OK here we go for the Sequel to Avalon And the Lux Knight. Please review and please enjoy:D SOrry it's so short, but it is the prologue
Disclaimer – I own no one in this story
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Prologue
† The new beginning †
The Christmas spirit was lax in the Croft Manor that Christmas eve, and as the snow whirled past the ice-frosted windows, Lara knew that this year would be just as bad as any other. From where she stood she could see the whole driveway, blanketed by seven inches of pure white snow, only disturbed by two sets of footprints, leading down to where a snowman stood.
The snowman was large, it's body made of two huge balls of snow that Zip had painstakingly made, rolling a tightly-packed ball of snow through the glistening white to make it larger and he did the same to another, placing them atop one another. Then there was the head. The snowman was wearing a black beanie hat, a black scarf and had a fake cigarette shoved in his mouth, just under his stereotypical carrot nose. He didn't look particularly jolly; an overweight smoker, wearing a black beanie hat with BITCH written on the front with big red letters.
Lara sighed and turned her back on the window, her braid swinging down to her back. Deep in her thoughts, she looked at her hands and at the ring that sat on her index finger on her left hand. Memories. Enough memories to last her a lifetime surrounded that ring, surrounded everything she looked at.
Her room was scarcely decorated for Christmas, only a smattering on tinsel on her bed or around the picture frames that dotted her bedside table. She hated Christmas.
She hated it all.
Everything always felt so cold. Especially Christmas.
Christmas was supposed to be a time for family, but recently, all it had turned out to be was a time for alcohol. The family Lara had was broken. It had always been so…
Turning back to look out the window, Lara frowned slightly, seeing a small figure, wearing a thick woollen coat, walking through the snow, past the Snowman and into the hedge-maze, head bowed to protect her from the snow that was still falling, ever persistent.
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Kiera Croft slunk through the maze of trimmed hedges, her feet taking her through the paths she no longer needed to think about. She shoved her hands into her pockets and closed her eyes, listening to the music that pumped through her headphones, not paying attention to where she was going, because she simply didn't need to, she walked this way every single day.
Singing along to the song, she opened her eyes and turned a right and almost ran to the pillar of marble that stood in the middle of a clearing, in the exact centre of the maze. She fell to her knees and drew a wreath from inside her coat, placing it in front of the inscription that was etched in the marble.
Kurtis
Forever loved
Never forgotten
You will always be with us
Forever Loved
My Knight
"Merry Christmas, dad." Kiera murmured. "Have a good one, yeah?" And with that, Lara Croft's sixteen-year-old daughter stood up, brushing the snow from her knees and turning back to the maze.
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Thanks from Chapt 24 of Avalon and the Lux Knight:
Pen-a-holic – Read on. I'm not going to give anything, but you'll see how Kurtis's death effected Lara and Kiera in the next few chapts.
TangoFever – I love getting reviews from you you're totally cool! I hope this story is going to be much better than AatLK. Thanks again:D
Drivergrl - Thanks and believe me. I'm not going to stop writing. As you can so blatantly see.