Title: Timeline

Rating: PG – This might change to PG-13 in the future, but I'm not too sure yet.

Pairing: Andre Marek/OC

Summary: This basically follows the movie. Except for one thing, there's one other person who is along for the ride......Andre Mareks fiancée.

Disclaimer: I do not own anybody or anything but Marina Lubiano.

Chapter Three
Marina's Point Of View
The next few days at the dig sites were a bit hectic. The Professor had gone for several days to talk to one of their founders about...well no one really knew about what, except for Chris. And there were new finds every day. Teaching classes were passed on to Andre and Marina. Andre kept on teaching about Lady Claire, this time on a regular basis, while Marina showed the new people how to dig without ruining the artifacts. Because of this Marina and Andre had to put their own project on hold. Andre wasn't too happy about that, as he was really looking forward to finding out who those people were, but knew it couldn't be helped.

One sunny afternoon found Marina teaching a class of girls on how to dust and scrape dirt off of small artifacts. One of the girls were trying to rush so she could go and do something else. Marina saw this and told her to slow down.

"It's good to go very slow, just to be cautious." The girl sighed and obeyed. Marina smiled slightly at her impatience. Most beginners were always impatient. But the thing about archeology is you have to have a lot of patience, unless you want to destroy every artifact you come across.

Suddenly a loud alarm filled the air, and some one, Marina thought it sounded like François, was yelling over a bullhorn that was connected to some speakers.

"CAVE IN AT THE MONASTARY, CAVE IN AT THE MONASTARY."

Marina set her rock down and began to run towards the monastery, stopping only for a moment to grab Chris, who had been sitting down nearby reading a paper.

"Come on Chris, we need to hurry, come on!"

"Alright alright I'm coming!!" Chris said as he began to follow her.

As Marina and Chris ran to the monastery they were joined by Kate and Andre, who were trying to get into their rock climbing gear as fast as possible. Josh and François ran up to them.

Kate turned to Josh. "How long has it been opened to the air?"

"Fifteen minutes. Five minutes until the air contaminates it." Josh said.

Marina looked at Josh with her mouth hanging open. "FIFTEEN minutes!? And you couldn't sound the alarm sooner?!"

"We had to make sure it was safe..." Josh began.

Marina waved her hand. "What do you mean, cave in's are never safe.."

"Marina." Andre interrupted. "Please, its procedure."

Marian sighed. "I know I know. Its just the first big break...."

Marina didn't finish as they had reached the hole. Kate suddenly took charge.

"Ok we gotta go let's move it, we are running out of time."

Chris looked down the hole; it was dark, and seemed to go on forever. He grimaced as he turned to Kate. "Kate, I don't know about this." But Kate just ignored him, she knew he didn't want her down there, but nothing was going to stop her from going down. Not now. After all she was an archeologist this is what she lived for.

Andre spoke up as Marina clipped the rope to his vest and Chris did the same to Kate. "Everybody listen up, lets be careful we got that?" He turned to Kate. "I've got your back, be safe!" And they both high-fived.

Josh ran up to them as they put were putting their helmets on. He had stayed a few moments behind to help get everybody else ready. Even though only Andre and Kate were going in, everyone else in the camp had come to help. They were going to hold on to the ropes that were attached Andre and Kate and gently lowered them down the hole. Josh turned to Kate and Andre. "Who's going down first?"

Kate raised her hand as she positioned herself above the hole, "I'm going down first. You got me? Take me down nice and slow..."

Chris held a walkie-talkie to his mouth. "Kate, give me a radio check." By this time he couldn't see Kate, for she was already swallowed up by the darkness, Marina smiled encouragingly and put her hand on his shoulder. She knew that he wasn't used to this sort of thing.

"She'll be fine Chris."

Chris nodded and was going to say something but was cut off by Kate's voice on the radio. "Ok, one two one two can you hear me?"

"Yeah Kate we hear you, are you clear?"

"Yeah, Marek to hurry up. I'm getting close to the first level."

Marina turned to Andre and smiled. "Your turn." With that he too was lowered into the darkness. For a few moments neither Marina nor Chris heard anything. Marina knew that they were fine, but couldn't help but worry if there was going to be another cave in. Chris got a little too anxious and began to use the radio again.

"Hey Kate, you alright? What's going on down there?" Chris said while glancing at Josh and François, the four of them were all huddled at the entrance of the hole, waiting for an answer.

"Alright? Alright is not the word. Just give me some slack on the rope...Oh my gosh!" Kate exclaimed.

Marek spoke up. "This is unbelievable." Chris and Marina gave up trying to figure out what was going on and just listened to the rest of their conversation, knowing the two of them would tell them in great detail about everything when they got back up.
Andre's Point of View
Andre and Kate were walking slowly down the tunnel; everything was dark except for the little light that their built in flashlights on their helmets provided.

Andre was in awe of what he was seeing. He guessed this was some sort of tunnel that the monks used back when the monastery was still here.

"This is right where I was working!" Kate exclaimed again.

Andre looked over at her and nodded. For some time Kate had been digging around here looking for this tunnel. She hadn't had much luck so far, and knew this was probably one of her biggest finds.

"This is unbelievable." Andre said again. "We are the first people in this room for six hundred years."

Kate nodded as they walked over to a wall and began to look over all the paintings and carvings on them. "These are beautiful..."

"Kate...Kate.." Andre called. Kate looked next to her and saw that Andre had bent down and was holding some sort of a box.

"What have you got?" She asked as she bent down next to him. But all she got in response was Andre muttering 'Oh my gosh oh my gosh" Over and over. She nudged him lightly. "Marek? What is it?"

Andre glanced at her then set the box he had been holding down as he began to open it. "Oh man, look at this box. I mean look at...." He trailed off as he finally pried it open. Inside was a document, Andre wasn't sure what it was, but he was sure it was going to be a great find. "Man, look at the condition of this thing!"

Kate reached in her bag and brought out a big Ziploc, she opened it and Andre began putting the document in it. "Ok, lets just be really really careful....this is going to be such a find.." Andre nodded in agreement.

Kate stood up as Andre finished wrapping the old document in the bag and began moving the light around looking at the walls. Marek stood up beside her. "Lets get this back up....Kate I need the light over here...Kate?" When he didn't receive an answer he turned to look at her and saw she was staring with her mouth open at beautiful carving of..well he wasn't sure of who, but it was beautiful. Kate began to move the light downwards, trying to see the rest of the carving, and they saw that the rest had been destroyed. Apparently, someone had taken something hard and smashed it.

Kate swore. "Oh man! What kind of idiot would deliberately damage something so..so beautiful?"

Andre sighed. "Obviously not an archeologist." Suddenly, before he could continue Marek and Kate heard a rumbling sound surround them then behind them they heard a huge crash. Spinning around Andre saw that there was another cave-in, and if they didn't get out of there, they would be buried alive. He quickly grabbed Kate and brought her near the entrance. "Guys, we're coming up! Get us up!" He heard a muffle on the radio but didn't understand, so he tried again. "Get us up! Kate first, get Kate out of here." He wasn't sure if they heard him, or if they heard the rumbling, but either way Kate began to lift off the ground. Andre was about to follow her when he saw a glint of something on the ground and quickly let go of his rope to see what it was.

Kate saw this and began to panic. "Marek! Marek what are you doing?! Marek!"

Andre didn't seem to hear her as he bent down and picked a piece of glass up. He frowned as he looked at it more closely, it wasn't just any piece of glass it, it was a bifocal lens. He was jolted out of his daze when he heard Kate yelling for him. He ran back to his rope and clipped it on. "Its ok! I'm fine, Chris, get me out of here."

Andre felt the tension on his rope as he was being lifted out, and not too soon either. A few moments after he was out and pulled to the ground the whole thing collapsed. Andre stood shaking trying to catch his breath. Kate was sitting down, shaken up a bit as well. To be honest, they weren't the only ones who were shaken, everybody was shaken up at the thought that Andre and Kate could have been trapped down there for a very long time.

Marek sighed as he sat down and ran his hand through his dusty hair. Marina came up to him and sat next to him. "You alright?" Andre nodded. Marina smiled softly. She looked down and reached to grab Andre's hand when she noticed he was clutching to something. "Andre, what's that?"

Marek looked down at his hands. He hadn't really noticed that he was holding on to something until Marina had asked him about it. Opening his clutched hand, he realized he still had that piece of bifocal lens he had found in the tunnel. Andre glanced over at Marina. "To be honest, I don't know."

Marina frowned as she took a closer look. She looked back at Andre. "Hon, why don't you go take a shower and change your clothes, then come over to the lab, the rest of us will wait for you."

Andre nodded and leaned over to give his fiancée a quick kiss, then began to walk to the showering units.
Marinas Point Of View

A few hours later after Kate and Andre had had their showers and had changed, they made their way to the lab. When they entered they saw that everyone was already there. Well everybody except François. Josh was waking around the lab like he was trying to discover the cure to world hunger, Marina was peering at the lens that Andre had found, and Chris was just sitting on a chair reading the newspaper again.

When Marina saw them she smiled and walked over. She handed Andre the lens. She was very very confused. Andre took it and began to inspect it. Finally after a long time he sighed and handed the lens over to Kate so she could see. "It's definitely a modern day bifocal lens." He said.

Marina nodded. "I know, and bifocals weren't invented until the mid seventeen hundreds."

Kate looked up from the lens with a frown. "What are you talking about? How can it be modern? I mean, the hole just opened up today..."

"And there had definitely been nobody down that chamber before Kate and I." Andre interrupted. Marina opened her mouth but Josh beat her to it as he brought over a plastic see through box with a paper under it.

"If you think that's weird, you going to love this."

Kate, Andre and Marina looked at it in silence. Kate looked up at Josh. "What is this?"

"It on of the documents you found in the hole today." Josh said. "It's basically just a simple list of things that were stored down there, nothing special, then I found this..." Josh grabbed a magnifying class and put it on top of a part of the document.

Andre leaned down and squinted as he tried to read the messy handwriting. "Help me...E.A. Johnson!?"

Kate looked at it. "It's dated..1357..."

Marina looked at it and frowned. She didn't understand. How could Chris's father's signature be on this parchment that was over 600 years old when he had only left a few days ago? She turned to Josh. "The signature..."

Josh nodded. "E. A Johnson. I crosschecked the signatures; its...it's definitely his handwriting. But his only been gone for two days. "He turned to Chris, who hadn't been listening much and pointed to the document on the table. "Your father wrote this, but he wrote it six hundred years ago."

Chris frowned as he stood up and walked over to the group. "What's going on here?"

Marina turned to Josh with the lens in her hands. "So you're telling me that this is the Professors? And that's its SIX HUNDRED years old?!"

Josh nodded and Kate snorted. "Stern, what have you been smoking?"

Chris rubbed his chin as he turned to Josh. "Stern, maybe you can explain something to me..."

Josh waved his hands around; he was beginning to get impatient. "If I KNEW I could explain it, but all I know is that the ink is six hundred years old."

Suddenly everyone began speaking all at once. Marina sighed as she rubbed her head trying to figure it all out. Chris suddenly spoke up again.

"You know what? I know....this is my father...he's just playing a prank."

Everyone shook their heads. "No! No!"

"There's no way you father would risk contaminating the site as a joke he just wouldn't do that." Andre said. Marina turned back to Josh. "Josh, have you carbon dated the ink?"

Josh looked at her as if she had asked him if he had a head. "Of course I carbon dated the ink. I did it THREE times." He walked over to a computer and the others followed and leaned over the screen watching it intently.

"Like I said. Your father wrote that note....but he wrote it six hundred years ago."
A/N: I Apologize for the slight delay in this chapter. I got a bit side tracked with my other story. Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter, and the next one will be here about Wednesday, if not sooner. And also thank you to the people who have already reviewed, I appreciate it.

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