Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Disclaimer: I do not own 'The Mummy' or 'The Mummy Returns'.

Author's Note: Hey there! Here's chapter four of 'Death of Helen', I hope that you all will enjoy it very much and after this story I don't know maybe I'll make another Ardeth/Evy. I hope that you will enjoy this chapter and thanks for the great reviews! Told you would find chapter three suspenseful, alright on with the story. And I'll try to make it longer.

-Dixie

P.S: Let me know in your reviews if it was longer enough kay? (: Like I said enjoy the show!

Summary: Evy decides to go to Ireland to the house her sister lived in in order to find out if she really didn't kill herself and because of that she gets into a fight for the first time with Ardeth. Meanwhile Helen has been acting very strange around everybody and tells her brother a secret...Read and find out!

Death of Helen

By: DKorley.

CHAPTER 4

It was Thursday, Evy felt better then. She might know that her sister didn't really kill herself but meanwhile Helen's silence towards everyone seems to bother Evy. Helen looked so pale, blank, she wouldn't eat. She wasn't the vibrant, talkative child anymore. After breakfast Ardeth and Alex went out for training with thier wooden swords, Rick was asleep in the living room where Evy was watching Helen draw in silence. Evy sighed, she was very uncomfortable with Helen's silence.

"Helen?" Evy called quietly.

"Hm." Helen answered, to Evy it felt like Helen was talking for the first time in her life. Evy shifted a bit looking at Helen.

"Something you want to talk about?"

"No." Helen said quietly drawing.

"You sure? Because you haven't been talking lately, I'm very worried about you." Evy said, her attention was now on her daugther's drawing: it was a house, a woman stood next to a man in front of the house. Both of them were smiling and putting their arms around each other, Evy smiled proud of her daugther's work but then something hit her. Evy's smile faded and looked closely at her daugther's drawing, the outfits the couples were wearing. They looked so familiar, she looked closely and widened her eyes.

"Helen?" she called.

"Mm-hm?"

"Did you drew this in your head or..."

"I just thought of it and drew it...actually I don't know why." Helen said quietly, Evy watched her pick another crayon coloring.

The outfits were the same as Helen and Brendan's when they moved into Ireland, Evy looked at Helen and noticed a brown handprint on her shoulder.

"Helen?"

"Mm-hm?"

"Where did you get that handprint?"

Helen looked over at her shoulder and looked up at Evy confused. "I don't see any handprint." she answered and continued to draw.

Evy looked at the other drawings, they were people, one person on each paper. And a circle of red behind them, Evy's eyes darted to Helen's drawing. She began to draw a face in the woods she drew; a girl's face. Evy figured she was hallucinating, she predicted it when her daugther had said she did not see any handprint on her shoulder. Rick woke up crying because he thought Evy had left him, Evy turned to his attention and smiled carrying him and sending him to the kitchen for his drink.

"We're back." Helen heard Alex and Ardeth enter, Evy came out of the kitchen with Rick who jumped out of her arms and ran to his father to hug him.

"How's my boy?" Ardeth asked looking at Rick who grinned.

"Good."

"Mum, you wouldn't believe it I beat Ardeth!" Alex said in truimph.

"Oh, you're now beating him now?"

"Yep, hey squirt." He then greeted his sister, mostly she greeted happily knowing he was just joking: it was like a nickname for 'Good Afternoon, or morning, etc. But she didn't take it so well.

"Don't you ever call me that you asshole!" she shouted.

"Helen!" Evy yelled, everyone saw Helen pick her drawings and go upstairs. Ardeth looked at Evy in question, Alex later went upstairs to apologize. Ardeth and Evy were in the kitchen while Rick was in the living room where they can clearly watch him: he was playing with his toys. Helen's sudden out burst was abnormal, Ardeth and Evy didn't talk.

"I'm worried about her Ardeth." Evy suddenly said, she covered her face beginning to cry. Ardeth came to her and hugged her then pulled back holding her arms.

"She's been silent these days, you should have seen her drawings!" she sobbed.

"Drawings?"

"Yes, she drew my sister and Brendan. In the same house they lived in, Helen has never seen a picture of them in front of the house before. There wasn't even a picture like that before, she also drew dead people. Children, adults...she knows something." Evy said sniffing.

"How can Helen have something to do with this?"

"Think of it Ardeth, she's drawing things she has never seen before. Horrible things." Evy said.

"You should have seen the first one she drew." he said.

"I thought you didn't know of the drawings?"

"I saw the first one she made on Saturday by the fountain, a boy with blond hair. Same features as Rick's( the older one) I wasn't aware of them until now." he said.

"Oh my God, I read the newspapers that Rick was in that house, his family died in there." Ardeth was shocked." Ardeth I have to go to Ireland." Evy simply said.

Alex went up to his sister's room after ruminating about the sudden out burst in the living room, he knocked on the door. There was no answer and the door was unlocked, he figured his sister was mad at him so he entered and gasped by the coldness in the room. He saw Helen drawing sitting on the floor and the windows were wide open: it was incredibly cold. In the morning it wasn't, it was just breezy, he didn't know that it would get this cold. And Helen was in her nightgown.

"Oh it's so cold in here, you'll freeze yourself!" he rushed to close the windows.

He turned to see Helen was still drawing, she looked more paler than yesterday." Helen I'm very sorry about what happened." he said. She was still drawing.

"I have a new friend." she then said quietly stopping and pressing the crayon's tip on the paper.

"What?"

"I have a new friend." she said again barely audible but Alex heard her.

"When did you meet her?" Suddenly he jumped when the door shut by itself and the little table moved in front of it.

"You shouldn't ask questions like that." Helen said and Alex looked down at her. She continued drawing.

"Why?" Helen stopped drawing and looked up at him, shockingly her eyes became gray.

"You will make her angry." she answered. Alex was afriad, he gulped and asked Helen:

"What's her name?"

"I don't know." she answered.

"You don't know?"

"..." she didn't answer, suddenly the chair moved and the door was still closed. Suddenly Helen did the unexpected...

"What's your name?" Alex looked at her in disbelief.

"I'm your brother Alex...is this a joke?" Helen broke the crayon.

"It's never a joke." she said in a different voice, a voice that was her own but not a kid's voice. Alex stepped back.

"Helen told me you were usually funny." Alex gaped quietly: this wasn't her sister." Better get your mum not to go to Ireland." she said smiling.

"Why?"

"That's for him to decide." the door flung opened.

And Alex yelled, it started to get warmer and the pale tone on Helen's skin disappeared a little. Alex watched her stand up and pass him going down the stairs, he followed her and he could hear yelling.

"Their arguing." he said. The two just stoor on the deck watching Rick stand looking at his parent argue.

"THAT'S NOT FOR YOU TO DECIDE! I HAVE TO GO THERE."

"AND KILL YOURSELF!" Ardeth shouted, he had to come up with something in order to not let Evy go. He thought the unthinkable." I am your husband and when I say 'Don't go' that is an order." he said sternly. Evy looked at him knowing that he didn't mean that.

"And I will not tolerate bei-"

"YOU'RE NOT STEPPING OUT OF THIS HOUSE" He shouted making Evy shocked, Rick began to cry and Evy rushed to him holding him close kissing his brown hair.

"I'm so sorry." Rick sniffed, it scared him to see an argument. Evy glared at Ardeth and went up the stairs.

"Evy, I didn't mean...Evy please." Ardeth begged but Evy went up the stairs and passed the two kids into the hallway straight to Rick's room.

Ardeth saw Alex and Helen who stared at him, he sighed and went to sit on the couch. This was his first fight with Evy and he felt such remorse for it, he heard the two kids walk away. Alex stopped Helen who looked at him...

"About him?" She was confused.

"What are you talking about?"

"You were asking me what was my name and stuff." he tried to let her remember.

"Listen nutcase I didn't even asked you that...this is a joke right?" Nutcase was Alex's nickname just like 'squirt' for Helen.

"What about the drawings and when you called me the 'a' word?" he asked. She was confused, she was being vibrant again.

"What you nuts? You know I never use language and I suck at drawing." she said. Shockingly she was being her old self again. Alex figured she'll find out when she enters her room.

"Yeah...I'm a nutcase remember?" Helen punched him and he laughed nervously.

"You all right?"

"Uh...yeah." Alex said smiled nodding.

Evy sent Rick to sleep, she wiped her tears. How can Ardeth order her around like that? She sat on their bed covering her face crying, she wanted to find her sister's murderer and he dares keep her away from her. She heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." she said wiped her tears, she saw Ardeth come in and looked away.

"I just didn't want to lose you...you've read about the murders going on in there." he said.

"I want to find out what really happened, Ardeth. For the sake of my sister, I remeber seeing her corpse, she looked so frightened. She wasn't in peace, I have to let her rest!"

Ardeth came to sit next to her to put her arms around her but she moved." Evy...please." he pleaded.

"Leave Ardeth." she moved but he followed her movements and hugged her anyway, she pushed him he didn't budged. She relaxed into his arms, he pilled back and kissed her passionately. She kissed him back and they pulled back, Ardeth placed butterfly kisses on her lips, her chin. He placed his hands on her hips massaging them with soft strokes raising her skirt up so his hands were under holding her thighs and went their way up.( Sorry that's how far I can go.)

Johnathan sighed when Connor ran around the house, he was getting annoyed and bored. Sarah was in the kitchen and he caught Connor tickling him.

"Daddy stop." Connor laughed. Johnathan stopped patting his head.

"Why don't I show you how to play poker?"

"Oh no." Sarah walked in shaking her head.

"But he's old enough."

"He's a five-year-old."

"But that doesn't mean he'll gamble." Sarah sighed.

"Teach him chess."

"What? That's boring."

"He can't play poker now, he's too young to understand the game."

"I'm bored, he's lonely. Why don't we go out a little?"

"This late?"

"Yes, it will give us some fresh air and let him sleep." he said.

"Alright I will get my things." she went upstairs. Johnathan watched her go and turned to Connor.

"Let's play poker."

"Yeah."

Ardeth and Evy layed in eachother's arms, Ardeth wasn't planning to do this but he guess other things took over.

"You will go to Ireland." Evy turned to him.

"I understand. I guess I would have done the same thing." he said stroking her cheek." But I go with you." she smiled, he was so overprotective of her.

"That's settled then."

Liked it? Hope it was long enough, more shocking surprises will come up.

-Dixie