Chapter 3 lives here.And here's the TOC.A/N: Location challenge submission! This takes place in season 2. Its best place is likely a couple of episodes after Arianna Carlin wreaks havoc in Madame Ex, probably the week after The Prankster, but before Mayson complicates things in Church of Metropolis (and certainly before Lex comes back in The Phoenix).
I got pretty excited about using Egypt as a location basically immediately when Mary set her ‘longest distance from Metropolis’ category, so I did a search on major archeological discoveries in the early 90’s. When I found
Kent Weeks in
Luxor, though, it was just too tempting for me to pass up. So Kent Weeks is the only non-fictional person in the story.
My portrayal of Kent Weeks is entirely fictional, even though he is not. His white bucket hat is also real, and I cribbed a little bit of his speech pattern from interview videos, though I don’t think I nailed it because I still needed to use him as a story device, which meant that he had to act and speak as MY character and not exactly always as HIS character. More about him in the extended authors' notes to come with the epilogue.
The next chapter will have two full handfuls of Ancient Egyptian history, a healthy helping of romantic angst and the first little twist in the plot.
Enormous thanks to 90stvfangirl who kindly agreed to beta this and make sure that it didn't go too far off the rails and major gratitude to pacem for a thorough second look!
Thanks for reading!
