Disclaimer: Nope. Still not mine. I mean the characters of Tomb Raider games and movies.

Getting Rid of

The atmosphere in the car was heavy and Karel kept eyeing her. She felt disgusted and somewhat dirty. She didn't know why but Karel's eyes woke a guilty feeling in her. Was it something that lurked behind the coldness of his eyes? Somehow he managed making Lara feel herself compeletely worthless. Slightly ashamed she looked down and failed to see the grin spreading over Karel's face.

Something else managed to steal her attention. She noticed that Konstantin had speeded up a bit and still was. She glanced at Karel's face to see how totally surprised he was. His petdog for a couple of years seemed to have a piece of his will left. Somehow he had managed to hide it from Karel. There obciously had been some place in Konstantin's mind that Karel hadn't been able to tinker with.

"What are you doing?", Karel shouted. Slightly panicked look creeped in his eyes and stayed there a while. He no longer was in charge here.

Konstantin acted like he couldn't hear Karel but deep down Lara knew he didn't want to. Her eyes wondered to Karel's seatbelt as she heard a soft click. They flew open when she saw that the nephilim's seatbelt had unlocked and then she checked her own. Locked. Good. Her mind had solved the mystery behind Konstantin's speeding. They had outwitted Karel's who apparently had no idea what was going on.

The speedomeeter showed dangerously high numbers and Karel kept on shouting to Konstantin. How much it had taken from the poor man to stand up his slavemaster Lara didn't know but never had she been so grateful towards anyone.

Karel drew a gun and pinted it at Konstantin. "I demand you to stop this vehicle!"

"Your wish I shall obey", Konstantin said with a low voice before hitting the breaks down.

It was a simple law of physics and it was called the slow mass. Karel's body couldn't adjust to the sudden slowing in speed and as Konstantin slowed down fast Karel's body crushed against the front glass and a terrible crash followed. There where normal human beings would've died Karel just lost his conciousness. Although he looked severely wounded Lara new in her heart that it wouldn't take many hours until he was walking again. They had to act quickly if they wanted to get far away as possible from Karel before he came around.

Konstantin looked like he didn't fully comprehend what he had just done. His empty eyes stared at Karel's motionless body and he didn't wake up until Lara slapped him lightly. He looked almost as he had waken from a deep sleep that had lasted for a few years. A smile grew on his face and suddenly it seemed to Lara that he was fully alive again.

"Have waited for that so long", he said sounding pleased with himself and for the first time Lara saw a soul behind his eyes.

"As much as I 'd love to stay and chat we really should leave", she snapped .

His smile grew wider and he pushed the pedal leaving Karel ad very unwanted part of his past behind him.