Darlian, Hello Darlian. At first I have two thanks, one thanks for reviewing again and the other is for updating ur story. Lara will await quite a surprise Darlian, just read the next chapter oka?

MJ, Oh yeh, sequel, sequel stamps her fist on the table oh sorry got a little bit carried away. Thanks again for the review MJ, me like a lot. Hope u didn't have to wait too long for the next chappie. I'm not as quick with updating as u are ya know. Anyway enjoy the nex chappie oka?

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Chapter 4, Surprise.

Lara parked her Aston Martin in front of the manor and with a high pace she walked inside, towards Bryce. As usual he was sitting in the tech room, working on another one of his inventions. But he had to put that work aside, because Lara has much more important work for him.

"Bryce!" she yelled as she entered the tech room.

Bryce immediately looked up "Hi Lara, how did it go?" he asked.

The tomb raider failed to answer, all she did was removing a hard disk from her backpack to hand it over to the tech.

"I want you to connect this disk to one of our pc's, it contains a part of the translation of the diary but see if you can find anything else."

Questionable eyes were aimed at Lara "By the look at you're arm, something tells me things didn't go the way you wanted too."

Lara looked at her arm, then her eyes rolled back to Bryce.

"Not really no, Dr Wagner was murdered by the Illuminati. I managed to escape, but something tells me it all went a little too easy."

"I'm sorry Lara…"

"It's alright Bryce, but please hurry with the translation and increase the security, I have a feeling our friends from the Illuminati will visit us again."

"I'm on it." He answered and immediately he dove between the computer screens again.

There was no sign of Hillary or Alex yet, which means that they were still with Alex's contact. It made Lara decide to fresh herself up and to fix that wound on her arm. About an hour later she walked back to Bryce again. She saw him moving around from one computer to another, she could tell he was working hard on getting all that information from the hard disk.

"Bryce, are Hillary and Alex back yet?"

Through all the hard work he was doing Lara saw a nod in her direction and then he pointed to the library. And when Lara reached the library she saw Hillary and Alex searching through some books.

"Hello boys." She said and startled both of them.

"Lara, back already?" Hillary asked.

"Yes, things didn't go that well actually."

"What happened?" Alex asked on his turn.

A deep sigh left her mouth "Dr Wagner was killed, we were ambushed by the Illuminati, I managed to get away."

"I'm sorry Lara, I knew Dr Wagner meant a lot to you."

"It's alright Hilly." She said placing her hand on the butler's shoulder.

"At least you managed to escape" Alex said "That's the good part about it."

"No it's not, actually." Lara's reply confused the two men. "It all went a little too easy."

"You saying that they wanted you to escape?" Alex asked as he closed one of the books he was reading.

He received a nod in reply, Lara's eyes rolled to the book Alex was reading. Chinese mythology.

"How did things go with you're contact Alex?" she asked as she looked away from the book.

"Nothing, he knew absolutely nothing. No illegal art deals considering the stone or the rings and the diary."

Again the young tomb raider sighed "Then the only lead we have right now is the hard drive from Dr Wagner's computer at the museum…bugger."

"Lara!" Bryce suddenly yelled from the tech room.

Lara immediately hurried over to Bryce, Alex and Hillary close behind her.

"What is it Bryce."

"You will never believe what I just found."

"Try me." Lara added.

"Every word from the diary is on this hard drive, even the parts that aren't translated yet, except for one page."

Lara leaned forward, to get a closer look on the screen. Bryce pointed his finger on the screen where the missing page should be. The tomb raider frowned.

"Interesting…" was the only word she let out.

"Why would he hide a complete page from the diary?"

"Because, Alex, that page is important."

"Do you think he hid it somewhere in his office?" Hillary asked as he too peered over Bryce's shoulder to look at the monitor.

"Why bother to remove it from the computer and hide it into the same room, if that page is important he wouldn't do that." Lara had a good point with that. "I think he hid it somewhere in his apartment in London."

"Let me guess, you are going to look for it first thing tomorrow, right?"

"No Alex, we are going to look for it tomorrow."

"That sounds as an even better plan, now if you will excuse me, I need a shower."

Instead of going back home, Alex walked upstairs.

"Alex you're shower is in London." Lara said sarcastic.

"I know, it's too far away, I'll just take yours." He smiled and walked upstairs.

"Men…" she said shaking her head and noticed that after her words Bryce and Hillary were looking at her. "What…?" she said.

"Do you actually believe you are allowed to say that as only woman in the manor?" Bryce said.

Lara smiled at him "Do you actually believe I care?" she said, waiting for a reply from the tech and when it stayed out she winked at him and walked out of the tech room.

She walked upstairs, entered her room and closed the door. When Lara turned around, Alex stood in front of her, only wearing his boxers. Smiling, she looked over his body and then locked her eyes on those of Alex.

"Hmm, this looks interesting."

The American smiled back at her, slowly pacing forward.

"Do you make a habit of glancing over my body?" he asked.

Lara too paced forward "What if I did?" she asked back as there was only a few inches between their faces.

"Then I have the right to look back." Alex slowly started to unbutton her blouse.

They started kissing, slowly Lara moved her hands over Alex's muscled chest as Alex pulled of Lara's blouse. As Lara's clothes were removed from her body, they made their way to Lara's bed.

Alex broke the kiss "I guess the shower can wait." And then they started kissing again.

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When Lara woke up the next morning, she felt the warmth of Alex's body connecting with hers. She turned around, noticing he was still sleeping. A small soft kiss was placed on his forehead, this woke him up and his blue eyes landed on hers. They both smiled at each other. Alex moved his hand up and removed a strain of hair from Lara's sight.

"I love you Lara Croft." He whispered softly.

"I love you too Mr West." She whispered back.

Then a knock on the door sounded and Hillary entered the room.

"Good morning love birds, would you care for some breakfast?"

"I'm starving." Alex said.

"We will be there in ten minutes Hilly." Lara added to Alex words.

The butler nodded and exited the room. Immediately Lara wrapped herself into the American's arms.

Ten minutes later they were both downstairs in the kitchen having breakfast. There was no sign of Bryce though. Lara looked at the clock, 11 AM, strange, normally he is already up at this our.

"Hilly, Where is Bryce?"

Hillary smiled "Sleeping…with his head on a keyboard."

Alex smirked "He's been working all night?"

"I would say he tried to work all night but fell asleep." Hillary replied.

"Hmm, Bryce takes his work too serious sometimes."

"No Alex, Bryce just wants to be the best." Lara said as she was on her way to leave the kitchen.

Alex followed her closely, once they reached the tech room the saw and heard Bryce sleeping. His snoring would almost make as much noise as the security system. A wick smile moved up on Lara's face, she moved her hand up and slammed it on the table, inches from Bryce's ears.

"Rachel!" he yelled as he jumped up from his sleep.

His eyes fell on Lara and he found out he was no longer sleeping.

"Lara, why did you have to do that? I was having such a good dream."

"You should sleep in you're bed Bryce, not on a keyboard. Did you find out anything?" Lara cut right to the case.

The tech rubbed his head "No nothing special yet." He said through a yawn.

Lara tapped him on the shoulder "Get a few more hours sleep, in you're real bed, fresh you're self up and then you can continue, Alex and I are going to find the missing page in Dr Wagner's apartment."

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The Aston Martin was parked in front the building where Dr Wagner used to life. Alex and Lara entered the building and took the elevator to the second floor. Dr Wagner's apartment was across the elevator, take three paces and you can open the door. Lara picked the lock and then they walked inside. It looked like a normal apartment. A kitchen to their left, a living room to in front of them, some paintings and photo's of the doctor with collogues, there was even one with Lara's father. On their right there were two doors, probably one to his bed room and one to the bad room. But on the other side of the living room there was another door, Lara guessed it leads to his office.

"Wow, he sure knows how to keep his house clean." Alex said as he already started to snoop around.

"I don't think he had time for that, he probably has a housekeeper." Lara replied, she was looking at the picture of her father and doctor Wagner. Lara knows that picture, her father had the same picture, it was taken on the day they found the diary.

"Found anything yet?" Alex asked.

"No, just a sad memory."

"Let's check out some of his rooms."

"Good idea Alex, you check his bed room, I'll look up his office."

Alex nodded and walked to the bed room as Lara opened the door to the other room. She closed it behind her. This room reminded her of the doctor's office in the museum. A cupboard, a desk with a chair. Suddenly Lara froze, the back of the chair was pointed in her direction, but it moved, slowly from the left to the right. As a reflex Lara immediately reached for a gun in her backpack, when she looked up again, the back of the chair was no longer in her sight. The person who was sitting on it had turned in Lara's direction. And although it sounds impossible, that person is no one else then Manfred Powel.

Lara's mouth almost dropped open in surprise, it really was him, impossible, she killed him. Brown eyes just kept looking at him, wondering if she might see it wrong. She did not see it wrong, his evil smile betrayed him. Then why not kill him again. Lara had her gun pointed at him and Powel was unarmed.

"Lady Croft, it's good to see you again."

Powel crossed his legs, placed his elbow's on his legs and rested his hands under his chin.

"Mr Powel…"

The smile on his face grew larger "Shocked?" he asked.

"No, surprised."

"Aren't you going to shoot me?"

Lara still had her gun pointed at Powel's head, but somehow she didn't want to shoot him yet.

"I haven't decided yet." Lara replied.

"Ah, why is that, wondering what might have happened to Mr West?"

Actually she hadn't thought of that yet, but now she did start to wonder what might have happened to him. Just then the door behind Lara flew open, Alex stumbled inside followed by a man Lara did not know. Immediately Lara pointed the gun at the man, the man on his turn, did not point his gun at Lara, but he pointed it at Alex. The moment Lara looked away from Powell, he removed a gun from the desk drawer and pointed it at Lara.

When Lara heard a click one eye looked at Powell, she saw him moving towards her, a gun at the ready. Her odds were slinking, she was forced to lower her gun.

"A very good decision Lady Croft." Powell said, now only two meters away from her. "Now drop it and kick it to me, along with you're backpack off course."

Lara did as she was told, at the same moment Alex got back on his feet, also very confused to see Powell standing there. Lara saw his nose was bleeding, she looked at the other man, he smiled at her.

"Hands up lady." The man said as he started roaming his hands over her body, looking for any more weapons. Except for the guns, Lara only had one knife with her, it was attached to her boots and the man found it.

When he finished searching Lara, the man stepped beside Powell, handing him the knife he had taken from her.

"Excellent, now that we are all here let's have a little chat. I think we have a lot to talk about."

YAY, that's chapter four. Please review am I still doing oka?