Book One: I Lost You Once...
By: Cyberpunk2909
(The characters and all other properties belong to Universal Pictures, respected
directors and such and such. The idea is mine. )
(Author's Note: This story is rated PG-13, until some later parts which will be indicated after the chapter by three question marks. I suggest, kiddies, that you not read this if you are not of legal age, so as not to miss out on the whole plotline in the end.(I know none of you will listen, but you are forewarned.) Enjoy the moviefic!)
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Prologue...
The rocks were crashing around them as the ancient, golden pyramid of Ahm Shere was, for lack of a better word, dying, and drawing all the magic of Anubis back in to hell where it belonged.
Evie was satisfied with two thoughts: her husband and son were safe. Then the happiness of the thoughts were crushed as she realized, if they didn't get out of this doomed place before long, then they'd all die. She pulled her husband, Rick, from the reaches of the hellish demons and they fell onto a wall, Rick's strong arms wrapped around her. She met Imohtep's eyes for the briefest second in remorse for his love's betrayal. A brief second that she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Evie suddenly felt Imhotep's intrusion upon her mind as his thoughts and her thoughts became one. She nearly bit her lip. Were seconds really passing? Was this all happening as the world ended around them? His thoughts suddenly came to her, with the hungry, gentle flavor of his entire being, his whole personality forced into that one dying projection, "Nefertiri, my Pharoah's daughter."
"That's not fair, Ankhnut!" she cried using a name she hadn't called him in nearly three thousand years. His mouth twitched, but his mind's voice shouted with anger,"And this is!"
"You chose her, not me!" she informed him dispassionately. There was a slight smirk on his face.
"Yes, I chose her, but it was you who I was promised to," he told her gently." I knew you those years ago when you brought me back from Hamunaptra. Even when my mind was bent, I knew you."
"You called me Ancksunamun," she informed him ruefully."Get out of my head and go."
"Are you forgetting, you are mine, Nefertiri?" he asked her gently.
"No, you can't," she apprised him, almost as a slight plea. She knew what he was saying, knew that he was right. The memories of her past self confirmed it, but she would not admit it. "I'm married now, and I have son."
"In this life only," he informed her, with a touch of emotion to his voice. "But you will remember a time, when we were children and the Nile waters brushed our feet. When I was a boy striving to be a priest and you were Pharoah's black-eyed daughter, who could see the stars, and Ancksunamun was just a child among us. Remember, Pharoah's Daughter. Remember, Nefertiri, of that time, our time..."
Evie listened to his voice as it carried her back to an ancient time, back to when the sands had reigned the desert, when things had been simplier and yet, harder. When she was a princess and Daughter to the Pharoah of all Egypt, and the world was ruled by myth. Where she was just a girl and Imhotep, just a boy...
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Author's Note: Did you like? I wrote this story years ago when the movie first came out and really didn't like the whole Imhotrp bashing. So, here's my rendition of an age-old tale. R&R!