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I.O.U. by GwendolynGrace for Eris_historia
Fandoms: The Mummy Series, The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001)
23 Dec 2020
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Summary
Ardeth Bay owed Jonathan Carnahan his life, and they both knew it. Jonathan Carnahan owed Ardeth Bay more than life--and he knew that, too. But whether it was 1923 or any of his subsequent journeys to Egypt, there was more unspoken between them than either was willing to admit. Try as he might, he could not get the man to let himself have what (Jonathan thought) he wanted. So, in 1935, two years after the final defeat of Imhotep, Jonathan came back one more time, with the proposal of a great adventure to find a lost city. And this time, he meant to settle his debt, clear the air, and maybe--just maybe find peace.
In the way life has of making us liars, he found that, far from paying it back, he and Ardeth Bay would spend their remaining lifetime keeping track of their accounts....and calling in their IOUs.