Disclaimer: I went to Sommer's house to ask for a part of the movie, but then I got turned out. So I went to Morocco to where the filming was, to go see if I could get a part of the movie there. Well, I managed to get a cute little Brendan Frasier (Barbie -er- Ken) doll from one of the nearby shops. But I'm afraid I came home empty handed. Alas, I do not own any part of the movie's characters or anything to do with them, I'm just borrowing. But you guys have to read quick, cause Sommers doesn't know I'm borrowing them and if I don't have them back by Thursday there might be some sort of law action taken toward this!

 

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Summary: Evie's birthday is coming up soon and Alex doesn't know what to get her…. Du du dummmmm will he find a present, will he find a present????

 

(set after TMR, how long after… I don't know, probably just the next year or so)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boy had one week left, one measly week. Alex figured he'd just buy his mum a present, that's what Uncle Jon and dad did every year and she seemed fine with it? He now sat on his bed, awaiting the morning ritual, his mum would come in to see him and wake him up before she went off to the museum to deal with the new Antiquities that were coming in every day. Ever since Ahm-Shere and all of the fuss over Evelyn's new findings, the Museum seemed to have a new class. His mother was so much more busy now with work, it was hard to get some alone time with her.

 

"Alex?" Evelyn called out to her boy as she opened the door and headed to the window to open the drapes. "Ah, you're awake. Are you alright? I usually can never wake you up in the morning." She asked with concern.

 

"No, I'm alright, just thinking." Alex said as his mother bent over to kiss him. "Mum?" He asked her.

 

"Yes darling," She responded while picking up one of his 'Egyptian Artifact' Books, ever since last year he has had more of an interest in Egyptology.

 

"What do you want for your birthday?" He asked, truthfully.

 

"I want you to be a good boy, and keep you room neat and tidy." She answered as she stepped over Alex's latest model; his dirigible ship.

 

Evelyn then left the room, Alex sat and thought some more. Well, that was an easy enough answer for him. But that just wasn't the answer he was looking for. Rick then came into his room. Rick was usually the one who would have to wake Alex up the second time after his mother, because the boy was prone to succumbing to slumber after Evelyn left.

 

"Hello big guy!" Rick said in a cheery voice. "How about you get up right now and we'll go have a little game of catch before breakfast, hmmm?"

 

"Alright!" Alex exclaimed as he quickly jumped off his bed and ran to his dresser to get his clothes.

 

Alex came bounding down the stairs in his socked feet, he slid across the checkered patterned tile flooring and swung into the kitchen where his dad sat and waited. The two went outside into the back lawn to play catch with a baseball and two gloves.

 

"Dad? What should I get mum for her birthday?" Alex asked as they passed the ball to one another.

 

"Why don't you just be a good boy?" Rick suggested.

 

"No! That's what mom said! Do you think I could go get her something for her birthday? I mean buy her something, like you and Uncle Jon?" The boy asked.

 

"Why sure! How about, after your mother leaves, we will go to town and I'll let you pick out her present?" Rick suggested.

 

"Alright." Alex agreed, he kind of knew what he wanted to get his mother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After Evelyn left for work, Alex ran up to his room and over to his piggy bank. He opened up the bottom and pulled out all of his money. He then ran back downstairs to where his father sat in the study.

 

"Dad! Come on." Alex cried out to Rick who was reading the paper.

 

"What? Oh, yes I remember. Go ask your Uncle Jonathan if he wants to come, and then we'll be on our way."

 

Alex ran up to Uncle Jonathan's room and burst inside, his Uncle was sitting on one of his couches listening to music. "UNCLE. JOHN!" Alex had to shout because of the volume of the music.

 

Jonathan turned it down and then addressed Alex, "Yes?" He asked.

 

"Dad wants to know if you want to come with us to town?" Alex asked.

 

"Sure, I'll come, I have some stuff to pick up for the party anyway." Jonathan said.

 

"What party?" Alex asked.

 

"Your mother's birthday party, you do know her birthday is in a week, don't you?" HE asked surprised.

 

"Yes, that's why we are going to town, I'm going to buy mum a present with my own money!" Alex said quite proud of himself.

 

"What are you going to get her?" Jonathan asked as he put on a pair of socks.

 

"Can't tell, it's a secret."

 

"Oh, I see, one of those secret special presents, eh?" Jonathan and Alex then proceeded to the front of the Manor, to the front door.

 

The three guys then got in the car and headed toward town, while in the car, Alex tried his luck "Dad, can I shop by myself? I want mum's present to be a surprise."

 

"Well…" Rick pondered "I guess… if you promise to be good, I don't see any harm in letting you shop by yourself." He answered.

 

"Awesome! Thanks dad!" Alex cried out.

 

They pulled up in front of one of those All-in-One stores. "Alright, Alex," Rick said to his son when they got out of the car. "You can only go in here, and I want you to meet your Uncle Jon and I at the car in one hour. Kapeesh?" He asked with a stern look on his face.

 

"I have no idea what that last word meant, but OK" Alex said with a sly grin on his face. This brought a smile to Rick.

 

"Go on, get outta here." He said as he lead Alex in the direction of the door.

 

Alex scampered off to the arts and crafts section. He immediately went to the glue and grabbed about three 2 liter bottles of it. He then went over to the paint section and got some yellow, gold and silver paint. He then decided to go back to the front to get a cart, this stuff was getting heavy.

 

After he got his cart he went to the very back of the store, where all of the new stuff comes in. He asked one of the people who worked there and they got him a few heavy duty cardboard boxes and put them on his cart. He now had everything that he needed. Except for one more thing that he would get at home.

 

He went up and paid for the stuff. But now Alex had a lot of money left over, and a craving for candy. So he felt that he should go spend the rest of his twenty dollars on sweets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An hour later, Rick walked over to the car with Jonathan. He was happy to see Alex waiting there for them like he was told to. But he wasn't so happy at finding the boy filling up on candy and chocolate.

 

"Alex" Rick asked "What have you got there?"

 

"Oh, don't worry dad, I've got enough for everyone, here uncle Jon." The boy said as he passed his uncle a bag of licorice.

 

"Oooh, thanks buddy" Jonathan said as he pulled out a piece and ate it.

 

Rick just sighed, there wasn't anything he could do now that Jonathan has instigated the eating of sweets.

 

"dad, can you put this in the trunk?" Alex was referring to the heavy duty cardboard that was almost as big as he was.

 

"What are you going to do with that?" Rick started. "I don't want you making another cardboard house, you know what happened to the last one."

 

"I know, I know, this isn't for a cardboard house, it's… a school project." Alex said very quickly.

 

"Oh, alright, well then, anything else you need?" Rick asked puzzled, he hadn't heard of any school project being assigned.

 

"Well, could you drop me off at mum's work for the rest of the day?" Alex asked.

 

"Um, alright, but you have to be good." Rick said looking at Alex sternly. "What did you get your mother for her birthday, anyway?" He then asked.

 

"Dad! You know I can’t tell you! It's a secret." Alex cried out, a little too loud. All of the people walking down the side walk stopped and stared at the two. Rick looked around embarrassed. The three then got into the car.

 

The car ride to the museum was a noisy one. Between Jonathan slurping up long pieces of licorice, and Alex chewing on toffee things were starting to sound a little uncivilized.

 

 

 

"There you go, you know where your mother is right?" Rick asked as he let Alex out of the car.

 

"Dad! I've only been coming here all my life." Alex responded, quite offended at the question.

 

 

 

 

 

Alex came walking up to his mum's office, he slowly made his way to her door. He noticed ahead of time that it was slightly ajar, so he figured he's make the best of the situation.

 

Evelyn was sitting at her desk with her head in some paper work. Alex quietly made his way to her door until he was pressed right up against it.

 

He then jumped into the room, bursting open the door and shouting "HI MUM!"

 

Evelyn surely didn't expect this, she jumped a foot out of her seat and screamed. "Alex! What are you doing here?" She asked afterward.

 

"I wanted to visit you. Is that OK? If not I can go look at some of the new Egyptian wings." Alex basically insisted.

 

"OH no, honey, that's OK. I'd love your company." Evelyn said as she sat back down.

 

"No, you look busy… I'll just go then." Alex said and left before his mum could object.

 

He had a bag with him that he brought to the new Egyptian exhibition. He made his way to the giant miniature size pyramid that was on display. This display was supposed to show you what the actual pyramid and its surroundings looked like. So there was plenty of sand all around the base of the structure. Alex made sure no one was looking, then he ducked under the red velvet rope that was supposed to keep people from going to the display.

 

Alex took out his bag and started to fill it with sand when he heard footsteps coming toward him. He thought about ducking back under the rope to where he was supposed to be. But he would look pretty suspicious with a bag of sand in his hand. So he decided to hide behind the pyramid.

 

The person coming over was Evelyn, she decided to go look for Alex to spend some quality time with him. She figured she could get her paper work done later.

 

"Abdul, Mohhamed?" She asked when she heard shifting noises. For some reason it sounded like it was coming from the pyramid display. "Alex? Are you over there?" She asked when she heard crumpling noises.

 

Alex knew he was caught, so he might as well make the best of the situation, he quickly scooped some more sand into the bag, tied it up, then left it behind the pyramid. He then jumped out "HI!" He cried out, scarring his mom again.

 

"Alex! You know you're not supposed to be there! Get out right now, before someone sees you." She insisted as she pulled him over to the rope. "What were you doing there anyway?"

 

"Umm," He didn't think about this. "I saw some sand, um over in the wrong place. And so I decided to rearrange it so that it looked good." He lied.

 

"Well, what do you say we go get some lunch?" Evelyn asked.

 

"Sure, you go get your coat and I will stay here and wait." Alex said as he pointed his mom in the direction from which she came.

 

When she was out of sight, and probably earshot, he went back under the rope to retrieve his bag. There was no where for him to put it though, so he decided to hide it in his coat. He put the large bag inside the front of his coat and zipped it up. It didn't look too bad? Even for a four pound bag of sand, right?

 

Evelyn then came back, she was talking about which restaurant she wanted to try. She didn't notice Alex's new weight until she stopped right in front of him and almost bumped into his over grown stomach. She starred at him with an astonished look on her face.

 

"What?" Alex asked defensively.

 

"Nothing." Evie said as she shook her head a little, she really needed to get out more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After lunch Alex decided to take the bus home and Evelyn went back to the museum.

 

He was still very hungry even after the lunch. Evelyn had insisted the he eat a plain salad for some reason. When he got on the bus he unzipped his coat and finally was able to pull out the sand. To his dismay, one of the buttons on his shirt had punctured the bag and there was now sand ever so slowly leaking all over him and down his pants.

 

When Alex got home he went right up to his room to change. He then found all of his supplies and took them out back to his tree fort. He also needed some paint brushes and a pair of scissors, which he got. He started at his work, cutting out four large triangles and a square. Taking the large brush and spreading glue on one side of each triangle and then dumping on sand.

 

He continued on his work until his dad finally came out to look for him. Alex quickly jumped out of the fort to greet his dad. He didn't want him to climb up into the fort to look for him. He might see the present.

 

"Hi, bud. I didn't even know you were home. It's almost dinner, so how about you go get washed up?" Rick asked

 

"K, but don't go into my fort, alright?" Alex asked.

 

Rick nodded his head, and then Alex ran off.

 

Rick really wanted to go up there and see what his son was doing, but then again. His word was his word.

 

 

 

 

 

After dinner Alex went up to his parents room to go get the family photo album. He brought it to his room and started pulling out pictures. There were a couple of Evelyn and Jonathan when they were younger, he figured they would be good. There were lots of Alex and his parents when he was a baby. There were a couple from past Birthday parties. Which included one of Rick's face in a large chocolate cake, literally.

 

Alex got what he wanted then returned the album. He then went downstairs to the kitchen where his mum was cleaning up the dinner plates.

 

"Mum?" Alex asked.

 

"Yes Alex?"

 

"Can I have some pasta?"

 

"You just had dinner, it's too late for more food."

 

"No, I mean dry, I want dry pasta." He corrected.

 

"What for?" Evelyn asked curious.

 

"My-er- collection. Yeah, my pasta collection."

 

"Oh, alright." She pulled down some of the large containers from a cupboard and gave Alex one of the containers with lots of different shaped bow ties, noodles, and just weird shapes. He figured they would work perfectly.

 

"Thanks mum!" The boy cried out as he ran back up to his room.

 

Just then Rick and Jonathan came walking into the kitchen with their drinks in hand and laughing.

 

"Rick?" Evelyn asked.

 

"Yeah?" Rick asked still giggling at a joke Jonathan had told him.

 

"Has Alex been acting strange lately? I mean, doing weird things?" She asked.

 

"Weird like?" Rick asked.

 

"Well, just today at the Museum I caught him trying to rearrange the sand in the new Pyramid display, and just now he asked me for some dry pasta for his collection." She answered with a very concerned tone in her voice.

 

"Uh…" Rick started holding back some more laughs, Jonathan had slunked away into another room to go laugh. "Well, I think the sand thing is self explanitory, he got that form the Carnahan side of the family, that would be you. As for the dried up pasta, I don't know."

 

Jonathan then came back into the room, he had obviously overheard the conversation. "Hey! I used to have a pasta collection, does he have the little bow ties? Those were the hardest ones to find."

 

Evelyn got a look of sheer horror on her face. "Oh dear god," She whispered to herself. "I need to go talk to Alex, excuse me a moment." She then headed up to Alex's room, leaving Jonathan and Rick behind to laugh it up.

 

She knocked on the door, there was a pause, just as she was about burst through, a voice sounded.

 

"Come in." Alex said.

 

Evelyn then walked into the room. "Honey, I have something to ask you." She started, "You know, sometimes you do some things that don't make sense, but that's OK. I'd like to know why you are collecting pasta?"

 

Alex paused and looked at his mum, then at the floor. "No reason," He solemnly said to the floor.

 

"Is there something you want to tell me?" She asked.

 

"No" Alex quickly responded. With that Evelyn got up, gave Alex a kiss and headed out the door. "Oh, mum?" Alex asked.

 

Evelyn quickly turned around. "What? What, um yes Alex?" She asked with her hopes up.

 

"Is it alright if I use a couple of your pictures from the photo album?" The boy asked.

 

"Yes, I, I guess so?"

 

"Thanks" With that Evelyn left.

 

 

 

 

 

The next day was a Sunday, Rick was spending most of the day inside reading, and Evelyn was at the Museum.

 

Alex used this as his last day to work on his 'project'. He brought the pasta and the pictures to the tree fort and continued his work. A little paint here, a little glue there. He hoped his mom didn't mind that he cut up the pictures?

 

Finally, he was done. The structure was so big that he figured he would just leave it in the fort to stay for the week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The week passed and Evelyn still couldn't get through to her son. Rick and Jonathan were scarcely around either. They both had things to do, people to see.

 

It was Saturday morning, Evelyn's birthday. At about five o clock AM her and Rick were awoken by Jonathan and Alex who came bounding into the room and onto the bed. Well, at least Alex came onto the bed. Jonathan was holding a tray with complementary Birthday breakfast. He also had an envelope.

 

Evelyn opened the envelope to find four tickets to Egypt in it. "Oh no," Rick said "Not this again!" Evie just looked at him and smiled, she then thanked her brother with a hug and kiss.

 

Next Rick got out of bed and walked over to his sock drawer, he came out with a small velvet box. Evelyn opened it to find a Diamond ring, it had the same small pattern on it as her locket necklace did. She thanked him with a hug and a kiss too.

 

Next Alex made his presence known with a loud cough. "Well, aren't you going to say Happy Birthday to your mother?" Rick asked.

 

"Yes, but not now, get dressed and meet me in the backyard by my tree fort." Alex said, he then left the room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteen minutes later Rick Evelyn and Jonathan came downstairs all dressed and ready to see the big surprise. Alex was already out in the backyard. He had a bed sheet hung over the structure, there was a rope tied to the middle of the sheet that stretched up to a branch of the tree fort and came back down to where Alex stood.

 

"What is this?" Evelyn asked. Alex just put up a hand that told her to be quiet.

 

"Ahem-" He cleared his throat. "Presenting, a gift to the bestest Egyptologist in the world. An awesome mother and wife and friend. A great all around person who for her birthday only deserves the best. A gift to my mother, Evelyn O'Connell!" With that Alex pulled the rope with lifted the sheet up off the present. Everyone gasped.

 

Sitting before them, being lit up by the morning sun was a pyramid, a large one at that. It was almost the same height as Alex. There was a layer of sand covering the whole structure. Along the bottom were glued pieces of macaroni designed in intricate patterns and painted gold. There were even four macaroni people at the bottom, Alex explained that they were him, Rick Jonathan and Evie at Ahm-Shere.

 

One of the triangular sides folded down, and inside the pyramid were little shelves and cupboards that held pictures with home made frames. Each picture had something to do with the O'Connell and Carnahan family. And inside the cupboard were very fine and expensive chocolates, Evelyn's favorites.

 

By the time she saw everything she was almost in tears, she couldn’t believe her little, well, big boy did this for her. She was so happy that she picked Alex up and carried him half way across the lawn, kissing and hugging him all the while.

 

Rick and Jonathan moved the pyramid to the parlor, where it now sits on the grand piano, a memory of the O'Connell Carnahan family, and the love that is in it.

 

Alright, now you've read it. It's not an actual adventure and it doesn't have that extensive a plot to it. It just keeps the O'Connell seat warm until someone decides to use it again. Please be kind and Review, tell me what you thought! Thanks!