"So what does this mean? Will this be like military training?" Jaimi asked as she followed Lara into the training room.

"No, of course not."

Jaimi let out a sigh of relief.

"It'll be much more vigorous. You will learn at least three types of martial arts, weaponary training, and of course, my favorite, whipping you up into shape." Lara smiled.

"Did I do something to you, to make you mad?"

"No. But, I do suggest not wearing jeans. Wear the sweat-suit in your closet."

Jaimi went upstairs and changed into her black sweat suit. "Okay, so what's first?"

"Take a light jog around the track."

"And by light you meant one?"

"No,I meant more like five."

Jaimi ran outside, the cold air feeling like knives against her skin. She sighed and said to herself, "Okay, its just one mile…" She ran around the track five times, like Lara said. She came back in the house about nine minutes later.

"Good job. Now do six sets of sit-ups, one-hundred in each. Then, you will do twenty-five push-ups in between."

Jaimi's eyes widened, now really revealing her grey eyes, "What, one hundred sit-ups? You're joking, right?

"Would you like to do one-hundred more?" Lara asked.

Jaimi shook her head, "No."

"Alright, then I suggest you start." Jaimi eventually started did all of them, in about thirty to forty-five minutes. Her arms and abs hurt, a lot! She got up, "Is this it?"

"Are you complaining? If your are, that'll be one-hundred more tomorrow." Lara asked jokingly, while she winked at the same time. She went and grabbed the fifteen-pound weights. "Here." She said and handed her the weights. "Lift those fifty times."

After the day...

Jaimi threw herself down on her bed. Her day was full of chin-ups, leg lifts, sit-ups, crunches, bench-presses and a lot more. She couldn't even laugh because of the pain, nor could she lift a leg or an arm. She covered herself in the sheets and went to sleep, her whole body was in so much pain.

The next morning...

Jaimi's alarm clock went off once again. "Ow, ow, ow." She said as she went to turn it off. She took a shower and went downstairs.

"Hello, Jaimi. I'm Bryce."

"Hi."

She went to the dining room and plopped down on a chair, Lara sat aross fom her. She tried to reach for the salt but the pain was still there, so she struggled a bit.

"Good morning, Jaimi." Lara greeted as she flipped through the newspaper.

"Mornin'"

"Ahh, greetings. I see the lovely apprentice is struggling to get the salt." Hillary said as he grabbed the salt for her.

"Thanks." She said while gazing up at him.

Lara took another sip of her tea as she waited for Jaimi to finish.

Jaimi, yet again to another bite out of her omelette, but she was soon full. She got up and followed Lara outside to the stables.

"Here, you will be riding, Pandora."

"Easy." Jaimi shrugged.

"But, let me warn you, he's still, actually wild. And of course, you will be shooting a handgun, while you're at it. "Targets will pop up as you ride through."

Jaimi got on Pandora and waited, "How do you make him go?"

"Easy." Lara mimicked as she slapped the horse.

The horse jumped on its hind legs and neighed, when he got down he zoomed off. Jaimi held on as tight as she could. One target already popped up, and she managed to at least get on the target. She rode through, then the second one popped up, but the bullet went off into the bush. "Oops." Jaimi said as the third one popped up right in front of her. It hit her right on the head, which gave her a small cut on her head. "Ow." The last three target popped up, she managed to get two out of the three. The horse stopped with a skid through the muddy grass, he slowed his pace to a walk. They both made it to the front of the manor, where Lara met them both.

"Let's see how you did." She grabbed the targets from this other guy. "You only got three, out of the six. You'll have to do this again." She handed her another magazine full of bullets. "Ahh yes and I see you saw the third one."

"Yup."

"Have another go at it."

Jaimi slapped the butt of the horse once again and she was off. The day progressed as Jaimi's aim got closer and closer to the bullseye. Finally, on her tenth try, she got the bullseye on the third target, and on the other ones, she managed to get on the ring before the bullseye.

It was now four o'clock in the evening, and Jaimi dismounted her horse. The caretaker brought it back to the stables for her. She walked back to the manor, like a cowboy. Someone was waiting for her at the front. "Rory!" She called out.

The young gentleman turned his head, his wardrobe changed from a tux at the family reunion to a simple, yet casual outfit. First were baggy camo printed pants, a navy blue and white hoodie with a blue checkered button down inside the hoodie and finally inside the button down was a blue shirt, and finally he also wore a blue, knitted beanie. "Hey, Jaimi." He said smiling.

"How was the reunion?" she asked.

"Well, my other uncle was there, and he reckons I look like my uncle Terry. Isn't that great?"

"Yeah. Come on in." Jaimi said.

Hillary came to the front door and opened it for them, "How did the riding go, young Croft?"

"Great." She said simply.

"And who is this fine young gentleman?"

"This is Rory."

"Rory..." Hillary anticipated a last name.

"Sheridan." Rory said a little uncomfortably.

The two of them walked in and waited in the foyer, while Hillary took their coats.

"Mister Sheridan, would you like some tea while you wait?"

"No, thanks."

"What about you, Miss Croft?"

"Uh, no thanks."

"Very, well then." Hillary walked off.

"Wow, you've got your very own butler?"

"Yep. Wanna go watch some TV?"

"Sure."

They walked into the Television Room, it was massive, the television was huge, it was at least ten feet in width and five feet in length, and plus it was a flat-screen with surround sound.

"Well, I see you brought a friend over, Jaimi. Who might he be?" Lara asked, while nodding a greeting to the guest.

"Oh this is Rory, the guy I told you about."

"Nice to meet you, Rory." Lara walked out of the room, leaving the two friends.

"Jaimi, your cousin's so totally HOT!" Rory said.

"Rory eww, don't even think about setting the moves on her!"

After about four hours...

"I have to go, bye Jaimi!" Rory said as he mounted his motorbike.

"Bye!" Jaimi went back inside.

"Jaimi, you better get an early rest this night."

"Why?"

"We're going to Santorini."

"Greece? Awesome! Is this for like a vacation or something?"

"No. Quakes have been recorded there, and with the quakes is also the Luna Temple."

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