last chapter D: enjoy!

0o0o0o0o

Chapter 12: Better than gold.

Chrissie gasped and closed her eyes as the shot rang out and vibrated off the tomb walls. As the tomb grew quiet again she opened her eyes and looked to Ben and Abi, they were alright. She then looked at Riley. He was cowering on the floor, but he was okay.

"What the hell...?" she asked.

"Consider that a warning." Ian said looking around at the treasure. "Next time, I won't miss." He walked past them for a moment and picked up a few golden knickknacks.

"A warning…" Riley was muttering, standing up. "I love how a warning has to be a gunshot close to my head."

"You alright?" Riley asked now looking at Chrissie.

"I wasn't cowering on the floor…but yeah I'm okay."

"I wasn't cowering." Riley said offended. "That wasn't fear at all…that was…precaution."

Chrissie broke into a small smile even though the situation was dire and ruffled his hair. "Whatever, Indiana."

Riley could always make her smile when the situation wasn't the best. She guessed it had something to do with when he was upset or scared. He tended to be on the sarcastic side and it made her smile and feel better even though he didn't. She grabbed his hand and squeezed it, kissing him on the cheek. She hoped that made him feel a little at ease.

"Tie them up…except Chrissie." Ian ordered now pointing to his men.

His men nodded and jerked Ben and Abi to the side of the tomb, placing ropes around their hands and waists. One of them then grabbed Riley and he struggled as one took hold of Chrissie as well.

"Hey, don't touch her." Riley grit as he was pulled to the side along Ben and Abi.

Chrissie now was taken by Ian and he put a death grip on her arm, making sure she couldn't go anywhere.

"Let her go." Riley said angrily. He was no match, unfortunately, for Ian's men. He was skinny and somewhat non- muscular. He remembered when Ben said that he couldn't win a fight with a kindergartner. He had been fooling around, but having muscles would really come in handy at a time like this.

"She'll be okay." Ben said trying to calm Riley down. Ian didn't need them anymore and if they acted up they could get shot or worse they could get killed.

Abi nodded, putting a comforting hand on Riley's forearm as he was being tied down with them. "She'll be okay."

"How can you say that?" Riley asked, struggling against the ropes. "Her brothers a raging psychopath with a loaded gun."

Ben glanced at Ian and Chrissie. Luckily he was pulling her away from earshot. Ben jerked back and hit Riley but before he could complain he interrupted him.

"Riley you're panicked and I understand but if you don't shut up you could get Chrissie seriously hurt. You need to calm yourself down, right now." Ben spoke quickly and Riley nodded.

Ben understood how he was feeling, if he and Abi were in their situation he'd be doing the same thing. He loved Abi like Riley loved Chrissie and he'd do anything to save her. It was safe to assume Riley felt the same way and he knew how doing nothing must have been killing him.

0o0o0o0o

"I don't know what the hell you think is going to happen Ian." Chrissie said as he jerked her to the side. She tripped over a golden sphinx and fell roughly into a pile or rubies and coins.

"Well first off, get rid of all of you and take the treasure for myself."

Chrissie smirked. "Right. You keep saying that but as I look over there, none of us are dead yet."

Ian smiled. "Well, I wanted you to be the first, seeing as how we're family and everything."

"You won't get away with this."

"Like how I got away with this so far?" he questioned. He grabbed her one arm and pulled her up. "Come on, I have something to show you."

0o0o0o

Chrissie was now out of Riley's eyesight and he started to squirm against the ropes. Luckily, Ian's men were as stupid and brainless as they looked and started roaming away from the captives to look at the treasure and stuff as much as they could into their pockets.

"Where are your hands?" Riley whispered the Abi.

She moved slightly and pushed her arms back and connected hands with Riley.

"Can you reach the ropes?" he asked her. Ben heard this and tried to crane his neck to look at him.

"What are you doing?" Ben asked looking to Ian's idiots. They had no clue any of them were talking.

"Abi can reach the ropes around my hands and loosen them." Riley whispered and tried moving his hands.

"Stop moving." Abi ordered. "You could end up tightening them."

Riley did what he was told and sat there. Ben spoke up again. "What do expect to do Riley? You could get yourself killed."

"I can't let her get hurt Ben. I just can't okay?" His voice trembled a little and Ben just nodded. He could tell Riley cared for her a lot. It was funny how you didn't have to know someone that well to care a whole lot for them.

"I got it." Abi said pulling her hands back.

Riley nodded. "You guys stay here and if Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb over there notice I'm gone, do something about it okay?"

Ben and Abi nodded. It was so unlike Riley to take lead and give orders like he was doing. Ben was proud of him, although it took how many years for him to do it. He guessed it just took a certain situation for him to act on it. Like his only girlfriend getting captured and almost killed by her own brother. Ben guessed it would anger a lot of people…especially Riley.

0o0o0o

Chrissie stumbled along as Ian pulled her. They went to the end of the tomb and Chrissie could see a pit. He pulled her to the edge and she stopped short to avoid falling in.

"This pit was designed for traitors. When the king's men were filling the tomb and they had other thoughts for what to do with the treasure, they were thrown in here."

Ian pushed Chrissie to kneel. She tried to back up against him but he nudged her foreword till she was at the pit's edge.

"Thought you ought to know that for future reference." Ian said as he leaned back and loaded his gun.

0o0o0o

Riley moved his way in between piles of gold and statues trying to move as quickly as he could to wear Chrissie and Ian were. He hid behind another Osiris statue and peeked his head out to watch them and try and figure out what his best move was.

"Ian please, don't do this. You really hate me this much? That you can kill your own sister."

"It has nothing to do with hate." Ian countered and cocked his weapon. "It has to do with wanting things in life Chrissie. And I want this treasure. When they took me away to prison, they took all my things away from me. I just want it all back, to be surrounded by beautiful and expensive things. I'm selfish that way."

0o0o0o0o

Abi and Ben untied their ropes and sat there, waiting to make sure Ian's men were still preoccupied. But they looked over and noticed Riley was up and about.

"Hey!" one of them yelled.

That's when Abi and Ben sprung into action and started throwing punches before they could take out their weapons.

0o0o0o0o

Ian turned at the noise and Chrissie took that opportunity to turn around and run at his legs. She knocked Ian over with a yell coming from his mouth and a loud thud on impact. His gun went off in the direction of the ceiling and Chrissie placed her arms over her head as debris and rocks fell.

Riley charged as Ian got up and pushed him over again.

"Riley!" Chrissie yelled trying to pull Ian off of him. Ian had his hands wrapped tightly around Riley's neck. She was no match for him and when she tried pulling him off Riley with all she could he turned around and backhanded her, sending her sprawling.

When he did that Riley kicked Ian foreword using his knee and it distracted Ian long enough that he took his hands off his neck. Riley pushed him off and stood, going to Chrissie.

She was leaning on her side and she felt her bottom lip. Blood was coming from her open cut on her lip and she winced when she ran her tongue over it. Riley knelt down beside her, taking her chin in his hand.

"You okay?" he asked her.

She nodded and looked up at him. Her eyes suddenly widened. "Look out!"

Riley turned just in time for Ian to knock him in the head with a small cat statue. Riley fell to the side as Chrissie gasped.

"Why do you always have to be so difficult Chrissie?" Ian screamed and bent foreword to grab her. Out of instinct Chrissie pushed her leg forward and kicked him as hard as she could. He jerked back and fell towards the pit. But just as he fell into it Chrissie grabbed his hand and held onto him tight.

He looked her in the eyes. "Don't you dare drop me." Ian seethed, pulling on her arm.

"You're slipping." Chrissie said helplessly as she pulled onto him. She struggled to pull him up but he was heavier then she was. "Stop scrambling." She said to him but he didn't.

"Please Ian just…"

She didn't get a chance to tell him anything because he pulled her down while he tried to pull himself up. She screamed and fell forward. She closed her eyes as she braced herself for falling but someone caught her from behind. Riley held her around her waist as tightly as he could. But the sudden jerk to pull her back was too much for Ian and he lost Chrissie's hand and fell. The sudden weight was lifted and Riley pulled Chrissie up and she landed on her back on his chest.

She scrambled to the edge of the cliff, looking over it. Like her brother would somehow still be there. She placed her hand over her mouth as sobs spilled from her. Ian had been a bastard, less than a human being when it came to everything. But he was still her brother.

Riley crawled over to her pulling her back from the edge. She collapsed into his chest and sobbed loudly into his shoulder. He held her tightly and kissed her head, whispering nonsense that could only comfort a percent of what she was feeling. She pushed herself closer to him and buried her head in his shoulder. It was barely enough.

Riley turned his head to see Ben and Abi make their way over to them. They stopped when they saw Riley holding Chrissie. Ben just nodded and took Abi's hand. They all had had enough of Egypt.

0o0o0o0o

Four weeks later.

Riley picked up some of the boxes and placed them in Chrissie's living room.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Riley asked, placing his arms around her waist.

"Why wouldn't I?" she asked.

"Well moving from one crap- apartment to another might not be such a good thing."

She turned to face him. "Your apartment is crappy?"

He shrugged. "Well, I mean I think it's livable. Although, the maid has forgotten to come back and place those little tiny mints on the pillows."

She smiled placing a small kiss on his lips. "I'm just saying are you so sure you're ready for this?"

She shrugged. "Why wouldn't I be?"

Riley's voice turned somewhat serious. "You know why."

"Look, Ian was my brother and I kind of had to love him. But what he did to you and to everyone, its something I can't forgive him for." She looked at Riley and looked down. "I must sound like a really horrible person, especially since he died."

Riley grabbed her chin and brought it closer to his face. He wrapped an arm around her waist and held her tightly to him. "Horrible is one of the last words I'd describe you with."

She smiled and kissed him. When it ended he brought her into a snug hug.

"Can't believe I'm moving in with you." Chrissie said pulling away.

"Yeah, especially since you were so annoying when we first met." Riley said, moving out of her way before she could smack him.

"I was annoying?" she asked unconvinced.

He nodded, sitting on her couch. "Oh yeah. Your loud music, taking my shower time…"

"Well we share shower time now." Chrissie said her smile growing slower on her face.

Riley put a finger to his lips before he could smile. "You interrupt me, your snoring is absurd." Now he did smile because the look on her face was priceless.

"I'm not even loud." She said trying to feign being hurt.

Riley nodded and laughed. "You're like freight train running through the house."

Chrissie shook her head, now plopping down next to him. "I hate you, you're mean."

Riley cocked his head to the side and smiled. "No, not mean. Honest."

She shrugged and he leaned closer to her and eventually laid her down on the couch and rested on top of her.

She shook her head. "I still hate you."

"Well I can't do anything about that." He said smiling. "But I'm pretty sure I love you."

She smiled widely as he leaned down and kissed her. Suddenly it didn't matter how much treasure they had gotten from the tomb and how much they had spilt it with Ben and Abi. Because what they had here…was better than gold.

0o0o0o0o

i hope everyone enjoyed, thanks for the amazing readers and reviewers!

plus, i'm thinking of doign a sequel, what do you all think?

any ideas?