Little Miss Bump- Nope, all the death, destruction, and owies is done, for this story at least. :P That she is. She's got to make up for all those meals they missed. Some twin bonding is certainty needed at there is plenty of it coming. Thanks! And hopefully my comp won't delete this chapter when it's nearly finished.

Pinkranger888- Yeah, I'm making you wait a little bit longer, but there is plenty of it to come. XD I'm glad you liked it. Oh, I hate it when my comps dying. I will. I seriously did not mean to make you guys wait so long for the last chapter. I just had to get over my heart attack before I could re-write anything.

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I am so sorry that it took so long for me to get this up again! Life has just been crazy. It's almost the end of the semester, only two more weeks left, and performances that we aren't exactly ready for and a scene for my acting class that is not completely memorized yet and then on top of all that, I was sick last week with the flu. We have also been having a good family friend spending at lot of time at my place because her daughter and granddaughters who are now living with her are so ungrateful and all around idiots, it's just –sigh- They don't deserve her at all. And then the brakes on my truck went out. I'm venting aren't I? Sorry. Again, I am sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. I hope it was worth the wait. Oh, and just to let you guys know, there is only one more chapter after this and the epilogue, which is set about two months later. Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter Thirty Three- Fixing Broken Bonds

Evelyn sighed as she removed the towel from her head and shook her damp hair. Oh, it feels so good to be clean! she thought as she pulled on her old and faded cheer shirt that hung over the waistband of her khaki shorts by at least an inch. She looked down at the three necklaces she had worn during the trip sitting on the counter. She grabbed the locket and the pendent of Horus and placed them into the jewelry box on the counter. She then grabbed the chain with the dolphin and goose pendants on it and lifted it to eye level.

The day Gordon had given them to her felt as though it had happened ages ago. She pushed her hair aside with on hand and with the other put the necklace around her neck. Once the clasp was secure, she lowered her hand and stared at her reflection in the mirror, looking at where the dolphin and goose pendants rested against the skin just below her collar bone.

The bond between them was broken, and she knew it. She knew that it had something to do with her death, but that was all. And not knowing what was wrong told her something was wrong. She had always been able to figure her twin out, and he could always figure her out without them even having to speak. Running a hand through her hair, she hung the towel up on the hook beside the shower before grabbing her filthy and blood stained cloths off the floor.

Her bare feet made little noise against the tile floor of her bathroom as she headed to the partially closed door. She pulled it open and stepped into her bedroom, heading towards the trash can beside her desk. No way was she keeping the cloths she had died in. She hadn't made it to her desk when she realized that she was not the only person in the room. She stopped when she spotted Gordon sitting crossed legged on her bed, leaning back against the wall as he pet Nefertiti where she lay on Evelyn's pillow.

She balled up the cloths in her hands as he looked up at her. "Hey," she greeted softly.

He sat up from the wall and removed his hand from Nefertiti's head. "Evie," he began. "We need to talk."

Evelyn nodded. "I know we do," she replied as she walked over and dumped the cloths in the trash can. After pushing them down, she turned around and walked over to her bed, sitting down beside Gordon and pulling her legs up beneath her. They sat in awkward silence for a few moments, neither one of them knowing where to start or what to say.

Gordon broke the silence with a frustrated groan, running a hand through his still filthy hair as he once more leaned back against the wall."We've never had an awkward silence before! It should never be this awkward with you!"

"I know," she responded softly, staring down at her hands in her lap.

Gordon looked at her incredulously. "'I know,'" he repeated. "All you can say is 'I know?'" He pushed himself up off the bed with scoff and stood looking at his sister.

Her eyebrows furrowed slightly as she frowned at him. "What in the world do you expect me to say? I know something is wrong between us so I'm not going to say that everything is fine when it –"

"Would you listen to yourself?!" he yelled, cutting her off. Evelyn looked slightly startled but said nothing, simply watching her angry and frustrated twin. "You may look and sound like my sister, but you are not her! What you just said proves that! My sister has never sounded that proper in her life! And she wouldn't just be sitting there right now like you are! She'd be standing up and saying that she was fine when she obviously wasn't! You are some stranger that looks like her!"

Gordon stood in the middle of her room, panting as he watched his sister's reaction to what he had just yelled. Evelyn sat on her bed, staring blankly down at the palms of her hands. After a moment, she pursued her lips and looked up at him. "You're right," she admitted quietly before looking back down at her hands.

"I am different. How could I not be different after finding out that I am essentially two people?" she said with a shrug. She looked up from her hands. "With two different personalities. Two different ways of life and standards and morels. Two completely different families that are nothing alike whatsoever. I have to adjust to this too, you know."

Gordon looked down at the carpet beneath his feet. He had forgotten about that. They only had to adjust to her being two people, but she had to adjust to the fact that she had lived before thousands of years prior. Everything had been different in that time and she had to adjust to that.

He heard the mattress shift and looked up to see Evelyn standing before him. She reached forward and took his hand into hers and gave it a slight squeeze. "I know that the bonds between us are broken right now," she began softly. "But they can be fixed. It will take a while, just as adjusting will take a while. No, things will never be as they were before, but what I am trying to say is that they can and will be fixed over time. We just have to be patient and work at it."

He looked down for a moment at their intertwined hands before nodding slowly. He gave her hand a squeeze, a small smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. "I'm willing to work for it," he said quietly. Evelyn returned the squeeze as a smile appeared on her face.

"Now," he began, the smile turning into a grin. "How about we get something to eat and then watch a movie?"

Evelyn grinned and nodded. "You're favorite or mine?" she asked.

He bit his lip as he thought for a moment. "How about both," he suggested.

Evelyn smiled. "Sounds good to me."

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John sat at the table beside Scott, both of them eating one of the sandwiches off of the platter that Onaha had prepared. The women herself had disappeared just after they had sat down, heading off to her family's villa with her arm around her daughter shoulders. Brains and Fermat had followed suit a few minutes later. The two brothers themselves had showered and changed before coming down to eat, which was obvious y their damp hair.

Their father had come and gone, having eaten quickly so he could get back to the infirmary. Gordon and Evelyn had yet to come get something to eat. John grabbed his glass of water just as Virgil stepped into the room.

"Dad send you to get something to eat?" Scott asked as Virgil pulled out the chair beside him and sat down.

Vigil nodded as he grabbed a sandwich off the platter. "Yeah," he replied.

John swallowed the mouthful of water and set down the class. "How's Alan?"

"He had just fallen asleep before dad came in," he replied, pouring himself a glass of water from the pitcher sitting on the table beside the platter. "Now that he's hooked up to the antibiotics and the bite is clean, he should be fine in a week or so."

Scott sighed and ran a hand through his hair damp hair. "Thank God," he muttered, looking down at his plate. He looked up at Virgil a few moments later. "How about Gordon?"

"His ribs will be okay, just a bit of bruising," he responded. Scott raised an eyebrow at the medic, who sighed in response. "Yeah, I know what you were asking about. I talked to him about it and -"

He stopped talking when he spotted two figures entering the room, talking quietly as they walked with their hands intertwined between them. The twins looked up at them as they walked to the table and smiled at their elder siblings in unison. They released each other's hands as they reached the table.

"Hey guys," Evelyn greeted as she pulled out the chair next to John and dropped down into it, Gordon doing the same on her other side. Scott and John both looked towards Virgil with raised eyebrows as the twin's grabbed sandwiches. Virgil shrugged in response.

"Umm," Gordon swallowed a mouthful of sandwich. "Did we miss something?"

John shook his head. "No," he responded. "But are you two okay?"

Gordon glanced over at Evelyn beside him, who stopped chewing for a moment to smile at him. "No, we're not," he replied. He turned his gaze back towards their older brothers. "But with some time and work, we will be."

Evelyn's smile widened before she looked towards Virgil. "Can you pass the water, please?"