Author's Note-I wanted to warn you. There's going to be a scene of incest in here. It's not graphic and just don't hurt me about it until you read the entire chap, please!

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Nick was being led out to the car by Sarah as Patrick hurried up to the car to start it. Rick and Evie were following them. She was looking at her surroundings in awe.

"This is a magnificient world. I wonder if we are alive in this time?" Evie wondered.

"We might not be though Alex might and our grandchildren if we have any," Rick called back to her as he grabbed her arm and pulled her along with.

She allowed herself to be dragged along towards the car. Rick put her into the car before climbing inside himself.

"Listen Evie, we're here for a reason and we have no idea what it is yet. You know Alex, Jonathan and a few others will be joining us soon. We have to find a way to stop this guy before he really does kill Ardeth and everybody else on this planet," Rick told her.

"I understand Rick. We do have to find a way to help. I don't believe we are just along for the ride," Evie agreed.

Sarah looked between them and sighed.

"We are all wondering what is going to happen. We're all worried for everybody you know," she told them as Patrick stopped the car in front of their house.

Everyone got out and headed into the building. Nick held some ice on his face as they did so. He sat down on the couch once he walked inside. He gave a deep sigh as Patrick and Sarah sat down on either side him.

"That is bad," she said to him in Greek.

"Yes, it is," he replied as he closed his eyes. "Now show our guests to a room. They'll need a place to sleep during their stay."

Sarah and Patrick nodded as they stood up and led the couple to their room.

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"You can't be serious Frank. That woman is not pregnant. She simply doesn't look it. You must hallucinating. Did you take a blow to the head and now you're seeing things?" Jake demanded.

He walked towards Frank but the man backed away.

"I did not get hit over the head Jake. I know what I heard and saw. But of course, they have to let them tell us," Frank replied.

He cautiously walked over to the bed as a knock came to the door.

"You're seeing things that aren't there," Jake quietly told him.

Cody clumsily opened the door and Michelle walked inside. She walked up to Frank, a mild look of concenr written all over her face.

"Are you alright Frank? I forgot to ask you earlier," she told him.

"I'm fine, believe me. It's nothing serious," he replied.

Michelle nodded as she glanced at his swollen wrist. She took note of everything she could before she decided to leave the room. Cody and Jake looked at him as she did so. They were really wondering, and worried, with what was going to happen.

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Ardeth helped Catlanda into the house. Harriet led them to a bedroom where the female Medjai immediately laid on the bed and closed her eyes. Ardeth watched her as she fell asleep right where she was. Harriet stood in the doorway keeping her watchful eye on them the entire time.

"She should really be at the hospital," Harriet told him as she walked a few steps.

"No, this is where she desires to be instead. She is thinking of the people here in this time that need help more than herself. Right now, all we can do is wait for the next attack," Ardeth told her, exhaustion evident in his voice.

"Get some sleep Ardeth. You need it," the doctor said to him

She placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. Ardeth nodded, a small smile on his face, but it was apparent that he wasn't going to be moving anytime soon.

"I will stay in here with Cat. She might need me," he sighed.

His eyes began to droop a bit. Harriet noticed this but said nothing as she left the room, allowing Ardeth to finally gave in to sleep by the bed.

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Nick was running down the hospital, looking down every corridor. His face was healed but appeared to be very frantic.

"Sarah! Patrick! Where are you?" he called out as he stopped once.

Hearing no answer, he continued on down the hall. Soon, he came across a room. Inside it, were the siblings' parents. They had their children tied to beds and were torturing them with a whip and other objects, which could be seen nearby, He gasped as his eyes widened at the sight. He tried to run inside but he met resistance along the way. He couldn't get past the doorframe. He pounded his hands against the invisible force and began yelling at the two people to stop but they wouldn't listen to him.

"Stop it!" he cried. "Let them be!"

"Nick!" cried Sarah. "Make them stop! Please!"

She couldn't help but submit as her own father began to strip her of her clothes as she lay tied to the bed. The same thing was happening between Patrick and his own mother. Nick couldn't believe what he was watching as they were being forced to be intimate with their own parents.

Both succumbed to the darkness as the onslaught of pain cascaded onto them through the act until they both raised knives and stabbed each of them through the chest.

Henry walked out the door and over to Nick. The man towered above the surgeon before punching and kicking him everywhere. Nick soon fell to the ground, unconscious.

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Ardeth held a gasp as he looked around the place. He was back in Egypt at was an obvious sight of a Medjai tribe. His tribe. He felt as if there was something missing from the picture. Dead bodies littered the place but he soon came to what he was searching for. The scene looked a bit familiar as he saw Catlanda laying in one of the tents.

"Catlanda!" he cried as he hurried over to her lifeless body.

A hand laid on her bulging stomach. He stared at the blood that covered her face and body. She opened her eyes and stared at him.

"Ramses was awakened. We couldn't stop him," she whispered to him. "Dad, don't leave me."

"I would never let you come to harm. It was the promise I made after you were born," Ardeth said as he grasped her hand. "And to stay close to you. You were your real father's pride and joy."

"I know that and I am sorry Dad, but I fear that two more lives are going to be lost here today," she told him before she took her final breath.

Ardeth couldn't believe what had happened. Catlanda, the one he has been calling his daughter since she was a baby, was dead. He barely noticed the Spire was gone. Isis lay dead beside her master as Geb lay severely injured on the ground outside. Ardeth choked before grabbing a nearby sword and running himself through with it. He gasped once he did so and fell to the sand, dead.

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Frank wandered down a lonely alleyway. He slightly wondered where he was before he realized he was in Death Alley: the place where he first met Michelle face to face. He was inwardly worried about what was going to happen. The alley was dark. So dark that he could barely see where he was going.

All of a sudden, he came across the entrance to the alley and walked out of it. The sidewalk was illuminated by a single streetlight as he began to walk down it until he came across a bloody mess. He began to feel sick as he stared at it longer. It was at that moment he saw a familiar body in the midst of the mess.

Michelle.

He hurried over to her side and cradled her in his arms. He didn't care that he was getting blood all over him. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

"Mika," was all he managed to say.

She slightly opened his eyes and gave a smile.

"Frank, you're here. It was Joseph Denner who did this. He attacked me. Looks like I didn't win after all. He won in the end. He'll kill again," she quietly told him as she went limp in his arms.

Tears fell from his eyes as he held her close to his body. He cried out in anger and he laid the body on the ground and walked over to a nearby building, punching it with all his might before he crumbled to the ground in a sobbing mess.

"Oh nice. You all reacted the way I wanted you to and expected," came a sinister voice.

Frank twirled around and saw a man standing there. He gasped once he saw who it was. It was the Time Traveller. The same man who had attacked Frank, Nick and Ardeth. The same man who Frank had seen at the Nest a few days earlier. The man raised a hand and Michelle's body lifted off the ground and it stopped in front of him.

"Four children, all meaning the world to you. The oldest one is pregnant," the man said as he snapped his fingers and Catlanda's lifeless form appeared beside him as did Ardeth's on the ground beside Frank.

Ardeth gave a deep breath as he opened his eyes and painfully stood up.

"She could've died alongside her parents. Laron could've gotten the Spire and achieved ultimate victory over the Medjai and Egypt and eventually the world. Aiding Ramses, of course, who would've had his entire jewel once again. The youngest was once a thief and a very good one at that. If I had done something about it, she would have gone on to become the world's greatest cat burglar though as she got older, it would have become more high-tech," the Time Traveller went on. "Then there's the two in between."

He snapped his fingers and then appeared Sarah and Patrick. Nick appeared behind the two men already there before standing up, a hand on his stomach. He stared at the scene as the man continued on.

"These two could have easily stayed with their parents and be exploited for the rest of their precious lives but of course, those realities never happened because of you three. Be warned for I will be back. And this time, I will not be after you," the Time Traveller told them before he disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

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Ardeth awoke with a start, a massive pain in his side and sweat all over his face. He groaned as he put a hand on it and stared at Catlanda. She was sound asleep in the bed, not a scratch on her. He sighed as he put his head on the edge of the bed.

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Nick awoke in a cold sweat. He slowly sat up in the bed, feeling pain all over his body and looked around, a hand on his face. He was wondering what just happened.

He groaned as he climbed out of bed and looked in each of Sarah's and Patrick's room to see they were sleeping. He gave a sigh as he stood out in the hall and leaned near the door to his room.

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Frank bolted up on the bed. He looked at Cody and Jake. They weren't awaken by his sudden movement. He was glad as he gasped for air, sweat rolling down his face. His wrist now pounded with pain.

'I should have this checked but what was that all about?' he asked himself as he walked over to the window and pulled back the curtain. 'What does it mean? Was it all just a dream? The part where Mika was dead has to be.'

He stared out at the starlit sky. The full moon gave an eerie sense to the whole scene as it peeked through the leaves on the trees. Frank soon found himself staring at the hypnotic sight.

'Is he going to come after the children now?' he thought to himself.

TBC...