Disclaimer: I don't own National Treasure! I only own Elizabeth! :)
Chapter 1: My Time to Shine
"Elizabeth Van Lew was a spy for the Union during the Civil War. She was such a good spy that she had received praise from General Ulysses S. Grant!" a very enthusiastic and passionate Elizabeth Van Lew Chase said to her first grade class.
"My parents wanted to give me the name of a strong, important woman in history, and I'm proud of my name. And when I grow up, I'm going to discover the lost city of Atlantis," Elizabeth said to her class, with a proud smile on her face…
Elizabeth blew the stray piece of hair out of her face. She was starting to get annoyed by it. She stood up from her hunched over position and leaned back with her hands stretched up over her head. She felt her back crack. Wiping away the sweat that had been accumulating on her forehead, she checked the time…Five A.M.
She let out a frustrated groan. She had forgotten to change her watch to the current time zone. She calculated the time difference in her head….Noon. Lunch time.
She smiled to herself a little. They wouldn't mind if she took an hour off for her lunch break. She dusted the dirt off her cargo shorts and walked up the makeshift stairs and walked over to one of the big tents.
"Hey Monty," Elizabeth said as she collapsed into one of the chairs.
"Hey Liza," he said without looking up from the piece of pottery he was examining.
They sat there in silence.
"Couldn't stand the Grecian sun?" Monty asked with a hint of amusement.
Elizabeth smirked. "Oh I can stand it, I'm just trying to remember why I decided to come here," she said while thinking of that day her boss told her about this site.
"There's a new dig site in Greece. I want you to go there…" her boss said.
She started to tune everything out then. Her boss had a tendency to ramble.
"…Atlantis…"
That snapped Elizabeth back to reality.
"I'm in!" she said, no even caring that she had just interrupted her boss.
"Oh right, I remember now," Elizabeth said as she sighed. Atlantis. She'd been fascinated by the lost city for as long as she could remember. So far, everything that she's researched about Atlantis has led to a dead end. She sighed again and grabbed an apple and took a big bite out of it. Once she was done eating, she retied her pony-tail and went back out into the Grecian heat.
-x-
Elizabeth entered her hotel room in a foul mood. One of the important supervisors that arrived at the site earlier that afternoon was shocked to find Dr. Elizabeth Chase not Dr. Abigail Chase.
"Honestly! My sister specializes in handling antique documents!" she grumbled as she threw off her dusty boots. She looked around her spacious room.
"The perks of being an archeologist," she thought. "If only I'd be able to actually use it."
She made her way towards the shower, and sighed. She hated being compared to her older sister. And now the fact that her sister had found 2 finds of extreme historical significance, she knew it would be even harder to compete with that. Oh without a doubt, she loved her sister to death, it was just the fact that she was always in her sister's shadow.
"When will it be my time to shine?" she thought as she slowly went to sleep.
Little did she know, her time to shine was approaching sooner than she thought.
A/N: My first ever National Treasure Fic! Like it? Love it? Hate it? Let me know!