Hiiiiiii, okay, the fun begins in this chapter - hopefully you call it 'fun' anyways, I would like to thank you all for reading. And thank you divergentlover523 for reviewing, faving and following! Luff ya!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NATM, Uptown Funk AND THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS. BUT I DO OWN MEGERA/MENIVIA, BERNARD, ELAINE, THE MINOR CHARACTERS THAT ONLY SHOW UP IN ONE CHAPTER AND THE PLOT OF THIS STORY
~PatronusNightFlame
SUMMER - AFTER EXAMS
"It feels so good to be FREE!" Exclaimed Elaine. Our exams and everything else we had to worry about ended.
Our misery had ended...and the fun just started!
In a week, I would have to go to France, Paris for an assignment that assigned students had to do.
Yes, I was chosen to do this. Though I wanted to say no, how could I? This could benefit so many things!
Before Elaine and I headed to the airport - Elaine was chosen to complete this assignment along with me, I decided to stop by the British Museum to say goodbye to Ahk.
Surprisingly, there were only 2 tombs there. The tablet was also removed...
Where could Ahk be?
My heart was racing. Where could they have put him? How come he didn't tell me anything?
Not that he could...
The wise thing to do now is not panic. After all, I've learnt that 'if the man of the house isn't here, it means he's out for work, or a drink'
But where could Ahk go?
He'll turn into dust if he steps out into the sunlight!
Okay...okay...stop panicking.
Another wise thing to do is to call Tilly.
TILLY's POV
Ahh crap. Crap crap crap crap crap!
How on earth did I oversleep? Since Nick was doing the night watch for me yesterday - his part time job.
I rushed into the museum, avoiding the visitors that were piling in the museum. I was rather glad to see so many still interested in history.
Just make sure you lay off Laa!
I raced to Dr. Mcphee's office. "Sorry McPhee" I panted "overslept...how did Nick do? I bet he's as good as Larry-"
My eyes widened.
The museum director in front of me wasn't McPhee. It was a woman.
"That would be 10% off your monthly wage, mademoiselle" said the lady. "I'm sorry...what?" I said in a tone of disbelief, "ohh, sorry, i thought you weren't married yet, Madame" she said before grabbing some paperwork from Mcphee's drawer.
"I'm sorry, but who are you?" I asked trying very, very hard not to be rude.
She took away 10% of my monthly salary. And who knows if she decreased it earlier today!
"Oh-la-la! Have you not heard the news? Dr. McPhee has been fired" she said, "I am Madame Badeaux" she said flipping her hair.
Nope. Meg does it better.
"Your previous museum director McPhee has been, well...thrown out" she said with a grin. "And of course, the head of museums assigned me to take the job!" Madame Badeaux said.
I found my mouth in a 'O' shape. Big enough to stuff 3 tacos into my mouth.
"What? Why? He's perfect for this museum! He's been running the museum of natural history for years! He's a good man! You cant just throw him out like that!" I debated, "15%, Miss...Winston!" She cried. "Now, I assume you have work to do" she faking a smile, "Shoo! Au revoir!" She said pushing me out the office.
The door slammed behind me.
I couldn't believe it. McPhee had been fired? And no one knew except for that...that 'Madame Badeaux'!
I walked towards the miniature hall. There sat a small man with brown hair, wearing a english type of suit, along with a bow tie.
Dr. McPhee!
"McPhee!" I said approaching the man, he gave me a weak smile and continued to stare at the...rather empty miniature hall...which were only occupied by the Mayans...
"What happened?" I asked. I'm front me was missing Octavius, missing Jed, missing train, missing Romans an cowboys, missing description plate thingies.
"Madame removed them...and a whole lot of others...Said that we needed more French exhibits since we haven't got any..." Explained McPhee. "Right...who'd she move?" I asked trying to maintain the fear of Laa being moved inside me.
"Follow me"
McPhee lead me around the museum...the miniatures, Sacagawea, the "faceless-creature-war-guys", Lewis and Clark, a few mammals - Inluding dexter, Atilla and the Huns, the Eskimos, the Chinese jade lion, Amelia and her plane.
All that will be replaced by historical French, Greek, and egyptian figures and jewelry.
People come to a museum to learn, not to shop for necklaces and diadems!
"A lot...are gone" finished McPhee sadly.
Luckily the Neanderthals are still here.
"Where will they go again?" I asked, "Louvre" McPhee answered simply, "and some exhibits from there will be shipped here, the exhibits that have been in the storage" he said rolling his eyes.
"MADEMOISELLE, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH!" screeched a voice. and I turned to look at the same time. Madame Badeaux was scolding a 5 year old child.
"You two must be soul mates" I joked, McPhee shot me a look, an mumbled "shut up".
"Miss Winston"
"Yes ma'am?" Madame looked annoyed. "Honestly, are you here for a date? Or to work?" She asked, "work of course" I said quickly, "then I suggest you get TO work"
I looked down and walked away.
Then, my phone rang. Surprisingly, it was from Meg...maybe she knew about the exhibits moving too.
"Hello Meg-"
"AHK DISAPPEARED PLEASE HELP, I DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM! LANCELOT'S GONE AS WELL, DID I MENTION THE MINIATURES AS WELL? WELL THEY'RE GONE TOO! WHERE IS LANCE AND AHK? ARE THEY BACK IN AMERICA?" Cried Meg's worried voice.
"I HAVE TO LEAVE LONDON IN 2 HOURS!" She panicked, "MEG!" I cried, but Meg didn't stop to listen. She kept blabbering about how worried she is.
I guess we all know what happened to the exhibits.
That bloody woman that fired McPhee and destroyed the family in the museum.
"Miss Winston! Off the phone!"
MEGERA's POV
My heart was racing. What if Ahk was umm..."stolen" away from the museum? What if the tablet brings the wrong things to life? If it can bring the dead back to life...it could bring the wrong people to life...
Ugh. Enough with these thoughts! I need to relax my mind! Or else it'll start snowing indoors again.
Elaine and I checked in at the airport. We went through all the other checking routines, and decided to sit in Starbucks and use coffee to kill time.
After a while, more Cambridge students that were also going to France for the assignment entered Starbucks.
Elaine was going on and on about the fight between her and her boyfriend - Blaise, who was also coming along. Elaine and Blaise argued just before we left Cambridge.
The issue was that Blaise was flirting with another girl, then Elaine walked past and saw them. So...they fought about that for...umm...how long?
I know that Ahk would never do such thing...who knew his heart chose to be loyal to Menivia?
It feels like he has two minds. One is his brain, another is his heart. His logical part, his brain, chose to love Lapia. But his heart chose to be loyal to the one who stole it from him - Menivia.
"Meg!" A voice cried. I snapped out of my thoughts. "What do you think I should do?" Asked Elaine with a sour look on her face.
Crap.
What was she saying again?
"You should...umm...tell him that you trust him! Also that he shouldn't do such thing!" I said.
Elaine rolled her eyes. "I'm talking about my biology exam" she said.
Oops.
"Right sorry" I apologized, "I was just...lost in my thoughts" I said shrugging. "It's that actor back in America isn't it? The one you gave your first kiss to" she said with a smirk.
"The one you refuse to call your boyfriend! The one that-"
"Shut it!" I cried, my face red with embarrassment, since other Cambridge students were sitting around us.
"Isn't it!" Squealed Elaine. I rolled my eyes, "yes!" I surrendered. "Yes!" Elaine squealed once more, "I knew it!"
I groaned and took a sip of coffee.
But the coffee froze. It was now a solid. Isn't this just great. I let go of the cup. Frost was left on where my hand was when I was holding the cup.
Great.
I put both my hands on the cup. The frozen coffee started to melt back into a liquid. Soon, the solid was a liquid, and steam was rising.
Well isn't magic handy at all times? But then, it's quite annoying as well.
It was a rather short flight to France. When we got off the plane, Professor Burgmann was standing in the "pick up" section along with another professor.
"MEG!" Cried a voice, I turned to look, but someone hug-attacked me.
The person let go. Ohhhh Bernard!
"Oh my gosh!" I squealed as I hugged my best friend. "How's Cambridge?" He asked, I shrugged, "still...you know..." I said.
He knew what Cambridge was like since for the firs few months when I was there, I've ranted about so many things to him over the phone, email, Facebook, twitter...etc. there was no need for me to say more.
"Meg! You left your scarf" cried Elaine rather cheerfully, "oh, hey Bernard" she said with a duller tone. "Elaine" he greeted.
There was a layer of ice between them. They weren't close, but they knew each other.
"Make sure you don't cause any trouble here, Casteren" Bernard Warned, "you've nothing to worry about, Bernard Roy Andrews" said Elaine with a fake smile.
"Anyways!" I said cutting in, "how's Lapia?" I asked. "she's fine." He said, "she wants to go to New York to well 'make up' with her ex."
Elaine snickered.
"Who the hell 'makes up' with their ex? More like make OUT" she said rolling her eyes.
"But her ex isn't in New York!" I said. In fact...I had no idea where he was...the thought if Ahk missing from the British museum sent chills down my spine. That thought then lead to Lancelot, the British Miniatures and a few fossils missing.
That's going to be a problem.
"How do you know?" Asked Bernard, "I...don't" I lied. Well, I sort of lied. Maybe Ahk was at New York...maybe Lapia knew beforehand. But I don't know...hopefully he's safe.
"How would she find him?" I asked, Bernard's answer was only a shrug. "She knows what she's doing, I trust her" he said with a weak smile.
Elaine snickered once more.
"What is it Casteren?" Said Bernard in an annoyed tone, "nothing...nothing...if something goes wrong, my answer to your cries will be 'told you so'"
"Congratulations," started a professor from Bernard'a university, "you people have been chosen for this assignment" he said as we approached the back gate of the Louvre.
Oh. My. Gosh. I absolutely love this museum!
"Now, I know that you all arrived here to study on how to be a professional historian or Egyptologist and all that...but-"
"But? What do you mean 'but'?" Said Professor Burgmann with widened eyes, "these students are here to work alongside the professionals!"
"Right yes, I know, that was the original plan. But they have recently found an artifact somewhere in Egypt. They won't return for a month" said the other professor quickly.
Our eyes widened and our mouths dropped open. Even Elaine had the same reaction. Elaine who didn't want to come in the first place was disappointed.
"So...we found another activity since we couldn't just rerun 20-30 tickets, can we now?"
A few rolled their eyes. Including Elaine. "Unbelievable" she muttered. "I never liked him anyway" Bernard added.
"Your activity for the next two weeks...will be to be the day, afternoon, evening and night guards of the Louvre."
"What?"
"This is bullshit"
"So much money wasted!"
"The fuck bro?"
"I am not staying up for this"
"We need to study?"
The students then broke into an argument against Bernard's professor. Even professor Burgmann joined in.
"ORDER! ORDER!" Yelled the professor. "My, my...would you rather be here to do absolutely nothing then?" He's scolded. "Here are your cards" he said passing them out. When I got mine, the first word the caught my eye was 'night'
Megera Varrowe, night guard of the Louvre Museum.
I smiled at it. This shouldn't be hard...I've had experience with a museum that comes alive...and since theres no glowing tablet here, no biggie.
"What? Night guard?" Shrieked Elaine, "I know right, this sucks" said a Chicago student. "I'm night guard too" I said joining their conversation, "Meg, we've been talking...and we came up with a brilliant plan" she said with a wide but wicked smile.
I raised my eyebrows.
"We're gonna skip duty and go to meet some hot French guys at the pubs here, wanna join?"
What? This idea coming from Elaine? Who has a boyfriend? Who is also here in France? Who also has night guard duty?
"But...Blaise is night guard too" I said, "screw him" cried the Chicago student, "we're gonna stick to that plan wether you're in it or not" said Elaine.
Oh. I get it. Elaine was going to see if Blaise notices and go to her to apologize.
"How do you know this?" Said Menivia from the back of my head.
Simply because she's done this before to another guy.
"I've got the afternoon shift" said Bernard, "I was really looking forward to this...I knew I shouldn't have come" he said. I nodded. "Me too". Bernard gave me a weak smile and I headed off for Night shift.
It was already 6:30pm. Meaning 5:30pm London and 12:30pm New York.
Elaine said that she was going to the hotel first to pick out something to wear to the bar, and also that she'll take care of my suitcase.
To think that right now would be the moment we were supposed to be greeting the Egyptologists, eating dinner with them.
Instead, I'm here. At the Louvre. Doing something I didn't want to do in France - night guarding the museum.
Ugh.
"Hey gorgeous" said a voice. Bloody hell...Blaise. "What do you want?" I asked, half using Ahk's pharaoh voice that scares the crap out of the miniatures. "You" he said swiftly, I rolled my eyes. "You have a girlfriend" I said, "and?" He asked gesturing me to continue.
"So...you shouldn't be calling your girlfriend's roommate 'gorgeous'"
"You finally admit you're gorgeous, eh?"
"I was quoting you!"
"Didn't seem like it"
We reached the locker room. I put my bag into one of the spare lockers and took out the uniform in there. Thankfully it was my size.
Then I heard the sound of coins rattling. I turned to see what it was
"Bloody hell! BLAISE!? DO YOU MIND!" I said spinning around and cupping my hand around my hand around my eye. Beside me was a shirtless and jean-less Blaise.
Gross.
"I'd much rather see Ahk like that" said a voice in my head.
OH GOD! SHUT UP, MEG! OR MENIVIA! WHICHEVER THAT SAID/THOUGHT OF IT!
"You're blushing" said Blaise. "Well, it's not because of you anyway" I snapped, "are you certain?" he asked with a smirk. I only rolled my eyes.
Yes, of course. Ahk's way hotter than you'll ever be.
"Yes! Now do you mind? I need to change!"
"No, please do." He said with a smirk. "Get out" I said, "why?" He whined, "I changed in front of you, so you should do the same. Fair is fair." he said making his smirk more evil than it already is, I rolled my eyes "Or are you too afraid, little Meg?"
That's it. THAT IS IT. First, he gets in a argument with his girlfriend - Elaine, then he flirts - if only you consider THAT as flirting, and no, I'm not done yet. He changes in front of me, and then refuses to leave the room for me to have some privacy. Therefore...yep...I haven't been using magic for 2 weeks, and I can't help it anymore.
I snapped my fingers and he dropped onto the floor.
Yes! It worked! He passed out!
I changed into the uniform quickly and left the locker room without Blaise.
I'm pretty sure Ahk will kill him if he knew. Therefore I should tell him. His jackals can hunt Blaise down, and he can throw a spear! Did I mention that he was the best spear thrower in the royal competitions?
I opened the door to the museum.
Why were the exhibits moving...why were they alive...?
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