APLR - 14
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AN: This is the 2nd to last chapter, things just needed more explanation. So you're going to get 15 chapters instead of 14.
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Harry moaned as he woke up inside a tent on the outskirts of Hamunaptra.
"He's awake!" Henderson yelled and instantly Sirius was beside him (literally) and helping him sit up on the camp bed that Sirius had had the foresight to bring along - not to mention that the animagus was scared of scorpions ... freaky little scorpions.
"Harry, are you alright?"
Harry winced, "Sirius?"
"I'm here."
"He's complete. He won't go after the others."
"And your cousins?"
"Rick and Evy are currently sharing stolen kisses and Jon is… well, he's Jon." he said weakly.
"How are you a seer?"
Harry shook his head, "Don't know." he said as his godfather helped him stand. "I think Imhotep will come here."
"Why?"
"In our past life, I don't know what happened but I do know that the love that I remember from Imhotep doesn't go away overnight without outside assistance."
"You're saying that he was cursed? But nothing can…"
"Egyptians had spells that we can scarcely comprehend, Sirius." he said as he stretched and Sirius refrained from tickling him as his godson had been uncon… er, sleeping for the last few hours.
"What was that spell you used?"
Harry shrugged, "I called upon Osiris and Isis, I know that but beyond that I made sure that the Americans wouldn't have to die for a curse my former brother deemed necessary."
"Former Brother?"
"Former life, it's less confusing this way."
Sirius nodded, understanding his logic. "And he was?"
"Ramses, son of Seti," he said as he grabbed his skeans and the shoulder holsters for them and put it on.
"You don't say Pharaoh Ramses?" Remus asked as he looked at his godson curiously and slightly amused in a way that clearly said that he knew his godson but was curious about his godson's past life.
"He was my little brother."
"Good point," he said as they walked out and over to the fire where the Americans were. "Has he shown up yet?"
Ardeth shook his head from where he was keeping watch. "No, he has not."
"Hard to believe that we're going to live," Henderson said as he threw a stick into the fire. "After all that's happened."
"I cannot say what he will do now that he is free from the curse. I can only hope he will do the right thing." Harry said as he sat down next to the fire in the soft sand.
"What makes you think he'll come back here anyway?" Daniels asked.
Harry looked at the brunette American, "Now that Imhotep is free from both curses he will want revenge and forgiveness."
"Revenge against who?" Henderson asked as he looked at the younger man.
"Anck-Su-Namun, she cursed him in his past life to make him despise the one he loved most."
"Who will he ask forgiveness from?"
"Me, probably; in my past life it was Imhotep who killed me."
"And that calls for an apology?"
"Considering that he was the High Priest and he knew the consequences for killing a royal, especially the one who was to be Pharaoh….death was too good for him and he knew it." He said. "Pharaohs were considered to be Gods, to kill them or even the future Pharaoh. He signed his own warrant then."
"Could you?" Remus asked curiously.
"Could I what?"
"Forgive him?"
Harry shrugged, "After everything I've seen in my life I feel as though I should. He couldn't help that he was cursed."
"But?"
"His mortal soul is still bound by the Hom-dai."
"Didn't the Egyptians believe in different parts of the soul?"
"Yes, love is immortal. It is his immortal soul that should be allowed to move on. He should be allowed to be reincarnated like I have been. Like Nefertiri." he said solemnly.
"Wait, Nefertiri?" Remus asked quietly.
"Evy." he said as he closed his eyes put his face in his hands, the weight of the world seemed to be on his shoulders again for the first time in nearly a month since Voldemort had been vanquished. Not that he couldn't handle the pressure but he didn't care for the feeling as much as he'd tolerated it.
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