A/N sorry for not updating soon enough I had some personal issues
Chapter one: No the other Hamunaptra
"SO…what the hell are we doin in the Ass's office?" Kat asked not really paying attention, while swinging her knife around. The curator shot her a glare and went back to studying the map.
"You see that cartouche there. It's the official royal seal of Seti the first, I'm sure of it." Explained Evie as she walked around the desk to stand by the curator. Kat put her knife in its sheath and raised an eyebrow, finally finding something worth listening to.
"Perhaps." The curator said doubtfully.
"And perhaps you're just an annoying old man who hates children." Kat smirked.
"Katherine!" Evie scolded as Jon snickered, then he spoke up
"Two questions." He said walking over to the other side of the curator. " Who the hell was Seti the first and was he rich?" Kat rolled her eyes at her brother she answered
"Yes, Yes He was."
"He was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty…said to be the wealthiest pharaoh of them all." Evie clarified. Jon looked like a child in a candy shop.
"Good, that's good. I like this fellow; I like him very much." He exclaimed while walking back to his younger sister and rapping an arm around her shoulders.
Kat scoffed " of course you do. Anything with the word gold in it you come like a dog being called by his master." Jon pretended to look hurt.
Evie rolled her eyes and got back to the situation at hand " I've already dated the map. Its almost 3,000 years old."
"Jesus!" exclaimed Kat, as she stared at the brown tinted map, she then shrugged. "Eh, I believe it."
" And if you look at the hieratic just there…well its Hamunaptra." She said ignoring her sister.
Kat almost chocked on her own spit.
' Holy mother of god' she thought.
"Dear god, don't be ridiculous. We're scholars not treasure hunters." The curator said putting the map down to look at Evie.
"Uh, correction. Your scholars, I'm however not." Kat pointed out, the curator gave her a 'shut up' look before turning back to her sister.
"Hamunaptra's a myth, told by ancient Arab storytellers…to amuse Greek and Roman tourists." He continued
"Yes, yes I know all the blather about the city being protected by the curse of the mummy-"
"Whoa, whoa wait! MUMMY! Who said anything about a fucken mummy? Christ." Kat rubbed her eyes as she took in everything.
" Calm down. My research has led me to believe that the city itself may have actually existed." Evie said to calm her older sister
"Shit eve. We still have the problem with the mummy! I mean yeah-living things I can handle but non-living things, come on! Knowing you, you'll probably be the one to awake the damn thing."
"KAT!" Evie said offended
"What? I'm stating facts."
"Whoa, ladies calm down your both pretty. Now are we talking about the Hamunaptra?" Jon asked
"No, Jon the other Hamunaptra." Kat snapped sarcastically
"Yes the city of the dead. Where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden the wealth of Egypt." Kat groaned
' Why eve? Why say that'
"Y-yes, yes I-I-in a big underground treasure chamber." Jon stammered as he held his hands up showing how big.
"Heh." The curator grunted
"Oh come on everybody Knows the story." Jon protested " the entire necropolis was rigged to sink into the sand on Pharaoh's command. The whole place would disappear beneath the sand dunes taking the treasure with it."
"Now we cant have that…can we?" Kat smirked at her brother slyly
"As the Americans would say its all a fairy tales and hokum—Oh my goodness! Look at that!" the curator exclaimed as the map caught on fire.
"Fuck!" Kat yelled grabbing the map and stomping on it to get rid of the flames.
"You've burnt it! You've burned off the part with the lost city." Jon cried
"Its for the best, I'm sure. Many men have wasted their lives in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra. No one's ever found it. Most have never returned." The curator said 'wisely'
'Don't say ever to the Carnahan's. Its not in our vocabulary'
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"Come, come! Step over the threshold." A fat man with a turban said to the Carnahan's as they looked for a certain man.
Adonis ever loyal trotted by his mistress, as she walked beside Jon.
"Welcome to Cairo Prison, my humble home." He continued
Kat snorted, " No wonder he smells." She whispered to Jon.
"You told me that you got it on a dig down in Thebes." Evie angrily whispered
"Well, I was mistaken." He said carelessly
"You lied." She cried accusingly
" He lies to everybody, Eve. What makes you so special?" Kat said glaring at countless men who where eyeing her up and down.
"We are his sisters!"
She snorted. "Well that just makes us more gullible."
"Jonathan, you stole it from a drunk at the local casbah!" Evie exclaimed
"Picked his pocket, actually." Jon corrected
"Stole, Picked a pocket. What makes a difference?" asked Kat
"So I don't think it's a very good-"
"stop being so ridiculous!" Evie cut him off as he tried to drag his sisters away from the prison.
"Yeah Jon don't be a pussy!" Kat smirked. " What exactly is this fellow in here for?" she sneered at the disgusting man.
"This I do not know." He said while leaning up on the prison bars. "But when I heard that you were coming, I asked him that myself."
"And what did he say?" Evie asked curiously. Kat crossed her arms impatiently while Adonis whined at his mistress's annoyance.
"He said he was just looking for a good time." He answered just when the doors busted open and the guards dragged a man out.
Kat busted out laughing " Oh my god! I like this guy!"
The man grabbed the bars as the guard hit him with a club. Kat finally got a good look at him, and sucked in a breath. His piercing blue eyes gave her a chill up her spine, he was dirty but she could tell if he were cleaned up he would be a very handsome man. Hmmmmm, Kat smirked, just her type.
"This is the man you stole it from?" Evie said in disbelief
"Yes, exactly. So why don't we just go sniff a spot of tiffin- " Jin started nervously
"Who are you?" the man asked then he glanced at the brunettes, blue eyes lingering on Kat. "And who's the broads?" he said rudely.
" 'Broads!" Kat and Evie said in angry.
" Now wait a goddamn moment." Kat raged, the man looked up at her in surprise. Not everyday you see a women swear. " I am no broad!"
" Its true." Jon mumbled " I'm surprised you're not in one of these cells right now."
Kat chuckled deviously "My secret is that I don't get caught."
"Well, anyway," Jon said getting closer to the cell " I-I'm just a local sort of missionary chap, spreading the good word" Kat snorted yeah fucken right. "But these are my sisters, Evie and Kat."
"How do you do?" Evie said ever so politely
"Hey." Kat nodded to him as she smirked at him.
"Oh well. Guess they're not a total loss." He said, and then Kat lost it.
"Oh hell no!" she grabbed his rags that he wore and put him closer to her face. " Listen here you asshole, you can shove your word right up your as-"
" Katherine!" Evie said astonished at her sister's behavior.
"What?" she whined letting go of him and walked to Evie. The blue eyed man staring at her in awe and respect.
" Stop it this instant."
"You ruin all my fun, Eve!"
At that moment the warden shouted in Arabic " I'll be back in a moment."
"Oh take all the time you need." Kat smiled 'sweetly'. As the warden walked away she muttered " Good riddance." Making the chained man smirk in amusement.
"Ask him about the box." Jon whispered to Evie.
"Um, we found –uh, hello excuse me." She said pulling his attention off Kat. The man looked at her annoyed "We both found your puzzle box and we've come to ask you about it." Evie said while smiling kindly at him. \
"No"
"No." Kat repeated like the word was foreign to her.
"No. You can to ask me about Hamunaptra." He said causing Kat to raise an eyebrow and her sibling's shush him.
"Wow he catches on quick." She said
"H-how do you know the box pertains to Hamunaptra?" Evie asked
"Eve." Kat sighed "Its his puzzle mijig."
"Because that's where I was when I found it. I was there." He said like he was talking to a three year old.
"Really." Kat drawled looking over her shoulder to see if the warden was coming. Thankful he wasn't. He seems like the kind of man who would take Hamunaptra for granted.
Jon had to push his luck.
"But how do we know that's not a load of pigs wallow?"
"Do I know you?" blue eyes asked with a look in his eye as he pointed to Jon.
"No, no. I've just got one of those faces." He replied nervously
Then the mans fist shot out and Punched Jon right in the face. As that happened Kat snickered, but she stopped as one of the guards hit him.
"Hey!" she snapped, the man smiled slightly. Jon groaned as Kat stepped over him, stepping on his side.
"Have you really be to Hamunaptra, or is that a load of shit?" she asked him looking straight into his eyes, her hazel eyes shining with hope and amazement.
"Yeah, I was there." He smiled cheekily
"Swear?"
"Every damn day." His answer made her smile.
"That's not what she meant." Evie said to him.
"I know what she meant. I was there. Seti's place. City of the dead " he said waving his chained arms around.
"Could you show me." Kat asked. " I mean the location. We could do this the hard way; my favorite or the easy way. That one I don't like so much." She smirked. He smiled slightly
"You want to know?" he asked
"Duh, I just asked you didn't I?" she rolled her eyes
"Do you really want to know?"
"Christ. Yes!"
He motioned a finger for her to come closer, she hesitated but came closer. He suddenly grabbed her face and kissed her straight on her lips.
"Then get me the hell out of here." He snarled. The Guards started beating on him and they fought a little. "Do it lady!" he shouted as they dragged him out.
"Where the hell are they taking him!" she snapped at the warden.
"To be hanged; apparently he had a very good time."
"Fuck my life." Kat whispered as she walked with that warden.
-Review and tell me what you think! Oh and there is a picture of Kat on my profile. Thanks for reading! XD I'll get the next chapter up ASAP
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