Hey guys, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR READING THIS! I just can't believe how many of you have read this already. Please comment, I love hearing your opinions. In this chapter I threw a little Walt in so it's interesting. And the spell for water I made up so I might be doing that a little too. I don't own the Kane chronicles unfortunately :,( but I do own the plot. Love all of you,

Rin

The Bloody… Crown?

Chapter 14

APOV

Ok, so things just got awkward. Let me back up a little. Sadie just took a detour that we didn't really have time for, and left me and Carter to decide to leave her, or follow her. Again. I followed her, of course, and Carter soon followed in suit. We had to hurry so as not to lose Sadie in the enormous clouds of people that all wanted to see what had been brought in from Egypt. Why were there so many people?! I mean, to most of them, all of it probably looked the same. But that didn't seem to stop anyone, because within ten minutes, the only way I could find Sadie, was a) her bright red hair streak, and b) her aura. It's been strong since the whole thing with the necklace.

So, as soon as I saw an opening, I darted through the people and caught Sadie's hand. She looked back and then said, "Um… where's Carter? Not that I really care, but my dad will kill me if we lose him." She had a good point. We both would get in trouble if we lost Carter, but I half hoped he had gotten swept into the abyss of people swirling around Sadie and me. But, unfortunately, he soon came wading through the people toward us.

"It's about time you got here Carter." Sadie said. "Hey it's not-" Carter was abruptly interrupted by Sadie muttering hah-ri. Immediately Carter couldn't speak. "Well, I've never seen that one used for keeping someone quiet, but hey, it works." I said. Sadie got a very smug look on her face and turned back to Carter.

"Now, brother dearest, I don't think we have time for you to blame the crowd, but we have to hurry if we are going to go look and still get to grab the didgeri-thing." She released the spell and Carter immediately started complaining and saying, "But Sadie… didn't you just say you wanted to get this done with?"

"Yeah, I did, but now I changed my mind. I want to get this done with after I go look at the Egypt stuff." And she grabbed my hand and pulled me toward a big gold and black arch. There, a line was curling back toward us. Sadie was not going to be happy about this. When I looked down at her face, she had a look that sent a red flag up in my head. She was plotting. And by the looks of it, it was going to work too. Suddenly she grabbed my waist and loudly said, "Aw! Anu~bis… we'll never get there with this line… and I really wanted to go too…" she started sniffling but winked at me. The older couple in front of us looked at me and I realized I had to play my role too.

"Shhh Sade's. It's fine… I'll bring ya back when I have some free time ok?" I rubbed her back in what was supposed to be comfort. She sniffled again and nodded slowly. As we turned to "go", the couple tapped my shoulder and let us go in front of them. A few people in front of them did the same, and at Sadie's happy face and thanks, a few more people let us go in front of them too. Sadie acted ecstatic and hugged me tight, and thanked everyone warmly. "Now I'll have the BEST sixteenth birthday EVER!" Now, we only had to wait behind two people.

When we got up to the front of the line, there was a man selling tickets. He was only maybe a year or two older then Sadie and had blond hair and a strange green color eyes. "Two, er three tickets please." Sadie said brightly. The man looked up at her and he blinked a few times and stared at her. "Uh, sure… Three tickets." He slowly handed her the pieces of paper and she gave him the fifteen bucks to pay for the tickets. "Hey, miss… So whatcha doing after this, huh? Wanna maybe catch a bite to eat after I get off?" he said after snapping back.

Was he seriously hitting on Sadie? Really? Could he not see me standing here? "Oh, well I'm sure that would be awesome," Sadie said, "But I think my boyfriend wouldn't like that, now would you Anubis?" she looked up at me and I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her. "Hmm," I murmured against her lips. "I don't think I'd like that at all." I said breaking the kiss and glaring at the punk who had just hit on Sadie. "And, I also don't think I like other guys hitting on my girl."

Sadie giggled and we walked away from the clearly shocked ticket man. "You're too damn cute for your own good." I growled at her. She widened her eyes in shock. "Excuse me?" she said incredulously. "In case you haven't noticed, girls flirt with you all the time. Or did you just not notice how your hotness was affecting them." Now it was my turn to be shocked. I knew I was hot, but I didn't think girls flirted like that guy had just done.

"Sorry…" I stammered. Sadie "Hmph"ed and we walked in an awkward silence into the dark room beyond. Carter followed us at a distance and now I could hear him flipping through pages of a book he had bought. Suddenly he stopped and called, "Sadie! Phones for you. It's Walt. He says he has something important to tell you… and something about Felix…" Sadie inhaled sharply and reached her hand out for the phone.

"Hello?" She said into the phone. "Wha- Why'd you guys let him near the fire extinguisher to begin with?! Huh- I don't care! Ugh. Ok, so the spell to put out the fire is ne-shu. Got that? I don't even know how he set that on fire… put him in his room and tell him I'm going to have a talk with him when I get back." She looked at me and rolled her eyes. "What happened?" I questioned. "Tell ya later." She said. "Oh, that was just Anubis… Huh? What do you have to tell me?" She got silent and her face sank a little. "Um hey, I'm kinda busy at the moment… can we talk about this when I get back? Please?" She said quietly into the phone. "No, nothing's wrong, but I think we should talk about this after the fires out and when I'm actually there." Another pause. "Ok bye." She hung up.

"Sadie. Are you ok? You don't look so good… what did Walt have to say?" I pried. She looked up at me gloomily. "Well," she started, "You're involved, so I might as well tell you…" Uh oh. That can't be good.

Sadie took a deep breath and slowly said, "Well he said he had been thinking and he decided that even though he knows it's not fair to me, that he wants to spend the rest of his time with me… and that he l-loves me." I could see the pain in her eyes. I had known that Sadie liked Walt but she had chosen me. I was just making things harder on her. She was probably going to break up with me.

"Sadie, if you want, you can go and be with him… I'll leave you alone and you can be with Walt until the end, or until a cure is found. You don't have to-" I was cut off by her really loud, "WHAT?!" I stared at her and stuttered, "Um, i-isn't that what you wanted?" She grabbed my hands and said, "Of course not! What gave you that idea?!"

"You said that it involved me so I thought you were going to break up with me!" I said a little relieved. Sadie wasn't going to end the most blissful weekend I've ever had. "You're involved because we gotta tell Walt about us, remember?! Gods! How could you think I would want to break up with you? I thought I made it clear that I love you." She looked extremely bewildered and all I could do was hug her. I held her tight, afraid that she would say "Just kidding!" and run away to Walt.

"Thank the gods… I'm so happy… I thought you wanted to go to him… I wanted to make you happy and let you go to him against my own will. I'm so happy you chose me… I love you Sadie." I whispered into her soft neck, trailing kisses all the way up and down her skin. She sighed and stroked my hair.

"You jump to conclusions too fast, Noob." She said. I could only nod. I looked up and said, "Oh yeah, so what happened to Felix?" Sadie laughed and said "Well first he turned the entire front hall into an arctic wonder land for his penguins and a ski spot for himself, them he blew it and the entire living room up with a fire extinguisher. I'm not even sure how he set the extinguisher on fire to begin with!" I cracked up and we kept walking, looking at the new stuff from Egypt. Sadie stopped by a huge statue of me, only it was all cracked and worn out from the weather and erosion.

"I think it looks exactly like you." She mused. I rolled my eyes and ruffled her hair. After about an hour of looking at people I had escorted to death, we decided that we should probably get the didgeridoo. We walked to the Australian section and gasped. There were tons of people. This was going to be harder than we thought.