Life or Love
Brief Description: Takes place before The Mummy, an alternate way that Rick and Evy meet and fall in love. Evy has her own library and has two very unique customers that come in almost every day. She has to decide between love or life.
Disclaimer: I do not own all of these characters. I own Jenny, Steven Sommers owns everyone else.
Chapter 1: Learning
Evy had just got up and was ready to go to work. She wanted to get an early start so she could put returned books back on the shelves. When she got to work a problem up rose, she had forgot to lock the door to the library when she left last night. She got so caught up in work that when she walked out she just closed the door. She was also wrapped up in a customer that she had met. The customer came in so many times a week that Evy had made a new friend. Every day was a different book about some exotic land or foreign language. Today, Evy was sure that the customer was going to work on Egypt or learn the language of French. Evy was really excited about seeing the customer again and couldn't wait. After a few minutes, Evy got bored and was beginning to think that the customer wasn't coming. Just then the customer walked in. She was a tall blonde with blue eyes, and pale skin.
"Hello Jen. I believe that you are up to French in language and Egypt in foreign lands." Evy gave a smile as she picked the books up from under the desk.
Jenny smiled back at her, "Haven't you been to Egypt?"
"Yep. I worked at a library there. I love Egypt."
"Yeah, I noticed with all the books that you have. Most of them are about Egypt. It's like you have an obsession with it."
Evy blushed a little, "Well my father was a very famous explorer and my mother was an Egyptian so I guess you could say that I have Egypt's in my blood."
Jenny checked out her books and was walking toward the door when a tall, brown haired man walked in. This was his second time coming in the library and Evy felt that it was because of her.
"Hello. Is there a certain book that you are looking for that I can help you find?" Evy was talking as politely as she could. She wanted her conversation with Jenny to last longer but it was cut short because of him.
"No, I was just going to look around. I'm not interested in a particular subject right now. I have a feeling that I will be if I look around." He walked off down an aisle to find a subject to look up but he wasn't particularly interested in books. His eyes were set to the woman behind the desk.
This was Richard "Rick" O'Connell. A gruff looking man, like the ones you would find in a prison. He had never been to prison as far as Evy knew. She had a feeling that every time he came in he was going to come to the desk and ask her on a date. Evy wasn't really up for dating, but her brother, Jonathan Carnahan, was. In fact he had been out with so many women, and brought so many of them home that Evy was always confused on who they were. His latest catch was a blond woman by the name of Sheila. She was what Evy classified as a snob. Evy didn't like it very much when she came over because she would try to make up some fact to make Evy look less smart around her brother. Evy knew that most of the stuff that Sheila said was all made up because she once said that Egypt had a breed of kangaroo. The only kangaroos that Evy knew of were in the zoos. Another thing that Evy didn't like was that Sheila wasn't big on clothes. Every time that Evy would get up and go down stairs, Sheila would come down about five minutes later wearing nothing at all. Each time that Evy told Jonathan to do something about it, he would try to defend her saying things like, "She's natural. She doesn't wear clothes because she wants to be the way nature made her." Evy scoffed at comments like that because there were a couple of things that Evy knew were not put on her by nature.
"I think I have found a book." Evy snapped out of her little world of hatred to scan the book that Rick had brought to her.
"The Egyptian Hieroglyphic. Good book. Are you interested in learning to read the hieroglyphs?"
"Yeah. I will be going to Egypt to find some artifacts from Ancient Egypt and my boss said that I will need to learn so I know what I pick up." He smiled and walked out the door.
It was 10:00 p.m. now and Evy was getting ready to close up. She remembered to lock the door and made her way home. She walked in the door and freaked out. Jonathan and Sheila were on the couch making out.
"You have a room don't you! GET TO IT! I DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS!" Evy took them by surprise. They immediately got up and went upstairs to Jonathan's room.
Evy finished up her supper and walked to her room. She couldn't stop thinking about Jenny and Rick.