Disclaimer: I do Not own Raiders of the Lost Ark or any of the Indiana Jones adventures. Nor the characters (except my own) or any other copyrighted material.

Written for entertainment purposes ONLY.

That night, Professor Jones had Syrena sleep on the couch in the living room, while he slept in his own bed. It wasn't until around 3:00 am Syrena felt something was wrong. She heard people and mumbling coming from the basement. It sounded like two people that weren't meant to be in the house. But she just brushed it off as the fact that she was sleeping in a house she had never spent the night in before, so she was unfamiliar with the unusual sounds. She had noticed the squeaks and cracks coming from the walls and floors that Jones was probably already used to.

It wasn't until ten or fifteen minutes later that she awoke again but this time to footsteps. She then felt the presence of someone in the room. She opened her eyes and right above her face was a very tall man, probably about six foot two. He took his hands to try and strangle Syrena. She screamed petrified from confusion and fear which paralyzed her because of it. She closed her eyes hoping the figure above her will go away.

All of a sudden, she heard something crack. Like a bone or something. She opened her eyes and looked up. Professor Jones was right above her and was fighting the man who tried to attack her. Jones flipped the man onto his back and shot him in the chest. Syrena screamed once more from the loud gunshot. The other man in the room; terrified to what Professor Jones has just done to his partner, stared at him for a second then bolted for the door. Syrena quickly sat up.

"What was all of that for?" She asked.

"Well my guess was that those two men were looking to keep me from going after the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt."

"What?" She asked confused.

"Tuesday after school I got assigned to look for the Ark. I told the men who gave me the assignment "no thanks"; that the Ark was just a legend; hocus pocus, if you will and was not real. But now I have a hunch that it might be. I would like to see what those two men wanted with the Ark."

"Now?" Syrena asked, still a little shaken up.

"No. Tomorrow would be best." Jones walked away from the couch and paced around the room frantically. Syrena watched him with curiosity.

"You'll have to go back home to your family. Professor Jones said while pondering on what to do with the body.

"What?!" Syrena gasped.

"Kid look," Began the Professor.

"I am not a kid." She stated.

Professor Jones' tone began to become stern. "Listen to me. These men will kill you given the chance. I have no doubts about that. You need to be with your family. I wouldn't want them blaming me if those men were hurt you if there are more of them. Especially when you have the chance to be safe now. Understood?"

Syrena gulped before answering. "Yes Sir."

She then walked over to arm chair by the door; grabbed her jacket and boots and headed outside. "She's going to kill me…" She whispered aloud, referring about her mother.

~Back at the house~

"You were where?!" Mrs. Lamont yelled at her daughter.

"At Professor Jones' studying."

Her mother took a deep breath, trying her best to stay calm. "What I mean is, why would you do that, when you know better than to defy me so. You've always been me and your Papa's little angel. You've never done anything against me. I told you NOT to go, and yet you still went. And you spent the night at his house nonetheless!"

"But Mother as you know, the only reason I stayed there was because of the weather. So it really wasn't my fault-"

"It was your fault though. The weather didn't tell you to go against my wishes. For now on you will go to school, come home, eat dinner, get ready for the following day then go to bed. That's your life for now on."

"But Mother you cannot! I am 21 after all! You can't treat me this way. I'm not a child anymore."

"Go to your room. I will not have you talk back to me."

Syrena flabbergasted beyond belief marched to her room. As she did so, she could hear mother's voice call up the stairs, "And so you know, the only reason you live here is because your Papa and I still provide for you while you commute to and from school. Because you are 21 and an adult, you do not have to live here. So move out if you don't like our rules."

Syrena took a breath before saying, "Maybe I will…" And with that she quietly closed her bedroom door and went to lie down on her bed. She closed her eyes and dosed off into a deep nap-like-slumber.