Ankhesenamun

livingimageofamun​:

“I guess I have to make due with holding being over than you and your wife over your head now. No sister or cousin,” she joked, nodding her head “Don’t I know it. If she gets yours and my mother’s height instead of mine, she’d be an excellent dancer with all those kicks she’s been doing.”

Annie laughed as he helped her get up; much as she’d been trying to get up herself she was a petite woman and all that extra weight up front did throw her off balance sometimes. “I thought your mother told me I was supposed to move around a bunch not lie in bed, that’s what got me into this situation in the first place wasn’t it?” 

She nodded when he helped her settle back into bed, quite looking forward to something nice and warm to drink, and the colossal amount of sweet that generally went in her tea wouldn’t go amiss either. Grinning she kissed him back, saluting with her free hand as he went down the hallway to the kitchen. 

Resisting the urge to look at the clock, since she knew it was absolutely far too early for anyone to be awake, finding no need for the stress ball or paper since there wasn’t another contraction before Tut came back. “I’d ask who in the name of the Gods was calling you this early but I know exactly who it is,” she said, rolling her eyes fondly and reaching out for the cup, still quite amused she could balance things on her belly when she was lying down. 

“She is indeed apparently, with particularly ridiculous timing,” she told Meketre’s voice as she took a gulp of her tea, “I’m all right for now really, we’ve got a long way to go yet. First one and all, I’m sure she’ll be a while. 

livingimageofamun​:

“I still feel bad waking them up regardless,” she admitted, gratefully accepting the towel to clean up with and wrapping it around herself, “I mean, I get it but I have you here. Nothing bad has ever happened to me with you here and that’s going to be the difference this time.” 

She nodded when he walked into the bedroom, vaguely hearing him talking to his father as he rooted through the closet and got himself properly ready. Of course she obviously knew they were going to have a baby, but now that she was actually in labour and she was going to be coming out...well...it just made it so startlingly real. After literal millennia, they were finally going to have a baby.

“Thank you, that’s much better,” she said as she abandoned her towel attire to put a not soaked nightgown on. Not that this one was going to stay very clean but it was still much better for now. Annie grinned right back at how well he always knew her, as she took the earpieces of the stethoscope and listened to the steady beating noise. “There you are, soon you’ll be able to kick abi instead of me for once!”

Handing it back to her husband, she pulled herself up and smiled at him. “Is it weird that it doesn’t seem real still? This time tomorrow she’ll be here and a real little squirming person,” she mused, her hands settling on her belly as her fingers drummed on it, “Me from a few years ago would probably have thought I was crazy....then again me from a few years ago nearly hit her head on a stone bench after I went in you know where so maybe not. Right now me could probably use some tea though, I’m going to need whatever energy I can get.”

livingimageofamun​:

Annie didn’t think she’d ever been so relieved in her life. She’d been so scared and had no idea what to do; the only other experiences she could recall had all ended badly and had so much blood she didn’t think she could take it again. Carefully opening her eyes she looked down at the floor, since she couldn’t really see her legs, and saw he had been right. “I...I think so...maybe,” she said as he helped her sit down, “I don’t know for sure. I’ve been achy for a while and...well...I’ve never done this properly before.” She just nodded when he said he had to go get his leg on and call their parents, still kind of trying to process the whole thing.

“Later,” she said eventually, after thinking for a few minutes. “I mean, I know your mom’s going to be over and your sister to help her, but I just...I don’t want anyone else to hear it if I can help it. We can wait to call them though can’t we? It’ll take a while and it’s so early.”

draconigena440​:

“Are..sorry...are...” she said, sipping her tea, “Of all people I ought to know that. I admit I sometimes have to quickly catch myself and not call my husband my brother when other people are around. I’m just grateful he wasn’t this time around, after everything that happened because of it.” Annie found herself staring into her own mug then, knowing that the reason that they hadn’t had children who survived was because of that, yet they never would have been together if they hadn’t been siblings. It was all a confusing mess sometimes, the old part of her still blamed herself for not having had children sometimes, even though the modern part knew it wasn’t her fault. “Oh, I haven’t done anything,” she said, shaking her head, “All I do is fix old things and live my life. I suppose Tut told you I’ll be moving to the GEM when it’s all done? I insisted on going, I had to follow his things. I’ll be part of the main conservation team when maternity leave is done, it’s an honour really.”

She smiled in agreement when he mentioned the frankincense. “It reminded me of temples too, and of him,” she replied, “It was one of the only things that kept me sane before my death, made me feel somewhat whole again. Funny for the daughter of the world’s most infamous heretic to take comfort in that, but it was the truth.”

Holding up her mug for more tea when he came back, she let the warmth seep into her hands again. On reflex, she shut her eyes and bit hard on her lip when he mentioned what they’d done to her husband. She knew he was alive and well, at the moment he was keeping a watchful eye on a napping Tiye, but she could never seem to help any mention of what had happened sending her into overdrive. “You...you have my thanks for that. Truly you do, and I hope you broke something of his,” she said, finding her voice catching in her throat as she opened her eyes, “After everything I did to ensure he was safe, that all of them were safe, its’ like it was all for nothing. I know he’s very much alive now and so is she, and Gods willing our other daughter will be too someday, but what he did...it’s like spitting in the face of everything I did!”

draconigena440​:

“That and we’ve been on your plane with you,” she replied, laughing a little “He’s not quite as bad as me. He wasn’t the one raiding the kitchens trying to sweettalk the servants into sweets when we were little. He was usually in the Library instead.”

Anisa quickly nodded her head in agreement with his statement about history and legends. “Don’t I know it. I’ve come so close to whacking people with artifacts at work for saying the phrase Boy King around me more times than I can count,” she agreed, gratefully sipping the warm tea. (Never again would she complain about the heat when they got home, she vowed, though she didn’t have complaints about being kept warm during the night).

Of course she knew stories about King Arthur and his knights, it was still not quite settled in her head that THE Arthur was the giant bear that roamed about, but they’d never been more than a passing interest to her before. She had a vague idea of the story, of Guinevere and Lancelot, swords in ponds and all that other mystical stuff that most people drooled over but that was about it. Listening to his story she was horrified how badly they’d twisted everything, and was shocked to see the mark on his arm. 

“You’re really one of the most famous knights in the world? And you two were brothers? I never knew that,” she said, quickly setting her cup down, “And...I mean...not that what she did was a good thing but her giving you a different name saved you right? So you could find your family again after you were freed?”. Annie knew all too well what the pain of being separated from your family was like, in the end she’d been all that was left. Politely she averted her eyes when he had his moment, she would never in a million years want to offend anyone about a situation like this.

“I guess it was thinking back now. That and when my sister, my oldest one, made me smell this frankincense based perfume not long before that. She said it was way to strong and shoved it under my nose and I swear my legs buckled.” She did smile saying that though, most people still thought it was an extremely strong scent, but to her it was her absolute favourite. “At the time I just felt so bad for worrying everyone and concerned I was losing my marbles. I let them get me some water and insisted they go back in if they wanted while I sat and rested. No earthly or unearthly power is ever getting me back in there though, I couldn’t then and definitely not now.”

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“Hello,” she said, smiling back and pulling her sweater around her shoulders. Annie was fairly sure she’d never get used to what felt like such a chill there, it had her longing for the warm breezes of home. She took the cup from him and wrapped her hands around it, reveling in the warmth. She took a brief sip and shook her head in amusement. “Basically honey with a little bit of tea in it. Perfect,” she said with a laugh, nodding her head and following him outside.

It was a difficult day all around, it had always made her so angry how celebrated it was even before she knew the truth, and now it just brought up far to many things she had exactly zero desire to deal with. “He’s right though,” she thought as she sat down at the table, “No one else really can entirely understand aside from Tut.” 

“I was always angry about the veneration he gets, even before I remembered everything,” she began, still finding it hard to believe it was a little over a year since she had, “I could never understand how anyone who did what Carter did to what I know now is my family could be so revered...it makes me physically ill to think about it.” Nervously twisting her ring she stared at her cup for a second before continuing. “I went in there once, a few years ago with school. I’d seen pictures before, everyone has, but when I saw....when I saw him in person...I ran. They found me outside passed out on a bench and we all just assumed it was heat stroke or something. I guess I know it wasn’t now right?”

draconigena440​:

“Your Abi thinks he’s being funny but it’s true,” she said, grinning at Tiye who was finding her fingers the most interesting thing in the world at the moment, “I remember him being born before, if that doesn’t make me old I don’t know what does.” Annie just smiled at the people taking their things for them, leaning up against Tut when he put his arm around them.

“You’ll have to give us a tour...well Tiye and I. I’m sure these two hooligans know where they’re going,” she said, winking at the two men she’d come with. She smiled at the small mob of children running by, looking up at her husband knowing they were probably both thinking that someday they’d get to have their own little mob just like that.

She stepped back to let them greet their friend when he came, thankful she had Tut there to remind her of everyone’s names. There were still times she found herself taking a minute to remember the names of all her nieces and nephews, nevermind all these other people too. “It’s nice to meet you in person, I’ll try to remember everyone’s name,” she replied, her eyes growing about as wide as saucers and she clutched Tiye and instinctively moved back towards Tut.

Nodding, she took some deep breaths to calm down, kissing the top of Tiye’s head. “He..hello,” she said tentatively, unsure exactly how you were supposed to talk to a giant bear whose voice was swirling about in your head. “I...of course you can,” she replied eventually, moving towards the older man. She tried to stamp down the voice in her head saying it was her fault she never got to live last time, not wanting to ruin the afternoon by being in a bad mood, “She does love being held, and the two of us generally can’t make ourselves put her down.”

((THe muse can see the GIFs of teeny tiny husband, and she just wants to go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW and snatch him away from people and make them leave him alone. He’s a sweet little adorable boy, GO AWAY AND STOP YOUR MANIPULATIVE NONSENSE))