A/N=Thanks to nefertirioc for spotting my name error.its Nefertiri not Nefertiti Goddamit! Lol O! I lied; I do own a character Oliver, Kheri (Kind of) and Mohammad but everyone else belongs to Universal (the one with the globe right?)

Evelyn was trying to read in the back seat of the motor car, but found it increasingly difficult on the winding Egyptian roads, her head and body bouncing up and down because of the rocks on the floor below.

"Can you slow down please?" Evelyn asked, and then noted she sounded rather whiny.

"Slow? You want us to slow down? Have you no idea about the note from Seti? Oh very well."

Oliver sighed and nudged the driver, before he spoke in Arabic.

"Mohammad slow down!"

The car quickly lost its pace, the driver carried on at this pace for another 20 odd miles until they abruptly stopped, which sent Evie flying into the back of the passenger seat.

"Oh dear Evelyn are you ok?" Oliver's question was laced with a giggle at the sight of the librarian/curators head bouncing off the back of the seat.

"Yes, I'm bloody fantastic!" Evie muttered as she stepped out of the car.

As Oliver stepped out, the car sounded like it had been relieved off a great weight and Mohammad the driver asked Oliver a question in broken English.

"You want me. wait?"

"Yes very well Mohammad, we sharnt be too long." Oliver shouted at the driver as if he had a hearing problem then spoke to Evie.

"Bloody Cairo folk. Anyway Evelyn, come along."

Evelyn looked around as she walked around the excavation area. The dust set on her lungs and as she spluttered Oliver took her over to meet Johnny, the man who had found the scripture. As soon as Evie saw him she stopped coughing but took a rather large breath in and shouted.

"Jonathan! What the hell are you doing here?!"

"Evie, watch the language old mum. Not pleased to see me then?" Jonathan smirked and Oliver looked confused

"You two know each other then?"

"Yes, Oliver, meet my brother Jonathan."

"Oh, right, well Johnny, why didn't you say you had a sister out here?"

"Well all I knew was Evie was picking up some mask or other, I didn't think she'd come sniffing round here."

"Excuse me Jonathan! I haven't been sniffing around anywhere! Anyway you knew I was in Cairo, why didn't you come and see me?"

"Well, Evie dear, I've been busy, working away." Jonathan smirked; of course he wasn't working, but drinking with his old friends in Egypt and playing poker no doubt.

Oliver turned away to talk to one of the chief workers of the dig when Evie whispered to Jonathan.

"Anyway, since when have you been an archaeologist? Surely it's not for the pay?"

Jonathan smiled, and answered to Evie

"I have been an archaeologist since I "found" that map to Hamunaptra; these people think I'm a genius!"

"Oh yes, Howard Carter and Augustus Mariette aren't you Jonathan?" Evie rolled her eyes, Jonathan was always lucky when it came to business, if only it was true in poker as well.

"Well then, are you going to show us this scripture Johnny?" Oliver rubbed his hands in delight when he returned to Evie and Jonathan; the greying stubble around Oliver's face seemed like it stretched as he spoke and smiled.

"Ah yes of course, well from what the linguist chap over there says it's some sort of curse or agreement."

"So where did you find this then Jonathan?" Evie asked sarcastically and rolled her eyes again.

"Actually, I found it." Evelyn and Oliver looked up as a young Egyptian man spoke to them, he had dark brown eyes, and a dark tan to match them, and he was broad and tall.

"Oh and where did you find it then?" Evie gazed up at the man, and he smiled before walking towards his camel a few metres away from them.

"Out on a dig a few miles away, some kind of Ancient Ruin, I'm going to go down there again tomorrow at dawn."

"Why are you going at dawn?" Evie couldn't think of much to say, the man seemed so strikingly familiar yet also strangely attractive to her.

"It seems that the best time too see the ruins is at dawn. I went down the day before middle of the day and became completely lost. You and Oliver are welcome to join me if you want too?"

"What did you just say?"

"You and Oliver-"

"No not that." Evie was shocked; surely no-one had uncovered Hamunaptra again? It wouldn't be possible; it had been over 10 years since they had been back to there. No one could find it again. Could they?

"You have to go dawn to the ruins at dawn, impossible to see them in the afternoon."

"Jonathan, can I have a word please?"

Evie smiled at the Egyptian archaeologist and pulled Jonathan to one side.

"Has that man found Hamunaptra?"

"I was going to tell you Evie honest, but Hamunaptra is no trouble now, remember, Imhotep and Anck-su-namun are dead and buried.or so too speak."

"Jonathan, I have been having visions again." Evie trembled as she spoke; her past really was coming back to her.

"What do you mean visions?" Jonathan was never one for this previous life business, as far as he was concerned he worried about now, not what he was doing a few thousand years before.

"Listen you two; are we going to see the scripture sometime soon or what?"

Oliver was becoming more and more impatient, as his face turned redder; Evie noted his resemblance to a tomato.

"Yes I'll go get it; Oh I haven't even told you my name." The Egyptian spoke with a bass like tone and his words seemed to lull around Evie's ears.

"Kheri Imhotep is my name, and yours are Evelyn, Oliver and Jonathan?" Evie noted his lips creased a little when he smiled, before realising what his last name was. Surely a coincidence? But Evie had never heard that last name of any man in all of her time in Egypt and then he was off to collect the artefact from a rather frantic linguist.

"How do you know that man Jonathan."

Jonathan looked a little confused by his sister's question, what importance is that he thought.

"He turned up last night looking for a job, I know it was a rather strange way to employ someone, but he proved himself this morning by finding this rather impressive scripture."

As Kheri brought the artefact over, Evie could see it was in a little box, on the front was the eye of Horus, and on either side of it, two female fighters, both in combat position. Below them the stamp of Seti was present. It stuck out from the box and appeared to be not actually part of it.

"Now this is where it gets interesting," Jonathan spoke as Kheri turned the stamp of Seti and the box clicked open, inside it was a small book, again with the Eye of Horus and the female gladiators on the front. Also present was the stamp of Seti again. The book a browny-black colour, but didn't appear to be several thousand years old.

Kheri pushed in the stamp again and the book flipped open, suddenly a gust of wind knocked a lot of sand. The camels went from their calm selves to a wreck and began kicking over the workers near them. It took 3 men to calm them but they were still hitting their hoofs of the desert sand.

Kheri passed the book to Jonathan as he spoke to Evie.

"The linguist says it's a curse set on by Seti to his daughter Nefertiri, apparently Seti suspected his future wife of cheating so he set up these rules which meant if Seti was killed, Nefertiri would have to extract his revenge. The perpetrator would arise from the underworld if caught and killed by Seti's Medjai, and then fight to the death with Nefertiri. Apparently neither Nefertiri nor the murderer would be able to rest unless this curse would be carried out."

"Jonathan! Why didn't you bloody tell me?!"

Oliver and Kheri cocked their head in unison at Evie, looking confused.

"Do you have an interest in the 19th Dynasty or something Evelyn?"

"Well you could say that. Jonathan, a word. Now!"

Jonathan passed the book to Oliver who studied it with great interest, and Evie pulled him again to one side before whispering to him harshly.

"Why didn't you bloody tell me as soon as I got here?"

"Well the linguist has only been talking to Kheri, and he's been off trying to find Hamunaptra again, I'm as shocked as you are!"

"You certainly didn't look bloody shocked!"

"Listen Evie, I'm sure it's just a pile of nonsense. Relax!" Jonathan smiled weakly and attempted to shrug off the thought of the curse.

"Oh yeah, a pile of rubbish like the book of the dead was, a pile of nonsense like the bracelet of Anubis!"

"Evie, calm down."

Suddenly Evie felt faint, around her the desert seemed to fade away and she saw Nefertiri in front of her, Seti was standing next to her, Evie recognised the scripture which they had found in Nefertiri's hand and Seti was speaking to her.

"My daughter, please sign. You love your father don't you?"

"Yes of course, but is this necessary?"

"Yes Nefertiri, you will protect your father wont you?"

"Of course, I am bound to this agreement aren't I?"

"Yes my daughter, by the great gods Osiris and Horus. You must extract revenge if needed; else you will never be able to rest when you pass."

Evie went dizzy and the next thing she saw was Jonathan snapping his fingers in front of her,

"Earth to Evie. Hello?"

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