You guys should thank HOATTSTHG she convinced me not to kill all your feels two chapters in a row… Oh and you're about to find out why this is T.

Chapter 7

House of Light

"I'd say you two look like you've just come back from Hell, but for all intensive purposed the Du'at is Hell," Nile noted as he gave us a once over after returning from wherever the god went when they poof out of existence.

"They're probably just tired," Elena pointed out going back to her usual habit of pretending we couldn't understand her. "You know how humans are. They need to eat, sleep, drink. It must be so exhausting." While I scowled at the god's treatment of us, she was right; I felt dead on my feet. Even Eddie, who'd been eating before we entered the Du'at, was hungry after the hours of trials and traveling. (Not that he'd ever admit it.)

"Aren't there any vending machines around here? Or a gas mart or something?" He wondered scanning his surroundings. If he'd asked before the trials began it would have been logical, but we'd been progressively traveling away from the level of the Du'at that exists on the same plane as earth and traveling towards to heart and Osiris's throne room.

"Unfortunately, no," Raet told us like it wasn't unfortunate at all. "But if we keep traveling I'm sure Osiris has a coming home feast prepared in honor of his wayward Osirian."

"Look, we don't need food, but Nina and I have been up for over 30 hours, 12 of which have been spent traveling through this place! Can we please find some cave to rest in for the night."

I wanted to tell Eddie that I was fine and we should keep going, but I wasn't fine. Plus, we learned earlier today that lying to each other only makes things worse when the truth comes out.

I don't hate Eddie for what he said, because I said some pretty horrible things too. Still, his words hurt. My gran lost her daughter because my parents were out buying me a birthday present. I'd often wondered if she wished I hadn't been born so she still had my mom. When I'd asked her she said no, she was glad I had been born, but wished I was born on a different day. For the longest of time I thought that meant that, had I been born on a different day, my mom wouldn't have been driving in the rain and got in a car crash. Now, however, I knew Gran meant she wished I'd been born on a different day so I wasn't the Chosen One. Or maybe she didn't know about that at all and it was just a coincidence.

Or maybe I've been up way too long and am over thinking simple things. Gran couldn't possibly have known about any of this, and Eddie only hated that I was born because without me he'd be normal.

"Fine, there is a safe place up here," Raet told us clearly annoyed that she had to stop. "Get your sleep and we'll continue in a little bit."

"She'd say the morning but there is no sun down here so no morning," Elena pointed out. I hadn't noticed it, but she was right. There was light (how else could I see) but where it was coming from I had no idea. There was no sun, no moon, no stars-nothing.

"Of course there is sun," Nile reminded with a boyish giggle. "We are the sun. Down here there are three suns!"

"Ha ha," Elena replied sarcastically while Raet just rolled her eyes. (Most likely the girl was wondering how on earth they were all the same person.)

"But why can we see then?" Eddie wondered. " I mean even outside this enclosed cave there is no light so how is it that I see everything perfectly?"

"Haven't you figured it out yet?" Elena wondered with a tilted head. (Apparently to her it was obvious, but she was a god.) "The Du'at is magic, remember. Whoever runs the show wants you to see, so you can see. If she wanted you to be blind you'd be blind. If she wanted you to be a platypus-bear you'd be a platypus-bear."

"What's a platypus-bear?" Nile asked at the same time Eddie muttered a much more important question.

"So who runs the show?"

"Ma'at," said Elena quickly.

"Osiris," Nile decided at the same time.

"Ra," Raet answered as if that was the obvious choice.

"Ah," I concluded looking between the three confused gods. "So even you don't know."

"And to think they call themselves gods," Eddie muttered under his breath causing me to laugh.

"We're not omniscient if that's what you think," an annoyed Raet answered with a scowl. "How are we supposed to know who runs the show?"

"Basically what Raet is saying is that even as gods we don't really know much," Nile confessed. Despite being the joker of the group, he also seemed to be the most human and level-headed. "There are probably thousands of gods. Over the decades we've met most but there could always be more."

"For all we know we're not the only gods out there," Elena added like she almost hoped there were other gods too. "I mean I've personally never met one, but I've heard stories of Greek gods running out Egyptians who tried to settle in their territory. Some even say that there is a God with a capital 'G'. Maybe he's the one who built the Du'at. Maybe he even created us."

"Don't be ridiculous," Raet scolded with the slightest tremble of fear. "In all these millennia I think we would have met one if there were other gods. We're all there is and one of us was bored one day and decided to create the Du'at."

Clearly unwilling to fight the goddess, Elena and Nile lifted their hands in surrender. "You guys get some sleep. We'll make sure no demons come and eat you," Nile assured as Eddie and I found the driest (and softest) part of the damp cave to sleep in.

"Who are you kidding," Elena scoffed. "Even I'm scared of those things. One comes our way you two can fend for yourselves." The god's words were harsh, but the slight upturn of her smile said she didn't mean anything. In a way she kind of reminded me of Patricia-she acts tough but is really a sweet heart deep down.

Despite being exhausted, sleep didn't come easy for me and, from the sound of his rapid breathing, Eddie couldn't sleep either. Turning over on his side to face me I felt his comforting hand slid into mine. I wanted to remind him that he didn't need to hold my hand when I slept anymore-the nightmares stopped with Anet's death. Before I could say anything, however, I realized that maybe he needed my presence now even if I didn't need his. I hadn't thought about it, but being the Osirian had made him braver. Now that he was human again, he probably lost some of that.

"You would hate it you know," I said softly almost as if I didn't want him to hear. (Which maybe I didn't, but he certainly could.) "If I hadn't been born your dad would have had no reason to keep you away from Anubis House. If you and Patricia knew each other since you were 12 chances are you never would have gotten married."

"Patricia is pregnant," Eddie blurted out after such a long silence I thought he'd either died or fallen asleep. "She wanted to tell you herself but with the gods dragging us here…"

There was a sense of terror in Eddie's voice, and I knew it had deeper roots than just the fear of fatherhood at 19. "How far along?" I questioned wondering what else I was supposed to say.

"A little over 4 months," Eddie admitted clearly ashamed that, if I did the math, I'd know the baby came along over a month before the wedding. Still, I wasn't judging. Patricia once told me she was going to wait until marriage, but after Eddie died for the second time at graduation, I could see something happening.

"You'll be a great dad," I assured him. "After all, you're a natural protector."

That was the wrong thing to say. "That's what I'm worried about, Nina. I mean he should be fine because, unless you, Joy, or KT are pregnant there is no Chosen One to be had but what about in the future? I don't want any of our kids to have to go through what we did but at least two of them will have to!"

"Don't worry about it," I reassured the fretting boy. "If, in the future, our kids are Chosen then we'll help them the way our parents never helped us. Your son will be healthy and normal with lovely parents to protect and nurture him."

"I just worry about the future," Eddie confessed. "Because as little as I want to continue being the Osirian I know that if it's not me it's one of our kids. We're the only two people left who are related to Asim. Either way we can't win."

"Eddie," I told him softly. "We always win, but for now we need to get some sleep so we can meet Osiris, and you can get back to your wife."

He looked ready to continue freaking out, but eventually he settled down enough to fall asleep. When I finally joined him my dreams were plagued with children marked as Senkarah had marked me. Despite what I told Eddie, I knew he was right. Our kids would be cursed just as Eddie and I were.

Question, how many of you have read my story "Children of the Obelisk"? If not many I am considering re-writing it with edits so it A-isn't so rushed and B-fits better in with this story because originally they were supposed to be in the same Universe...