I Need You
By
Kamala
Chapter 9
High Priestess Chamber, Temple of Isis
“Devi, please explain to me how this all happened,” he asked gently putting a hand on her shoulder.
She was his beloved daughter, gift from Allah to him when he thought he would not have any more
children- named by his mother who was also a Priestess of Isis.
“In the fight, at the compound, we not only found The Black Book but his personal scrolls,” she said
turning to look at him.“ I read them.”
“And fell in love?” her father said, while not happy with the turn of events understanding.
“Not at first. The things, I had been taught my whole life to believe about him, started to change. He was
not this undead creature but a person who had emotions and feelings. Most of all, dreams for his future.
He wanted to be loved, to be cared for, not to be lonely.”
He nodded. “What all men want.”
‘She is right for so long, we have been told what he was and what he did. But no one ever really tried to
understand what had caused all of it.’
“He thought he found it in Anck-su-namun.”
“There was someone before her,” Devi said softly.
“Who?”
“Me,” Devi paused. “He had these dreams of this woman. His Golden One he called her. He never
mentioned what happened in the dreams but it was not hard to guess based on his feelings afterwards.
And at some point, we started to share these dreams, crossing the boundaries of time to be with each
other.”
“This is when you began to love him?”
“I thought, if I could warn him. Instead, I fell for what he was, not who he would become. The more the
dreams happened, the deeper I fell.”
He looked at his daughter and felt sorrow for her. For her pain at being torn from someone she loved.
“The worse part is yet to come Father. I killed him and he knew it, yet he forgave me.”
He did what any father would do seeing his child upset, he walked over and pulled her in his arms and
held her as she cried.
“Go ahead, Little One, cry,” he whispered into her hair rubbing her back.
“Why, why did the gods do this to us?” she sobbed, “Why bring us together but make it so we can never
be together.”
“I don’t know. But they have something planned; otherwise they would have not let it happen.”
“I am dying, without him, knowing that when I see him it will be on the fields of battle. I will do my duty
and kill him. How do I live with it? I want so bad to turn my back on everything and everyone…”
“I know,” he said. “If I could take away all this pain I would, my Little One. But trust in your gods. They
may open a door at some point.”
They stood there each lost in their thoughts. He thought back to the words his mother had spoken, when
she had named Devi.
“My son, the gods have plans for this one. At a point in the future, you will have to let her go and
fulfill those plans knowing she will be lost to you forever. She must come with me. We will make
her strong in skill and self. Give her the courage to face the gods themselves. She has a destiny a
journey written long ago.”
“How is that possible?”
“She has an old soul. The gods have picked their chosen one. They have provided her with the
time to train. The cycle will be completed. One cycle broken and another started.”
He looked down at her and understood finally what his mother had spoken.
She had been destined for fall in love with Imhotep and will some how break the curse before it ever
happened. The gods had chosen their moment, as they had chosen their warrior so long ago.
“Little one, my mother said when you were born you were chosen by the gods for a great destiny. Right
now you are on a journey, whose destination is not known but the path is waiting for you to follow it. It
will be rough at times but at the end there will be a reward selected by the gods. Place your trust in them,
as you always have. They will understand if you slide off the path every now and then.”
She looked up at him. “I will try.”
He kissed her forehead and wrapped her tighter in his arms, “Know that I will always believe in you and
your skill. I know if you have to face him on the battlefields you will do what is right.”
“I love you,” she said.
“And I will always love you,” he said and kissed her. “We must go and leave you. I saw what happened
with him. I think, if he could have he would have put aside his desires if it meant being with you.”
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