: : Summary : : Story about the other ancient lovers....
�What happened, I do not remember anything. It is all very confusing, all I can remember is looking over the balcony and seeing those two�� Nefertiri became silent as she mentally recalled the events of the night before. �My father? Where is my father?� She continued to ask this question sobbing at knowing the answer to her own question.
�I am sorry Nefertiri, your father�he�he has perished. He has gone to stand before the great God Osiris.�
Nefertiri became inconsolable and as she cried Tefen stood at her side trying to console his saddened princess. As this was happening a soft knock was heard on the door.
�May I come in?� asked Alizoth as he peered in through the door.
�Yes,� answered Tefen holding the princess.
�Princess I am sorry for your great loss. I feel as is we have all lost a great father. And as head of the Med-jais I come to inform you that I have taken some steps in punishing the blasphemous individuals who took part in this horrible deed. We have decided to place the Homdai on the leader of these deeds. And as for Anck-su-namun nothing could be done to her for she took her punishment from her own hands. I am sorry to have to bring you such words but I feel that you as well as your relatives should be informed on this situation.� Alizoth bowed to the princess and signaled for Tefen to follow him.
Away from Nefertiri, Tefen and Alizoth began to converse. Alizoth asked Tefen to stay close to princess and to offer her both physical and emotional support. To which Tefen gladly obliged.
After the death of Seti, the days passed slowly. The princess wrapped herself around her grief never leaving her chamber. This was a tragedy, which had completely taken a hold of her life. Tefen feared that with the way things were going she would never leave this state and on the occasions where he would try to comfort her she would push him away in every possible way she could, even regarding him as an ordinary servant. However, because he had come to know her so well and also because he knew of the great pain that was instilled in her heart, he continued to ignore he change towards him. This went on for about a month until the usual comforting and pushing aside turned into an ugly argument.
�Why do you keep pushing me away from you?� asked an angry and hurt Tefen.
�I do not push you away, I simply don�t want any company at this time�my father father just died, don�t you understand my pain?�
�Nefertiri, your father died close to two months ago. I do understand your pain, but your behaviour is getting to be absurd!�
�Don�t you call me absurd, I have had enough of your foolish words. Get OUT!� yelled Nefertiri
�I can not leave. I am your bodyguard,� yelled back Tefen
�Then I give you permission to go away, Servant! I hate you! Go! Get out! I don�t want you or your kind around me. If any of your little tribe ever cared about my father you would have been there and he would not have died at the hand of those two. He is gone and I want you to go too. Now LEAVE!�
�Listen to me you foolish girl,� said Tefen as he grabbed Nefertiri by the arms, �chose your words wisely because if one of your words hurts me or causes me to despise you, you will never see me again. You will lose all the love and respect that I hold for you. And I will leave as you so request!�
He threw her back on her bed and left her chamber furiously. Nefertiri began to cry once he left, she also began to think of what he had said. She did not want to lose him. She loved him more than anything. He was the only thing left in this cruel world that loves her as she does him. Thinking about Tefen and their love, she remembered about the baby. She was now in her 4th month and beginning to show. Throughout this time she had completely forgotten about her state, in which time she had neglected to care for herself. At the thoughts of the child all the worries that had plagued her once she realized she was pregnant returned to her mind. Without losing a minute she ran towards the door in search of Tefen, whom she felt she needed terribly. Once at the door she was faced with someone else.
�Medjai, where is Tefen?�
�He has been given permission by Alizoth to leave for the afternoon.�
�Where did he go and why was I not informed of this?�
�From what I heard he has gone to the home of his parents. And the reason why you were not informed of his leave was due to both Alizoth and Tefen not wanting to intrude upon your grief, princess�
Nefertiri back away closing the door to her room, and there believing that he had left her forever she for the first time since her father�s death left her grief in order to follow the man that she loved. She felt that she had to do something or else she would like he said lose him forever. In this frame of mind she began to organize herself in order to follow him and convince him of her love for him.
At having no one prohibit her from leaving the palace, she walked out of her room with the dignity of her position ready to leave.
�Princess, may I ask where we are going?� asked the med-jai who stood outside her door.
�I am going out for a while, while you are staying right where you are� said she decidedly.
�I cannot allow you��
�Excuse me! You cannot allow me?! Med-jai do not overstep the boundaries of your position. I am a princess, therefore I will be the one allowing or not allowing around here. Understand?�
Nefertiri walked away from him defiantly without waiting for any answer from him. As she continued to walk towards the main door of the palace, she was once again confronted by another med-jai whom she dealt with in the same manner as she had done with the one at her door. But nonetheless, due to her defiant attitude she was able to leave the palace. In this second departure from all that she had known, she also dressed, as she had done the first time in simple garments as not to arouse any attention from the rest of the people. She rapidly made her way towards the home of Tefen and his parents.
�Hello Princess,� said Tefen�s father astonished by her presence.
�Please do not call me princess, I am the same girl that stayed at your home some time ago and I would like it for you to treat me in the same manner that you bestowed upon me during that time,� said she sweetly following her words with a kiss on his cheek.
Nefertiri was once again welcomed, and inside the home she found Tefen sitting with his mother engaged in what seemed to be a deep conversation that centered about him and Nefertiri. The two became silent as she entered the room. The silence that appeared was soon followed by the departure of Tefen�s parents in order to leave the two to speak privately about their situation.
�Tefen, I am so sorry. I never meant to say those things or to act like that. Please forgive me. I sweat to you that I will never��
�I know you didn�t mean to act like that,� said Tefen cutting her off.
�Then why did you leave me? Have you stopped loving me?� asked she while her eyes began to fill with tears.
�Don�t say that. You know very well that you are everything to me. I would never leave you. It�s just that�I just felt so incompetent because�I didn�t know how to help you in your loss. I am sorry,� said he breaking down.
�No, you should never feel like that. If it were not for you, I probably would not have lived through the death of my father. Tefen, do you not see how thankful I am to you for being there. Please always be here for me. I need you to. We need you to, the baby and I.�
Tefen looked up at her, his eyes glaring with the imprint of tears. Nefertiri closed in on his face and kissed him. After the kiss he put his arms around her waist leaning his head towards her swollen stomach. She leaned her head down against his head placed a kiss there while also caressing his head with her hands. They stayed in that position for a few minutes until Nefertiri broke the silence.
�I am staying here with you. I am not going back.�
Tefen parted from her and began to look up at her face, which showed serious expression.
�What. You cant. You have to go back. We both do.�
� I don�t want to. I am tired of all their protocol. I just want to lead a normal life with you and our child. I am not needed there. Ramsis has already been appointed pharaoh and they do not need me and I don�t want to be the throne�s dolled up princess anymore. People are talking because they know that I am expecting. If I go back they might take my baby away and I don�t want that. Please don�t make me go back there.�
The space that existed between them was once again closed in by a kiss.
�You are right, but we cannot just leave without them knowing. I do not want one day to find that my wife has been taken away by her court,� said he trying to take away some worry from her by reminding her of the first time that she had escaped the palace.
�They will never let us go if we tell them.�
�Then what do you suggest we do. Flee?�
She gave him a look that answered his question. To which he agreed to for he felt he could and would do anything that she asked him to do. They informed his parents of their plans and along with them agreed to return to Tefen�s place of birth, which was Syriiah. After having prepared, the journey was began that night. They let the stars lead them upon a new beginning, where they were free to love one another because she no longer a princess but just a woman and he was just a man with as much freedom to love her back as she did him. A path with a beginning where a new life was born and a new journey was started.
�Hon, wake up. Rick�Rick�
�wha�what�Oh my God Evelyn, I just had the strangest dream��
The End�����������.The End
PS. I hope the ending satisfied those of you who wanted to know if Tefen was in fact Rick.