardeth, Jonathan and Rick. Everyone kept their guard up as they walked. Any noise made each of them point their weapon in that direction ready to fire.
"Where is everybody?" Annie whispered.
Once the question left her mouth the fog started to disperse revealing a sea of blood and bodies. Annie couldn't hold it and turned spilling what contents she had in her stomach. Rick walked over to Annie and rubbed her back gently while holding her hair. All the zombies were laying on the ground lifeless their chests open and blood bed beneath them.
"Bloody hell." Jonathan muttered, "What happened to them?"
"Apparently the creature saw no more use for them." Ardeth answered as Annie turned back to the sight.
Amongst the bodies Annie spotted the curator and dashed over to find that it was a severed head. "They cut him into pieces."
"More like dismantled him." Rick said staring at different body parts around him.
"Rick we need to get to Hamunaptra fast. Do you think Winston might lend us a hand?" Annie asked looking at her brother.
"I think he might be up for the challenge." Rick smiled getting into the car.
"The airfield, I presume?"
"That's right," Rick replied, climbing into the passenger's seat beside Jonathan.
Ardeth and Annie soon followed getting into the back seats. Jonathan started the car and began to drive through the streets avoiding the bodies best as he could.
"How far is the airfield?" Ardeth asked. "And who is this Winston person?"
"The airfield's not too far," Rick replied. "We'll be there by sun up. And Winston is Winston Havelock, the last man stationed here in the British air force."
"So… he will have a plane?" Ardeth said.
"Precisely," Rick grinned.
As they drove Annie's eyes began to feel heavy from lack of sleep. Her head would drop slightly but then she would bolt up awake. There was a few hours before sun up and Annie wanted and needed to sleep. She was used to this state of tiredness because she had often pulled a double shift when she still worked at the bar. Having tried fighting to stay awake Annie passed out and fell against Ardeth's shoulder. He looked down at Annie and realized that she was asleep. When he looked away from Annie, Ardeth saw Rick staring at Annie.
"She's had a tough time." Rick spoke to Ardeth.
"What do you mean?" Ardeth inquired.
"She's always been the responsible one of us both. She took two jobs to keep a roof over her and my head. Often she would over work herself and if she got sick she would still go. She's always put her needs after mine or someone else's." Rick explained with a sigh, "She deserves better. You don't mind if she sleeps against you do you? She needs it the most."
"No I do not mind." Ardeth answered simply. "How old is your sister?"
"She's 22 next month. I'm guessing that by your people's customs she should already be married and have a one year old to look after." Rick commented imagining his sister with a husband standing beside her and a son in her arms.
"Usually yes that would be the case. Is your sister wed?" Ardeth asked causing Rick to grin like the Cheshire cat.
"Well you seem interested."
"I was merely asking. Nothing more." Ardeth defended.
"Ahuh, but no she's not married." Rick answered seriously, "Lots of guys have tried to get fresh with her but she manages to fight them off. She may look innocent on the outside but inside… she's like a tiger."
"I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean." Ardeth said not believing that the woman leaning against him was vicious in any way.
"You'll see it one day." Rick answered turning up front again.