Finally, I posted chapter 11!
Chapter 11 One Angry Seti
Two weeks had passed, they had gotten back to Egypt, and Kiran was avoiding Ramses. The tension in the air was so thick that you could cut it with a knife. Seti was just about at the edge of his patience with Kiran's childish avoidance and Ramses' annoying stubbornness in not being the first one to apologize.
"They were both in the wrong, anyways." Seti grumbled. All of the other soldiers were avoiding him, they had never seen him this irritated, who knows what he'd be capable of.
Seti had gotten the whole story of what happened from Ramses. Kiran had decided to try and steal the information, Ramses had caught her and then decided to tease her a bit, Ramses had gone a bit too far, and he was there to see her bolt out of the room. At the time, he had found the story highly amusing, he even found it a bit funny to see Kiran and Ramses stubbornly not speak to each other. That was a week and a half ago. Now, Seti was through.
"Kiran!" Seti shouted angrily at said girl who was currently practicing her swordsmanship. She stumbled forward slightly, surprised at his un-Seti like exclamation of anger.
"What?" Kiran turned to Seti with eyes wide and eyebrows scrunched together, a mix of surprise and irritation.
"When are you going to stop avoiding Ramses?" Seti asked and watched Kiran's face scrunch up in annoyance.
"When he apologizes." Kiran said bluntly, and as if the world wanted to add further emphasis, Ramses walked by and Kiran sharply turned around and walked away, Ramses grimacing slightly.
'Good luck with that.' Seti rolled his eyes at the two.
"Ramses." Seti said, fingers pinching the bridge of his nose. He was beyond irritated at this point. "Have you maybe thought to just apologize?" Ramses raised his eyebrow at Seti and Seti let out an exasperated sigh.
'Guess that answers the question.'
"Seriously, Ramses. Why don't you just apologize? I get that she tried to steal the information, but even you admitted that you took your teasing too far. Besides, I can tell that you don't like her avoiding you." Ramses was starting to question the severity of the situation, this was the longest he had heard Seti talk about something non work related.
"How exactly am I supposed to...apologize," Ramses said the word with distaste and Seti resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "if that ann-" Seti shot Ramses a look. "Kiran" Ramses said her name like it left a weird taste on his mouth, he had, after all, only said her name once before. "turns away every time I'm any closer than ten feet away?"
'That was an awkwardly said sentence.' Seti amusedly thought, he knew very well that most of Ramses annoyance towards Kiran was simply because he didn't know how to deal with her. This was only his generals second time in his life that he didn't know how to deal with a woman, and since most men ran into that every day, even as loyal as Seti was, he couldn't help but be amused by Ramses struggle.
"I'll take care of it." Seti assured, a small smirk gracing his lips, to which Ramses responded with an annoyed glare and a grunt before he walked out of the room. Despite how it seemed, Seti knew that even if he could give Ramses his opportunity, Ramses wouldn't apologize, this was all depending on who cracked first. He also knew, that neither of them would give up that easily. Seti sighed.
"They're both way too complicated."
"Kiran-"
"I'm not going to talk to him." Said girl interrupted Seti before he could speak.
"That's not what I was going to say, I was wondering if you know how to read our language." Seti provided, Kiran eyed him suspiciously.
"...No." Kiran hesitated before answering.
"I suspected as much, considering that you're from Japan, I'm surprised you can even speak our language." Seti said.
"Where are you going with this?" Kiran eyed Seti suspiciously.
"Well, since you're going to be stuck in Egypt for a while before you can go back home, I thought you might like to learn." Seti knew that Kiran was no idiot, but he also saw the spark of interest in her eyes when he mentioned their language.
"...The catch?" Kiran asked. Seti let a small smile settle on his face.
"None at all, there are some tablets in one of the rooms, come on." Seti started walking away and Kiran hesitated before sighing and following him. Once they got to the door, Seti opened it and Kiran hesitated before walking in...only to have the door close behind her.
"Seti! Let me out, what are you doing?! SETI!" Kiran yelled through the door.
"Sorry, Kiran, but Ramses' and your fighting has gotten beyond annoying." Seti said before walking away, well, not before locking the door.
'Now I don't have to be annoyed by their childish fight anymore.' As Seti thought this, all of the soldiers on the boat looked at him in fear, Seti could really be scary when he was annoyed.
'Seti, damned you!' Kiran mentally growled.
'More importantly…'
'Oh, yeah. Why did Seti lock me in here?'
'Why don't you try looking around the damned room?'
Kiran turned around and immediately froze.
'WHY?! Whyyyyyyy?!'
'Because your childish silent treatment towards Ramses was so annoying that even Seti got pissed off.'
There Ramses was, sitting on a chair in the corner of the room. He was looking at Kiran, waiting for her to say something. Unfortunately for him, Kiran just turned around and rested her forehead on the door.
"Seti isn't going to unlock that door until we solve our...issues." Ramses stated, in his annoyingly professional and calm way that never failed to make Kiran feel like a childish idiot. Kiran let out a sigh and turned to face Ramses, her instinct to escape not letting her take a single step away from the door, despite it being locked. She leaned back into the door, propping herself up with her right leg.
"I know." She answered coolly. This was going to be a game of endurance, who would be the one to crack first under the awkward atmosphere and apologize? "Let the game begin." Kiran gave a cruel smile, this was proving to be quite an entertaining argument, she hadn't had this much fun in a while, let alone this good an opponent.
"Indeed." Ramses smirked.
This chapter was almost entirely in Seti's POV. Even he gets pissed off sometimes.
Do you guys like Seti?
And who do you think should be the first to apologize?
