Anubis's Chance
Sadie's P.O.V
The dance was what? 7 years ago? Yup. That's how long he'd been gone, him and his bloody god of polluted air and badly dressed aviators. I didn't really expect him to come back, but I 7 missed him... a lot. After that Drew kept bugging me about him, what was his name? Was he my amazingly good-looking boyfriend? How old was he? Where did he live? (The last two would have been 8m to explain if I hadn't been saved by the bell.) I decided to take a walk, because you know everyone takes a walk at 3 in the morning. Nothing strange about a 21-year-old walking around in a graveyard by herself at night. Graveyards reminded me of him, not in a depressing way but because it was one of the first places I saw him in his human form.
Anyway, I had been walking down the old moss-ridden cobblestone path weaving between the crumbling tombstones when I stopped suddenly, there he was sitting on a tomb tone on the far end of the cemetery, and he was looking right at me. I froze and stood stone still. You know that feeling when you swim to the bottom of a pool and your ears pop? Yeah that's what it felt like. Like I was being dragged deep down into the ground, into the duat. He got up and slowly started walking towards me, and my stupid feet had forgotten how to walk. I guess he looked a little older, about twenty-fiveish I think, but still breathtakingly gorgeous. "Sadie..." He looked stunned for a moment and then of course I got instantly self-conscious. "You look. Gorgeous." He breathed. Suddenly I was filled with rage. "You left me for seven years Anubis! You and your stupid jackal head!" But he wasn't listening to me. "You are so beautiful." He murmured. I stopped stunned. "You don't look too bad yourself." I grumbled, annoyed that he was ignoring me but also flattered. Anubis smiled but it was suddenly replaced with a frown, he looked so sad, disappointed like. "I haven't seen you for so long. I've missed so much."
I suddenly felt terrible. The poor guy hadn't had a friend for millennia and the people that he did know weren't exactly the cozy family type. And he couldn't disobey Horus and Isis and unfortunately his asthmatic, cow farts grandfather. "Don't worry you haven't missed much. It's been pretty boring around here." "But I still wasn't here." My heart dropped into my stomach. "You couldn't. It wasn't your fault." His frown weakened, searching my eyes for something. "How did you become so beautiful?" I pretended to look shocked and offended. "What! So I wasn't before?" "No! No!" He stumbled over his words his cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "I meant that you look even more beautiful not that you weren't I mean that y-" I put my hand up smiling. "Stop, don't hurt yourself." He sighed. "Please forgive me for leaving without saying anything." He stopped. "I missed you so much." He grabbed my hands and I looked into his eyes, my breathing hitched in my throat. "Yeah well, I did just fine while you were gone thank you very much." I said, trying to sound as casual as possible. He grinned, obviously thinking up something terribly embarrassing to say to me. "I want to hear everything thats' happened over the last 7 years, but first Sadie, why don't you update me on those courtship rituals you first told me about?" uh oh.
We had been talking for about 3 hours when he suddenly stopped and sighed. "What?"
He turned, "I should be going now Ms. Kane, Lord Osiris will be expecting me for the next judgment. I grabbed his hand in a panic, "You'll be coming back right? For another visit?" He looked at me thoughtfully, "Perhaps. if you would like it." And before I could stop myself, I nodded eagerly (I'm so stupid) He smiled, reaching up and brushing away strands of my hair, neatly tucking it behind my ear. "And visit I will, Ms. Kane. But farewell for now." He stepped forward and kissed me on the lips. I stood there, frozen, a look of probably absolute surprise on my face that faded away into a stupidly wide grin as he disappeared into the duat.
Anubis's P.O.V
"Where have you been Anubis?" I looked at my Lord Osiris, my hands sweating." I was visiting the cemeteries my lord; it has been quite a while since I had gone." Osiris humed in his throat. I knew that he could tell when I was lying, after all he had known the boy for millennia. It also didn't help that while being the god of the dead, he was also Sadie's father, Julius Kane, and he was very,very,very,very protective of his daughter. "Very well, let the judgement begin!" I had gotten rather bored of these judgements. It happens when you endure thousands and thousands of them. After listening to a scrawny, weedy little man try to squirm his way out of condemnation for murdering a man and another one pleading innocent for smuggling I turned to leave, "Anubis!" I stopped, "Do not hurt my daughter, or there will be severe consequences." I nodded and kept walking down the hall.
He knew... well of course he knew, Anubis how could you be so stupid! He probably has spies watching his daughter twenty-four seven! I made my way to my room and flopped onto my huge king-sized bed. Despite the common theory that gods did not need sleep I valued my sleep very much. But I could not, I lied there awake thinking about her and how beautiful she had become. Her eyes, her skin, her soft voice, and her blood red lips. I started, now I was going too far, she was a human, and mortal and he an immortal and god. I needed to see her again. I groaned in annoyance, why was she so important to him?
Because she was nothing like I had ever seen. I laid down in my bed and closed my eyes sending my body into the Brooklyn house. She was already asleep in her bed, her hair spliced on her pillows. I smiled; she was truly beautiful. I sat down on her bed and sighed, stroking her face, careful not to wake her, softly planting a kiss on her forehead. Maybe, just maybe once I could skip on sleep.