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Summary: Storms in her area weren't that uncommon, some stranger coming and knocking on her door saying this was his home too before passing out was a bit new. What was going on? Each chapter has a song that fits it, I recommend listening to each song for the respective chapter to get a feel for the atmosphere of the chapter.

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This chapter almost made me mad, had about half of it written and my stupid computer reset itself so hopefully I recaptured what I was trying to do...

Chapter Three

Airplanes by B.O.B.

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By the time they left the store it was late evening, and Benjamin had been poked and prodded, stuffed and strung up, and forced into a variety clothes for several hours. Finally escaping Fernando's musings, they had arms full of new clothes to go with this plan of theirs. The bags and boxes they now held contained casual jeans and t-shirts, slightly more designer jeans and button down shirts for more public excursions, nice dinner clothes, several pairs of dress pants and shirts/sweaters for meetings, a couple suits, a tux Kate insisted he needed, and a set of traveling clothes that while looked amazing-were even more comfortable to wear with the cashmere blend sweater and soft slacks. Fernando had even found a couple sets of sleepwear both he and Benjamin could agree on as the satin ones had only irritated the guy. They compromised on one silk set and the rest were cotton or flannel.

Benjamin, while extremely grateful for all of this and getting a better idea of Kate's world through listening to her and Fernando's endless chatter about the fashion industry and latest gossip, was dead on his feet as they headed to the valet booth.

He bit back a yawn, fighting to keep his eyes open as he shuffled his feet in his new boots, jamming his hands further in the new coat's pockets. Everything he wore now was new, right down to socks and boxers. Kate had dragged him into a basics store to grab socks, under shirts, etc for him while she needed white tank tops for something. Shifting again he winced, his left leg was hurting for some reason, and his back ached, he ignored it-must be from being tired and having to move almost constantly all afternoon.

Kate noticed his struggle, giving him a gentle smile and bumping elbows with him as she adjusted her grip on the bags and boxes she held. The reappearance of her car kept him from responding, merely helping her tuck their cargo into the trunk, stacking the boxes behind their seats.

The fight was lost as Kate turned on soft classical music as she started driving, she took the highway to loop around the city versus cutting through downtown to get back to her neighborhood. Benjamin was asleep before she merged with traffic.

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While not thrilled at being woken up, Kate's slightly amused and understanding smile made him relax as he blinked blearily. Watching Kate enter her key code in the gate to Sydney Avenue, he stretched slightly in the limited confines of the car, sighing almost silently as Kate pulled into the circle drive in front of 112. Jeeves was waiting for them, taking the bags out of the trunk before they could even get out of the car. He refused their help, even Kate trying to insist would not dissuade him as he took the bags and boxes away to be taken care of.

Kate huffed half-heartedly, shaking her head and leading Benjamin on into the house after tucking the coats into the front closet with their boots, heading towards one of the living rooms in the house that she actually used frequently. The decor of the cream, green, and beige room was just as fancy as the rest of the house, but this one was lived in, mismatched blankets and pillows were draped over the sectional couches, game consoles and disks were tucked in the shelves of the entertainment system, and random objects were scattered around like a cell phone charger, a hair brush, and the left shoe to a pair of slippers under the glass coffee table.

"Well, personally I'm not hungry since we ate like three cheese balls while shopping..."

"Neither am I, now what?"

"Movie?"

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Kate stifled a laugh as she glanced over to her probably long term guest. Half an hour into the movie and Benjamin had gone from sitting at the other end of the sectional a bit nervously to laid out with his head on the ladybug pillow pet Kate had been given by a friend of her mom's, and wrapped up in a pair of fleece blankets Jason had left in this room the last time the siblings had a movie night together. Poor guy was exhausted, almost snoring softly he was so tired.

She let him be, even when she'd dropped the remote and the volume on the movie had shot up he hadn't even twitched. It wasn't a nice sleep, he was curled a bit stiffly, and had frown on his face. He only stretched out better when Kate turned and stretched her legs out so her feet were on the same cushion as his own were, the weight shift making him sigh in his sleep and relax finally. The room was silent for a couple hours, no sound besides breathing and Kate turning pages on her book after the movie ended.

Kate was just beginning to feel hungry again and contemplate if it was worth waking Benjamin to go find food or should she just bring something here when the living room door opened. The intruder marching in happily.

"Hey sis! What's happening with y-What the hell?!"

Benjamin startled awake with snort, trying to stand up and failing as his legs were trapped in the blankets ans he scrambled. His feet touched the thick rug on the floor and he tried to lean away from the new guy when he lunged.

"Jason!"

Kate managed to stop her brother in time, but missed when she reached to grab Benjamin as he fell backwards, slamming into the coffee table, his impact shattering the glass as he hit the ground. He cried out, the feeling of hot blood pooling on his back making him roll onto his side to keep from staining the white rug beneath him as Kate freed his feet from the blankets.

"Oh shit."

"Yeah you dumb ass! Help me!"

Jason jumped over the couch, pulling the metal coffee table frame away and began to pick up the pieces of glass as Kate pressed his offered button down shirt against the cut on Benjamin's back.

"Nice going you jerk."

Benjamin winced as Kate helped him to his feet, making sure he was steady before tugging his arm and heading to the bedroom and bathroom he'd been using. He grimaced as he held the shirt against the cut while she grabbed the first aid kit from a cabinet. He sat down on the edge of the tub with a hiss, leaning forward forward after chucking Jason's shirt away, bracing his arms on his knees as Jason joined them after helping Jeeves clean up the glass.

Kate's brother sighed loudly, running his hand through his auburn hair before stepping forward and helped tug the brand new and now blood stained shirt off Benjamin as Kate got out the peroxide.

"This will sting."

He snorted a chuckle, hissing as she cleaned the cut carefully, luckily it wasn't serious. Merely rather long, it barely cut the surface of the skin, not needing stitches but just plain messy. She wrapped gauze around Benjamin's torso to stop any further bleeding, knowing the scratch would be gone in a couple days. Her fingers brushed another mark on Benjamin's back, a wicked scar right on his spine on his lower back.

"Where did this one come from?"

His fingers reached back to meet her, pausing as the tips felt along the pale and puckered mark. His silence only confirmed Kate's suspicion that he couldn't tell her, not able to remember. Another scar was on his abdomen that Fernando had commented on earlier, they'd agreed at the time that the fashion guru's assumption of an appendectomy at some point was the cause.

Jason didn't comment on the lack of response, merely stuck his hand out for Benjamin to grasp to stand up and then shook it politely.

"I'm Jason, Kat's brother and protector, whether she likes it or not."

"I'm Ben...well Benjamin honestly."

"Cool, I think I'll call you Benji."

Kate huffed loudly as she put the first aid kit away, rolling her eyes at her brother as she took the stained shirt that hadn't even been off the racks for six hours and tossed it in the hamper with Jason's.

"You must be the latest match, which side you from?"

When Benjamin couldn't answer readily, not understanding the question, Jason's eyes narrowed a touch before Kate intercepted him, looping her arm through his and dragging him away.

"C'mon bro, I'm hungry, Ben needs to get a shirt on, and you are home three days early, what gives?"

With that Jason launched into a dramatic tale of his exploits of Europe as the two headed to the kitchen to scrounge up food. Benjamin welcomed the peace, knowing Kate would explain things to her brother without the new guy present to avoid any conflicts.

Finding a new shirt took a minute, mainly because the walk in closet next to the bathroom was fun to look around in and discover where Jeeves had put everything away. Most of the clothes were hung up professionally with a few things in the small drawers, the tux and suits were still in their protective bags to wait until needed.

Tugging the simple shirt over his head, Benjamin sat on the edge of the bed he was using, glancing at the clock on the night stand and trying to decide how long he should let Kate and Jason talk alone.

8:12 pm

His stomach growled softly, probably a few more minutes, at least he could wander to the kitchen to see how the talk was going, maybe ask Jeeves to help him since he didn't know the older brother.

Again IT happened, and this time he didn't even register time passing or really notice much of anything as the feeling of just nothing took him away from coherent thought.

Once consciousness came back to him, he realized he was lying awkwardly on his side on the edge of the bed, barely on the mattress as he glanced over to the clock.

8:42 pm

Probably safe to venture out and find food and Kate...how the heck had he lost half an hour?

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Kate looked up from her plate as Benjamin rejoined them in the kitchen, eyes narrowed a bit at why it had taken him so long but shrugging it off when he glanced to Jason at the stove top cautiously.

"We're all cool Ben, Jason's not going to bite your head off any time soon."

Jason turned from where he was fixing his food, "Nah...more like pull dumb pranks to make sure you don't hurt my sister."

"I would never."

The red head smirked, "Figured. Wish I could get amnesia...could get out of lot of things."

Kate glared at her brother playfully, chucking a french fry at him which he caught in his mouth and ate happily. "Come grab a seat, we're scrounging up what's left in the fridge and freezer as Jana will bring more food tomorrow when she gets back from her day off-"

"Stir fry and bacon with barbeque sauce for the win!"

"Jason that's gross, pancakes and french fries with strawberry jam is so much better."

Benjamin snorted at the odd combinations, stealing one of Kate's fries when she wasn't looking and earning a half-assed slap to his shoulder.

"Get your own!"

He wrinkled his nose at her as Jason laughed.

It wasn't that Kate couldn't cook, it was just she and Jason traveled so much, none of the estates kept a long term supply of easy fix meals unless they had prior notice, and with two extra people in the house before the groceries were delivered, it made the meal before hand a bit interesting. Benjamin settled for some of Jason's stir fry, the only thing he knew how to make without burning it, Kate didn't even let him make toast. And added a bowl of cereal to go the the bacon-barbeque-and vegetable meal.

They ate in peace, light chatter about Jason's trip and the travels, he'd been summoned home early by a friend for a party in a few days and wanted to be back in plenty of time to get rid of jet lag as the day after the party was when his and Kate's mother would be back in the area and would demand their full attention. Europe had lost its interest to him anyway as it was his fifth trip in the last two years and he had no girlfriend to join him this time.

"So Kat, I saw Kensington while in Berlin this time, he-"

"Stop talking."

Kate's tone made Benjamin look up and stop eating, watching as she glared at her brother as if daring him to speak again. Jason backed down, keeping silent on the topic and going back to eating.

The grandfather clock boomed out ten o'clock as they were finishing their ice cream and cookies to finish emptying the freezer for Jana in the morning. The conversation had gone back to light stuff, Benjamin asking questions about what Kate and Jason did in their spare time when not in college, Kate did a semester on semester off, Jason hadn't even bothered after getting his high school diploma, having more fun traveling than being stuck in books.

Jason was the first one to notice that Benjamin wasn't going to last much longer, watching him yawn behind his hand repeatedly as he kept shifting on his stool to stay awake.

"Well...gotta work off the jet lag, gonna hit the gym for a bit sis then sleep. See ya for supper tomorrow, tell Jana I won't be up in the morning?"

Kate smirked, her brother would wear himself out in the home gym before collapsing to sleep for eighteen hours straight. "Sure Jace."

He smiled, kissing her temple before waving as he left after setting his dishes in the sink.

Kate got up as well, taking Benjamin's plate and things away and quickly washing them as her guest began to zone out in his seat.

"C'mon you, bed time."

He groaned at the childish command, but complied, following her back to the hallway where the bedroom was and pausing in the doorway as she skipped down two more, which was about halfway down the whole thing. Really big house...mansion...whatever...

"Gnite!"

Her quick farewell was followed by her slipping into her room and shutting the door, and Benjamin chuckled as he headed to bed himself. The pajama pants were warm on his legs s he brushed his teeth before slipping into the thick comforters on the bed, throwing most of the decorative pillows off to make room. The barely audible thuds they made as they hit the ground were not nearly as satisfying as he'd hoped.

Sleep came quickly, but it wasn't going to be decent rest, blissful black clouded his mind for a while, before his dreams were taken over by falling sand, unintelligible shouting, and etched gold on fire...

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Museum of Natural History

New York, New York

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Larry sighed as he sat against Ahkmenrah's sarcophagus, waiting the last few minutes for sunset to hit the museum so he could move the stone slab and help Ahk out of his display for another night.

It had been two years since Larry Daley had left the museum in Dr. McPhee's hands and taking the fall for the planetarium disaster, after the tablet had been left in London with Ahkmenrah staying with his parents, the New York museum hadn't been the same...

The British Exhibit Tour had originally gone mostly unnoticed by the former night guard, he'd stopped by and watched the museum light up again for the first time in over two years, but hadn't gone in. Only the tour dates being extended so the museum could hold a few weeks of night hours made him finally attend one night near the end of the hours so he could stay after. Tilly and McPhee had agreed to hide him in the back until everyone was off enjoying their night after the visiting hours were done.

The look on some of their faces was priceless. Teddy couldn't stop cheering, Attila gave him a bone crushing hug, Jed and Octavius insisted on sitting on his shoulders for the rest of the night, and Sacajawea and Lancelot were all smiles as he mingled with his old friends.

Ahkmenrah had been one of the last ones to find out of Larry's visit, having gone off to make his rounds and check on the other exhibits that needed a little more handling after behaving for visiting hours. Mainly the Mayans...

The pharaoh's reaction though, once he realized why everyone kept flocking to the lobby, had been amusing and endearing. He'd been walking with his parents, coming from Ocean World and had paused just by the stairs to speak with his father over something when Shepseheret had tugged on his arm and pointed to someone else in the lobby who was watching with a smile.

No one could hold back a laugh as Ahkmenrah recognized the former night guard and had sprinted over, just about tripping on his cloak and almost slamming into Larry for a hug. Larry barely kept them both on their feet, glad Jed and Octavius had jumped from his shoulders and onto the front desk before the impact. The man laughed, hugging Ahkmenrah tightly as the pharaoh chuckled and tried to regain his balance with a bit of a blush on his face.

There was no doubt the young pharaoh had missed the night guard, Tilly was great at her job, but it wasn't the same, and while Ahkmenrah was still a king and able to hold his own, he was still young in comparison to many others in the museum. Larry hadn't questioned his age or authority, but hadn't minded either when the pharaoh acted his age instead of his title.

The night had been great, so much that Larry had agreed to come back again the next night again to keep seeing his friends while Ahkmenrah's tablet was in New York and they were all awake again at night. The second night hadn't been so good...

Maintenance men didn't know about the tablet, so they assumed that working on the heating and plumbing and leaving everything shut off at night was alright.

They didn't know the night guards would turn on the heat at night in February and use the plumbing for the awake exhibits. Something had gone horribly wrong and by midnight on the "actors" night off, something in the basement had sparked and either caught fire or started to heat up. Smoke had invaded the ventilation system and the water pipes carried more steam than hot water as things started breaking. McPhee pulled the fire alarm after Ahkmenrah had tried to grab the tablet off the wall and had to jump back as the hot metal burned his hands.

Lancelot had rushed to the young pharaoh's side, his chain mail and leather covered hands able to hold the tablet as Tilly, McPhee, and Larry had started evacuating the museum with what they could. Fire doors were able to close off some of the museum after Larry flipped some of the breakers in the electric box. Most were still at risk and as the sprinklers turned on everyone was fleeing the museum to wait in the back parking lot while McPhee worked with the fire department arriving in the front.

Stepping back into the role of night guard and manager was easy for Larry, he had grabbed the old check list to check everyone and count exhibits, glad the Hall of Miniatures had a fire door and were safely locked up, well besides Jedidiah and Octavius who were safe in his front pockets. Tilly and he split up to check on everyone, skimming over the crowd and counting heads quickly to report to McPhee who was supposed to report that the building was empty as the museum was checked over.

Dawn was only an hour away when the building was cleared to reenter. And Larry and Tilly just about went crazy in herding all the animals and people. The chaos in getting everyone inside and taken care of before sunrise had left everyone exhausted and Larry was glad Lancelot had taken it upon himself to watch over Ahkmenrah and his parents, the knight had already ensured the royal family were in their day places before Larry even got the chance to check on the Egyptian display.

Larry's thoughts were broken by the familiar and warm glow of the tablet, the rush of life filling his bones as it revived those around him for another night. Merekahre and Shepseheret were the first to move in the exhibit, the stone jackals shifting to watch the pair stand up and stretch.

Ahkmenrah's sarcophagus remained silent and unmoving, wasn't really a shock though. The young pharaoh must have run himself ragged last night to help get everyone in place before sunrise, Lance had said he'd already returned to his sarcophagus to sleep before his parents returned, Ahkmenrah was probably still asleep.

The former night guard wouldn't bother him then, in the nine years he'd been a night guard at the museum, the nights Ahkmenrah slept in were the ones you left him alone, the pharaoh didn't take kindly to being woken up, not handling over-exhaustion very well.

The two older Egyptians were content to follow Larry to the lobby where everyone was gathering already, McPhee and Tilly helping look everyone over in case something needed cleaning or fixing from the previous night.

Lancelot stood straight from where he was leaning on the wall as Larry came to the bottom of the steps, the knight striding forward as he glanced around when Shepseheret and Merenkahre walked away.

"Is the young pharaoh not joining us?"

"Nah, just sleeping in, Ahk's not one to wake up before he's ready."

Tilly snorted next to Larry, shoving Laa's poking finger away from her face and letting the Neanderthal play with her ponytail. "Don't I know it, he just about slapped me one night when I opened the lid to see why he wasn't up and about, couldn't keep his eyes open for a good while until he'd slept more. Kinda funny afterwards once he woke up."

Larry chuckled, sticking his hands in his pockets as he habitually stepped back as Jed and Octavius sped by in their car to be inspected and report on their dioramas to McPhee.

The Camelot Knight shook his head, beginning to fuss with the leather straps on his gauntlet, "I never knew Arthur to be a late riser, mostly he was up with the dawn, now Gwaine on the other hand...could drink even the finest men under the table and be ready for more at the crack of dawn, but Percival...good lord you didn't want to wake him up in the morning, or even before midday..."

They all got a laugh out of that, and Larry joined McPhee in checking everyone over as Tilly fussed with the exhibits from the British Museum, mainly petting Trixie and keeping her quiet while Larry checked Rexy over for water damage.

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By one am, Larry was beginning to feel the effects of being up again all night for three nights in a row, and that was with holding a part time day job. Teddy, Scajawea, and Attila had all joined him in the security office to talk, and let the former night guard avoid Laa and few others who wanted to drag him into a soccer game. He just didn't have the energy...

Teddy was just about to comment on the fact that Larry was losing the fight to stay awake when the office door opened, Lancelot sticking his head in and looking around.

"Of all the bawdy harpies...beg your pardon for the interruption but have any of you seen Pharaoh Ahkmenrah this night?"

They all shook their heads, and something in the knight's tone made Larry wake up more as he stood, "Ahk not awake yet?"

"I have not checked, I admit I a bit leery of doing so."

That earned a few laughs before Larry volunteered (more like voluntold) to go check and if need be wake the pharaoh up. He'd be the least likely to make Ahkmenrah mad if he had to wake him up.

The elaborately decorated sarcophagus was still shut tight when Larry stepped into the exhibit, ensuring to keep his footfalls loud to try and give Ahkmenrah warning as he was likely still asleep. Four thousand year old mummy, frozen in time at the age where he could stay up for days at a time or sleep for a month if allowed.

Larry knocked on the lid, giving Ahkmenrah a few minutes to wake up at the sudden noise. When no sounds of stirrings within came, Larry knocked again, this time a little harder.

"Time to wake up Ahk...wasted half the night already."

Nothing

"Ahk...c'mon buddy."

Now Larry wasn't one to panic easily, especially since becoming a night guard, but something just wasn't sitting right with him and he did what he normally wouldn't do in this situation as it ended with a rather pissed off pharaoh, he opened the lid.

His heart skipped a beat.

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"Would Ahkmenrah please report to the security office in the next five minutes?"

Larry's sudden, and slightly edgy voice calling over the intercom made everyone in the security office glance up, rarely was anyone called to go somewhere, Teddy couldn't think of a time where Ahkmenrah's name had ever been announced over the intercom.

The president stood, moving to stand just outside the door to wait, the next person to appear a few minutes later wasn't Ahkmenrah though, it was Larry coming at rushed jog and looking concerned.

"He's not down here is he?"

"No he is not, I assume he was not in-"

"No...the sarcophagus was empty...I checked some of the halls as I came down here, McPhee's checking the others-"

The curator appeared from the elevator to their left, "Which are all empty of the pharaoh, I can't find him."

Larry rubbed at his face with his hands, sighing in frustration as he looked around a bit helplessly. Wasn't often an exhibit got his nerves going...

Teddy was already directing the others to do a full building search, there were a couple private places that would be deaf to the intercom and unlikely to be checked quickly. Ahkmenrah could have very well hid himself somewhere with a book and be unaware of their searching.

The nagging feeling wasn't leaving Larry as something drew him towards the loading bay doors, checking the locks out of habit and frowning when he saw a crack on the window in the door.

Opening the door was something he never wanted to do, but the feeling in the pit of his stomach made him turn the handle.

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Teddy pinched the bridge of his nose as he listened to Shepseheret's worried rambling; after thirty minutes of searching, there was still no sign of Ahkmenrah, and while Larry had yet to turn up again as well, the president was beginning to feel a bit uneasy.

Larry suddenly walking towards all of them huddled around the front desk made matters worse, the former night guard was alone.

"...'Ey Gigantor...ya alright pardner?"

Jedidiah's nervous speaking after their abrupt silence snapped Teddy out his thoughts, Larry was downright shaking as he approached, both hands were filthy like he'd been digging in the ground, and one held tightly to something that he showed to Shepseheret before passing it to Teddy.

The small piece of gold was completely out of place on the president's glove, and he looked up to see Sacajawea making Larry sit down as he stared at nothing.

"Lawrence...what is this?"

Larry could only shake his head, flinching when Octavius cried out as the piece of gold started to crumble and Teddy dropped it to the desk. The gold flaked into pieces, then faded out into ash-colored dust.

"...'s on the outside of the door."

Attila was the first to understand, swearing loudly in Mongolian before stalking off, upset to the core as the two Miniatures moved closer to get a better look. Both bowing their heads only made things worse as Jedidiah removed his hat as his shoulders slumped.

Lancelot was still confused, and Teddy was already dreading having to speak to explain as the knight looked to all of them in concern. "What was it guardian? It appeared to be a piece of golf from Pharaoh Ahkmenrah's garments..."

Merenkahre spoke first before Teddy could, voice grim and sorrowful.

"His form was not within this building's walls when Ra began his daily journey once more, the God's rays would not be safe to him any longer."

Tilly shifted, trying to understand, "Wait what does that mean...are you saying-"

Teddy sighed, removing his glasses as Sacajawea huddled against his side, "He was outside at dawn my friend, he is nothing but dust now."

Larry was still shaking, and now it was from barely repressed sobs. Shepseheret screamed as the news, nearly collapsing against her husband as everyone dropped their heads. The former night guard tried to speak twice, both times choking before finally saying what no one wanted to hear.

"Ahk's gone."

Dun Dun Duuuuuuuun!

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