Tales from Egypt (A Gods of Egypt Fanfiction)

No One Suspects the Thief

The first thing he took was a simple couplet. Not very noticeable but a good start. 

Horus was being an ass, there was no other way around it or to word it. Even Hathor agreed with them when they had brought it to her attention. It wasn't that he was returning to his former self, it was more of, he was just being an ass. 

Then he had yelled at Zaya for something trivial, and he had taken one of his sandals. 

Bek smiled when he heard the roar the following morning from the kings bedroom when he could not find his shoe. Zaya gave him a look of confusion at his amusement but he dismissed it. 

The following week one of his shirt went missing. 

"I can't find my shoe nor shirt."

Hathor looked around after her husband's admission, to see if anyone seemed to look out of place with this sort of information. Bek had to try really really hard not to laugh. The next day he snatched one of Horus's arm bands and the other sandal. 

He was just stashing it away under his bed when Zaya had come home. Her eyes landed on the basket of Horus's belongings, then travelled up to meet his eyes. She smiled as she rushed forward, looking through the assortment of 'missing' items. 

"I can't believe he didn't see you take this!"

She held up the staff that Horus had taken with him throughout the entire Set experience, Osiris's staff. Bek smiled smugly at that one, while it was true that he should have been discovered after that one as he carried it around his shoulders, Bek was just that good. 

"You can't tell anyone, Zaya."

"Your going to have to return these things eventually."

She was still looking through the basket, she saw the sandals, his shirt, a shaw, three arm bands, Osiris's staff again, a knife, and various other things that one would not assume to notice were missing. Laughing under her breath, she covered her mouth with her hand as she looked back up at the boy next to her. 

"I have to tell Lady Hathor, she won't tell, I know she won't."

Bek conceded to her point, and the fact that it was hard to deny her anything at this point, and the next day when he met up with Hathor for a meeting the Queen could not stop her stifled laughter. Horus looked confused as he glanced between his Queen and Friend but brushed it off as he called the meeting to a start. 

Then the crown went missing. 

All Hell broke loose. 

Horus was furious that someone would dare steal his crown, meanwhile, Zaya and Hathor fought the urge to giggle as Bek quickly tucked his shirt back in. How he did not notice the bulge in the thiefs shirt, or assume it was the thief, was beyond them but it made things so much funnier. 

*Le Timeskip :3*

Zaya turned towards Bek as he climbed onto bed that night, snuggling up close to his side. 

"You need to give them back, Bek."

"I will."

"Before he finds out it was you."

"I know."

She smiled, he undoubtedly would be very creative with it too. Life with Bek was never boring. 

*Another Timeskip...Because I can :)*

His shirt appeared folded neatly on his throne. 

Horus picked it up and looked around for anyone or anything that might have left it there, upon spotting no one he turned to take it back to his room as he was already wearing (A less nice) shirt and had no need of it just yet. 

While, ducking behind the large throne, Bek stifled his laughter behind his hand. 

*......Timeskip? ^_^"*

The staff appeared in what was left of the Game for the feast during a party of sorts held for the lower villages so they could come into the city without any real reason, just to see their King and Queen and have a good time. 

Horus let out a sound of alarm as he picked it up, but there was too many people here to be throwing accusations around and therefore bit his lip about it. 

Completely missing it when Zaya and Hathor giggled behind their hands on the other side of the room as Bek dangled precariously near the ceiling with his rope. 

*Timeskip....DON'T KILL MEH! >_<*

His sandals had been found in one of the fountains by a servant. 

Horus grumbled the entire day about wet feet and squeaking shoes. 

Bek had to make a quick unnoticed pit-stop to his rooms to get a change of clothes as he was soaking wet. 

Zaya and Hathor found it amusing, he did not. 

*^.^" TIMESKIP! (Runs off)*

Putting the crown back was a bit harder than the other things. Horus had had enough and placed extra guards around the palace, ordered to capture anyone out of place. 

He was just about to place the crown on the statue of some random animal at which he would laugh about later, most likely with Hathor and Zaya, when he was caught. 

A hand closed around his arm painfully and pulled him around to face his captureror. The guard was grim faced as he drug him behind him towards the Kings chambers. Bek tried in vain, the first three seconds, to escape and may have thought about clawing his arm off before completely giving up and focused on following the guard side by side instead of escaping. 

By the time they reached Horus's chambers they were having a full blown conversation. 

"I mean, I thought it was an appropriate thing to do as he was being an ass for the last month and a half."

The guard nodded, responding in agreement, even as Bek himself reached out to knock on the kings door. Missing it when the door opened, as he was distracted by their conversation

"But then you have to think, what kind of idiot doesn't think that the 'former' thief would have anything to do with it? And, come one, I shoved the thing in my shirt for Ra's sake, how stupidly blind can you be?"

Before the guard could answer, a deeper much more exasperated voice interrupted them both. 

"Did you just call me an idiot? And, stupid, blind?"

Bek grimaced and made a face at the guard, whom had to refrain from chuckling at, as he turned to face his doom that came in the form of Horus. The god himself was leaning against the door frame, giving him the much grieved raised eyebrow look. 

"Pun completely intended," He turned towards the guard at his side for a moment, "I got this my friend, you have done your job well!"

Bek then turned back to the god before them, smiling cheekily. 

"I, Oh Lord of the Air, am here to turn myself in for stealing your belongings."

This caught his attention, Horus straightened up from his leaning position. 

"Your telling me you are the one responsible for these thefts?"

Bek rolled his eyes at him, "Yes My Lord, I lay myself down at your mercy."

Horus rolled his eyes, now he was just egging it. He waved the guard away with a hand as he shot out to grab at the thief in front of him, doing something he knew Bek disliked in the public view when it did not involve flying or playing tag with each other among the rooftops, he scooped the boy up and led him back into his room. 

"Next time, if I, how did you put it, am being an ass, please just tell me instead of taking my things."

Bek nodded, relenting to his fate of being carried across the room and tossed onto the god's bed. 

"But my way was fun!"

"I'll show you fun!"