When Angel woke up she sat up and stretched, the early morning sun was coming into her room.   She slid out of the bed and headed for her shower and turning it on she stripped down and stepped in.    The hot water felt good running over her and since she had nowhere to be, she made that shower last a good half hour.   When she came out, she wrapped in a towel and picked up her underthings to put in the basket she kept in her wardrobe.   She toweled her hair and then pulled it into a braid,  her hair took a while to dry and a braid was the easiest way to let it dry without taking half an hour with the hair dryer.<br/><br/>In her kitchen she grabbed a yogurt, fresh fruit and granola and settled at the bar to eat her morning breakfast.   She pulled on her underwear and leggings  with a cute oversized pink t-shirt.  It was girly but then again, so was she.  Her small feet pushed into tennis shoes and she grabbed her basket of laundry to walk down the hall to the laundry room.   This time of day usually the only people doing any were her and maybe Tim or Leon.   She set it up and started the machine before she settled down on the chair in the room with one of her magazines.  Maybe a little later, she'd see if the guys wanted to go out to the park and have some lunch or dinner.<br/><br/>____________________________________________<br/><br/>Cairo, Egypt<br/><br/>A couple of archaeologists were in one of the newly discovered pyramids.  This one was small and had been buried in the desert until a recent huge sandstorm had revealed the peak of it.  After the excavation the men were finally ready to open it and begin the exploration.   The couldn't know that what they were doing would open something that should never have been opened again.<br/><br/>When they stepped inside they walked down the first hallway and found a chamber with an altar.  It looked like it was made of obsidian and one of them reached out to brush the sand from the top and cut his finger on a sharp edge of the stone.   His blood dripped onto the altar and somewhere in another place, the shield that had held the darkness back for thousands of years cracked, broke open and began to seep out into the world again.   The two archaeologist left the site to return to London and make their report, they carried a deadly pathogen with them.  But no one would know for another week and a half.