Here is my new story. I just finished Tomb Raider and I just loved what they have done with the character of Lara Croft. Since the reboot is AU, I thought I'd change things up a bit like her butler and other characters. I hope you all enjoy this and please review.

Chapter 1

Croft Manor, felt so cold on nights like this even if it is summer time. I sit alone on my balcony, wrapped in a blanket looking out at the full moon. I take a sip of my tea and sigh to myself. It had been one month since I returned to the United Kingdom from Yamatai. God, the place still sends me chills. My therapist comes once a day and discusses with me the events that took place. She has diagnosed me with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I have to take medicine once a day to help with the nightmares and mood swings. It's about time for my pill and I know Henry, my butler and caretaker will be up to give me my medicine. In fact, I hear his footsteps on my balcony. I turn and try to smile at him. He looks tired. His once dark hair now greying on the sides. He stands tall at six foot and no longer so skinny but a bit of a belly.

"Lady Lara."

"Yes Henry."

"Your medicine." He hands me the tiny white pill.

I take it and with one swallow with the aid of my tea it goes down and disperses into my system. I look back out at the moon. It looks so calm here...unlike there where everything had a hunger and thirst for blood. Flashes of my first kill haunt me, the hole in his head, the visibility of his brain to my bare eyes. Oh all the men I killed, how I relished in it and looked forward to putting a bullet in their heads. I look back at Henry.

"All the things I've done Henry...I just can't...you'd be so disappointed."

"Lara..." He bends down and looks at me eye level. "You had to survive. I know you are not proud of what you did but...but you had to, and I'm glad you are home. If I lost you..." His voice chokes. "If I lost you...I would be devastated. I promised your parents I would take care of you...I promised them that I would raise you into a wonderful, brilliant woman if something happened to them and I did that." I see tears welling up in his green eyes, he pushes back a strand of my hair behind my ear.

I look at him and nod and gaze back over at the moon. He stands back up and rests a hand on my shoulder. I sigh and try to keep out all the negative memories from my mind. They haunt me every waking moment of the day.

"Do you want to know something?"

"What?"

"One of the last things I remember Roth telling me is...You can do it Lara, after all you're a Croft. Well maybe I wish I wasn't a Croft...after all look at what its done. Look at it Henry! It's gone to shit! Roth, Grim, Alex...they are all fucking dead! Look at me...I'm going fucking crazy!I can't, I can't..." I just start bursting into tears.

I feel Henry's arms around me and he holds me close. His hand rubs my back as I sob into his shoulder. I grip onto him and just let my tears cover his white dress shirt. I hear his soft voice, giving me words of encouragement and telling me that everything will be fine. I want to believe him...Oh how I want to believe him. Maybe in time, I will and everything will be fine.

"Thank you."

"I'm always here for you."

He stops and looks over at my graduation photo I have placed next to me. It is of Sam and I together in our caps and gowns smiling so big after we received our Bachelors in Arts degrees.

"Have you told Sam how you feel?"

"No, she would never go after me anyway. I'm not her type. She might be bisexual but she clearly has an interest in the boys."

"Well maybe you can tell her tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" I look over at him with a questioning expression.

"Yes Sam called earlier, she said she would be arriving tomorrow. I am to pick her up from the train station tomorrow afternoon."

"Tomorrow." I hadn't seen Sam in oh about a month, she had gone to America to be with her family after they were rescued. "It's been awhile since I have seen her...I'm such a mess Henry."

"I'll be here and this is your old friend Sam...she knows what you went through, she'll be understanding. Now get some sleep. We have a busy day tomorrow." With that he points toward my room.

I get up and wrap my blanket around me taking my picture with me. I walk into my room and set the photo on my nightstand and crawl into my queen size bed. I watch as he closes the glass doors to my balcony and brings down the curtains. He turns off my lights and leaves open my door. He leaves it open due to my nightmares and waking up screaming. Many nights he has had to sit with me to help me fall asleep. Tomorrow Sam will be here. My dear Sam...I've been in love with her since boarding school days but never told her. I've slept with girl just for satisfaction but my love has always been Sam. Sam though will never have feelings for me so the best thing is to enjoy the company of my best friend. Maybe she'll help me bring back my sanity.