A/n. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the first chapter, I hope you enjoy this one too.

Chapter two -Bad news.

As she stepped out of the plane the next day, having landed in Cairo, Evelyn smiled the smell of the sand that penetrated every part of the city delighted her senses. She loved this country so much.

"Oh Rick," Evelyn cried happily, "remind me why we don't live here."

Grunting as he piled the bags into their car, he turned to look at her. "Because," he began "we have a beautiful house in England, not to mention your work at the museum, Alex's education, and the small fact that every time we're here, you get us into trouble."

"But it's so beautiful," Evelyn continued as she looked around, and longed for the days when she used to live here. "And besides," pausing she crossed to Rick, who was now leaning against the car, "if it wasn't for this country and me being in trouble, we might never have met."

"You're right," Rick conceded and pulled her into his arms. "Maybe it has got something after all."

"God, you two!" Jonathan called from his seat in the car. "What is up with you, cant you put each other down for five minutes?"

"No." Rick answered simply and without turning he proceeded to kiss Evelyn. Jonathan just groaned and sat back. "Maybe I should get a car too?" he mused.

What with Evelyn's love of the country and their constant visits there, they had long ago decided to keep their house in Cairo, and that was where they headed. After depositing their bags and trunks into the hallway, Rick relaxed into his favourite armchair as Evie pottered around and tidied their belongings away.

"Why do we always bring so much stuff?" Rick asked as he got to his feet after watching Evie for a few minutes.

"Because we need it," she answered and continued to unpack some of her books.

Pulling a statue of annubis out of the trunk and holding it next to a similar one in the hallway, Rick just looked at Evelyn. "All right," she laughed, "maybe we didn't need that."

"Maybe," he agreed and dropped it back in the trunk.

Exasperated, Evelyn kicked the long leather sack at Ricks feet. "Why did you bring that?" she asked.

Picking up his gun sack Rick just looked at her for a minute. "Because we need it," he answered eventually.

"How many more times-" Evelyn began.

"Yes I know," Rick interrupted, "nothing's going to happen, but it's never hurt to be prepared before."

Evelyn's face softened; she couldn't argue with him there. Putting her books down on the table she joined Rick as he sat back down in their living room.

"So," she began, "what were you looking up earlier?" before they had left their London home Evelyn had caught Rick in her office flicking through one of her Egyptian research books.

"Nothing," Rick lied, "I was just looking for something to read."

"Oh," Evelyn sighed. She had been hoping Rick would open up to her; for the entirety of their long trip he had seemed distant, and it was beginning to worry her.

"What's this necklace you're going to look at?" Rick asked, desperate to turn the attention away from him, and hopefully dispel the tension between them.

"Nothing," Evie said curtly, standing up, uncomfortable with the attention herself. "Just something that one of the Medjai found at Hamunapt-" she cut her self short, remembering she hadn't told Rick that part.

"Hamunaptra?" Rick asked, swallowing hard.

"Yes," Evelyn answered matter-of-factly, and quickly headed out of the room.

Rick wasn't going to let her get away with it that easily. Jumping to his feet he followed her into the hall. "Hamunaptra?" he repeated again. "As in desert ruins, guarded by the Medjai?"

"Yes." Evelyn repeated, picking up some books and attempting to put them away.

"Place where my entire garrison got slaughtered?" Rick continued, following her around the room

"Yes."

"Place we almost died trying to escape from?"

"Yes!"

"Place where you brought back to life an undead mummy who tried to take over the world?"

"Yes, yes alright!" Evie stopped still, and looked at Rick. "Maybe I should have told you."

"Maybe?" Conveniently forgetting his own deception, Rick was amazed by her statement.

"Ok definitely, but I knew if I did you wouldn't want me to come." Evie widened her eyes and looked sadly at Rick, hoping he wouldn't stay angry at her.

"With good reason!" Rick continued to argue, although he could already feel himself melting.

"I know," Evie said softly and wrapped her arms around Rick's neck. "But I also know you won't let anything happen."

"I wont," Rick admitted. He felt the last of his anger flowing away as the pleasurable feel of her body next to his replaced it. Suddenly a thought occurred to him, and he pulled away from the incoming kiss. "This necklace?" he asked. "Tell me it's not his."

Knowing he was referring to Imhotep, Evelyn let go of her grip around his neck.

"It's not," she answered truthfully and with a smile, turning away, however, she quietly added information she hoped Rick would not hear. "But he might have made it."

"What?!" Rick exploded, and pulled her gently back to face him.

"It's rumoured that he might have made it from the sword Anck-su-namun used to kill her-self," Evie told him the information quickly hoping to get past it at the same rate.

Turning away now himself, Rick couldn't believe it; why did his wife have to get involved again? "Why?" Rick asked, deciding to put that very question to her. "Why do you have to look at it?"

Evelyn paused a minute, not sure what to tell him for the best. "Because Nefertiri was recorded to be the only person to have seen it." She opted for the truth.

"This just gets better and better..." Rick moaned, shaking his head. As he turned around slowly Rick was amazed to see not Evelyn but Nefertiri standing in front of him, clothed in a majestic golden night robe. Blinking, Rick was further surprised to see the room transform into the golden bedchamber of his dream.

"It's not dangerous," Nefertiri said in Evelyn's persuasive voice.

"Of course it's dangerous," Rick responded without even thinking, "you can't go to Hamunaptra, you're the princess!"

Looking at him strangely, Nefertiri walked around him. "But I want to see-"

"I know," Rick interrupted her, unable to control his words "I know you want to see your father's death avenged, and it will be, I promise, but you can't go."

"I must!" Nefertiri argued.

"You must not!" he argued back, and although Rick didn't know why he was saying the words he could feel the deep concern that drove them.

Nefertiri said nothing but began to stroke Rick's bare shoulder lovingly. Pulling away, Rick continued. "Don't!" he practically begged. "Nefertiri please, I don't want you to go. Imhotep will be there, and I don't want anything to happen to you, I couldn't stand it. I..."

"Menka, Menka," Nefertiri breathed the familiar word into his ear. "I am going, with or without you." Sighing, Rick closed his eyes. It seemed Nefertiri was as stubborn as Evelyn.

"Rick!" Evelyn's voice suddenly exploded in his head.

Forcing his eyes open, Rick stumbled forward in shock. Evelyn was there and he was back in their house. "Evie?" he asked apprehensively.

"Oh thank God," Evelyn hugged him tightly, and almost knocked him over with her enthusiasm.

"What happened?" Rick asked eventually, heading into the lounge, after she let him go.

"You don't remember?" Evelyn followed him, worried "You started talking in ancient Egyptian," she explained.

"I did what?"

"You did- one minute we were talking, and the next it seemed like you were talking to someone else."

"I wasn't talking to you?" Rick asked as he desperately tried to make sense of what had just happened.

"You were," Evie confirmed, "but what you said didn't make sense, so I called your name and you didn't respond."

Rick watched as Evelyn began to get upset.

"Hey," he said, soothing her, "I'm here now."

"Look who else is here," Jonathan called from the doorway, making them both jump.

Turning around, neither Evelyn nor Rick was surprised to see the large Medjai standing next to him.

"Ardeth Bey," Rick greeted him, and crossed to shake his hand

"It's good to see you, my friend," the dark Medjai greeted him warmly back. "But I'm afraid I bring bad news."

As Rick and Evelyn exchanged a look, Jonathan piped up. "Am I the only one that really hates it when he says that?"

Greeting Ardeth with a kiss, Evelyn quickly suggested the group move to her study, were they could all sit with comfort, and as they moved through the house Rick turned to Jonathan. "No," he said, "you're really not."

As the men sat in the chairs in the large comfortable room, Jonathan once again spoke.

"Okay," he said, "I'm guessing that when you say you have bad news it's not just going to be that you've run out of tea."

"That is correct," Ardeth admitted.

"Before we get into that..." Evelyn started, still standing against the door, "we already have an issue to deal with."

"Why? What's going on?" Jonathan asked suspiciously.

Seeing Rick's uncomfortable gaze, Evelyn was suddenly unsure she wanted to share the information. Deciding, however, that perhaps Ardeth could help, she explained. "We were, ah...talking a few minutes ago, and Rick just started speaking Egyptian."

"So?" Jonathan asked, surprised it didn't seem like the biggest deal to him. However, he did turn to Rick and say, "I didn't know you spoke Egyptian."

"I don't," Rick answered quietly.

"Oh, I see."

"What did he say?" Ardeth asked.

"Something about not going to Hamunaptra to avenge my fathers death, and that it was dangerous." Evelyn tried to remember all that he had said, but what with it coming as a shock she had only understood pieces.

"Our father's death?" Jonathan asked, "but that was years ago."

"I wasn't talking to Evie," Rick admitted, finally sitting up in his chair and resigning himself to them finding out about his dream. "It was Nefertiri."

"Princess Nefertiri?" Ardeth asked as he leant forward in his chair, suddenly more interested.

"I had a dream about her last night, and then today when I was talking with Evie, it was strange- one minute it was her, the next Nefertiri, and I was saying things I didn't understand." Turning to look at Evie, Rick was upset to find she would not meet his eye. Evelyn was struggling with the fact that Rick hadn't told her about this first.

"This could be of great importance," Ardeth admitted. "Can you remember everything?"

"Yeah," Rick admitted, "but why is it important? It could have just been a dream." He desperately clung to the belief, until Ardeth spoke again,

"I think not my friend, for you see my news regards the necklace. It was stolen from my encampment yesterday, and last night somebody activated it."

"Activated it?" Jonathan asked the question on Rick's lips.

"Yes," Ardeth admitted. "I am afraid Djeser-si walks again."

Looking once again at Evelyn, Rick now got the feeling she was the one who hadn't been honest about everything. "Who the hell is Djeser-si?"

"Djeser-si was Imhotep's highest priest," Evelyn explained before Ardeth could.

"Just for once couldn't it have been a good guy?" Jonathan sighed as he looked at his sister. "And you said no Imohtep."

A/N. You know the drill people; you've read it so review it. (Lol. Please!)