The Magicians illness

Chapter 2: I see my fate

A/N I have made Carter just slightly oc because of thoughts I had while watching some of my favorite shows even though I know that he doesn't have the ability (at least canonly…we don't know because it's never brought up as a subject in the books.) There's also another "surprise" in this story. Feel free to let me know how you feel about them.

Carter POV (sort of)

Carter was dreaming, at least he thought he was. The last thing he remembered was his dad picking him up before blacking out. The next thing he knew it was hot and he could feel his Ba being pulled from his body. "Really…good going carter pass out then leave your body, what a great idea!". Carter could see himself on the floor with his head in Sadie's lap, while she stroked his hair and his mother sat there talking to Sadie. Suddenly, he was floating upwards and out of the Duat. Carter was used to the weightless feeling by now, but he was still terrified of what he was about to see. "Is Apophis coming back? No, that's stupid we just beat him…but what if we didn't?". While carter was lost in all the different scenarios' that might play out and none of them good, he completely ignored the change of scenery. Once carter managed to shake all bad thoughts from his head he found himself in a small town along the coast. He was suddenly pulled into a diner.

The diner was rather tiny on the inside and there were almost no people inside. There were, from what he could see, only four people inside. There was a waitress at the register looking bored out of her mind, a cook in the kitchen, and what appeared to be two men in a booth towards the back of the restaurant. They looked like they might be in their late 30's and they were trying to go unnoticed by anyone. That immediately put carter on edge, what were they doing in a small diner that they looked completely out of place in? That wasn't the weirdest thing though, what was weird was the fact that the waitress and cook didn't seem to even know they were there like…magic. Carter floated closer against his will until he could hear them clearly. As carter listened in he caught on to their conversation and he really did not like what he was hearing.

Creeps POV (sort of)

"so...you're positive this will work?" asked creep number one

"yes sir, they won't even now he's dying until it's too late." Replied the second creep

"Good… the boss will be glad to know that within the week he will have been the one to destroy the Kane boy!" exclaimed creep one proudly

"Yes, sir I'm sure he will be. Now, about my payment?" inquired number two

"Of course, here this should be more than enough." Said number one pulling out a yellow envelope and sliding it across the table to number two.

"Thank you sir" answered creep two

"You're welcome. Now it's time I need to get going, we have many more plans to carry out by the time the boy dies." Replied the first creep.

Carters POV

Carter was suspicious of number one, but he was more scared of the fact that he was supposedly dying and he had no way of telling his family what was wrong with him. He watched as creep number two shook hand with number one before turning around to leave. Even though carter had never been in a relatable situation before, he knew that turning your back on your creepy employer was a stupid idea. He watched as creep two made that very mistake and as number one in the same minute pulled a switchblade before stabbing number two in the back literally. Carter watched as number two turned to dust with a look of shock on his face and the chef and waitress notice nothing. Number one picked up the envelope, put his switchblade away, and paid his bill before leaving. Carters Ba sat or hovered there for a moment before it began getting pulled back to his body. As carter came back into the Duat he made a startling discovery…he or at least his Ba couldn't re-enter his body! It was stuck outside of… himself! Carter had a moment of panic before calming down and taking in all of his surroundings. He could see that his family had stripped him down and covered him with ice packs which he figured meant that he had a dangerously high fever, even though he couldn't feel it or anything for that matter. He was able to see his sister sitting on the bed next to their dad and how they were all talking.

"Don't worry Sadie, he'll be okay," Julius reassuringly claimed.

"I hope so… it's been hours. I'm scared." Sadie admitted anxiously.

"Well, until we can figure out what's going on, why don't we do something to take your mind off it for a bit?" asked Julius.

"Like what?" inquired Sadie

"Well, not to make things sad, but seeing as I never got to see you as much as I wish I could've…why not catch up? Sort of Like in a game of 20 questions kind of way?" answered Julius

"ok," said Sadie

Carter sat down next to them and just listened. He knew no one could see or hear him, not even his father, but he still wanted to spend what he figured would be his last days with his family. Whether he was seen or not. After a few minutes and questions asked later, Carter was surprised to hear Sadie's 8th question. (yes he'd been counting, it's not like he had much he could do.)

"How did cater feel about traveling everywhere? He never really brings it up." Sadie asked

"Honestly, I think he hated it. Especially when we had to leave you…he'd be quiet for days. I think he got tired of the constant moving around, even though we really had no choice." Answered Julius somberly

"Really? I always thought he liked getting to see different places, making new friends, and all that stuff? When we have to do research or something and he brings up a trip you guys took as reference or something, it always sounded like he enjoyed whatever happened," replied Sadie

"Not really, actually he rarely enjoyed any trip we made. He'd stay inside the hotel most of the time until he could help out at dig sites, and aside from that there were very few children around and even then there were usually many differences between them and carter so he never really made friends. Other than that, there were dangers to our traveling." Explained Julius

"Like what…kind of dangers" asked Sadie

"Well, from what I remember mostly there were riots in some places, large amounts of crime in others at some point, natural disasters, and there was one time when our plane actually crashed." Stated Julius listing the dangers off on his fingers.

"WHAT!" screamed both Sadie and their mother.

"Yes… our plane actually crashed at one point. We were flying from California to Italy. We were going from one museum to another on ancient art, when the planes 1st, 2nd, and 4th engines went out. I tried to keep the plane up and that's why we didn't plummet to the ground right away, but I couldn't keep us up completely. We crashed somewhere near the France/Italy border in a semi-deserted field. It was pretty bad, but luckily no body died, just really beaten and bruised." Explained Julius

"What about Carter…how was he during all of this?" asked Sadie

"Well, he was asleep when it first started. He woke up when the fourth engine went out. Oddly, he seemed calm. I on the other hand was so worried out of my mind. It was so hectic as we lost altitude no one, not even me, thought to put on the oxygen mask when it dropped. Carter on the other hand seemed calm, and he put on his own mask. He seemed like he was being told what to do rather than doing it all by himself. The next thing I knew he looked at me, well past me, barely nodded, and then got into impact position. A few seconds later most passengers were in impact position like the attendants were finally shouting and we hit the ground hard. We hit the ground so hard that the plane spun itself and a wing was ripped off!" Julius exclaimed as he finished telling the story, "To this day I still don't know what or how, but Carter saw something I couldn't, and whatever it was it led him through that crash better than anyone on that plane could've. I really wish I knew what he saw that day because what he did, it was way to calm, collected, and precise to have been a practiced routine to have been done in such a short amount of time, especially since he had been asleep minutes' prior. I swear that crash was all too real even though it felt like it belonged as a scene in a movie." Julius finished

"Hey dad, what do you think Carter might have seen… if anything at all?" inquired Sadie interested by the way her brother had acted in such a terrifying moment.

"Like I said I don't know, but I do know that there was or is something that he, to this day, has refused to tell anyone." replied Julius.

"Maybe…maybe he'll tell us one day? Unless he just doesn't remember what he saw at all." Stated Sadie now curious to find out what her brother had seen the day his plane crashed.

"Maybe?" said Julius slightly lost in the memory of that day.

Carter sat there listening the whole time. He had no idea his father had noticed the way he nodded or the fact that he wasn't even looking at his father, and act as if he was following instructions. The truth was the day the plane crashed, he'd been sleeping when his grandfather woke him up. Not his mother's father, but his dads father, even though he had died three years before Carter had been born. That's right Carter Kane could see and communicate with the dead if he wanted too. He saw them everywhere, all the time, so seeing his grandfather there had been no surprise. He had grown used to seeing people, especially relatives of his that had passed on, so he knew that it was ok that his grandpa had been there keeping him calm and telling him exactly what he had to do. Sadly, though Carter never told a soul (no pun intended) about his ability because he didn't want to be seen as crazy. Yes, his family dealt with and hosted Egyptian gods, but if Carter could see things that a god, even a god of death or the underworld couldn't see, then he really didn't need people thinking that he'd lost his mind. Carter decided he had had a long day, so he laid down next to his physical body, when he suddenly didn't feel too good. He was really hot and freezing cold at the same time and he felt as if his head was about to explode any minute. When the pain reached what was most likely its peak and Carter screamed, the torches along the wall went out as if there had been a gust of wind that blew through, even though that was impossible seeing as they were down in the duat and inside of a building. As Carter relaxed he watched as his family stood up and looked over him, checking and trying to find out if there was something wrong.

"What was that?! Asked a frantic Sadie

"I don't know, but I think Carters magic is lashing out in response to his extreme amounts of pain." Answered Ruby distressed that her son was in pain and couldn't tell them what was wrong.

"Why?" asked Sadie concern for her brother showing on her face as she stroked his hair in a soothing manner.

"Because he can't express his pain by screaming or alerting someone and his brain knows this, because its function of controlling the vocal chords must not be all there. His mind has linked up with his magic…kind of like the brain connects all your nerves. That way when his brain is sent multiple pain signals to such extremes, Carters magic will lash out to try and relieve the extra pain…In a way he's trying to get someone's attention." Responded Julius.

"oh…," Sadie sighed

As their mom sat next to Carter, he tried to hug her as reassurance…only to touch nothing. His mother didn't even notice. Sadie sat down on the other side of him and softly began to stoke his hair. His father sat next to his mother and that's when Carter suddenly felt as if he could join his body once again. So he did, it was not a fun process though because he knew as he entered his body that all he would feel would be pain. He did it anyway, just so he could try and
"say" what he felt would be goodbye, because he had no way of warning his family of his impending demise, when he didn't even know what was killing him. So with that, Carter's Ba went back into his physical body, only to be welcomed with an assaulting heat and coldness like never before along with the excruciating pain he could feel very clearly in his head. Carter then fell into a dreamless, no longer Ba floating, sleep surrounded by his family. His last somewhat coherent thought before the pain and sleep overtook him was how he was going to fight, not for himself; the thought of death did not scare him because he knew what awaited him on the other side whether it be being a spirit no one sees' or life with his parents in the Duat, but for his sister. After all she was all he really had left.

A/N: Hi everyone! So, I hope you enjoyed what I've written so far. Feel free to leave reviews and your constructive critism. Also, I was hoping you all would let me know what you thought about carters' "ability" …. I tend to write late at night while watching T.V so I thought it seemed pretty cool at the time. I plan to post every Saturday or so, but right now my family is planning on moving so we're looking at houses and packing so sorry if I don't post every weekend, I'll do my best.

P.S please let me know if I should write separate fanfics about carter with the ability to see the dead. I have many prompt ideas and I have a few that involve this ability, but writing and posting them is something I wondered if any of you might want to see in the future. THANK YOU FOR READING!

Bye,

Oceanhuntress