err... who am i? - Yep, you were right. And things are going to get creepier yet. No, her dreams will not involve the other Tracy's but they will be playing a large part, and the Hood will soon be coming back into play. Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Just Wikipedia and studying screen caps of the first two Mummy movies.

lissysue85- Yep, things are getting harder for her but at least she has her family. Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I plan to. XD

foxee-chik- XD I'm glad you can't wait for it. Things get worse, much worse, before they get better for her. Shoot, things will get worse for all of them before they get better. The bond between the two of them is a close one, but they don't feel the others distress. But they do know when the other has gotten hurt, they just don't know how badly or how they got hurt in the first place. Sort of like intuition.

Pinkranger888- Yep, of course she is going to go and yes things will get worse. XD I'm glad to see you're keeping your promise, though I did forget until you said something. : P I'm glad you enjoyed it. Well you'll be happy to know there is plenty more fluff to go. For everything that goes wrong, there is fluff to follow. I'll update as often as I can. XD Yeah, you kinda do.

Little Miss Bump- Yep, tons of fluff. XD Being freaked was minor compared to the worry he felt for his sister. That he is. Nope, she's not hiding this from them but after that she will be staying in her room so it won't happen again. That she does. Thank you. Dang! There you go again making me blush! As always, I update as often as I can.

Gilian 101- Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Yep, things are starting to get crappy and creepy for her. And it's only going to get worse. That she does. Yes, Dr. Virgil will make an appearance but not for a few chapters when things really start getting bad and lots more near the end. That I do and she writes it brilliantly. Yeah, there will be plenty of fluff after all the action I have planned.

And yes, Alan and Evie will be getting a chapter together but it won't be until the aftermath of all that is going to happen. XD I'm glad you like their relationship, it is very fun to write. The flu is a good idea but I already have a part between the two of them planned for later on and it will be plenty fluffy. : P Well it never hurts to ask and that may actually be an idea I may someday use, for it is a good one. And if I ever use it I will make sure to mention you for giving me the idea. Aw dang! You're making me blush too! XD

zoeee- Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Aw, you make me blush! XD I'm glad you think that, for her becoming a Mary Sue was the last thing I wanted her to become, so I set out with the goal of making her as normal as possible. Yes he is and this story will feature him along with plenty of action and family fluff. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far and that you look forward to seeing what happens next. XD

Chapter Five-Last Minute Preparations
September 3rd, 2024

Almost two weeks after her newest repeating dream as Henuttawy, Evelyn found herself packing her small suitcase and duffle bag to take to Egypt the next morning. Since the night she had pressed the spoon to Scott's neck, thinking she had once again been in a dream, Evelyn had taken to staying in her room every time she woke up. The last thing she wanted to do was have it happen again. It was scaring her enough as it was.

As she began to sort out what she wanted to take from her bathroom, she looked up into the mirror and fingered a piece of her dark copper hair. She had always worn it short but in the past few years she had been so focused on classes, cheerleading, and being a Thunderbird that it now hung down past her shoulder blades. Evelyn pursed her lips as she played with piece of hair. She would be going who knows how long without a proper bathroom, seeing as they would be in the middle of the Sahara without most modern conveniences.

Dropping the piece of hair back into the rest, she walked out of her bathroom and towards the door of her room. Nefertiti meowed from where she sat in Evelyn's suitcase as her owner left the room, walked down the hall and headed downstairs. Reaching the ground floor, she headed towards where Onaha began to prepare dinner in the kitchen. The women looked up from the pan she was currently concentrating on and smiled at the approaching Evelyn. "Hello Evelyn."

"Hey Onaha," Evelyn greeted as she leaned up against the bar. "Have you seen Tin-Tin?"

"She, Alan, and Fermat headed up to the movie room with a bowl of popcorn about two hours ago," Onaha replied as she stirred the contents of the pan. "Your brother saying that he would beat them at some video game."

"Thanks Onaha," Evelyn smiled as she pushed herself away from the counter. She sniffed the air as the sweet smell of chicken stir-fry filled the air. "Oh, and that smells really good."

Onaha smiled after Evelyn as she began to climb the stairs to the second floor, now noticing the tell tale signs that someone was in the movie room. The revving of cars and the sound of squealing tires were heard through the speakers. How she had not heard it before, she had no idea. She smiled as she heard Alan yell, "Hey! That's cheating!"

"No it's not Alan," she heard Tin-Tin reply laugh. "Is it Fermat?"

"N-no," Fermat stuttered in reply. Evelyn smiled as she leaned against the doorway and watched the three friends. They sat on the floor in front of the television and had controllers in their hands as their eyes were glued to the screen. The empty popcorn bowl sat behind them.

"Besides," Tin-Tin began. She pushed the joystick on the controller to the right and Alan made a sound of protest. "That's what you get for pushing me off the road during the last game."

Alan opened his mouth to retort but was interrupted when Evelyn cleared her throat. The sounds of the game stopped as it was paused and the three friends looked towards where she stood in the doorway. Alan smiled towards her and the three friends greeted her before she asked, "Hey guys. Sorry to interrupt but can I borrow Tin-Tin for a little bit?"

"Sure," she replied with a shrug. She set down the controller and got up off the floor. Once she was in the doorway beside Evelyn, she turned back and pointed at Alan. "We'll finish this race later. Though I will probably just beat you again."

"We'll see about that," he replied as the two stared at each other, each of them wearing an expression of determination. Where he sat beside Alan, Fermat sighed as he looked between the two of them and shook his head. Evelyn rolled her eyes and headed out of the doorway and towards the staircase, Tin-Tin a few seconds behind her. The two had been flirting with each other since they had entered their teens and discovered hormones. Maybe after Egypt I'll play cupid, Evelyn thought as the two girls reached the third floor.

"So what do you need?" Tin-Tin asked as they entered Evelyn's room. Evelyn went to her desk and pulled out a pair of scissors.

"Before I leave for Egypt," Evelyn began as she walked into the bathroom, Tin-Tin a few steps behind her. She set the scissors down on the counter and looked up into the mirror. "I need a haircut. I would have asked your mom but she's busy and I learned long ago not to let my dad or brother's near my head with scissors."

"But it looks great long," Tin-Tin commented, coming to stand beside the older girl as they looked at her dark copper hair in the mirror.

"It does. But I don't know how often I'll get a chance to clean it really well and when I get home I really don't want to spend a month getting all the dirt out of my hair," Evelyn replied. "So will you cut it for me?"

"How short do you want it?" Tin-Tin asked as she grabbed the scissors off the counter and walked back to stand behind Evelyn. Evelyn grabbed a piece near her face and played with it for a few seconds, her fingers just below her chin as she pondered how short to cut it. "Just below the chin."

"Okay," Tin-Tin replied. She brought a strand of hair between her fingers and let them slid down from Evelyn's roots to just below her chin and brought the scissors up to it. The first chunk of hair fell to the floor. "What exactly happened that made you not trust your family with your hair?"

"It was about a year after we moved to the island," Evelyn began as Tin-Tin repeated the process she had used on the first chunk of hair. "I decided that I needed a haircut and Scott decided that he would give it a try, with John, Virgil, and Gordon beside him giving him 'tips.'"

"What happened?" Tin-Tin asked as the second clump of hair fell to the floor.

"He cut my bangs to where they barely existed and the rest was diagonal," Evelyn replied. Tin-Tin laughed as even more strands of hair fell onto the growing pile to the floor. "Dad then decided to try and fix it only to make it worse. After that, every time I said I needed a haircut I was flown to a salon in Los Angeles. They can take care of their own hair but they will never again touch mine."

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About a half an hour after Tin-Tin had finished cutting her hair and had returned down to the movie room, Evelyn had resumed packing her bags. Though the first thing she had to do so she could was kick Nefertiti out of her suitcase. As Evelyn closed the lid on the small suitcase and began to zip it closed, a knock was heard on the doorway behind her. She turned around and smiled as her father looked slightly shocked at her now short hair. "Like it?"

"It looks good Evie," he replied as he walked into the room and stood in front of her, keeping one arm behind his back. "Who cut it?"

"Tin-Tin," she responded, taking a piece of her now short hair and twirling it between her fingers. "I wanted less to have to worry about keeping clean since I have no idea how often I will be able to really clean it."

"Understandable. Anyway," Jeff began. He brought his hand out from behind his back, in which was a small padded, black bag with a drawstring top and handed it to Evelyn. "I wanted to give you this."

Evelyn opened the drawstring top of the case and pulled out a small, handheld monitor. On the back was a solar panel while on the face was two small buttons. Evelyn looked up from the device and asked, "What is it?"

"Push the second button," he instructed. Evelyn did so and within seconds the smiling face of John appeared on the screen in full color. Evelyn gaped as she looked between her father beside her and her brother on the screen. "As you can see, the second button will connect you to John while the first will connect you to the monitor in my office. This way you won't have to worry about how you are going to charge your laptop."

"Like the hair Evie," John commented from the screen as Evelyn smiled down at him.

"Thanks John," she replied. She then smiled at Jeff beside her. "This is awesome dad."

"DINNER!" they heard Onaha yell form downstairs. John smiled at his sister and father as they looked away from the doorway and down at his face on the screen. "I'll talk to you later. Go enjoyed a home cooked meal while I eat one of these meal bars."

"What, you ate all the chocolate up there already?" Evelyn teased. A pink tinge appeared on John's cheeks and with a mumble about talking to them later, cut the connection. Evelyn smiled and shook her head, replacing the monitor into the bag as Jeff laughed and set a hand on her shoulder. Once she sat the bag on the bag, he removed the hand and instead put his arm over his shoulders and led the two out of the room. Nefertiti got up from where she had been laying on Evelyn's pillow and went over to sniff the bag.

"Hey dad, Ev-whoa," Gordon began as he headed to the table and spotted his twin and their father stepping off the stairs. He did a double take when he saw her short hair and stopped where he stood a few feet from the table. All those that sat at the table looked over to see what had stopped him short. Their own jaws dropped when they spotted Evelyn's hair.

Jeff laughed and removed his arm from around Evelyn's shoulders before going to sit down between Scott and Brains while Evelyn went to one of the two open seats beside Alan, one of which Gordon sat down in seconds later.

"I'm guessing this is what you needed Tin-Tin for?" Alan asked as those around the table got over the shock of seeing how short her hair had been cut.

Evelyn nodded and began to fill her plate with some of the chicken stir-fry she had seen Onaha preparing earlier. "Yep. I don't know how often I'll get to really clean it while I'm in Egypt and I don't want to be washing it for a month to get all the sand out, so I asked her to cut it for me."

"I like it," Alan replied, filling his own plate with some stir-fry. Scott nodded his agreement while Gordon smiled over at her. "I do too Evie."

"It looked good long," Virgil began from where he sat between Scott Gordon. "But it just seems more you now."

"Thanks guys," Evelyn smiled after she swallowed the bite of stir-fry. She then looked over at Alan beside her. "Oh yeah, Alan? Who ended up winning once Tin-Tin got back?"

Evelyn smirked at him as he took another bite of his own stir-fry and glared over at her. She then looked to where Fermat sat on his other side and asked, "I'm guessing she did?"