Summary: Set one year after TMR. Rick and Evy are faced with the whole truth of their past lifes.
Evy was not only a princess, but was married to Seti's High Priest Imhotep. Imhotep returns and sets
out to have his wife after his lover Anck-su-namun's betrayal in TMR.
The Return of Imhotep
Evy turned in her sleep beside Rick in their bedroom
in England, lost in a dream of the past....
~*~*~*~*~
"Imhotep, Nefertiri is only a girl," began Seti, "Surely you would rather marry one of my older daughters."
"She is of age to marry, so I choose her Seti," Imhotep declared.
"Nefertiri will not be so willing a bride as you
might expect, Lord Imhotep," Seti said, "Often she tells me
she will never marry."
"Nefertiri will surrender herself to I," Imhotep said, "Or your house will fall; the people follow me Seti."
Seti knodded. "Fine. You will have Nefertiri as your bride,"
said Seti, "On this day I will tell her."
~~~
"Father, I cannot marry a Priest!," Nefertiri declared furiously, "And I am only fourteen."
"Marry Imhotep you will, daughter," Seti said cruely.
"He only wants me because he had Mother killed!," Nefertiri
hissed. Imhotep and her late Mother had been
secret lovers since she was a little girl, and Imhotep
first came to her family. Her late Mother had desired the
handsome High Priest right away. Imhotep had her Mother
killed when the late Queen Mal-cha refused to
leave Seti for him. Nefertiri could never prove it though.
Seti slaped his daughter hard. "How dare you mention her," Seti hissed, "Anck-su-namun is my love now."
"She will be the death of you then!." Nefertiri said.
~~~
Imhotep smiled as his bride entered the Chapel.
They would soon marry by his best priest, and after Seti's death,
it would be Nefertiri and himself that would rule the
lands forever.
It almost made up for losing Mal-cha, the beautiful late Queen, and Nefertiri's Mother whom he loved.
~~~
"Why do you hate me so?," Imhotep asked his bride in their private chamber after they wed.
Nefertiri met his gaze. Imhotep was a handsome man. She
could see why her Mother desired this man.
But she didn't though, and never would. "I don't love
you, Imhotep," the princess said, "Why marry me?"
"Because I cannot have Mal-cha," Imhotep said.
"My Mother never loved you either priest," Nefertiri declared, "She loved nothing but herself."
"Then maybe their is still a chance you will love me then, my princess," Imhotep said as he kissed her.
"Never my prince," said Nefertiri, as her husband took
her as the stars looked on.
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More later!