The ride to Frank's apartment wasn't as quiet as he hoped it would be; Alex O'Connell telling everyone funny stories of Frank's childhood. They laughed the whole trip, slightly annoying Frank, who couldn't wait to get home, take a shower, and collapse into his nice soft bed. It seemed forever till they got there, but finally, they did.

Frank sighed with relief when he stepped into his apartment, and was glad to find that it still looked exactly the same. Jake and Alex brought him into his bedroom, and helped him lie down on the bed.

Frank inwardly sighed happily, at the bed's softness. It sure beat hard desert sand!

"Hey, Frank! You've got pics of everyone!"

Frank opened his eyes to see Cody looking at pictures that were hanging on the wall. He frowned, never having seen them before. "Bring them over here," he said.

Cody and Jake took them down and brought them over, as Frank sat up.

Alex sat on the side of the bed and picked up one of them. "Look at this! It's Ardeth and you as a kid!"

Frank took it, and looked at it in surprise. Ardeth was sitting on his horse, and Frank was sitting in front of him, looking only about five years old. Frank shook his head in amazement at how young Ardeth still looked.

"Your mother?" Jake asked, handing him another.

Frank nodded. This one showed Alanur with Frank as a baby. She was smiling ear to ear, her long, curly dark hair flying in the wind. Frank couldn't help but smile.

"Check this one out," said Cody. "It's the whole gang!"

It was, indeed. Ardeth, Alanur, and Frank—looking to be around 20—were in the middle, surrounded by Evy, Rick, and Alex O'Connell, as well as Safti and Suhaylah, and with them two people who Frank knew to be Na'im and his sister Adeena. He shook his head with a laugh to see that they'd named their daughter yet another word for 'soft'. Frank was surprised to see the woman beside Ardeth—his grandmother, Alaya.

"Do you remember any of this?" Monica asked Frank, as she wrapped his hand with gauze she'd gotten out of his bathroom.

Frank nodded his head slowly. "The more I think, the more I remember." He couldn't stop staring at the last picture. For the second time in an hour, he asked, "Where's Alex?"

"He fell asleep on the couch in your livingroom," said Alex. "He's not as young as we are." She gave Frank an amused look. "As you are."

Frank nodded with a smile, still staring at the pictures.

"O'Connell has the right idea," said Jake. "You should get some sleep too."

"Yeah," Frank said, lying down again. Suddenly, he smiled.

"What?" Monica asked, as she finished fixing up his hand. It was almost amusing to see his left arm in a sling, and a bandage around his right hand. She wondered how he would get around for the next few days. Knowing her and Alex, they'd be over constantly to mother-hen.

"He's still alive," Frank said, carefully taking the dagger Ardeth had given him out of his pocket, and looking at its beautiful hilt before putting it down beside him on the bed.

"Who is?" Jake asked.

"My grandfather…Ardeth. He's 100 years old, but he's still alive. So is Safti."

"You're kidding!" Cody exclaimed. "They're both 100 years old, literally?"

Frank nodded. "Anyone for a trip to Egypt?" he asked, eyes closing sleepily. Before anyone could answer, he fell asleep.

The team just looked at each other, still in some shock over the whole situation.

"I can't believe they're both still alive!" Alex whispered.

"That's awesome, but there's still something I don't understand," said Cody.

"What?" Alex asked.

"Who shot Frank?"

They all looked at each other for a minute.

"O'Connell told us that the men after Ardeth were the followers of someone named Lock-nah," said Jake. "Maybe in the original history, they'd found out what O'Connell knew, and passed down to their descendants the mission of trying to prevent Frank from going back and saving Ardeth's life."

"That makes sense," said Monica. "The reason the attack came right after Frank was given the amulet, is because the men had followed Alex here and didn't know who they had to kill, until he gave it to Frank." Suddenly the look on her face changed. "Guys, look."

Everyone looked to where Monica was staring, to see her pick up the amulet from Frank's night table.

"How the heck did it get there?" Cody asked. "Man, things just keep getting weirder!"

Jake took the amulet from Monica, and shook his head. "We'll never be able to understand everything that happened."

"You can say that agin," Alex agreed. "Shh, we're too loud. Let's split, so Frank can get some rest."

They all nodded, and filed out the door. Jake stopped when Alex took the amulet from him, and watched as she gently placed it around Frank's neck.

THE END

WOO HOO! So glad everyone liked the story! Who knows, a sequel may pop up ;) You want to see Frank's tattoo? I had to upload it to my UC website as a webpage, because there was no way to upload it to ff.net. This is the link: http://www.geocities.com/deanadannosgirluc/FranksTattoo.html

Just copy and paste it into your url bar. Let me know how you like it! :)

Karri is the one who found the word, 'Adeena', and I couldn't help but flip when I saw how much it sounds like my own name! (Drop the 'A' at the beginning, and what's left is my name, LOL!) When I made up the name 'Safti' I never knew that it would turn into such a cool joke, with the whole 'Softy' thing! LOL! Thanks for reading, everyone! :)