**Lets all just use our imaginations and pretend that Evie and Rick had twins instead of just Alex…**
PS: Sorry for all the spelling mistakes having to do with The Mummy.
Rating: PG!!
Disclaimer: Well…none are mine…except Frankie, also the Anuzy Pyramid its Pharaoh and well…everything that is in it. All came from my head. Anyways…please enjoy and no infringement is intended.
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Frances rested her chin in her hands as Professor Almahed rambled on. He clicked on a slide and a shot of the pyramids flashed onto the wall as the lights were flicked off.
Frances sat up straight, craning in her front row seat to get a better look at the pyramids that loomed before the entire class; awing the students into silence.
"As you can see," Professor Almahed explained as he flicked on another slide; this slide was a close up of the stones of the pyramids. "In general there were over two million stones used to create each pyramid." He flicked on another slide, "over the years more and more Pyramids and the tombs inside them have been discovered."
"Humanaptra," a student in the back row coughed and a few students chortled. Frances felt her shoulders tense.
"I didn't tell anyone," Dierdre said quickly, "I swear."
Frances shook her shoulders gently and turned her attention back to Professor Almahed.
"But, many tombs have yet to be discovered, and better studied. Simply for the immense knowledge they hold, not just the treasure." He sent a wink Frances' way. "And thankfully," he continued on, "I have talked the university into letting this class go on a expedition. We are also lucky enough that a good friend of mine just happens to be in the area excavating a tomb in the Anuzy Pyramid. The tomb that belongs to the pharaoh…"
Frances felt her attention waning, Professor Almahed clicked on the final slide he had planned for that day.
"Who?" Frances whispered to herself. When she finally took a good look at the picture that hairs rose on the back of her neck.
The slide was simply a door, to Frances assumed, the tomb of the Pharaoh Professor Almahed was talking about. Frances blinked slowly and felt her heart catch in her chest.
What the hell is going on? She demanded angrily.
"…there is a legend with this tomb that's says this man was very rich; and his tomb is filled with unimaginable treasures. The legend states: 'He who enters the tomb shall have endless riches forever more.'"
"Legend?" Frances blurted, jolting back to reality. She did not like the sound of this at all.
Z Z Z
"There isn't a train to Cairo for four days," Alex broke kindly to his mother.
"Four days?" Evie exclaimed. "I don't even want to begin to imagine what could happen in four days!"
"Mum, Frankie is a smart girl; she uses her head. She'll be fine," Alex said wearily. His mother had been at him fretting all morning and most of the night before.
"Why couldn't she be more like you Alexander?"
"More like me?" Alex scoffed, "don't be too hasty to forget I was the one who put the Scorpions King's bracelet on. Frankie tried to talk me out of it."
Evie threw up her hands, "don't remind me! I know! I know! What I mean is, you're happy where you are. You don't have all those crazy notions in your head…" Evie who had managed to keep herself together all this time, burst into tears.
"She sure is her mother's daughter," Alex said patting his mothers shoulder.
Z Z Z
Two weeks later Frankie and Dierdre were sitting beside each other again in Egyptology.
"My mother probably warned me about this," Frances muttered snapping the lead off her pencil. "Blast!" She exclaimed. She fished through her book bag until she found another one.
"As I explained before, my friend George Williams and a group of archaeologists have already begun to excavate the tomb…"
"So why do we have to go there?" Frances mumbled.
"What was that Ms. O'Connell?" Professor Almahed wondered looking up from his desk.
"I said, why do we have to go there?" Frances repeated, "I mean if George and his friends have already begun the excavation I really don't see the point…" Frances let her voice drift off and Dierdre made a soft noise and slapped her hand to her forehead. For the past fourteen days Frances had been taking every chance she could to try and talk the Professor into going to the tomb. It wasn't that she wasn't all for excavations… that was what she was here for, she just wasn't here to wake up another bout of the dead.
She dreaded the though of what her mother would think of that.
"Like I told you Ms. O'Connell," Professor Almahed said slowly, his voice surprisingly calm. "I am taking you on this expedition precisely for the experience one needs to get into the field of Archeology." He looked at Frances evenly and she slumped down slightly in her seat. "That is what you're here for isn't it?" He wondered.
"Yes sir," Frances replied. I'm just not here to raise anymore chaps from the dead. Frances thought grimly.
"The trip is scheduled for the day after tomorrow and right now a list is currently being passed around of all the supplies you're going to need…"
Z Z Z
"You're far to paranoid," Dierdre said two days later as she jammed her clothes into her backpack.
"I'm careful Di," Frances correctly. "I've got my father to thank for that." She grumbled as she half hazardly packed her backpack. Right then she was picturing her father's reaction to the knowledge that Professor's class was going on an expedition. She shuddered and promised herself never to do it again.
It wasn't that she didn't love her father, because she loved him dearly. It was just…sometimes he was so worrisome, and it seemed as if he barely let Frances do anything. While her brother Alex was free to roam about London and do as he pleased.
Frances guessed that was a bit unfair. She knew her father saw Evie in his daughter, and only wanted to protect Frances like he wanted to protect his wife. But for once Frances had just wanted to be allowed to make her own decision.
But now that she had she wasn't sure where it would take her. Or if she would want to go there.
"Well at least we're on the same team." Dierdre pointed out happily. And Frances agreed that was the one high point of the trip. Over the past few weeks her and Dierdre had become fast friends and she was glad she was paired with Dierdre as opposed to some stranger of whom she knew nothing about. "And you can read Ancient Egyptian," Dierdre said slowly and Frances nodded. It seemed to be a gift of the woman in her mother's family. Evie had tried to each both Frances and her brother. But Alex never seemed able to pick it up. He'd always forget to study his symbols and get angry. Throwing his text book across the room.
"Some anyway," Frances replied. "I wish my mother was here," she said. She froze, shocked that those words had just come out of her mouth. "That woman can read Ancient Egyptian." She finished quickly, hoping Dierdre hadn't noticed her pause. "She's the one who taught me."
Dierdre smiled. "I tried to learn once, but I just could get a knack for it. I always got so frustrated."
Frances couldn't help but laugh. "You sound like Alex."
"Who?" Dierdre wondered.
"Alex," Frances replied. "He's my brother." Dierdre nodded her head before turning back to packing.
Frances stole a glance in the mirror. She was willing to bet that her parents, Alex and Uncle Jonathan were on their way to Egypt right now…all Frances hoped was that she would be alive when they got there.
