Almost a whole year already? GOOD GODS?! WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!
I believe I owe all of you an apology. Yea yea, close your jaw, I'm back. Back and ready to get in the saddle.
Quite frankly I lost inspiration to write this. It was all over the place, but a friend of mine recently convinced me to keep it up. You all owe her a great big thank you, otherwise I would likely never have updated this. It's almost sad though, so much work, just wasted like that? I refuse.
And you all benefit from my stubborness. (Yay!)
My Boyfriend is a God! Ch 14
Oh wait…
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE KANE CHRONICLES. DUH.
I know I can't make up for my lack of initiative in a single day, but I feel like this is as good a way to start as any.
And after nearly a whole year of waiting:
My Boyfriend is a God! Chapter 14: The Lost, Returned.
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"...Anubis? " I gasp, breath catching in my throat. Way to go Sadie. The poor guys been locked away, and I can't even welcome him back properly. Perfect.
Anubis just chuckled. I forgot how good his laugh sounded; it was certainly something I missed. "Is that all you can say?" he asked me.
"Uhh…" I forgot how much I loved his voice too.
Anubis just chuckled again and crossed his arms over his chest, looking smug. He seemed a bit more toned than I last remembered. My eyes trailed down his body, taking in the bulkier looking arms and chest, muscles clearly visible through his shirt. I shivered, the thought of them was enough to make my brain fuzzy.
I shook my head, desperately trying to gain my composure and look less like a fool than I already had. It failed. I caught myself looking at him again, as if my eyes were magnets drawn to him. Oh gods...
Carter, always the one to ruin a moment, walked up behind me. "We would invite you inside, but our house was kinda destroyed," he muttered, clearly still sore about the topic. That was all i needed. My focus returned to the matter at hand, and I could finally peel my eyes away from him.
"I can see that," Anubis replied, eyes drifting over the massive hole in the side of the house. The smug look on his face vanished, "what happened?"
"Some giant led an army of frogs and attacked us here. My guess is Apophis."
Anubis raised an eyebrow. "An army of frogs?"
"Yeah!" I pipped up, a little more excited than I should've been, for someone with practically no home. I took a calming breath. Why does Anubis have that effect on me? It's like I'm really excited to see him.
Oh, wait.
Anubis sent a glance in my direction, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. He could tell, too. I made him happy too! Gods, why am I so giddy? I was never like this before he left. It's as if I was meeting some hot guy for the first time.
Anubis looked towards Carter again. "And the giant?"
"Dead," I said nodding to the giant corpse laying out on our front lawn. It's a good thing the world was ending, or we would have some serious explaining to do.
"How did you two kill a giant, single handedly?"
Carter sighed, "We didn't. The gods intervened."
The frown on Anubis' face said it all: confusion. It wasn't like the gods to deal with the affairs of magicians. Especially not for a second time. "How?"
I found my voice again, "they decided we needed their help, and gave us a little piece of themselves." This seemed to make Anubis more confused.
"Godlings," Carter muttered solemnly. Anubis' eyes widened, and he took a step back, before shaking his head.
"That sucks. Can't say I'm surprised though. You two know what is going on. It makes their jobs easier."
I sighed and turned around, gesturing for the boys to follow me inside what was left of our home. Talking about the gods being in our heads again depressed me a little. I led them back into the dining room, the one part of the house that was still in one piece, and sat down at the bar. Carter sat across the little island; Anubis sat to my right. I could see the look in my brother's eye. Time to find out what was going on.
"How did you get out of Apophis lair?" He asked.
Anubis seemed to hesitate, before replying: " Apophis was distracted, and I managed to slip my wrist through the shackles. I snuck out of the room he was holding me in by picking the lock with an old bone I found lying around the cell, and I avoided him however I could. I had to take out a few of the guards, which I assume were the same things that wrecked this place. Kestonites?"
"Yep," Carter grumbled. The memory of them shredding this place to pieces burned a little deeper than I thought.
"Yeah, frogs. I get what you mean now. Anyways, I took out a few of them, found the exit, and slipped through the duat before Apophis ever realized it. I guess you could say I got lucky," he explained, shrugging at the end for emphasis.
"You escaped from Apophis without him knowing?" Carter questioned in disbelief.
"Pretty much," Anubis replied with another shrug, as if the words "escape" and "Apophis" in the same sentence meant nothing. Carter raised an eyebrow in suspicion, but decided not to question him further.
"Sadie, something feels… off…" Isis mumbled.
"What?"
"His story… It doesn't make any sense. Apophis is a god, and arguably the most powerful one at that. I have no doubt that Apophis is in control of everything in his lair. He should've known Anubis had escaped the moment he set foot out of his cell. Why didn't Apophis stop him?"
I contemplated what she had said. She was right, it wouldn't be logical to set loose someone who you were using as bait. I looked at Anubis, and he caught my eyes with his and smiled. The warm eyes looked the same to me. I smiled back and looked towards Carter. He had fallen quite, no doubt considering the same thing Isis was. It just didn't make any sense.
But then again, when does anything ever make sense?
"Maybe he wanted Anubis to lead him to us." I reasoned. It sounded logical.
"Apophis already knew where you were. He launched an attack on the house remember?"
I took a forlorn glance at the giant hole in the side of our house and sighed. So much for that idea.
"Right… Maybe he is using Anubis to try and make us reveal our plans?"
"Sadie, we don't have a plan! He knows this, I'm sure. He is so confident in his ability to win this time that he felt bold enough to send an army through the middle of Brooklyn. He wouldn't do that if he had not known you were defenseless."
"Defenseless?! We aren't defenseless! Carter and I are two of the most powerful magicians—"
"SADIE! FOCUS!"
I cringed as Isis mentally screamed at me. I don't think she realized how loud she was. Talk about a headache. Glancing up I saw Carter with his eyebrow raised at me, no doubt wondering what Isis and I were talking about. Anubis just shook his head. I guess after our last adventure involving us hosting gods they were both used to my sudden outbursts.
Sighing, I returned my attention to the problem Isis and I were discussing.
"Maybe his confidence in victory convinced him to let Anubis go." I figured. It was my final idea.
"If Anubis didn't play a role, Apophis would have killed him. Or at least beaten him so badly that he would be unable to return from the daut for eons."
I sighed again. Isis had shot me down for the final time.
Carter had looked up. "Well, since you're here, we don't need ot worry about breaking you out."
"And the initiates, Carter?" Anubis asked. Carter's head sank, crestfallen. It looked like we would be breaking someone out of the dungeons of Apophis after all.
"Then we should get ready. If we are breaking into Apophis' realm after all, we might as well end this while we're down there," Carter mumbled. Anubis nodded in agreement. I sighed, it just didn't seem fair to him, to us; I just got him back and now we had to venture down to the very place he had just escaped from. Funny how fate works sometimes.
And suddenly, I was struck by an ingenious idea. "Before that, I want to take Anubis on a date!"
Carter raised his head to glare at me, "Do you really think that now is a good time? We have people to save! We can't just sit around and hang out! Not when the initiates could be dying!"
"Apophis won't kill them! He wouldn't go through all of the trouble to kidnap, just to turn around and kill them, would he?"
"Sadie, You aren't going out on a date right now. That's final." Carter turned, about to walk off.
"I'm going to do it." I replied smugly. He couldn't stop me. We both knew it.
"Dammit! Why won't you just listen to me?! Why can't you see that I'm doing what's best for us both right now?!"
"This may be the last time I get the chance do anything with him, and you're trying to take that away from me? No! This is not your decision! Screw you and your nagging rules! I don't have to bow to your every whim you pathetic excuse for a Kane!"
"That is just like you! running off on a date when the world needs saved. Mom would be ashamed!" Carter screamed back. He never wavered. Everything I said was irrelevant to him. And then the audacity to bring our mother into the conversation...
That pissed me off.
I spun on my heels, anger boiling my blood. Enough was enough, and I was going to let him know it.
"How dare you say that to me! How dare you bring mom into this! You think mom wanted us to save the world every damn day?! Not likely! Fuck you! Fuck the gods! Fuck this pathetic excuse of a life! ALL I WANT IS TO ENJOY LIVING WHAT LITTLE TIME I HAVE LEFT!"
My outburst left him standing there, mouth agape. I would never cuss in front of him. I would never insult the gods like that. I would use mom against him.
And I just did.
I stormed out of the remnants of that house, my brother still standing there like a fool. Anubis followed me. Isis was uncharacteristically quiet.
I didn't look back.
But I probably should have. Maybe I could've saved this mess before it all fell apart. Maybe I could've seen the little shimmer in Anubis' eyes. I missed all the warnings, I was a fool.
And Hell was going to make sure I paid for it.
Well, consider this my apology chapter. Unquestionably the best one I have ever wrote for this story, grammatically speaking. I know this hardly makes up for nearly a year of silence, but I hope I'm going in the right direction. Needless to say, this is going to get real interesting real quick.
Again, I am sorry, and hopefully you will never wait so long again. Expect updates regularly. Gotta make it up to you somehow.
And I owe you an apology for all the cussing in this chapter. Not quite enough to qualify it for an M rating, I think, but still. It seemed like the best way to get Sadie's emotions across.
If any of the old fans of this story are still reading, leave me a review so I can personally thank you.
If you're new, well consider yourself lucky; you didn't have to wait too long.
Thanks, please R/R, F/F
And thank you all for being a great group of people. I can't express my gratitude to you all. This story, in it's downtime of approx. 9 months, has received over 10,000 views. That's a lot of people checking it out, considering I have been so inactive in the writing portion. That puts me at almost 25,000 views. To put that into perspective, more people read this story per month when it was inactive, then when it was for about a year and a half. Wow! That amazed me earlier today.
The honest truth is, I wrote this for all of us who love a story, only to find it end before it's over. I don't want to be one of those authors, and. although I'm not entirely happy with it, I will finish it. I promise you all.
Thank you to the greatest audience of all!
~TheFireKing