Anubis's POV

Carter, Amos, and I finished talking in the office. I went up to go find Sadie. I knew she had been listening to our conversation. With my powers back, I heard her heartbeat outside the room while we talked. I knew it was hers. I go to her room and open the door. She was out on the balcony. Sadie wore jeans and a tank top. I only saw the back of her. Sadie sat on the stone railing and her legs hung over the edge.

"Sadie," I say. I walk up to her. I lean against the railing enough to look at her face. "This is a little dangerous don't you think?"

"My father had to lock my balcony doors until I was 12 because I liked to sit like this. He was afraid I would fall to my death." Sadie says to me without turning her attention to me.

"I know you heard what Amos, Carter, and I were talking about in the office," I tell her.

"How?" She finally turns to me.

"I could hear you breathing and I heart your heart beating," I say to her.

"Fucking jackal hearing," She says. "I liked you better without powers. Easier to sneak up on."

I laugh. My eyes move to her neck after she turns her head back to the river. It had some bruising due to the mummy wrappings nearly suffocating her. She wore a tank top my eyes moved down to her shoulder where Anput had kicked her, which was still also bruised.

"My eyes are up here jackal boy," She says.

I move my eyes up to hers. "It's not what you think. I was looking at your bruises."

"I know," She smiles. "I was trying to mess with you." I roll my eyes. I would complain, but Sadie's smile was back. Sadie's smile made it hard for me to be annoyed or mad at her. "There's more bruises," She finally comments.

"I didn't see her hit you," I say. "I only saw after Carter called your name."

Sadie pulls her legs up and swings around to be on the right side of the balcony. I felt some relief because I didn't want her to fall. "Most of them should've healed when I drank Jaz's potion. It wasn't one of her best potions." Sadie pulls her tank top over her head. I look at her shoulder and I look at her stomach which had another big bruise. "There's also one on my back. I hit a rock one of the times that I fell." She turns and I see the one on her back. Then she turns back to me.

"You put up quite a fight," I say.

"Anput wanted me dead," She says. "It was either me or her that was going to die. It would've been me if you hadn't helped." She moves her hand up to her neck.

I remembered fighting to get the mummy wrappings to work in my favor. The image of Sadie struggling came back to my mind. Sadie interrupts my thoughts by kissing me. She wrapped her arms around my neck. I put my arms around her waist. My arms burned against her skin. I kissed her back. As we stand there our kissing becomes deeper. Sadie moved her hands from my neck to my hair. She moved to where I was against the wall of the house. I continue to kiss her. She moves her hands from my hair and under my shirt to my chest. I tighten my arms around Sadie and pick her up. Her legs wrapped around me and I moved so she was against the wall. I made sure I didn't put to much pressure on her back because of the bruise that she had. She put her arms back around my neck as I continue to kiss her. I knew that I shouldn't be making out with Sadie the day of the funeral of her father.

"Sadie," A voice calls.

Sadie and I pulled apart. She grabbed her tank top that she dropped and put it on. She tells me to stay where I was. She walks back into her room and opens the bedroom door.

"Hey Carter," She says.

"I came to check on you," He says.

"I'm doing fine," She says.

"Is there anything I can get you?" He asks.

"No thanks, I'm alright," She says. "Carter, I'm okay."

"Alright," Carter says. "Let me know if you need anything."

"I will," She says. I hear the door shut. I move from the spot that Sadie told me to stay in. She was leaning against the door. She moves away from the door muttering something about 'Annoying older brothers.' She sits on the bed. "You should be lucky you have no siblings."

"I don't know," I say. "I always thought it would be nice to have a brother or a sister."

"Really?" She asks.

"Is the surprising to you?" I asked.

"Yes," She says. "A death god wonders what it would be like if he had a sibling. A death god."

"Just because I'm a death god doesn't mean I don't have feelings." I say.

"I know," She says. "I assumed the god didn't care about anything."

Sadie had moved over so the I could join her. She had her back against some pillows and crossed her legs. I layed on the bed with my head in her lap. She had her hands on my shoulders. "I care about a lot of things"

"Like what?" She asks. "And if the answer is me, I'm going to throw you off the bed."

I smile. "I care about the dead. I talk to them like there my friends. Some of them actually are my friends."

Sadie smiles. "You're basically friends with ghosts."

"The dead have to socialize to Sadie," I say.

"You continue to fascinate me jackal boy," Sadie says to me.

Sadie and I shifted. I sat up and crossed my legs sitting across from her. Sadie stretched her legs out and placed her feet in my lap. Sadie looked tired. I knew she was having issue sleeping. She tried to hid it when she gets up in the middle of the night and tries not to wake me. I woke up every time. I knew she wanted to deal with it herself so I pretended to be asleep when she gets up. Sadie and I stayed silent. Until there was more knocking on the door.

"Why are so many people coming to my room today?" She asks.

She gets up and opens the door. This time it was Jaz. "Hi Sadie," She says. Jaz looks over Sadie's should and see's me. She smiles and waves before turning her attention back to Sadie. "Your brother wanted me to bring you another healing potion." She hands the potion to Sadie. Sadie takes it.

"Thank you, Jaz," She says. Once Jaz leaves Sadie drinks the potion. After a couple of minutes, the visible ones are gone. Sadie lifts her shirt and looks at her stomach. It was gone. The one on her back was also gone. "I knew Carter wasn't going to drop it."

"Well, we need you in your best shape if were going to take down Apophis," I say.

"Yeah," She says. Sadie sits back on the bed and we spend mostly the rest of the day talking. Sadie and I made each other laugh as we made jokes. Seeing her laugh and smile made me happy than I ever been.

This was a fun chapter. Kind of. I felt like you guys needed some more Sanubis moments before I focus more on the events leading up to the final battle. Also, FantasyQueen2509 I loved your review. It made me laugh. I feel like all of us have a little drama queen in us. Life would be too boring without drama. Glad you love the story. Sorry I killed Julius, just needed to add drama of course.