Chapter 4

Rick packed up his stuff and put it in the car. He wasn't leaving Evy just taking sometime away from her. He wanted her to make up her mind and decide who she wanted to be with.

"Why are you doing this?" Evy asked but Rick just stared at her for a while and put the rest of his stuff in the car.

"Were the hell is he going?" Jonathan asked.

"I don't know he won't tell me. I told him about me and Imhotep and he got all mad."

"Well he shouldn't be mad because you married him and stayed with him through every thing."

"This wouldn't have happened if you would have kept your mouth shut at dinner. You didn't have to blurt it out in front of every body." Evy looked at Jonathan with a mixture of emotion on her face.

Rick was finally done packing his stuff and got in the car. Evy tried to plead with him one more time but Rick didn't say a thing to her. As he pulled out of the drive way a man came walking up the sidewalk behind his car. Rick hit the brakes not wanting to kill the person then stuck his head out the window and started to curse at him for blocking the driveway.

"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY OR I'LL RUN YOU OVER YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Rick was furious with this person but when he realized who it was he calmed down and finished backing down the drive.

Ardeth came up to Evy to give her news on Imhotep's where abouts but saw that she wasn't in the mood nor in the right place to be talking about this.

"May we go inside to talk Evelyn?" Ardeth asked trying to get Evy to move inside so he could talk to her in private without the neighbors staring at them.

"Sure. Nothing you can tell me right now can make me any more depressed than I am." Evy was sure that he couldn't say anything more depressing because Rick had left after she told him about her love for Imhotep.

After moving inside, Ardeth was waiting for the right moment to bring up the subject of Imhotep. He knew that after all that she would need her space and time to cool down and get into a mood to where he wouldn't be afraid of bringing it up. They sat there just staring into the abyss when Jonathan came walking, being nosey of course, wanting to find out more about the situation with Imhotep.

"So what did you want to talk about Ardeth?" Evy broke the silence. For her it was too quite and she didn't much like silence unless she was working or reading a book.

"Imhotep is here in London to find you. He wants to bring you back and try to resurrect Anck-Su-Namun as I said earlier…"

"You mean as Rick said." Evy commented.

"Yes, well, He is also here to try and regain your love so he has no problems with you and can take you to the City of the Dead with out a fight."

"Don't worry Evy, I won't let him take you back to that reached place. He'll have to kill me to do it." Jonathan was trying to be heroic but Evy knew that he would find someplace to hide while Imhotep took her back to the city to get his girlfriend back. She knew that she would die while Jonathan was nice and comfy in her house.

"No Jonathan, I'm not going to ask you to go with me this time. I want to face Imhotep by my self so he knows that I don't need help." Evy was also going to say that she was going to tell Imhotep her true feelings for him but knew not to tell her brother that.

"You must hurry my friend. The High Priest will be here in less than 3 days."

"What do you mean less than 3 days? How could he be here in less than 3 days? He has to fully regenerate before he can come after me." Evy looked at Ardeth puzzled.

"He is already fully regenerated. He has had help along the way. An American Egyptologist found the book."

"Why is it always Americans?" Jonathan said with a little sarcasm to try and cheer his sister up.

"Jonathan please. It isn't always Americans. Well it is but that's not the point. The point is he is coming for me and will be here soon."

"Sooner than you think Evelyn. Since he is regenerated, nothing can stop Imhotep. He has already boarded a ship to London. He will be here within 1 day. You only have tomorrow to decide what you are going to do. If you can not figure it out by then I am afraid that him and his accomplice will kill anyone and every one in his way including your brother."

"Leave me out of this. I have no part in this whole thing." Jonathan had stopped is heroic act and started his coward act.

"Jonathan!" Evy yelled. She was getting tired of him always ending up in the conversation. He was getting really annoying and she wanted him to know it.

"I'll just go find out what Jenny's doing." Evy looked at him as if to say 'You do that'

"I wish I would have never found that book. I wish that I never met Imhotep."

"Well we did try to stop you but you didn't know what you were doing at the time. It wasn't all your fault Evelyn, Rick could have said nothing about Hamunaptra."

"Yeah but, then again Jonathan could have kept his hands out of other peoples pockets. He never can mind his own business." Ardeth shot Evy a little smile. He knew that this was true and he also knew that Jonathan would never change.

"That is what makes your brother unique. He is a nosey drunk but a very loving brother. At least he will stay with you through thick and thin." Ardeth said remembering what Rick had just done.

"Your right about one thing, he will always be with me only because he can't find his own place to live." Evy made a little giggle.

After talking to Ardeth awhile, Evy knew what she was going to do. She would tell Imhotep about her love for him. If he would have a good reaction to this, which she knew he wouldn't, she would at least get it out of her system and she might be able to go on with her life. If he had a bad reaction, she would not give up her life with out a big fight. When they were done talking, Evy escorted Ardeth to the door and then went to bed, alone. She didn't like the thought that Rick wouldn't be there with her to comfort her if she had a bad dream or needed someone to talk to. She thought of calling Rick but quickly realized that she had no idea where he was. She closed her eyes just to think of places he could be but before she knew it she was asleep in the middle of the bed where her and Rick would cuddle together almost every night.

Jonathan was still awake talking to Jenny about his sister's problem but Jenny just wanted to get some sleep so when she did listen she nodded or said 'Yes she should'. After a couple of hours Jenny was asleep too but Jonathan couldn't get any sleep thinking about his sister's dilemma. Her decision wasn't only going to effect her and Rick it was going to hit Jonathan as well. On one hand Jonathan would still have Jenny by his side but on the other if Imhotep felt the same way about Evy he would have him as a brother-in-law and Jonathan would prefer Rick over Imhotep. As Evy had done, Jonathan slowly closed his eyes thinking about what his sister would do or say to Imhotep when and if she met him and Jonathan fell asleep, finally joining the two women in the house.