Hello this is my first Tomb raider fanfic so be nice. Read and review. I don't own Lara. Eidos ect. does.
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Rain was falling.
Lightning, thunder.
"Why should I care?"
Gunshots.
Blood. Blood on the floor. Blood on her hands.
"Egypt Werner, you walked away and left me."
"Give me your hand..."
Temple, dust, collapsing.
Cold. "Lara have you found wood for the fire?"
"Mother?"
Vanished.
Lara Croft awoke. She sat up. Her eyes searched the darkness and finally adjusted with a little help from the moon which shined though the window. She knew she wasn't going to be able to rest for a while so she got out of bed and stretched. Letting out a sigh she navigated the darkness of the mansion and made her way to the kitchen. She poured herself a glass of water and sat at the near by table.
Dreams of her past had made her unable to sleep. Even though she had been cleared of charges that she had murdered Von Croy it still bothered her. She wished that they hadn't parted on the terms that they did.
If you were on better terms with him perhaps you would have been able to help him sooner. A part of her mind argued.
He would have gotten himself into trouble and killed anyway. Her mind tried to reason.
Her mind flashed back to the Louvre.
Kurtis.
All that blood. His weapon had guided her and then retracted. She had looked on a found nothing. After that she didn't know what to think. Lara had went back to the manor and tried to get on with things. It worked a bit. She had the Manson remodeled and rehired Zip, hired Alister.
Then her friend Anya had called her about a dais. So instead of doing nothing she began a search, or rather gave new life to a search of trying to find her mother. She remembered it well.
She took a long drink from the water sighed again, resting her chin on her hand. She had got the sword and all now all she needed was a way to get into Avalon.
"Lara?" A voice broke her from her thoughts and she looked up to see Alister.
"Oh Hello Alister." she said in surprise. "Hey." he said, "What are you doing up?"
"I was going to ask you the same question." Lara replied. "I want to get some water." he said, gesturing toward her glass. He gave a small smile, "What about you?" I couldn't sleep."I just wanted to get some water." she said, mirroring his answer as she got up and began to head back towards her room, "I'll see you in the morning." Though I am pretty sure it's already morning. She went back to her room and lay awake in her bed.
Sleep still seemed like it did not wish to find her. She lay the in the moonlit darkness for a few minutes and then got up once more. She switched on the light and looked at the clock. 4:00 am. Sighing once again she turned off the light and went to hit the switch that had the secret passage that led to the study from her room and vice versa.
She looked around for a moment and then went upstairs to the other room, looking at even more books until she found the one she wanted to read, turned on the little lamp, moved the laptop out of the way and began to read. Myths and story of the ancient seemed to give images into her mind, soon she felt her lids grow heavy and before she knew it she fell into a dreamless darkness.
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Authors Note: Chapter two will be up soon. Be nice read and review.
