Gilian 101- Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Yay! I'm glad it did what it was supposed to do. XD Thank you. Yep, they do. I'm glad you thought so. Parts containing more Alan will be coming up very soon. XD
Foxee-chik-I'm glad you like it and that you can't wait to see what happens next. Oh, she will but none of them will come out of this completely unscathed.
err... who am i? - Yep, he's escaped. That it is. Well, they did have a four year break before this. : P
Little Miss Bump- Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I'm glad you enjoyed that, it was very fun to write. Yes, he is very fishy and why he was satisfied will be revealed very soon. And the reason for it is not good at all. Yep, they all know. Well, all but Evie that is but she will find out in this chapter. That he is. She'll take care of herself as best she can. Thank you and I'm glad you look forward to the next chapter. XD
Pinkranger888- XD That he is. I'm glad you're so excited about this story. It makes me even more eager to write it. Yep, that they are and he will be telling her in the chapter. As I told err... who am i?, they have had a four year break. I'm glad you like her, from what I have planned for her she is going to be a very fun character to write. Yeah he is most defiantly up to something and yes, unfortunately he is clean. Your guess is pretty close actually. XD
Chapter Eight-First Night
"Night Kyleigh!" Evelyn called after the older women as she pulled back the flap and entered her tent, her stomach comfortably full from the beef stew that had been served for dinner. It could never measure up to Onaha's cooking but for being in the middle of nowhere with limited resources it had been quite good. It was better than whatever she had eaten at the small trading post between Amarna and Cairo.
As the flap fell back into place, Evelyn walked over to where she knew the desk was in her small tent and turned the dial on the solar powered lamp. As the tent was bathed in the warm glow from the lamp, she moved over and sat down on the bed. Reaching over to where she had set up her suitcase as a makeshift nightstand, she grabbed the black bag off of it and settled into a comfortable position on her bed.
She pushed the first button and bit her lip as she waited for someone to answer, eager to tell them about all she had learned so far. Luckily she didn't have to more than a few seconds before her father's face appeared on the screen, her four earth bound brothers behind him. She smiled at them. "Hey guys!"
Her smile faded as she took in their appearances and her expression quickly turned too concerned as she noticed how pale they all were. "Why are you guys as white as a sheet?"
Before her father could answer, he looked away from the screen for a few moments. He nodded before turning back to look at her. "John says to push one-two-one."
"Okay," Evelyn answered, pushing the combination she had been told to. After she pushed the first button for a second time, a smaller picture appeared in the upper right hand corner of the screen showing her second eldest brother up on Thunderbird Five. Even though the image was small and he was never as tanned as the rest of the family, he was far paler than normal. "Okay, what is going on?"
"He's escaped," Jeff replied softly. Evelyn didn't need to ask for specific details. She knew who 'he' was and in a matter of seconds was just as pale as the rest of her family. "Along with Transom, Mullion, and a women named Saadia."
"Who's she?" Evelyn asked softly after a few seconds of sitting in silence and just staring at the image of her family on the screen.
"Lady Penelope told us she's an Egyptian who was arrested for attempted murder of the Prime Minister in May," John explained. Evelyn went a few shades paler at the thought that the Hood could have been in Cairo at the same time she had been, and could still be in Egypt. She suddenly knew why her family was so pale; they were afraid for her.
"Guys," she began softly. "I'm in the middle of nowhere. There's no way he could know I am here unless he knows someone that knew I was going to be here, and that list is rather short."
"How many?" Scott asked from where he stood behind their father, his hand on Alan's shoulder.
"Four," she replied. "One of them was Dr. Ness of course. Then there's Kyleigh Crawford, the Geologist here. Narmer Sayyid is the lead excavator and is Kyleigh's boyfriend, and then there's Kaphiri Alavi, another Egyptologist. They are all very nice. Well, Kyleigh and Narmer are. Kaphiri didn't say anything but from what I can tell he never really has and apparently is not very entirely fluent in English."
She saw her father glance away from the screen and she saw John nod where he sat on Thunderbird Five. Evelyn rolled her eyes. Her father was asking him to see what he could find on the people around her. "Dad, there is nothing wrong with any of them. They've been nothing but nice to me."
"There is just something about Dr. Ness I don't like," he replied as he looked back towards the screen her image was on. Evelyn opened her mouth to defend him but Jeff interrupted her. "Anyway, how is it over there?"
Evelyn's smile returned. "Incredible, absolutely incredible. And I haven't even seen inside any of the ruins yet, just the streets. And everyone is really nice, though only four people around here speak fluent English and I am one of two females within a two hundred mile radius."
"You mean to say you're surrounded by a bunch of guys," Scott commented, looking slightly uncomfortable with the idea of so many men around his sister.
"Pretty much," she replied with a shrug. She then decided it was best to change the subject away from the male population of the area before she gave them another reason to be overprotective of her. "Anyway, something strange happened when I first entered the city. I guess you could call it a vision."
"A vision of what?" Scott asked, remembering very clearly what had happened after her last vision and that was something he was not about to forget any time soon.
"Of Amarna three thousand years ago," she began. "All the ruins just seemed to fade away to show what it had been, with people walking in the streets and children laughing as they chased each other."
"Any idea why you had it?" asked Scott.
Evelyn nodded. "Because this was the city that Henuttawy and her family lived in up until her murder. When I go to the Royal Palace tomorrow, I will probably see the places I've been to in my dreams."
"Hopefully you won't experience another vision when you do," Jeff stated, the rest of the family muttering their agreement as they watched Evelyn on the screen.
"Hopefully," Evelyn agreed. "If it happens again, I may not be able to cover it as well as I did with Dr. Ness earlier. That and all this is just getting really old so hopefully actually going in there and seeing the places from my dreams will put a stop to all this, or at least help me figure out why this is happening."
Evelyn then turned away from the screen to yawn. She turned back to see him smiling at her. "I'll let you go now so that you can get some rest. Just be careful and keep an eye out for anything suspicious."
"I will dad," she answered. "I'll call you again tomorrow night."
"Sounds good," Jeff replied with a nod. "Sleep well Evelyn."
"Night dad," she responded. She then looked around the screen, searching for a button to turn it off. She looked back at the faces on the screen and smiled sheepishly. "Um……how do you turn this thing off?"
"Push one-two-one again," John instructed, smiling at the picture of his sister on the screen.
"Thanks John. Night guys," Evelyn smiled at the image of her family one last time before pushing the combination of buttons she had been told to. The image of her family on the island disappeared first, shortly followed by the image of John until the entire screen was black. She then grabbed the pouch and inserted the monitor back into it before setting it back on her suitcase.
With a sigh, Evelyn peeled off her boots and set them down on the rug that made up the floor of the tent. She then got up, walked over to the desk and turned down the dial on the lamp to where it was very dim but still provided an enough light so she would hopefully not trip on anything.
She then walked back over to the bed, pulled down the sheet and climbed in. Once settled under the sheet and her head rested comfortably on the pillow, she reached under her shirt and pulled out the pendants Gordon had given her on their birthday. She smiled at them for a few moments, fingering the dolphin before tucking them back underneath her shirt and closing her eyes. She concentrated on the faces of her family, hoping that no dreams would interrupt her sleep tonight.